Product Description

This reference contains some 4000 entries by 326 expert contributors. Nearly 1000 entries are entirely new; and most of those that survive from the previous (1988) edition have been substantially revised or newly written for this edition. Areas which have been expanded include computing, identity politics and environmental studies, and there are new entries on God, communitarianism, perestroika, new world order, afrocentricity, ebonics, third wave feminism, hypertext, virtual reality, culture jamming, cloning, post-colonialism, fuzzy logic, artificial life, paper architecture, and infopreneur.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #47560 in Books
• Published on: 2000-07-03
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 960 pages

About the Author
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.

Customer Reviews

You need this book!
Has there ever been a more comprehensive book published on Modern thought. Every conceivable field, discipline, area is covered and in considerable depth too. This book is an essential buy for those who wish to expand their knowledge on contemporary issues.

useful and enlightening
This dictionary will complement most usefully, authoritatively, and with just the right amount of words, any other encyclopaedic dictionary that may have let you down on complex conceptual thinking.

outstanding
As far as I know, the only dictionary in its kind and even if it had competition, it would probably still be the best one around. Clearly written, with more then 3500 entries, you will find all the concepts, ideas etc, that civilisation has come up with for the past 3000 years.