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An anthropologist speculates on the origins of bizarre and mysterious human lifestyles, customs, and institutions throughout history.

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This examination of the role of gender stereotyping in media coverage of executive elections uses nine case studies from around the world to provide a unique comparative perspective.

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Unlike any other book regarding September 11, 2001, this book employs metaphors across disciplines (psychology, music, history, literature, politics and physics among them) to show how the roots of terrorism reach to cultural motifs, or themes and principles.

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Since it was first published in 1993, Creating Minds has served as a peerless guide to the creative self. Now available as a paperback reissue with a new introduction by the author, the book uses portraits of seven extraordinary individuals to reveal the patterns that drive the creative process,and to demonstrate how circumstance also plays an indispensable role in creative success.

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LoCicero and Sinclair present cutting-edge research and theory about the political, social, and living conditions that raise the risk of children deciding to join organizations that use terrorist tactics, and, having joined, to volunteer for missions in which they intentionally die while causing death and destruction, in order to make an impact.

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LoCicero and Sinclair present cutting-edge research and theory about the political, social, and living conditions that raise the risk of children deciding to join organizations that use terrorist tactics, and, having joined, to volunteer for missions in which they intentionally die while causing death and destruction, in order to make an impact.

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Using anger energy constructively can release creative potential, and be liberating.

Ten years of research and workshops have honed the knowledge and skills of this author team, and here they guide us to taming our anger into a positive force.

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Views dissenting from the status quo in psychoanalysis are presented in four areas: Psychoanalysis and Early Dissidents, The Psychoanalytic Process, Psychoanalysis and Culture, and Psychoanalysis and Religion. The section on psychoanalysis and culture addresses an area rarely considered in psychoanalysis today, regardless of theoretical model.

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In his eye-opening book Why, world-renowned social scientist Charles Tilly exposed some startling truths about the excuses people make and the reasons they give. Now he's back with further explorations into the complexities of human relationships, this time examining what's really going on when we assign credit or cast blame. Everybody does it, bu

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Tells the tale of how a corner of medicine dating back to ancient times matured into modern forensic science. This title introduces readers to the cases and personalities across history, countries, and cultures. It helps them translate the popularity into the reality of forensic science and laboratory investigation.

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Illustrates how the genre has reflected our ideas of crime and crime solving through the decades. This work provides a history of detective and police shows on television, along with production histories of seminal programs, and interviews with some of the most important writers and producers of crime television.

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This expert analysis addresses the many interconnections between political violence and crime, including the transnational crimes of non-state actors and the international crimes of states.

How crime is defined goes to the heart of the boundaries drawn between legitimate and illegitimate use of force;

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It also contains two long book review essays, and 22 book reviews on major works that have appeared in the subject from the mid-1990s.

Knafla's introduction outlines the issues and themes that are contained in the essays and the reviews.

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This comprehensive analysis of garbage trafficking, wildlife trafficking, illegal fishing, and illegal logging highlights the difficulty in balancing human interests and environmental responsibility.

The alarming consequences of eco-crime go far beyond the widespread degradation of the natural world;

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Walters integrates information from traditional criminological models and findings from developmental psychology to form a system of five belief systems (self-view, world-view, past-view, present-view, and future-view) designed to explain crime initiation and maintenance.

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Focuses on the procedural problems of our electoral system, including those posed by the computerization of voting systems. This work analyzes events in the electoral history of the US to reveal particular dynamics of democratic electoral systems that permit purportedly free and fair elections to subvert rather than express the public will.

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This Critical Theory and Contemporary Society volume analyzes how cinema can help critical theory repoliticize culture and society. >

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An introduction to critical theory in international relations summarising the history of critical thought in the discipline and its possible future.

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The editors of this book employ social, cognitive, linguistic, and political theoretical innovations to develop a new conception of critical thinking.