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16 produkter
16 produkter
- Häftad, Engelska, 2012
262 kr
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- E-bokPDF, Engelska, 2013
738 kr
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This book examines young people''s involvement in crime (including crimes of violence, vandalism, shoplifting, burglary and car crime) as both victims and offenders.
Although adolescence is the time when involvement in crime peaks, few previous UK-based studies have attempted to provide a methodical and comprehensive understanding of adolescent offending on a city-wide basis. This book seeks a better understanding of adolescent crime by studying the relationship between individual characteristics (social bonds and morality and self-control) and lifestyles (as defined by delinquent peers, substance use and exposure to risky behaviour settings) and their joint influence on adolescent involvement in crime, against the backdrop of the juveniles'' social context - taking into account family, school and neighbourhood influences.
The findings of this study suggest the existence of three main groups of adolescent offenders; propensity induced offenders, life-style dependent offenders and situationally limited offenders, groups of offenders having different causal backgrounds to their crime involvement, and who therefore may warrant different strategies for effective prevention.
- E-bokEngelska, 2013
740 kr
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This book examines young people''s involvement in crime (including crimes of violence, vandalism, shoplifting, burglary and car crime) as both victims and offenders.
Although adolescence is the time when involvement in crime peaks, few previous UK-based studies have attempted to provide a methodical and comprehensive understanding of adolescent offending on a city-wide basis. This book seeks a better understanding of adolescent crime by studying the relationship between individual characteristics (social bonds and morality and self-control) and lifestyles (as defined by delinquent peers, substance use and exposure to risky behaviour settings) and their joint influence on adolescent involvement in crime, against the backdrop of the juveniles'' social context - taking into account family, school and neighbourhood influences.
The findings of this study suggest the existence of three main groups of adolescent offenders; propensity induced offenders, life-style dependent offenders and situationally limited offenders, groups of offenders having different causal backgrounds to their crime involvement, and who therefore may warrant different strategies for effective prevention.
- E-bokEngelska, 2025
84 kr
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A science fiction thriller about our near future, the one our children will have to endure. This book tells the story of three generations as they strive to navigate their era. Each generational tale spans forty years in the progression of human civilization. The first generation's story was told in "e;Wild West in Space, 2065"e;. This story continues with the next generation growing up in Jupiter's moon, Ganymede. In the next generation (2015), Paris Majors works on creating immersive virtual reality games where people can experience any pleasure or pain. His sister, Helen, is a full-time college student who spends her free time visiting dinosaurs. Helping their mother explore an abandoned spaceport on Callisto, they discover the Systerians, a lizard-like alien species that is highly intelligent and strong. Troy and Helen contact these alien beings to help defeat the Corporation. The Systerians are not as peaceful as the Nordic; they have domesticated humans on 400 other worlds, turning them into cattle. They want to introduce Earth's languages, customs, and beliefs into these worlds to regenerate their civilizations. They demand over 20,000 young women a year. The next generation (2145) features Theseus Majors and his daughter Ariadne, living on Earth in a nod to Greek mythology's Minotaur. Ariadne is sent as a tribute, telling the captivity from the woman's viewpoint. She has a tracking device, so her dad can determine the fate of Earth's women. He commandeers an alien spaceship and, with the help of some beings he encounters during his travels, finds her at Dionysus's Golden Feast. - E-bokEngelska, 2025
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In just 40 years, our situation will have only gotten worse. Climate change has destroyed our farmlands. World leaders have become radicalized and cultist. World War III has killed almost three billion people. Out of the ashes, new leaders have arisen using alien technology to build Lagrange 1 and 2. Lagrange 1, between the Earth and the Sun, is where all the food for the world is grown. Lagrange 2 is the city they made for themselves, always visible in the night sky. You might even say they have set themselves as Gods to determine who lives and dies. This is where our story begins. The initial story is told through two people. Troy Majors, an engineer, is being chased across the asteroids because he exposes the war on women being conducted by the asteroid miners. Hunter Wilder, a Space Archaeologist who discloses the existence of space aliens to the public, is being shipped to the asteroid Hygiea to be made into a golden statue by the governing leaders, known as the Corporation. - Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
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- Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
1 150 kr
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- E-bokEngelska, 2025
81 kr
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What can models do when being replaced by simulated graphics? When modeling on alien planets is no longer interesting to the public. What happens when the company that has hired them is going out of business, and all sources of revenue are drying up?Helen Spanos is an investigative reporter at the Denver Weekly newspaper. Using an alias, she joins the latest set of models for Interstellar Stars to have modeling sessions on foreign worlds. She finds out that the company is going out of business, and with it, the entire modeling industry is at risk. The lead model has a daring proposal: to do highly risky sessions with monsters, cannibals, and enslavers. Are they willing to risk their lives to save their profession? - Häftad, Engelska, 2025
198 kr
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- Häftad, Engelska, 2023
568 kr
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- Inbunden, Engelska, 2006
2 229 kr
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This book examines young people's involvement in crime (including crimes of violence, vandalism, shoplifting, burglary and car crime) as both victims and offenders. Although adolescence is the time when involvement in crime peaks, few previous UK-based studies have attempted to provide a methodical and comprehensive understanding of adolescent offending on a city-wide basis. This book seeks a better understanding of adolescent crime by studying the relationship between individual characteristics (social bonds and morality and self-control) and lifestyles (as defined by delinquent peers, substance use and exposure to risky behaviour settings) and their joint influence on adolescent involvement in crime, against the backdrop of the juveniles' social context - taking into account family, school and neighbourhood influences. The findings of this study suggest the existence of three main groups of adolescent offenders; propensity induced offenders, life-style dependent offenders and situationally limited offenders, groups of offenders having different causal backgrounds to their crime involvement, and who therefore may warrant different strategies for effective prevention. - Häftad, Engelska, 2007
575 kr
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This book examines young people's involvement in crime (including crimes of violence, vandalism, shoplifting, burglary and car crime) as both victims and offenders. Although adolescence is the time when involvement in crime peaks, few previous UK-based studies have attempted to provide a methodical and comprehensive understanding of adolescent offending on a city-wide basis. This book seeks a better understanding of adolescent crime by studying the relationship between individual characteristics (social bonds and morality and self-control) and lifestyles (as defined by delinquent peers, substance use and exposure to risky behaviour settings) and their joint influence on adolescent involvement in crime, against the backdrop of the juveniles' social context - taking into account family, school and neighbourhood influences. The findings of this study suggest the existence of three main groups of adolescent offenders; propensity induced offenders, life-style dependent offenders and situationally limited offenders, groups of offenders having different causal backgrounds to their crime involvement, and who therefore may warrant different strategies for effective prevention. - E-bokPDF, Engelska, 2012
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The Eurotherm Committee was created in 1986 from member countries of the European Community. It has the purpose of organising and coordinating scientific events such as seminars and conferences in the thermal sciences. The series of Eurotherm Seminars established by the Committee has become a popular forum for high-level scientific and technical interchange of ideas in a wide range of specialist topics. While the presentation and publication of papers at the Seminars are encouraged, the primary aim is to stimulate discussion and liaison between specialist groups. The present Chairman of Eurotherm is Professor C.J. Hoogendoorn of the Technical University, Delft (Fax [NL] 15, 783251). Information on Mure Seminars is available from the Secretary, Keith Cornwell, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh (Fax [UK] 31, 451, 3129). This particular Seminar No. 18 on the Design and Operation of Heat Exchangers was the first one on this topic and was held at the Universitat der Bundeswehr Hamburg (University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg) from February 27 to March 1 in 1991. The seminar was an international event and was attended by more than 60 scientists not only from countries of the European Community such as Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, and the Netherlands but also from other countries such as Canada, China, India, Israel, Romania, Soviet Union, Sweden and the United States of America. - Del 18 - EUROTHERM Seminars
Design and Operation of Heat Exchangers
Proceedings of the EUROTHERM Seminar No. 18, February 27 – March 1 1991, Hamburg, Germany
Häftad, Engelska, 20111 086 kr
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The Eurotherm Committee was created in 1986 from member countries of the European Community. It has the purpose of organising and coordinating scientific events such as seminars and conferences in the thermal sciences. The series of Eurotherm Seminars established by the Committee has become a popular forum for high-level scientific and technical interchange of ideas in a wide range of specialist topics. While the presentation and publication of papers at the Seminars are encouraged, the primary aim is to stimulate discussion and liaison between specialist groups. The present Chairman of Eurotherm is Professor C.J. Hoogendoorn of the Technical University, Delft (Fax [NL] 15, 783251). Information on Mure Seminars is available from the Secretary, Keith Cornwell, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh (Fax [UK] 31, 451, 3129). This particular Seminar No. 18 on the Design and Operation of Heat Exchangers was the first one on this topic and was held at the Universitat der Bundeswehr Hamburg (University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg) from February 27 to March 1 in 1991. The seminar was an international event and was attended by more than 60 scientists not only from countries of the European Community such as Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, and the Netherlands but also from other countries such as Canada, China, India, Israel, Romania, Soviet Union, Sweden and the United States of America. - Häftad, Engelska, 2025
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