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This study, first published in 1982, is concerned with the nature of crime in nineteenth-century Britain, and explores the response of the community and the police authorities. Each chapter is linked by common themes and questions, and the topics described in detail range from popular forms of rural crime and protest, through crime in industrial and urban communities, to a study of the vagrant. The author pays special attention to the relationship between illegal activities and protest, and emphasizes the context and complexity of official crime rates and of many forms of criminal...

THE RABBI JESUS of Nazareth chose twelve men to form his own itinerant minyan to travel with him wherever he went throughout his earthly ministry. A "minyan" is the number of adult Jews required to form a synagogue or to conduct Hebrew worship as a congregation. Today the quorum is ten. Originally the number was twelve--the same number of the original twelve tribes of Israel. This book provides new materials based upon historical research/analysis and an examination of the sociological, interpersonal, and group dynamics of this amazing group of Jesus's apostles. The Appendices include a...

Never in history has central banking been more important or the activities of central bankers more creative and daring. The Bank of Japan's efforts to raise the inflation rate to stimulate a long deflated economy, the European Central Bank's response to the sovereign debt crises of Eurozone members, and U.S. Fed chairman Ben Bernanke's targeting of a 6.5 percent unemployment rate--these topics and more are covered in this essential book. This timely coverage of an era of innovation makes the book an attractive supplement for use in Macroeconomics or Money and Banking courses.

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What's left to wish for when the stars go out and the night sky lies empty? What is left when everything has gone? Love As The Stars Went Out is an exploration of love without hope, of love for the sake of love: love when there is nothing else left. It is the story of relationships past and future, love, loss, grief, heartbreak, dreams, hope and the ongoing search for happiness.

It is the story of how, perhaps together and perhaps with love, we might be able to put the stars back into the sky, and...