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  • Living Parallel

    This novel about conflicts of conscience explores an unusual love triangle of a man, a woman, and the Czech countryside. Finally winning the heart of an artist named Olga, a woman he first fell in love with 20 years earlier, Mikuláš must now make a decision between her and his homeland.Mikuláš is an architect who has spent his career designing prefab high-rise apartment blocks in Prague, when his ... Read more

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  • The Behavioral Science of Firearms

    A Mental Health Perspective on Guns, Suicide, and Violence

    Series series American Psychology-Law Society Series
    The Behavioral Science of Firearms focuses on applying behavioral science principles and knowledge to inform and improve firearm-related policy, practice, and research. The authors provide comprehensive coverage of relevant case law and legal statutes, as well as issues pertaining to violence, suicide, and gun safety. Additional topics include civilian firearm ownership suitability; considerations ... Read more

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  • Forensic Psychology and Law

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  • The Department of Missing Persons

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    A startling debut novel about the burden of Holocaust memory and the implacable zest for life.Thirty-six years after her mother was liberated from Bergen-Belsen, the unnamed narrator lives a comfortable life in Paris. Her mother sees ghosts at every turn, longing to find the family that disappeared behind the miasma of the Holocaust, but she cannot reconcile her mother’s trauma to the cheery ... Read more

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    Court, Law Enforcement, and Correctional Practices

    Introduction to Forensic Psychology, Third Edition, has been completely restructured to explain in greater detail how courses on forensic psychology are taught, making it more applicable as a textbook than previous editions. It also features more figures, tables and text boxes, making it a true textbook. What this book has that others do not is equal representation of criminal behavior, the court ... Read more

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  • Speak, Memory

    An Autobiography Revisited

    Series series Vintage International
    From one of the 20th century's great writers comes one of the finest autobiographies of our time. • "Scintillating … One finds here amazing glimpses into the life of a world that has vanished forever." —The New York TimesSpeak, Memory was first published by Vladimir Nabokov in 1951 as Conclusive Evidence and then assiduously revised and republished in 1966. Nabokov's memoir is a moving account of ... Read more

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  • The Future of Crime and Punishment

    Smart Policies for Reducing Crime and Saving Money

    Today, we know that crime is often not just a matter of making bad decisions. Rather, there are a variety of factors that are implicated in much criminal offending, some fairly obvious like poverty, mental illness, and drug abuse and others less so, such as neurocognitive problems. Today, we have the tools for effective criminal behavioral change, but this cannot be an excuse for criminal ... Read more

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  • Too Loud a Solitude

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  • Visitation

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    A bestseller in Germany, Visitation has established Jenny Erpenbeck as one of Europe’s most significant contemporary authors.A forested property on a Brandenburg lake outside Berlin lies at the heart of this darkly sensual, elegiac novel. Encompassing over one hundred years of German history, from the nineteenth century to the Weimar Republic, from World War II to the Socialist German Democratic ... Read more

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