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Curing Concrete
This book explains the benefits of curing the concrete, and uniquely brings together information in the research literature along with practical guidance on doing it correctly. It can also inform researchers whose experimental work is rendered invalid if the curing regime is not clearly identified....
To Be Published September 2nd 2013 by CRC Press
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Forensic Psychiatry
Clinical, Legal and Ethical Issues, Second Edition
Comprehensive and erudite, this book is a practical guide to the psychiatry of offenders, victims, and survivors of crime. This landmark publication has been completely updated but retains all the features that made the first edition such a well-established text. It integrates the clinical,...
To Be Published September 2nd 2013 by CRC Press
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Purchasing Power Parity and Real Exchange Rates
The term Purchasing Power Parity may date from the early twentieth century, when it was coined by the Swedish economist Gustav Cassel, but the underlying concept had been enjoying varying degrees of success since its development in sixteenth century Spain. Even towards the end of the ...
To Be Published August 15th 2013 by Routledge
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Renewing International Labour Studies
Series: ThirdWorlds
This volume seeks to re-energise the paradigm of the New International Labour Studies by detailing how struggles over the construction, reproduction, utilisation and restructuring of labour forces are the contested social foundations upon which the global economy stands. Through a combination of...
To Be Published August 15th 2013 by Routledge
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Moral Learning
Integrating the Personal, Professional and Political
As moral educators we are more used to teaching others and researching their learning and moral development than reflecting on and writing formally about our own moral learning. We are not just professionals with an interest and supposedly some expertise in morality and education, we also have...
To Be Published August 12th 2013 by Routledge
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Biosecurity
The Socio-Politics of Invasive Species and Infectious Diseases
Biosecurity is the assessment and management of potentially dangerous infectious diseases, quarantined pests, invasive (alien) species, living modified organisms, and biological weapons. It is a holistic concept of direct relevance to the sustainability of agriculture, food safety, and the...
To Be Published July 25th 2013 by Routledge
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Something's in the Air
Race, Crime, and the Legalization of Marijuana
America’s drug laws have always exerted an unequal and unfair toll on Blacks and Latinos, who are arrested more often than Whites for the possession of illegal drugs and given harsher sentences. In this volume, contributors ask how would marijuana legalization affect communities of color? Is...
To Be Published July 18th 2013 by Routledge
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Theorizing Cultural Work
Labour, Continuity and Change in the Cultural and Creative Industries
Series: CRESC
In recent years, cultural work has engaged the interest of scholars from a broad range of social science and humanities disciplines. The debate in this ‘turn to cultural work’ has largely been based around evaluating its advantages and disadvantages: its freedoms and its constraints, its informal...
To Be Published July 1st 2013 by Routledge
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The New Criminology
For a Social Theory of Deviance, 2nd Edition
"The New Criminology was written at a particular time and place; it was a product of 1968 and its aftermath: a world turned upside down .It was a time of great changes in personal politics and a surge of politics on the left: Marxism, Anarchism, Situationism as well as radical social democratic...
To Be Published June 27th 2013 by Routledge
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Psychosis and Emotion
The role of emotions in understanding psychosis, therapy and recovery
Series: The International Society for Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis Book Series
There is increasing recognition that emotional distress plays a significant part in the onset of psychosis, the experience of psychosis itself and in the unfolding of recovery that follows. This book brings together leading international experts to explore the role of emotion and emotion regulation...
To Be Published June 26th 2013 by Routledge