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A collection of nine papers that discuss patterns and trends of offenses by the elderly, violent crime by the elderly, shoplifting, and the response of the criminal justice system to elderly criminals.

Provides a very clear guide to sedimentary rock types as seen under the microscope supported by practical aspects of slide preparation.

This book examines a decade of crucial importance in American economic history by studying its significant developments: the dampening of the business cycle, the uneven pace of economic growth, technological breakthroughs and their impact on investment, shifts in the U. S. balance of payments, and the phenomenon of an abundant society plauged with pockets of poverty.

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?In telling the little-known story of how the Senate shaped policy and how the Washington Conference fitted into the then prevailing view that a treaty could be a force for, rather than an expression of, peace, Mr. Vinson has done a thorough job. Echoes from the era resound throughout the book, and what they had to say makes strange reading indeed three (sic) decades and one world war later.?-American Academy of Political and Social Science. A...

Reprint. Originally published: London: Oxford University Press, 1961.

Richard Garrity grew up on his father's boats on the Erie Canal in the early years of this century. From 1905 until 1916, when his father operated boats first in the lumber trade and later for gravel hauling, he was surrounded by the busy life of a now-bygone era in canal boating in Upstate New York. When the Barge Canal System opened in 1918, Garrity began a career that lasted until his retirement as a tug engineer in 1970. This story is ch...

?An effective ... exposition of the policies [Mr. Stevenson carried] forward at the 18th session of the United Nations General Assembly. More interesting, however, is what the book reveals about Stevenson himself, and the limitations imposed on his enduring eloquence by the necessities of diplomacy.?-Book Week

Studies and analyzes the changes and other developments in the American Jewish community, its organizations and leadership, as it reacted to the Holocaust and the establishment of an independent state of Israel.