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The Gender of Crime introduces readers to how gender shapes our understanding of every aspect of crime. The second edition includes analysis of LGBTQ issues, gender and crime on college campuses, and discussions of how police officers handle gendered crime. This book is essential reading for students of gender, criminology, and criminal justice.

This failed soviet KGB operation in Canada tells the story of two double agents, one Soviet and one Canadian. The Soviet was betrayed by a Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer, captured by the KGB, imprisoned, and counted as dead until he reappeared 36 years later in a British embassy and traded back to Canada.

Research Methods in Anthropology is the standard textbook for methods classes in anthropology. Whether you are coming from a scientific, interpretive, or applied anthropological tradition, you will learn field methods from the best guide in both qualitative and quantitative methods.

This resource provides professionals, musicians, teachers, students, or individuals with an abundance of brass instrument knowledge. The book's chapters answer questions like: Where did these instruments come from? How do they work? How do I choose one? How do I take care of my instrument? It also provides an instrument diary and glossary of terms.

The interplay between warfare, military technology, and state formation is the focus of this text. Theoretically grounded in the bellicist approach to the study of war and state, which posits that war is a normal part of human experience, the book argues that the threat of war by predatory neighbors has been the prime mover of state formation.

Misinformation about self-defense rights and laws is what has sparked major debate over the misapplication of lethal force in civilian communities. Bruce Lawlor identifies the major issues in self-defense cases and the legal approaches used to resolve them, resulting in less confusion and greater understanding of what self-defense is.

This volume, the second in the series Creating the 21st-Century Academic Library dealing with the topic of open access in academic libraries, focuses on the implementation of open access in academic libraries and examines the legal and practical obstacles that must be overcome in a successful transition to more open forms of scholarship.

From the patient and careful study of an issue, to the assembly of a trusted advisory team and the development and execution of a focused vision and agenda, leaders of all kinds will find some part of this book to incorporate into their own leadership strategies, for which this book's expert and pragmatic insights prove a refreshing boon.

This book will help educators/practitioners become better mentors, expand the dialogue on what makes a good mentor, and it will add new and critical insight into the literature. This book is contributed by a balance of scholars and practitioners and will be a timely contribution to the field as more educators seek out mentors in a time educational chaos.

Campus Schools: NYC's Solution to Underperforming and Violent Schools delves into the concept of collaborative leadership in campus principals charged with the task of transitioning two large underperforming and violent schools to campuses of small schools while learning to collaboratively manage a campus.

In Launch a Teaching Career: Secrets for Aspiring Teachers, Dr. Peter Leibman explains in great detail how to avoid the resume pile, enhance your candidacy, and move to the head of the class. A step-by-step plan of action is presented giving you a comprehensive guide to achieve your goal of becoming a teacher.

How to Teach Without Instructing relinks teaching and learning. It examines the teaching practices in institutions of learning and formulates "rules" that assist teachers in their efforts to focus their teaching on the learner. The rules are based on situations that are routinely encountered in the teaching environment.

Learn how to encourage library patrons to create their own content and tag it with the library's location. Mobile Social Marketing in Libraries walks you through the process of planning, creating, and sharing mobile social marketing content for your library.

Today's libraries are taking advantage of cutting-edge technologies such as flat panel displays using touch, sound, and hands-free motions to design amazing exhibits using everything from simple computer hardware to advanced technologies such as the Microsoft Kinect. Librarie...

Get an Internship and Make the Most of It follows four students as they find, interview for, and complete their internships. If you're thinking about doing an internship or are well on the way to starting one, this book is for you.

Use this book to learn how to utilize CSS techniques such as fluid grids and flexible images combined with responsive design techniques such as media queries to deliver an optimal experience for your library patrons regardless of device. Design one website to fit them all.

Integrating Teaching and Technology: A Matrix for Professional Faculty Development provides college faculty and administrators with the foundations for a new model for integrating the two most critical dimensions of teaching and learning, pedagogy and technology: the Integrated Readiness Matrix (IRM).

Online Searching is a complete guide for the aspiring expert searcher, explaining important online searching concepts and practices, demonstrating them visually in figures and videos, and inviting you to get hands-on practice by completing its end-of-the-chapter questions and comparing your online experiences with its suggested answers.

Originally published in Scales' column in the School library journal: Scales on censorship.

This book is about the remarkable and unique purpose of school boards. It is not a book about abolition, or drastic reform. It explains clearly that school boards were established as part of the foundation for a strong democratic society and encourages everyone involved with school systems to guard that foundation.

Maximum Impact Education provides useful insights on the work needed to gradually overcome the silos that divide people in local communities as they struggle to rebuild relevant education-to-employment systems for America's rapidly changing labor market.

This book brings a fresh understanding to cross-cultural Sino-Indian encounters, elucidating for the first time significant changes in the religious, commercial, and diplomatic interactions between the two countries.

When Paris Sizzled vividly portrays the City of Light during the fabulous 1920s, when art and architecture, music, literature, fashion, entertainment, transportation, and behavior all took dramatically new forms. Through rich illustrations and evocative narrative, Mary McAuliffe brings this vibrant era to life.

In a thoroughly revised and expanded edition that now includes France, this essential text offers a rigorous, systematic comparison of church-state relations in Western democracies. The authors provide an invaluable comparative analysis of a topic that is increasingly a source of profound political and social conflict.