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Introduction To Criminal Justice - A Sociological Perspective

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 Approaches the theories, organization, and practices of criminal justice from a sociological perspective so that students can simultaneously develop expertise in criminal justice and understand how issues related to the police, courts, and corrections are informed by broader sociological principles and concepts.
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The Bigness Complex - Industry, Labor, And Government In The American Economy, Second Edition

by James W. Brock

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 Confronts head-on the myth that organizational giantism leads to economic efficiency and well-being in the modern age. On the contrary, this book demonstrates how bigness undermines our economic productivity and progress, endangers our democratic freedoms, and exacerbates our economic problems and challenges.
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Reading Rio De Janeiro - Literature And Society In The Nineteenth Century

by Zephyr Frank

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 Reading Rio de Janeiro is an experiment in literary and social history, which combines literary analysis and the tools of close and distant reading with quantitative evidence from archival sources in order to reveal new insights regarding the integration of individuals into a complex and changing society.
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Judaism In Transition - How Economic Choices Shape Religious Tradition

by Carmel U. Chiswick

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 Judaism in Transition places American Judaism in its economic context and shows how the decisions of individual Jews, as they respond to economic incentives, have shaped a community that is characterized by innovative ways of observing ancient religious traditions.
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Essays On Philosophy, Politics & Economics - Integration & Common Research Projects

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 Essays on Philosophy, Politics, & Economics offers a critical examination of economic, philosophical, and political notions, with an eye towards working across all three, so that students and scholars from can expand their perspectives as they approach the necessarily complex research questions of today and tomorrow.
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Paolina'S Innocence - Child Abuse In Casanova'S Venice

by Larry Wolff

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 This is a social and cultural study of what happened in Venice in 1785 when a sixty-year-old man was accused of having sex with an eight-year-old girl.
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The Black Middle - Africans, Mayas, And Spaniards In Colonial Yucatan

by Matthew Restall

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 The Black Middle is the first book-length study of the interaction of black slaves and other people of African descent with Mayas and Spaniards in the Spanish colonial province of Yucatan (southern Mexico).
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Models Of Voting In Presidential Elections - The 2000 U.S. Election

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 "Models of Voting in Presidential Elections" offers a comprehensive scholarly examination of the determinants of voter participation and vote choice at play in the 2000 presidential election. It examines the larger issues surrounding the election and its outcome.
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Models Of Voting In Presidential Elections - The 2000 U.S. Election

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 "Models of Voting in Presidential Elections" offers a comprehensive scholarly examination of the determinants of voter participation and vote choice at play in the 2000 presidential election. It examines the larger issues surrounding the election and its outcome.
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The Not So Wild, Wild West - Property Rights On The Frontier

by Peter J. Hill e Terry L. Anderson

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 Mention of the American West usually evokes images of cowboys, ranchers and outlaws. Here the authors argue that everyday people helped carve out legal institutions that tamed the West, applying the lessons learned to modern "frontiers" - the environment, developing countries and space exploration.
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Your Money And Your Life - A Lifetime Approach To Money Management

by Robert Aliber

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 Your Money and Your Life helps readers to make the right financial decisions, at the right time of their lives, in an efficient and cost effective way with an eye towards today's economic environment.
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Diasporic Homecomings - Ethnic Return Migration In Comparative Perspective

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 Diasporic Homecomings provides a comparative, analytical overview of the major ethnic return migrant groups in Europe and East Asia through an in-depth, ethnographic account of their experiences.
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Pragmatism'S Advantage - American And European Philosophy At The End Of The Twentieth Century

by Joseph Margolis

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 Pragmatism's Advantage is a highly original reading of the contemporary interplay between pragmatism and continental European philosophy based on an unexpectedly inventive union of Hegelian and Darwinian themes.
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The Idea Of Galicia - History And Fantasy In Habsburg Political Culture

by Larry Wolff

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 The Idea of Galicia analyzes the intellectual and cultural history of a place as an idea: how Galicia, invented in the late eighteenth century as a geopolitical artifice, gradually acquired complex meaning over the course of its historical existence (and even beyond) for the peoplesâ€" Poles, Ukrainians, and Jewsâ€" who lived there and for the political culture of the Habsburg monarchy.
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Paolina'S Innocence - Child Abuse In Casanova'S Venice

by Larry Wolff

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 This is a social and cultural study of what happened in Venice in 1785 when a sixty-year-old man was accused of having sex with an eight-year-old girl.
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Pollution Limits And Polluters' Efforts To Comply - The Role Of Government Monitoring And Enforcement

by Dietrich H. Earnhart

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 This book integrates economics and legal perspectives to examine the impact of government strategies for monitoring and enforcing environmental protection laws. It closely examines industrial facilities' compliance with regulatory obligations stemming from the implementation of the Clean Water Act (CWA) to explore the success of policies such as this.
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Essays On Philosophy, Politics & Economics - Integration & Common Research Projects

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 Essays on Philosophy, Politics, & Economics offers a critical examination of economic, philosophical, and political notions, with an eye towards working across all three, so that students and scholars from can expand their perspectives as they approach the necessarily complex research questions of today and tomorrow.
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Criminals And Victims

by W. David Allen

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 Criminals and Victims analyzes economic decisions made by offenders and victims before, during, and after a crime or victimization.
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Chinese Utopianism - A Comparative Study Of Reformist Thought With Japan And Russia, 1898-1997

by Shiping Hua

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 Offers an explanation of extreme radicalism in Chinese reform movements from the late nineteenth century through the Cultural Revolution and into the post-Mao era. This book demonstrates how datong - an ancient concept that can be translated as 'great harmony' - and other elements of Chinese thought have led China down a unique political path.
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The Price Of Monotheism

by Jan Assmann

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 Explores the notions of primary versus secondary religions, of 'counter-religions', and of book religions versus cultic religions. This title deals with the entry of ethics into religion's very core. It presents a lesson in the fluidity of cultural identity and beliefs.
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Imagining Harmony - Poetry, Empathy, And Community In Mid-Tokugawa Confucianism And Nativism

by Peter Flueckiger

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 Imagining Harmony explores the diverse roles that poetry played for eighteenth-century Japanese intellectuals as an embodiment of human emotion, a form of linguistic and philological training, and a means for accessing the ancient cultures that they turned to as the source of their political ideals.
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Invisible Hands, Invisible Objectives - Bringing Workplace Law And Public Policy Into Focus

by John W. Budd e Stephen F. Befort

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 Invisible Hands, Invisible Objectives reveals the unstated models and broad objectives of the employment relationship in order to bring coherence to debates over the full breadth of public policies on work-including employment and labor law, social safety nets, and work-family issues.
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Invisible Hands, Invisible Objectives - Bringing Workplace Law And Public Policy Into Focus

by John W. Budd e Stephen F. Befort

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 Invisible Hands, Invisible Objectives reveals the unstated models and broad objectives of the employment relationship in order to bring coherence to debates over the full breadth of public policies on work-including employment and labor law, social safety nets, and work-family issues.
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Strategic Behavior And Policy Choice On The U.S. Supreme Court

by Chris W. Bonneau, Reginald S. Sheehan e Thomas H. Hammond

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 This book presents the first comprehensive model of policymaking by strategically-rational justices who pursue their own policy preferences in the Supreme Court's multi-stage decision-making process.
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