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Crime and Public Policy offers the most comprehensive and balanced guide to how the latest and best social science research informs the understanding of crime and its control for policymakers, community leaders, and students of crime and criminal justice. Each essay reviews the existing literature, discusses the methodological rigor of the studies,...

This is the long-awaited publication of a set of writings by the British philosopher, historian, and archaeologist R.G. Collingwood (1889-1943) on critical, anthropological, and cultural themes only hinted at in his previously available work. At the core are six essays on folktale and magic in which Collingwood applies the principles of his...

The  Economist's Best Business Book of the Year,  The Modern Firm is written by one of the world's leading economists and experts on business strategy and organization, and provides new insights into the changes going on in business today....

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And what they tell us about evolution and developmentFrom two-legged goats and double-headed snakes, to 'Cyclops' infants with a single        eye in the middle of their forehead, Mark S. Blumberg looks at 'freak' bodily        anomalies in both humans and other animals to reveal how such deformities provide        valuable windows on the intimate...

From handshakes and toasts to chant and genuflection, ritual pervades our social        interactions and religious practices. Still, few of us could identify all of our        daily and festal ritual behaviors, much less explain them to an outsider. Similarly,        because of the variety of activities that qualify as ritual and their...