Most African-American police officers are still leading lives filled with anger and rage at the everyday racism they encounter. Historically, white police departments across the country have been integrated slowly over the last few decades. Bolton and Feagin have interviewed 50 veteran African-American police officers in 16 different law enforcement agencies in the South. These interviews provide real life and vivid examples of the difficulties and discrimination that they face every day. While some officers have gotten ahead, many report that they continue to face racial barriers in hiring,...
Most African-American police officers are still leading lives filled with anger and rage at the everyday racism they encounter. Historically, white po...
This volume provides an introduction for pre-degree level students and technician engineers. A clear accessible text is supported by learning summaries, examples and practice questions. The book is designed to help students develop an understanding of: properties and testing of materials, the relationship of the properties and structure of materials; how properties change with modifications in composition, structure and processing, the selection of materials for a wide range of engineering applications. The second edition includes anew chapter on the identification and classification of...
This volume provides an introduction for pre-degree level students and technician engineers. A clear accessible text is supported by learning summarie...
Today's women work not one but three shifts: the first from nine to five, the second at home, and the third in their minds as they review the decisions and actions of the day. While the first and second shifts may be physically exhausting, the third shift can be psychologically rending because many women use it to second-guess their motives, doubt their choices, and question their trade-offs. Michele Bolton shows women how to turn the third shift into a source of self-awareness and self-confidence instead. Drawing from a three-year study of women in Silicon Valley and her own experiences as a...
Today's women work not one but three shifts: the first from nine to five, the second at home, and the third in their minds as they review the decision...
This is a comprehensive review of the literature on the four major forms of family violence: child abuse, child sexual abuse, conjugal violence and violence towards the elderly. Written from both clinical and legal perspectives, the book is designed to show practitioners and students what to do when individual or family victimization has occurred. It also provides suggestions for improving on the detection of violence and reducing its occurrence.
This is a comprehensive review of the literature on the four major forms of family violence: child abuse, child sexual abuse, conjugal violence and vi...
Current explanations of long-run changes in the medieval English economy have largely used models in which changes in the money supply play very little part. Here a fresh approach is taken and the money supply is seen as one of the main variables in the workings of the economy. In Part One, theories and problems in using monetary theory and numismatic evidence to model the medieval economy are fully discussed, as are the coins in circulation and the practical challenges faced in putting into circulation millions of coins struck by hand. The aim is to provide the reader with an informed...
Current explanations of long-run changes in the medieval English economy have largely used models in which changes in the money supply play very littl...
