Do Prisons Make Us Safer? asks whether it makes sense to maintain such a large and costly prison system. The contributors expand the scope of previous analyses to Include a number of underexplored di
This new Blackstone's Guide provides an essential guide to the Bribery Act 2010, which reforms the law of corruption, modernizing the existing law and creating new offences and investigative powers ta
This book explores Victorian readers’ consumption of a wide array of reading matter. Established scholars and emerging researchers examine nineteenth-century audience encounters with print culture mat
The Igbo are one of the most populous ethnic groups in Nigeria and are perhaps best known and celebrated in the work of Chinua Achebe. In this landmark collection on Igbo society and arts, Toyin Falol
As one of the world’s most eminent living philosophers, John Perry has covered a remarkable breadth of subjects in his published work, including semantics, indexicality, self-knowledge, personal id
Reliability Investigation of LED Devices for Public Light Applications, based on the work of two main Phd dissertations in 2011 and 2014, describes state-of-the-art GaN technology focusing on the spec
The rapid rise in the proportion of foreign-born residents in the United States since the mid-1960s is one of the most important demographic events of the past fifty years. The increase in immigration
Tragicomedy is one of the most important dramatic genres in Renaissance literature, and the essays collected here offer stimulating new perspectives and insights, as well as providing broad introducti
Within two years of the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, an astounding 45,000 of Bulgaria’s 50,000 Jews left voluntarily for Israel. This mass exodus was remarkable conside
An irony inherent in all political systems is that the principles that underlie and characterize them can also endanger and destroy them. This collection examines the limits that need to be imposed on
Natural disasters, industrial or large-scale transport accidents, health threats or the response to terrorist attacks have risen to feature prominently on the agenda of European security policy-makers
This book discusses literacy development in heritage language speakers and presents the results of quantitative studies that investigate the transfer of literacy skills in bi- and multilingual languag
This book discusses literacy development in heritage language speakers and presents the results of quantitative studies that investigate the transfer of literacy skills in bi- and multilingual languag
Ernst Toller was a formative figure in the development of theatrical modernism, yet his plays have not been available in English since the 1920s and 30s. He was also a revolutionary activist who exper
Successful partnerships have always been a critical source of business growth and are becoming ever more essential in today's connected economy. However, even as companies become increasingly inter de
The economies of the Arab states of the Gulf have gone through considerable changes in the last decade, spurred by high oil prices and ambitious diversification plans. Large-scale immigration provided
This edited volume analyzes recent key developments in EU border management. In light of the refugee crises in the Mediterranean and the responses on the part of EU member states, this volume presents
