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The Circular Economy Handbook

Can we align global production and consumption systems with sustainability? Can business growth actually lead to a healthier planet? Can companies innovate through the circular economy to create competitive advantage and genuine impact? Waste to Wealth proved that the emerging circular economy advantage exists – now Lacy, Long and Spindler show you how to realize it at speed and scale in The Circular Economy Handbook.

Lacy, Peter
29.01.2020

Physical Evidence for Ritual Acts, Sorcery and Witchcraft in Christian Britain

This volume investigates the physical evidence for magic in medieval and modern Britain, including ritual mark, concealed objects, amulets, and magical equipment. The contributors are the current experts in each area of the subject, and show between them how ample the evidence is and how important it is for an understanding of history.

Hutton, Ronald
14.05.2020

The Mystery of Moral Authority

The Mystery of Moral Authority argues for a sceptical and pragmatic view of morality as an all-too-human institution. Searching, intellectually rigorous, and always fair to rival views, it represents the state of the art in a tradition of moral philosophy that includes Thomas Hobbes, David Hume, and J.

Blackford, Russell
15.12.2015

British Crime Film

Presenting a social history of British crime film, this book focuses on the strategies used in order to address more radical notions surrounding class, politics, sex, delinquency, violence and censorship. Spanning post-war crime cinema to present-day „Mockney“ productions, it contextualizes the films and identifies important and neglected works.

Forshaw, Barry
20.09.2012

British Crime Film

Forshaw, Barry
20.09.2012

Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers

XLVIII, 1568 p. In 2 volumes, not available separately.

NA, NA
20.04.2021

Dickens and Crime

'One of the best social commentators on Dickens... models of historical scholarship.'- Gertrude Himmelfarb, Distinguished Professor of History, City University of New York. This classic of Dickens criticism, now in its third edition, provides a fascinating insight into Dickens's thinking and writing on crime.

Collins, Philip
01.09.1994

The New Politics of Youth Crime

The New Politics of Youth Crime argues that the centrality of 'law and order' to the New Labour project has generated a youth justice strategy which threatens to deepen the problems it purports to solve. Analysing the profound changes in UK youth crime in the 1980s, this book posits the French Social Prevention Initiative of the 1980s as an alternative model for a genuinely 'joined-up', social democratic response to the increasingly complex problem of youth crime in Europe.

Pitts, J.
13.03.2001

Mental Health, Crime and Criminal Justice

It has long been known that the pathway through the criminal justice system for those with mental health needs is fraught with difficulty. This interdisciplinary collection explores key issues in mental health, crime and criminal justice, including: offenders' rights; intervention designs; desistance; health-informed approaches to offending and the medical needs of offenders; psychological jurisprudence, and; collaborative and multi-agency practice.

Winstone, Jane
12.11.2015

Mental Health, Crime and Criminal Justice

Winstone, Jane
12.11.2015

Taboo Comedy

The essays in this collection explore taboo and controversial humour in traditional scripted (sitcoms and other comedy series, animated series) and non-scripted forms (stand-up comedy, factual and reality shows, and advertising) both on cable and network television.

Bucaria, Chiara
19.12.2016

Taboo Comedy

Bucaria, Chiara
28.04.2018

Crime and Security

This important book offers unique insights into crime and its prevention in retailing. It is the first comparative study of crime and nuisance in town centres and shopping centres. The book contributes directly to the current debate about the vitality and viability of high-street shopping.

Beck, A.
01.01.1995

Late Victorian Crime Fiction in the Shadows of Sherlock

This book investigates the development of crime fiction in the 1880s and 1890s, challenging studies of late-Victorian crime fiction which have given undue prominence to a handful of key figures and have offered an over-simplified analytical framework, thereby overlooking the generic, moral, and formal complexities of the nascent genre.

Clarke, C.
26.09.2014

A Counter-History of Crime Fiction

This book takes a look at the evolution of crime fiction. Considering 'criminography' as a system of inter-related sub-genres, it explores the connections between modes of literature such as revenge tragedies, the gothic and anarchist fiction, while taking into account the influence of pseudo-sciences such as mesmerism and criminal anthropology.

Ascari, Maurizio
05.09.2007

A Counter-History of Crime Fiction

Ascari, Maurizio
05.09.2007

Form and Ideology in Crime Fiction

VIII, 202 p.

Knight, Stephen
05.11.1980

Late Victorian Crime Fiction in the Shadows of Sherlock

Clarke, C.
01.01.2014

Crime Prevention, Security and Community Safety Using the 5Is Framework

The potential of crime prevention, security and community safety is constrained by implementation failure. This book presents a carefully-designed system of good practice, the 5Is, which handles the complexities of real world prevention, this aims to improve the performance of prevention, and advance process evaluation.

Ekblom, P.
17.11.2010

Femininity, Crime and Self-Defence in Victorian Literature and Society

This exploration into the development of women's self-defence from 1850 to 1914 features major writers, including H. G. Wells, Elizabeth Robins and Richard Marsh, and encompasses an unusually wide-ranging number of subjects from hatpin crimes to the development of martial arts for women.

Godfrey, E.
26.10.2012

The New Strategic Landscape

The business challenges of organizations are increasingly complex; strategists need a rich choice of approaches in order to respond. Too few strategy models challenge the dominate paradigm of rational analysis, choice maximisation and planned implementation.

Verity, Julie
19.10.2012

Restructuring the Labour Market

This book represents an advance in our knowledge of the labour market. For the first time it combines the analysis of both quantitative and qualitative data to produce an explanation of the main changes which have transformed the labour market during the recession.

Ashton, D.
05.06.1990

Dylan Thomas

`That brilliant commentator on Dylan, John Ackerman' - Andrew Sinclair, Dylan Thomas: Poet of his People John Ackerman's highly acclaimed study of the poems and prose works of Dylan Thomas traces his development as a writer, linking this for the first time with his Welsh background.

Ackerman, John
11.12.1995

W. C. Fields from Sound Film and Radio Comedy to Stardom

W. C. Fields is known as a virtuoso comedian and legendary iconoclast who gave the gift of laughter to multitudes. As the first author to use the newly-opened Fields Papers at the Academy library, Arthur Frank Wertheim illuminates the comedian’s arduous ascent to stardom during Hollywood's golden age.

Wertheim, Arthur Frank
21.01.2019

The Carry On Films

Saucy, rude and vulgar—the 31 Carry On films remain an important part of the history of British cinematic and low brow comedy. In this book, Gerrard discusses the Carry On roots in the music halls of the Victorians and the saucy seaside postcards of Donald McGill.

Gerrard, Steven
11.11.2016

Crime Prevention, Security and Community Safety Using the 5Is Framework

Ekblom, P.
01.01.2011

Value and Virtue in Public Administration

A multidisciplinary analysis of the role of values and virtue in public administration, this book calls for a rediscovery of virtue. It explores ways of enabling the public sector to balance the values that are presently dominant with classic values such as accountability, representation, equality, neutrality, transparency and the public interest.

de Vries, Michiel S.
01.01.2014

Femininity, Crime and Self-Defence in Victorian Literature and Society

Godfrey, E.
01.01.2012

The New Strategic Landscape

Verity, Julie
19.10.2012

Target Suitability and the Crime Drop

This is a chapter from The Criminal Act: The Role and Influence of Routine Activity Theory edited by Martin A. Andresen and Graham Farrell. This chapter is available open access under a CC BY license. Target suitability is a cornerstone of Marcus Felson's routine activities approach, and critical in determining crime rates.

Tilley, N.
02.07.2015

Performing Women

Alison Oddey's interviews with prominent performing women span generations, cultures, perspectives, practice and the best part of the twentieth-century, telling various stories collectively. Stand-ups, 'classic' actresses, film and television personalities, experimental and 'alternative' practitioners discuss why they want to perform, what motivates them, and how their personal history has contributed to their desire to perform.

Oddey, Alison
30.09.2005

Crime at Work Vol 1

This book contains a wealth of information providing essential reading for all those interested in crime prevention, the motivation of different types of offenders and the effectiveness of various security measures. There has been little consideration of the extent, impact and patterns of crimes in the workplace.

Gill, Martin
01.09.1994

Deviance in Contemporary Crime Fiction

This book explores the three aspects of deviance that contemporary crime fiction manipulates: linguistic, social, and generic. Gregoriou conducts case studies into crime series by James Patterson, Michael Connelly and Patricia Cornwell, and investigates the way in which these novelists correspondingly challenge those aforementioned conventions.

Gregoriou, C.
30.01.2007

Rehabilitation, Crime and Justice

Can offenders be rehabilitated? Can this be done in ways that benefit the community as a whole, as well as offenders? This book is about the history, theory, practice and effectiveness of rehabilitation. It shows how different beliefs about the value of rehabilitation and about 'what works' have influenced criminal justice policy and practice at different times, and it identifies a number of promising approaches for the future.

Raynor, P.
11.10.2005

Masculinity, Crime and Self-Defence in Victorian Literature

Now in paperback, this book considers crime fighting from the perspective of the civilian city-goer, from the mid-Victorian garotting panics to 1914. It charts the shift from the use of body armour to the adoption of exotic martial arts through the works of popular playwrights and novelists, examining changing ideals of urban, middle-class heroism.

Godfrey, E.
03.12.2010

Crime News in Modern Britain

Drawing together examples from broadsheet and tabloid newspapers this account of English crime reportage takes readers from the late eighteenth century to the present day. In the post-Leveson world, it is a timely and engaging contextualisation of the history of printed crime news and investigative journalism.

Rowbotham, Judith
16.10.2013

The Politics of Resource Extraction

International institutions (United Nations, World Bank) and multinational companies have voiced concern over the adverse impact of resource extraction activities on the livelihood of indigenous communities. This volume examines mega resource extraction projects in Australia, Bolivia, Canada, Chad, Cameroon, India, Nigeria, Peru, the Philippines.

Sawyer, S.
14.02.2012

Crime Prevention through Housing Design

This book presents a comprehensive review of the impact of residential design on crime focusing upon research, policy and practice both in the UK and internationally, appealing to both academics and practitioners within the fields of crime prevention, urban planning and architecture.

Armitage, R.
23.08.2013

Slapstick and Comic Performance

Slapstick comedy has a long and lively history from Greek Theatre to the present day. This book explores the ways in which comic pain and comic violence are performed within slapstick to make the audience laugh. It draws examples from theatre, television and film on both sides of the Atlantic.

Peacock, L.
18.07.2014

The Politics of Resource Extraction

Sawyer, S.
14.02.2012

Shopping and Crime

An interdisciplinary study of retail crime as a cultural phenomenon, drawing on economics, criminology and management to present a comprehensive explanation for the growth in retail thefts. This topical study explores crime prevention as a management issue, using criminomics, a concept based on commercial realities rather than maximising arrests.

Bamfield, J.
13.03.2012

100 American Crime Writers

100 American Crime Writers features discussion and analysis of the lives of crime writers and their key works, examining the developments in American crime writing from the Golden Age to hardboiled detective fiction. This study is essential to scholars and an ideal introduction to crime fiction for anyone who enjoys this fascinating genre.

Powell, S.
07.08.2012

Deviance in Contemporary Crime Fiction

Gregoriou, C.
30.01.2007

Contemporary American Crime Fiction

This highly accessible, lively and informative study gives a clear and comprehensive overview of recent trends in American crime fiction. Building on a discussion of the immediate predecessors, Bertens and D'haen focus on the work of popular and award-winning authors of the last fifteen years.

Bertens, Hans
25.10.2001

Contemporary American Crime Fiction

Bertens, Hans
15.10.2001

Rehabilitation, Crime and Justice

Raynor, P.
11.10.2005

Crime Unlimited?

Crime Unlimited: Questions for the Twenty-First Century comprises nine chapters contexualising crime and social control within debates about modernism, globalism, risk, and technological innovation. It includes discussion of contemporary issues such as steroid use, gun control, privatised policing and youth scares involving alcopops and drugs.

Carlen, Pat
29.11.1998

Enid Blyton and the Mystery of Children's Literature

Blyton has captivated children worldwide for almost eighty years, but there has been very little serious critical attention paid to her. This book remedies this, looking particularly at her three most popular and well-known series, Noddy, the Famous Five and Malory Towers .

Rudd, David
26.05.2000

Community Self-Help

This book explores the dynamics of community self help in local neighbourhoods. It shows how widespread it is, and argues that it should be considered as the third major sector of social and economic organization (alongside the state and market). Danny Burns, Colin C.

Burns, D.
24.03.2004

Mystery in Children's Literature

The first book to assess critically mystery in children's literature, this collection charts a development from religious mystery through rationally solved detective fictions to insoluble supernatural and horror mysteries. Written by internationally recognised scholars in the field, these thirteen original essays offer challenging and innovative readings of both classic and popular mysteries for children.

Gavin, Adrienne E.
20.02.2001

Mary Wollstonecraft

This study argues that protestant society had traditionally sanctioned women's role in spreading literacy, but this became politicized in the 1790s. Wollstonecraft's literary vocation was shaped by the expectations of the power of print to educate and reform individuals and society, in the radical circles of the Unitarian publisher Joseph Johnson.

Franklin, C.
12.07.2004

Mary Wollstonecraft

Franklin, C.
12.07.2004

Revisiting The Tempest

Revisiting The Tempest offers a lively reconsideration of how The Tempest encourages interpretation and creative appropriation. It includes a wide range of essays on theoretical and practical criticism focusing on the play's original dramatic context, on its signifying processes and its present-time screen remediation.

Bigliazzi, Silvia
19.02.2014

Media Representations of Police and Crime

This unique book explores the social processes which shape fictional representations of police and crime in television dramas. Exploring ten leading British and European police dramas from the last twenty-five years, Colbran, a former scriptwriter, presents a revealing insight into police dramas, informed by media and criminological theory.

Colbran, M.
17.10.2014

Criminal Femmes Fatales in American Hardboiled Crime Fiction

This book fills a gap in both literary and feminist scholarship by offering the first major study of femme fatales in hardboiled crime fiction. Maysaa Jaber shows that the criminal literary figures in the genre open up powerful spaces for imagining female agency in direct opposition to the constraining forces of patriarchy and misogyny.

Jaber, Maysaa Husam
01.11.2015

Learning from the World

In this far-ranging and provocative volume, Joe Colombano and Aniket Shah provide global perspectives on the most significant challenges facing modern America, seeking to inspire new ideas to redevelop America.

Colombano, J.
29.11.2013

Marx at the Movies

Marx and the Moving Image approaches cinema from a Marxist perspective. It argues that the supposed 'end of history', marked by the comprehensive triumph of capitalism and the 'end of cinema', calls for revisiting Marx's writings in order to analyse film theories, histories and practices.

Mazierska, E.
05.09.2014

Governing the Use-of-Force in International Relations

This book examines US recourse to military force in the post-9/11 era. In particular, it evaluates the extent to which the Bush and Obama administrations viewed legitimizing the greater use-of-force as a necessary solution to thwart the security threat presented by global terrorist networks and WMD proliferation.

Warren, A.
24.09.2014

Animals and the Economy

This bookexplores the economic institutions that determine the nature of animal lives assystematically exploited objects traded in a market economy. It examines humanroles and choice in the system, including the economic logic of agriculture,experimentation, and animal ownership, and analyses the marginalization ofethical action in the economic system.

McMullen, Steven
22.08.2016

Language and Crime

This book offers a systematic introduction to the linguistic analysis of newspaper reports on crime. The author demonstrates how the linguistic analysis of newspaper texts helps to gain insight into the construction of offenders and victims in those texts and links the findings to criminological frameworks.