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  • Reshaping True Crime Stories from the Global Margins

    Voicing the Less Dead

    by Francesca Borrione, Heather J. Macpherson, Robert A. Brooks, Jeffrey W. Cohen, Rebecca Frost, Alisha Grech, Abdullah Khoso, Sony Jalarajan Raj, Adith K. Suresh0, Marissa A. Zerangue1 ...
    When vulnerable populations are rendered socially invisible, decisions about which cases are amplified and which are neglected reveal deeper hierarchies of value.Reshaping True Crime Stories from the Global Margins: Voicing the Less Dead draws on criminal cases, news coverage, and media analysis from around the world to examine the thousands of missing and murdered individuals from marginalized ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Criminology Explains School Bullying

    by Robert A. Brooks, Jeffrey W. Cohen ...
    Series Book 2 - Criminology Explains
    In this book, Robert A. Brooks and Jeffrey W. Cohen provide a concise, targeted overview of the major criminological theories to explain the phenomenon of school bullying, bringing to life what is often dense and confusing material with concrete case examples. Criminology Explains School Bullying is a valuable resource in criminology or juvenile delinquency classes, as well as special-topics ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Cheaper by the Hour

    Temporary Lawyers and the Deprofessionalization of the Law

    by Robert A. Brooks ...
    Recent law school graduates often work as temporary attorneys, but law firm layoffs and downsizing have strengthened the temporary attorney industry. Cheaper by the Hour is the first book-length account of these workers.Drawing from participant observation and interviews, Robert A. Brooks provides a richly detailed ethnographic account of freelance attorneys in Washington, DC. He places their ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Management Consulting

    Edited by Matthias Kipping, Timothy Clark ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Management consultants of various kinds play an important role in the world of business, and within other types of organization. The Oxford Handbook on Management Consulting is a comprehensive overview of thinking and research on management consultancy with contributions from leading international scholars. The first section provides an account of the historical developments in management ... Read more

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  • The Economics of Rising Inequalities

    Edited by Daniel Cohen, Thomas Piketty, Gilles Saint-Paul ...
    This book is an in-depth discussion of rising inequalities in the western world. It explores the extent to which rising inequalities are the mechanical consequence of changes in economic fundamentals (such as changes in technological or demographic parameters), and to what extent they are the contingent consequences of country-specific and time-specific changes in institutions. Both the ... Read more

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  • Masculinities in Transition

    by V. Robinson, J. Hockey ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Contributing to feminist approaches to masculinities, this book examines men's contextual experiences of masculine identity. Drawing on new data which compares men as they move across and between public and domestic spaces, it explores the implications of this for the nature of contemporary masculinity. ... Read more

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  • Rediscovering Collective Bargaining

    Australia's Fair Work Act in International Perspective

    Edited by Breen Creighton, Anthony Forsyth ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context
    This book examines countries that have tried, with varying degrees of success, to use legislative strategies to encourage and support collective bargaining, including Australia’s Fair Work Act. It is the first major study of the operation and impact of the new collective bargaining framework introduced under the Fair Work Act, combining theoretical and practical perspectives. In addition, a number ... Read more

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  • The Politics of Value

    Three Movements to Change How We Think about the Economy

    by Jane L. Collins ...
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  • Knowledge Preservation Through Community of Practice

    Theoretical Issues and Empirical Evidence

    by Rocco Agrifoglio ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
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  • Social Democracy in Capitalist Society (Routledge Revivals)

    Working-Class Politics in Britain and Sweden

    by Richard Scase ...
    First published in 1977. This book considers the nature of industrial society, contemporary capitalism and the impact of political ideas on social structure. These ideas are discussed by reference to the impact of social democracy on the structure of capitalist society in a comparative analysis of Britain and Sweden — including an interview survey of industrial workers socio-political attitudes. ... Read more

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  • Where Have All the Senior Women Gone?

    9 Critical Job Assignments for Women Leaders

    by Ines Wichert ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
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    $49.49 USD