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Criminal Justice and Criminology

Terms, Concepts, and Cases

By: James F. Anderson,Laronistine Dyson,Adam Langsam,Willie Jr Brooks

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Criminal Justice and Criminology

Terms, Concepts, and Cases

By: James F. Anderson,Laronistine Dyson,Adam Langsam,Willie Jr Brooks

This dictionary contains criminal justice terms, criminological concepts, and over 100 cases decided by courts in the federal system, including the United States Supreme Court. These cases address aspects of criminal procedures, as well as individual rights in the U.S. Constitution related to the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments. Using professional terms in an easy-to-read format, this book will provide the reader with a clear understanding of past and present concepts, terms, and case laws that are related to criminal justice and criminology. It serves as a perfect text for criminal justice and criminology programs at the undergraduate and graduate level. It can also be used as a supplemental adoption for these programs since most texts are written in an esoteric manner.

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University Press of America

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0761836497

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Perception

By: Adam Pautz

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Perception

By: Adam Pautz

Perception is one of the most pervasive and puzzling problems in philosophy, generating a great deal of attention and controversy in philosophy of mind, psychology and metaphysics. If perceptual illusion and hallucination are possible, how can perception be what it intuitively seems to be, a direct and immediate access to reality? How can perception be both internally dependent and externally directed? Perception is an outstanding introduction to this fundamental topic, covering both the perennial and recent work on the problem. Adam Pautz examines four of the most important theories of perception: the sense datum view; the internal physical state view; the representational view; and naïve realism, assessing each in turn. He also discusses the relationship between perception and the physical world and the issue of whether reality is as it appears. Useful examples are included throughout the book to illustrate the puzzles of perception, including hallucinations, illusions, the laws of appearance, blindsight, and neuroscientific explanations of our experience of pain, smell and color. The book covers both traditional philosophical arguments and more recent empirical arguments deriving from research in psychophysics and neuroscience. The addition of chapter summaries, suggestions for further reading and a glossary of terms make Perception essential reading for anyone studying the topic in detail, as well as for students of philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology and metaphysics.

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Routledge

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1317676882

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Napoleon

A Life

By: Adam Zamoyski

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Napoleon

A Life

By: Adam Zamoyski

The definitive biography of Napoleon -- hailed as "magnificent" by The Economist. "What a novel my life has been!" Napoleon once said of himself. Born into a poor family, the callow young man was, by twenty-six, an army general. Seduced by an older woman, his marriage transformed him into a galvanizing military commander. The Pope crowned him as Emperor of the French when he was only thirty-five. Within a few years, he became the effective master of Europe, his power unparalleled in modern history. His downfall was no less dramatic. The story of Napoleon has been written many times. In some versions, he is a military genius, in others a war-obsessed tyrant. Here, historian Adam Zamoyski cuts through the mythology and explains Napoleon against the background of the European Enlightenment, and what he was himself seeking to achieve. This most famous of men is also the most hidden of men, and Zamoyski dives deeper than any previous biographer to find him. Beautifully written, Napoleon brilliantly sets the man in his European context.

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Basic Books

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1541644557

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Orchestral Conducting - A Textbook for Students and Amateurs

By: Adam Carse

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Orchestral Conducting - A Textbook for Students and Amateurs

By: Adam Carse

Originally published in 1935, this work on orchestral conducting is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. It is designed as an instructional textbook and covers conducting techniques and the qualities of the various instruments involved. This is a fascinating work and thoroughly recommended for anyone interested in orchestral conducting. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

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Read Books Ltd

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1447496183

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The Political Situation in Egypt During the Second Intermediate Period, C. 1800-1550 B.C.

By: K. S. B. Ryholt,Adam Bülow-Jacobsen

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The Political Situation in Egypt During the Second Intermediate Period, C. 1800-1550 B.C.

By: K. S. B. Ryholt,Adam Bülow-Jacobsen

The Second Intermediate Period designates the 250 year period (18001550 BC) which separates the two glorious periods of the Middle Kingdom and the New Kingdom. During the 19th century BC, an invasion by Caanite tribes into the Delta took place. Around 1800 BC these people proclaimed their own king and the Delta thus became independent from the rest of Egypt. Egypt remained split between the Canaanitic rulers in North and the native Egyptian Kings in the South for the rest of the Second Intermediate Period. The division of Egypt brought about an economic decline, and the entire period is characterized by a lack of royal monuments. This circumstance has greatly hampered any attempts to establish a chronology of the period, and as a consequence it has been very difficult to date many sources which are relevant for the social and political situation of the period. The Second Intermediate Period has therefore remained one of the most obscure periods of Egypt's ancient history. The dissertation is a new attempt to establish a chronology for the Second Intermediate Period and define the different kingdoms, their territories and political relations. The study consists of four main chapters, three appendixes, a catalogue of sources, bibliography and indices. Included is a catalogue of all the historical sources, about 1500, known to certify the names of the Egyptian kings of the Second Intermediate Period. Each source is described in terms of type, origin and present location, followed by bibliographical references.

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Museum Tusculanum Press

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8772894210

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A Dictionary of American Idioms

By: Adam Makkai,Maxine Tull Boatner,John Edward Gates

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A Dictionary of American Idioms

By: Adam Makkai,Maxine Tull Boatner,John Edward Gates

Defines over 8,000 idiomatic words, expressions, regionalisms, and informal English expression, cross-referenced for easy access.

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0812012488

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Criminal Justice and Criminology

Terms, Concepts, and Cases

By: James F. Anderson,Laronistine Dyson,Adam Langsam,Willie Jr Brooks

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By: James F. Anderson,Laronistine Dyson,Adam Langsam,Willie Jr Brooks

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Quicklet on Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow (CliffsNotes-like Summary, Analysis, and Commentary)

By: Adam McKibbin

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Quicklet on Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow (CliffsNotes-like Summary, Analysis, and Commentary)

By: Adam McKibbin

ABOUT THE BOOK While experts have roundly debunked the popular notion that we feeble humans only utilize 10 percent of our brains, most of us still find ourselves secretly believing (or wishing) that there is uncharted territory upstairs to explore. As we get older, our brains – well, I don’t want to speak for you, so I’ll say my brain – increasingly fills with useless detritus; I will thus forget to buy a necessary item at the store, but will be able to sing along lyric-for-lyric with some old Def Leppard song during the drive home. Self-help books that promise to unlock your secret brainpower will mostly peddle you the same old platitudes. Where to turn when you want to take a serious tour through your own thought process? Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow hit the bulls-eye for me. While not a self-help book by any traditional definition, Kahneman’s work offers actionable insights about decision-making and gut reactions that did indeed help me to help myself. By breaking the brain into two separate – and sometimes competing – components (“System 1” and “System 2”), the author helps the reader recognize some very common pratfalls. MEET THE AUTHOR Adam McKibbin's work has appeared in a wide variety of magazines and websites, including The Nation, the Chicago Tribune, AlterNet, Paste and Punk Planet. He studied creative writing at the University of Wisconsin and received the Award for Academic Excellence for his collected fiction. Adam lives in Los Angeles with his wife and daughter, and can be found on Twitter at @TheRedAlert. EXCERPT FROM THE BOOK In one example, the reader is asked to picture a passenger on the New York subway reading the Times, and to guess whether the person has a PhD or didn’t go to college at all. The common gut reaction is to pick the PhD, even though there are far fewer PhDs on the subway at a given time than passengers without college degrees. Not just taking a situation at its face value, even statistically speaking, runs counter to how System 1 is programmed to operate. Kahneman sprinkles some academic autobiography through the book as well. Part 2 includes a section on what he calls “the best-known and most controversial” of his experiments with Amos Tversky: a seemingly simple question about a young woman named Linda. Linda is introduced to the crowd as a young woman who majored in philosophy and kept active with various social causes. Kahneman’s audience then had to choose the most likely outcome for Linda. Was she a bank teller or a bank teller who was active in the feminist movement? Although the former is the smarter choice, an overwhelming number of undergraduates chose the latter due to the associations they were making about “Linda.” Even renowned scientist Stephen Jay Gould fell into the trap... Buy a copy to keep reading!

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The Sacred Book of Adam

Adam, The Chosen One on the earth today. Beware of 2041

By: Ben Adam

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The Sacred Book of Adam

Adam, The Chosen One on the earth today. Beware of 2041

By: Ben Adam

SON OF MAN I'm known as: Michael - The Chosen One - Ancient of Days - Elect One - Adam As foretold by the scriptures who liveth amongst you now for these last days in this sacred Book of Adam 45 And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last cAdam was made a dquickening spirit 1 Corinthians 15:45

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An Analysis of Adam Smiths Inquiry

By: Adam Smith Edited by Wolseley P. Joyce

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An Analysis of Adam Smiths Inquiry

By: Adam Smith Edited by Wolseley P. Joyce

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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0469215135

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Book's by Adam Langsam

Criminal Justice and Criminology

Criminal Justice and Criminology

Perception

Perception

Napoleon

Napoleon

Orchestral Conducting - A Textbook for Students and Amateurs

Orchestral Conducting - A Textbook for Students and Amateurs

The Political Situation in Egypt During the Second Intermediate Period, C. 1800-1550 B.C.

The Political Situation in Egypt During the Second Intermediate Period, C. 1800-1550 B.C.

A Dictionary of American Idioms

A Dictionary of American Idioms

Criminal Justice and Criminology

Criminal Justice and Criminology

Quicklet on Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow (CliffsNotes-like Summary, Analysis, and Commentary)

Quicklet on Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow (CliffsNotes-like Summary, Analysis, and Commentary)

The Sacred Book of Adam

The Sacred Book of Adam

An Analysis of Adam Smiths Inquiry

An Analysis of Adam Smiths Inquiry

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