Jerome Michael: 20 books
What Is Crime?
Controversies over the Nature of Crime and What to Do about It
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2001
For decades, scholars have disagreed about what kinds of behavior count as crime. Is it simply a violation of the criminal law? Is it behavior that causes serious harm? Is the seriousness affected by how many people are harmed and does it make a difference who those people are? Are crimes less criminal...
USA Noir
Best of the Akashic Noir Series
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
"All the heavy hitters...came out for USA Noir...an important anthology of stories shrewdly culled by Johnny Temple."
--New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice)
One of Zoom Street Magazine's Favorite Books of 2014
Indie Books Roundup #1 Pick, Barnes & Noble Book Blog
Included...
Subversion, Conversion, Development
Cross-Cultural Knowledge Exchange and the Politics of Design
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2014
Explorations of design, use, and reuse of information technology in diverse historical and cultural contexts.
This book explores alternative cultural encounters with and around information technologies. These encounters are alternative because they counter dominant, Western-oriented notions...
Fantastic Stories Presents: Science Fiction Super Pack #2
With linked Table of Contents
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2016
More than 25 of the greatest Science Fiction stories ever written—many in eBook form for the very first time. More than four hundred pages of top flight fiction selected by the editors at www.fantasticstoriesoftheimagination.com, including 'Ticking' by Allen M. Steele; 'All Cats are Gray' by Andre...
by Rabbi Rebecca Alpert, Charles Bernstein, Rachel Blau DuPlessis
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
Jewish art has always been with us, but so has a broader canvas of Jewish imaginings: in thought, in emotion, in text, and in ritual practice. Imagining the Jewish God was there in the beginning, as it were, engraved and embedded in the ways Jews lived and responded to their God.This book attempts...
by Judith Blau, Michael Burawoy, Gerard Delanty
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2006
At an earlier time, sociologists C. Wright Mills, W. E. Du Bois, and Jane Addams loudly protested injustices and inequities in American society, provided critiques and analyses of systems of oppression, and challenged sociologists to be responsible critics and constructive commentators. These giants...
Understanding Inequality
The Intersection of Race/Ethnicity, Class, and Gender
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2007
As the age of globalization and New Media unite disparate groups of people in new ways, the continual transformation and interconnections between ethnicity, class, and gender become increasingly complex. This reader, comprised of a diverse array of sources ranging from the New York Times to the journals...
Research on Schools, Neighborhoods and Communities
Toward Civic Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Research on Schools, Neighborhoods, and Communities: Toward Civic Responsibility focuses on research and theoretical developments related to the role of geography in education, human development, and health. William F. Tate IV, the Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor in Arts &...
by Hank Lazer, Charlie Bertsch, Benjamin Friedlander
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2011
"What have I in common with Jews? I hardly have anything in common with myself!"
--Franz Kafka
Kafka's quip--paradoxical, self-questioning, ironic--highlights vividly some of the key issues of identity and self-representation for Jewish writers in the 20th century. No group of writers...
Re-Imagining Nature
Environmental Humanities and Ecosemiotics
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013
Re-Imagining Nature: Environmental Humanities and Ecosemiotics explores new horizons in environmental studies, which consider communication and meaning as core definitions of ecological life, essential to deep sustainability. It considers landscape as narrative, and applies theoretical frameworks...
by Jerome R. Corsi, Michael Zullo, Joe Arpaio
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
A Question of Eligibility takes an in-depth look at the Arpaio Report and whether President Barack Obamas birth certificate is authentic or a forgery, and therefore whether or not he is eligible to serve as the President of the United States of America. In the investigation, the Presidents long-form...
The Criminalization of States
The Relationship between States and Organized Crime
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2019
This volume examines the relationship between states and organized crime. It seeks to add to the theoretical literature for analyzing the criminalization of the state. The volume also explores the nature of organized crime in countries throughout the Americas from Central America to the Southern Cone.
The Merger
M.D.S and D.O.S in California
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2009
The Merger: M.D.s and D.O.s in California
If you are interested in the recent history of the medical professions, this book is for you. If personal narratives of historical events speak to you as a second layer of documentation, this book is for you. If you are aware that in America there exist...
Assessing Child Maltreatment Reports
The Problem of False Allegations
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
This seminal book in the literature of child protective services stimulates critical thinking and informed discussion for those professionals and educators concerned with the quality of children’s protective services. The first book of its kind to present scholarly reports on false allegations,...
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