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  • 57 Ways to Screw Up in Grad School

    Perverse Professional Lessons for Graduate Students

    Don't think about why you're applying. Select a topic for entirely strategic reasons. Choose the coolest supervisor. Write only to deadlines. Expect people to hold your hand. Become "that" student.When it comes to a masters or PhD program, most graduate students don't deliberately set out to fail. Yet, of the nearly 500,000 people who start a graduate program each year, up to half will never ... Read more

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  • Handbook of Professional Youth Mentoring

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book examines professional youth mentoring, which is marked by enduring relationships throughout childhood and adolescence between youth and their adult mentors who are embedded within a formal program. It describes the ways in which these mentors – full-time, paid professionals – specialize in helping youth to build the resilience, skills, and hope that prepares them for prosocial success ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Critical and Cultural Criminological Theory

    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Critical and Cultural Criminological Theory is a crucial scholarly resource for contemporary theorizing about crime, harm, and justice. Departing from earlier etiological or structural approaches, this volume highlights the rich and evolving field of theorizing in criminology by bringing together critical and cultural criminologies as conjoined subfields. This ... Read more

    $149.99 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of Surveillance Studies

    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    Surveillance is a central organizing practice. Gathering personal data and processing them in searchable databases drives administrative efficiency but also raises questions about security, governance, civil liberties and privacy. Surveillance is both globalized in cooperative schemes, such as sharing biometric data, and localized in the daily minutiae of social life. This innovative Handbook ... Read more

    $91.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Ethnographies of Crime and Criminal Justice

    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Despite ethnography's long and distinguished history in the social sciences, its use in criminology is still relatively rare. Over the years, however, ethnographers in the United States and abroad have amassed an impressive body of work on core criminological topics and groups, including gang members, sex workers, drug dealers, and drug users. Ethnographies on criminal justice institutions have ... Read more

    $154.79 USD

  • Transparent Lives

    Surveillance in Canada

    Although most Canadians are familiar with surveillance cameras and airport security, relatively few are aware of the extent to which the potential for surveillance is now embedded in virtually every aspect of our lives. We cannot walk down a city street, register for a class, pay with a credit card, hop on an airplane, or make a telephone call without data being captured and processed. Where does ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Security Games

    Surveillance and Control at Mega-Events

    Edited by Kevin Haggerty, Colin Bennett ...
    Security Games: Surveillance and Control at Mega-Events addresses the impact of mega-events – such as the Olympic Games and the World Cup – on wider practices of security and surveillance. "Mega-Events" pose peculiar and extensive security challenges. The overwhelming imperative is that "nothing should go wrong." There are, however, an almost infinite number of things that can "go wrong"; ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Surveillance and Democracy

    This collection represents the first sustained attempt to grapple with the complex and often paradoxical relationships between surveillance and democracy. Is surveillance a barrier to democratic processes, or might it be a necessary component of democracy? How has the legacy of post 9/11 surveillance developments shaped democratic processes? As surveillance measures are increasingly justified in ... Read more

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  • Instant Work-ups: A Clinical Guide to Pediatrics

    Series series Instant Workups
    Instant Workups: Clinical Guide to Pediatrics, by Theodore X. O'Connell, MD, is a portable pocket resource and quick refresher that helps you develop and refine your diagnostic skills. Practical and easy to use, it provides clear workup plans for the most common pediatric conditions, providing you with quick, focused guidance with the flexibility to adapt to each unique patient. Topics are ... Read more

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  • Credibility

    How Leaders Gain and Lose It, Why People Demand It

    Series Book 244 - J-B Leadership Challenge: Kouzes/Posner
    The first true revision of the classic book from the bestselling author of The Leadership ChallengeAs the world falls deeper into economic downturns and warfare, the question of credibility (how leaders gain and lose it) is more important than ever. Building on their research from The Leadership Challenge, James Kouzes and Barry Posner explore in Credibility why leadership is above all a ... Read more

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  • Cultivating Communities of Practice

    A Guide to Managing Knowledge

    Today's economy is fueled by knowledge. Every leader knows this to be true, yet few have systematic methods for converting organizational knowledge into economic value. This book argues that communities of practice--groups of individuals formed around common interests and expertise--provide the ideal vehicle for driving knowledge-management strategies and building lasting competitive advantage. ... Read more

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