Author: R.L. Trask
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: second, basics, language
Number of Pages: 244
Published: 1999-05-05
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 041520089X
ISBN-13: 9780415200899

Language: The Basics provides a concise introduction to the study of language. Written in an engaging and entertaining style, it encourages the reader to think about the way language works. New features in the second edition include: a chapter on ’Language in Use’ which introduces pragmatics, metaphor, speech and writing and discourse analysis a section on sign language a glossary of key terms an expanded further reading section. Language: the Basics provides an accessible overview of a fascinating subject. It is an essential book for all students and anyone who’s ever b

Author: Lynda Nead
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: nude, female
Number of Pages: 133
Published: 1992-12-22
List price: $37.95
ISBN-10: 0415026784
ISBN-13: 9780415026789

Anyone who examines the history of Western art must be struck by the prevalence of images of the female body. More than any other subject, the female nude connotes `art’. The framed image of a female body, hung on the walls of an art gallery, is an icon of Western culture, a symbol of civilization and accomplishment. But how and why did the female nude acquire this status? The Female Nude brings together, in an entirely new way, analysis of the historical tradition of the female nude and discussion of recent feminist art, and by exploring the ways in which acceptable and unacceptable ima

Author: Richard Palmer
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: guides, study, routledge, guide, grammar
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2003-07-22
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 0415312264
ISBN-13: 9780415312264

Before any student can learn to write with clarity and style, one must have a solid, working knowledge of grammar. Written by an experienced, practicing English teacher who has taught university and secondary school students for years, The Good Grammar Guide provides sound and meticulous advice on parts of speech, inflections, syntax, and punctuation in a friendly and encouraging manner. Full of exercises for the reader to practice what they have learned, this book is for anyone who wants to improve their knowledge and usage of the fundamentals of grammar.

Author: Steven Pressman
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: economics, history, studies, routledge, contemporary
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2008-11-18
List price: $160.00
ISBN-10: 0415775019
ISBN-13: 9780415775014

This book describes the important contributions of several contemporary economic figures including recent Nobel Laureates. Describing their work and putting it into an historical perspective, these chapters explain how their work constitutes a major contribution to the discipline of economics and how it has broadened economic science. Co-editor of the "Review of Political Economy", Steven Pressman has gathered together for the first time key chapters from the journal, discussing major figures such as Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, John Kenneth Galbraith, Thomas Schelling, Edmund Phelps and Robe

Author: Cohen/Lawrence
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: education, methods, research
Number of Pages: 638
Published: 2007-04-18
List price: $47.95
ISBN-10: 0415368782
ISBN-13: 9780415368780

This fully updated sixth edition of the international bestseller Research Methods in Education covers the whole range of methods currently employed by educational research at all stages. It is divided into five main parts: the context of educational research; planning educational research; styles of educational research; strategies for data collection and researching; and data analysis. The book also contains references to a comprehensive dedicated website of accompanying materials. The sixth edition includes new material on:complexity theory, ethics, sampling and sensitive educational researc

Author: Gunther Kress
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: design, visual, grammar, images, reading
Number of Pages: 291
Published: 2006-05-12
List price: $41.95
ISBN-10: 0415319153
ISBN-13: 9780415319157

This second edition of the landmark book Reading Images builds on its reputation as the first systematic and comprehensive account of the grammar of visual design. Drawing on an enormous range of examples from children’s drawings to textbook illustrations, photo-journalism to fine art, as well as three-dimensional forms such as sculpture and toys, the authors examine the ways in which images communicate meaning. Features of this fully updated second edition include: new material on moving images and on color, a discussion of how images and their uses have changed through time, websites a

Author: Helen McDonald
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: art, nude, female, ambiguities, erotic
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2000-12-05
List price: $140.00
ISBN-10: 0415170982
ISBN-13: 9780415170987

Examining the work of key artists from Barbara Kruger, Judy Chicago, and Mary Duffy, to Zoe Leonard, Tracey Moffat, Pat Barrington and Sally Smart, McDonald traces the shift in feminist art practices from the early deconstruction of patriarchal representations to the more ambivalent contemporary practices.