A Companion to American Technology is a groundbreaking collection of original essays that analyze the hard-to-define phenomenon of "technology" in America.

• 22 original essays by expert scholars cover the most important features of American technology, including developments in automobiles, television, and computing
• Analyzes the ways in which technologies are organized, such as in the engineering profession, government, medicine and agriculture
• Includes discussions of how technologies interact with race, gender, class, and other organizing structures in...

A Companion to Literature in Film provides state-of-the-art research on world literature, film, and the complex theoretical relationship between them. 25 essays by international experts cover the most important topics in the study of literature and film adaptations.

• Covers a wide variety of topics, including cultural, thematic, theoretical, and genre issues
  
• Discusses film adaptations from the birth of cinema to the present day
  
• Explores a diverse range of titles and genres, including film noir, biblical epics, and Italian and...

This classic introduction to one of the most influential modern thinkers, G.W.F. Hegel (1770-1831) has been made even more comprehensive through the addition of four new chapters.

• New edition of a classic introduction to Hegel.
  
• Enables students to engage with many aspects of Hegel's philosophy.
  
• Covers the whole range of Hegel's mature thought.
  
• Relates Hegel's ideas to other thinkers, such as Luther, Descartes and Kant.
  
• Offers a distinctive and challenging interpretation of Hegel's work.

Romance is a varied and fluid literary genre, notoriously difficult to define. This groundbreaking Companion surveys the many permutations of romance throughout the ages.

• Considers the literary and historical development of the romance genre from its classical origins to the present day
  
• Incorporates discussion of the changing readership of romance and of romance's special relation to women readers
  
• Comprises 30 essays written by leading authorities on different periods and sub-genres
  
• Challenges the idea that...

Written by a leading researcher in the field, this fascinating examination of the relations between grammar, text, and discourse is designed to provoke critical discussion on key issues in discourse analysis which are not always clearly identified and examined.

• Written by a leading researcher in the field
  
• Continues the enquiry into discourse analysis that Zellig Harris initiated 50 years ago, which raised a number of problematic issues that have remained unresolved ever since
  
• Introduces the notion of pretext as an additional factor in the...

In a critical reinterpretation of the idea of the 'disenchantment of nature', this provocative and timely book argues that contemporary ideas and practices concerning nature and technology remain closely bound up with religious ways of thinking and acting. Using examples from North America, Europe and elsewhere, many derived from original research, it reinterprets a range of 'secular' phenomena in terms of their conditioning by a complex series of transformations of the sacred in Western history. The contemporary practices of environmental politics, technological risk behaviour, alternative...

In a critical reinterpretation of the idea of the 'disenchantment of nature', this provocative and timely book argues that contemporary ideas and practices concerning nature and technology remain closely bound up with religious ways of thinking and acting. Using examples from North America, Europe and elsewhere, many derived from original research, it reinterprets a range of 'secular' phenomena in terms of their conditioning by a complex series of transformations of the sacred in Western history. The contemporary practices of environmental politics, technological risk behaviour, alternative...

Continental Philosophy of Science provides an expert guide to the major twentieth-century French and German philosophical thinking on science.

• A comprehensive introduction by the editor provides a unified interpretative survey of continental work on philosophy of science.

• Interpretative essays are complemented by key primary-source selections.

• Includes previously untranslated texts by Bergson, Bachelard, and Canguilhem and new...

Insect Sampling in Forest Ecosystems highlights the problems faced by entomologists working in forest ecosystems.

• Insects play a major part in all aspects of ecology
  
• Brings together the methodology needed to investigate insects through the various strata of the forest canopy
  
• Covers techniques associated with various specialised groups of forest insects
  
• Each chapter is backed up by a sound approach to experimental design and data analysis
  
• Essential reading for advanced students and researchers as well as...

This Concise Companion presents fresh perspectives on eighteenth-century literature.

• Contributes to current debates in the field on subjects such as the public sphere, travel and exploration, scientific rhetoric, gender and the book trade, and historical versus literary perceptions of life on London streets.
  
• Searches out connections between the remarkable number of new genres that appeared in the eighteenth century.
  
• Crosses conventional disciplinary lines.
  
• Demonstrates that philosophy, history, politics and social...