Maleeka Madison is a child with very low self-esteem due to the fact that she is darker skinned than most other black girls. In her new teacher, Miss Saunders, she encounters someone who, she feels, is worse off than she is, as Miss Saunders' skin is blotched with a rare skin condition. But, even th[...]

This practical guide to policing domestic violence outlines approaches to identify victims early and target offenders through the use of intelligence. The powers available to police, including practical measures to protect victims, are outlined and supported by case studies and checklists.[...]

As cities have gentrified, educated urbanites have come to prize what they regard as "authentic" urban life: aging buildings, art galleries, and funky ethnic restaurants. But as Sharon Zukin shows in Naked City, the pervasive demand for authenticity has helped drive out the very people who first le[...]

Research and Writing in International Relationsoffers the step-by-step guidance and the essential resources needed to compose political science papers that go beyond description and into systematic and sophisticated inquiry. This text focuses on areas where students often need help--finding a topic,[...]

Revives the classical strategies of ancient Greek and Roman rhetoricians and adapts them to the needs of contemporary writers and speakers.[...]

Michael Ondaatje has called Sharon Olds's poetry 'pure fire in the hands', and cheered the 'roughness and humour and brag and tenderness and completion in her work as she carries the reader through rooms of passion and loss'. This work exhibits those qualities in poems, reflecting an experimentation[...]

New core text for Managing Information modules examining the issue of information management from both a business and an IT perspective. Grounded in the theory, it takes a practical, problem-solving approach that provides students with tools and insights to understand how to formulate and implement [...]

"Street Scenes" offers a theory of late medieval acting and performance through a fresh and original reading of the "Tretise of Miraclis Pleyinge." The performance theory perspective employed here, along with the examination of actor/character dialectics, paves the way to understanding both religiou[...]

**To celebrate thirty years since its first publication, Pan Macmillan are proud to publish this special, re-edited edition, with a new author's note from Sharon Penman** Richard, last-born son of the Duke of York, was seven months short of his nineteenth birthday when he bloodied himself at the bat[...]