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Transport and Development in the Third World
Routledge 1996; US$ 45.95This volume presents a balanced review of transport provision and the development process in the Third World, and provides a comprehensive survey of possible transport solutions and their implications. more...
Fifty Key Thinkers on Development
Taylor and Francis 2005; US$ 31.95The essential guide to the world?s most influential development thinkers, this authoritative text presents a unique guide to the lives and ideas of leading contributors to the contested terrain of development studies. Reflecting the diverse, interdisciplinary nature of the area, the book includes entries on: * modernisers like Hirshman,... more...
Self-Healing Through Visual and Verbal Art Therapy
Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2005; US$ 29.95Drawing on Freud's and Winnicott's work on psychoanalysis and play, R.M. Simon illustrates the healing power of art-making with the drawings and stories of seven-year-old Joe, who succeeds in overcoming the trauma of family break-up by expressing his emotional turmoil outside the formal therapeutic process. more...
Homicide
Henry Holt and Co. 2007; US$ 20.99From the creator of HBO?s The Wire , the classic book about homicide investigation that became the basis for the hit television show The scene is Baltimore. Twice every three days another citizen is shot, stabbed, or bludgeoned to death. At the center of this hurricane of crime is the city?s homicide unit, a small brotherhood of hard men... more...
The Corner
Canongate Books 2009; US$ 12.49The crime-infested intersection of West Fayette and Monroe Streets is well-known--and cautiously avoided--by most of Baltimore. But this notorious corner's 24-hour open-air drug market provides the economic fuel for a dying neighborhood. David Simon, an award-winning author and crime reporter, and Edward Burns, a 20-year veteran of the urban drug war,... more...
Homicide
Canongate Books 2008; US$ 12.49The scene is Baltimore. Twice every three days another citizen is shot, stabbed or bludgeoned to death. At the centre of this hurricane of crime is the city?s homicide unit, a small brotherhood of hard men who fight for whatever justice is possible in a deadly world. David Simon was the first reporter ever to gain unlimited access to... more...
L'identité de l'Église dans les Actes des apôtres
De Gruyter 2010; US$ 210.00The present monograph is the slightly modified publication of a doctoral thesis in theology presented in November 2009 at the University of Lausanne (CH). It results from a pressing question in New Testament: an appraisal of the relationship of the work of Luke, more precisely of his Acts of the Apostles, to the Jewish faith. This problem, to which... more...
Changing Architectural Education
Taylor and Francis 2000; US$ 95.00Architectural education is under pressure to meet the demands of an evolving construction industry and to cater to the increasingly varied career destinations of graduates. How should architectural education respond to these professional challenges? How can students be better prepared for professional practice? These questions are the focus of this... more...
The Appeal of Internal Review
Hart Publishing Limited 2003; US$ 93.60Why do most welfare applicants fail to challenge adverse decisions despite a continuing sense of need?. The book addresses this severely under-researched and under-theorised question. Using English homelessness law as their case study,the authors explore why homeless applicants did -- but more often did not -- challenge adverse decisions by seeking... more...
Music Therapy and Traumatic Brain Injury
Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2008; US$ 36.95Gilbertson and Aldridge demonstrate how music therapy can be used to attend to the holistic, rather than purely functional, needs of people affected by severe head trauma. This book will give clinicians key notes for practice and a vision of the integral role music therapy can have in the successful rehabilitation from brain injury. more...









