Immigration has expanded dramatically in both traditional and emerging receiving nations. This worldwide boom has profoundly altered urban areas as new arrivals have transformed inner cities and suburbs alike into bastions of new ethnic economic activity. Examining the essential role of space in assisting and modifying ethnic business activity, this book considers how ethnic economies are reshaping the urban landscape in the United States, Britain, Australia, Canada, Germany, and Italy. Ea...

Since the 1960s, the field of victimology has developed into a variegated discipline with its own theoretical and methodological traditions. In the early 1990s two texts were published—Towards a Critical Victimology (Fattah, 1992) and Critical Victimology (Mawby and Walklate, 1994)—that concretized critical victimology as a paradigm within victimology. Since then, the field has remained conceptually stale and with few a few exceptions there has not been a considerable lacuna of works from ...

‘De grootmacht onder de schrijvers van politiethrillers heet Michael Connelly. Meeslepend tot het eind, als altijd.’ AD MagazineDe nieuwe thriller van de schrijver van De nachtploeg, VN-Thriller van het Jaar 2018Ervaren verslaggever Jack McEvoy heeft eerder moordenaars ontmaskerd. Wanneer een vrouw met wie hij een onenightstand heeft gehad wordt vermoord, stuit hij op het meest geslepen criminele meester brein waarmee hij ooit in aanraking is geko...

The Lincoln Lawyer deel 8 van de boekenreeks. Bekijk de gelijknamige Netflix Original-serie voor nóg meer Mickey Haller!Meesterthrillerschrijver Michael Connelly keert terug met een nieuwe zaak voor Lincoln-advocaat Mickey Haller en oude bekende Jack McEvoyNa zijn ‘eerherstel’ richt Mickey Haller zich op de publieke zaak. Hij spant een civiele rechtszaak aan tegen een AI-bedrijf, waarvan de chatbot een zestienjarige jongen adviseer...

An accessible text that explains fundamental concepts in business statistics that are often obscured by formulae and mathematical notationA Guide to Business Statistics offers a practical approach to statistics that covers the fundamental concepts in business and economics. The book maintains the level of rigor of a more conventional textbook in business statistics but uses a more streamlined and intuitive approach. In short, A Guide to Business Statistics...

A collection of five essays from the 2020 Hubert Butler Essay Prize that examine contemporary society, featuring a foreword from Irish President Michael D. Higgins.Bringing together the winning and shortlisted essays from the 2020 Hubert Butler Essay Prize, Self and Society presents five fresh perspectives on the tension between individual freedom and communal solidarity, asking what we owe our communities and why it matters. With a foreword by Ireland’s P...

This title was first published in 2000: This text reports on the findings of the Communities Crime Survey, a communities-based survey carried out within Northern Ireland. The survey asked a number of questions beyond the usual remit of local crime surveys, in order to explore more fully a whole range of issues relating to the experience of living in a society where more obvious manifestations of conflict are beginning to recede and other more mundane but still important issues relating to ...

Evaluates the nature of the international governance of minority rights in the context of the enlargement of the European Union. This book examines the origin and development of the European Minority Rights Regime paying particular attention to the institutions, policies and actions of European organisations.

Climate change is one of the most pressing problems facing the global community. Although most states agree that climate change is occurring and is at least partly the result of humans’ reliance on fossil fuels, managing a changing global climate is a formidable challenge. Underlying this challenge is the fact that states are sovereign, governed by their own laws and regulations. Sovereignty requires that states address global problems such as climate change on a voluntary basis, by negoti...