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  • Iced

    The Story of Organized Crime in Canada

    Canada is lauded the world over as a law abiding, peaceful country - a shining example to all nations. Such a view, also shared by most Canadians, is typically naïve and misinformed. Throughout its history, to present day and beyond, Canada has been and will continue to be home to criminals and crime organizations that are brilliant at finding ways to make money - a lot of money - illegally.Iced: ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Year's Work at the Zombie Research Center

    Series series The Year's Work: Studies in Fan Culture and Cultural Theory
    "Playful and (un)deadly serious . . . chew[s] through a near-exhaustive array of films, television, literature, culture, music and even cocktails."— Times Literary SupplementThey have stalked the horizons of our culture, wreaked havoc on moribund concepts of dead and not dead, threatened our sense of identity, and endangered our personal safety. Now zombies have emerged from the lurking shadows of ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Money Laundering in Canada

    Chasing Dirty and Dangerous Dollars

    Money laundering is the process of converting or transferring cash or other assets, generated from illegal activity, in order to conceal or disguise their origins. In recent years, the international community has decided that focusing on money laundering is an efficient strategy in policing organized crime and, now terrorism. To this end, countries are encouraged to harmonize their policies and ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • The Shaken and the Stirred

    The Year's Work in Cocktail Culture

    Series series The Year's Work
    Over the past decade, the popularity of cocktails has returned with gusto. Amateur and professional mixologists alike have set about recovering not just the craft of the cocktail, but also its history, philosophy, and culture. The Shaken and the Stirred features essays written by distillers, bartenders and amateur mixologists, as well as scholars, all examining the so-called 'Cocktail Revival' and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Big Crime and Big Policing

    All about Big Money?

    Following money over national borders, banking systems, casinos, and free trade zones, as well as the world of the corrupt elites, Big Crime and Big Policing brings new scholarly and practical insights into our understanding of the interplay of money, crime, and policing on the grand scale.In this wide-ranging volume, a mixed group of scholars and practitioners aim to show how money dictates the ... Read more

    $33.09 USD

  • An Ontology of Organized Crime

    A Meta-Analytical Framework and Enforcement Implications

    Series series Routledge Advances in Criminology
    One of the most elusive pursuits in the study of organized crime is developing a definition, description, or conceptual model that captures its complexity, diversity, and ever-changing nature. This book takes a comprehensive approach to unraveling the intricacies and variations of organized crime, providing a detailed account of its many attributes.Based on a review of the theoretical literature, ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Social Movement Literature

    An Introduction

    Social Movement Literature introduces readers to the study of those cultural texts that have come to define modern social movements. Looking at movements such as the US civil rights movement, gay liberation movement, environmental movement, and contemporary movement such as #metoo and Black Lives Matter, this volume focuses not just on the texts that social movements have produced, but also on ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Writing for Engagement

    Responsive Practice for Social Action

    Series series Cultural Studies/Pedagogy/Activism
    Engagement is trendy. Although paired most often with community, diverse invocations of engagement have gained cache, capturing longstanding shifts toward new practices of knowledge making that both reflect and facilitate multiple ways of being an academic. Engagement functions as a gloss for these shifts—addressing more expansive understandings of where, how, and with whom we research, teach, and ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • Crime Prevention

    Theory and Practice, Second Edition

    In Crime Prevention: Theory and Practice, Second Edition, Dr. Schneider has updated every chapter in this reliable text using the latest research, the most recently published articles and books, and feedback from professors and students using the first edition. Providing an introduction to dominant approaches, key concepts, theories, and research, ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

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    Mark Kingwell is as at home discussing Battlestar Galactica as he is civility, can find the Plato in popular culture, and sees in idleness a deeply revolutionary gesture. In Measure Yourself Against the Earth, he brings his heady mixture of critical intelligence and infectious enthusiasm to bear on film, aesthetics, politics, leisure, literature and much more, showing us how each can help us to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Bite Me

    Food in Popular Culture

    Food is not only something we eat, it is something we use to define ourselves. Ingestion and incorporation are central to our connection with the world outside our bodies. Food's powerful social, economic, political and symbolic roles cannot be ignored - what we eat is a marker of power, cultural capital, class, ethnic and racial identity.Bite Me considers the ways in which popular culture reveals ... Read more

    $38.09 USD

  • The Walking Dead and Philosophy

    Zombie Apocalypse Now

    Edited by Wayne Yuen ...
    Series Book 68 - Popular Culture and Philosophy
    Rick, Lori, Shane, Carl, Dale, Andrea, and Michonne--human survivors of a zombie apocalypse--don't know much about philosophy, but philosophical ideas continue to shamble on through their world, and there's no excape from them.The Walking Dead is both a hugely successful comics series and a popular TV show. This epic story of a zombie apocalypse is unique. It focuses on the long-term individual, ... Read more

    $14.39 USD