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  • The Social Railway and Its Workers in Europe’s Modern Era, 1880-2023

    Moments of Fury, Ramparts of Hope

    by Dr David Welsh ...
    This thematically arranged book examines the evolution of rail transport and a number of railway workforces across Europe in the modern era, from around 1880 to 2023.Each chapter explores how, within the context of a social railway, rail workers developed distinct national and international perspectives on the nature of their work and their roles in societies and states. David Welsh convincingly ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

  • Hope is the Last to Die

    A Coming of Age Under Nazi Terror

    by Halina Birenbaum ...
    Translated by David Welsh ...
    This book is an important work in Holocaust literature and was originally published in Poland in 1967. Covering the years 1939-1945, it is the author's account of her experience growing up in the Warsaw ghetto and her eventual deportation to, imprisonment in, and survival of the Majdanek, Auschwitz, Ravensbruck, and Neustadt-Glewe camps. Since the old, the weak, and children were summarily ... Read more

    Was $60.99 USD Now $53.99 USD

  • Ending Apartheid

    by Jack Spence, David Welsh ...
    Series series Turning Points
    The release of Nelson Mandela from twenty-seven years imprisonment in 1990 and the free elections which followed four years later were among the most dramatic events of the twentieth century.David Welsh and J. E. Spence here examine the complex forces which lay behind that drama. They chart the rise and decline of apartheid ideology in South Africa, the internal insurrection and increased ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The Doll

    by Boleslaw Prus ...
    Translated by David Welsh ...
    Boleslaw Prus is often compared to Chekhov, and Prus’s masterpiece might be described as an intimate epic, a beautifully detailed, utterly absorbing exploration of life in late-nineteenth-century Warsaw, which is also a prophetic reckoning with some of the social forces—imperialism, nationalism, anti-Semitism among them—that would soon convulse Europe as never before. ButThe Dollis above all a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    To the Dogs

    by Louise Welsh ...
    Narrated by David Monteath ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 40 min

    A TIMES BEST NEW CRIME FICTION OF THE MONTHJim Brennan is flying high. Against all odds, he is a big man at the university, tipped for the head job and an office at the top of the ivory tower. He has a beautiful, accomplished wife and two healthy children. Jim drives an Audi, and his dog is a pedigree bichon frisé. Not bad for the son of a hardman who grew up in a room and kitchen.But for every ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Making Public Places Safer

    Surveillance and Crime Prevention

    by Brandon C. Welsh, David P. Farrington ...
    Series series Studies in Crime and Public Policy
    The United Kingdom has more than 4.2 million public closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras-one for every fourteen citizens. Across the United States, hundreds of video surveillance systems are being installed in town centers, public transportation facilities, and schools at a cost exceeding $100 million annually. And now other Western countries have begun to experiment with CCTV to prevent crime ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Evidence-Based Crime Prevention

    Edited by Doris Layton MacKenzie, Brandon C. Welsh, David Farrington, Lawrence Sherman ...
    Crime prevention policy and practice is, on the whole, far from objective. Instead of being based on scientific evidence, the crime policy agenda is seemingly driven by political ideology, anecdotal evidence and programme trends. Evidence-Based Crime Prevention seeks to change this by comprehensively and rigorously assessing the existing scientific knowledge on the effectiveness of crime ... Read more

    $110.99 USD

  • The Individualization of War

    Rights, Liability, and Accountability in Contemporary Armed Conflict

    Edited by Jennifer Welsh, Dapo Akande, David Rodin ...
    The rights and responsibilities of the individual are at the centre of today's armed conflicts in a way that they have never been before. This process of 'individualization', which challenges the primacy of the sovereign state, is driven by normative developments related to human rights that have elevated human-centric conceptions of security and created a new class of international crimes, as ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Saving Children from a Life of Crime

    Early Risk Factors and Effective Interventions

    by David P. Farrington, Brandon C. Welsh ...
    Series series Studies in Crime and Public Policy
    After decades of rigorous study in the United States and across the Western world, a great deal is known about the early risk factors for offending. High impulsiveness, low attainment, criminal parents, parental conflict, and growing up in a deprived, high-crime neighborhood are among the most important factors. There is also a growing body of high quality scientific evidence on the effectiveness ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Empire And Community

    Edmund Burke's Writings And Speeches On International Relations

    by David P. Fidler, Jennifer M. Welsh ...
    Empire and Community provides the first comprehensive presentation of Edmund Burke’s thinking on international relations. Although Burke’s writings and speeches have been the subject of much analysis and controversy, his perspective on international relations has not been fully addressed by the scholarly community. David P. Fidler and Jennifer M. Welsh establish Burke as a “classical thinker” on ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

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    The Individualization of War

    Rights, Liability, and Accountability in Contemporary Armed Conflict

    Narrated by Rick Adamson ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 17 min

    The rights and responsibilities of the individual are at the center of today's armed conflicts in a way that they have never been before. This process of "individualization," which challenges the primacy of the sovereign state, is driven by normative developments related to human rights that have elevated human-centric conceptions of security and created a new class of international crimes, as ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Effects of Deregulation on Safety

    Implications Drawn from the Aviation, Rail, and United Kingdom Nuclear Power Industries

    by Vicki Bier, James Joosten, David Glyer, Jennifer Tracey, Michael Welsh ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    Effects of Deregulation on Safety provides a comprehensive overview of the safety experiences of these three case study industries and their implications for the U.S. nuclear power industry. The treatment of the subject is not highly technical, and hence is accessible to a wide range of readers with interests in the subject matter. The book draws on literature from roughly 250 references, ranging ... Read more

    $89.09 USD