John Pratt: 24 books
Punishment and Civilization
Penal Tolerance and Intolerance in Modern Society
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2002
`A lucid and fascinating account of how society initially comes to be viewed as 'civilized' on the basis of how it punishes its offenders, and the various numances and contradictions that form the backdrop to that 'civilization' prior to 1970 and the unraveling of that process thereafter. ...He [Pratt]...
by John Pratt
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2007
Expertly drawing on international examples and existing literature, Penal Populism closes a gap in the field of criminology. In this fascinating expose of current crime policy John Pratt examines the role played by penal populism on trends in contemporary penal policy.
Penal populism is associated...
A Punitive Society
Falling Crime and Rising Imprisonment in New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
New Zealand has one of the highest levels of imprisonment in the Western world. Yet the growth of imprisonment in New Zealand has occurred when the crime rate here, as in most other Western societies, has been in significant decline. Why, then, the disjuncture?
In this penetrating BWB Text,...
by Tracey Barnett, Jane Kelsey, John Pratt
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2014
Dive into some of the big issues facing New Zealand with this bundle of hard-hitting BWB Texts. These four works are combined into one easy-to-read e-book, available direct and DRM-free from our website or from international e-book retailers. Tracey Barnett’s The Quiet War on Asylum addresses a big...
Contrasts in Punishment
An explanation of Anglophone excess and Nordic exceptionalism
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Why do some modern societies punish their offenders differently to others? Why are some more punitive and others more tolerant in their approach to offending and how can these differences be explained? Based on extensive historical analysis and fieldwork in the penal systems of England, Australia...
Hangtown
Hangtown, #1
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
The year was 1851 and the place was Hangtown, the California mining camp that today is known as Placerville. It was here that the unpredictable and entertaining story of Zach Johnson's search for gold takes place. Zach, the son of an Episcopal priest, was a gentle man who'd come to Hangtown from...
Hangtown: Secrets & Schemes
Book Two of the Hangtown Series
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2018
The Hangtown series is the story of Zach Johnson's search for his soul. Zach struggles with morals, religion, sex, and love. In book two, Zach confronts the repressive forces of the Nativist Party; endeavors to understand why God allows suffering; and is dumbfounded by a series of dreams his...
by Sam Siewert, John Pratt
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
This book is intended to provide a senior undergraduate or graduate student in electrical engineering or computer science with a balance of fundamental theory, review of industry practice, and hands-on experience to prepare for a career in the real-time embedded system industries. It is also intended...
Fighting with the Empire
Canada, Britain, and Global Conflict, 1867–1947
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
Canadians often characterize their military history as a march toward nationhood, but in the first eighty years of Confederation they were fighting for the British Empire.
From 1867 to 1947, war or threat of war forced Canadians to define and redefine their relationship to Britain and to one...
by Shannon P. Pratt, John Lifflander
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2015
The essential guide to business and real estate appraisals for non-appraiser professionals
In Analyzing Complex Appraisals for Business Professionals, renowned business and real estate valuation authorities Shannon P. Pratt and John Lifflander provide the ultimate crash course for evaluating...
The Franchisor’s Handbook
Your Duties, Responsibilities and Liabilities
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
This book is designed to be a practical guide for all those who have already set up a franchise business (although they may wish to skip the first two chapters) and for those who intend to do so. It is not a legal text book and so does not set out in a complete or authoritative way the law that applies...
Corporate Cthulhu
Lovecraftian Tales of Bureaucratic Nightmare
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2018
YOUR CALL TO CTHULHU IS IMPORTANT TO US. PLEASE HOLD.
Red tape. Catch-22s. Circular chains of command. Whether you're a customer or co-worker, bureaucracies drive us all insane. Even management is just a cog in a vast machine. Information, items, and even people get lost in the system, never...
by Marion Zimmer Bradley, Alan E. Nourse, Philip José Farmer
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Fantastic Universe started publishing in 1953 and continued until March 1960. It was one of the better magazines to launch during the boom in science fiction magazines publishing. It published many important stories' by some of the fields best known writers. This is our third Fantastic universe Superpack....
by Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, Abraham Merritt
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2019
CONTENTS: ABRAHAM MERRITT 1. The People of the Pit AMELIA REYNOLDS LONG 2. Omega ANTHONY MELVILLE RUD 3. Ooze ARTHUR TRAIN 4. The Nth Power CLARK ASHTON SMITH 5. The Black Abbot of Puthuum DAVID H. KELLER 6. The Jelly-Fish DAVID H. KELLER 7. The Rat Racket DAVID H. KELLER 8. The Worm DONALD ALLEN...
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