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Towards the end of his second term, it appears George W. Bush''s foreign policy has won few admirers, with pundits and politicians eagerly and opportunistically bashing the tenets of the Bush Doctrine. This provocative account dares to counter the dogma of Bush''s Beltway detractors and his ideological enemies, boldly arguing that Bush''s policy deservedly belongs within the mainstream of the American foreign policy tradition. Though the shifting tide of public opinion has led many to anticipate that his successor will repudiate the actions of the past eight years, authors Timothy Lynch and Robert S. Singh suggest that there will-and should-be continuity in US foreign policy from his Presidency to those who follow. Providing a positive audit of the war on terror (which they contend should be understood as a Second Cold War) they charge that the Bush Doctrine has been consistent with past foreign policies-from Republican and Democratic presidencies-and that the key elements of Bush''s grand strategy will rightly continue to shape America''s approach in the future. Above all, they predict that his successors will pursue the war against Islamist terror with similar dedication.

Drawing on the work of Allan Schnaiberg, this book returns political economy to green criminology and examines how the expansion of capitalism shapes environmental law, crime and justice. The book is organized around crimes of ecological withdrawals and ecological additions. The Treadmill of Crime is written by acclaimed experts on the subject of green criminology and examines issues such as the crime in the energy sector as well as the release of toxic waste into the environment and its impact on ecosystems. This book also sets a new research agenda by highlighting problems of ecological disorganization for animal abuse and social disorganization. This book will be of interest to students, researchers and academics in the fields of criminology, political science, environmental sociology, and natural resources.

The considerations involved in combining data compression and error control coding in space telemetry are analyzed through the use of two performance measures, D and R, which are similar to those measures used by Shannon for his rate distortion function. The average distortion D is a function of the source probability distribution, the overall system transitional probability matrix, and a cost matrix which signifies the relative importance of different types of data errors. The rate-ratio R is the reciprocal of the overall system compression ratio and includes the data expansion effect of additional timing data, identification data, and coding redundancy. Different schemes for supplying the timing information in a compressed system are analyzed and compared. A new timing scheme is developed which requires, on the average, fewer time words for a large class of data sources. A method is developed for uniquely encoding and decoding an entire sequence of time words for compressed data, utilizing the strict monotonicity of the sequence. The effects of the following system parameters and properties on the overall distortion and rate-ratio are analyzed: the error-control usefulness of natural data redundancy, errors in time information, the error-control usefulness of time word monotonicity, the probability distribution of the source, the bit-error probability of a binary symmetric channel, and the word compression ratio. A rationale for comparing and choosing among three systems--uncompressed-uncoded, compressed-uncoded, and compressed-coded--is given in terms of the performance measures D and R.

Social security and the nationalization of health services. Historical development of health insurance, occupational pension schemes and old age benefits in Germany, Federal Republic and Austria. The role of the physician and administrative aspects of medicine in the USSR. Occupational diseases, and aspects of medical care in Australia, New Zealand, Sweden and the UK, including research, recruitment, planning and the economic implications. Statistical tables. References.

The third edition of this text defines radical criminology as a way of doing criminology that frames the problem of crime in terms of class, race, gender, culture and history. Whereas the preceding edition, published in 1989, viewed social class as the central focus of radical criminology, over the past decade the scope of radical criminology has expanded to include race, gender, culture, history, post-modernism and left-realism, among other movements.

Eddie Haskell was the bad kid who never went away. When child actor Ken Osmond stepped onto the set of Leave it to Beaver in 1957, he not only entered our living rooms, he homesteaded a permanant place in American pop culture. The poster child for sneaky, rotten kids everywhere, he was the reference point for cautious mothers to warn their children about. And every one in America knew an Eddie Haskell at some point in his or her life. The amazing phenomenon of Ken Osmond''s character is still going strong, over half a century after the show''s cancellation. Even today, the name Eddie Haskell remains firmly entrenched in the American lexicon. Political foes from both sides of the ideological spectrum love to accuse their opponents of ''acting like Eddie Haskell, '' and when Kobe Bryant argues a referee''s call, tweets go out labeling him and ''Eddie Haskell''. Psychology Today Magazine has published articles about recognizing and treatin the ''Eddie Haskell Syndrome'' and Matt Groening created Bart Simpson as his own version of the ''son of Eddie Haskell.'' Now it''s time to meet Ken Osmond, the man behind America''s preeminent bad boy. A man who, as co-star Jerry Mathers said, ''Was the best actor on the program, because he was so diametrically opposed to the character he played.'' A devoted husband, father, and patriot, he''s a man who''s been forever shadowed by Eddie Haskell, but whose own life, was even more amazing than the character he portrayed (from Amazon website)

Environmental harms associated with pollution of the air, land, and water kill and injure more people than street crime on an annual and daily basis. Financially, the losses associated with environmental damage are enormous. Environmental Law, Crime, and Justice addresses these issues through providing an introduction to the study of environmental issues pertinent to the study of environmental crime, contemporary environmental law, environmental policy, and environmental justice. This book blends together areas that are often treated or studied individually or in isolation from one another. Designed for classroom use, Environmental Law, Crime, and Justice exposes readers to the variety of issues involved in the study of environmental law, crime and justice; illustrates the serious nature of these problems; and demonstrates how readers can and should become involved in studying environmental crime, law, and crime."--BOOK JACKET.

A washed up trophy-wife, a recklessly ambitious cop, and one very ticked off Russian Mobster. Professional blackmailer John Sharp, AKA One Eyed Jack, is in the fight of his life, and engaged in a deadly cat and mouse game with his long-time nemesis. Surviving only by his cunning and street smarts, he must return to his painful past, and to the only person who can help him stop his arch enemy once and for all.

"Environmental Crime: A Sourcebook provides ideas, tools, and data to investigate environmental offenses. Burns and Lynch urge readers to recognize the availability of a wide array of data regarding environmental offenses and provide bibliographic tools to locate this data. They also provide data sets and examples of data available from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and state agencies charged with enforcing environmental laws. Specific sections describe EPA resources, accessing and downloading EPA and other environmental law compliance and violation data, methods of compiling EPA data, actual environmental crime data sets, and research that can be performed using these data. Written in a non-technical manner, the book is designed to provide readers from all backgrounds with an understanding of environmental crime and the avenues by which it can be recognized and researched."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

A single source, comprehensive and authoritative reference on diseases of both male and female genitalia. The book covers the clinical presentation, diagnostic features, pathogenesis, treatment and prognosis of more than 100 diseases affecting the anogenital region of men and women. separate chapters devoted to special topics problem orientated approach facilitates diagnosis and makes book particularly useful to those gaining experience in the specialty 180 full colour clinical photos enhance learning and help confirm diagnoses the author''s vast experience and internationally recognized reputations make the book reliable and authoritative the whole text is written by two authors, making it readable and coherent

The contents of this book include the Marxist theories on state and law, the radical concept of crime, incipient radicalism: conflict and labeling approaches, the causes of crime: a radical view, traditional contributions to radical criminology, the radical perspective on policing, the American court system: a justice model, a critical interpretation of punishment and corrections,and the policy implications of the radical position.