Rosemary: 955 books
Women, Crime and Criminal Justice
A Global Enquiry
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
Women, Crime and Criminal Justice is the winner of the Division of International Criminology’s Distinguished Book Award 2014 and the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences International Section's 2015 Outstanding Book Award and the first fully internationalised book to focus on women as offenders,...
by Ann Rosemary Christys
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Our current image of the Christian population of al-Andalus after AD711 reflects the way history has been written. The Christians almost disappeared from the historical record as the historians of the conquering Muslims concentrated on the glories of the Ummayads.This book reconsiders, through their...
Gerontological Social Work Practice
Issues, Challenges, and Potential
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
What are the challenges facing gerontological social workers—today and in the near future?
This book gives you an essential overview of the role, status, and potential of gerontological social work in aging societies around the world. Drawing on the expertise of leaders in the field, it identifies...
Writing for Animals
New perspectives for writers and instructors to educate and inspire
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
A unique anthology of articles and essays to inspire animal-themed creative writing
Despite all we know about the sentience of animals, society tends to view and treat nonhuman animals as lesser creatures. And for society to change its views, writers must change their views. We must look closely...
by Rosemary George
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2003
Known traditionally for its dramatic landscapes, the South of France is becoming one of the most vibrant and exciting of French vineyard areas. Every key wine area is covered from Banyuls on the Spanish border to the island of Corsica. The key wine producers and their wines are featured, with details...
by Rosemary Heim
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Silent memories unlock simmering passions
He found her on the beach with no memory and a gun
FBI Agent Ryan Williams had a soft spot for women in distress and this one was a textbook example. He’d come to Paradise for some R and R-instead he took in a beautiful stranger with killers on her...
by Rosemary Shirley
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Through the lens of the everyday, this book explores ’the countryside’ as an inhabited and practised realm with lived rhythms and routines. It relocates the topography of everyday life from its habitually urban focus, out into the English countryside. The rural is often portrayed as existing outside...
Canadian Cultural Heritage Bundle
Louis Riel / Harriet Tubman / Simon Girty
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
Presenting three titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada’s history. In these three books we explore the cultural heritage that is at the roots of Canada’s present-day multicultural society. In the lives of abolitionist Underground Railway hero Harriet Tubman;...
Canadian Cultural Heritage 4-Book Bundle
Molly Brant / Louis Riel / Harriet Tubman / Simon Girty
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2015
Presenting four titles in the Quest Biography series profiling prominent figures in Canada’s history. In these four books, we explore the cultural heritage at the roots of Canada’s present-day multicultural society. In the lives of abolitionist Underground Railway hero Harriet Tubman, Metis revolutionary...
by Rosemary Klich, E. Scheer
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2011
How do performers and artists use media technologies to create live events? How have developments in audio-visual technology changed the relationship between the spectator and the performer? How can performance respond to the technology-saturated consciousness of contemporary culture? What are the...
Good Luck Life
The Essential Guide to Chinese American Celebrations and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Good Luck Life is the first book to explain the meanings of Chinese rituals and to offer advice on when and how to plan for Chinese holidays and special occasions such as Chinese weddings, the Red Egg and Ginger party to welcome a new baby, significant birthdays, and the inevitable funeral. Packed...
Beyond the Glitz & Glamour of Las Vegas
Death & Addiction
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
A true story of a woman whose worst nightmare comes true with the loss of one of her children. The authors only son, Andrew, is brutally and senselessly murdered in Las Vegas Nevada at the age of twenty-one. Through out the capture, trial, and sentencing of her sons murderer, Rose preservers. After...
by Lisa Blomgren Bingham, Rosemary O'Leary
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
The world of public management is changing dramatically, fueled by technological innovations such as the Internet, globalism that permits us to outsource functions anywhere in the world, new ideas from network theory, and more. Public managers no longer are unitary leaders of unitary organizations...
Jamestown
A History of Narragansett Bay's Island Town
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2010
Jamestown, Rhode Island's history has been formed--both for good and ill--by its geography. The town officially encompasses three islands in Narragansett Bay--Conanicut, Dutch and Gould--plus a number of small islets known as "dumplings." Jamestown was part of the larger world when merchants and travelers...