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Introduction to Policing
SAGE Publications 2008; US$ 58.00A groundbreaking new core introductory text on policing. more...
Race & Crime
SAGE Publications 2012; Not AvailableMike Rowe has brought the issues of race and crime bang up to date in this compelling, accessible, pedagogically informed book. more...
Wild Fell
HarperCollins Canada 2013; US$ 14.99A man with a father dying of Alzheimer?s purchases an old mansion on an island in Georgian Bay with the intention of turning it into a guest house. But he soon discovers that the house?s tragic history is inextricably linked with that of the town, and that more is waiting for him than the ghost of his own past. A classic English haunted house story,... more...
Collaboration and Resistance in Napoleonic Europe
Palgrave Macmillan 2003; US$ 145.00In this fascinating study Michael Rowe focuses on state-formation in Napoleonic Europe. It brings together the research findings of specialists in the histories of Europe's constituent nations and states during a momentous period in their development. Thematically focused and integrated within a comparative framework, the individual contributions explore... more...
Bonds of the Dead
University of Chicago Press 2011; US$ 29.00Despite popular images of priests seeking enlightenment in snow-covered mountain temples, the central concern of Japanese Buddhism is death. For that reason, Japanese Buddhism’s social and economic base has long been in mortuary services—a base now threatened by public debate over the status, treatment, and location of the dead. Bonds... more...
Materials, Preparation, and Characterization in Thermoelectrics
CRC Press 2012; US$ 119.95This book includes updated theoretical considerations which provide an insight into avenues of research most likely to result in further improvements in material performance. It details the latest techniques for the preparation of thermoelectric materials employed in energy harvesting, together with advances in the thermoelectric characterisation of... more...
Modules, Systems, and Applications in Thermoelectrics
CRC Press 2012; US$ 119.95With contributions from leading experts, this book begins with an overview of thermoelectric nanotechnology, setting the scene for the topics covered in the rest of the volume. It provides a comprehensive review of the progress made in the development of modules and their application in devices. The book highlights dramatic advances in miniaturization... more...
Racism and Anti-racism in Football
Palgrave Macmillan 2001; US$ 40.00This book explores the key issues of racism, anti-racism and identity in British football. It relates the history of black players in the game, analyses the racism they have experienced, and evaluates the efficacy of anti-racist campaigns. The efficacy of the policing of racism is also assessed. The nationalism and xenophobia evident in much of the... more...
Trust in Health Care Organizations, Volume 20, Issue 5
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006; US$ 199.00This e-book examines the notion of trust in a healthcare setting - from the micro level of trust between an individual patient and clinician, between one clinician and another, or between a clinician and a manager; to the macro level which includes patient and public trust in clinicians and managers, healthcare organizations or healthcare systems in... more...
Trust Matters in Health Care
McGraw-Hill Education 2008; US$ 200.00Has increasing patient self-management changed trust relations with health professionals, potentially requiring a more equal relationship based on mutual trust? This book provides a theoretical and policy analysis of the nature, salience and impact of trust on relations between patients, clinicians, and health service managers. more...









