More Than Words provides an introduction to both communication theory and practice. This new edition of the best-selling text has been fully revised and updated to take into account new developments... more »

A unique study of contemporary tv audience behaviour and attitudes, TV Living offers a fascinating insight into the complex relationship between mass media and people's lives today.

The hope that computerization in developing countries would dramatically improve their economies has so far been unrealised. This book examines the difficulties of applying Western models of compute... more »

This dictionary provides an essential source of information on all aspects of the environment by including the basic scientific terms and concepts as well as the socio-economic, cultural, and polit ... more »

Focusing on the ramifications of GIS usage, Digital Places shows that they are associated with far-reaching changes in the institutions in which they exist, and in the lives of those they touch.more »

Though Foucault is now widely taught in universities, his writings are notoriously difficult. This vital guide critically examines the implications of his work for students and researchers across th... more »

This book carves out a new area of democratisation studies by analysing the transnational dimension and the role of non state actors across three different geographical regions. Chapters use data fr... more »

This work presents a comprehensive assessment of the economic effects of the emerging information and communication technologies. It considers knowledge as a product in its own right. ... more »

Volume 2: Compartments, Stressors and Sectors, deals with the problems that occur in the three 'compartments' of the environment, namely air, water and soil.

'An important resource for anyone interested in drug history and politics, and an indispensable one for those who would understand cocaine in a global context.' - David Courtwright, University of No... more »

Inter-Firm Alliances combines 'resource-based' views, transaction-cost analysis and institutional economics to develop an original and comprehensive theory of inter-firm alliances and a coherent met... more »

This book describes in detail the new state business activities explaining why they have appeared. This entrepreneurialism is an important new dimension of state activity with implications for our u... more »

This book is concerned with four questions: Who made the law? Where did a Roman go to discover what the law was? How has the law survived to be known to us today? And what procedures were there for ... more »

Conservation and the City is a study of conservation and change throughout the built environment - city centres, suburbs and even tiny villages - and how the activities of conservation interact with... more »

This book exposes the dangers of the explosion of health awareness for both patients and doctors. The author argues that we need to establish a clear boundary between the worlds of medicine and poli... more »

A superb, wide-ranging analysis of socialist ideas and movements, with a newly revised discussion of contemporary socialism. `It is probably the best short history of socialism available today.' - P... more »

This brings together Ien Ang's recent writings on television audiences and, in response to recent criticisms of cultural studies, argues that it is possible to study audience pleasures and popular t... more »

Eric J. Evans gives a controversial account centring on the career of Margaret Thatcher. He argues that 'Thatcherism' was a bold experiment in ideologically driven government which failed to meet i... more »

Contributors to the book examine the ways in which paranoia and persecution are experienced at the individual, institutional and macrosocial level, and they discuss the psychological, political and ... more »

An updated re-issue of the third edition of this classic guide to family and community in England after the Middle Ages and before the changes brought about by the Industrial Revolution. more »

Critically evaluates the contribution that psychology has made to the study of gender, examining key issues such as family roles and parenting, inequalities in education, jobs and pay, and the effec... more »

A collection of internationally recognised scholars address the postmodern shake-up of theory, culture and politics, which has led to a new encounter between the humanities and the discourses of rel... more »

Highlights and explores the ways in which culture acts as a framework organising our experience. The emphasis is placed on the differences across and between cultures and the depths to which these c... more »

Provides a critical overview of the major sociological approaches to consumption in both modern and postmodern societies. Bocock develops a distinctive analysis of consumption as a socio-cultural pr... more »

Designed as a dictionary, but possessing an encyclopedic range, this is an invaluable A-Z guide to the debates surrounding language and literacy.