Routledge Key Guides
Design: The Key Concepts
1st Edition
By Catherine McDermott
December 17, 2007
This is the essential student’s guide to Design – its practice, its theory and its history. Drawing from a wide range of international examples, respected design writer Catherine McDermott explores key topics including: international design – from Europe to Africa design history – from ...
Islam: The Key Concepts
1st Edition
By Kecia Ali, Oliver Leaman
December 12, 2007
Islam: The Key Concepts is a clear and concise guide to the religion and culture of Islam. Kecia Ali and Oliver Leaman explore this highly topical subject focusing on key issues including: the Qur’an, faith, theology, gender, fundamentalism, martyrdom, Jihad, Islam in America, Islam in ...
Leadership: The Key Concepts
1st Edition
Edited
By Antonio Marturano, Jonathan Gosling
December 11, 2007
This is an indispensable and authoritative guide to the most crucial ideas, concepts and debates surrounding the study and exercise of leadership. Bringing together entries written by a wide range of international experts, this is an essential desktop resource for managers and leaders in all kinds ...
Cultural Theory: The Key Concepts
2nd Edition
Edited
By Andrew Edgar, Peter Sedgwick
November 28, 2007
Now in its second edition, Cultural Theory: The Key Concepts is an up-to-date and comprehensive survey of over 350 of the key terms central to cultural theory today. This second edition includes new entries on: colonialism cybercultur globalisation terrorism visual studies. ...
Fifty Key Contemporary Thinkers: From Structuralism to Post-Humanism
2nd Edition
By John Lechte
September 07, 2007
This revised second edition from our bestselling Key Guides includes brand new entries on some of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth- and twenty-first century: Zizek, Bergson, Husserl, Heidegger, Butler and Haraway. With a new introduction by the author, sections on...
Television Studies: The Key Concepts
2nd Edition
By Ben Calvert, Neil Casey, Bernadette Casey, Liam French, Justin Lewis
September 07, 2007
Television Studies: The Key Concepts is the definitive reference guide to an area of rapidly expanding academic interest. Among those aspects of television studies covered in this comprehensive and up-to-date guide are: theoretical perspectives which have shaped the study of television - Marxism;...
Economics: The Key Concepts
1st Edition
By Donald Rutherford
July 16, 2007
An A-Z of contemporary economics in all its forms, Economics: the Key Concepts is an affordable, accessible reference for students, lecturers and economists at every level. The key topics explored include: competition and monopoly development economics game theory property rights ...
Language and Linguistics: The Key Concepts
2nd Edition
Edited
By Peter Stockwell, R.L. Trask
July 16, 2007
A comprehensive and critical A-Z guide to the main terms and concepts used in the study of language and linguistics, definitions featured include: terms used in grammatical analysis branches of linguistics from semantics to neurolinguistics approaches used in studying language from critical ...
Sport and Physical Education: The Key Concepts
2nd Edition
By Tim Chandler, Wray Vamplew, Tim Chandler, Mike Cronin, Mike Cronin
June 15, 2007
An accessible and fully cross-referenced A-Z guide, this book has been written specifically for students of sport studies and physical education, introducing basic terms and concepts. Entries cover such diverse subjects as coaching, drug testing, hooliganism, cultural imperialism, economics, gay ...
Fifty Major Political Thinkers
2nd Edition
By Ian Adams, R.W. Dyson
June 06, 2007
Fifty Major Political Thinkers introduces the lives and ideas of some of the most influential figures in Western political thought, from ancient Greece to the present day. The entries provide a fascinating introduction to the major figures and schools of thought that have shaped contemporary ...
Globalization: The Key Concepts
1st Edition
Edited
By Annabelle Mooney, Betsy Evans
April 17, 2007
Viewed as a destructive force or an inevitability of modern society, globalization is the focus of a multitude of disciplines. A clear understanding of its processes and terminology is imperative for anyone engaging with this ubiquitous topic. Globalization: the Key Concepts offers a ...
Fifty Key Jewish Thinkers
2nd Edition
By Dan Cohn-Sherbok
March 06, 2007
Fifty Key Jewish Thinkers is a panoramic survey of over 2,000 years of Jewish thought, religious and secular, ancient and modern. Now in its second edition, this essential reference guide contains new introductions to the lives and works of such thinkers as: Hannah Arendt, Immanuel Levinas, Judith ...