Biopolitics: An Advanced Introduction (Lemke Thomas)(Paperback)

Biopolitics: An Advanced Introduction (Lemke Thomas)(Paperback)

The first systematic overview of the notion of biopolitics and its relevance in contemporary theoretical debate The biological features of human beings are now measured, observed, and understood in ways never before thought possible, defining norms, establishing standards, and determining average

An Advanced Introduction to Semantics: A Meaning-Text Approach (Mel'čuk Igor)(Paperback)

This book is an advanced introduction to semantics that presents this crucial component of human language through the lens of the 'Meaning-Text' theory - an approach that treats linguistic knowledge as a huge inventory of correspondences between thought and speech. Formally, semantics is viewed as

Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century: An Introduction (Kaufmann Stephan)(Paperback)

An introduction to Thomas Piketty's monumental workUS Nobel Prize-winner Paul Krugman described Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century as 'perhaps the most important book of the last decade.' It has sparked major international debates, dominated bestseller lists and generated a level

Cross-Cultural Management: An Introduction (Thomas David C.)(Paperback)

Cross-Cultural Management: An Introduction offers students a hands-on approach to cross-cultural management that they can apply to a wide variety of organizational contexts. Rather than focusing on specific countries, authors David C. Thomas and Kerr Inkson highlight the interactions of people from

Multiple Regression: A Practical Introduction (Roberts Aki)(Paperback)

Multiple Regression: A Practical Introduction is a text for an advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate course in statistics for social science and related fields. Also, students preparing for more advanced courses can self-study the text to refresh and solidify their statistical background

Foucault's Analysis of Modern Governmentality: A Critique of Political Reason (Lemke Thomas)(Paperback)

Tracking the development of Foucault's key concepts Lemke offers the most comprehensive and systematic account of Michel Foucault's work on power and government from 1970 until his death in 1984. He convincingly argues, using material that has only partly been translated into English, that

Meter and Meaning: An Introduction to Rhythm in Poetry (Carper Thomas)(Paperback)

Poet, Thomas Carper, and scholar, Derek Attridge, join forces in Meter and Meaning to present an illuminating and user-friendly way to explore the rhythms of poetry in English. They begin by showing the value of performing any poem aloud, so that we can sense its unique use of rhythm. From this

1 Corinthians - An Introduction And Commentary (Schreiner Thomas R)(Paperback / softback)

An excellent new commentary on the apostle Paul's New Testament

Language and Gender: An Advanced Resource Book (Sunderland Jane)(Paperback)

Language and Gender: presents an up-to-date introduction to language and gender includes diverse work from a range of cultural, including non-Western, contexts, and represents a range of methodological approaches gathers together influential readings from key names in the discipline, including:

Disciplinary Identities (Hyland Ken)(Paperback)

An engaging, advanced-level introduction to the emerging field of discourse studies of identity, with particular reference to academic contexts. Disciplinary Identities uses findings from corpus research to present fascinating insights into the relationship between author identity and

Sartor Resartus (Carlyle Thomas)(Paperback)

Sartor Resartus ('The Tailor Retailored') is ostensibly an introduction to a strange history of clothing by the German Professor of Things in General, Diogenes Teufelsdrockh; its deeper concerns are social injustice, the right way of living in the world, and the large questions of faith and

Differential Topology: An Introduction (Gauld David B.)(Paperback)

This text covers topological spaces and properties, some advanced calculus, differentiable manifolds, orientability, submanifolds and an embedding theorem, tangent spaces, vector fields and integral curves, Whitney's embedding theorem, more. Includes 88 helpful illustrations. 1982

Great Debates in Jurisprudence (McBride Nicholas J.)(Paperback)

This textbook is an ambitious and engaging introduction to the more advanced writings on Jurisprudence, primarily designed to allow students to 'get under the skin' of the topic and begin to build their critical thinking and analysis skills. Each chapter is structured around key questions and

Modern Japanese Fiction and Its Traditions: An Introduction (Rimer J. Thomas)(Paperback)

Thomas Rimer's book seeks to explain the background, structural principles, and development of pre-modem and modern Japanese fiction in a way that is comprehensive, methodical, and accessible to the general reader. Originally published in 1978. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest

A First Course in Systems Biology (Voit Eberhard)(Paperback)

A First Course in Systems Biology is an introduction for advanced undergraduate and graduate students to the growing field of systems biology. Its main focus is the development of computational models and their applications to diverse biological systems. The book begins with the fundamentals of

First Course in Enumerative Combinatorics (Wagner Carl G.)(Paperback / softback)

Provides an introduction to the fundamentals of enumeration for advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students in the mathematical sciences. The book offers a careful and comprehensive account of the standard tools of enumeration and their application to counting problems for the

The Caucasus: An Introduction (de Waal Thomas)(Paperback)

This new edition of The Caucasus is a thorough update of an essential guide that has introduced thousands of readers to a complex region. Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and the break-away territories that have tried to split away from them constitute one of the most diverse and challenging regions on

Perspectives on Genetic Discrimination (Lemke Thomas)(Paperback)

Over the past 15 years, a series of empirical studies in different countries have shown that our increasing genetic knowledge leads to new forms of exclusion, disadvantaging and stigmatization. The spectrum of this 'genetic discrimination' ranges from disadvantages at work, via problems with

Foucault's Analysis of Modern Governmentality: A Critique of Political Reason (Lemke Thomas)(Library Binding)

Tracking the development of Foucault's key concepts Lemke offers the most comprehensive and systematic account of Michel Foucault's work on power and government from 1970 until his death in 1984. He convincingly argues, using material that has only partly been translated into English, that

The Light of Christ: An Introduction to Catholicism (White Thomas Joseph)(Paperback)

The Light of Christ provides an accessible presentation of Catholicism that is grounded in traditional theology, but engaged with a host of contemporary questions or objections. Inspired by the theologies of Irenaeus, Thomas Aquinas and John Henry Newman, and rooted in a post-Vatican II context,

The History of Spanish: A Student's Introduction (Ranson Diana L.)(Paperback)

This concise textbook provides advanced undergraduate and graduate students with an engaging and thorough overview of the history of Spanish and its development from Latin. Featuring numerous exercises, and presupposing no prior knowledge of Latin or linguistics, the book is suitable for courses on

An Introduction to Sociolinguistics (Wardhaugh Ronald)(Paperback)

AN INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLINGUISTICS The new eighth edition of An Introduction to Sociolinguistics brings this valuable, bestselling textbook up to date with the latest in sociolinguistic research and pedagogy, providing a broad overview of the study of language in social context with accessible

On Narcissism: An Introduction (Freud Sigmund)(Paperback)

On Narcissism: An Introduction is widely considered an introduction to Freud's theories of narcissism.In the paper, Freud sums up his earlier discussions on the subject of narcissism and considers its place in sexual development. Furthermore, he looks at the deeper problems of the relation between

Introduction to Biblical Hebrew (Lambdin Thomas O.)(Paperback / softback)