Edited by: Colin Sumner "A cosmopolitan collection characterized by freshness of perspective. Critical sociological insight on crime at its best." John Braithwaite, Australian National University The Blackwell Companion to Criminology provides a contemporary and global resource to scholarship in both classical and topical areas of criminology.
by Teresa A. Meade (Editor), Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks (Editor)
February 2004
Blackwell Publishers
A Companion to Gender History surveys the history of women around the world, studies their interaction with men in gendered societies, and looks at the role of gender in shaping human behavior over thousands of years. It contains both thematic essays, which demonstrate how gender has intersected with other historical topics, and chronological-geographic essays, which explore gender in one area of the world during a specific period...
A Companion to Rhetoric and Rhetorical Criticism (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture) Edited by Wendy Olmsted and Walter Jost A Companion to Rhetoric and Rhetorical
Criticism offers the first major survey in two decades of the field of
rhetorical studies and of the practice of rhetorical theory and
criticism across a range of disciplines. The contributions are written
by leading scholars from a variety of different fields and have all
been specially commissioned for this volume. They focus on specific
works, problems, or figures, pursuing theory and criticism from an
engaged and practical perspective. The volume also includes an overview
of rhetorical traditions, providing examples of rhetoric from ancient
times to the present day. Designed to be accessible to a range of
students and scholars, A Companion to Rhetoric and Rhetorical Criticism
elaborates in fascinating ways just what it means to "think like a
rhetorician." (Amazon.com).
The Blackwell Companion to Syntax- Vol I to V
This monumental reference resource offers a comprehensive survey of the field of syntax as it has been studied over the last forty years or so. Made up of 77 extensive case studies written by 80 of the world's leading linguists, it gives a complete overview of the empirical facts and theoretical insights gleaned in syntactic research in recent decades.
The Blackwell Companion to Syntax- Vol III
This monumental reference resource offers a comprehensive survey of the field of syntax as it has been studied over the last forty years or so. Made up of 77 extensive case studies written by 80 of the world's leading linguists, it gives a complete overview of the empirical facts and theoretical insights gleaned in syntactic research in recent decades.