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Books in Social sciences

The Social Sciences collection forms a definitive resource for those entering, researching, or teaching in any of the many disciplines making up this interdisciplinary area of study. Written by experts and researchers from both Academic and Commercial domains, titles offer global scope and perspectives.

Key subject areas include: Library and Information Science; Transportation; Urban Studies; Geography, Planning, and Development; Security; Emergency Management.

  • Serial Crime

    Theoretical and Practical Issues in Behavioral Profiling
    • 2nd Edition
    • Wayne Petherick
    • Wayne Petherick
    • English
    Serial Crime, Second Edition, examines serial predatory behavior and is divided into two main parts. Part one deals with behavioral profiling, and covers a variety of critical issues from the history of profiling and the theoretical schools of thought to its treatment in the mainstream media. This updated edition includes new sections on the problems of induction, metacognition in criminal profiling, and investigative relevance. Part two deals more specifically with a number of types of serial crime including stalking, rape, murder, and arson. Chapters on each of these crimes provide definitions and thresholds, and discussions of the offenders, the crime, and its dynamics. Considerations for behavioral profiling and investigations and the development of new paradigms in each area are interwoven throughout. Topics are conceptually and practically related since profiling has typically seen most application in serial crimes and similar investigations. The unique presentation of the book successfully connects the concepts and creates links to criminal behavior across crimes—murder, sexual assault, and arson—something no other title does. The connection of serial behavior to profiling, the most useful tool in discovering behavior patterns, is also new to the body of literature available and serves to examine the ideal manner in which profiling can be used in conjunction with behavioral science to positively affect criminal investigations.

  • Concise Encyclopedia of Semantics

    • 1st Edition
    • Keith Allan + 1 more
    • English
    Concise Encyclopedia of Semantics is a comprehensive new reference work aiming to systematically describe all aspects of the study of meaning in language. It synthesizes in one volume the latest scholarly positions on the construction, interpretation, clarification, obscurity, illustration, amplification, simplification, negotiation, contradiction, contraction and paraphrasing of meaning, and the various concepts, analyses, methodologies and technologies that underpin their study. It examines not only semantics but the impact of semantic study on related fields such as morphology, syntax, and typologically oriented studies such as ‘grammatical semantics’, where semantics has made a considerable contribution to our understanding of verbal categories like tense or aspect, nominal categories like case or possession, clausal categories like causatives, comparatives, or conditionals, and discourse phenomena like reference and anaphora. COSE also examines lexical semantics and its relation to syntax, pragmatics, and cognitive linguistics; and the study of how ‘logical semantics’ develops and thrives, often in interaction with computational linguistics. As a derivative volume from Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, Second Edition, it comprises contributions from 150 of the foremost scholars of semantics in their various specializations and draws on 20+ years of development in the parent work in a compact and affordable format. Principally intended for tertiary level inquiry and research, this will be invaluable as a reference work for undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as academics inquiring into the study of meaning and meaning relations within languages. As semantics is a centrally important and inherently cross-cutting area within linguistics it will therefore be relevant not just for semantics specialists, but for most linguistic audiences.

  • MCSE Windows Server 2003 Upgrade to Server 2008, Technology Specialist Online Course: Exam 70-649

    Exam 70-649
    • 1st Edition
    • Robert Shimonski
    • English
    You will get a unique and intense test prep experience with this complete, self-paced. 100% online training course for 70-649. Written and designed by leading experts and Microsoft MVPs, this full training course delivers rich content, an interactive learning experience, and realistic practice questions.

  • Configuring Windows Server 2008 Active Directory Practice Exams: Exam 70-640

    Exam 70-640
    • 1st Edition
    • Anthony Piltzecker + 1 more
    • English
    Leave no doubt that you're ready for exam day by using these realistic practice exams closely matched to the Microsoft exam. This Practice Exam product includes practice tests with full explanations. Our diagnostic tool identifies strengths and weaknesses and tells you where to focus your preparation.

  • Windows Server 2008, Enterprise Administrator Practice Exams: Exam 70-647

    Exam 70-647
    • 1st Edition
    • Anthony Piltzecker + 1 more
    • English
    Leave no doubt that you're ready for exam day by using these realistic practice exams closely matched to the Microsoft exam. This Practice Exam product includes practice tests with full explanations. Our diagnostic tool identifies strengths and weaknesses and tells you where to focus your preparation.

  • Configuring Group Policy: Exam 70-648

    Exam 70-648
    • 1st Edition
    • Anthony Piltzecker
    • English
    This is a 1-hour short course from the complete self-paced online training course for 70-648. It provides a unique and intense test prep experience. Written and designed by leading experts and Microsoft MVPs, this short course delivers rich content, an interactive learning experience, and realistic practice questions.

  • Configuring Network Access: Exam 70-649

    Exam 70-649
    • 1st Edition
    • Robert Shimonski
    • English
    This is a 1-hour short course from the complete self-paced online training course for 70-649. It provides a unique and intense test prep experience. Written and designed by leading experts and Microsoft MVPs, this short course delivers rich content, an interactive learning experience, and realistic practice questions.

  • Configuring and Managing the Terminal Services: Exam 70-649

    Exam 70-649
    • 1st Edition
    • Robert Shimonski
    • English
    This is a 1-hour short course from the complete self-paced online training course for 70-649. It provides a unique and intense test prep experience. Written and designed by leading experts and Microsoft MVPs, this short course delivers rich content, an interactive learning experience, and realistic practice questions.

  • Configuring Windows Vista Practice Exams: Exam 70-620

    Exam 70-620
    • 1st Edition
    • Anthony Piltzecker + 1 more
    • English
    Leave no doubt that you're ready for exam day by using these realistic practice exams closely matched to the Microsoft exam. This Practice Exam product includes practice tests with full explanations. Our diagnostic tool identifies strengths and weaknesses and tells you where to focus your preparation.

  • Configuring Certificate Services and PKI: Exam 70-649

    Exam 70-649
    • 1st Edition
    • Anthony Piltzecker
    • English
    This is a 1-hour short course from the complete self-paced online training course for 70-649. It provides a unique and intense test prep experience. Written and designed by leading experts and Microsoft MVPs, this short course delivers rich content, an interactive learning experience, and realistic practice questions.

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