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This volume celebrates the innovative and rapidly growing area of economic research known as meta-regression analysis (MRA).

• Shows how MRA enables researchers to make sense of disparate economic findings on the same subject.
  
• Develops methods that help researchers to distinguish publication selection from genuine empirical effect.
  
• Applies these methods to topical areas of economic research including: the effect of immigration on wages, minimum wage on unemployment, and gender on salaries.
  
• Helps to bridge the gulf...

First published in 1954, this book examines the process by which the Codex--the traditional form of the western book--replaced the scroll as the primary vehicle for literature. Drawing upon evidence accumulated in the last thirty years, this revised edition gives fresh insight into the remarkable role the early Christian church played in the transformation of the printed word.

Both probation and youth justice have undergone massive changes in recent years, and continue to face important new challenges. A key emphasis of new developments has been on developing effective evidence-based practice and disseminating this throughout the Probation and Youth Justice services - reviewed in this book.