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ISBN 10: 0002558718 ISBN 13: 9780002558716

Casa editrice: HarperCollins, 1999

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A new, fully revised and updated edition of a well-established, unique work of reference and companion to all fields of modern thought.

First published in Fontana paperback in 1977; second revised edition published in Fontana paperback in 1988; now the third substantially revised edition makes its first ever appearance in hardback.

Edited by Alan Bullock (author of HITLER AND STALIN: Fontana Press) and Stephen Trombley, the book covers the whole range of modern thought, including: anthropology, world history, critical theory, economics, education, philosophy, music, cinema, drama, architecture, literature, medicine, law, geography, linguistics, criminology, feminism, sociology, archaeology, religion, maths, computer studies, psychology, the sciences...

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L'autore:

Alan Bullock’s famous first book HITLER: A STUDY IN TYRANNY has been translated into 19 languages and sold more than 3 million copies. He was Founding Master of St Catherine’s College, Oxford, and became Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University. He was knighted in 1972 and made a life peer in 1976. His most recent book HITLER AND STALIN: PARALLEL LIVES (Fontana Press) has sold over 150,000 copies in the English language. Stephen Trombley is a writer and prize-winning documentary film-maker. Born in New York, he has studied and worked in England as a journalist and editor. In 1990 he founded Worldview Pictures, an international television company.

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A new, fully revised and updated edition of a well-established, unique work of reference and companion to all fields of modern thought.

· More discursive than an ordinary dictionary, more compact than an encyclopaedia.
· Indispensable as a reference book, irresistible for browsing through: almost an education in itself.
· The new edition has over 1000 new entries; hundreds have been rewritten/updated (total entries = 3500); it is 10% longer than previous edition; there are 106 new contributors; many areas have been expanded (e.g. sexual politics, race, environmental studies, computing); many new headwords added (God, communitarianism, perestroika, afrocentrism, Third Wave feminism, hypertext, culture jamming, fuzzy logic, infopreneur).

“How did one exist without this splendid book?”
The Economist
“Quite unputdownable”
Times Higher Education Supplement.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: HarperCollins
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0002558718
• ISBN 13: 9780002558716
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 3
• Numero di pagine: 960
• Redattore: Bullock Alan, Trombley Stephen