Bøker av Tony Schirato

An engaging guide to the skills needed to analyse images of all kinds and a lucid introduction to the emerging field of visual culture. Author Webb from University of Canberra, ACT.

This book is the perfect introduction to a thinker many students can find challenging. Foucault is the last great intellectual in the social sciences - people need to understand him.

Traces and analyzes the development of the modern field of sport from its ancient and medieval precursors, through to its inception in the mid-19th century as a set of activities designed to instill character and discipline in students in exclusive British public schools, up to its transformation into a global institution and popular spectacle.

Understanding Globalization provides a basic easy-to-read introduction to the discourses, practices and technologies that have been grouped together under the term.

From Saussure to Bourdieu, from Freud to Fouclault, this book outlines a range of theoretical approaches to the study of communication and culture. It focuses on three 'primary' systems of communication: spoken, written and visual.