Category: E-Books

Punishment, like all complex human institutions, tends to change as ways of thinking go in and out of fashion or norms. Political, normative, psychological, social, and legal ideas concerning punishment have changed drastically over time, and especially in the most recent decades. Why Punish? How Much? eBook collects essays from

Using Geodata and Geolocation in the Social Sciences: Mapping our Connected World (PDF) provides an accessible and engaging introduction to the Geoweb with easy, step-by-step, and clear guides for: Visualizing Geodata using programmes including QGIS, GRASS, and R Capturing Geodata from sources including GPS, sensor networks, and Twitter Featuring practical exercises

In America’s criminal justice system, irrespective of the assumption of innocence until one is proved guilty, the accused is usually incarcerated in a county facility pending trials that can be postponed for years. This situation is worsened by the plea bargaining process, which makes those accused admit to crimes they

Transnational Perspectives on Artists’ Lives: From the Nineteenth Century to the Present (PDF) shows the significance of transnationality for studying and writing the lives of artists. While musicians, painters, and writers have long been cast as symbols of their related nations, the latest research is increasingly drawing attention to those features

Energy Storage Options and Their Environmental Impact, (PDF) brings together authors from a variety of different backgrounds to study the state-of-the-art of large-scale energy storage and study the environmental impacts of the key categories based on the types of energy stored. Though, as with all new technology, it is important