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Crime, Inequality and Power
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 394

Crime, Inequality and Power

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-04-10
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Crime, Inequality and Power challenges the dominant definitions of crime and the criminal through its uniquely comparative approach. In this book Eileen Leonard analyzes multiple forms of criminal behavior in the United States, including violence, sexual assault, theft, and drug law violations, whilst also asking readers to consider the parallels between crimes that are rarely thought comparable. Leonard’s juxtaposition of familiar street crimes, such as car theft, alongside large-scale corporate theft, vividly exposes profound inequalities in the way crime is defined, and the treatment it receives within the criminal justice system. Leonard’s analysis also reveals the underlying inequal...

Details
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 256

Details

A behind-the-scenes stylist for Domino magazine presents a guide to creating fashionable interiors that are marked by distinctive accessories, from children's books and refinished furnishings to accent pillows and tasteful vases.

Principles
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 560

Principles

#1 New York Times Bestseller “Significant...The book is both instructive and surprisingly moving.” —The New York Times Ray Dalio, one of the world’s most successful investors and entrepreneurs, shares the unconventional principles that he’s developed, refined, and used over the past forty years to create unique results in both life and business—and which any person or organization can adopt to help achieve their goals. In 1975, Ray Dalio founded an investment firm, Bridgewater Associates, out of his two-bedroom apartment in New York City. Forty years later, Bridgewater has made more money for its clients than any other hedge fund in history and grown into the fifth most important...

Observing Photons in Space
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 726

Observing Photons in Space

An ideal resource for lecturers, this book provides a comprehensive review of experimental space astronomy. The number of astronomers whose knowledge and interest is concentrated on interpreting observations has grown substantially in the past decades; yet, the number of scientists who are familiar with and capable of dealing with instrumentation has dwindled. All of the authors of this work are leading and experienced experts and practitioners who have designed, built, tested, calibrated, launched and operated advanced observing equipment for space astronomy. This book also contains concise information on the history of the field, supported by appropriate references. Moreover, scientists working in other fields will be able to get a quick overview of the salient issues of observing photons in any one of the various energy, wavelength and frequency ranges accessible in space. This book was written with the intention to make it accessible to advanced undergraduate and graduate students.

Questioning Beneficence
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 189

Questioning Beneficence

Effective Altruism is a movement and a philosophy that has reinvigorated the debate about the nature of beneficence. At base, it is the consistent application of microeconomic principles to beneficent action. The movement has exposed that many forms of giving do little good (or do active harm), but others do tremendous good. Questioning Beneficence uses Effective Altruism as a launch pad to ask hard questions about beneficence more generally. Must we be Effective Altruists, or are Effective Altruism and the ideas driving the movement a mistake? How much should we give—if anything— and how should we give it? What are the respective roles of different kinds of institutions? Is charity anti...

Advances in Plant Breeding Strategies: Industrial and Food Crops
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 749

Advances in Plant Breeding Strategies: Industrial and Food Crops

This book examines the development of innovative modern methodologies towards augmenting conventional plant breeding, in individual crops, for the production of new crop varieties under the increasingly limiting environmental and cultivation factors to achieve sustainable agricultural production, enhanced food security, in addition to providing raw materials for innovative industrial products and pharmaceuticals. This is Vol 6, subtitled Industrial and Food Crops, which consists of two parts. Included in Part I are 11 industrial plant species utilized as sources of raw materials for the production of industrial products including pulp and wood crops (acacia), fiber (cotton, jute and ramie), ...

Handbook of Research on AI and Knowledge Engineering for Real-Time Business Intelligence
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 383

Handbook of Research on AI and Knowledge Engineering for Real-Time Business Intelligence

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023-04-04
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  • Publisher: IGI Global

Artificial intelligence (AI) is influencing the future of almost every sector and human being. AI has been the primary driving force behind emerging technologies such as big data, blockchain, robots, and the internet of things (IoT), and it will continue to be a technological innovator for the foreseeable future. New algorithms in AI are changing business processes and deploying AI-based applications in various sectors. The Handbook of Research on AI and Knowledge Engineering for Real-Time Business Intelligence is a comprehensive reference that presents cases and best practices of AI and knowledge engineering applications on business intelligence. Covering topics such as deep learning methods, face recognition, and sentiment analysis, this major reference work is a dynamic resource for business leaders and executives, IT managers, AI scientists, students and educators of higher education, librarians, researchers, and academicians.

Carjacked: The Culture of the Automobile and Its Effect on Our Lives
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 269

Carjacked: The Culture of the Automobile and Its Effect on Our Lives

Carjacked is an in-depth look at our obsession with cars. While the automobile's contribution to global warming and the effects of volatile gas prices are is widely known, the problems we face every day because of our cars are much more widespread and yet much less known -- from the surprising $14,000 per year that the average family pays each year for the vehicles it owns, to the increase in rates of obesity and asthma to which cars contribute, to the 40,000 deaths and 2.5 million crash injuries each and every year. Carjacked details the complex impact of the automobile on modern society and shows us how to develop a healthier, cheaper, and greener relationship with cars.

The Palgrave Handbook of Blue Heritage
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 501

The Palgrave Handbook of Blue Heritage

This handbook is unique in its consideration of social and cultural contributions to sustainable oceans management. It is also unique in its deconstruction of the hegemonic value attached to the oceans and in its analysis of discourses regarding what national governments in the Global South should prioritise in their oceans management strategy. Offering a historical perspective from the start, the handbook reflects on the confluence of (western) scientific discourse and colonialism, and the impact of this on indigenous conceptions of the oceans and on social identity. With regard to the latter, the authors are mindful of the nationalisation of island territories worldwide and the impact of t...

Statement of Disbursements of the House
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1640

Statement of Disbursements of the House

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2003-10
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Covers receipts and expenditures of appropriations and other funds.

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