Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: alan wright

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  • ORGANISED CRIME
    ALAN WRIGHT
    This book aims to provide an accessible introduction to the study of organised crime - about those who commit it, the effect it has on individuals, businesses and states, and the ways in which states and the international community have sought to contain it. It explores all facets of what has become one of the key problems facing governments, policy makers and law enforcement a...

    $1,200.00

  • POLICING: AN INTRODUCTION TO CONCEPTS AND PRACTICE
    ALAN WRIGHT
    This book provides a highly readable introduction to the role and function of the police and policing, examining the issues and debates that surround this. It looks at the 'core functions' of the police, the ways in which police functions have developed, their key characteristics, and the challenges they face. From the outset questions are asked about the conceptual contestabil...

    $1,160.00

  • CULTURE, CLASS, DISTINCTION
    TONY BENNETT / MIKE SAVAGE / ELIZABETH BORTOLAIA SILVA / ALAN WARDE / MODESTO GAYO-CAL / DAVID WRIGHT
    Choice Recommended Title, February 2010 Culture, Class, Distinction is major contribution to international debates regarding the role of cultural capital in relation to modern forms of inequality. Drawing on a national study of the organisation of cultural practices in contemporary Britain, the authors review Bourdieu’s classic study of the relationships between culture and cla...

    $1,460.00

  • ENVIRONANOTECHNOLOGY
    FAN, MAOHONG, I / HUANG, C.P. / BLAND, ALAN E. / WANG, ZHONGLIN / SLIMANE, RACHID / WRIGHT, IAN G.
    Understanding and utilizing the interactions between environment and nanoscale materials is a new way to resolve the increasingly challenging environmental issues we are facing and will continue to face. Environanotechnology is the nanoscale technology developed for monitoring the quality of the environment, treating water and wastewater, as well as controlling air pollutants. ...

    $2,098.00

  • FILM AND THE NATURAL HISTORY OF DESTRUCTION
    ALAN WRIGHT
    Film and the Natural History of Destruction explores the interface between film, memory and ecological thought. It addresses several areas of crucial importance for contemporary film and media studies: biopolitics and ecological catastrophe, cultural memory and film in the Anthropocene, media archaeology and the environmental humanities and, of course, the abiding relevance of ...

    $1,240.00