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The Angry Earth
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 49.95This work takes a close look at disasters and the response of victims in the immediate aftermath and over the long-run. It demonstrates how disasters arise from human propensity to take risks which make them vulnerable to cataclysms, whether natural or technologically related. This collection is the first to adequately represent the cultural, historical... more...
Criminal Psychology
Charles C Thomas 2012; US$ 67.95Criminal psychology is the application of the principles of normal and abnormal psychology to the understanding, prediction, and control of criminal behavior. Criminal Psychology: Nature, Nurture, Culture provides an in-depth yet readable introduction to the foundations of criminal psychology as it is understood and practiced from the classroom to... more...
The Twins - Men of Violence
John Blake Publishing 2002; US$ 1.68Ron and Reg. Violent men who brought a code of honour to the streets that is still observed today. Their deaths bring to an end the golden era of gangsters whose word was law and whose ferocity maintained the order of the streets...Nobody knew the twins like Kate Kray. Married to Ron before his death, she was granted unique access into the shadowy... more...
Cutting It Out
The Floating Press 1911; US$ 5.95FIRST off, let me state the object of the meeting: This is to be a record of sundry experiences centering round a stern resolve to get on the waterwagon and a sterner attempt to stay there. It is an entirely personal narrative of a strictly personal set of circumstances. It is not a temperance lecture, or a temperance tract, or a chunk of advice, or... more...
Human Behavior in the Social Environment
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 94.95This bestseller is ideal for use in either one-semester or year-long generalist human behavior courses. Why? Because the text is concise and easily used in a one-semester course. But the text also comes with a companion set of readings and five unique cases that encourage your students to "learn by doing" and to apply their knowledge of human behavior... more...
Clinical Topics in Addiction
The Royal College of Psychiatrists 2007; US$ 48.00This work brings together 23 papers from the College's popular journal 'Advances in Psychiatric Treatment', which are then updated to give systematic, authoritative and well-referenced accounts of key clinical topics relating to substance misuse. It includes papers on various substances of misuse: opioids, stimulants, hallucinogens, alcohol and nicotine.... more...
The People of the Abyss
The Floating Press 1903; US$ 3.99The experiences related in this volume fell to me in the summer of 1902. I went down into the under-world of London with an attitude of mind which I may best liken to that of the explorer. I was open to be convinced by the evidence of my eyes, rather than by the teachings of those who had not seen, or by the words of those who had seen and gone before.... more...
Personalgewinnung
Diplomica Verlag 2009; US$ 24.81Um in Zeiten dynamischer Umwelt wettbewerbfähig zu bleiben und den Unternehmenserfolg zu sichern, besteht die Herausforderung eines modernen Personalmanagements zum einem darin, neue qualifizierte und motivierte Mitarbeiter auf dem externen Arbeitsmarkt zu beschaffen und zum anderen, strategisch wertvolle Mitarbeiter dauerhaft an das Unternehmen zu... more...
Soziale Arbeit und Systemtheorie
Diplomica Verlag 2008; US$ 35.59Die systemische Beratung ist ein inzwischen einschlägiger theoretischer und praktischer Wirkungsbereich der Sozialen Arbeit und in den verschiedensten Handlungsfeldern anzutreffen. Doch nicht überall hat das Systemdenken Einzug erhalten - sei es aus Gründen mangelnder finanzieller Möglichkeiten, fehlender Sachkenntnis, des Desinteresses oder der Ablehnung... more...
Herausforderung demographischer Wandel: Employer Branding als Chance für die Personalrekrutierung
Diplomica Verlag 2010; US$ 24.81Die prognostizierten demographischen Veränderungen werden die Rekrutierungsbedingungen aus Sicht der Unternehmen zunehmend verschärfen. Dementsprechend werden immer häufiger Bezeichnungen wie "competition for talent", "hunt for talent" oder gar "war for talent" im Kontext der Personalrekrutierung verwendet. Trotz dieser Entwicklung präsentieren sich... more...









