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The Blizzard - The Football Quarterly: Issue Eighteen
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 291

The Blizzard - The Football Quarterly: Issue Eighteen

The Blizzard is a quarterly football publication, put together by a cooperative of journalists and authors, its main aim to provide a platform for top-class writers from across the globe to enjoy the space and the freedom to write what they like about the football stories that matter to them. Issue Eighteen contains 20 articles in 8 different sections: ---------------- Outsiders ---------------- * The Turf War, by Ann Tornkvist - How the murder of promising footballer Eddie Moussa sheds light on Sweden's gang culture * The Agony of Doha, by James Montague - Despair at a World Cup qualifying tournament in 1993 proved the springboard for the rise of Japan * Out of the Shadows, by Peter McVitie...

The Future of Money
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 497

The Future of Money

A cutting-edge look at how accelerating financial change, from the end of cash to the rise of cryptocurrencies, will transform economies for better and worse. We think weÕve seen financial innovation. We bank from laptops and buy coffee with the wave of a phone. But these are minor miracles compared with the dizzying experiments now underway around the globe, as businesses and governments alike embrace the possibilities of new financial technologies. As Eswar Prasad explains, the world of finance is at the threshold of major disruption that will affect corporations, bankers, states, and indeed all of us. The transformation of money will fundamentally rewrite how ordinary people live. Above ...

The Fear of Islam, Second Edition
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 373

The Fear of Islam, Second Edition

The Fear of Islam investigates the context of Western views of Islam and offers an introduction to the historical roots and contemporary anxiety regarding Islam within the Western world. Tracing the medieval legacy of religious polemics and violence, Green orients readers to the complex history and issues of Western relations to Islam, from early and late modern colonial enterprises and theories of "Orientalism," to the production of religious discourses of otherness and the clash of civilizations that proliferated in the era of 9/11 and the war on terror. In this second edition, Green brings the reader up to date, examining the Islamophobic rhetoric of the 2016 US presidential election and ...

Making Motherhood Work
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 361

Making Motherhood Work

The work-family conflict that mothers experience today is a national crisis. Women struggle to balance breadwinning with the bulk of parenting, and social policies aren't helping. Of all Western industrialized countries, the United States ranks dead last for supportive work-family policies. Can American women look to Europe for solutions? Making Motherhood Work draws on interviews that Caitlyn Collins conducted over five years with 135 middle-class working mothers in Sweden, Germany, Italy, and the United States. She explores how women navigate work and family given the different policy supports available in each country. Taking readers into women's homes, neighborhoods, and workplaces, Collins shows that mothers' expectations depend on context and that policies alone cannot solve women's struggles. With women held to unrealistic standards, the best solutions demand that we redefine motherhood, work, and family.

Mending the World?
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 543

Mending the World?

Religion has played a major role in history, affecting the course of events and influencing individuals. Today one frequently hears the expression "the return of religion" but opinions differ as to how this "return" is to be understood. It is clear that modernity and postmodernity have not meant that religion is dead or relegated to society's backyards. Religion is still of vital importance for many people. It has, to some extent, changed shape but has not lost its legitimacy and attractiveness to broad groups. Religion is public, visible, and has a sought-for voice; but it is also wrestling with extremism, ignorance, and preconceptions. Just like ideologies, religions are capable of activating diametrically opposite traits in humans. It is this dual tension that is implicit in the question mark in this book's title: Mending the World? This book's aim is to help explore whether, how, and in what ways religion, church, and theology can contribute constructively to the future of a global society. In thirty-one chapters, researchers from around the world address the relation between religion and society.

Red River Girl
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 260

Red River Girl

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-08-27
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  • Publisher: Hachette UK

THE GRIPPING TRUE STORY OF A MURDER WHICH HAUNTED CANADA AND BECAME A RALLYING CRY FOR JUSTICE 'If you were hooked on the Serial podcast, then you need to order this now' Red Longlisted for the Crime Writers' Association ALCS Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction Tina Fontaine A fifteen-year-old runaway living on the streets of Winnipeg. When her body was found weighted down in the Red River, she became yet another example of the endemic violence against Indigenous women. But her death sparked a nationwide protest. Sergeant John O'Donovan The police detective who forced the media to look at Tina differently. Vowing to deliver justice, he plotted an extraordinary undercover sting that stretched the mor...

Women, Crime, and Justice
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 322

Women, Crime, and Justice

Women, Crime, and Justice: Balancing the Scales presents a comprehensive analysis of the role of women in the criminal justice system, providing important new insight to their position as offenders, victims, and practitioners. Draws on global feminist perspectives on female offending and victimization from around the world Covers topics including criminal law, case processing, domestic violence, gay/lesbian and transgendered prisoners, cyberbullying, offender re-entry, and sex trafficking Explores issues professional women face in the criminal justice workplace, such as police culture, judicial decision-making, working in corrections facilities, and more Includes international case examples throughout, using numerous topical examples and personal narratives to stimulate students’ critical thinking and active engagement

Boleyn's Farewell
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 268

Boleyn's Farewell

When the final whistle was blown at Upton Park on 10 May 2016, it was more than a football match that had ended. West Ham United's victory over Manchester United was the club's spectacular swansong after 112 years at its spiritual home. The Boleyn's Farewell: West Ham's Final Game at Upton Park delves into one of the club's most historic nights, with insight from players, fans and others who were there. Everything from the atmosphere before the game, Winston Reid's winner and the digitised Bobby Moore switching off the stadium lights, the build-up and aftermath of the game, as well as the on-pitch action are recounted and celebrated within these pages. This was an evening that would come to define a generation and is unforgettable for many West Ham supporters. While the Boleyn Ground no longer stands, memories of the stadium and the Hammers' glorious farewell performance will endure. The Boleyn's Farewell is the definitive account of one of the most significant matches in West Ham's long history.

Advarsel
  • Language: no
  • Pages: 204

Advarsel

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-11-01
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  • Publisher: Kagge forlag

"Svenske tilstander" har blitt et skjellsord i Norge. Mens biler settes i brann, parallellsamfunnene vokser og voldelige gjenger får herje i vårt naboland, har Norge vært forskånet fra utviklingen. Eller har vi det? I "Advarsel" forteller den rutinerte gravejournalisten Einar Haakaas en sjokkerende historie om hvordan gjengen Young Bloods vokste fram i bydelen Holmlia. Han følger gjengens sentrale medlemmer fra ungdomstiden til i dag. Det er en rystende historie om vold, tortur og lukrative narkotikamarkeder. Han snakker med Holmlia-beboere som har fått nok av en gjeng som har fått herje nesten fritt i bydelen, og tar samtidig turen til våre naboland for å sammenlikne. Nådeløst avdekker han hvordan politikere og politi - med et par hederlige unntak - har skjønnmalt og bortforklart utviklingen. Dramatisk, ærlig og brennaktuell - denne boka dokumenterer at de svenske tilstandene er på vei til Norge. Einar Haakaas har skrevet en sterk advarsel mot en samfunnsutvikling de færreste ønsker.

World Press Photo 10
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 164

World Press Photo 10

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Publishes the results of the 2010 World Press Photo Contest, convened in Holland under the auspices of the World Press Photo Foundation to choose the finest press photographs of 2009.