Product Description: Alcohol abuse remains a significant problem world-wide. The most commonly affected organ remains the liver with a risk of alcoholic liver disease (ALD) which can range from asymptomatic to alcoholic hepatitis to alcoholic cirrhosis...read more

Product Description: Stanley Cohen (1942-2013) has proven to be one of the most influential figures in the field of criminology and human rights within the last 40 years. His prolific work contributes not only to the study of crime, deviance and control but also to human rights...read more

Product Description: “A landmark in the fight against the death penalty. Extensively researched and brilliantly written.” Martin Garbus, criminal defense attorneyEvery day, innocent men across America are thrown into prison, betrayed by a faulty justice system, and robbed of their lives—either by decades-long sentences or the death penalty itself...read more

A remarkable series of stories shines the spotlight on the nation's criminal justice system, introducing more than a hundred true tales of people wrongly convicted of crimes and sentenced to death, including some of the people recently exonerated by the governor of Illinois. Original.

Product Description: Photonics is a term often used in relation to light-based circuits, but it is actually more inclusive, including the generation, emission, transmission, modulation and signal processing of light. Biophotonics is therefore a term which can be used to describe the development and application of optical techniques for the study of biological molecules, cells and tissues...read more

Product Description: You will be exposed to an aging Jewish man, raised in New York who now finds himself living in Russellville, Arkansas and coping with gut wrenching decisions he feels compelled to make concerning his faith. He is not alone in this spiritual quest as he is now in the company of a Christian Arkansas coalminer's daughter who is also open-minded to learn about Messianic Judaism and Yeshua (Jesus); the Messiah ...read more

Product Description: For Stanley Cohen, baseball is the prism through which he views the events of the last seventy years. In The Man in the Crowd, Cohen chronicles America’s changing mood and lifestyle from the years of World War II through the silent generation of the fifties, the revolutionary turmoil of the sixties through the social decay of the seventies, the excess of the eighties through the technological transformation of the nineties, up through the sobering uncertainty of the post- 9/11 present day...read more

Blocking out, turning a blind eye, shutting off, not wanting to know, wearing blinkers, seeing what we want to see ... these are all expressions of 'denial'. Alcoholics who refuse to recognize their condition, people who brush aside suspicions of their partner's infidelity, the wife who doesn't notice that her husband is abusing their daughter - are supposedly 'in denial'. Governments deny their responsibility for atrocities, and plan them to achieve 'maximum deniability'. Truth Commissions try to overcome the suppression and denial of past horrors. Bystander nations deny their responsibility to intervene. Do these phenomena have anything in common? When we deny, are we aware of what we are doing or is this an unconscious defence mechanism to protect us from unwelcome truths? Can there be cultures of denial? How do organizations like Amnesty and Oxfam try to overcome the public's apparent indifference to distant suffering and cruelty? Is denial always so bad - or do we need positive illusions to retain our sanity? States of Denial is the first comprehensive study of both the personal and political ways in which uncomfortable realities are avoided and evaded. It ranges from clinical studies of depression, to media images of suffering, to explanations of the 'passive bystander' and 'compassion fatigue'. The book shows how organized atrocities - the Holocaust and other genocides, torture, and political massacres - are denied by perpetrators and by bystanders, those who stand by and do nothing.

The author looks back on his career as one of America's most ferocious defenders of the First Amendment, which began with his defense of Lenny Bruce and has earned him time in jail and other tribulations

Product Description: A small-time gambler shot dead in the heart of Times Square. Gangland gunmen and conspirators running for cover. A cop on the take charged with murder and facing execution. New York in 1912, a city in transformation. Award-winning journalist and author Stanley Cohen has re-created the infamous Becker-Rosenthal affair in a book that reads like a historical Law & Order...read more

Product Description: While crime, law, and punishment are subjects that have everyday meanings not very far from their academic representations, "social control" is one of those terms that appear in the sociological discourse without any corresponding everyday usage...read more

Stanley Cohen's study of Mods and Rockers in the 1960s was a foundational text both in terms of investigating the workings of subcultural groups and identifying the concept of a 'moral panic' generated by the media, which leads to groups being vilified in the popular imagination, and inhibits rational debate about solutions to the social problems such groups represent. The insights Cohen provides into subculture and mass morality are as relevant today as they were when the book was originally published in 1972, as illustrated by the author's introduction for this new edition, in which he tracks moral panics over the last thirty years, commenting on the demonization of young offenders and asylum seekers and on the News of the World's 'name and shame' campaign against paedophiles.Revisiting the theory of moral panic and exploring the way in which the concept has been used, this new edition features a select bibliography of key texts for further reading. The third edition of Folk Devils and Moral Panics makes available a valuable and widely recommended text.

Product Description: "The Risk Taker" is a rollercoaster ride through third world countries, with curves of violence and intrigue. It's the story of a man who experiences exhilaration, despair, danger, and who lives on the edge.

A dozen of the leading authors of mystery and suspense introduce an entertaining anthology of all-original mystery stories that focus on the hidden secrets and motivations that can bring out the murderous impulses of various members of the family, in works by Mary Higgins Clark, Lawrence Block, Peter Straub, Whitley Strieber, and other notable authors. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Book by Cohen, Stanley

A chronicle of the 1949-1950 college basketball season describes how the unranked team from the City College of New York overcame the intense competition to take the titles in both the NCAA championship and the National Invitation Tournament and details the scandal involving fixed games that followed. Reprint.

Product Description: ...a kidnapping story that is appealing instead of vicious...relief in the steady stream of violent crime stories. Publishers' Weekly You'll like Gary; he's puny but spunky. Kirkus Reviews ..marvelously developed, (Taking Gary Feldman) makes for a suspense novel as fresh and innovative as the reader could wish...read more

Product Description: Set in Manhattan's East Village, Angel Face is the story of Johnny Blanton- "Quick"- a disturbed young boy who is so angelic-looking that no one can believe him guilty of any crime. It is also the story of Stefan Kornienko, a NYC policeman who, against orders, begins a hunt for the elusive boy that theatens to turn into an obsession...read more

Product Description: Laced with warmth, anguish, shocks, surprises, and the joys of touching, TELL US JERRY SILVER, HOW DO YOU REALLY FEEL? Is an important addition to the literature on sensitivity training, or encounter group therapy, because of its scrupulously honest treatment of a subject so often sensationalized...read more