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Analysis for Crime PreventionNick Tilley, editor How can crime data be analyzed in a manner that is most useful to police managers and others charged with operating crime prevention programs? This is the topic explored from many different angles by American and British contributors to this new volume in the Crime Prevention Studies Series.
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Evaluation for Crime PreventionNick Tilley, editor This volume in the Crime Prevention Studies book series, a companion to volume 13, addresses the design and conduct of evaluations to help improve crime prevention policy and practice. More > | |
The Transformation of U.S. Unions: Voices, Visions, and Strategies from the GrassrootsRay M. Tillman and Michael S. Cummings, editors What's wrong with U.S. unions, and what could make it right? These are the questions addressed by eighteen partisans—union dissidents and noted scholars—of union democracy. Agreeing that any long-term solutions must come from the grassroots of the union movement, they argue for expansion rather than contraction, militancy rather than accommodation, and internal democracy rather More > | |
Women's Rights to House and Land: China, Laos, and VietnamIrene Tinker and Gale Summerfield, editors Gender disparities frequently accompany rapid socioeconomic change, as cultural traditions that protected women—even as they constrained them—collapse in the face of development reforms. This collaborative volume, involving both Asian and U.S. scholars, explores the impact of changes in women’s rights to housing and land in three socialist countries that are moving toward market More > | |
Human Rights, Revolution, and Reform in the Muslim WorldAnthony Tirado Chase Do human rights inform the nature of politics in the Muslim world today? If so, how? And perhaps more fundamentally, why? Linking these questions in a provocative way, Anthony Tirado Chase persuasively rejects popular arguments that there is an incompatibility between human rights and Islam.
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Lion Mountain [a novel]Mustapha Tlili, translated by Linda Coverdale As a young widow with two boys to raise, Horia El-Gharib struggled to reconcile tradition and change. She dared to take on a man's role in commerce and trade to protect the future of her sons—but now, all is at risk in the midst of the turmoil of the newly independent regime.
Lion Mountain is the unforgettable story of a stubborn old woman, a one-legged Nubian war hero, and a More > | ![]() |
Corrections: A Humanistic ApproachHans Toch In his 28 essays, Professor Toch adopts the perspective of humanistic psychology to discuss: reforming prisons; reforming prisoners; working with disturbed prisoners; prison violence; and prison research and reform. Professor Toch has been named this year's (2005) recipient of the International Society of Criminology's "Prix DeGreff" for distinction in clinical criminology, and is a More > | |
Gender and Literary VoiceJanet Todd, editor A lively debate on the question of the feminine voice in literature. Writers examined include Louise Bogan, Olive Schreiner, Hazel Hall, May Sarton, Edith Wharton, Lisa Alther, and Margaret Drabble. More > | ![]() |
Men by WomenJanet Todd, editor | ![]() |
Women Writers TalkingJanet Todd, editor Fifteen important women writers, interviewed by critics and scholars well-acquainted with their work and thought, are the subjects of this fascinating volume. The interviews are revealing discussions of the individual writers' opinions, their backgrounds, and the people and events that influenced their personal and artistic development.
Among the authors included are Maya Angelou, A.S. More > | ![]() |