Reference works

Taiwans modern legal system--quite different from those of both traditional China and the Peoples Republic--has evolved since the advent of Japanese rule in 1895.

Today's high recidivism rates, combined with the rising costs of jails and prisons, are increasingly seen as problems that must be addressed on both moral and financial grounds.

Based on a major research programme, and originally published in 1985, this book looked to provide an economic foundation for reinterpreting the Neolithic-Bronze Age sequence of South-east Spain in terms of emergent social complexity.

This book adds to global knowledge of pathways out of crime (desistance) by exploring the desistance narratives of 15 women with histories of imprisonment in Aotearoa New Zealand (10 of whom identify as Maori, New Zealand's Indigenous population).

The Routledge Companion to Britain in the Nineteenth Century, 1815-1914 is an accessible and indispensable compendium of essential information on the Victorian and Edwardian eras.

The Deerhound - A Complete Anthology of the Dog gathers together all the best early writing on the breed from our library of scarce, out-of-print antiquarian books and documents and reprints it in a quality, modern edition.

There is a growing acknowledgment amongst professionals and academics that we need to develop new responses to crime.

One of the most devastating armed conflicts in history, World War I completely transformed the social and political landscape of the world in four short years.

School business officials (SBOs) must, in many respects, serve as all things to all people in their workplaces.

Idiot's Guides : Digital Photography is not a book on using Photoshop to fix bad photos, nor is it a book loaded down with technical data telling readers which camera to buy.

This book suggests alternative ways of looking at what made a writer, what people gained from writing, and explores the alternative world of temperance periodicals of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

With the ever increasing global significance of the Olympic Games, it has never been more topical to address the political issues that surround, influence and emanate from this quadrennial sporting mega event.

The NIV Application Commentary helps you communicate and apply biblical text effectively in today's context.

This unique multidisciplinary study views Jesus as one of the most central figures in history with a wide-ranging impact on society, literature, art, and philosophy.

Using an easy-to-use checklist format, author Jeffrey Stull, an internationally recognized expert in the area of protective clothing, examines the types of industrial and fire hazards that warrant PPE protection.

From the award-winning team behind the Totally Football Show, one of the world's leading independent football podcastsThe Totally Football Yearbook isn't just a collection of statistics.

Build your Bible study library with this essential book on the people and places of the Bible.

Literature and Moral Theory investigates how literature, in the past 30 years, has been used as a means for transforming the Anglo-American moral philosophical landscape, which until recently was dominated by certain ways of "e;doing theory"e;.

Globalization has become one of the most important topics within politics and economics.

There are books you merely read.

First Published in 1996.

Providing an illuminating and informed introduction to central philosophical issues, concepts and perspectives in the core fields of metaphysics, epistemology and philosophical logic, the Dictionary takes the most common terms and notions and clarifies what they mean to the philosopher and what sort of problems the philosopher finds associated with them.

For centuries conquerors, missionaries, and political movements acting in the name of a single god, nation, or race have sought to remake human identities.

Over 7,000 people have been legally executed in the United States this century, and over 3,000 men and women now sit on death rows across the country awaiting the same fate.

The new in paperback edition of the Directory of Rare Book and Special Collections in the UK and Republic of Ireland, 3rd edition features an additional 72 libraries not represented in former editions.

Opera recordings have been with us since the creation of the first wax cylinders.

In the past decade, Bangladesh has achieved significant social and economic progress.

The newest volume of the annual Studies in Contemporary Jewry series features essays on the varied and often controversial ways Communism and Jewish history interacted during the 20th century.

This stunning field guide provides a comprehensive resource for identifying and appreciating nearly 500 species of spiders.

One week after the infamous June 1876 Battle of the Little Big Horn, when news of the defeat of General George Armstrong Custer and his 7th Cavalry troops reached the American public, Sitting Bull became the most wanted hostile Indian in America.

Duke basketball is one of the most celebrated programs in intercollegiate athletics.

Six experts guide the reader through the maze of historical writing about pre-Confederation Canada with a critical assessment of the best and most useful articles, papers, and books that have been published.

This book, first published in 1992, outlines the issues, indicates major trends, and sets challenges for libraries and publishers concerning new technologies and serials.

In the early nineteenth century, the publishing house of Taylor & Hessey brought out the work of Keats, Clare, Hazlitt, De Quincey, Carlyle, Lamb, Coleridge and many more of the most important literary figures of the time, as well as the great literary journal of the period, the London Magazine.

Welcome to The Periodic Table of Wine!

First published in 1986.

This book brings together some of the world''s leading writers to engage with the most profound question in penology: why prison?

This book offers a scholarly and lively introduction to comparative criminal justice.

A lively debate is currently being conducted in the social sciences around the concepts of "e;tribe"e;, "e;segmentary societies"e; and "e;Islam in society"e;.

This book brings together an international group of experts to present cutting-edge psychological research on crime, policing and courts.

Das »Niedersächsische Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte" ist allen Epochen und Teildisziplinen der Geschichtswissenschaft verpflichtet und begreift die heutigen Bundesländer Bremen und Niedersachsen als sein wissenschaftliches Feld.

Since its foundation in 1747, Afghanistan has seen seemingly limitless wars waged by the central government to consolidate its control over the country as well as rampant tribal warfare.