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Native Americans, Crime, And Justice by Marianne O. Nielsen
RRP: £39.99£35.46This book outlines indigenous institutions and thinking to show Native American responses to contemporary justice problems. It provides resource materials for practitioners in the criminal justice fields and in private agencies providing services to... -
Ethical Intersections: Health Research, Methods And Researcher Responsibility by Jeanne Daly
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book presents a collection of essays that aims to make public the social discourse on ethics of health research used by responsible, practising researchers in order to demonstrate the detailed and fine consideration given to the ethics of the... -
Postcolonial Europe by Lars Jensen
RRP: £135.00£117.28This book presents an overview of the direct and indirect ways in which Europe continues to be influenced by its entrenched postcolonial condition. Exploring the notion of postcolonial Europe as it characterises a Europe caught at a number of crossroads,... -
Development Issues In Marginal Regions: Processes, Technological Developments, And Societal Reorganizations by R.B. Singh
RRP: £39.99£35.46This book consists of 26 contributions presented at the International Geographical Union Study Group meeting, to understand the limitations and opportunities provided by natural and human environments of different marginal regions and the potential... -
Changing Info Environment/h by John McHale
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book shows how the impact of the information revolution stretches far beyond specific developments of computer-based systems and communications technologies. It provides the introduction to a new area of the interrelationship between technology and... -
New Jersey: A Geography by Charles A. Stansfield
RRP: £39.99£35.06This geographic study of New Jersey, a multidimensional portrait of the state, incorporates three major themes: the state's cultural diversity; its bipolar orientation; and an economy influenced by the state's accessibility to major metropolitan centers... -
How Do We Tell The Workers?: The Socioeconomic Foundations Of Work And Vocational Education by Joe Kincheloe
RRP: £135.00£118.28This book analyzes the ways that workers are ?educated,? via a variety of institutions, to fit into the contemporary labor-unfriendly economic system. As he examines the history and purposes of vocational education, Kincheloe illustrates the manner in... -
Dumping In Dixie: Race, Class, And Environmental Quality, Third Edition by Robert D. Bullard
RRP: £125.00£108.26This book provides the major economic, social, and psychological impacts associated with the siting of noxious facilities and their significance in mobilizing the African American community. It explores the barriers to environmental and social justice... -
The Education-Jobs Gap: Underemployment Or Economic Democracy? by D W Livingstone
RRP: £135.00£117.68According to Ivar Berg's performance criteria, over half of the U.S. workforce is now underemployed. Using analysis based on U.S. and Canadian surveys of work and learning experiences and other documental data, author David Livingstone exposes the myth... -
The Community Justice Ideal by Todd R Clear
RRP: £135.00£117.28Over the past quarter-century, U.S. politicians have responded to the public's fear of crime by devoting ever more resources to building and strengthening the criminal justice apparatus, which as a result has grown tremendously in size and cost... -
Fast Food, Fast Track: Immigrants, Big Business, And The American Dream by Jennifer Parker Talwar
RRP: £135.00£117.28Hailing from China, the Caribbean, Latin America, and India, a colorful sea of faces has taken its place behind one of the most ubiquitous American business institutions ? the fast-food counter. They have become a vital link between the growing service... -
At The Fringes Of Science by Michael W Friedlander
RRP: £35.99£31.69Scientific discoveries are constantly in the news. Almost daily we hear about new and important breakthroughs. But sometimes it turns out that what was trumpeted as scientific truth is later discredited, or controversy may long swirl about some dramatic... -
The Lome Conventions And Their Implications For The United States by Joanna Moss
RRP: £28.99£25.09In recent years the Lome Conventions have guided trade and economic relations between the EEC and more than 60 African, Caribbean, and Pacific nations (ACP). Addressed to the development needs of the ACP, the treaties include provisions for expanding... -
The Great Flood Of 1993: Causes, Impacts, And Responses by Stanley Changnon
RRP: £39.99£35.06The flood that affected a third of the United States during the summer of 1993 was the nation's worst, ranking as a once-in-300-years event. It severely tested national, state, and local systems for managing natural resources and for handling... -
Stress And Its Relationship To Health And Illness by Linas A Bieliauskas
RRP: £39.99£35.06What is the relationship between stress and illness? How does stress affect immune responsivity? Why do some people cope better than others? Questions like these have generated considerable research during the last forty-five years. In this book, Dr... -
Rural Society In The U.s.: Issues For The 1980s by Don A Dillman
RRP: £28.99£25.49Must rural Americans pay the price of urban progress and modern lifestyles? How will the increased pressures of the 1980s affect those who live and work in rural communities? In addressing these overriding questions the authors of this book take a... -
The Dependent City Revisited: The Political Economy Of Urban Development And Social Policy by Paul Kantor
RRP: £135.00£111.70Here is a book that makes sense of the L.A. riots, homelessness, tax giveaways, and the other big urban issues that are back in the national spotlight. In this streamlined and updated new edition of his classic book, The Dependent City, Paul Kantor now... -
South Carolina: A Geography by Charles F Kovacik
RRP: £135.00£111.70Although small in land area, South Carolina boasts rich geographical diversity. From the mountains to the sea, from the Savannah River to the Pee Dee River, the state features an array of settings and habitats, all formed over long periods of geologic... -
Small And Intermediate Urban Centres: Their Role In Regional And National Development In The Third World by Jorge Hardoy
RRP: £135.00£112.30This book is the result of contributions, help and support from numerous people and several agencies. We are particularly grateful to the Swedish Agency for Research Cooperation with Developing Countries, the Swedish Council for Building Research and the... -
Rural Development And Migration: A Study Of Family Choices In The Philippines by Sally E. Findley
RRP: £135.00£111.70Perhaps because I grew up on a farm in Ohio, I have long been interested in rural development. Although I fll'St became a migrant at the age of 17 when I left the farm to continue my studies in a city college, I was not aware of the relation between... -
Readings In Farming Systems Research And Development by W. R. Schmehl
RRP: £135.00£111.30This collection offers a comprehensive view of the commonalities and diversities of the farming systems research and development (FSR&D) approaches being applied around the world. The authors-among the leading practitioners in FSR&D-discuss... -
Promoting High Technology Industry: Initiatives And Policies For State Governments by Jurgen Schmandt
RRP: £135.00£111.70In the wake of declining federal involvement in state affairs, state governments have taken the initiative in creating science and technology policies and programs for economic development. The contributors to this study look at the attempts of eight... -
Project Analysis For Local Development by Om Prakash Mathur
RRP: £135.00£111.70The increasing importance of local-level planning in developing countries and disillusionment with highly theoretical, sophisticated methodologies have prompted the creation of this simple-to-use manual for planners and administrators seeking to... -
Persistent Poverty In Rural America by Rural Sociological Society
RRP: £135.00£111.70A team of anthropologists, economists, geographers, political scientists, social workers, and sociologists examine the leading explanations for why poverty persists in rural America. Their findings discredit established theories such as the culture of... -
One World Emerging? Convergence And Divergence In Industrial Societies by Alex Inkeles
RRP: £135.00£112.30In One World Emerging? Alex Inkeles clarifies the meaning of convergence in the social organization of modern societies, shows how it can be measured, and illustrates in detail the manner and degree of convergence across national boundaries. Inkeles... -
Secure Communications And Asymmetric Cryptosystems by Gustavus Simmons
RRP: £135.00£111.70Secure message transmission is of extreme importance in today's information-based society: military, diplomatic, and corporate data transmissions must be safeguarded; so also must the account of every individual who has an automatic-teller bank account... -
Science And Technology: Lessons For Development Policy by Robert Evenson
RRP: £135.00£112.30This book presents several general theoretical notions about the process of science and technology as it relates to development. It develops the international dimension of science and technology in terms of the international exchange processes and the... -
Technology And Employment: Concepts And Clarifications by Eli Ginzberg
RRP: £135.00£111.30This volume is the first of four publications that will present the research on technology and employment carried out by Conservation of Human Resources of Columbia University over the past several years. This research was started with a small grant from... -
The Great Earthquake Experiment: Risk Communication And Public Action by Dennis Mileti
RRP: £86.99£72.28This book portrays the history, causes and future of large earthquakes in the US and traces the evolution of government policy to deal with it. It reviews the range of human actions that can be taken to manage or lessen quake losses and presents a review... -
Filiation And Affiliation by Harold Scheffler
RRP: £86.99£75.54Announcements in the 1970s and 1980s of the death of kinship and descent as subjects of anthropological study were highly premature. These subjects continue routinely to be encountered in the course of empirical ethnographic research and to be reported... -
The Rhythm Of Everyday Life: How Soviet And American Citizens Use Time by John Robinson
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book describes an important advance in international social science research-the first cooperative survey of representative samples of the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. It identifies changes in the time-use patterns of... -
Reforming National Institutions For Economic Development by Glynn Cochrane
RRP: £135.00£111.30In this book, Dr. Cochrane presents various case studies of institutional reform and discusses how the reforms worked in practice. Through an examination of the budgeting process in Zambia, the public service in PapuaNew Guinea, agricultural programs in... -
Health Policy/spec Sale/avail Hard Only by Antonio Furino
RRP: £27.99£24.28Exploring the many dimensions of Hispanic health issues, this book offers a view of the depth, scope, and complementarity of the challenges of providing adequate health care. It addresses the conceptual, institutional, and policy elements of Hispanic... -
Enlightened Racism: The Cosby Show, Audiences, And The Myth Of The American Dream by Sut Jhally
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book offers a radical challenge to the conventional wisdom concerning racial stereotyping in the United States and demonstrates how apparently progressive programs like The Cosby Show, despite good intentions, actually help to construct enlightened... -
Endangered Spaces, Enduring Places: Change, Identity, And Survival In Rural America by Janet M. Fitchen
RRP: £39.99£35.46This book aims to portray and explain in a holistic manner the interrelated changes that are currently occurring in rural America, so that there will be a better basis for understanding their effects on rural people and places. It deals with identity and... -
The Bushman Myth: The Making Of A Namibian Underclass by Robert Gordon
RRP: £135.00£117.28The revised, updated version of this book includes an analysis of the sweeping political changes in South Africa since its original publcation in 1992. Other new material covers more theoretical issues and contemporary developments in scholarship,... -
Sport and Violence: Rethinking Elias by Dominique Bodin
RRP: £28.99£25.09The aim of this book, in discussing Elias's theory, is not to refute it. Tendentiously, the theory works with its weaknesses and strong points and it has been enriched by a number of authors over time. The objective of this volume is to discuss the blind... -
Measuring The Quality Of Life Across Countries: A Multidimensional Analysis by Daniel Slottje
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book discusses the methods used to create quality of the life indexes. It suggests that economic liberty gives a considerably different view of the quality of life and provides a synthesis by combining the life attributes, both physical and... -
Information Services: Economics, Management, And Technology by Robert M. Mason
RRP: £135.00£117.28As information service management becomes increasingly critical in the 1980s, its attention is no longer limited to the acquisition, indexing, and storage of documents. Instead, it is taking on an expanded role in the understanding and analysis of... -
The Chicano Experience by Stanley A. West
RRP: £135.00£117.28The past decade has seen a renewed interest in ethnicity by people in search of their own identities, as well as by writers and scholars from every discipline. But despite the contagion of ethnic aEUROoefever,aEURO the Chicano culture is neither widely...