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The Last Detective

By: Leslie Thomas

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A northwest London detective tackles a twenty-five-year-old missing persons case in this comic crime novel. Dangerous Davies, you understand, earned his nickname in the same way that fat men nicknamed “Tiny” earn theirs. But while he may not inspire dread in the hearts of London’s bad guys, he is nevertheless on the side of right and good, and has a copper’s badge to prove it. True, he is known as the “last detective” —not because there are no others like him, but because he is, in nearly every instance, the last boy picked for the team (although his dog does like him). With little actual work to do, Dangerous has plenty of time to pick through the cases that everybody else has forgotten. And when he stumbles across a real piece of ancient history, it looks like the perfect way to keep him out of trouble and out of the real coppers’ way. Originally published in 1976, this is the first novel in the Dangerous Davies series, which was subsequently adapted for television in the UK; it was also made into a movie in 1981. “Recommended to anyone who enjoys a good detective yarn with plenty of laughs.” —Daily Express (UK) “Splendid comic writing.” —Daily Mail (UK)

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Felony & Mayhem Press

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1937384810

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Human Rights and the Criminal Justice System

By: Anthony Amatrudo,Leslie William Blake

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Human Rights and the Criminal Justice System

By: Anthony Amatrudo,Leslie William Blake

We now live in a world which thinks through the legislative implications of criminal justice with one eye on human rights. Human Rights and the Criminal Justice System provides comprehensive coverage of human rights as it relates to the contemporary criminal justice system. As well as being a significant aspect of international governance and global justice, Amatrudo and Blake argue here that human rights have also eclipsed the rhetoric of religion in contemporary moral discussion. This book explores topics such as terrorism, race, and the rights of prisoners, as well as existing legal structures, court practices, and the developing literature in Criminology, Law and Political Science, in order to critically review the relationship between the developing body of human rights theory and practice, and the criminal justice system. This book will be of considerable interest to those with academic concerns in this area; as well as providing an accessible, yet sophisticated, resource for upper level undergraduate and postgraduate human rights courses.

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Routledge

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1135145431

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9781135145439

Eyes of a Killer

By: John Leslie Evans

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Eyes of a Killer

By: John Leslie Evans

The story of a predatory woman who lures a rogue cop into a complex web of murder and deception. Multi-millionaire, Walter Benedict, CEO of Benedict Enterprises Incorporated, and his wife, Diane are entrapped in a crumbling and untenable marriage. Motivated by greed, and passion for a corrupt L.A. cop, Detective Lt. Jack Ramsey, Mrs. Benedict sets up a plan to “eliminate” her husband. Ramsey enlists the aid of mob-connected Nick Falconetti, who owns the Algiers Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. Acting as a middle-man, Falconetti recommends Tony Lenska, a professional hit-man, to “take care” of Mr. Benedict. Falconetti will take a 33% commission of the $30.000. fee for setting up the dea l. Ramsey meets with Tony Lenska in his squalid, Skid Row hotel room. They arrange to meet a few days later at a yet-undisclosed, Los Angeles location. The story’s sub-plot concerns Diane Benedict’s position as an attorney for the prestigious law firm of David Isreal and Associates, located in Century City. When attorney Mark Zarish is terminated for sexually harassing the new receptionist, Diane is handed the Rick DeMarco case. DeMarco, who is being held at the Men’s Central Jail, without bail, is accused of killing his mistress, Marie Novachek, and throwing her body off the Arroyo Seco Bridge, in nearby Pasadena. To build Lt. Ramsey’s characterization as a vile and totally corrupt cop, he and his partner, Sgt. Becker, are called to a house in Venice, where a middle-aged black woman has been murdered. The prime suspect, her sixteen-year-old son, Sonny, is picked up at a video arcade, taken to police headquarters, and after hours of intense interrogation is coerced into signing a confession. (In actuality, the boy is innocent of the crime.) After returning from a business trip to New York, Walter Benedict retreats to his luxurious boat, the “Santana,” moored in Marina del Rey. It is on board the “Santana” that Lenska plans to “ice” Mr. Benedict. Under cover of darkness, Lenska pours gasoline over the ship’s desk, and sets it on fire. Miraculously, Benedict manages to escape, before the boat blows up. When word reaches Falconetti that Lenska “screwed-up,” he orders two o f his muscle-men to find the hit-man and “eliminate” him. In a suspenseful sequence, Lenska is discovered in a Vegas restaurant Men’s room, kidnapped, and taken to a deserted industrial area, where he is garrotted and killed. His body ends up inside the trunk of a demolished Cadillac, in an Auto-wrecking yard, Ramsey and Diane Benedict meet in an obscure North Hollywood bowling alley and it is here that Ramsey decides to “take out” Benedict himself – he is scheduled to be guest speaker at a Writers convention in Palm Springs. Ramsey vows, Walter Benedict will never “reach” Palm Springs. This scene is followed by a sequence on Interstate 60, a few nights later. Benedict’s Rolls-Royce is pulled over, on a ruse by Det. Ramsey. There is an altercation, and Benedict is shot and killed. His body is taken to a remote desert location and buried. Shortly thereafter, Diane goes to Det. Lt. Joe Kellermann of the Beverly Hills Police Department, to report that her husband is missing. This precipitates an all-out search, and an APB is released by police authorities. The above is interspersed with the murder trial of Rick DeMarco. At one point, he confesses to Mrs. Benedict, that he indeed killed Marie Novacheck because she threatened to scuttle his marriage. When Diane discusses this turn of events with David Isreal, his reaction is: “The guilty deserve representation as well as the innocent. We’ll let the “jury𔄢

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Xlibris Corporation

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0738836664

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9780738836669

The Gendered Effects of Electoral Institutions

Political Engagement and Participation

By: Miki Caul Kittilson,Leslie A. Schwindt-Bayer

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The Gendered Effects of Electoral Institutions

Political Engagement and Participation

By: Miki Caul Kittilson,Leslie A. Schwindt-Bayer

The Gendered Effects of Electoral Institutions argues that in most countries women continue to lag behind men in an array of political orientations and activities. Understanding this, and why some countries have been more successful than others in decreasing gender gaps, is imperative for producing stronger and more representative democracies.

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Oxford University Press

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0199608601

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American Rococo, 1750-1775

Elegance in Ornament

By: Morrison H. Heckscher,Leslie Greene Bowman

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American Rococo, 1750-1775

Elegance in Ornament

By: Morrison H. Heckscher,Leslie Greene Bowman

Published in conjunction with an exhibition organized by, and held at, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, this volume examines the American (i.e. British colonial) manifestations of the European rococo style. Following an introductory chapter, separate chapters are devoted to architecture, engravings, silver, and furniture, plus iron, glass, and porcelain grouped together as factory products. Illustrated are 173 objects (many in color) that are part of the exhibition, and some 50 related objects. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

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0870996312

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Political Power and Women's Representation in Latin America

By: Leslie A. Schwindt-Bayer

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Political Power and Women's Representation in Latin America

By: Leslie A. Schwindt-Bayer

The number of women elected to Latin American legislatures has grown significantly over the past thirty years. This increase in the number of women elected to national office is due, in large part, to gender-friendly electoral rules such as gender quotas and proportional electoral systems, and it has, in turn, fostered constituent support for representative democracy. Still, this book argues that women are gaining political voice and bringing women's issues to state agendas, but they are not gaining political power. Women are marginalized by the male majority in office and relegated to the least powerful committees and leadership posts, hindering progress toward real political equality.In Political Power and Women's Representation in Latin America, Leslie Schwindt-Bayer examines the causes and consequences of women's representation in Latin America. She does so by asking a series of politically relevant and theoretically challenging questions, including why the numbers of women in office have increased in some countries but vary across others; what the presence of women in office means for the way representatives legislate; and what consequences the election of women bears for representative democracy more generally.Schwindt-Bayer articulates a comprehensive theory of women's representation that analyzes and connects trends in relation to four facets of political representation: formal, descriptive, substantive and symbolic. She then tests this theory empirically using aggregate data from all eighteen Latin American democracies and original fieldwork in Argentina, Colombia and Costa Rica. Ultimately, this book communicates the complex and often incomplete nature of women's political representation in Latin America.

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OUP USA

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0199731950

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9780199731954

The Works of Samuel Richardson

Vol. VI

By: Leslie Stephen,Samuel Richardson

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The Works of Samuel Richardson

Vol. VI

By: Leslie Stephen,Samuel Richardson

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385340578

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9783385340572

Love Song

A Novel

By: Leslie Tonner

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Love Song

A Novel

By: Leslie Tonner

Set in the world of classical music and opera in the 1970s, Love Song is the story of a marriage between young, rising stars that is wrenchingly affected by a young prodigy and by the specter of a serious illness. Moving from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera to the glamour and wealth of Paris and Venice and its titled patrons, Love Song tells how triumph can rise from tragedy, in the face of impossible odds.

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Open Road Media

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1504009355

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9781504009355

Cheap Bibles

Nineteenth-Century Publishing and the British and Foreign Bible Society

By: Leslie Howsam

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Cheap Bibles

Nineteenth-Century Publishing and the British and Foreign Bible Society

By: Leslie Howsam

The story of the British and Foreign Bible Society - a publisher and Victorian social institution.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521522129

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9780521522120

The One Year Love Talk Devotional for Couples

By: Les Parrott,Leslie Parrott

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The One Year Love Talk Devotional for Couples

By: Les Parrott,Leslie Parrott

Offering wisdom and insights for applying biblical truths to our relationships, this book encourages couples to connect and communicate every day. This practical, uplifting guide is perfect for busy couples who long to experience a stronger relationship and better communication. Easy-to-follow daily readings focus on loving each other the way God loves us.

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Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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141436573X

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Blood Money

By: John Leslie Evans

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Blood Money

By: John Leslie Evans

Los Angeles Police Department homicide detectives, Joe Kellermann and his partner, Mike Rodriguez, are drawn into a baffling case, when top Hollywood television producer, Jonathan Barry vanishes without a trace. As the story unfolds, the detectives soon become enmeshed in a web of lust, passion, betrayal and murder-for-hire. Evidence soon leads to nightclub owner, Tony Caruso, who is the alleged connection between the two hired killers and Barrys wife, Diane. Police are shocked when Caruso himself is found dead in his Hollywood Hills home. Was it suicide or homicide? This is a story of violence, blackmail and murder. A taut, fast-moving tale that probes the sordid and seamy comers of the City of Angels--a city on the dark side of the sun.

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AuthorHouse

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1410771040

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The Complete Dangerous Davies

By: Leslie Thomas

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The Complete Dangerous Davies

By: Leslie Thomas

As plain-clothes men go, Dangerous Davies looks like a non-starter. The small fry of petty larceny and minor disturbances in the backwaters of north-west London are his daily round. His philosophising Welsh drinking companion Mod, his outsized and unruly dog Kitty, his quarrels with his landlady Mrs Fulljames - none of these bodes well for the efficient solving of crimes and outwitting of villainy. But Davies is encouraged by his beautiful friend Jemma, and every so often he stumbles upon something really big. Gathered together for the first time in one volume, here are Leslie Thomas's three books about the most endearing comic hero he has ever created.

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Random House

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1446472167

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Governing by Virtue

Lord Burghley and the Management of Elizabethan England

By: Norman Leslie Jones

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Governing by Virtue

Lord Burghley and the Management of Elizabethan England

By: Norman Leslie Jones

Governing by Virtue asks how a monarchy with no police force, no standing army, and little bureaucracy could rule England in the second half of the sixteenth century. Queen Elizabeth was the supreme ruler, but her chief manager Lord Burghley depended heavily on the virtue and honour of the ruling classes to keep the peace and defend the realm.

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Oxford University Press (UK)

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0199593604

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Christmas Cookie Murder

By: Leslie Meier

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Christmas Cookie Murder

By: Leslie Meier

After one of the guests at Tinker's Cove's annual Christmas Cookie Exchange is found strangled, it's up to Lucy Stone to ensure that a cold-blooded killer gets his just desserts this holiday season. Reissue.

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Kensington Books

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0758228902

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9780758228901

Kelleys Island

The Courageous, Poignant & Often Quirky Lives of Island Pioneers, 1810-1861

By: Leslie Korenko

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Kelleys Island

The Courageous, Poignant & Often Quirky Lives of Island Pioneers, 1810-1861

By: Leslie Korenko

A comprehensive, richly detailed and surprisingly entertaining history of Kelleys Island, a small emote island in Lake Erie. Its history is told by the islanders, in their own words. You can read their correspondence, letters to newspapers as well as articles found in an incredible handwritten newspaper, the Islander.

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Leslie Korenko

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0981961215

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9780981961217

The Political Battle of the Sexes

Exploring the Sources of Gender Gaps in Policy Preferences

By: Leslie A. Caughell

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The Political Battle of the Sexes

Exploring the Sources of Gender Gaps in Policy Preferences

By: Leslie A. Caughell

Sex remains one of the most salient demographic dividing points in American politics today. President Obama has women, particularly unmarried women, to thank for his re-election victory. The gender difference in voter support for the Democratic and Republican presidential candidates grew from twelve points in 2008 to eighteen points in 2012. This gender gap in candidate preference likely emerges because of gender gaps in policy preferences. Yet despite much scholarly and popular interest in this topic, the cause or causes of gender gaps in policy preference remain unclear. The Political Battle of the Sexes: Exploring the Sources of Gender Gaps in Policy Preferences examines gender gaps in policy preferences in the United States, outlines their form, and explores their causes. This work makes four contributions to the literature on gender gaps. First, it provides the first comprehensive look at gender gaps across time and various issue areas completed since the 1980s. Second, it provides a theoretical framework for explaining the causes of gender gap emergence that incorporates both nature (biology) and nurture (socialization) and provides the basis with which to predict the attitudes on which gender gaps will likely emerge. Third, it explores the causes of gender gaps in foreign and social policy, two of the policy domains where gender gaps continue to increase. Finally, it introduces a new way of conceptualizing biology based on emerging research in the hard sciences. Studying gender gaps remains difficult. Women comprise a very diverse group, and are divided by far more factors than the sex categorization that unites them. However, electoral realities demand that scholars studying political behavior pay attention to sex based differences in political preferences. Women exhibit consistent preference tendencies relative to men, and women remain more likely to show up on Election Day than men. As such, gender gaps have substantial political and practical implications for women in the United States. And while explaining their causes requires drawing from a wide array of fields, ranging from biology to economics, understanding the origins and consequences of gender gaps does much to further empirical research in public opinion and mass behavior.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1498526519

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9781498526517

The Social Self and Everyday Life

Understanding the World Through Symbolic Interactionism

By: Kathy Charmaz,Scott R. Harris,Leslie Irvine

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The Social Self and Everyday Life

Understanding the World Through Symbolic Interactionism

By: Kathy Charmaz,Scott R. Harris,Leslie Irvine

An engaging text that enables readers to understand the world through symbolic interactionism This lively and accessible book offers an introduction to sociological social psychology through the lens of symbolic interactionism. It provides students with an accessible understanding of this perspective to illuminate their worlds and deepen their knowledge of other people’s lives, as well as their own. Written by noted experts in the field, the book explores the core concepts of social psychology and examines a collection of captivating empirical studies. The book also highlights everyday life—putting the focus on the issues and concerns that are most relevant to the readers’ social context. The Social Self and Everyday Life bridges classical theories and contemporary ideas, joins abstract concepts with concrete examples, and integrates theory with empirical evidence. It covers a range of topics including the body, emotions, health and illness, the family, technology, and inequality. Best of all, it gets students involved in applying concepts in their daily lives. Demonstrates how to use students’ social worlds, experiences, and concerns to illustrate key interactionist concepts in a way that they can emulate Develops key concepts such as meaning, self, and identity throughout the text to further students’ understanding and ability to use them Introduces students to symbolic interactionism, a major theoretical and research tradition within sociology Helps to involve students in familiar experiences and issues and shows how a symbolic interactionist perspective illuminates them Combines the best features of authoritative summaries, clear definitions of key terms, with enticing empirical excerpts and attention to popular ideas Clear and inviting in its presentation, The Social Self and Everyday Life: Understanding the World Through Symbolic Interactionism is an excellent book for undergraduate students in sociology, social psychology, and social interaction.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118645375

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9781118645376

Update in Ultrasound, An Issue of Radiologic Clinics of North America, E-Book

By: Leslie M. Scoutt

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Update in Ultrasound, An Issue of Radiologic Clinics of North America, E-Book

By: Leslie M. Scoutt

This issue of Radiologic Clinics, edited by Leslie Scoutt, concentrates on the latest updates in ultrasound. Articles include: 3D Sonography in Gynecologic Imaging; Elastography; Evaluation of Pelvic Masses; Evaluation of the First Trimester; Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound of the Liver and Kidney; Interpreting Lower Extremity Non Invasive Physiological Studies; Sonography in Thyroid Cancer; Evaluation of Pelvic Pain; Evaluation of the Renal Transplant; Extracranial Carotid Ultrasound Imaging; Sonographic Evaluation of Palpable Superficial Masses; Fetal CNS; Evaluation of Diffuse Liver Disease; Evaluation of Scrotal Masses; Lower Extremity Venous Ultrasound Examination; and more!

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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032332679X

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9780323326797

Assembling for Development

The Maquila Industry in Mexico and the United States

By: Leslie Sklair

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Assembling for Development

The Maquila Industry in Mexico and the United States

By: Leslie Sklair

First published in 1989, this book focuses upon the phenomenon of export-led industrialisation fuelled by foreign investment and technology. He concentrates on Mexico, where US companies have been taking advantage of inexpensive labour to establish "maquila" factories that assemble US parts for export. Through this detailed study of the maquila industry, Sklair charts the progress from the political imperialism of colonial days to the economic imperialism of today.

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Routledge

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1136856641

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9781136856648

Principles of Behavioural Analysis

By: Julian C. Leslie

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Principles of Behavioural Analysis

By: Julian C. Leslie

First published in 1996. The field of behavior analysis began with the research studies of B.F. Skinner in the 1930s. In 1950, Keller and Schoenfeld published Principles of Psychology. It was the first text to present the basic principles of behavior analysis in a systematic fashion. While continuing to cite and describe the seminal articles in the field, in this book Leslie also includes clear presentations of new findings. The systematic presentation of these findings enables the author to provide laboratory based accounts of increasingly complex forms of human behavior, instead of plausible extrapolations which were the only option available at an earlier time. The Principles of Behavior Analysis does not sacrifice sweep for detail, and also does not sacrifice adequate presentation of basic principles for oversimplification.

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Psychology Press

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1135056056

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9781135056056

The Risk in Crime

By: Leslie W. Kennedy,Erin Gibbs Van Brunschot

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The Risk in Crime

By: Leslie W. Kennedy,Erin Gibbs Van Brunschot

For 100 years, Wood's Homes has offered a lifeline to children and their families who have nowhere else to turn. A multiservice, non-profit children's mental health organization based in Calgary, Wood's Homes serves communities throughout Alberta and in the Northwest Territories. In honour of the 100th anniversary of Wood's Homes in 2014, this collection of 100 stories celebrates the deep and lasting impact the organization has had on those who have lived and worked there. The stories--sometimes quirky, sometimes raw, but always coming from the heart--also reveals the dramatic changes in the needs of young people and their communities over the last century.

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1442200545

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