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1. The Virtual

   By Rob Shields

   Series: Key Ideas

   This book looks at the origins and the many contemporary meanings of the virtual. Rob Shields shows how the construction of virtual worlds has a long history. He examines the many forms of faith and hysteria that have surrounded computer technologies in recent years. Moving beyond the technologies...

   Published November 27th 2002 by Routledge
2. Lefebvre, Love and Struggle

   Spatial Dialectics

   By Rob Shields

   Lefebvre, Love and Struggle provides the only comprehensive guide to Lefebvre's work. It is an accessible introduction to one of the most significant European thinkers of the twentieth century. Rob Shields draws on the full range of Lefebvres writings, including many previously untranslated and...

   Published December 9th 1998 by Routledge
3. Lifestyle Shopping

   The Subject of Consumption

   Edited by Rob Shields

   Series: International Library of Sociology

   Published September 2nd 1992 by Routledge
4. Places on the Margin

   Alternative Geographies of Modernity

   By Rob Shields

   Series: International Library of Sociology

   The debate on modernity and postmodernity has awakened interest in the importance of the spatial for cultural formations. But what of those spaces that exist as much in the imagination as in physical reality? This book attempts to develop an alternative geography and sociology of space by examining...

   Published May 6th 1992 by Routledge