"This book aims to describe and demystify what makes criminal gangs so culturally powerful. It examines their codes of conduct, initiation rites, secret communications methods, origin myths, symbols, and the like that imbue the gangsters with the pride and nonchalance that goes …
"Vivid, lively, and yet theoretically informed, a triumph of patient and sustained fieldwork. ... Jankowski presents the gang and its members not as pathological departures from social norms, but as shrewd and resourceful operators."--Michael Lipsky, Massachusetts Institute of T…
Il était près de midi, le 23 février 1979, quand l'hélicoptère s'est posé dans le stationnement de la Place Côte-Vertu, en face de la Banque Royale. Un homme et une femme en sont sortis, pantalon de cuir et look de rock stars. Ils sont entrés dans la banque avec une mitraillette…
by International Workshop on the Physical Geology of Subvolcanic Systems - Laccoliths, Sills, and Dykes, Freiberg, Two-Day International Workshop on the Physical Geology of Subvolcanic Systems, Freiberg
"This book gives an up-to-date overview of the physical geology of sub-volcanic intrusions. Topics covered in this wide-ranging volume include important aspects of the field geology and physical volcanology of sills, laccoliths and sub-volcanic complexes, magma-sediment interact…
[Forlagets beskrivelse] The definitive text on human gait is now in its third edition - thoroughly revised to reflect recent advances in the study of human locomotion and the clinical use of gait analysis. The book features contributions from leading experts in all the disciplin…
This book is the third publication from the Eurogang Network, a cross-national collaboration of researchers (from both North America and Europe) devoted to comparative and multi-national research on youth gangs. It provides a unique insight into the influence of migration on loc…
