Violence, Civilians, and Revolutionary Group Behavior
Offers an understanding of insurgency and explains the changing behavior of insurgent groups toward the civilians they claim to represent. This book seeks to establish whether contemporary subcultures display modern or postmodern sensibilities and forms.
Violence, Civilians, and Revolutionary Group Behavior
Offers an understanding of insurgency and explains the changing behavior of insurgent groups toward the civilians they claim to represent. This book seeks to establish whether contemporary subcultures display modern or postmodern sensibilities and forms.
Kinship care the care of children by grandparents, other relatives or friends is a major part of foster care, yet there are distinct issues that arise in care involving family rather than 'stranger' foster carers.This book takes an in-depth look at what goes on 'inside' kinship care. It explores the dynamics and relationships between family ......
Incarcerated People on the Failures of the American Prison
A powerful critique of mass incarceration by the people who have experienced it Inside Knowledge is the first book to examine the American prison system through the eyes of those who are trapped within it. Drawing from the writings collected in the American Prison Writing Archive, Doran Larson deftly illustrates how mass incarceration does less ......
Documents Noam Chomsky's visit to Lebanon, in May 2006, to lecture on US imperialism and the imminent crises facing the Middle East - two months before Israel orchestrated major military campaigns against Lebanon and Palestine. This work situates Israel's attacks and the position of Hizbullah and Hamas in this conflict.
Documents Noam Chomsky's visit to Lebanon, in May 2006, to lecture on US imperialism. This book describes Chomsky's journey and situates it within the tragically altered context of Lebanon and Palestine before and after the war of 2006. Its essays provide a framework for understanding the role of US politics and power in these conflicts.
Linda Lovelace, the star of 1972's XXX-rated film Deep Throat, is the most notorious actress of the 20th century. She married Chuck Traynor, who forced her at gunpoint into performing hardcore 'loops', confiscated her earnings from Deep Throat and pimped her out to celebrities. After a decade of assault and humiliation, Linda launched an ......
Evaluating Security Communication Failures at a United States Commerci
This study explores whether miscommunication among the TSA agents and airport employees relates to effective implementation of airport security policies. The central question focuses on the degree to which miscommunication regarding prohibited items at security checkpoints imp...
High Technology and Organizational Change in the U.S. Space Program
Inside NASA explores how an agency praised for its planetary probes and expeditions to the moon became notorious for the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger and a series of other malfunctions. Using archival evidence as well as in-depth interviews with space agency officials, Howard McCurdy investigates the relationship between the ......
