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  • Kuohujen Keskella; valikoima vankila y.m. runoja Kuohujen Keskella; valikoima vankila y.m. runoja
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    Kuohujen Keskella; valikoima vankila y.m. runoja

    "Kuohujen Keskella" is a collection of poems by Osmo Orjanheimo, published in 1921. The title translates to "Amidst the Rapids," and the poems within offer a glimpse into the experiences of prison life and related themes. Written in Finnish, this...
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  • Vocational Guidance for the Professions Vocational Guidance for the Professions
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    Vocational Guidance for the Professions

    Vocational Guidance for the Professions offers timeless advice for individuals seeking fulfilling and impactful careers. Written by Edwin Tenney Brewster, this book provides practical guidance on navigating the professional landscape and making informed...
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  • Hind-sights; or, Looking Backward at Swindles Hind-sights; or, Looking Backward at Swindles
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    Hind-sights; or, Looking Backward at Swindles

    "Hind-sights; or, Looking Backward at Swindles" delves into the world of 19th-century frauds and misrepresentations, offering a historical perspective on deceptive practices. John J. Dillon explores various swindles, providing insight into the methods...
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  • Law and Order Reconsidered; Report of the Task Force on Law and Law Enforcement to the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence Law and Order Reconsidered; Report of the Task Force on Law and Law Enforcement to the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence
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    Law and Order Reconsidered; Report of the Task Force on Law and Law Enforcement to the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence

    Law and Order Reconsidered presents the comprehensive report of the Task Force on Law and Law Enforcement to the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence. Authored by James Sargent Campbell, Joseph R. Sahid, and David P. Stang, this...
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  • The Federal Civil Service As a Career The Federal Civil Service As a Career
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    The Federal Civil Service As a Career

    "The Federal Civil Service As a Career" offers a comprehensive guide for individuals seeking employment within the United States government. Written in 1909 by El Bie Kean Foltz, this manual provides valuable insights into the application process, job...
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    Store Bought Baby

    Discover how to break free from the insecurity, codependence, and toxic beliefs that trap good girls and women everywhere.In Store Bought Baby, Laura Melane unravels the complex emotions of growing up adopted, feeling different, and battling a deep sense...
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  • Run With Me Run With Me
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    Run With Me

    When volunteer dog walker, Brynn, grows to love two dogs at the animal shelter, she vows to find them both the best forever homes. Brewski found himself living in a large animal shelter filled with unfamiliar faces and is filled with fear and uncertainty...
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  • Lawmen And Lawlessness Lawmen And Lawlessness
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    Lawmen And Lawlessness

    Lawmen and Lawlessness is a dramatic, narrative, account of the sheriff s of Berkeley County, South Carolina from 1882 to 1970. The first-person accounts of manhunts, shoot-outs, ruckus trials and ghastly public executions put the reader in the middle of...
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  • The Crown and the Scars The Crown and the Scars
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    The Crown and the Scars

    The Crown And The Scars is a raw and powerful memoir of survival, resilience, and redemption. Nowa Arktreshia takes readers on a journey through the darkest moments of her life-enduring childhood trauma, navigating the foster care system, and facing the...
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  • Beat the Burnout Beat the Burnout
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    Beat the Burnout

    Live Well. Serve Strong.In high-stakes domains like frontline professions, we have to be intensely driven about what we do. Yet, sometimes, the demands and our passion burn so brightly that it leaves us feeling drained, agitated, and distracted. This...
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  • Wing of an Angel Wing of an Angel
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    Wing of an Angel

    <p>Discover how one woman's courage to act against overwhelming odds changed her life and the lives of those around her in Wing of an Angel.<br></p><p>This hard-hitting memoir by JB Hollows draws on ten years of experience in the...
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  • Your Retirement Your Retirement
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    Your Retirement

    Despite our best planning efforts, the sad reality is that the current system of retirement planning in America ends up in failure for as many as 70 percent of our nation's retirees.What does retirement failure look like? Author, radio host, and...
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  • ESO Guidebook ESO Guidebook
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    ESO Guidebook

    Emergency Services Officers, Paramedics and Nurses in the mining and resources sector operate in some of the world's most challenging environments. Whether responding to medical incidents, fire and rescue, HAZMAT situations, or mine site emergencies. An...
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    Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish

    Twenty Things Adoptive Kids Wish devotional gives adoptive families encouragement as they seek God to work through the emotions unique to their family. Daily 365 inspiring devotions are filled with Scripture and authentic insight into the heart of...
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  • Boy and Girl Tramps of America Boy and Girl Tramps of America
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    Boy and Girl Tramps of America

    In 1933 and 1934, Thomas Minehan, a young sociologist at the University of Minnesota, joined the ranks of a roving army of 250,000 boys and girls torn from their homes during the Great Depression. Disguised in old clothes, he hopped freight trains...
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  • Equipping Quality Youth Development Professionals Equipping Quality Youth Development Professionals
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    Equipping Quality Youth Development Professionals

    Whether you are a seasonal volunteer, group leader or full-time professional, you need practical advice on how to provide young people with the tools they need to succeed. Equipping Quality Youth Development Professionals-E-QYP for short-provides best...
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  • Understanding the Trauma of Children from Institutions. Understanding the Trauma of Children from Institutions.
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    Understanding the Trauma of Children from Institutions.

    This book was written for anyone who works on the ground to move children from institutions into families. You as a social worker, case manager, counsellor, or person otherwise involved in this process need to be aware of the issues addressed in this...
    $41.00

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  • Active Shooter Events and Response Active Shooter Events and Response
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    Active Shooter Events and Response

    The Columbine tragedy on April 20, 1999 began a new era in law enforcement as it became apparent that the police response to such mass shootings must be drastically altered. By the time the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting occurred on December 14,...
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    Tomando La Seguridad En Serio

    El propósito de manual de entrenamiento para Guardias de Seguridad, tiene como meta principal preparar y enseñarles a estos servidores, cuales son sus deberes y responsabilidades. Con este entrenamiento, el Guardia de Seguridad se prepara para su próximo...
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  • Mental Retardation in the Year 2000 Mental Retardation in the Year 2000
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    Mental Retardation in the Year 2000

    When you look at the advances in the field of mental retardation over the past 30 years, it is hard to imagine that more change is inevitable. Yet, I think back to the time when, early in his presidency, President Kennedy...
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  • Coping, Behavior, and Adaptation in Prison Inmates Coping, Behavior, and Adaptation in Prison Inmates
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    Coping, Behavior, and Adaptation in Prison Inmates

    This book is the report of a collaborative effort. Frank Porporino and I arrived at the starting point for our work together by very different routes. Originally trained as an experimental psychologist, I had become in­...
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  • U.S. Government Counterterrorism U.S. Government Counterterrorism
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    U.S. Government Counterterrorism

    U.S. Government Counterterrorism: A Guide to Who Does What is the first readily available, unclassified guide to the many U.S. government agencies, bureau offices, and programs involved in all aspects of countering terrorism domestically and overseas...
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  • Gang Injunctions and Abatement Gang Injunctions and Abatement
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    Gang Injunctions and Abatement

    As gang violence continues to rise across the country and the world, police departments, prosecutors, and community members are seeking new methods to reduce the spread of gang-related criminal activity. Civil gang injunctions have become a growing...
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  • Karch's Pathology of Drug Abuse Karch's Pathology of Drug Abuse
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    Karch's Pathology of Drug Abuse

    Written in the same accessible manner as previous editions, the fifth edition of Karch's Pathology of Drug Abuse is an essential guide to the pathology, toxicology, and pharmacology of commonly abused drugs. The book focuses on the investigation of...
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  • Juvenile Offenders and Guns Juvenile Offenders and Guns
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    Juvenile Offenders and Guns

    Juvenile Offenders and Guns explores how and why twenty-five incarcerated young men of color acquired and used guns, and how guns made them feel. Guns have multiple meanings and serve many purposes for these youth as they attempt to construct a capable...
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  • Policing Football Policing Football
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    Policing Football

    This book presents a critical portrait of the British police through a detailed ethnography of their work at football matches. Megan O'Neill not only sheds light on a topic of intense media interest, football hooliganism, but also presents the police in...
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  • The Word of a Woman? The Word of a Woman?
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    The Word of a Woman?

    The notion that women lie about rape is a prevalent belief with pervasive influence. This book is unique in combining police file data with interviews obtained from both rape survivors and detectives in order to critically explore how this belief affects...
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  • Women, Crime and Language Women, Crime and Language
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    Women, Crime and Language

    Women, Crime and Language examines the relationships between discourses of crime and gender: how women are represented in fiction and reportage, and how they have represented themselves. Frances Gray explores a number of high-profile cases from the...
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  • Housing Decisions in Later Life Housing Decisions in Later Life
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    Housing Decisions in Later Life

    This book examines the processes by which older people make housing decisions and the impact such decisions have on the construction of their lives. Evidence is included from a major three-year research study, where older people told stories of their...
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  • Traffickers Traffickers
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    Traffickers

    Presents new findings into the most mythologised and least understood area of crime and law enforcement, describing the world of drug trafficking in the words of traffickers and detectives.
    $373.00

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  • Ethics and Social Security Reform Ethics and Social Security Reform
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    Ethics and Social Security Reform

    This title was first published in 2001. Ethical considerations play a key role in both the theoretical and practical functioning of the welfare state. The contributors to this book examine these ethical issues, and demonstrate how value judgements must...
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  • Promotion of Mental Health Promotion of Mental Health
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    Promotion of Mental Health

    This title was first published in 2001. Addressing a range of key theoretical and practical issues, this volume is the latest in an important series proceeding from the Annual Conference on the Promotion of Mental Health. It will be essential reading for...
    $296.00

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  • Women's Imprisonment and the Case for Abolition Women's Imprisonment and the Case for Abolition
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    Women's Imprisonment and the Case for Abolition

    In 2007, the Corston Report recommended a far-reaching, radical, 'women-centred' approach to women's imprisonment in England and Wales. It suggested a 'fundamental re-thinking' about how services to support women in conflict with the law are delivered in...
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  • Substance Abuse and the Family Substance Abuse and the Family
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    Substance Abuse and the Family

    In this updated edition of Substance Abuse and the Family, Michael D. Reiter examines addiction through a family systems lens which considers a range of interconnected contexts, such as biology and genetics, family relationships, and larger systems...
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  • Rural Crime Prevention Rural Crime Prevention
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    Rural Crime Prevention

    Rural crime has long been overlooked in the field of crime prevention. Sustained academic interrogation is necessary, therefore, to reduce the extensive economic and social costs of rural crime as well as to challenge some of the myths regarding the...
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  • Understanding Drug Dealing and Illicit Drug Markets Understanding Drug Dealing and Illicit Drug Markets
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    Understanding Drug Dealing and Illicit Drug Markets

    This book examines the drug dealer in contemporary society from an interdisciplinary perspective and considers the increasingly blurred demarcation between illegitimate and legitimate drug markets. It explores the motives and drivers of those involved in...
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  • The Process and Structure of Crime The Process and Structure of Crime
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    The Process and Structure of Crime

    Criminology has developed strong methodological tools over the past decades, establishing itself as a competitive, sophisticated, and independent social science. Perhaps because of its emphasis on matters of design, methodology, and quantitative...
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  • Qualitative Research Skills for Social Work Qualitative Research Skills for Social Work
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    Qualitative Research Skills for Social Work

    Malcolm Carey provides social work students, academics and practitioners with a practical guide that escorts them through the research process relating to the completion of a small-scale qualitative project or dissertation.
    $373.00

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  • Towards Quality Care Towards Quality Care
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    Towards Quality Care

    This unique evaluation of the outcomes of residential and nursing home care for older people identifies the factors determining the quality of life of older people who have moved into care homes. It examines the relationship between older people's...
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  • Health Care in Rural China Health Care in Rural China
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    Health Care in Rural China

    This work examines health, defined in its broadest meaning, in rural China today. It explores the current social distribution of health status, health behaviour and health care and the processes by which these came about. By exploring universal questions...
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  • Bringing Micro to the Macro Bringing Micro to the Macro
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    Bringing Micro to the Macro

    The field of human services is filled with clinicians turned managers. Many of these managers have not studied business and lack leadership and management experience. Bringing Micro to the Macro: Adapting Clinical Interventions for Supervision and...
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  • On Point! On Point!
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    On Point!

    It is an honor to write a recommendation for Captain Johnson's book. We worked together for several years, planning and plotting to reduce the flow of contraband into our prison, Lee Correctional Institution. At all times, he was fully professional...
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