Adorno, Theodor
The Culture Industry: Selected Essays on Mass Culture
postgraduate, undergraduate level
Routledge: February 1991
192pp 216 x 138
Dewey class: 306.4
A selection of the author's essays on culture, which discusses such topics as television and the patterns of mass culture, the culture industry, the schema of mass culture, cultural administration, and culture and the theory of Fascist propaganda.
Paperback ISBN:0 415 05831 7 £13.99

Arato, Andrew & Gebhardt, Eike
The Essential Frankfurt School Reader
postgraduate, professional level
Continuum Pub: 08 1993
560pp
Paperback ISBN: 0 8264 0194 5 £15.95

Barker, Martin(Ed) & Beezer, Anne(Ed)
Reading into Cultural Studies
undergraduate, professional level
Routledge: 10 1992
240pp 216 x 138
A collection that brings together a reassessment of important cultural studies texts such as Hebdige's "Subculture" and Modleski's "Loving with a Vengeance".
Hardback ISBN:0 415 06376 0 £35.00
Paperback ISBN:0 415 06377 9 £11.99

Barthes, Roland
Mythologies
general, undergraduate, professional level
Vintage: 07 1993
128pp 198 x 129
A series of essays in which Barthes seeks to tear away masks and demystify the signs, signals, gestures and messages through which western society sustains, sells, identifies and yet obscures itself.
Paperback ISBN:0 09 997220 4 £5.99

Benjamin, Walter
Illuminations
general level
Fontana Press: 1992
288pp 198 x 129
Walter Benjamin is now regarded as one of the greatest literary critics of the 20th century. An outsider in Hitler's Europe, he chose an infamously futile death on the Spanish border in 1940. This book is a collection of his critical essays.
Paperback ISBN:0 00 686248 9 £7.99

Billington, Rosamund & Strawbridge, Sheelagh et al
Culture and Society: a Sociology of Culture
professional, postgraduate, undergraduate level
Macmillan Education: 02 1991
240pp 216 x 138: Bibliography, index
Dewey class: 306
Series: Sociology for a changing world
Following a definition of culture, the authors examine the role of culture in society by drawing on such themes as the media, education, class and race.
Paperback ISBN:0 333 46039 1 £12.50

Bourdieu, Pierre
Distinction: a Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
undergraduate, postgraduate level
Routledge: 01 1986
616pp 216 x 138: Illustrations
Paperback ISBN:0 415 04546 0 £15.99

Chaney, David
The Cultural Turn: Scene Setting Essays on Contemporary Cultural Theory
undergraduate, professional level
Routledge: 09 1994
256pp 216 x 138
In the second half of the 20th century, the theme of culture has dominated the human sciences. This work reviews concepts of culture in ways that should be accessible to those new to the field and also stimulating to experts. It examines this "turn to culture" in a number of academic fields.
Hardback ISBN:0 415 10297 9 £42.50

Clyne, Michael (Monash University)
Inter-Cultural Communication at Work: Cultural Values in Discourse
undergraduate, professional level
Cambridge UP: 07 1997
240pp 228 x 152: 17 tables
This interdisciplinary study examines the impact of cultural values on discourse. Through an exploration of the role of verbal communication patterns in successful and unsuccessful communication, it sets out to integrate and develop a framework for a linguistics of inter cultural communication.
Paperback ISBN:0 521 57509 5 £11.95

Corson, David
Language Policy Across the Curriculum
Multilingual Matters: 01 1990
307pp
Hardback ISBN:1 85359 069 X £38.00
Paperback ISBN:1 85359 068 1 £11.95

Davies, Ioan
Cultural Studies and Beyond: Fragments of Empire
undergraduate, professional level
Routledge: 05 1995
224pp 234 x 156
This text should be useful to all those attempting to understand the state of cultural studies in the West today. Introducing the central theoretical issues, as well as the key personalities, it traces the origins, growth and diffusion of the subject.
Hardback ISBN:0 415 03836 7 £42.50

de Certeau, Michel
Heterologies: Discourse on the Other
undergraduate, professional level
UCL Press: 1986
277pp 234 x 156
Series: theory and History of Literature, 17
Hardback ISBN:0 8166 14032 £30.00
Paperback ISBN:0 8166 1404 0 £11.95

Debord, Guy
Comments on The Society of the Spectacle
undergraduate level
Blackwell Verso: 1990
128pp 234 x 156
Hardback ISBN:0 86091 302 3 £32.95
Paperback ISBN:0 86091 520 4 £9.95

During, Simon
The Cultural Studies Reader
undergraduate, postgraduate level
Routledge: 05 1993
432pp 234 x 156: Illustrations
Presents selected essays by writers such as Barthes, Adorno, Lyotard, Stuart Hall and Gayatri Spivak. The book encompasses a range of topics, from sport to postmodernism, from museums to supermarkets, from gay writing to rock and roll. It covers important cultural studies method and theory.
Paperback ISBN:0 415 07709 5 £12.99

Eagleton, Terry
The Idealogy of the Aesthetic
undergraduate, professional level
Blackwell: 1990
432pp 229 x 152
A survey of modern Western philosophy, focusing on the relations between aesthetics, ethics and politics, which aims to be a critique of the concept of the aesthetic throughout modern Western thought.
Hardback ISBN:0 631 16301 8 £40.00
Paperback ISBN:0 631 16302 6 £14.99

Easthope, Antony
Literary into Cultural Studies
undergraduate, postgraduate level
Routledge: 10 1991
192pp 216 x 138
Focusing on the shift in modern literary study to cultural studies, this work argues that this new discipline must find a methodological consensus for its analysis of canonical and popular texts. Through a criticism of competing theories, it shows how this new study should and should not be done.
Paperback ISBN:0 415 06641 7 £12.99

Eldridge, John & Eldridge, Lizzie
Raymond Williams: Making Connections
undergraduate, professional level
Routledge: 04 1994
288pp 216 x 138
Dewey class: 820.914
This critical exploration of Williams's work spans his fiction and non fiction, and his contributions to drama, film, literary criticism, sociology, cultural studies, media studies and politics. The study re-examines his wary utopianism and his critiques on modernity and postmodernity.
Hardback ISBN:0 415 04087 6 £40.00
Paperback ISBN:0 415 04088 4 £12.99

Featherstone, Mike
Postmodernism and Consumer Culture
professional level
Sage London: 11 1990
192pp 216 x 138: Bibliography, index
Dewey class: 306
Series: theory, culture and society
Analyzing the theories of consumption and post modernism amongst social theorists such as Bourdieu and Jameson, this study relates their thought to the actual nature of contemporary consumer culture. The author suggests that material goods reveal taste and lifestyle in post modernist society.
Hardback ISBN:0 8039 8414 6 £35.00

Geertz, Clifford
Interpretation of Cultures
professional level
Fontana: 06 1993
356pp New edition
Paperback ISBN:0 00 686260 8 £9.99

Graddol, David(Ed) & Swann, Joan(Ed)
Evaluating Language
research, professional level
Multilingual Matters: 03 1994
116pp 210 x 148
Dewey class: 418
Series: British Studies in Applied Linguistics,
The nine papers presented in this volume were selected from the 25th Annual Meeting of the British Association for Applied Linguistics in September 1992. They illustrate the breadth and diversity of research in the field.
Paperback ISBN:1 85359 238 2 £11.95

Grossberg, Lawrence(Ed) & Nelson, Cary(Ed) et al
Cultural Studies
undergraduate, professional level
Routledge: 1992
800pp 234 x 156
Dewey class: 306
Covers contemporary commitments in cultural studies historical and intellectual positions, political and scholarly preoccupations, and the kinds of interventions it aims for now and in the future. The book defines and debates the common body of assumptions and questions that define the field.
Paperback ISBN:0 415 90345 9 £14.99

Hall, Stuart
Culture, Media, Language: Working Papers in Cultural Studies, 1972-79
undergraduate, postgraduate level
Routledge: 1980
311pp
Series: Cultural Studies Birmingham
A collection of work from The Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies.
Paperback ISBN:0 415 07906 3 £12.99

Jenkins, Richard
Pierre Bourdieu
undergraduate, postgraduate level
Routledge: 1992
192pp, 198 x 129
Series: Key Sociologists
Placing Pierre Bourdieu's sociological enterprise in its proper context, French intellectual life since the 1950s, Jenkins offers a critique which acknowledges Bourdieu's massive achievement while at the same time recognizing the shortcomings and problems of his work.
Paperback ISBN:0 415 05798 1 £9.99

Jenks, Chris
Culture
undergraduate, postgraduate level
Routledge: 10 1993
224pp 198 x 129: Illustrations
Series: Key Ideas
"Culture" provides a comprehensive introduction to one of the buzz words of today. It argues that we must locate it within traditions of thought and not merely as a modern invention or discovery.
Paperback ISBN:0 415 07278 6 £10.99

Jenks, Chris (Ed)
Cultural Reproduction
undergraduate, postgraduate level
Routledge: 04 1993
256pp 216 x 138
While addressing ideology and structural determinacy in cultural reproduction theory, this collection of original essays seeks also to explore other possibilities, in terms of ethno methodology, Durkheimianism, structuralism and post structuralism.
Hardback ISBN:0 415 07182 8 £40.00
Paperback ISBN:0 415 07183 62 8 £12.99

Kramsch, Claire
Context and Culture in Language Teaching
general, vocational, professional level
Oxford UP ELT: 03 1993
96pp 216 x 138
This is an attempt to redraw the boundaries of foreign language study. It focuses attention on cultural knowledge not just as a necessary aspect of communicative competence, but also as an educational objective in its own right, and therefore an end as well as a means of language learning.
Paperback ISBN:0 19 437187 5 £15.20

Kritzman, Lawrence (Ed)
Michel Foucault: Politics, Philosophy, Culture Interviews and Other Writings
undergraduate, professional level
Routledge: 1990
330pp 234 x 156
This collection of interviews and writings focuses on the cultural vision that characterized Foucault's later work. He assesses truth, history, the social self from a philosophical and social science perspective and his essays develop into a dialogue with Kant, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud and Weber.
Paperback ISBN:0 415 90149 9 £12.99

Ledger, Sally(Ed) & McCracken, Scott(Ed)
Cultural Politics at the Fin de Siecle
undergraduate, professional level
Cambridge UP: 01 1995
320pp 228 x 152: 7 halftones
This study examines ways in which current conflicts of race, class and gender have their origins in the cultural politics of the last fin de siecle, whose influence stretched from the 1890s to 1914 when world war accelerated imperial decline.
Paperback ISBN:0 521 48499 5 £14.95

Mcgowan, Kate
The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory Volume 3
Blackwell Publishers: 1996
Hardback ISBN:0 631 18861 4 Price not available

McGuigan, Jim
Cultural Populism
undergraduate, postgraduate level
Routledge: 1992
304pp 216 x 138
Attempts to provide understanding of current thought and enquiry in the study of popular culture and communications. Through consideration of aspects such as the work of Raymond Williams, popular TV study and issues of public communication the book sets out a case for analysis of popular culture.
Paperback ISBN:0 415 06295 0 £12.99

Marwick, Arthur(Ed)
The Arts, Literature and Society
professional level
Routledge: 10 1990
336pp 216 x 138: 32 b&w photographs
Dewey class: 700.91812
Explores the relationships between cultural products and the society which produces them. The book covers topics relating to both Britain and Germany, from Shakespeare to German expressionism and discusses current ideas in linguistics and cultural theory.
Hardback ISBN:0 415 01445 X £42.00

May, Stephen
Making Multicultural Education Work
research, professional level
Multilingual Matters: 05 1994
220pp 210 x 148: Bibliography
Series: the Language and Education Library, No 7
Addresses the issue of the efficacy of multicultural education. May advocates the need for a more critically conceived approach to multicultural education. A case study of Richmond Road School in Auckland, New Zealand illustrates what can be achieved when this is effectively implemented.
Hardback ISBN:1 85359 237 4 £39.00
Paperback ISBN:1 85359 236 6 £12.95

Milner, Andrew
Contemporary Cultural Theory: an Introduction
undergraduate level
UCL Press: 01 1994
208pp 216 x 138
Dewey class: 306.01
An introduction to the historical and theoretical groundings of cultural studies which identifies six alternative paradigms: utilitarianism, culturalism, marxism, structuralism, feminism and postmodernism. It explores the socio discursive contexts within which each of these have developed.
Paperback ISBN:1 85728 127 6 £10.95

O'Sullivan, Tim & Hartley, John et al
Key Concepts in Communication and Cultural Studies
undergraduate, professional level
Routledge: 03 1994
272pp 198 x 129
Dewey class: 302.203
Series: Studies in Culture and Communication
This text is a multi disciplinary glossary of concepts from the study of communication and culture. Recent developments in these areas have resulted not only in new words, concepts and theories, but also in the re working of concepts and terms drawn from established disciplines.
Paperback ISBN:0 415 06173 3 £9.99

Sabin, Roger
Adult Comics: an Introduction
undergraduate, postgraduate, general level
Routledge: 1993
324pp, 234 x 156mm
Series: New Accents
The first survey of comic books for older readers from the end of the 19th century to the present taking in pre Great War titles, the underground of the 1960s, "fan" dom in the 1970s and 1980s and today's boom including "graphic novels" and "Viz".
Hardback ISBN:0 415 04418 9 £40.00
Paperback ISBN:0 415 04419 7 £12.99

Said, Edward W.
Culture and Imperialism
general, professional level
Vintage: 01 1994
480pp 198 x 129
Dewey class: 325.34
From Jane Austen to Salman Rushdie, and from Yeats to the news coverage of the Gulf War, this is broad account of the roots of imperialism in European culture, and an analysis of the impact of 19th century British and French imperialism on the culture of the period.
Paperback ISBN:0 09 996750 2 £8.99

Said, Edward W.
The World, the Text and the Critic
general level
Vintage: 10 1991
336pp 198 x 130
Dewey class: 809
In these essays, Edward Said challenges contemporary literary criticism. He examines, among other things, narrative, focusing on Joseph Conrad and the curious dearth of literature on Jonathan Swift.
Paperback ISBN:0 09 991620 7 £7.99

Shore, Bradd
Culture in Mind: Meaning Construction and Cultural Cognition
undergraduate, professional level
Oxford UP Inc: 04 1996
416pp 230 x 150: 4 halftones, 7 line drawings, bibliography
This ethnographic portrait of the human mind uses case studies from both industrialized and developing societies to argue that "cultural models" are necessary to the functioning of the human mind.
Hardback ISBN:0 19 509597 9 £25.00

Storey, John
Cultural Studies and the Study of Popular Culture: Theories and Methods
undergraduate level
Edinburgh UP: 03 1996
160pp 216 x 138: Bibliography, index
Presents a critical overview of the methodology for the actual study of contemporary popular culture, setting out the range of theories and methods which have been used to study it. Including case studies focusing on the media, the book also provides a map of the development of cultural studies.
Paperback ISBN:0 7486 0802 8 £11.95

Storey, John
Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: a Reader
undergraduate, research, professional level
Harvester Wheatsheaf: 09 1994
544pp 235 x 174
A selection of readings from various approaches to popular culture, including culturalism, marxism, feminism and postmodernism, charting the theoretical development of the study of popular culture within cultural studies. Readings from recent debates on the study of popular culture are included.
Paperback ISBN:0 7450 1551 4 £14.50

Thwaites, Tony & Davis, Lloyd et al
Tools for Cultural Studies: an Introduction
undergraduate level
Macmillan Press: 05 1994
240pp 216 x 138: Illustrations, index
This is an introductory textbook for undergraduate courses in cultural studies, communication studies and social semiotics. It aims to equip the student with the conceptual materials necessary for advanced study in these fields. Each chapter contains exercises for home or class use.
Paperback ISBN:0 732 91935 5 £12.99

Turner, Graeme
British Cultural Studies
undergraduate, postgraduate level
Routledge: 08 1996
312pp 216 x 138: 6 figures, b&w photographs
An introduction to the British tradition of cultural studies. The British school has been a major influence in the humanities and social sciences, redefining the study of popular culture, the media and everyday life. This book overviews the main themes that have informed British cultural studies.
Paperback ISBN:0 415 12930 3 £10.99

Weedon, Chris
Feminist Practice and Poststructuralist Theory
undergraduate, postgraduate level
Blackwell Publishers: 10 1996
256pp 216 x 138: Notes, bibliography, index
This is an introduction to poststructuralist theory which examines how poststructuralism might be used to theorize gender, identity and experience in patriarchal societies. This revised and updated edition includes an additional final chapter on the recent debate about feminism and postmodernism.
Paperback ISBN:0 631 19825 3 £13.99

Williams, Raymond
Keywords: a Vocabulary of Culture and Society
general level
Fontana Press: 1988
349pp
Paperback ISBN:0 00 686150 4 £7.99