Clearly written, with up-to-the-minute information and packed with practical and relevant examples, The New Penguin Dictionary of Business is the perfect book for anyone-whether student or working professional-who needs to know the latest jargon in the field.

This dictionary covers the period 1789-1945. A revised edition, it includes new entries and the text has been brought up-to-date to reflect information current at the time of publication. It includes the non-European world, social, economic and ideological developments, and political events.

Accessing the huge and often bewildering subject of Critical Theory can be an intimidating experience. This acclaimed dictionary provides the ideal introduction to the range of theories and theorists on offer and will prove an invaluable and authoritative resource to all students. * Incisive overviews of the work of key figures from Arendt and Artaud to Winnicott, Wittgestein and Woolf * Powerful summaries of the crucial debates on desire and deconstruction, object relations and Orientalism, postcolonial theory and postmodernism * Clear explanations of both the links and the disagreements between different thinkers and schools.

This reference book, specially designed to resolve the increasing complexity of business life, answers the many queries on all aspects of commerce. The ready-to-use book gives the literal meaning, the usage and the limitations of those commercial terms which interest everyone in business, taxpayers and investors - minus the esoteric jargon.

Provides information on numbers and what makes particular ones noteworthy

Clearly written, with up-to-the-minute information and packed with practical and relevant examples, The New Penguin Dictionary of Business is the perfect book for anyone--whether student or working professional--who needs to know the latest jargon in the field.

Containing over 500 definitions of political theories, dogmas and phraseologies, this dictionary includes updated entries on the European Community and federalism alongside new definitions of the European Court of Justice and Central Banks, among others. Frequently-used terms in Middle-Eastern politics are explained, from Ayatollah and the Arab-Israeli wars, to fundamentalism and the Gulf War. It also includes sections on ideas that have become familiar terms over recent years, such as perestroika, glasnost, being politically correct, and Thatcherism, as well as issues that have taken on greater political significance - for example, abortion and environmentalism.

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide definitions and descriptions of terms related to economics, and includes information about individual economists who have made significant contributions to contemporary economic thought.

Features more than one thousand primary entries, along with more than two thousand examples of questionable style and the misuse of language, providing valuable lessons for students, writers, and speakers.