Author: Professor Stuart Hall
Publisher: Sage Publications & Open University
Keywords: media, identities, series, culture, practices, cultural, representations, signifying, representation
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 1997-04-01
List price: $51.95
ISBN-10: 0761954325
ISBN-13: 9780761954323

Representation - the production of meaning through language, discourse and image - occupies a central place in current studies on culture. This broad-ranging text offers a comprehensive outline of how visual images, language and discourse work as `systems of representation’.Individual chapters explain a variety of approaches to representation, bringing to bear concepts from semiotic, discursive, psychoanalytic, anthropological, sociological, feminist, art-historical and Foucauldian models of representation. They explore representation as a signifying practice in a rich diversity of socia

Authors:Professor Stuart Hall, Dr Paul du Gay,
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Keywords: identity, cultural, questions
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 1996-06-06
List price: $57.95
ISBN-10: 0803978839
ISBN-13: 9780803978836

Authors:Dr Paul du Gay, Professor Stuart Hall, Linda Janes, D
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Keywords: identities, culture, media, amp, vol, series, walkman, cultural, studies, story, sony, doing
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 1997-02
List price: $55.95
ISBN-10: 0761954023
ISBN-13: 9780761954026

In recent years `culture’ has become a central concern in a wide range of fields and disciplines. This book introduces the main substantive and theoretical strands of this `turn to culture’ through the medium of a particular case study: that of the Sony Walkman. Using the example of the Walkman, the book indicates how and why cultural practices and institutions have come to play such a crucial part in our lives, and introduces some of the central ideas, concepts and methods of analysis involved in conducting cultural studies.The authors identify five major cultural processes - repr

Authors:Professor Stuart Aitken, Professor Gill Valentine,
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Keywords: geography, human, approaches
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2006-01-27
List price: $60.95
ISBN-10: 0761942637
ISBN-13: 9780761942634

Approaches to Human Geography is the essential student primer on theory and practice in Human Geography. It is a systematic review of the key ideas and debates informing post-war geography, explaining how those ideas work in practice. Avoiding jargon - while attentive to the rigor and complexity of the ideas that underlie geographic knowledge – the text is written for students who have not met philosophical or theoretical approaches before. This is a beginning guide to geographic research and practice.

Authors:Stuart G. Hall, Stuart G. Gall,
Publisher: Spck
Keywords: church, practice, doctrine
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2005-08-30
List price: $33.00
ISBN-10: 0281055092
ISBN-13: 9780281055098

Fulfilling a long-standing need for a succinct and up-to-date account of the major doctrines and practices of the early church, this book clarly traces the emergence of the distinctive elements of the Christian tradition, taking full account of the wider social, political, and theological context in which that tradition developed.

Author: Stuart Hall
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Keywords: different
Number of Pages: 207
Published: 2001-10-22
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0714840149
ISBN-13: 9780714840147

Different is about identity. It is a story, told in pictures and words, of contemporary Black and Asian artists exploring questions of their own identities in photography. A historical introduction examines the way photographers have approached issues of their ’difference’ since the beginning of the photographic medium. The images are selected by Stuart Hall and Mark Sealy, and Stuart Hall introduces the artists and explains the themes and issues. Mark Sealy is a producer and curator of photography and has been Director of Autograph (Association of Black Photographers) since 1991.

Authors:Brian K. Hall, Stuart A. Newman,
Publisher: CRC Press
Keywords: press, telford, aspects, molecular, cartilage
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 1991-06-18
List price: $199.95
ISBN-10: 0849388171
ISBN-13: 9780849388170

Cartilage plays diverse roles as a definitive supporting tissue in some organs, the basis of low friction surfaces in joints, and a transient morphogenetic template during embryogenesis and repair of the skeleton. The versatility of cartilage is derived from the remarkable material properties of its extracellular matrix, the wide spectrum of regulatory systems that influence the synthesis and degradation of the unique molecular constituents of this matrix, and the development and growth of the cells that produce it. This book touches on each of these areas and provides the first comprehensive