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41. Post-Colonial Studies: The Key Concepts

    2nd Edition

    By Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, Helen Tiffin, Helen Tiffin

    Series: Routledge Key Guides

    This best selling key guide, now in its second edition, provides an essential key to understanding the issues which characterize post-colonialism; explaining what it is, where it is encountered and why it is crucial in forging new cultural identities. As a subject, post-colonial studies stands at...

    Published October 29th 2007 by Routledge
42. Islam: The Key Concepts

    Islam: The Key Concepts

    By Kecia Ali, Oliver Leaman

    Series: Routledge Key Guides

    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...

    Published October 21st 2007 by Routledge
43. Social and Cultural Anthropology: The Key Concepts

    2nd Edition

    By Nigel Rapport

    Series: Routledge Key Guides

    Social and Cultural Anthropology: The Key Concepts is an easy to use A-Z guide to the central disciplines students will encounter in this field. Fully updated, the second edition includes new entries on: aesthetics egalitarianism the everyday landscape power the state. With full...

    Published October 10th 2007 by Routledge
44. Cultural Theory: The Key Concepts

    2nd Edition

    Edited by Andrew Edgar, Peter Sedgwick

    Series: Routledge Key Guides

    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....

    Published October 10th 2007 by Routledge
45. Fifty Key Contemporary Thinkers

    From Structuralism to Post-Humanism, 2nd Edition

    By John Lechte

    Series: Routledge Key Guides

    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...

    Published July 22nd 2007 by Routledge
46. Television Studies: The Key Concepts

    2nd Edition

    By Ben Calvert, Neil Casey, Bernadette Casey, Liam French, Justin Lewis

    Series: Routledge Key Guides

    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;...

    Published July 22nd 2007 by Routledge
47. Economics: The Key Concepts

    By Donald Rutherford

    Series: Routledge Key Guides

    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...

    Published May 30th 2007 by Routledge
48. Language and Linguistics: The Key Concepts

    2nd Edition

    By R.L. Trask

    Edited by Peter Stockwell

    Series: Routledge Key Guides

    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...

    Published May 29th 2007 by Routledge
49. Sport and Physical Education: The Key Concepts

    2nd Edition

    By Tim Chandler, Wray Vamplew, Tim Chandler, Mike Cronin, Mike Cronin

    Series: Routledge Key Guides

    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...

    Published May 2nd 2007 by Routledge
50. Fifty Major Political Thinkers

    2nd Edition

    By Ian Adams, R.W. Dyson

    Series: Routledge Key Guides

    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...

    Published April 18th 2007 by Routledge