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The Sixteenth Rail
Fulcrum Publishing 2013; US$ 16.95The Sherlock Holmes-like forensic scientist helped convict Bruno Hauptmann for the murder of Charles Lindbergh, Jr. more...
Do It! Marketing
AMACOM 2013; US$ 19.95Kick your business into high gear with this fast, fun, pull-no-punches guide. more...
Immigrant
Easton Studio Press, LLC 2013; US$ 9.99A Memoir Across the Atlantic I was born in 1932 in Yorkshire to parents who had survived World War I and had seen England change from an agricultural to an industrial country. A visiting American engineer changed our lives when he asked my mother to leave my father and accompany him to Spain, which she did, taking me with her. When World War II... more...
Justice Reinvestment
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 145.00Rising prison numbers on both sides of the Atlantic are cause for concern. Justice Reinvestment is a major movement in criminal justice reform in the US that is also attracting lots of interest in the UK. Justice Reinvestment is an approach to addressing the penal crisis that uses the best available evidence to re-direct resources to more effective... more...
The Northern Front
Saqi 2013; US$ 10.19This is the Iraq war as it really started, amid lies, confusion and profound distrust between the United States and its Iraqi allies. Charles Glass, who first covered the Kurds in 1974 and was in Iraq for their failed rebellion in 1991, depicts the tense epoch that sowed the seeds of America?s inevitable failure there. The Northern Front is the dramatic... more...
Second Line Rescue
University Press of Mississippi 2013; US$ 87.50Second Line Rescue: Improvised Responses to Katrina and Rita chronicles the brave and creative acts through which Gulf Coast people rescued their neighbors during the chaotic aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Ordinary citizens joined in with whatever resources they had. Unlike many of the official responders, vernacular rescuers found... more...
The Orphans' Nine Commandments
TCU Press 2013; US$ 15.95When Roger Bechan was six, his mother packed his suitcase and took him to the Oklahoma Society for the Friendless. He never saw her again. No wonder he and his orphan friends omit the tenth commandment?to "honor your father and mother." His long journey through three orphanages and several foster homes is recalled with surprising humor and insight.... more...
Ethics of Animal Use
Wiley 2013; US$ 77.99An interesting and accessible introduction to ethical issues raised by various forms of human use of animals. This textbook avoids moral lecturing and presents a range of ethical viewpoints without defending or applying any specific stance. Readers are encouraged and provoked to reflect for themselves, and to sharpen their own points of view regarding... more...
Social Work in the Middle East
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 135.00Countries across the Middle East face a number of social problems such as poverty, unemployment, housing, internal immigration and caring for vulnerable groups such as children, women, the disabled and the elderly. Providing an overview of the wide range of social issues addressed by social work practitioners, this book reveals the impact of the region?s... more...
Seeing Voices
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2013; US$ 15.00Like The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat , this is a fascinating voyage into a strange and wonderful land, a provocative meditation on communication, biology, adaptation, and culture. In Seeing Voices , Oliver Sacks turns his attention to the subject of deafness, and the result is a deeply felt portrait of a minority struggling for recognition... more...









