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Women Activating Agency in Academia seeks to create and expand safe spaces for scholarly, professional and personal stories and assemblages of agency. It provides readers with the opportunity to conn …

Now in its fourth edition, this book is one of the leading texts on the evolution of electronic mass communication in the last century, giving students a clear understanding of how the media of yeste …

The aim of this book is to examine the qualities of leadership and decision-making in the police service. Based on groundbreaking research using unique, advanced methods for examining policing in com …

Increasingly significant as mediators of spatial identity and meaning, leisure, tourism, culture and heritage are only now beginning to be located within the rapidly evolving discourses of poststruct …

Biosocial criminology is an interdisciplinary field that aims to explain crime and antisocial behavior by exploring both biological factors and environmental factors. Since the mapping of the human g …

Ukraine made headlines around the world during the winter of 2004-05 as the colorful banners of the Orange Revolution unfurled against the snowy backdrop of Kyiv, signaling the bright promise of demo …

Women engineers have been in the public limelight for decades, yet we have surprisingly little historically grounded understanding of the patterns of employment and education of women in this field. …

Syracuse, New York, in the late 1980s led U.S. cities in African American infant deaths. Even today, in this ‘all American city, ‘ infants of color die more than two times as often as white babies. I …

”Offers a front row seat at the courts martial of those accused in America”s notorious prison abuse scandal.” -Adam Zagorin, senior correspondent, Time Magazine ”A must-read for all those committ …

Targeting Terrorists: A License to Kill? examines the political history and ethics of targeted killing. Avery Plaw”s analysis addresses the questions of moral, political and legal justification in t …