Roots of Evil. A Social History of Crime and Punishment, Hardback - Christopher Hibbert

Hibbert tries to show by reference to history of punishments, to the reactions of those who suffered them or have been threatened by them, and to t...

An anthology of traditional British folk songs of crime and punishment, compiled by Stephen Sedley and Martin Carthy.

Number thirty-two in the bestselling Bob Skinner series by Quintin Jardine, the acclaimed author of THE BAD FIRE and COLD CASE. 'If Ian Rankin is t...

The unputdownable new mystery featuring ex Chief Constable Bob Skinner. By Quintin Jardine, the acclaimed author of THE BAD FIRE and COLD CASE. 'If...

The unputdownable new mystery featuring ex Chief Constable Bob Skinner. By Quintin Jardine, the acclaimed author of THE BAD FIRE and COLD CASE. 'If...

Reducere. This beautifully written, informative study is a portrait, a history and a superb guide book, capturing fully the seductive beauty and the many lay...

Incorporates sources from philosophy, criminology, psychology, and history to argue that Dostoevsky's thinking about punishment was shaped not only...

Povestea ascensiunii si a decaderii uneia dintre cele mai diabolice familii din istorie. Volumul de fata prezinta istoria ascensiunii si a decaderi...

A guide to the use of the avian embryo in studies of vertebrate development. It includes approaches to analysis of the chick genome, gene knock-out...

A beautiful, quirky, illustrated edition of Phaidon's compelling bestseller, celebrating the book's 25th anniversaryThis concise and fast-paced int...

Reducere. It was a dynasty with more wealth, passion, and power than the houses of Windsor, Kennedy, and Rockefeller combined. It shaped all of Europe and co...

Reducere. Our experiences of dying have been shaped by ancient ideas about death and social responsibility at the end of life. From Stone Age ideas about dyi...

Desperate to escape his poverty, the poor student Raskolnikov murders his pawnbroker and her sister. At first, nobody suspects him, but his own con...

At its height Renaissance Florence was a centre of wealth, power and influence. A republican city-state funded by trade and banking, its bloody pol...

Reducere. Works from Les Misirables by Victor Hugo to Citizens by Simon Schama have been inspired by the French Revolution. Now available for the first time ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe early years of the twentieth century were a difficult period for Big Business. Corporate monopolies, the brutal exploitation of labo...

The State of Freedom: A Social History of the British State since 1800 - Patrick Joyce

The first three editions of this bestselling book have established A Social History of the Media as a classic, providing a masterful overview of co...

Reducere. Using a wealth of contemporary Ottoman sources, this book recreates the social history of Istanbul, a huge, cosmopolitan metropolis and imperial ca...

Familia Borgia. Crime, nepotism, coruptie - Christopher Hibbert

One of the most devastating portraits ever drawn of a human society - life in Hitler's Germany during the Third ReichPublisher: Orion Publishing Co...

With recidivism rates north of 70% and tens of billions of dollars wasted annually on policies that assume we can punish the crime out of criminal ...

This title provides an overview of recent government initiatives in the field of crime and punishment, reviewing both the policies themselves, the ...

Contributor(s): Editor: Keith WrightsonThe rise of social history has had a transforming influence on the history of early modern England. It has b...

Reducere. The theme of this extraordinary book is the evolution of the modern conception of family life and the modern image; of the nature of children. Arie...

A comprehensive study of Iceland's social and historical development, from tiny fishing settlements to a global economic power. It is of interest t...

Reducere. The American family has undergone a series of transformations from its socially sanctified role as the center of society to today's private, indepe...

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Reducere. DescriptionWhen the Chinese communists came to power in 1949, they promised to 'turn society upside down'. Efforts to build a communist society cre...

Reducere. In 1948, a war broke out that would result in Israeli independence and the erasure of Arab Palestine. Over twenty months, thousands of Jews and Ara...

The drum kit has provided the pulse of popular music from before the dawn of jazz up to the present day pop charts. Kick It, a provocative social h...

Americans love "this year's model, " relying on the "new" to be always "improved." Enthusiasm for the new, says Stanley Buder, is essential to Amer...

Reducere. A Social History of American Technology, Second Edition, tells the story of American technology from the tools used by its earliest inhabitants to ...

Publisher: New York University PressAuthor(s): Travis LinnemannIllustration(s): 22 b/w illustrationsNumber of pages: 384Collection: Alternative Cri...

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Chinese Diasporas provides a concise and compelling new history of internal and external Chinese migration from the sixteenth century to the presen...