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Reducing Drug Trafficking Revenues and Violence in Mexico
Would Legalizing Marijuana in California Help?
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
U.S. demand for illicit drugs creates markets for Mexican drug- trafficking organizations (DTOs) and helps foster violence in Mexico. This paper examines how marijuana legalization in California might influence DTO revenues and the violence in Mexico.
by Aaron S. Allen, Martin Bemmann, Hannes Bergthaller
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
The volume offers a survey of the contribution of German literature and culture to the evolution of ecological thought. As the field of ecocritical theory and practice is rapidly expanding towards transnational and global dimensions, it seems nevertheless necessary to consider the distinct manifestations...
On New Shores
Understanding Immigrant Fathers in North America
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2008
Over the past several decades, researchers as well as social policymakers and educators have acknowledged the importance that fathers play in their children's lives. A good deal of research on fathering has been conducted among Euro-American families in North America. However, our understanding of...
Viewpoints on Media Effects
Pseudo-reality and Its Influence on Media Consumers
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
Viewpoints on Media Effects: Pseudo-reality and Its Influence on Media Consumers continues the ongoing research of media effects by illuminating not only the negative effects of media consumption, but also some of the pro-social aspects, with a special focus on social media. Recommended for scholars...
by Dr. Nora Hämäläinen
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Literature and Moral Theory investigates how literature, in the past 30 years, has been used as a means for transforming the Anglo-American moral philosophical landscape, which until recently was dominated by certain ways of "doing theory†?. It illuminates the unity of the overall agenda of...
Social Psychology
The Study of Human Interaction
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
Combining the efforts of sociologists and psychologists, this work, originally published in 1952 and revised in 1966, embraces these two disciplines to show how social-psychological problems must be viewed in individual as well as general terms. Human interaction is, therefore, the main theme of this...
by Tony Xhudo M.S., H.N.
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
The only reference book you will ever need! Get the invaluable information on protein powders without having to pay a fortune!Take this reference book to the vitamin store or keep it handy while shopping online. Once you get the correct protein powder to add to your regimen you will be amazed at you...
by H.J.M. Bowen, T. Frevert, W.D. Grant
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Environmental Chemistry is a relatively young science. Interest in this subject, however, is growing very rapidly and, although no agreement has been reached as yet about the exact content and limits of this interdisciplinary discipline, there appears to be increasing interest in seeing environmental...
Forensic Neuropathology
A Practical Review of the Fundamentals
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2011
Forensic Neuropathology provides superior visual examples of the more commonly encountered conditions in forensic neuropathology and answers questions that arise regarding neuropathological findings. The work includes values for frequently-encountered clinical assessments, and contains a more comprehensive...
The Methodology of Political Economy
Studying the Global Rural–Urban Matrix
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
The importance of the global rural-urban matrix is often overlooked due to urban-normativity. But sometimes agrarian populism and a pastoral rural imaginary result in the equally fallacy of a rural-normativity, as in Jeffersonian nostalgia for a lost way of life that never existed. The nature of rurality...
Developing Africa
Concepts and practices in twentieth-century colonialism
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Investigates development in British, French and Portuguese colonial Africa during the last decades of colonial rule
The Unresolved National Question in South Africa
Left thought under apartheid and beyond
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
The re-emergence of debates on the decolonisation of knowledge has revived interest in the National Question, which began over a century ago and remains unresolved. Tensions that were suppressed and hidden in the past are now being openly debated. Despite this, the goal of one united nation living...
by Professor Luanna H. Meyer, Dr. William John M. Evans
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2012
Build a positive, accountable classroom environment with restorative discipline!
Used together with The School Leader’s Guide to Restorative Discipline, this teacher’s guide shows how to implement a positive approach to classroom discipline based on shared expectations of behavior, contributing...
Money and the Church in Medieval Europe, 1000-1200
Practice, Morality and Thought
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Bringing together essays from experts in a variety of disciplines, this collection explores two of the most important facets of life within the medieval Europe: money and the church. By focusing on the interactions between these subjects, the volume addresses four key themes. Firstly it offers new...