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Rethinking Social Justice
Aboriginal Studies Press 2013; US$ 31.99In the early 1970s, Australian governments began to treat Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders as "peoples" with capacities for self-government. Forty years later, confidence in Indigenous self-determination has been eroded by accounts of Indigenous pathology, misplaced policy optimism, and persistent socio-economic gaps. This record accounts for... more...
The American Dream
Oxford University Press 2002; US$ 19.99This work discusses the reality of the ambiguous but galvanizing concept of the American Dream, a concept that for better and worse has proven to be amazingly elastic and durable for hundreds of years and across racial, class, and other demographic lines. more...
Policing, Race Racism
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 44.95Over recent years race has become one of the most important issues faced by the police. This book seeks to analyse the context and background to these changes, to assess the impact of the Lawrence Inquiry and the MacPherson Report, and to trace the growing emphasis on policing as an 'antiracist' activity, proactively confronting racism in both crime... more...
Are Prisons Obsolete?
Seven Stories Press 2011; US$ 11.95With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case for the latest abolition movement in American life: the abolition of the prison. As she quite correctly notes, American life is replete with abolition movements, and when they were engaged in these struggles, their chances of success seemed almost unthinkable.... more...
The Politics of the Common Law
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 56.95The Politics of the Common Law offers a critical introduction to the legal system of England and Wales. Unlike other conventional accounts, this revised and updated second edition presents a coherent argument, organised around the central claim that contemporary postcolonial common law must be understood as an articulation of human rights and open... more...
The Lost Art of Drawing the Line
Random House Publishing Group 2001; US$ 22.95The Lost Art of Drawing the Line will appall and irritate ? and entertain ? readers every bit as much as Philip Howard?s first book. Why is it that no one can fix the schools? Why do ordinary judgements fill doctors with fear? Why are seesaws disappearing from playgrounds? Why has a wave of selfish people overtaken America? In our effort to... more...
Fiscal Challenges
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 36.00Explores the problems of budget policy and reform in Congress, on the state level, and within the European Union. more...
Hot Property
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2007; US$ 26.95The problem of pirating and counterfeiting has grown from small-scale imitations of Levi?s jeans and Zippo lighters to a phenomenon that costs the United States an estimated $200 billion dollars per year. Pirated DVDs, computer software, designer clothes, and machinery flood global markets, inflicting heavy losses on U.S. businesses, while counterfeit... more...
Regulating Modern Biotechnology in a Global Risk Society
Amsterdam University Press 2005; US$ 10.50Vice-Chancellor, Ladies and Gentlemen, It has been observed that there are three historical events of equal importance.1 Event one is the creation of the Universe, which all of us will agree was a significant event. more...
Das Fußballstrafrecht des Deutschen Fußball-Bundes (DFB)
De Gruyter 2009; US$ 168.00The football criminal law of the DFB is presented for the first time in a commentary on the legal regulations and rules of procedure (RuVO) of the DFB and includes explanations of the arbitration proceedings pertaining to football as well as other regulatory measures. This work considers legislation relating to matters of football, material criminal... more...









