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The Handbook of Homicide (Wiley Handbooks in Criminology and Criminal Justice)

John Wiley & Sons, 2017

The Handbook of Homicide presents a series of original essays by renowned authors from around the world, reflecting the latest scholarship on the nature, causes, and patterns of homicide, as well as policies and practices for its investigation and prevention.

Includes comprehensive coverage of the complex phenomenon...

Uber Brave New Service or Unfair Competition: Legal Analysis of the Nature of Uber Services (Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice)

Springer, 2019

This book analyzes the legal issues connected with the provision of Uber-related services. It primarily focuses on the various contractual and non-contractual relationships that occur during the use of Uber applications, especially with reference to Uber headquarters (Uber App), Uber branch offices (advertisements), Uber partner...

A Sociology of Shame and Blame: Insiders Versus Outsiders

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

This book presents a novel approach to framing the concept of stigma, and understanding why and how it functions.

Graham Scambler extends his analysis beyond common social interactionist understandings of stigma by linking experiences to the larger social structure?the political economy. A Sociology of...

EU Influence Beyond Conditionality: Turkey Plus/Minus the EU

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

This book presents an in-depth analysis of the role played by the EU accession process in Turkey’s democratic evolution and in the empowerment of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in the early 2000s. Often moving against the grain of consolidated analytical positions, the author finds that the accession process can have a critical...

Stabilising the Contemporary Middle East and North Africa: Regional Actors and New Approaches (Middle East Today)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

This book examines the changing dynamics of stabilisation efforts in the Middle East and North Africa. Written by recognised scholars and practitioners in the field, this volume provides a rich overview of the broader spectrum of stabilisation. The topics range from a comprehensive set of lessons learned in Afghanistan and Iraq to transitional...

Between Deontology and Justice: Chinese and Western Perspectives (Routledge Studies in Contemporary Chinese Philosophy)

Routledge, 2019

In China, political philosophy is still a comparatively new academic discipline. While there is no such phrase as “political philosophy” in ancient Chinese texts, there are elements within them that could be considered part of that field. Central questions of Chinese ancient political philosophy include the legitimacy of...

Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do

Springer, 2019

"A fascinating new book... [Dr. Jennifer Eberhardt is] a genius."—Trevor Noah, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah

"Poignant....important and illuminating."—The New York Times Book Review

"Groundbreaking."—Bryan Stevenson, New York Times...

Siege: Trump Under Fire

Springer, 2019

Michael Wolff, author of the bombshell bestseller Fire and Fury, once again takes us inside the Trump presidency to reveal a White House under siege.

Just one year into Donald Trump’s term as president, Michael Wolff told the electrifying story of a White House consumed by controversy, chaos, and...

Good Kids, Bad City: A Story of Race and Wrongful Conviction in America

Picador, 2019

From award-winning investigative journalist Kyle Swenson, Good Kids, Bad City is the true story of the longest wrongful imprisonment in the United States to end in exoneration, and a critical social and political history of Cleveland, the city that convicted them.

In the early 1970s, three African-American...

Free All Along: The Robert Penn Warren Civil Rights Interviews

New Press, 2019

Featured in the New Yorker’s “Page-Turner”

One of Mashable's “17 books every activist should read in 2019”

“This is an expression not of people who are suddenly freed of something, but people who have been free all along.”...

Just Eat It: How intuitive eating can help you get your shit together around food

blue bird uk, 2020

Review: Truly life-changing . It's about trusting your appetite - something that shouldn't be radical, yet something many women (including myself) see as a hugely daunting task. (Dolly Alderton); Laura is a passionate and intelligent voice of new thinking, a fire starter of the revolution in how we think about food, eating and our...

Linguistic Legitimacy and Social Justice

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

This book examines the nature of human language and the ideology of linguistic legitimacy – the common set of beliefs about language differences that leads to the rejection of some language varieties and the valorization of others. It investigates a broad range of case studies of languages and dialects which have for various reasons been...

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