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Fully revised and restructured, this fresh edition offers students and trainee social workers an incisive and authoritative introduction to the sub...

This companion features original essays on the complexity of globalization and its diverse and sometimes conflicting effects. Written by top schola...

The second edition of this distinguished and popular Companion introduces new chapters on the philosophy of biology: bioethics, genethics, and medi...

Available online or as a five-volume print set, The Blackwell Companion to Phonology is a major reference work drawing together 124 new contributio...

This successful guide to social work theory and practice has now been fully revised and a substantial amount of new material has been added in orde...

This collection of original, state-of-the-art essays by prominent international scholars covers the most important issues comprising the sociology ...

This second edition, of Allan G. Johnson's one-volume dictionary, includes 75 new entries, as well as an expanded biographical section, extensive r...

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Featuring entries composed by leading international scholars, The Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature presents comprehensive coverage of...

The Encyclopedia of Romantic Literature is an authoritative three-volume reference work that covers British artistic, literary, and intellectual m...

Now available in a single volume paperback, this advanced reference resource for the novel and novel theory offers authoritative accounts of the hi...

The publisher of this book utilises modern printing technologies as well as photocopying processes for reprinting and preserving rare works of lite...

Written by one of the world’s leading literary theorists, this book provides a wide-ranging, accessible and humorous introduction to the English no...

Presupposing no prior knowledge of linguistics, The Handbook of Linguistics is the ideal resource for people who want to learn about the subject an...

The Handbook of the History of English is a collection of articles written by leading specialists in the field that focus on the theoretical issues...

What are we to make of the information society? Many prominent theorists have argued it to be the most profound and comprehensive transformation of...

The Life of William Shakespeare is a fascinating and wide-ranging exploration of Shakespeare's life and works focusing on oftern neglected literary...

This book introduces readers to the history of the novel in the twentieth century and demonstrates its ongoing relevance as a literary form. A jar...

An authoritative, topical, and comprehensive reference to the key concepts and most important traditional and contemporary issues in medical sociol...

A comprehensive new collection covering the principal traditions and critical contemporary issues of social theory. Builds on the success of The Bl...

Sarah Nettleton’s The Sociology of Health and Illness has become a cornerstone text, popular with students and academics alike for its rigorous and...

The Sociology of Islam provides an accessible introduction to this emerging field of inquiry, teaching and debate. The study is located at the cruc...