A landmark reference that defines the lexicon of psychology.

Providing an authoritative and comprehensive overview of the classical and the contemporary from accounts to Zola, Irving, this volume is an indispensable guide to the vibrant and expanding field of sociology.

The Concise Dictionary of Social and Cultural Anthropology is an accessible, hands-on guide to the hundreds of terms the student of anthropology and the general reader will encounter in dealing with anthropological and ethnographic literature.

Covers all aspects of politics including political theory, political thinkers, history, institutions, concepts, and current affairs that have shaped attitudes to politics. Provides international coverage. Includes entry-level Internet links.

Covers all aspects of economics including theory, applied microeconomics and macroeconomics, labour economics, public economics and public finance, monetary economics, environmental economics. Covers international trade, economic organizations and institutions. Includes web links.

Covers human and physical geography. Includes cartography, surveying, meteorology, climatology, ecology, population, industry, and development. Focuses on globalization and the anti-globalization movement, landscape restoration, the digital divide, and issues of governance. Includes web links.

Terms covering world politics, international relations, local and national government and the European Union.

Covers all branches of psychology, including psychoanalysis, psychiatry, criminology, neuroscience, and statistics. Features subjects as cognition, sensation and perception, emotion and motivation, learning and skills, language, mental disorder, and research methods. Includes cross reference and illustrations.

This dictionary offers succinct, clear, expert explanations of key terms from both method and methodology in social research. It covers the whole range of qualitative, quantitative, and other methods, and it ranges from practical techniques like correlation up to methodological approaches such as ethnography.

Includes terms from sociology and related fields of psychology, economics, anthropology, philosophy, and political science. Contains biographies covering key figures. Includes web links.

Includes definitions for anthropology, sociology, political science, economics, human geography, cultural studies, and Marxism. Covers classic and contemporary scholarship, basic terms, concepts, theories, schools of thought, methodologies, techniques, topics, issues, and controversies.