"Challenging Gender Norms" not only renders women visible through the fog of war, it also offers a powerful framework for a fuller understanding of conflicts and political violence. Women s decisions to turn to belligerent action rather than seek peaceful resolutions represent their conscious effort[...]

In this Coretta Scott King Award-winning novel and sequel to the New York Times bestseller and Newbery Honor Book One Crazy Summer, the Gaither sisters return to Brooklyn and find that changes large and small have come to their home. This extraordinary novel earned five starred reviews, with Publish[...]

For courses in Criminology. Taking a sociological perspective, this book discusses the major theories of crime-from classical theories to new theories such as Cultural Criminology and Peacemaking Criminology. The book offers a balanced presentation-presenting each theory,s social and intellectual he[...]

This guide charts the development in the criticism surrounding two of Williams' most popular plays, from the 1940s/50s through to the present day. Adler's overview of the critical responses proceeds in a generally chronological fashion and demonstrates how the emergence of newer theoretical methodol[...]

This text aims to bridge the gap between non-mathematical popular treatments and the distinctly mathematical publications that non- mathematicians find so difficult to penetrate. The author provides understandable derivations or explanations of many key concepts, such as Kolmogrov-Sinai entropy, d[...]

"The 5th edition of Model Building in Mathematical Programming "discusses the general principles of model building in mathematical programming and demonstrates how they can be applied by using several simplified but practical problems from widely different contexts. Suggested formulations and soluti[...]

"It is long overdue that someone took a closer look at the brilliant Mary Sidney. I have a suspicion that Mary Sidney's life, and especially her dedication to the English language after her brother's death, may throw important light on the mysterious authorship of the Shakespeare plays and poems."

For some, dreams can become reality. "H.P. Lovecraft's Dreamlands" provides everything needed for "Call of Cthulhu" or "Cthulhu Dark Ages" investigators to travel down the seven hundred steps, through the Gates of Deeper Slumber, and into the realm of dreams. Includes a travelogue of the Dreamlands,[...]

A distilation of many year's work on a therapeutic millieu ward of the Maudsley Hospital, in which the psychotic patients were treated with an intergrated combination of psychiatric and pychological care anchored in the use of advanced psychoanalytic concepts of psychosis. Compelling clinical materi[...]

During the late 1920s and early 1930s three pairs of unique and innovative passenger liners emerged from France, the UK and the US designated as cabin-class liners: the Lafayette and Champlain, Britannic and Georgic and the Manhattan and Washington - three steamships and three motorships. Born at th[...]

"Rare Earth Minerals" presents a current overview of this geologically and industrially important group of minerals. It presents a wide variety of formats, crystal structures, petrographic descriptions, analytical data and numerous illustrations from outcrop photos to SEM pictures and crystallograph[...]

The ability to communicate effectively is critical for success in the business environment. This book helps users to develop their communication skills. It covers fundamental business English topics and concepts. It contains chapters that focus on essential oral and nonverbal communication skills.[...]