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  • The Culture of Capital Punishment in Japan

    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This open access book provides a comparative perspective on capital punishment in Japan and the United States. Alongside the US, Japan is one of only a few developed democracies in the world which retains capital punishment and continues to carry out executions on a regular basis. There are some similarities between the two systems of capital punishment but there are also many striking differences ... Read more

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  • The Next Frontier

    National Development, Political Change, and the Death Penalty in Asia

    Series series Studies in Crime and Public Policy
    Today, two-thirds of the world's nations have abolished the death penalty, either officially or in practice, due mainly to the campaign to end state executions led by Western European nations. Will this success spread to Asia, where over 95 percent of executions now occur? Do Asian values and traditions support capital punishment, or will development and democratization end executions in the world ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Japan's Prosecution Review Commission

    On the Democratic Oversight of Decisions Not To Charge

    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book explains Japan’s unique Prosecution Review Commission (PRC) which is composed of eleven lay people selected randomly from voter registration lists. Each of the country’s 165 PRCs reviews non-charge decisions made by professional prosecutors and determines which cases should be reinvestigated or charged. PRCs also provide prosecutors with general proposals and recommendations for ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • For the Love of Cinema

    Teaching Our Passion In and Outside the Classroom

    What role does love—of cinema, of cinema studies, of teaching and learning—play in teaching film? For the Love of Cinema brings together a wide range of film scholars to explore the relationship between cinephilia and pedagogy. All of them ask whether cine-love can inform the serious study of cinema. Chapter by chapter, writers approach this question from various perspectives: some draw on aspects ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • ELIMINATE STRESS AND ANXIETY FROM YOUR LIFE

    “Eliminating Stress and Anxiety from Your Life”

    "Are You Feeling Stressed, Overwhelmed And AreFull Of Anxiety? If So Then We Have The E-BookThat Gives Help On Getting Rid Of Your StressesAnd Helps You Get On With The Rest Your Life!"Stress Is The Number One Cause of Medical Problems InThe United States Today. Anxiety Just Adds To ThoseProblems. But You Don’t Have To Suffer Anymore!We Have The Answers You’re Looking For!YOUR CITY YOUR STATE... ... Read more

    $8.04 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Japanese Way of Justice

    Prosecuting Crime in Japan

    Series series Studies on Law and Social Control
    Criminal proceedings in which people can lose life, liberty, or reputation tell us a great deal about the character of any society. In Japan, it is prosecutors who wield the greatest control over these values and who therefore reveal most clearly the character of the Japanese way of justice. In this book, David T. Johnson portrays Japanese prosecutors at work; the social, political, and legal ... Read more

    $144.89 USD

  • The Next Frontier

    National Development, Political Change, and the Death Penalty in Asia

    Series series Studies in Crime and Public Policy
    Today, two-thirds of the world's nations have abolished the death penalty, either officially or in practice, due mainly to the campaign to end state executions led by Western European nations. Will this success spread to Asia, where over 95 percent of executions now occur? Do Asian values and traditions support capital punishment, or will development and democratization end executions in the world ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • The Mission of Preaching

    Equipping the Community for Faithful Witness

    We hear plenty of discussion about missional theology, missional leadership and missional church planting. But what about missional preaching? Now that the church in the West lives within a post-Christendom context, how should preaching look different? What homiletical assumptions arose within Christendom but are no longer relevant for a missionary church? In The Mission of Preaching, Patrick W. T ... Read more

    $27.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lowering the Boom

    Critical Studies in Film Sound

    As the first collection of new work on sound and cinema in over a decade, Lowering the Boom addresses the expanding field of film sound theory and its significance in rethinking historical models of film analysis. The contributors consider the ways in which musical expression, scoring, voice-over narration, and ambient noise affect identity formation and subjectivity. Lowering the Boom also ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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    How Risky Is It, Really?

    Why Our Fears Don't Always Match the Facts

    by David Ropeik ...
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    Unabridged

    7 hours 49 min

    "Clear, balanced, and lively." -- Steven Pinker, bestselling author of How the Mind WorksARE YOU AFRAID OF THE "RIGHT" RISKS?Do you worry more about radiation from nuclear power or from the sun?Are you more afraid of getting cancer than heart disease?Are you safer talking on your cell phone or using a hands-free device when you drive?Do you think global warming is a serious threat to your health ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fundamentals of Family Medicine

    Fundamentals of Family Medicine presents the common clinical problems encountered by generalists and, through case studies and discussion questions, enhances the reader's understanding of the process by which practitioners define, prioritize, and manage the diverse problems of many patients.Core chapters from the fourth edition of Family Medicine: Principles and Practice were selected and updated ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Family Medicine

    Principles and Practice

    Series series Medicine (R0)
    Family Medicine: Principles and Practice, 5th edition is a comprehensive reference source providing crystal clear guidelines for diagnosing and managing the common acute and chronic problems regularly encountered by the Family Practitioner. The expanded fifth edition will utilize a similar format to the fourth edition, but will include new chapters and material on: health promotion, population ... Read more

    $80.09 USD