Author: Catherine Ross Nickerson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: cambridge, companions, literature, fiction, crime, companion, american
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2010-09-30
List price: $24.99
ISBN-10: 0521136067
ISBN-13: 9780521136068

From the execution sermons of the Colonial era to television programs like The Wire and The Sopranos, crime writing has played an important role in American culture. Its ability to register fear, desire and anxiety has made it a popular genre with a wide audience. These new essays, written for students as well as readers of crime fiction, demonstrate the very best in contemporary scholarship and challenge long-established notions of the development of the detective novel. Each chapter covers a sub-genre, from ’true crime’ to hard-boiled novels, illustrating the ways in which ’

Authors:John Mirowsky, Catherine E. Ross,
Publisher: Aldine Transaction
Keywords: social, change, institutions, psychological, causes, distress
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2003-03-01
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0202307093
ISBN-13: 9780202307091

The polemical aspects of Mirowsky and Ross’s first edition caused a stir both in public health and in sociological circles. The new, second edition traverses the same terrain, though updating, and adds sections on "patterns" and new surveys research. In these pages the authors summarize, synthesize, and elaborate their observations and thoughts from two decades of research. Their views remain, for the most part, firm, and in an age that is still more therapeutic than not, will cause new controversy. CONTENTS I Introduction • 1 Introduction • II Researching the Causes of Distress �

Authors:Catherine Ross, John Mirowsky,
Publisher: Aldine Transaction
Keywords: social, change, institutions, status, education, health
Number of Pages: 250
Published: 2003-06
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0202307077
ISBN-13: 9780202307077

In examining why it is that people with higher socioeconomic status have better health than lower-status individuals, Mirowsky and Ross utilizes their strength in survey research on a broad national scale. Drawing on findings and ideas from many sciences, including demography, economics, social psychology, and the health sciences, they argue that education creates most of the association between higher social status and better health. People who are well educated feel in control of their lives, which encourages a healthy lifestyle. In addition, learned effectiveness, a practical end o

Authors:Catherine Sheldrick Ross, Kirsti Nilsen, Marie L.
Publisher: Neal-Schuman Publisher
Keywords: librarians, second, manuals, manual, reference, interview, conducting
Number of Pages: 290
Published: 2009-06-30
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 155570655X
ISBN-13: 9781555706555

Find your bearings in this rapidly evolving hybrid reference environment through proven strategies, advice, exercises and research from three experts in the field. The revised second edition of this practical how-to for all types of librarians will teach you to understand the needs of public, academic and special library users across any virtual setting - email, text messaging, social networking websites - as well as in traditional and face-to-face models of communication. Based on the latest research in communication theory, the book includes new exercises and examples to help you practice ef

Authors:Catherine Ross, Adjo A. Amekudzi, Tridib Banerjee, Ja
Publisher: Island Press
Keywords: competitiveness, global, planning, megaregions
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2009-06-26
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 1597265861
ISBN-13: 9781597265867

The concept of “the city” —as well as “the state” and “the nation state” —is passé, agree contributors to this insightful book. The new scale for considering economic strength and growth opportunities is “the megaregion,” a network of metropolitan centers and their surrounding areas that are spatially and functionally linked through environmental, economic, and infrastructure interactions.   Recently a great deal of attention has been focused on the emergence of the European Union and on European spatial planning, which has boosted the region’s competitiveness. Megaregi

Authors:Richard Oliver Brooks, Ross Jones, Ross A. Virgini
Publisher: Ashgate Pub Ltd
Keywords: law, ecology, modern, society, ecosystem, rise, regime
Number of Pages: 458
Published: 2002-12-01
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0754623165
ISBN-13: 9780754623168

As the science of ecology has matured with the recognition of the web and cycles of nature, man has begun to legislate in favour of the environment. This study reveals the links between law systems and the science of ecology.

Authors:Alice Ross, Kent Ross, Leslie W. Bowman,
Publisher: Carolrhoda Books
Keywords: books, own, carolrhoda, lady, copper
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 1997-03
List price: $25.26
ISBN-10: 0876149344
ISBN-13: 9780876149348

After helping Monsieur Bartholdi build the Statue of Liberty, a Parisian orphan stows away on the ship carrying the statue to America.