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Twentieth-Century Influences on Twenty-First-Century Policing argues that to fully understand contemporary American policing, we must first understand its historical origins in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s. Such a historical grounding is further employed to consider where policing is heading now in the twenty-first century.

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Comparing the British and Dutch experience of mass society in the twentieth century, this book considers five major areas: politics, welfare, media, leisure, and youth culture. Drawing on history, cultural studies and sociology, it offers insights into the development of modern European society.

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Focusing on specific case studies within the Italian, English and North American literary communities, spanning from 'authoritative' translations of poets by poets to the role of dialect poetry and anthologies of poetry, this book looks at the role of translation in the development of poetic languages and in the construction of poetic canons.

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This reference is a guide to major trends and developments in rhetoric and rhetorical theory during the last 100 years.

Included are alphabetically arranged entries for major and minor rhetoricians, such as Mikhail Bakhtin, Roland Barthes, Wayne Booth, Paul de Man, Jacques Derrida, Peter Elbow, and Linda Flower.

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Kuypers, King, and their contributors explore the conception of rhetoric of eleven key American rhetoricians through analyses of their life's work. In so doing, this work dispels the myth that the discipline of Speech Communication was spawned from a monolithic and rigid center that came to be called neo-Aristotelianism.

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An overview of all aspects of American teen life in the twentieth century, from 1900 to 1999.

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While federal action on immigration faces an uncertain future, states, cities and suburban municipalities craft their own responses to immigration. Twenty-First-Century Gateways focuses on the fastest-growing immigrant populations in metropolitan areas with previously low levels of immigration.

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The only full-length book on Mary McCarthy that is not a biography, this volume contains discussions of McCarthy as a member of the New York intelligentsia, her search for a just and ethical political philosophy, and the paradox of her views on feminism.

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Now everyone can learn what the U.S. government knew about Saudi society, and when they knew it.

After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, many intelligence failures have come to light.

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An epic adventure adapted from the classic novel by Michael Murpurgo, author of the acclaimed smash hit "War Horse." This version is the adaptation from Simon Reade.

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During the Second World War, the United States benefited greatly from the espionage collaboration between a well-connected ex-professor of economics, Erwin Respondek, and his contact at the U.S. embassy in Berlin, Sam Woods.

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Follow mischievous Peter Rabbit and Friends in this special adaptation by Adrian Mitchell, one of Britain's foremost poets and dramatists.

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Tavard takes up the question of the genesis and development of modern Catholic ecumenism.

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First published by Macmillian in 1964, this volume is designed to introduce students to a wider range of Latin poetry than they would encounter in a simple author prescription. There are extensive notes on language and content, an introduction on metre and a full vocabulary.

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Valone has selected 71 documents that have either defined America's place in the world or reflected a significant episode in the history of U.S. foreign affairs.

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A comparative study of two first and second (A.D.) century Chinese poets, Pan Ku and Chang Heng, and an illumination of Han Dynasty life and thought through the poets' major compositions.

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Two plays from two German playwrights. This collection, published by Oberon Books, is translated by David Tushingham and Meredith Oakes. Includes the plays The Man Who Never Yet Saw Woman's Nakedness and Warweser