
Rethinking Punishment: Challenging Conventions in Research and Policy
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There are visible signs that the "get-tough" era of punishment is finally winding down. A...

Mother Leakey and the Bishop: A Ghost Story
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Halloween 1636: sightings of the ghost of an old woman begin to be reported in the small English...
Water Management: A New Water Architecture
Michael Norton, Sandra Ryan and Alexander Lane
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Over 7 billion people demand water from resources that the changing climate is making more and more...
Brooklyn Interiors: From Burnished to Polished, from Modern to Magpie
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These days, Brooklyn is more than a place-it's become a symbol for a whole style of living, one that...

Six Minutes in Berlin: Broadcast Spectacle and Rowing Gold at the Nazi Olympics
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The Berlin Olympics, August 14, 1936. German rowers, dominant at the Games, line up against...

The Abbey Rebels of 1916: A Lost Revolution
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The Abbey Theatre played a leading role in the politicisation of the revolutionary generation that...

The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
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The Darkening Age is the largely unknown story of how a militant religion comprehensively and...

The Last of the Tsars: Nicholas II and the Russian Revolution
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In March 1917, Nicholas II, the last Tsar of All the Russias, abdicated and the dynasty that had...

The Social History of Agriculture: From the Origins to the Current Crisis
Christopher M. Isett and Stephen Miller
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This innovative text provides a compelling narrative world history through the lens of food and...