> Reader's Guide to the Social Sciences
> edited by Jonathan Michie
> with an international Advisory Board
>
> * An invaluable resource for anyone starting a search for the
best in
> social science literature, compiling reading lists, or just seeking
> guidance on what has been published on a particular topic.
> * The volume of secondary material now available to students of
> various subjects is often overwhelming. The Fitzroy Dearborn Reader's
> Guide series aims to offer students, teachers, scholars, and
librarians
> help and advice on how to find what they want. Not encyclopedias or
> dictionaries, they are guides to reading. They evaluate the secondary
> material in a broad area of study by means of comparative essays on
> hundreds of specific topics. These books provide expert guidance to
and
> critical analysis of the vast number of books available within the
> different subject areas. They will assist in the selection of the
most
> appropriate books for research and level of study, and address areas
of
> scholarly debate.
> * Each entry in a Reader's Guide consists of a bibliographical
> headnote listing the items to be covered (normally 6-12 books) and an
> essay of 800-2000 words that discusses the books on, or related to,
the
> subject concerned. The essays provide the reader with advice on the
> quality, emphasis, range and depth of coverage, and point of view, of
each
> book listed in the bibliography.
> This two-volume work includes approximately 1200 entries in A-Z order,
> critically reviewing the literature on specific topics from abortion
to
> the World Trade Organisation. In addition, nine major entries cover
each
> of the major disciplines (economics and political economy; management
and
> business; psychology; organizational behaviour; human geography;
politics;
> sociology; law; history and development of the social sciences). The
> major survey entries act as a large-scale map of the discipline,
enabling
> readers to put the standard length entries into context, to
understand the
> historical development of the discipline, and to review key
controversies
> and points of departure between different schools of thought.
>
> Jonathan Michie, Head of the School of Management & Organizational
> Psychology at Birkbeck College, was Director of the ESRC's 'Contracts
and
> Competition' Programme from 1992-1997 and currently researches labour
> market dynamics, Human resource management and corporate performance.
He
> is on the Editorial Boards of the International Review of Applied
> Economics, the Review of International Political Economy, and New
Economy,
> and is an Associate Editor of the Cambridge Journal of Economics.
>
> Hardback; 2 volumes; 276 x 219 mm; 2165 pages
> 1-57958-091-2; £185.00; April 2001
>
> For a sample entry and full details of contents, advisers and
> contributors, visit the website
> http://www.fitzroydearborn.com/rgsocsci.htm
>
>
>
> Warren Prentice
> Marketing Executive
> Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers
> Tel: 020 7467 1411
> Fax: 020 7636 6982
>
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