Focuses on anthropological theory. This book covers a range of topical issues which are at the forefront of debates in anthropology, including gender, the body, cognition and material culture.
A child must be able to do more than decode single words to become a skilled or fluent reader. This book explores the psychology of that process. It includes a summary of how children learn to read words but essentially concentrates on the development of reading comprehension.
* Provides a comprehensive guide to ancient philosophy from the pre--Socratics to late antiquity. * Written by a cast of distinguished philosophers. * Covers the pre--Socratics, the sophistic movement, Epicureanism, academic skepticism, stoicism, and the neo--Platonists.
Including original essays by leading scholars, this companion to the major contemporary social theorists covers the life and work of 13 major theorists such as Elias, Baudrillard, Habermas, Butler, Giddens and Bourdieu. Bibliographies of the theorists' works are included.
* The latest contribution to debates about archaeological theory by this leading figure in the field. * Provides a provocative, yet accessible, overview of the most important new school of archaeological thought and practice to have emerged over last 20 years.
The book publishing industry is going through a period of profound and turbulent change brought about in part by the digital revolution.
The Blackwell Guide to Philosophy of Language is a collection of twenty new essays in a cutting-edge and wide-ranging field.
An Annotated Syntax Reader brings together a collection of seminal articles published over the last forty years that demonstrate the empirical and theoretical foundations of current syntactic theory.
* Provides an overview of the history of European and American architecture and design, using both historical and contemporary sources. * Brings together the best scholarship on the subject, creating a new canon for teaching purposes by introducing a thematic approach.
Today's wars leave a crippling legacy of deprivation and suffering, of physical and structural injustice, long after they submit to peaceful resolution.
The only collection of readings on the philosophy of the body. Challenges the reader to look at the development of a phenomenological theory of the body by such thinkers as Husserl, Sartre, and Merleau-Ponty. Designed for use in courses on theory of gender and identity.
Offers a perspective on everyday life in ancient Egypt. This book provides discussions of topics of debate, including the body,... Læs mere