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The ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding, and freely available to read online.In recent decades the video games industry has grown astronomically, quickly becoming a substantial part of our everyday lives. Alongside the rise of this technology, the media, academia and, in some cases, governments, have drawn correlations between video games and serious instances of violence, focusing most notably on mass shootings. This n...

Are you the kind of person who watches crime drama and real-life crime documentaries on television? Are you fascinated by the twists and turns of justice and the law? But how much do you really know about key issues in crime, crime control, policing and punishment in the UK?This exciting, dynamic and accessible book, written by leading experts, presents 50 key facts related to crime and criminal justice policy in Britain. Did you know that, contrary to public belief, in the UK a li...

From the Alcatraz East Crime Museum and Jack the Ripper guided tours to the Phnom Penh killing fields, ‘dark tourism’ is now a multi-million-pound global industry. Even in the most pleasant tourist destinations, underlying harms are constantly perpetuated, affecting both consumers and those who work or live around such tourist hotspots. Highlighting 50 travel destinations across six continents, expert criminologists, psychologists and historians explore the past and contemporary issues whi...

The corona-virus global pandemic is here. Back to normal could be a matter of years. Giving to churches is plummeting. So is the economy, leaving church members with less to give. Many congregations are forecast to go out of business. The survival of our churches is at stake. As church leaders scratch their heads to figure out how to triage the church's declining income, this book provides guidance for how to fund the church's mission and ministry during a global pandemic of unknown length...

The Ports, Harbours, Watering-places and Picturesque Scenery of Great Britain (Vols. 1 & 2) is a richly illustrated survey of Britain's maritime and coastal identity, moving from busy commercial docks to fashionable resorts, fishing towns, ruined castles, cliffs, bays, and estuaries. Its prose combines topographical description, antiquarian notice, and picturesque sentiment, while the engraved views place it within the early nineteenth-century culture of illustrated travel books, where lan...

Vladimir Putin: Authoritarianism and Anti-Americanism gathers analytical perspectives on the ideological, strategic, and rhetorical foundations of contemporary Russian power. Framed by questions of authoritarian governance, nationalist legitimacy, and opposition to American influence, the volume examines how Putin-era politics have reshaped domestic institutions and international alignments. Its style is policy-oriented yet scholarly, combining historical interpretation, strategic assessme...

The Witchcraft Delusion in New England (Vol. 1–3) gathers foundational writings on the Salem witch trials and the broader crisis of belief, law, and providential interpretation in late seventeenth-century New England. Moving between sermons, documentary narration, polemic, legal testimony, and retrospective controversy, the collection reveals how supernatural fear was translated into public authority. Its most arresting materials juxtapose defenses of spectral evidence and clerical interpr...

Simon Dubnow's History of the Jews in Russia and Poland (Vol. 1–3) is a monumental account of Jewish life from early settlement and medieval communal organization through the partitions of Poland, tsarist domination, pogroms, emancipation debates, and modern political awakening. Written in a lucid, documentary style, it combines archival narrative with moral interpretation, placing Jewish communal autonomy, suffering, and resilience within the broader currents of Eastern European history. ...

Mia's tough. A fighter. She's been fighting her entire life. When she was a child, she fought her older sister—Debra. Later, she fought Joyce, her mama. Now, most days, she has to fight the feelings of self-loathing and doubt that accompany her through the halls of John L. LeFlore.A year ago, at Phillips Prep, Mia was part of the "in crowd," mostly because she had been friends with Chandra Thomas since elementary. But things are changing, and Mia is slowly falling out of Chandra's ...

Young Andre Mitchell is a gifted football player who is adept at dodging tackles and dodging trouble. In junior high he was a star. But now—in high school—Dre must not only make the grade in the classroom, he must hold his own on the field and in the streets.At John L. LeFlore, Dre is a small fish in a pond full of piranhas. He's uncertain if new love interests can be trusted, or if old puppy love can mature. All of this becomes even more complicated when a run-in with local thugs ...

Tracey is an honor student, a teacher's pet, and the only black grandchild of the mulatto Kauffman Family. After generations of carefully-chosen mates, the Kauffmans have diluted just about every trace of Africa out of them. That is, unti Tracey's doting father went against his mother's wishes and married a smart, ambitious girl with beautiful ebony skin and features that call to a black man like West-African djembe drums.Tracey takes after her mother, at least when it comes to ski...

This fourth edition of Transnational Institute's renowned annual State of Power report seeks to examine different dimensions of power, unmask the key holders of power in our globalised world, and identify sources of transformative counter-power.The essays are an insightful analysis of globalised power today, covering an impressive breadth of themes, from corporate law to the dominance of the financial sector, from big mining to food speculation. They also bring to the fore social s...