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Stalking Crimes and Victim Protection: Prevention, Intervention, Threat Assessment, and Case Management
CRC Press 2001; US$ 139.95This text covers all the angles of stalking, from the psychology to the legal ramifications. With topics such as how to investigate stalking and related crimes, legal analysis and evidence, this guide serves as a useful reference for legal, medical, mental health, and law enforcement professionals. more...
I, Tania
ECW Press 2007; US$ 13.95America lies in ruins during an age of decline, despair, and death. The year is 1975 and a radical far-left group has kidnapped a young woman from one of America's richest families. Using the memoir format just enough to spin off into a crazed, bawdy, and seditious charge through pop culture and politics, this is a highly fictionalized true story... more...
Ronald Reagan, My Father
ECW Press 2010; US$ 13.95Startlingly original, these hilariously offbeat storylines blend vivid characters with bleakly comical plots that are both human and uncanny. Each memorable characterincluding the elderly who take to the streets at night for illegal and cathartic electric scooter racing, a copy editor who suffers brain damage from West Nile virus and is suddenly... more...
Portable Altamont
Coach House Books 2011; US$ 11.95Deliciously wicked satires about local and international celebrities, the poems in Portable Altamont evince an irrepressible grasp of the zeitgeist, its machinations and manipulations, its possibilities and puerility. Who other than artist and raconteur Brian Joseph Davis could have imagined Margaret Atwood as a human beatbox, Jessica Simpson applying... more...
Historical Dictionary of the Cold War
Scarecrow Press 2000; US$ 94.99Covering an extensive period and much of the globe, this dictionary presents a year-by-year chronology and alphabetical entries on civilian and military leaders, crucial countries and peripheral conflicts, the increasingly lethal weapons systems, and the various political and military strategies. more...
Language: Communication and Human Behavior
BRILL 2011; US$ 251.00In these newly edited, annotated, and contextualized foundational linguistic works, many previously unpublished, the late William Diver of Columbia University radically analyzes language as a structure shaped by communicative function and by characteristics of its human users. more...
Knowledge Management
Springer 2005; US$ 79.99This book includes a collection of stimulating papers that address the critical knowledge management issues at the interface between the organization and information technology. They are authored by established researchers in the KM field and successful consultants and practising managers. more...
Sociopolitical Perspectives on Language Policy and Planning in the USA
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1999; US$ 180.00This volume is the result of a colloquium on socio-political dimensions of language policy and language planning held at the 1997 American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL) Conference. The focus is on language planning and policy in the USA, but the issues raised will be applicable to other parts of the world as well. Three broad issues are... more...
Advances in Functional Linguistics
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2006; US$ 188.00This collection carries the functionalist Columbia School of linguistics forward with contributions on linguistic theory, semiotics, phonology, grammar, lexicon, and anthropology. Columbia School linguistics views language as a symbolic tool whose structure is shaped both by its communicative function and by the characteristics of its users, and considers... more...
Teaching History with Big Ideas
R&L Education 2010; US$ 31.99The case studies in this book describe the decisions and plans and the problems and possibilities middle and high school history teachers encountered as they ratcheted up their instruction through the use of big ideas, which offered both teacher and students opportunities to explore historical actors, ideas, and events in rich and engaging ways. more...









