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This insightful study provides a look at policing in Canada from the viewpoint of rank and file members of the police community. This revised edition of the landmark Policeman (1979) examines police officers as an occupational culture and the way they...

This provocative volume makes a valuable contribution to debates on drug legislation. It is the only book that analyses and assesses all regulatory alternatives to drug prohibition. The author brings together research from the scientific, medical,...

New readings and perspectives on Nietzsche's work are brought together in this collection of essays by prominent scholars from North America and Europe. They question whether Nietzsche's work and the conventional interpretation of it is rhetorical and...

An examination of federal and provincial government responsibilities with respect to native peoples, these essays deal with the most appalling "political football" in Canadian politics. Specially commissioned experts in the field write on topics such as...

The changing roles of native women, devices for assimilation, the re-birth of the Metis: these are among the issues examined in this collection of provocative essays which explore the link between aboriginal culture and economic patterns.About the...

This volume contains papers presented at the First International Workshop on Distributed Algorithms. The papers present solutions to a wide spectrum of problems (leader election, resource allocation, routing, etc.) and focus on a variety of issues that...

Anyone who has ever suffered through a tough math class has probably wondered, "When am I going to use this stuff?" If you are confused by how real life problems can be helped by pi, cosine, and the exact time two speeding trains will meet, then this...

Challenging traditional philosophical views of moral responsibility, Eugene Schlossberger argues that we are responsible not so much for what we do as for who we are. He explores what it means to be a person, concluding that personhood is the sum of...

At a time when Canadian political institutions are being fundamentally questioned, this book provides a comparative perspective on the distinctive features of the Canadian policy process hich have enabled conflict to be resolved in the past. In...

This may be the only book that analyzes the urbanization of one area from its origins more than two thousand years ago to the present. Arthur Murphy and Alex Stepick examine Oaxaca, Mexico, where they have been doing research regularly for the last...

A clear summary of Husserl's often obscure and always complex writings...very instructive.-EthicsAbout the AuthorQuentin Lauer S. J. was a Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University from 1954 to 1990. He was an American Jesuit priest and a philosopher...

Policy Analysis and Public Choice is an important selection of articles written by William A. Niskanen over the last thirty years. The volume represents two quite different disciplines to which Niskanen has made a major contribution: policy analysis and...

If not for the reproductive functions of women, would there be anything called women's health care? A review of medical literature, practice, and policy in this country would suggest that the answer is no. Offering a startling view of the current state...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780934223119Author Elizabeth GarberFormat HardbackPage Count 325Imprint Lehigh University PressPublisher Associated University PressesWeight(grams) 660g

This book is a valuable source of information on the long-term effects of early intervention programs on the education of children living in economically disadvantaged areas and in other contexts. Early intervention programs such as Head Start enjoy...

In the heavily forested foothills of the Andes Mountains in Ecuador, a Shuar healer named Alejandro Tsakimp leads many lives. He is a peasant who sells cattle and lumber, a troubled member of the Shuar Federation, a son and brother, husband and father,...

"Professor Forsythe's attention to relations between peace and human rights opens new areas for analysis and synthesizes important information. This book confirms, once again, his eminent position as a scholar of human rights." - Claude E. Welch, Jr.,...

The thirty-year period examined was characterized in West Germany by a number of inconsistent trends. While income and consumption levels increased as part of a "silent revolution," poverty also increased, especially during the 1980s. People's...

Active Canadian government in sport is recent. Even after the passage of the Fitness and Amateur Sport Act in 1961, government activity was limited to small grants to national sport governing bodies and cost-sharing agreements with the provinces aimed at...

Published in 1721 by the prominent Puritan clergyman Cotton Mather, The Christian Philosopher was the first comprehensive book on science to be written by an American. Building on natural theology, Mather demonstrated the harmony between religion and...

This wise and sensible guide to practicing democracy will be invaluable to members of community and neighborhood organizations, parent-teacher associations, local government, citizens groups, and other grass-roots organizations. It will also be of...

The Bottom Rung presents an in-depth investigation of a population that is becoming extinct in American society: the black farmer. Tracing patterns of marriage and childbearing among both whites and blacks during the first decades of this century,...

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On the Ground charts labor relations in the airline industry, unraveling the story of how baggage handlers--classified as unskilled workers--built tense but mutually useful alliances with their skilled coworkers such as aircraft mechanics and made...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780673523426Author Joseph H. NoggleFormat PaperbackImprint PearsonPublisher Pearson Education (US)Weight(grams) 105gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 203mm * 4mm

"Hickman['s] . . . style of pragmatism provides us with flexible, philosophical 'tools' which can be used to analyze and penetrate various technology and technological cultural problems of the present. He, himself, uses this toolkit to make his analyses...

"A major contribution to the literature on changing US regionalism, the volume is handsomely produced and thoroughly documented." -Choice "...useful and well researched..." -American Politics Review "This is an excellent book for use in the course on...

American civil engineers were unsurpassed in their ability to build railroads over great distances and across high mountain passes, to erect great bridges, or to bore tunnels of prodigious length. This is a remarkable story of the application of...

"A policy-oriented, interdisciplinary and cross-cultural examination of the cost and consequences of imprisonment. "Prisons in Crisis" confronts us with the uncomfortable view that the system of punishment in the U.S. is a reflection of ourselves:...

The American adult education system has become an alternative for school dropouts, with some state welfare policies requiring teen mothers and women without high school diplomas to participate in adult education programs to receive aid. Very little has...

This book, first published in 2000, is an introductory text on seismology intended for upper division undergraduates and graduate students. It emphasises fundamental concepts and basic mathematical developments, and is intended to be 'student friendly'...

Once thought rare, hemochromatosis is now acknowledged as one of the commonest inherited disorders, affecting one in two hundred people of western Caucasian descent. It is estimated to affect over one million people in the USA alone. This is the most...

A meticulously researched and brilliantly nuanced examination of the rise of feminism and its relationship with union and labor movements.A meticulously researched and brilliantly nuanced examination of the rise of feminism and its relationship with...

A follow-on to Micro- and Nanotechnology for Space Systems. This text uses the term microengineering to define the discipline and process, and addresses issues concerning areas for ASIM applications in space systems, operation in the space environment...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780822307228Author Duncan YaggyFormat HardbackPage Count 138Imprint Duke University PressPublisher Duke University PressWeight(grams) 454g

Unrivaled in its current coverage of topics, the best-selling JUVENILE DELINQUENCY: THEORY, PRACTICE, AND LAW, International Edition, provides you with timely coverage of theory, policy, and the latest research. Praised for its balanced approach and for...

In Queer in Russia Laurie Essig examines the formation of gay identity and community in the former Soviet Union. As a sociological fieldworker, she began her research during the late 1980s, before any kind of a public queer identity existed in that...

The Pragmatic Mind is a study of the pragmatism of Emerson, James, and Peirce and its overlooked relevance for the neopragmatism of thinkers like Richard Rorty, Stanley Cavell, Stanley Fish, and Cornel West. Arguing that the "original" pragmatists are...

She's skinny, white, and blond. She's Barbie-an icon of femininity to generations of American girls. She's also multiethnic and straight-or so says Mattel, Barbie's manufacturer. But, as Barbie's Queer Accessories demonstrates, many girls do things with...

Since they began in 1955, the Duke Longitudinal Studies have aging have been regarded as landmark investigations, amassing invaluable data on the typical physical changes that accompany aging, typical patterns of mental health and mental illness,...