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  • Resolving Community Conflicts and Problems

    Public Deliberation and Sustained Dialogue

    Edited by Jon Van Til, Roger Lohmann ...
    Public deliberation and group discussion can strengthen the foundations of civil society, even when the groups engaged in debate share a history of animosity. Scholars have begun to study the dialogue sustaining these conversations, especially its power to unite and divide groups and individuals. The twenty-four essays in this collection analyze public exchanges and the nature of sustained ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • Living With Energy Shortfall

    A Future For American Towns And Cities

    by Jon Van Til ...
    This book is about the ways Americans may live in the years ahead and the forms their cities, suburbs, towns, and rural areas may take in the light of changing patterns of energy supply and societal affluence. It is written for the ultimate energy policy maker–the private citizen. ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

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  • The Nine

    Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court

    by Jeffrey Toobin ...
    Acclaimed journalist Jeffrey Toobin takes us into the chambers of the most important—and secret—legal body in our country, the Supreme Court, revealing the complex dynamic among the nine people who decide the law of the land. An institution at a moment of transition, the Court now stands at a crucial point, with major changes in store on such issues as abortion, civil rights, and church-state ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Honour Killing

    Stories of Men Who Killed

    by Ayse Onal ...
    Honour killing persists across the Middle East, where regimes refrain from tackling primitive traditions for fear of sparking unrest. Ayse Onal interviewed imprisoned men in Turkey convicted of killing their mothers, sisters and daughters. The result is a revealing and ultimately tragic account of ruined lives - both the victims' and the killers' - in a country where state and religion conspire to ... Read more

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  • Life After Murder

    Five Men in Search of Redemption

    by Nancy Mullane ...
    Once a murderer, always a murderer? Or can a murderer be redeemed? Who do they really become after they have served decades in prison? What does it take for a killer to be accepted back into society? What is the chance that he will kill again?Award-winning journalist Nancy Mullane found herself facing these questions when she accepted an assignment to report on the exploding costs of incarceration ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Blind Trust

    Large Groups and Their Leaders in Times of Crisis and Terror

    by Vamik Volkan ...
    Blind Trust is the culmination of more than three decades of profound immersion in the most pressing sociopolitical conflicts of our time, by the psychoanalyst with probably the most direct experience with such issues of any in the world. Author Vamik Volkan applies his knowledge of depth psychology to the turbulent and destructive human experiences in the current cauldrons of the greatest unrest ... Read more

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  • The Grangegorman Murders

    Dean Lyons, Mark Nash and the Story behind the Grangegorman Murders

    by Alan Bailey ...
    On the morning of 7 March 1997, the bodies of two elderly female patients were discovered in their sheltered accommodation at Grangegorman Psychiatric Hospital in Dublin.It would be a further 16 years before Mark Nash was convicted of the notorious Grangegorman murders, but not before Dean Lyons, an innocent man, spent months in prison for a crime he did not commit, only to tragically die of a ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Chechnya - Russia's 'War on Terror'

    by John Russell ...
    Series series BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies
    The Russo-Chechen conflict has been the bloodiest war in Europe since the Second World War. It continues to drag on, despite the fact that it hits the headlines only when there is some 'terrorist spectacular'.Providing a comprehensive overview of the war and the issues connected with it, the author examines the origins of the conflict historically and traces how both sides were dragged inexorably ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Noam Chomsky on Language, Democracy and Social Justice

    Noam Chomsky’s Critical Intervention- Foreword by Peter McLaren- Afterword by Pepi Leistyna

    by Pierre W. Orelus, Shirley R. Steinberg ...
    Series Book 560 - Counterpoints
    Every century has witnessed the birth of a few world-transcending intellectuals as well as talented emerging scholars. Noam Chomsky and Pierre W. Orelus are no exception. Using dialogues exchanged over the course of nine years, combined with heartfelt critical essays, Chomsky and Orelus analytically examine social justice issues, such as unbalanced relationships between dominant and subjugated ... Read more

    $47.09 USD

  • The Case of the Green Turtle

    An Uncensored History of a Conservation Icon

    by Alison Rieser ...
    The true story of the controversial battle to save the world’s most famous endangered species.The journals of early maritime explorers traversing the Atlantic Ocean often describe swarms of sea turtles, once a plentiful source of food. Many populations had been decimated by the 1950s, when Archie Carr and others raised public awareness of their plight. One species, the green turtle, has been the ... Read more

    $41.79 USD

  • Taking it seriously

    Guide to Recommendation CM/Rec(2015)3 of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe to member States on the access of young people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods to social rights

    by Kevin O'Kelly, John Muir, Mara Georgescu, Rui Gomes ...
    Promoting young people's access to social rights as a means for their inclusion and participation in society! In and around many cities, social and economic imbalances have led to the development of disadvantaged neighbourhoods, where diversity is also accompanied by poverty and often marginalisation or exclusion. This is sometimes combined with different forms and levels of de facto social ... Read more

    $9.49 USD

  • Cyber Security and Privacy

    Third Cyber Security and Privacy EU Forum, CSP Forum 2014, Athens, Greece, May 21-22, 2014, Revised Selected Papers

    Edited by Frances Cleary, Massimo Felici ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed, selected papers on the Second Cyber Security and Privacy EU Forum, CSP 2014, held in Athens, Greece, in May 2014. The 14 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 90 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on security; accountability, data protection and privacy; research and innovation. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD