Over the last two decades, there has been increased interest in the distribution of crime and other antisocial behavior at lower levels of geography. The focus on micro geography and its contribution to the understanding and prevention of crime has been called the 'criminology of place'. It pushes scholars to examine small geographic areas within cities, often as small as addresses or street segments, for their contribution to crime. Here, the authors describe what is known about crime and...

This monograph explains what economic analysis is, why it is important, and forms it can take in policing and criminal justice. Costs are important in all forms of economic analysis but their collection tends to be partial and inadequate in capturing key information. A practical guide to the collection is therefore also provided.

Written by experienced expeditioners, the handbook is organized in to eight main sections and includes information on fieldcraft, diagnosis and treatment of medical problems encountered during an expedition (divided anatomically), environmental hazards, crisis management and issues to be dealt with after returning home. It also covers basic information about how to plan for an expedition, how to keep the expedition members healthy, how to diagnose and manage their medical problems in remote e...

In 1977, when the Voyager deep space probes were launched on their journey into interstellar space, they each carried a gold record containing music from a wide variety of cultures. Of the four selections of American music chosen, one was a recording of Texas street evangelist “Blind” Willie Johnson’s haunting gospel song, “Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground.”Despite Johnson’s recording taking its place among the works intended to represent human culture to the cosmos, his lif...

Fully revised for its third edition, the Oxford Handbook of Expedition and Wilderness Medicine continues to be the essential resource for all expedition medics and well-informed travellers, as well as nurses, paramedics, medical students, and other expedition members travelling in remote, wilderness areas of the world. Now containing more guidance about caving medicine, the third edition includes revised and additional illustrations and essential maps of the spread of diseases. Cl...

Wer liebt, hat Recht!Die Scheidungszahlen steigen. Gleichzeitig wächst die Sehnsucht nach einer gelungenen und wärmenden Partnerschaft. Doch sind wir Menschen überhaupt gemacht für die ewige Liebe, von der wir alle träumen? Ja, sagt Sue Johnson, absolut! In »Liebe macht Sinn« verweist sie auf revolutionäre neue wissenschaftliche Studien, die alle das eine belegen: Wir sind von Natur aus monogam veranlagt und zur Bindung bereit. Eine dauerhafte, liebevolle Beziehung...

This is a small book about positive vibes and affirmations to make you believe in yourself.

Play and Performance offers hope to those lamenting the loss of play in the twenty-first century and aims to broaden the understanding of what play is. This volume showcases the work of programs from early childhood through adulthood, in a variety of educational and therapeutic settings, and from a range of theoretical and practical perspectives. The chapters cover an array of practices that can be seen across the play to performance continuum. Taken together, the myriad ways that play is ...

The study of how the environment, local geography, and physical locations influence crime has a long history that stretches across many research traditions. These include the neighborhood effects approach developed in the 1920s, the criminology of place, and a newer approach that attends to the perception of crime in communities. Aided by new technologies and improved data-reporting in recent decades, research in environmental criminology has developed rapidly within each of these approach...

Experience the Nightmare of a Perfect WorldWelcome to America: where every school child is completely healthy; where an all-embracing church speaks only of unconditional love and acceptance; where diseases once thought beyond reach have been conquered; and where those who have lost loved ones receive soothing messages of hope.Yet beneath the surface of this seeming utopia lies a horrifying darkness.In a world long since reshaped in...

The law is clear: remarry or lose the throne.But it says nothing about love.My husband is dead, and I’m the prime suspect. As if that wasn’t bad enough, the law requires I marry by the end of the season, or I lose my kingdom.I followed my heart the first time; I won’t do it again.The old tournament tradition could help me select our next king while protecting my broken heart, but I never expected a close friend of my husband’...

The paths of perception are thrown open, and new realities loom beyond – all that is left to do is to cross the passageway.New adventures, friends and foes, and whole worlds out there; all of that is being promised to those who cross the threshold. Without any guarantees, or without knowing what's out there, we want to follow the journeys of those who dare to go beyond.In the fifth Sans. PRESS anthology, 15 writers explore what it means to face transformation – what ...