Northup's account provides extensive details on the slave markets in Washington, D.C. and New Orleans, and describes at length cotton and sugar cultivation and slave treatment on major plantations in Louisiana.The work was published eight ...

"No other book captures it so well, understands so well.... "—Greil Marcus Bob Spitz takes his place... among the most able chroniclers of the many myths, poses and postures of the middle-class Jewish boy from Minnesota and his dogged and ...

Report presents a series of analyses and recommendations for fostering the role of culture for sustainable development.

This book provides an essential introduction to the complex issues and debates in the field of crime control and the new politics of safety and security across the globe.

The Handbook offers a concise overview of the main considerations to be taken into account in planning and implementing crime prevention strategies and interventions.

Do citizen and police initiatives have any impact on the incidence and fear of crime? This volume brings together studies of several community crime prevention programmes that were introduced in major US cities.

The Oxford Handbook of Urban Politics is an authoritative volume on an established subject in political science and the academy more generally: urban politics and urban studies.

The Ruins of Us is a timely story about intolerance, family, and the injustices we endure for love that heralds the arrival of an extraordinary new voice in contemporary fiction.

From bicycle stands configured to prevent theft to pharmaceutical packaging that thwarts counterfeiters, the authors fuse crime science and design practice to point the way forward for a new generation of crime-proofed objects used in ...