This work summarizes and synthesizes the substantial crime prevention literature to provide an approachable and comprehensive text for students. It sets out a critical analysis in the context of the politics of criminal justice policy.

Social and Personality Development looks at the processes by which we come to be who we are. It covers a range of topics central to personality and developmental psychology. The book is arranged in three sections, the first covering the main theories of personality, ... Полное описание

Walter Benjamin, Religion, and Aesthetics is an innovative and creative attempt to unsettle and reconceive the key concepts of religious studies through a reading with, and against, Walter Benjamin. Constructing what he calls an "e;allegorical aesthetics,"e; ... Полное описание

In his detailed and thought-provoking work, Philip Goodwin conducts a thorough analysis of the challenges facing the Biblical translator, with particular focus on the problematic dominance of the King James Version of the Bible in our imaginations - a dominance which... Полное описание

"e;The Lord is the Spirit"e; (2 Cor 3:17) . . . and yet one might be excused for thinking otherwise when reading studies on God's attributes-omnipotence, omniscience, omnipresence, immutability, impassibility, and the like. Although Christians throughout the ... Полное описание

The critical question of the relationship between Jesus and Paul has been well established in New Testament studies for over 150 years and needs to be addressed with all the tools of historical criticism that scholarship has developed. So states Gerry Schoberg at the... Полное описание

Accessing Alcuin enables an excellent multi-disciplinary appreciation of the scholar and theologian, Alcuin, through the manuscript collections and scholarship of medieval history and culture, European Church history and theology. Douglas Dales has provided an author... Полное описание

This book is a sequel to 'By the River Chebar: Historical, Literary, and Theological Studies in the Book of Ezekiel'. Like the studies in that volume, those presented here reflect the author's longstanding interest in Ezekiel, the man and his book. This collection is... Полное описание

Faithfulness and the Purpose of Hebrews offers fresh answers to several unresolved questions by employing that branch of social psychology known as social identity theory. The author of Hebrews describes the faithfulness of Jesus as prototypical and relates the faith... Полное описание

Anthropomorphic language has provided a conundrum for exegetes and theologians for millennia. Attempting to use human language to describe the divine presents ontological and epistemological problems that push our speech to the breaking point.In this new work, Howell... Полное описание

The Cold War, its origins, course and conclusion can be a difficult subject to understand. It affected the lives of every person in the world, often in ways they never understood. It was a worldwide crisis extending over decades. Maps are not only useful, they are in... Полное описание

On the eve of his battle against Maxentius at Milvian Bridge in 312, Flavius Valerius Constantinus (ca. 273/74-337) reportedly saw a symbol in the sky, which played a role in his conversion to faith in the Christian God and began a new chapter in the relationship bet... Полное описание

Jeremy Gabrielson argues that the adoption of politics of non-violence was, for Paul and the communities he established, a constitutive part of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Australian theologian Scott Cowdell explores how having faith has changed under the influence of modernity and post-modernity in the West. He returns faith from pious sentimentality and arid philosophy of religion to the realm of participating knowing, paradigmatic i... Полное описание

Paul Grice is best known for a few short articles that have been hugely influential in philosophy and particularly in linguistics. However, these form only a small part of a wide-ranging body of work covering meaning, reference, logic, metaphysics and ethics. This is... Полное описание

Progressive companies and University programs have recently begun to rethink outsourcing models. In Vested Outsourcing, thought-leader Kate Vitasek has created a model that will improve outsourcing procedures much the way Six Sigma and Lean improved production proces... Полное описание

Russia under President Putin stands, as often before, at a crossroads. Can the reforms of the 1990s provide the foundations for a stable, democratic society, or will a new authoritarianism, more in keeping with Russian political traditions, take shape? With the colla... Полное описание

This book is designed to challenge the view that children's literature is innately conservative - that it lags behind writing for adults. By looking at a range of texts, past and present, it shows that children's literature is in fact a playground in which radical an... Полное описание

How should one go about conducting the business of philosophy? And what should we make of the paradoxical conclusions defended by the great and the good of the discipline? In this book it is argued that, contrary to common practice, philosophical paradoxes and counte... Полное описание

The Golden Crossroads"e; sets potential new directions for business leaders and brand marketeers. It does so by looking at the field of fine arts, design and culture as an alternative source of inspiration for ways to work. This book offers a mix of 38 qualitativ... Полное описание

An eBook novel of race and class from the Macmillan Education Writers Series. Little Josephine was so afraid of Sister Angelica that whenever the two came face to face, little Jo would almost certainly have an embarrassing accident. Her teacher disliked Jo, everyone ... Полное описание

Browning and Kilmister review the nature and possibility of critical political economy in the light of recent post-modern and cultural theory. They provide an historical understanding of critical political economy, focusing on the development of the critical perspect... Полное описание

Multiracial Identity is an impressive, accessible and timely contribution to the field of 'race' and ethnicity studies. Mark Christian provides both primary (in-depth interviews) and secondary data in examining the issue of multiracial identity. Using the UK, US, Sou... Полное описание

Rethinking the Roots of Terrorism seeks to explain why terrorism occurs. It is a comprehensive interdisciplinary survey that investigates all the possible motivations, reasons and causes of terrorism at all levels in society. It takes as its starting point a neutral ... Полное описание

In 1688 an institutional change subordinated the monarchy to the parliament, in part to avert the violence of the recent past. A century later a radical print culture threatened to take this process a step further and subordinate parliament to "e;the voice of the... Полное описание