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This book examines sex offenders' perspectives of the way they are treated and managed. It is based around in-depth interviews with 32 convicted male sex offenders, providing a remarkable insight into offenders' perceptions of initiatives designed to both treat and control their risk of future offending. It then goes on to evaluate the effectiveness of such schemes.

Eco-labelling is one of the key tools used by policy-makers in many parts of the world to encourage more sustainable production and consumption. By providing environmental information on products and services, eco-labels address both business users and consumers and range from mandatory approaches, such as required product declarations, to voluntary approaches, such as national eco-labels. Eco-labels can play an important role in environmental...

The Facts On File Dictionary of Biology, Fourth Edition defines the basic principles and terms used. Approximately 300 new entries have been added to reflect new information, and current entries and back matter have been revised as needed. Pronuciation symbols have been added.

In order to succeed in today's competitive environment, corporate and nonprofit institutions must create a workplace climate that encourages employees to continue to learn and grow. From the author of the best-selling The Mentor's Guide comes the next-step mentoring resource to ensure personnel at all levels of an organization will teach and learn from each other. Written for anyone who wants to embed mentoring within their organization, Creat...

One of Britain's foremost TV practitioners, Andrew Davies is the creator of programmes such as 'A Very Peculiar Practice', 'To Serve Them All My Days', 'Pride and Prejudice', 'Othello' and 'The Way We Live Now'. Although best known for his adaptations of the work of writers such as Jane Austen and George Eliot, he has written numerous original drama series, single plays, films, stage plays and books. This volume offers a critical appraisal of ...

This book establishes the principal influences that shaped Theodore of Mopsuestia's exegetical outlook to the Scriptures. It draws out the typology that he sees present between Adam and Christ's humanity and it shows how his word for Christ's "person" ought to be understood functionally.

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This study of caregiving during WW I looks anew at life behind the lines for ordinary British soldiers who served on the Western front. Using a variety of literary, artistic, and architectural evidence, Dr Reznick shows that Britain's 'generation of 1914' was a group bound as much by comradeship of healing as by comradeship of the trenches. -- .

Contains a selection of papers based on presentations given at the S P Novikov seminar held at the Steklov Mathematical Institute in Moscow. This book begins with Novikov's paper analyzing the position of mathematics and theoretical physics at the beginning of the new millennium.

Contains the developments on the structure of moduli spaces, with an emphasis on the algebraic structures that underlie this structure. This book covers such topics as Hilbert schemes of points, moduli of instantons, coherent sheaves and their derived categories, moduli of flat connections, Hodge structures, and the topology of affine varieties.

Hilbert $C^*$-modules provide a natural generalization of Hilbert spaces arising when the field of scalars $\mathbf{C}$ is replaced by an arbitrary $C^*$-algebra. Based on lectures delivered by the authors at Moscow State University, this title presents an introduction to the theory of Hilbert $C^*$-modules.

A browse in any music store reveals extensive collections of Irish folk, trad and blues. However, in the past great pioneers of the genre lived when the recording industry showed scant interest in the scene. This fascinating history reveals the frustrations and triumphs of trailblazers before acts like U2 existed. The main thrust of the book concerns the influence of homegrown pioneers, from Sweeney''s Men to De Dannan and Martin Hayes.

The theory of analyzable functions is a technique used to study a wide class of asymptotic expansion methods and their applications in analysis, difference and differential equations, partial differential equations and other areas of mathematics. This book is suitable for graduate students and researchers interested in asymptotic methods.

Jonas Wergeland is a successful TV documentary producer and something of God's gift to women. But one day he returns from the world's fair in Seville to discover his wife dead on the living room floor. What follows is not only a quest to find the killer but also a whimsical look at just how Jonas came to this particular juncture. Following the twists and turns of his life up to an unforgettable, edge-of-your-seat conclusion, this post-modernis...

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This revolutionary 12-week course brings a new level of self-awareness that helps individuals realize their personal goals from the inside out. Using a combination of disciplines from aesthetic solutions to common sense, each lesson builds from the last so that individuals learn to apply and layer the skills they acquire each week to achieve a new understanding of their needs and to push beyond their personal boundaries. With written and exper...

Resting on what was left of the bench was something else, lighter in shade than the background, round, about the size of a cabbage. There were two large holes close together, a smaller pair below, then two rows of wedge-shaped objects. The pattern suddenly coalesced: in atavistic and chilling familiarity ... In a remote British Columbia lake, an ancient auto wreck is discovered. Inside are the half-century-old remains of a traveler long lost a...