Macmillan Education Uk: 1090 books
by Enit Karafili Steiner
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Northanger Abbey was one of Jane Austen's earliest manuscripts; Persuasion was her last. Published together in a single volume after her death, the two books differ widely. Northanger Abbey is a spirited, Gothic parody, while Persuasion has increasingly been seen as a new direction for the Austen...
by Britta Martens
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Robert Browning's pre-eminent status amongst Victorian poets has endured despite the recent broadening of the literary canon. He is the main practitioner of the period's most important poetic genre, the dramatic monologue, while his engagement with many aspects of nineteenth-century culture makes...
by Tiffany Atkinson
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2005
What do we mean when we talk about 'the body'? This Reader challenges the assumption that it can be invoked as a neutral, or indeed natural, point of reference in critical discussion or cultural practice. The essays collected here foreground the historical construction of 'the body' throughout a range...
Forensic Psychology
Routes through the system
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2018
This brand new textbook provides a complete course in forensic psychology, covering the criminal justice system, law and legislation, and treatments and outcomes for offenders. It offers rigorous coverage of the major topics: from theoretical concepts and research methods to explaining criminal acts...
Dickens to Hardy 1837-1884
The Novel, the Past and Cultural Memory in the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2007
This authoritative survey examines how the Victorian middle-classes perceived themselves, through analyses of the literature of the period. Asking how the middle classes distinguished themselves from their forbears, Julian Wolfreys reads in detail major novels by:
- Charles Dickens
- Elizabeth Gaskell
-...
Dance and the Body in Western Theatre
1948 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2015
While the body appears in almost all cultural discourses, it is nowhere as visible as in dance. This book captures the resurgence of the dancing body in the second half of the twentieth century by introducing students to the key phenomenological, kinaesthetic and psychological concepts relevant to both theatre and dance studies.
Re-imagining Government
Public Leadership and Management in Challenging Times
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2011
In an age of austerity, public leaders and managers face a range of external challenges - fiscal, social and political. Combining theoretical insight, empirical commentary and practical experience, this book examines how democratic political systems work and how public decisions are made - and how they could be made better.
Discovering Sociolinguistics
From Theory to Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
This engagingly written textbook provides a unique ‘hands-on’ introduction to sociolinguistics, which equips readers with the tools to start their own sociolinguistic research project. The book begins by outlining the historical, theoretical and cultural space in which language use occurs, before...
Victorian Hauntings
Spectrality, Gothic, the Uncanny and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Victorian Hauntings asks its reader to consider the following questions:
What does it mean to read or write with ghosts, or to suggest that acts of reading or writing are haunted ? In what ways can authors in the nineteenth century be read so as to acknowledge the various phantom effects which...
Consumer Behaviour
Perspectives, Findings and Explanations
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
A high level textbook discussing different perspectives in consumer behaviour. Drawing on real life case studies, this book enables students to critically approach and evaluate behavioural concepts.
by W. Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
In this clear, jargon-free guide, Willie Thompson provides a concise introduction to postmodernist theory and its significant impact on the study of history. Although this is a hotly-debated topic, with much of the current literature being both polemical and inaccessible to the beginner, Thompson...
Political Analysis
A Critical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Political Analysis provides an accessible and engaging yet original introduction and distinctive contribution, to the analysis of political structures, institutions, ideas and behaviours, and above all, to the political processes through which they are constantly made and remade. Following an innovative...
Social Constructionisms
Approaches to the Study of the Human World
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
Social constructionism is one of the key ideas in the social sciences, offering different frameworks for understanding the human world. But what does it mean when we say that something is 'socially constructed'? What exactly do we construct in our social interaction? And what actually 'does' the constructing?
This...
Power
A Radical View
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
The second edition of this seminal work includes the original text, first published in 1974, alongside two major new chapters. Power: A Radical View assesses the main debates about how to conceptualize and study power, including the influential contributions of Michel Foucault. Power Revisited reconsiders...