Human geography

This Four-Volume Set begins with a discussion of the histories and geographies of geographical knowledge. While human geography#s succession of #theoretical turns# is important in understanding the discipline, this work also demonstrates the multiple, textured ways in which geography explains how we represent ourselves ...

Advertising strategy

creative tactics from the outside/in

Table of Contents: 1 Copy and creativity 2 Getting started 3 Issues in a changing marketplace 4 Concepting (what's the big idea?) 5 Design for writers 6 Campaigns 7 Headlines and taglines 8 Body copy 9 Print 10 Out-of-home 11 Direct mail 12 Radio ...

Marketing

"The Sage Course Companion on Marketing" is an accessible introduction to the subject that will help readers to extend their understanding of key concepts, and enhance their thinking skills in line with course requirements. It provides support on how to revise for exams, and prepare ...

Criminal justicie

The SAGE Course Companion on Criminal Justice has been designed as an accessible reference tool to introduce students to the subject and encourage them to extend their understanding of key concepts and so make the most of their undergraduate course. It provides students with essential ...

Handbook of gender and women's studies

Gender and women's studies is one of the most challenging fields within the social sciences - the dynamics of gender relations and the social and cultural implications of gender constructions offer a lively forum of debate. "The Handbook of Gender and Women's Studies" presents ...

Globalization and violence

The concept of 'globalization' has in an extraordinarily short time become the dominant motif of the contemporary social sciences. "Central Currents in Globalization" is an integrated collection of four multi-volume sets that represent the systematic mapping of globalization studies. The series sets out the contours ...

Criminal and social justice

"Criminal and Social Justice" provides an important insight into the relationship between social inequality, crime and criminalization. In this accessible and innovative account, Cook examines the nature of the relationship between criminal and social justice - both in theory and in practice. Current social, economic, political ...

The sociology of the body

mapping the abstraction of embodiment

Over the last twenty years the social sciences have witnessed a remarkable inter-disciplinary surge of interest in the body. The latter is now recognized as a core concept, and is the subject of intensive study at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. But how can we map ...

Encyclopedia of world poverty

Poverty is more than just lack of income, it is deprivation from basic capabilities, rights, and freedoms that provide individuals the necessary choices and opportunities they need to lead a life they value. The Encyclopedia of World Poverty provides extensive and current information, as well ...

Encyclopedia of human geography

Human geography in the last decade has undergone a conceptual and methodological renaissance that transformed it into one of the most dynamic and innovative of the social sciences. Long a borrower of ideas from other disciplines, geography has become a contributor in its own right ...

Environment

Human geography in the last decade has undergone a conceptual and methodological renaissance that transformed it into one of the most dynamic and innovative of the social sciences. Long a borrower of ideas from other disciplines, geography has become a contributor in its own right ...

An introduction to scientific research methods in geography

"An Introduction to Scientific Research Methods" provides a broad and integrative introduction to the conduct and interpretation of scientific research in human geography. It covers both conceptual and technical aspects, as well as ethical conduct in research. The text is applicable to all topical areas ...

The SAGE dictionary of social research methods

The SAGE Dictionary of Social and Cultural Research Methods provides the user with up-to-date definitions of all major concepts and methods encountered when attempting to conduct research in the social and cultural fields. Compiled by a leading academic in the field of social and cultural ...

International Law

The role of law in world politics has become a major part of the study of international relations in the last 15 years. This four-volume set brings together in a single source, articles that reflect the spectrum of theoretical and empirical work on international law ...

Conflict resolution

How international conflict might bemanaged or resolved is a major focal point of a very large and growingbody of scholarly research. This four volume set provides an intellectual history to the fields of conflict management and resolution as well as some of the best contemporary ...

Writing and presenting research

This accessible and wide-ranging book is an invaluable introductory guide through the choices to be made when deciding how to report research. "Writing and Presenting Research" covers research written as theses and dissertations; chapters, books, reports and articles in academic, professional or general media, such ...

The SAGE handbook of evaluation

The Handbook succeeds in capturing and presenting evaluations extensive knowledge base within a global context. In so doing it provides a useful, coherent, and definitive benchmark on the fields diverse and dynamic purposes, practices, theories, approaches, issues, and challenges for the 21st century. The Handbook ...

Key thinkers from critical theory to post-marxism

"Key Thinkers from Critical Theory to Post-Marxism" is the first comprehensive introduction to the most key intellectual trend in contemporary critical theory. In jargon free language it seeks to unpack, explain and review many of the key figures behind the rethinking of the legacy of ...

Product and services management

"Product and Services Management" provides a holistic approach to the study of product and services management. It looks at the key milestones within a product's or service life cycle, and considers in detail three crucial areas within product management, namely product/service portfolio evaluation ...

Handbook of marketing

"The Handbook of Marketing" presents a major retrospective and prospective overview of the field of marketing, and provides a landmark reference at a time when many of the traditional boundaries and domains within the marketing discipline have been subject to change. The contributors: frame, assess ...