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This book offers a comprehensive, evidence-based approach to understanding and preventing police misconduct in the twenty-first century. Drawing on empirical research across multiple jurisdictions, it explores how our understanding of police misconduct...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781394380633Author Jose de Jesus RubioFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher John Wiley & Sons Inc

This book presents the physics, fabrication, transport phenomena, and applications of carbon-based membranes. Beginning with their historical development and fundamental properties, it examines the diverse types of carbon materials, including graphene,...

An on-the-ground description of Colombia’s peace process as lived by the rural populations most affected by it. The Colombian village of Briceño might, at first glimpse, look like many communities in the rural Global South. Many of the people living...

A wake-up call on the use and abuse of restraints against disabled children in public schoolsOver 100,000 students are restrained and secluded in locked rooms throughout US public schools; the overwhelming majority are students with disabilities. Despite...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781836953975Author Cyd SturgessFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Berghahn BooksPublisher Berghahn Books

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A new perspective on the relationship between race and space in DetroitDetroit seemed to experience an explosive rebirth following its bankruptcy, the largest in US municipal history. It was as if the slate had been wiped clean and the color line erased...

Interrogates how digital self-surveillance can be turned against us by police, prosecutors, and political whimsFor consumers living in a digitally-connected world, smart technologies have built an inescapable trap of digital self-surveillance. Smart...

This book offers a sweeping yet incisive account of how China has navigated world politics from the late Qing dynasty to the Xi Jinping era. Moving beyond single-factor explanations, the book reveals that China's strategic choices have always been shaped...

A radical challenge to the ways anti-rape advocates work with the survivors of sexual assaultWhat is "victim advocacy" when regulated by the government? Victim advocates have long served as the designated support people for survivors of sexual violence...

From Ghostbusters to Will & Grace, One Day at a Time to Jurassic Park, the past decade has seen Hollywood reach a new peak in its obsession with reboots, remakes, and revivals. Spearheaded by media giants like Disney and Netflix, these projects promise...

Racial Virtuality contends that racialization not only occurs through representation in media, but also through our very interactions with media technologies and their unseen operations. The racialization of Asians, who appeared to embody the model...

An essential guide to understanding classic and contemporary crime filmsUnder the Gun provides a systematic and sophisticated criminological perspective to bear on crime films. The book provides a fresh way of looking at cinema, using the concepts and...

Winner, 2025 Canadian Sociology Book Award, given by the Canadian Sociological AssociationShows why diversity workshops fail and offers concrete solutions for a path forwardDespite decades of anti-racism workshops and diversity policies in corporations,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorSarah Murray is Assistant Professor in Film, Television, Media and Digital Studies at the University of Michigan and co-editor of Appified: Culture in the Age of...

Provides insights into advancing the One Health approach to improve health and food safety worldwide One Health Integration: Global Perspectives on Animal Health and Sustainable Agriculture provides a comprehensive exploration of the One Health...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770418585Author Jes BattisFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,Canada

Social life is in a constant process of change, and sociology can never stand still. As a result, contemporary sociology is a theoretically diverse enterprise, covering a huge range of subjects and drawing on a broad array of research methods. Central to...

From Ghostbusters to Will & Grace, One Day at a Time to Jurassic Park, the past decade has seen Hollywood reach a new peak in its obsession with reboots, remakes, and revivals. Spearheaded by media giants like Disney and Netflix, these projects promise...

Social life is in a constant process of change, and sociology can never stand still. As a result, contemporary sociology is a theoretically diverse enterprise, covering a huge range of subjects and drawing on a broad array of research methods. Central to...

The unexpected impact of neighborhood design on civic engagementParticipation in official governmental institutions and activities has declined dramatically. Americans are less inclined to express trust in, or cooperate with, political leaders and each...

In Sex Isn't Real, Beans Velocci traces the history of current high stakes attempts to define sex and to create a world devoid of trans life. Drawing on lab notes, family genealogies, medical case studies, and more, Velocci follows scientists and...

A new, more accessible translation of one of the most important philosophical works of the twentieth century Martin Heidegger's seminal work Sein und Zeit (Being and Time) is an exploration of the founding conditions of our being in any world, and of the...

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Explores the global landscape of abortion law reformIn many countries, barriers to abortion access - legal, cultural, or practical - have been dismantled in places as diverse as Mexico, Kenya, Thailand, and Ireland. Yet, in a few countries - the United...

In Sex Isn't Real, Beans Velocci traces the history of current high stakes attempts to define sex and to create a world devoid of trans life. Drawing on lab notes, family genealogies, medical case studies, and more, Velocci follows scientists and...

Bullet bras, bazookas, bombshells, bikinis. In Atomic Bombshells, Isabelle Held challenges the usual narratives of how war technologies enter domestic use by following plastics on their journey into women's bodies. Held explores the effects of...

A new perspective on the relationship between race and space in DetroitDetroit seemed to experience an explosive rebirth following its bankruptcy, the largest in US municipal history. It was as if the slate had been wiped clean and the color line erased...

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How Black music shapes the political identity, consciousness, and engagement of Black youthFrom Rihanna and Kendrick Lamar, to J. Cole and Janelle Monae, Najja K. Baptist shows us how Black music has, more than ever before, become a form of political...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781836954705Author John Edward TerrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Berghahn BooksPublisher Berghahn Books

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This book engages with masculinity in modern and contemporary Buddhism in Sri Lanka (1850-today) through the lens of exemplary male religious leaders, politicians and the culture of boys' education since the late nineteenth century. Through mixed...

Providing an overview of urban social movements from a diverse range of empirical and theoretical perspectives, this Handbook includes not only a critical analysis of the transformations that have occurred in the urban landscape recently, but also sheds...

Harry Guntrip: A Contemporary Introduction traces Guntrip's early years, his theological and psychological studies, his formation as a psychoanalyst, and his various contributions to pre-Oedipal developmental arrest.In this concise yet informative...

Originally published in 1995, The Body Under Stress, reissued here with a new preface, seeks to define positive health, the skills needed to acquire it, and how to pass them on to others as part of education and counselling on health issues.Most people...

SHERBET is a unique tool designed to help practitioners support young people aged 11-17 who exhibit aggressive behaviours. Using CBT-based strategies, the program aims to enhance their ability to recognise, regulate, and manage their emotions effectively...