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Research Methods in Criminal Justice and Criminology
An Interdisciplinary Approach
Av Lee Ellis, Richard D. Hartley m. fl.
Häftad, 2010
1143 kr
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Research Methods in Criminal Justice and Criminology is a core text for criminology and criminal justice research methods courses. It strives to offer a general foundation of knowledge that transcends particular topics or subject areas, allowing students to apply research methods and concepts to a …
Paris on the Brink
The 1930s Paris of Jean Renoir, Salvador Dalí, Simone de Beauvoir, André Gide, Sylvia Beach, Léon Blum, and Their Friends
Häftad, 2020
209 kr
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Paris on the Brink vividly portrays the City of Light during the tumultuous 1930s, from the Wall Street Crash of 1929 to war and German Occupation. This was a dangerous and turbulent decade, during which workers flexed their economic muscle and their opponents struck back with increasing violence. …
Plays Well in Groups
A Journey Through the World of Group Sex
Häftad, 2017
366 kr
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From tribal religious rituals to the Playboy mansion, and from ancient Rome to Burning Man, Plays Well in Groups explores the phenomenon of group sex. Author Katherine Frank draws on surveys, ethnographic research, participant interviews, and more to provide explanations for both, participation in …
Darker with the Dawn
Nick Cave's Songs of Love and Death
Av Adam Steiner
Häftad, 2026
295 kr
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From his early work with The Birthday Party to the future sounds of Ghosteen, Nick Cave has rewritten the language of rock ‘n’ roll.Darker with the Dawn uncovers the history and deeper meanings behind Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds’ most well-known songs from “Tupelo”, “The Mercy Seat”, “Red Right …
Where Are We Now?
The Epidemic as Politics
Häftad, 2021
277 kr
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Renowned Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben presents his fierce, passionate, and deeply personal commentaries regarding the 2020 health emergency as it played out in Italy and across the world.Alongside and beyond accusations, these texts reflect upon the great transformation affecting Western …
Being Muslim Today
Reclaiming the Faith from Orthodoxy and Islamophobia
Häftad, 2024
239 kr
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"Qureshi promotes a moderate and inclusive view of contemporary Islam, with the intellectual underpinnings to support it." - Booklist, Starred ReviewAccessible introduction to Islam and the Qur’an that explains how Muslims live and avoids the extremes of Orthodoxy and Islamophobia.The truths of …
End of Illusions
Religious Leaders Confront Hitler's Gathering Storm
Häftad, 2004
621 kr
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The rise of Islamic radicalism has led to heated discussions about how best to address the threat of religious terror. Disputes covering the right and wrong of war with Iraq, and the even bigger war on terrorism, continue to rage across America. But this is not the first argument of this …
War and Algorithm
Av Max Liljefors, Gregor Noll m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
517 kr
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New military technologies are animated by fantasies of perfect knowledge, lawfulness, and vision that contrast sharply with the very real limits of human understanding, law, and vision. Thus, various kinds of violent acts are proliferating while their precise nature remains unclear. Especially …
Kooks and Degenerates on Ice
Bobby Orr, the Big Bad Bruins, and the Stanley Cup Championship That Transformed Hockey
Inbunden, 2020
550 kr
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Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Boston Bruins’ 1970 Stanley Cup championship season by reliving all the moments in Kooks and Degenerates on Ice.While the United States seethed from racial violence, war, and mass shootings, the 1969-70 “Big, Bad Bruins,” led by the legendary Bobby Orr, brushed …
Turn and Jump
How Time & Place Fell Apart
Häftad, 2013
212 kr
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Before Thomas Edison, light and fire were thought to be one and the same. Turns out, they were separate things altogether. This book takes a similar relationship, that of time and place, and shows how they, too, were once inseparable. Time keeping was once a local affair, when small towns set their …
God, Philosophy, Universities
A Selective History of the Catholic Philosophical Tradition
Inbunden, 2009
589 kr
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'What does it mean to be a human being?' Given this perennial question, Alasdair MacIntyre, one of America's preeminent philosophers, presents a compelling argument on the necessity and importance of philosophy. Because of a need to better understand Catholic philosophical thought, especially in …
Managing the Big Picture in Colleges and Universities
From Tactics to Strategy
Inbunden, 2005
1097 kr
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This book is intended to serve as a road map for strategy creation and execution for leaders and decision makers who, by choice or by necessity, are looking to use strategy to optimize the development of their institutions. It is the first book of its kind to focus exclusively on strategy as it …
Supranationalism in the New World Order
Global Processes Reviewed
Av Paul Close, Emiko Ohki-Close
Inbunden, 1999
1564 kr
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Supranationalism in the New World Order argues that in the post-Cold War distribution of global power and configuration of global players, the European Union is just one among a growing number of regional regimes that are acquiring prominent roles in the process of global governance, to some extent …
Contemporary Controversies and the American Racial Divide
Av Robert C. Smith, Richard Seltzer
Inbunden, 2000
1853 kr
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Contemporary Controversies and the American Racial Divide is a detailed study of some of the most racially divisive issues America has encountered in the past decade. Smith and Seltzer employ more than forty surveys to explore race-based public opinion differences on high-profile controversies …
Contemporary Controversies and the American Racial Divide
Av Robert C. Smith, Richard Seltzer
Häftad, 2000
618 kr
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Contemporary Controversies and the American Racial Divide is a detailed study of some of the most racially divisive issues America has encountered in the past decade. Smith and Seltzer employ more than forty surveys to explore race-based public opinion differences on high-profile controversies …
Gramsci and Education
Av Carmel Borg, Joseph A. Buttigieg m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
835 kr
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Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) is one of the major social and political theorists of the 20th century whose work has had an enormous influence on several fields, including educational theory and practice. Gramsci and Education demonstrates the relevance of Antonio Gramsci's thought for contemporary …
Naipaul's Truth
The Making of a Writer
Inbunden, 2000
550 kr
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V.S. Naipaul once described his purpose as an author as nothing less than a "commitment to deliver the truth." One of the world's greatest, and most controversial, living writers, he has written extensively about the enduring economic, cultural, and psychological effects of colonialism, …
Educating the Prince
Essays in Honor of Harvey Mansfield
Av Mark Blitz, William Kristol
Inbunden, 2000
1478 kr
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For forty years, Harvey Mansfield has been worth reading. Whether plumbing the depths of Machiavelli’s Discourses or explaining what was at stake in Bill Clinton’s impeachment, Mansfield ‘s work in political philosophy and political science has set the standard.In Educating the Prince, twenty-one …
Mauritian Shekel: The Story of Jewish Detainees in Mauritius, 1940-1945
Häftad, 2000
751 kr
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Global Multiculturalism
Comparative Perspectives on Ethnicity, Race, and Nation
Av Grant H. Cornwell, Eve Walsh Stoddard
Inbunden, 2000
2138 kr
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Global Multiculturalism offers a rich collection of case studies on ethnic, racial, and cultural diversity drawn from thirteen countries—each unique in the way it understands, negotiates, and represents its diversity. A multi-disciplinary group of authors shows how, in different nations, identity …
Global Multiculturalism
Comparative Perspectives on Ethnicity, Race, and Nation
Av Grant H. Cornwell, Eve Walsh Stoddard
Häftad, 2000
1001 kr
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Global Multiculturalism offers a rich collection of case studies on ethnic, racial, and cultural diversity drawn from thirteen countries—each unique in the way it understands, negotiates, and represents its diversity. A multi-disciplinary group of authors shows how, in different nations, identity …
Life of the Parties
A History of American Political Parties
Häftad, 2000
646 kr
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In this classic work, James Reichley traces the decline of political parties resulting in divided government and an ineffectual political process - but he also shows us what it will take to restore the party system and how it could work to revitalize our democracy. For the first time in paperback, …
Going Live
Getting the News Right in a Real-Time, Online World
Av Philip Seib
Inbunden, 2000
475 kr
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Live! Breaking story! Up-to-the-minute coverage! We hear these teasers every day. But do they always guide us to real news? With the explosive growth of online news and increased barrage of sensational live shots on TV, getting a story first seems more important than getting it right. In Going …
Never Again?
The United States and the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide since the Holocaust
Häftad, 2001
636 kr
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Peter Ronayne's Never Again? provides the reader with a provocative and comprehensive first look at American foreign policy as it relates to the prevention and punishment of genocide since the Holocaust. In the aftermath of World War II the United States and the world pledged to 'never again' allow …
Economic Governance and the Challenge of Flexibility in East Asia
Av Frederic C. Deyo, Richard F. Doner m. fl.
Häftad, 2001
636 kr
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This book analyzes the institutional underpinnings of East Asia's dynamic growth by exploring the interplay between governance and flexibility. As the challenges of promoting and sustaining economic growth become ever more complex, firms in both advanced and industrializing countries face constant …
Class, Networks, and Identity
Replanting Jewish Lives from Nazi Germany to Rural New York
Häftad, 2001
738 kr
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This book documents a little-known aspect of the Jewish experience in America. It is a fascinating account of how a group of Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany came to dominate cattle dealing in south central New York and maintain a Jewish identity even while residing in small towns and villages …
Teaching against Global Capitalism and the New Imperialism
A Critical Pedagogy
Av Peter McLaren, Ramin Farahmandpur
Häftad, 2004
600 kr
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This book will address a number of urgent themes in education today that include multiculturalism, the politics of whiteness, the globalization of capital, neoliberalism, postmodernism, imperialism, and current debates in Marxist social theory. The above themes will be linked to critical …
Ways of Naysaying
No, Not, Nothing, and Nonbeing
Av Eva Brann
Inbunden, 2001
930 kr
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No, that diminutive but independent vocable, begins its great role early in human life and never loses it. For not only can it head a negative sentence, announcing its judgement, or answer a question, implying its negated content, it can, and mostly does, in the beginning of speech, express an …
Promise of Trinitarian Theology
Theologians in Dialogue with T. F. Torrance
Häftad, 2001
717 kr
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Thomas F. Torrance is considered by many to be the most outstanding living Reformed theologian in the Anglo-Saxon world. In The Promise of Trinitarian Theology, Elmer M. Colyer presents a collection of essays critiquing Torrance's work. It explores his place in Reformed theology and his relation to …
