Marketing starts with the basic concepts from classical marketing perspectives and contrasts these with newer perspectives from the relational and service-based schools of marketing, helping students develop their knowledge and encourage critical thinking. It provides learning insights into marketing theory and practice, through a series of "Insight" features - Case, Practitioner, Marketing, Academic and Research Insights. Marketing is a text for life, purchased at level 1/2 but retained and referred to throughout the course of a student's marketing or business degree. It starts with the basic concepts from classical marketing models and contrasts these with newer perspectives.