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Daniel Mears Wins 2010 PASS Best Book Award from the NCCD
Congratulations to Daniel Mears, co-winner of the 2010 Prevention for a Safer Society (PASS) best book award from The National Council on Crime and Delinquency (NCCD).
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"An essential reference work for the study of Ireland."- Library Journal
See for yourself why the Dictionary of Irish Biography is invaluable!
Religion and Conflict in Modern South Asia
Religion and Conflict in Modern South Asia is one of the first single-author comparisons of different South Asian states around the theme of religious conflict. Based on new research and syntheses of the literature on 'communalism', it argues that religious conflict in this region in the modern period was never simply based on sectarian or theological differences or the clash of civilizations. The book proposes that the connection between religious radicalism and everyday violence relates to the actual (and perceived) weaknesses of political and state structures.
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Educations in Ethnic Violence
In Educations in Ethnic Violence, Matthew Lange explores education's impact on ethnic violence, highlighting the role that social context plays. Lange contradicts the widely-held belief that education promotes peace and tolerance. Rather than deterring violence, Lange finds that education commonly contributes to aggression. He employs a cross-national statistical analysis with case studies of Sri Lanka, Cyprus, the Palestinian territories, India, sub-Saharan Africa, Canada, and Germany.
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Exploratory Social Network Analysis with Pajek
- 2nd Edition
This is an extensively revised and expanded second edition of the successful textbook on social network analysis integrating theory, applications, and network analysis using Pajek. This edition features a new chapter, instructions on exporting data from Pajek to R software, and updated descriptions and screen shots for working with Pajek (version 2.03).
- $110.00 (C)
Inequality
This textbook reflects a hybrid approach to studying stratification. It addresses the knowledge accumulated by stratification scholars and challenges students to apply this information to their social world. The authors include a wide variety of topics and provide current research to round out their discussions. Each chapter includes a list of key concepts, questions for thought, suggested exercises, and multimedia resources.
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Poverty, War, and Violence in South Africa
In Poverty, War, and Violence in South Africa, Clifton Crais explores the relationship between nineteenth-century colonial conquest and rural poverty over the course of nearly two centuries of rapid historical change. Instead of abstract models of economic change, Crais reconstructs the ways people remade their lives admid violence and the demands of the colonial state. He offers a detailed examination of warfare and its impact, including European-generated famines, and explores the impact of conflict on the crops Africans farmed and the way they entered into colonial markets. Poverty, War, and Violence in South Africa offers a radically new interpretation of rural history with implications for the study of poverty around the world.
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Faith and Money
Wealth can have extraordinary advantages. High levels of wealth can enhance educational attainment, create occupational opportunities, and provide a buffer against financial emergencies. Although the benefits of wealth are significant, they are not enjoyed uniformly throughout the United States. In the United States, because religion is an important part of cultural orientation, religious beliefs should affect material well-being. This book explores the way religious orientations and beliefs affect Americans' incomes, savings, and net worth.
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Collective Killings in Rural China during the Cultural Revolution
Although it was one of the monumental events in the world's communist history, the Cultural Revolution remains one of the most understudied political mass movements. This book will reshape the scholarship on the Cultural Revolution, both because of its stark treatment of political violence and its focus on events in the Chinese countryside. Past models of mass killings conceptualize them as an outcome of state policies. But as the case in rural China demonstrates, genocide depends on the dynamics of local communities.
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The Drug Effect
The Drug Effect offers new perspectives on critical debates in the field of alcohol and other drug use.
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Adolescent Vulnerabilities and Opportunities
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