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  • The Garden Upon the Snake

    The Greatest Lie Ever Told

    by Michael L. Pittman ...
    For centuries, humanity has searched outward for its enemy—scanning the world, the heavens, and the unseen. Yet Scripture suggests a more unsettling truth: the serpent was never outside the garden. The serpent is the internal landscape shaped by fear, justification, and self-deception.The Garden Upon the Snake invites readers into a fearless examination of the inner world they have avoided. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    Opportunities and Challenges of Social Work with Rural Communities

    Edited by Michael R. Daley, Peggy Pittman-Munke ...
    Rural Americans comprise an estimated 18 per cent of the US population and represent roughly 59 million people. Counter to many popularly held beliefs, rural communities can be less than ideal places to live. While these areas may have great natural beauty, they tend to be older, poorer, face healthcare challenges, and have older housing, among other social problems. On top of that, small ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Organic Acids in Geological Processes

    Edited by Edward D. Pittman, Michael D. Lewan ...
    In May of 1991, Victor Van Buren, who was then with Springer Verlag in New York City, asked us for timely topics in the earth sciences that would be appropriate for publication as a book. We all quickly agreed that recent interest and research activity on the role of organic acids in geological processes would make a timely book on this diverse and controversial topic. As coeditors, we outlined ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Some Western Pioneers in Asian Martial Arts

    An Anthology

    by Michael DeMarco, Allen Pittman, Graham Noble, Robert W. Smith, Russ Mason, Steven C. Brown, Jeffrey Barlow, Morgan Day ...
    “Pioneer” — as a noun is defined as “a person who is among the first to explore or settle a new country or area.” As a verb, it means “develop or be the first to use or apply (a new method, area of knowledge, or activity).” This anthology gives the reader the experience of the explorers who went to foreign lands to discover and learn about a specific field of knowledge and skills:the Asian martial ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Discretion, Community, and Correctional Ethics

    by Heather Barr, Audrey J. Bomse, Derek R. Brookes, Todd R. Clear, William C. Heffernan, Zelma Weston Henriques, Michael Jacobson, Kenneth Kipnis, John P. Pittman, Polly Ashton Smith, Joseph V. Williams, Kevin N. Wright ...
    Some two million Americans are in jail or in prison. Except for the occasional exposZ, what happens to them is hidden from the rest of us. Is it possible to develop and instill a professional ethic for prison personnel that, in partnership with formal regulatory constraints, will mediate relations among officers, staff, and inmates, or are the failures of imprisonment as an ethically-constrained ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Wow Wow and Haw Haw

    by George Murray ...
    Illustrated by Michael Pittman ...
    Acclaimed poet George Murray and award-winning painter Michael Pittman team up for their first-ever childrens’ picture book. Wow Wow the fox pup has learned a lot about the hows and whys of being a fox. He knows how to hunt and hide, and he’s very proud of his red and white and black fur. But he doesn’t know much about fleas, until the day he wakes up feeling very, very itchy. Haw Haw the crow ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    $33.99 USD

  • Basic Concepts in Criminology

    Handbook for Law Enforcement Personnel (Police, Corrections and Security Officers)

    by Asongwe N. Thomas ...
    Basic Concepts in Criminology is an introduction to criminology. It is intended to serve as resource material for prospective students of criminology and particularly for law enforcement officers in training and in the field. Criminology as a social science discipline is structured from a combination of concepts of sociology, psychology, and lawall relevant subjects to the law enforcement ... Read more

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  • Punishing Race

    A Continuing American Dilemma

    by Michael Tonry ...
    Series series Studies in Crime and Public Policy
    How can it be, in a nation that elected Barack Obama, that one third of African American males born in 2001 will spend time in a state or federal prison, and that black men are seven times likelier than white men to be in prison? Blacks are much more likely than whites to be stopped by the police, arrested, prosecuted, convicted, and imprisoned, and are much less likely to have confidence in ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • For the Children?

    Protecting Innocence in a Carceral State

    by Erica R. Meiners ...
    “Childhood has never been available to all.” In her opening chapter of For the Children?, Erica R. Meiners stakes the claim that childhood is a racial category often unavailable to communities of color. According to Meiners, this is glaringly evident in the U.S. criminal justice system, where the differentiation between child and adult often equates to access to stark disparities. And what is ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Politics of Law and Order: Street Crime and Public Policy

    by Stuart A. Scheingold ...
    Foundational and renowned study of how politicians and others use crime rates—and most of all the public perception of street crime, whether or not it is accurate—for their own purposes. Dr. Scheingold also provides a theoretical and historical basis for his views. The follow-up to the landmark The Politics of Rights, this book is both supported in research and accessible and interesting to ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Imprisoning Communities

    How Mass Incarceration Makes Disadvantaged Neighborhoods Worse

    by Todd R Clear ...
    Series series Studies in Crime and Public Policy
    At no time in history, and certainly in no other democratic society, have prisons been filled so quickly and to such capacity than in the United States. And nowhere has this growth been more concentrated than in the disadvantaged--and primarily minority--neighborhoods of America's largest urban cities. In the most impoverished places, as much as 20% of the adult men are locked up on any given day, ... Read more

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