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Costs and Benefits of Preventing Crime
ISBN: 9780367098827 / Angielski / Twarda / 307 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What are the cost savings from preventing a typical burglary, robbery, assault, or even a criminal career? Who benefits from these savings? How often do the benefits from preventing crime or criminal behavior exceed the resources spent on preventing or controlling crime? Is it more cost-effective to invest in early childhood programs or juvenile boot camps to reduce criminal offending? These are some of the important questions that face policymakers in crime and justice today. Answering them is no easy task. Nevertheless, it is important to provide answers in order to ensure that the dollars...
What are the cost savings from preventing a typical burglary, robbery, assault, or even a criminal career? Who benefits from these savings? How often ...
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Connecting Social Problems and Popular Culture: Why Media Is Not the Answer
ISBN: 9780367097622 / Angielski / Twarda / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Is violence on the streets caused by violence in video games? Does cyber-bullying lead to an increase in suicide rates? Are teens promiscuous because of Teen Mom? As Karen Sternheimer clearly demonstrates, popular culture is an easy scapegoat for many of society's problems, but it is almost always the wrong answer.Now in its second edition, Connecting Social Problems and Popular Culture goes beyond the news-grabbing headlines claiming that popular culture is public enemy number one to consider what really causes the social problems we are most concerned about. The sobering fact is that a...
Is violence on the streets caused by violence in video games? Does cyber-bullying lead to an increase in suicide rates? Are teens promiscuous because ...
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The Elusive Messiah
ISBN: 9780367098704 / Angielski / Twarda / 255 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What might the findings of researchers engaged in the quest for the historical Jesus mean to Christians? In posing this question and others, The Elusive Messiah opens a window for looking anew at the age old problem of faith vs. reason.To fully understand the implications of the historical search, Raymond Martin suggests we must first examine the inquiries of the individual scholars. In the book's first section, he provides an insightful overview into the major players who have written on the subject, among them E. P. Sanders, John Meier, Elizabeth Schussler Fiorenza, J. D. Crossan, and Luke...
What might the findings of researchers engaged in the quest for the historical Jesus mean to Christians? In posing this question and others, The Elusi...
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The Post-War Generation and the Establishment of Religion: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
ISBN: 9780367098391 / Angielski / Twarda / 311 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first book to offer a comparative analysis of the impact of the post-war ?Baby Boom? generation on Christianity around the world. Taking a cross-cultural approach, the contributors examine ten advanced countries, including England, France, Germany, Australia, and the United States, and explore the ways baby boomers have helped reshape and redefine ?establishment religions? ? that is, the dominant, primarily Christian institutions. Their conclusions are broad and far-reaching, shedding light on the fate of religion in other countries now modernizing and those countries moving...
This is the first book to offer a comparative analysis of the impact of the post-war ?Baby Boom? generation on Christianity around the world. Taking a...
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Angles of Vision: How to Understand Social Problems
ISBN: 9780367314521 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Angles of Vision is a compact text that provides students with basic information about social problems and teaches them a strategy for understanding these issues. Students learn how to distinguish between individual and structural analyses and the importance of placing issues in a historical and international context to gain a clearer understanding. In so doing, students come to appreciate that sociology is a hypothesis-testing discipline. The author uses metaphors, vignettes, and humor to convey the fundamental concepts, key findings, and methods by which sociologists understand social...
Angles of Vision is a compact text that provides students with basic information about social problems and teaches them a strategy for understanding t...
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After Political Correctness: The Humanities and Society in the 1990s
ISBN: 9780367314408 / Angielski / Twarda / 436 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book resituates the political correctness debates in the humanities branch of the academy. Contending that conservatives have tainted entire academic disciplines, causing university humanists to go from irrelevant to dangerous overnight, the contributors see the PC debates as a struggle over the very purposes of higher education in the United States. Ronald Strickland and Christopher Newfield have assembled the best and brightest from across the academic disciplines for disclosure on the future of higher education in light of PC.
This book resituates the political correctness debates in the humanities branch of the academy. Contending that conservatives have tainted entire acad...
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Everyday Irrationality: How Pseudo- Scientists, Lunatics, and the Rest of Us Systematically Fail to Think Rationally
ISBN: 9780367315597 / Angielski / Twarda / 243 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Robyn Dawes defines irrationality as adhering to beliefs that are inherently self-contradictory, not just incorrect, self-defeating, or the basis of poor decisions. Such beliefs are unfortunately common. Witness two examples: the belief that child sexual abuse can be diagnosed by observing symptoms typically resulting from such abuse, rather than s
Robyn Dawes defines irrationality as adhering to beliefs that are inherently self-contradictory, not just incorrect, self-defeating, or the basis of p...
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Order by Accident: The Origins and Consequences of Group Conformity in Contemporary Japan
ISBN: 9780367317096 / Angielski / Twarda / 171 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While the consequences of low social order are well understood, the consequences of high social order are not. Yet perhaps nowhere in the world is social order so well developed as in Japan, which is highly organized, economically successful, and enjoys a safe society. However, Japan pays a price--the loss of personal freedom, and the inability to
While the consequences of low social order are well understood, the consequences of high social order are not. Yet perhaps nowhere in the world is soc...
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Casualties of Community Disorder: Women's Careers in Violent Crime
ISBN: 9780367314859 / Angielski / Twarda / 207 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Unlike the outcry over street crime committed by males, concerns about women and violence have centered primarily on their roles as victims of sexual and physical violence committed by strangers and by males in intimate relationships. Rarely is violence by women considered in the development or testing of theories of aggression.The book provides a
Unlike the outcry over street crime committed by males, concerns about women and violence have centered primarily on their roles as victims of sexual ...
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Private Medicine and Public Health: Profit, Politics, and Prejudice in the American Health Care Enterprise
ISBN: 9780367317447 / Angielski / Twarda / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the twentieth century, the issue of health care burst out of the private confines of the physician's office to become a monumental contentious social issue. Giant multinational corporations scooped up proprietary hospitals and nursing homes and assembled them into vast chains crisscrossing America. The incomes of entrepreneurial fee-for-serv
During the twentieth century, the issue of health care burst out of the private confines of the physician's office to become a monumental contentious ...
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Criminological Controversies: A Methodological Primer
ISBN: 9780367315276 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A lucid text addressed to students and scholars, this book explores some of the key controversies that have stimulated the scientific study of crime: disputes about the connections between gender, class, and crime; policing; the criminality of our cities; the role of peer groups in the causes of crime; and links between drugs and crime. In pursuing
A lucid text addressed to students and scholars, this book explores some of the key controversies that have stimulated the scientific study of crime: ...
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Communication and the Transformation of Economics: Essays in Information, Public Policy, and Political Economy
ISBN: 9780367315085 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many governments are pursuing with relentless vigor a neoconservative/transnational corporate program of globalization, privatization, deregulation, cutbacks to social programs, and downsizing of the public sector. Countries are forming into giant ?free trade? blocs. Increasingly they lack the will and desire to resist encroachments of world ?super
Many governments are pursuing with relentless vigor a neoconservative/transnational corporate program of globalization, privatization, deregulation, c...
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Latina Realities: Essays on Healing, Migration and Sexuality
ISBN: 9780367316600 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A retrospective of fifteen years, this book brings together, for the first time, Oliva Esps previously published articles and conference papers. Together, these writings reveal the complexity and encompassing quality of Esps most significant contributions to the contemporary debates within psychology. Topics include sexuality, therapy with Latinas
A retrospective of fifteen years, this book brings together, for the first time, Oliva Esps previously published articles and conference papers. Toget...
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Essential Statistics for Social Research: Second Edition
ISBN: 9780367315528 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The revised edition is designed as the primary textbook for an introductory course in statistics in the social sciences.
The revised edition is designed as the primary textbook for an introductory course in statistics in the social sciences.
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Unlikely Couples: Movie Romance as Social Criticism
ISBN: 9780367313784 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Unlikely Couples, Thomas E. Wartenberg directly challenges the view that narrative cinema inherently supports the dominant social interests by examining the way popular films about ?unlikely couples? (a mismatched romantic union viewed as inappropriate due to its class, racial, or gender composition) explore, expose, and criticize societal attit
In Unlikely Couples, Thomas E. Wartenberg directly challenges the view that narrative cinema inherently supports the dominant social interests by exam...
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Unraveling the Right: The New Conservatism in American Thought and Politics
ISBN: 9780367313791 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Viewing the modern right as more than a passing fad for state-anxious individuals, Amy Ansell and the contributors in this volume treat the current conservative movement as an important effort to contextualize and rearticulate the truths taken for granted in the American liberal tradition.Each author in this volume provides a contribution to an alt
Viewing the modern right as more than a passing fad for state-anxious individuals, Amy Ansell and the contributors in this volume treat the current co...
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Young V. Old: Generational Combat in the 21st Century
ISBN: 9780367314064 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Census Bureau statistics confirm the changing age profile of the nation, and no amount of Grecian Formula can alter the fact that the population is graying. For a look at where that trend will take the country, MacManus focuses on Florida, which, she says, is what America will look like in the year 2000. Floridians are engaged in intergenerational
"Census Bureau statistics confirm the changing age profile of the nation, and no amount of Grecian Formula can alter the fact that the population is g...
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Cosmopolitan Justice
ISBN: 9780367315238 / Angielski / Twarda / 243 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Increasing global economic integration and recent military interventions in the name of human rights have forced questions of global justice into political discussions. Is the unequal distribution of wealth across the globe just? What's wrong with imperialism? Are the most indebted countries obligated to pay back their loans to international financ
Increasing global economic integration and recent military interventions in the name of human rights have forced questions of global justice into poli...
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Defense Addiction: Can America Kick the Habit?
ISBN: 9780367315375 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Whatever happened to the post?Cold War ?peace dividend?? Why does military spending continue to escape federal budget reductions? Why, despite the nearly universal desire to reduce government waste and budget deficits, is the United States still saddled with a costly, bloated military-industrial complex? The answer, says Sanford Gottlieb, is a debi
Whatever happened to the post?Cold War ?peace dividend?? Why does military spending continue to escape federal budget reductions? Why, despite the nea...
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Womanhood in the Making: Domestic Ritual and Public Culture in Urban South India
ISBN: 9780367314002 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this book, Mary Hancock challenges readers to rethink the notions of tradition and modernity that have figured centrally in anthropological discussions of social change in South Asia. She shows tradition and modernity to be categories created, deployed, and objectified by Tamil Brahmans as they produce their own class, gender, national, and sect
In this book, Mary Hancock challenges readers to rethink the notions of tradition and modernity that have figured centrally in anthropological discuss...
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