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Maritime Security: International Law and Policy Perspectives from Australia and New Zealand
Maritime Security: International Law and Policy Perspectives from Australia and New Zealand

Maritime security is of vital importance to Australia and New Zealand as both countries depend on maritime transport for their economic survival. Since the events of September 11th 2001, significant questions have been raised as to whether Australia and New Zealand are adequately prepared for the consequences of a major disruption to...

China's Drug Practices and Policies: Regulating Controlled Substances in a Global Context
China's Drug Practices and Policies: Regulating Controlled Substances in a Global Context

In the context of global efforts to control the production, distribution, and use of narcotic drugs, China's treatment of the problem provides an important means of understanding the social, political, and economic limits of national and international policies to regulate drug practices. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, China was...

Localizing the Moral Sense: Neuroscience and the Search for the Cerebral Seat of Morality, 1800-1930
Localizing the Moral Sense: Neuroscience and the Search for the Cerebral Seat of Morality, 1800-1930

Due to the current revolution in brain research the search for the “moral brain” became a serious endeavour. Nowadays, neural circuits that are indispensable for moral and social behaviour are discovered and the brains of psychopaths and criminals - the classical anti-heroes of morality - are scanned with curiosity, even...

The Renegade Hunter: A Rogue Hunter Novel
The Renegade Hunter: A Rogue Hunter Novel

The Argeneau family has a secret . . . one of their own is a rogue vampire!

Nicholas Argeneau was once a successful hunter who went after rogue vampires who broke the immortal law. Except no one has mentioned his name in the last fifty years, not since he turned into a rogue himself. But once a hunter, always a hunter. When...

Encyclopedia of Pulp Fiction Writers (Literary Movements)
Encyclopedia of Pulp Fiction Writers (Literary Movements)

From the early days of dime novels to contemporary mass-market paperbacks, pulp fiction is a vital part of popular culture. This volume offers a survey of the scores of well-known and unsung heroes of popular literature. It seeks to cover the entire spectrum of pop literature's greatest entertainers and artists; the multimillion-copy...

The Execution of Willie Francis: Race, Murder, and the Search for Justice in the American South
The Execution of Willie Francis: Race, Murder, and the Search for Justice in the American South
On May 3, 1946, in St. Martinsville, Louisiana, a seventeen-year-old black boy was scheduled for execution by electric chair. Willie Francis had been charged with murder; his trial had been brief; his death sentence never in doubt. When the executioners flipped the switch, Willie screamed and writhed as electricity coursed through his body....
Web2Py Manual
Web2Py Manual

I am guilty! After publicly complaining about the existence of too many Python based web frameworks, after praising the merits of Django, Pylons, TurboGears, CherryPy, and web.py, after having used them professionally and taught them in University level courses, I could not resist and created one more: web2py.

Why did I commit such...

Principles of Cybercrime
Principles of Cybercrime

We live in a digital age. The proliferation of digital technology, and the convergence of computing and communication devices, has transformed the way in which we socialise and do business. While overwhelmingly positive, there has also been a dark side to these developments. Proving the maxim that crime follows opportunity, virtually every...

Serial Killer Investigations
Serial Killer Investigations

In 1977, FBI Special Agent Robert Ressler first used the term ‘serial killer’ after a visit to Bramshill Police Academy, near London, where someone referred to a ‘serial burglar’. The inspired coinage was soon in general use to describe killers such as necrophile Ed Kemper (ten victims), schizophrenic Herb Mullin (14),...

Critical Survey of Mystery and Detective Fiction
Critical Survey of Mystery and Detective Fiction

This is a comprehensive survey of mystery and detective fiction that covers more than 390 writers and includes overviews on more than three dozen aspects of the genre.Continuing the Salem Press tradition of "Critical Survey" series, "Critical Survey of Mystery and Detective Fiction, Revised Edition" provides detailed...

The Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health: Infancy Through Adolescence
The Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health: Infancy Through Adolescence

The safety of children is potentially at risk from accidents and injuries, as well as crime. Providing a safe environment, putting prevention measures into practice, and teaching children methods of self-protection are all ways to reduce the potential for harm to children.

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Accidents are the leading cause of...

Elements of Computer Security (Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science)
Elements of Computer Security (Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science)

As our society grows ever more reliant on computers, so it also becomes more vulnerable to computer crime. Cyber attacks have been plaguing computer users since the 1980s, and computer security experts are predicting that smart telephones and other mobile devices will also become the targets of cyber security threats in the future.

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