Product Description: Events of historical significance so often begin with the chance meeting of unlikely collaborators. There could hardly be a more improbable partnership than that of a Scottish marine engineer, an entrepreneurial circus owner and the son of a mallee farmer...read more

Product Description: An accessible and up to date introduction to the key theme of policing and young people. This text gives a comprehensive overview of the issues involved in working with young people as offenders, suspects, witnesses, victims and citizens...read more

Product Description: This book provides a highly readable account of police work. It builds upon Introduction to Police Work (Rogers and Lewis 2007) to provide a comprehensive, in depth and critical understanding of policing in today's diverse society...read more

Product Description: This practical guide to developing leadership skills in policing examines the qualities that make up a good leader, providing a variety of examples of good leadership approaches in various policing contexts. Police organizations are increasingly recognizing the role of leadership at every level of the police hierarchy; with police officers involving themselves with partnership work, attending and facilitating public meetings and heading neighborhood policing teams, as well as their more traditional police work...read more

Product Description: Policing is in a profound period of change, the result of recent government reform, a renewed drive for professionalism as well as the need to adapt to a rapidly changing society. This book provides a highly readable and up to date introduction to the work of the police, exploring what this currently involved and the directions it may be going in...read more

Product Description: Since 1194 it has been the duty of coroners to investigate the circumstances of unnatural, sudden, or suspicious deaths, and of deaths in prison. Their records are extensive, and, until now, notoriously difficult to track down. This little guidebook is actually the first effort ever made to itemize all coroners' records in England and Wales now in public repositories, and it has made a relatively impossible task relatively simple...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This volume provides a history of, and an argument for, group work in schools, as well as practical ideas showing how groups can benefit learning. The authors draw on their own experiences, and relate their ideas to theory.

Product Description: This volume provides a history of, and an argument for, group work in schools, as well as practical ideas showing how groups can benefit learning. The authors draw on their own experiences, and relate their ideas to theory.

Product Description: In the developing area of nonlinear mathematics, there are a large number of classes of nonlinear equations which have received attention. This collection of 11 articles addresses a number of physically motivated systems for which considerable theory is available, such as reaction-diffusion systems and elasticity...read more

Product Description: Published annually since 1832, electoral registers list the names and addresses of everyone entitled to vote, noting the qualifications which brought each voter onto the register, such as current residence or ownership of property...read more

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