"The best organized and most comprehensive theory textbook to use for both graduate and undergraduate students. It provides historical context to the theories, and the authors make it easier for students to relate theory to reality." —Mirlinda Ndrecka, Ph.D., University of New Haven Updated Edition of a Best-Seller! Offering a rich introduction to how scholars analyze crime, Criminological Theory: Context and Consequences moves readers beyond a commonsense knowledge of crime to a deeper understanding of the importance of theory in shaping crime control policies. The Seventh Edition of the authors’ clear, accessible, and thoroughly revised text covers traditional and contemporary theory within a larger sociological and historical context. It includes new sources that assess the empirical status of the major theories, as well as updated coverage of crime control policies and their connection to criminological theory.

Examines the climactic and economic origins of the last national famine to occur in Scotland

This book is written in a simple, straightforward manner without complicated mathematical derivatives. Compiled by experienced practitioners, this guide covers topics such as basic principles of vadose zone hydrology and prevalent monitoring techniques. Case studies present actual field experiences for the benefit of the reader. The Handbook provides practitioners with the information they need to fully understand the principles, advantages, and limitations of the monitoring techniques that are available. The Handbook of Vadose Zone Characterization & Monitoring expands and consolidates the useful and succint information contained in various ASTM documents, EPA manuals, and other similar texts on the subject, making it an invaluable aid to new practioners and a useful reference for seasoned veterans in the field.

In February of 1945, the Third Reich is in its death throes. The ideological madness that spawned murder and genocide has run its course. But one massive shudder is left in the dying beast and ten thousand American and British airmen, held captive at Stalag Luft III by their Luftwaffe counterparts, are caught up in the cataclysmic event. Hitler has ordered their execution. S General Ernst Dietrich, commander of the SS division responsible for the personal safety of the Fuhrer, is given the assignment. He in turn directs one of his field commanders, General von Hacker to carry out the job. Forewarned, Camp Commandant, Hauptman Kettenbach, is appalled by the SS order. He splits his charges into two groups and sends the smaller one, a decoy group of two thousand, to the prearranged railhead at the town of Spremberg. In command is his aide, Unteroffizier Kurt Osterman. The ruse works, allowing the remaining eight thousand POW's to be evacuated, undetected, out of the area. Colonel Jackson, the senior American officer of the decoy group, is told by Osterman of the Spremberg destination and that it is the initial evacuation point from the Russian advance; however, he is not told of the SS threat nor of his captor's duplicity. Jackson's second in command, Lieutenant Colonel Benton, rugged and obsessively anti-German, advocates a violent takeover from Osterman and a dash to the Russian lines, just 70 kilometers away. Jackson puts the suggestion on hold and is supported by the ranking British officer, Major Boyle, a tank battalion commander and the only "ground pounder" in camp. As the 150 kilometer march to Spremberg begins in below freezing weather, the drama unfolds, revealing Osterman's vendetta, as well as his plan to combat the SS column of executioners. Ultimately a strange alliance between the prisoners and their German captors is struck and the battle with the SS begins and ends with Osterman and Dietrich in mortal combat.

Changes that have occurred over the past decade in taxonomic thinking and public attitude toward plants and wildlife in general are reflected in this completely revised and updated third edition. This informational guide is intended for anyone with a practical interest in plant identification and the desire to understand the scientific basis of the identification procedure. It enables the reader to identify all flowering plant families normally found in the wild or in cultivation (outside or under glass) in northern temperate regions. The text is self-contained, with illustrated discussions of floral structure and terminology. There are full bracketed keys (to the 272 families included) with a comprehensive section explaining their use. The Engler and Pranti system has been adopted as the basis for the recognition of families and their taxonomic sequence. Also included are a glossary and a chapter of further advice on identification.

This is the true story of a little child called Patrick, who was one of five little brothers that came through, what seemed like a strange world full of bombs dropping, causing big fires and total destruction on a massive scale, every morning I would wake up to see new Wendy houses to play in not realizing someone lived there the day before, and the houses were still burning it was nice and warm, food was so scarce it was rationed so much so we had a plot of land where the family tried to grow our own food, sweets and fruit I did not see until I was 14yrs old, as for toys well you just made your own if you could, what the war failed to do was any damage to Manchester folks wicked sense of humour, thats why to me they will always be the salt of the earth and I should know I am one of them. There is an old saying, you can take the child out of Manchester, but you will never take Manchester out of the child. The best way to give you an understanding about the war is this, if you can imagine that almost every single nation on this planet was involved in the fighting for 6 long years, with the exception of Spain Switzerland & Sweden who were neutral.

Examines the main features of the statistical movement in early Victorian Britain, especially in the 1830s and 1840s until its demise in 1852, in order to find out how it organized itself, to assess its achievements and to discover a distinctive philosophy, if it had one. Most of the social statisticians of the time are included here and their activities are introduced by a survey of British social statisticis from 1660 to 1830. The remainder of the book is divided into two parts: government departments and social statistics, 1832-1852; the statistical societies of London, Manchester, and of other provincial towns such as Glasgow, Bristol, Belfast and Leeds.