Wolfe Island begins with the emergence of islands at the end of the last ice age and moves through the many centuries of First Nations habitation to the era of French exploration and the fur trading, the arrival of the earliest British settlers and the United Empire Loyalists, up to current time.The development and decline of industry, the evolution of facilities, land title frustrations, and the emergence of a strong sense of identity among the inhabitants are featured, a...

Coletânea de 15 ensaios que revisitam o pensamento de Darcy Ribeiro, reunindo intelectuais de diversas áreas em diálogos sobre educação, desigualdade, democracia, povos indígenas, meio ambiente e universidade, reafirmando a atualidade de suas ideias para o Brasil contemporâneo.

La petite et la grande histoire des plus grandes et des plus emblématiques familles qui ont su transmettre et valoriser un patrimoine viticole devenu inestimable.De la Romanée-Conti à Bollinger en passant par Antinori ou Torres, les grandes dynasties concentrent entre leurs mains quelques-uns des plus beaux vignobles d'Europe. Depuis des siècles, leurs nectars font rêver les amateurs de très grandes bouteilles et régalent les puissants de ce monde. Depuis des génér...

Le cycle parasitaire des trypanosomes, fléau majeur pour la santé animale et humaine en Afrique subsaharienne, peut être interrompu par une lutte contre leurs vecteurs : les glossines. Pour être compatible avec les moyens techniques et financiers des populations rurales, cette lutte doit être la plus ciblée possible sur le plan spatial. Les zones à risques peuvent être précisément identifiées au moyen des données analysées par le Système d'information géographique (SIG).

In Crime Prevention: Programs, Policies, and Practices, criminologists Steven E. Barkan and Michael Rocque present a well-rounded exploration of evidence-based policies, programs, and practices. Grounded in criminological theory and emphasizing the social, psychological, and biological roots of crime, this text presents current research, perspectives, and examples that capture the key crime prevention concepts students should understand, including the public health model f...

IL faut jetter un coup-d’œil sur la position où se trouvoit la France il y a quelques années, si l’on veut apprécier la situation dans laquelle le Gouvernement de Bonaparte a placé cet empire. Quoique les Français soient encore trop près de leurs erreurs pour oser les envisager, il peut être utile d’en rappeler la mémoire. Ce souvenir est douloureux ; mais le calme s’embellira de toutes les horreurs de la tempête, et nous jouirons à-la-fois de nos maux et de nos espérances.Fruit d’...

This book represents a brief treatise on the theory and research behind the concept of desistance from crime. This ever-growing field has become increasingly relevant as questions of serious issues regarding sentencing, probation and the penal system continue to go unanswered. Rocque covers the history of research on desistance from crime and provides a discussion of research and theories on the topic before looking towards the future of the application of desistance to policy.The ...

The Baroque excesses of the early eighteenth century inspired a rebellion among a consortium of British architects and their patrons. Taking their cue from the Renaissance works of Andrea Palladio, these Neo-Palladians returned the direction of British architecture toward classical principles. The Vitruvius Britannicus (British Vitruvius) reflects their vision, offering magnificent copperplate engravings of great English country houses and public buildings.The sequel to Dov...

Ants came to this planet long before man. Since then they have developed one of the most intricate civilizations imaginable – a civilization of great richness and technological brilliance. During the few seconds it takes you to read this sentence, some 700 milli0on ants will be born on earth…Edmond Wells had studied ants for years: he knew of the power which existed in their hidden world. On his death, he leaves his apartment to his nephew Jonathan with one proviso: that he must no...

Um relato magistral de como uma minúscula cidade-estado na Grécia Antiga, com apenas 200 mil habitantes, se tornou uma das civilizações mais influentes da história.Este livro conta como Atenas, em um espaço de 200 anos, nos séculos V e IV antes de Cristo, transformou o mundo – da revolução democrática, que marcou o seu início, passando pela idade de ouro política e cultural da cidade, até o seu declínio. Respeitado autor de biografias, Anthony Everitt contrói seu l...

A lively, up-to-date overview of the newest research in biosocial criminologyWhat is the relationship between criminality and biology? Nineteenth-century phrenologists insisted that criminality was innate, inherent in the offender’s brain matter. While they were eventually repudiated as pseudo-scientists, today the pendulum has swung back. Both criminologists and biologists have begun to speak of a tantalizing but disturbing possibility: that criminality may be inh...

Biosocial criminology—and biosocial criminologists—focuses on both the environmental and biological factors that contribute to antisocial behavior. Importantly, these two domains are not separate parts of an equation but pieces of the same puzzle that fit together for a complete picture of the causes of crime/antisocial behavior.Fitting the Facts of Crime applies a biopsychosocial lens to the “13 facts of crime” identified by John Braithwaite in his classic book, Crime...