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This Reader combines classic material with more recent readings on the issues of gender and criminology and criminal justice. The Reader is divided in to sections which address female offenders (why is the behaviour of female offenders considered to be derivative of men?), female victims, control of women and girls, masculinity and crime and...

Cassoni is the Italian word for the chests, painted with scenes from myth and literature, central to upper-class weddings of the 15th century. Little known today, cassoni deserve recognition as masterworks of the Renaissance. Botticelli, Pesellino and other superlative artists painted them, and they are precious early examples of the mythopoetic...

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He was the only one in the room who could see it. His attention stayed there for one beat, two beats, three beats, far too long. Yet who could blame him for not being able to pull his gaze away from that? When something distracts Secrte Agent Sean King for a split second, it costs him his career and presidential candidate Clyde Ritter his life....

A Guide to the Artists, Ideas and Key WorksFilled with great masterpieces by such artists as Botticelli, Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, Masaccio, Piero della Francesca, Mantegna and Titian, 'Understanding Italian Renaissance Painting' takes a journey into their world. As in the acclaimed and innovative How to Read a Painting, each spread uses an...

R M Schindler (1887--1953) was a pivotal Modernist architect who remained largely unrecognized by the critical establishment during his lifetime. A pragmatist and theoretician, Schindler designed more than 500 projects, over 150 of which were built, most of these in the Los Angeles area, where he settled in 1920.Trained in Vienna and influenced by...