Kenneth Kitts

Kenneth Kitts offers entry into the highly political, behind-closed-doors world of blue-ribbon investigative commissions convened in the aftermath of national security crises.   Ranging from Pearl Harbor to the September 11 terrorist attacks, Kitts takes the reader into the "backroom" to watch as presidents, their advisers, and commission members confront an armory of pressures.  More >

Phyllis Kitzerow

A half-century ago, women comprised only a tiny fraction of practicing attorneys. Today, nearly half of law school graduates are female. Phyllis Kitzerow explores the experiences of women in the legal profession over the past fifty years, charting the sometimes surprising impact of shifting social norms on pathways to professional and personal success.          More >

Marieke Kleiboer

Recent experiences have demonstrated once again the complexities of brokering an end to deep-rooted ethnic and international conflicts, as well as the difficulties of evaluating the outcomes of third- party interventions. Addressing these issues, this book offers a sophisticated approach to assessing mediation efforts and to reconstructing and interpreting mediation processes. Kleiboer develops  More >

Egon Klemp, compiler and editor

This lavish volume charts the course of exploration and settlement in the Americas with maps found in major museums and libraries around the world. Reproduced with painstaking accuracy, the maps are accompanied by scholarly commentary prepared by Egon Klemp, who describes the history of each  map and the discoveries that generated it. The maps are grouped by region, placed in chronological  More >

Charles David Kleymeyer, editor

Arguing that a people's own cultural heritage is the foundation on which equitable and sustainable development can best be built, this book presents an innovative, culture-based approach to grassroots development in Latin America and the Caribbean. The approach seeks to retain a population's special cultural strengths and contributions while enabling them to achieve necessary changes in  More >

International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies

Gender, race, religion, age—there are so many reasons why people are excluded from society. Those who are face an uphill struggle for equality, even if they have the strength and wherewithal to take the first steps. However many do not. What, then, is the reality for these groups when disaster strikes? Hidden, ignored, or simply invisible, the most vulnerable—and those potentially  More >

Peter Knoope

The threat of terrorism has increased significantly in recent years, in every region, with the number of victims of terrorist attacks also increasing. Are we indeed under siege, as many political leaders would have us believe? Addressing this question, Peter Knoope draws on a broad range of cultures and traditions—and on a lifetime of experience—to present a deeply personal  More >

Johannes Knutsson, editor

The ten papers in this anthology discuss how to expand the impact of problem-oriented policing on the everyday worold of policing and crime prevention.  More >

Johannes Knutsson and Ronald V. Clarke, editors

The authors provide both practical guidance and general principles for successfully implementing crime prevention projects.  More >

Johannes Knutsson and Nick Tilley, editors

How should evaluations of problem-oriented policing and situational crime prevention projects be conducted? Although evaluation has been a driving force in the recent worldwide growth of the two approaches, both of which focus on reducing opportunities for committing crimes, there has been a growing consensus among researchers that evaluations of many such crime prevention programs have been  More >