BOOKS

Neither structural adjustment policies, nor industrialization, nor traditional agricultural exports have led to sustained economic growth and social equity in Central America. Seeking to    More >

Choice Outstanding Academic Book! This in-depth study of the recent civil war in El Salvador supports the author's broader contention that the strategies adopted by incumbent regimes    More >

This book tells the story of how government policy-makers, law enforcement officials, and the news media effectively used modest shifts in the official rate of violent crime to construct a    More >

An anthology evaluates programs to reduce crime and disorder related to alcohol and drug abuse in pubs, nightclubs, parks and elsewhere. Case studies are presented from Australia, Europe and    More >

An anthology presents 30 previously unpublished papers on the theory, research and practice of restorative justice in Australia, Canada, Germany, Japan, New Zealand, the U.K. and the U.S.    More >

Why did New York City, the largest center of Jewish culture and home to more survivors than any other city in the United States, take more than half a century to finalize plans for its    More >

The authors explore linkages among health, development, and environmental issues, focusing on the interdependent issues of poverty, violence, excessive resource use, and irresponsible    More >

Brilliant, soulful, poor, and doomed to a short life, Franz Peter Schubert (1797-1828) in many ways embodied the Romantic era in which he lived. In this vibrant biographical novel, Peter    More >

An innocent yet stinging—and always absorbing—account of the lives of two young expatriate girls in Kuwait in the 1960s. Isabel, the red-headed daughter of an American mother and    More >

This is the first time that the literary works of contemporary Afro-Brazilian women have been compiled presenting a comprehensive vision of what it means to be both black and female in    More >