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Juvenile Delinquency is a comprehensive textbook that covers criminal behavior and justice for young people. Donald J. Shoemaker offers a simple and accessible text for students who are seeking a better understanding of crime and youth culture. This updated edition is a readable and straightforward text on the subject.

Seventh in the New Dialogues in Philosophy series, this book discusses the concept of time and shows in the simplest ways how time informs discussions about causality, creation, physics, natural disasters, and much more. Creating a series of conversations between two fictional characters, Bradley Dowden uses the characters to explore nine metaphysical issues involving time.

An indispensable guide filled with practical observations on all of the major aquatic trout foods of importance to the fly fisherman.

Crawley, Foley and Shehan demonstrate how gendered messages about bodies and the social world shape our physical bodies and social selves. At work, in sports and during sex, gendered messages constantly organize our common, everyday settings through a feedback loop of confirmations and disruptions in everyday talk and interaction.

Ardent explorers and adventurers Belliveau and O'Donnell have followed Marco Polo's route from beginning to end, artfully weaving their own adventures with Polo's descriptions and experiences. Color photos throughout.

Deals with the transformation of government policy since 1980 that has lead to changes in electronic media. This book puts forward an argument that Washington policymakers must scrap the regulatory system and write a policy script designed to guarantee a broadcast service that is free, local, and dedicated to serving Americans as citizens.

Examines the threat that Islamic extremists pose to America and provides a discussion of the link between Iraq and the war on terror. This book explains the basics of Islam and guides the reader through the intricacies of each significant fundamentalist group.

A biography of two Chinese sisters who took very different paths in their quest to be independent women. The journeys of these extraordinary women spanned the twentieth century and three continents in a saga of East-West cultural exchange and personal struggle.

Presenting the political history of privatization in Central and Eastern Europe, this work demonstrates that the way that assets are privatized matters, both with respect to national economic performance and the successful development of the rule of law. It applies ownership regime theory to a range of post-communist privatization cases.

The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit was born in the early 1980s. Its docket covers the rules guiding patents, innovation, and globalization. Are these rules impelling the economy forward or holding it back? Are the policies that we have the policies that we want? This work demystifies its work and answers these questions.

Troubled Waters provides readers with an appreciation of the central role of religious meanings and ritual practices surrounding water, arriving at creative new ways to approach the growing water crisis worldwide.

Analyzes the role of Jews in the formation of international human rights efforts throughout the US, Israel, and the Former Soviet Union. This work examines this human rights work as part of a total system of Jewish political commitments, a system shaped by both human rights history and Jewish history.

The ironclads and gunboats protected army forces and convoyed much needed supplies to far-flung Federal forces. They patrolled thousands of miles of rivers and fought battles that were every bit as harrowing as land engagements. This book describes the Civil War as fought on the rivers of the West.