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  • FAIRNESS AND CRIME
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    FAIRNESS AND CRIME
    MARK S. DAVIS
    Criminology, the discipline that informs our understanding of crime and justice, is facing an identity crisis. Long dominated by sociology’s view of crime and its causes, criminology has recently witnessed the rise of a new cadre of academics who feel free to explore other explanations. Fairness and Crime: A Theory offers a comprehensive new perspective on criminal behavior tha...

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  • WHO DEFENDS ROME?
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    WHO DEFENDS ROME?
    MELTON S. DAVIS
    This book, first published in 1972, examines the tumultuous period between Mussolini’s dismissal and the German occupation of Rome 45 days later. Double-dealing, treachery, vindictiveness, cowardliness, contradictory orders are the hallmarks of this time, and the protagonists include Mussolini, Hitler, Eisenhower, Maxwell Taylor, the Italian King, Churchill and Badoglio. Its wa...

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  • AIR QUALITY
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    AIR QUALITY
    JOSHUA S. FU / WAYNE T. DAVIS
    The sixth edition of a bestseller, Air Quality provides students with a comprehensive overview of air quality, the science that continues to provide a better understanding of atmospheric chemistry and its effects on public health and the environment, and the regulatory and technological management practices employed in achieving air quality goals. Maintaining the practical appr...

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  • THE PROLIFERATION PUZZLE
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    THE PROLIFERATION PUZZLE
    S DAVIS ZACHARY / BENJAMIN FRANKEL
    Originally published in 1993, this volume was unique in its scope and approach: Unlike most literature on nuclear weapons proliferation at the time, the essays in this volume offer theoretical discussions and suggest testable hypotheses about the causes and effects of nuclear weapons proliferation. The proliferation of nuclear weapons is an ideal subject for social science scho...

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  • PATHWAYS OF SETTLER DECOLONIZATION
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    PATHWAYS OF SETTLER DECOLONIZATION
    LYNNE DAVIS / JEFFREY S. DENIS / RAVEN SINCLAIR
    Although settler colonialism is a deeply entrenched structural problem, Indigenous peoples have always resisted it and sought to protect their land, sovereignty, and treaties. Some settlers have aimed to support Indigenous peoples in these struggles. This book examines what happens when settlers engage with and attempt to transform settler colonial systems. What does ‘decoloniz...

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  • END OF LIFE COMMUNICATION
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    END OF LIFE COMMUNICATION
    CHRISTINE S. DAVIS / JONATHAN L. CRANE
    This book examines the dialectic between fictional death as depicted in the media and real death as it is experienced in a hospital setting. Using a Terror Management theoretical lens, Davis and Crane explore the intersections of life and death, experience and fiction, to understand the relationship between them. The authors use complementary perspectives to examine what it mea...

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  • THE INFORMATION SYSTEM CONSULTANT'S HANDBOOK
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    THE INFORMATION SYSTEM CONSULTANT'S HANDBOOK
    WILLIAM S. DAVIS
    The Information System Consultant's Handbook familiarizes systems analysts, systems designers, and information systems consultants with underlying principles, specific documentation, and methodologies. Corresponding to the primary stages in the systems development life cycle, the book divides into eight sections: Principles Information Gathering and Problem Definition Project P...

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  • TALKING THROUGH DEATH
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    TALKING THROUGH DEATH
    CHRISTINE S. DAVIS / DEBORAH C. BREEDE
    Talking Through Death examines communication at the end-of-life from several different communication perspectives: interpersonal (patient, provider, family), mediated, and cultural. By studying interpersonal and family communication, cultural media, funeral related rituals, religious and cultural practices, medical settings, and legal issues surrounding advance directives, read...

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  • FOCUS GROUPS
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    FOCUS GROUPS
    CHRISTINE S. DAVIS
    Despite the fact that focus groups are an ideal research tool for studying and employing group communication in action, many research practitioners and scholars have missed the opportunity to utilize them to their maximum benefit. Few researchers have the skills that enable them to approach focus group facilitation and analysis from a communication point of view. In this book, ...

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  • COMMUNICATING HOPE
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    COMMUNICATING HOPE
    CHRISTINE S. DAVIS
    Kevin is a sometimes-violent teenager with severe emotional disturbance in a family environment of poverty and stress. In this ethnography of a children's mental health care team, communication scholar Christine S. Davis delves deeply into how members of the team create hope for themselves, for Kevin, and for his family using a strengths orientation and future focus. A rich, ev...

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  • CONVERSATIONS ABOUT QUALITATIVE COMMUNICATION RESEARCH
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    CONVERSATIONS ABOUT QUALITATIVE COMMUNICATION RESEARCH
    CHRISTINE S DAVIS
    Christine Davis offers readers an insider’s view of the practices of ten leading qualitative communication scholars, showing how they make critical decisions in the process of conducting research. Through interviews and reflective assessment of their key articles, these researchers make visible how they deal with theory, data collection, analysis, and writing up a study. These ...

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  • BONFIRE OF THE HUMANITIES
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    BONFIRE OF THE HUMANITIES
    BRUCE S. THORNTON / VICTOR DAVIS HANSON / JOHN HEATH
    With humor, lucidity, and unflinching rigor, the acclaimed authors of  Who Killed Homer? and  Plagues of the Mind unsparingly document the degeneration of a central, if beleaguered, discipline—classics—and reveal the root causes of its decline. Hanson, Heath, and Thornton point to academics themselves—their careerist ambitions, incessant self-promotion, and overspecialized scho...

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  • COPING WITH UNCERTAINTY
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    COPING WITH UNCERTAINTY
    DAVIS S. PALERMO
    The first volume in this new series from The Center for the Study of Child and Adolescent Development at The Pennsylvania State University focuses on the relationship between the biological stress circuits and the behavioral concomitants to stress in animals and humans. The participants at this conference, a tribute to Dean Evan G. Pattishall, Jr., discuss the developmental imp...

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  • HANDBOOK OF PEDIATRIC NEUROPSYCHOLOGY
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    HANDBOOK OF PEDIATRIC NEUROPSYCHOLOGY
    DAVIS, ANDREW S. / D'AMATO, RIK CARL
    ìBy far, the most comprehensive and detailed coverage of pediatric neuropsychology available in a single book today, Davis provides coverage of basic principles of pediatric neuropsychology, but overall the work highlights applications to daily practice and special problems encountered by the pediatric neuropsychologist.îCecil R. Reynolds, PhDTexas A&M University"The breadth an...

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  • MEDICAL MANAGEMENT OF PULMONARY DISEASES
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    MEDICAL MANAGEMENT OF PULMONARY DISEASES
    GERALD S. DAVIS
    This handy, accessible single volume presents useful clinical information to expose the pathophysiology underlying major pulmonary diseases, and traces the steps of treatment, from establishing diagnosis to managing therapy.Contains more than 400 summary tables, radiographs, pathology specimens, and other illustrations that encapsulate informat ...

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  • PENGUIN BIOLOGY
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    PENGUIN BIOLOGY
    DAVIS, LLOYD S. / DARBY, JOHN T.
    Penguin Biology is the first broad-based collection of biological and ecological studies of these unique birds to be published since 1975. Topics have since become broad ecological hypotheses, not species-specific descriptions, and new technology has taken observations into the oceanic depths. Penguin Biology shows new techniques and the applications mad of them in contemporary...

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  • RACE-RELATIONS IN ANCIENT EGYPT
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    RACE-RELATIONS IN ANCIENT EGYPT
    S. DAVIS
    Race-Relations in Ancient Egypt (1951) examines the change in interpretation of the term ‘Greek’ which before Alexander the Great had stood for exclusiveness and indicated a citizen of a narrow Greek city-state, to the meaning of ‘a Greek mental outlook’ and ‘to have Greek culture’. Race relations between Greeks, Jews and Romans in Egypt and Alexandria are examined, and fresh l...

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  • FOOD AND BEVERAGE MANAGEMENT
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    FOOD AND BEVERAGE MANAGEMENT
    ANDREW LOCKWOOD / IOANNIS S. PANTELIDIS / MARK ASHTON / BERNARD DAVIS
    This introductory textbook provides a thorough guide to the management of food and beverage outlets, from their day-to-day running through to the wider concerns of the hospitality industry. It explores the broad range of subject areas that encompass the food and beverage market and its main sectors – fast food and casual dining, hotels and quality restaurants, events, and indus...

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  • A DEAR-BOUGHT VICTORY
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    A DEAR-BOUGHT VICTORY
    DANIEL T. DAVIS / PHILLIP S. GREENWALT
    “I wish we could sell them another hill at the same price we did Bunker Hill,” Nathanael Greene wrote to the governor of Rhode Island after the battle of June 17, 1775. Fought on Breed’s Hill outside Boston, Massachusetts, the Battle of Bunker Hill proved a pyrrhic victory for British forces. Confident in their ability to overwhelm the New England militia that opposed them, lon...

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  • FOOD AND BEVERAGE MANAGEMENT
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    FOOD AND BEVERAGE MANAGEMENT
    ANDREW LOCKWOOD / IOANNIS S. PANTELIDIS / PETER ALCOTT / BERNARD DAVIS
    This introductory textbook provides a thorough guide to the management of food and beverage outlets, from their day-to-day running through to the wider concerns of the hospitality industry. It explores the broad range of subject areas that encompass the food and beverage market and its main sectors – fast food and casual dining, hotels and quality restaurants and event, industr...

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  • SMUT
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    SMUT
    MURRAY S. DAVIS
    Smut investigates sex in a way that differes from nearly all previous books on the subject. Drawing on a wide variety of literary forms, including the work of novelists, poets, and even comedians–resources ranging from the most sublime theologians to the most profane pornographers–Murray S. Davis goes beyond those who regard sex merely as a biological instinct or animal behavio...

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  • BLOODY AUTUMN
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    BLOODY AUTUMN
    DANIEL T. DAVIS / PHILLIP S. GREENWALT
    An "essential addition to serious students' libraries" detailing the historic military offensive that helped sway the outcome of the American Civil War ( Civil War News).   In the late summer of 1864, Union General-in-Chief Ulysses S. Grant set one absolutely unconditional goal: to sweep Virginia's Shenandoah Valley "clean and clear." His man for the job: Maj. Gen. "Little Phil...

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  • HER KIND OF WANT
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    HER KIND OF WANT
    JENNIFER S. DAVIS
    Set mainly in the small towns of Alabama, the stories in Her Kind of Want ache with the relentless longing of the poor, struggling, usually discarded southern women who tell us their lives—lives that seem to revolve around men whose only presence is their absence. Bebe, Luna, Melly, Little Hula, Dena. These are just a few of the women we meet in Jennifer Davis's award-winning c...

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