LIBROS DEL AUTOR: rita j simon

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  • Jury and the Defense of Insanity
    Rita J. Simon
    Thirty years after it was first published, the issues raised in The Jury and the Defense of Insanity remain pertinent ...
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    267,87 €

  • Women in the Military
    Rita J. Simon
    The role, status, and treatment of women is one of the major issues confronting the military today ...
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    302,05 €

  • Sporting Equality
    Rita J. Simon
    As part of its Education Amendments, the United States Congress passed Title IX in 1972 to ensure that no person should be discriminated against in any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance ...
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    268,31 €

  • Handbook of Military Conscription and Composition the World Over
    Mohamed Alaa Abdel-Moneim / Rita J. Simon / Rita James Simon / Rita JSimon
    This book provides data on the main policies guiding military mobilization and structures. It addresses the gender, racial, and political forces that shaped these policies. ...
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    155,82 €

  • Gay and Lesbian Communities the World Over
    Alison Brooks / Alison M Brooks / Alison M. Brooks / Alison MBrooks / Rita J Simon / Rita J. Simon / Rita James Simon / Rita JSimon
    Gay and Lesbian Communities the World Over provides an innovative examination and comparison of the treatment and status of gays and lesbians in 21 countries. The book contains a country-by-country profile of each of the issues, describes treatment and status, reports on the pubic opinion data, and compares countries against each other. ...
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    75,11 €

  • Gender, Culture, and Physicality
    Alison Brooks / Annelies Knoppers / Helen M. Sterk / Helen MSterk / Rita J Simon
    Gender, Culture and Physicality explores and challenges cultural obstacles associated with gendered meanings given to physicality, or bodies in action. The authors argue that these meanings reflect cultural attitudes toward women and men and shape people’s choices, but can be changed through conscious 'degendering.' ...
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    154,80 €

  • Prisons the World Over
    Christiaan Ade Waal / Christiaan De Waal / Rita J. Simon / Rita James Simon / Rita Simon
    Prisons The World Over reports prison conditions, number of prisoners and occupancy level, offenses for which inmates are interred, and average length of incarceration for 21 countries. Also reported are the demographic characteristics of the prisoners. ...
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    154,80 €

  • Voting and Elections the World Over
    Rita J. Simon / Rita JSimon / Vassia Gueorguieva
    Voting and Elections the World Over examines the electoral process across twenty-two countries. The book is a quick reference source for information about the major issues to consider when analyzing elections and their administration across nations: type of electoral system; who administers elections; elected offices; suffrage; the voting process; major political and financial ...
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    154,64 €

  • Insanity Defense the World Over
    Heather Ahn-Redding / Rita J Simon / Rita J. Simon / Rita James Simon / Rita JSimon
    The Defense of Insanity, The World Over is the tenth in a series of books that examines and compares social issues or social problems from an explicitly comparative perspective. This volume examines and compares the criteria and procedures surrounding the defense of insanity across twenty-two countries. ...
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    74,78 €

  • Native American Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories
    Rita J. Simon / Rita James Simon / Rita JSimon / Sarah Hernandez
    This study focuses on the lives of Native American transracial adoptees and their struggle to establish a healthy sense of cultural identity, while being raised in non-Native homes. The twenty participants in this study focus on what methods their adoptive parents used or, in some cases, did not use to help them establish their own sense of cultural identity. In the end, most p...
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    77,93 €

  • Global Perspectives on Social Issues
    Richard Procida / Rita J. Simon / Rita JSimon
    Pornography is a volatile issue in the United States_depending on the source of opinion, it can be viewed as either demeaning or empowering. explores whether the issue is similarly contentious around the world. ...
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    71,20 €

  • Comparative Analysis of Capital Punishment
    Dagny a Blaskovich / Dagny A. Blaskovich / Dagny ABlaskovich / Rita J Simon / Rita J. Simon / Rita James Simon / Rita JSimon
    A Comparative Analysis of Capital Punishment provides a concise and detailed history of the death penalty. Incorporating and synthesizing public opinion data and empirical studies, Simon and Blaskovich’s work compares, across societies, the types of offenses punishable by death, the level of public support for the death penalty, the forms the penalty takes, and the categories o...
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    73,99 €

  • Illicit Drug Policies, Trafficking, and Use the World Over
    Caterina Gouvis Roman / Heather Ahn-Redding / Rita J Simon / Rita J. Simon / Rita James Simon / Rita JSimon
    Focusing specifically on cannabis, cocaine, and heroin, the contributors to this volume present a brief history and analysis of the current laws and policies regarding illicit drugs-widely considered to be a growing international health threat-in 25 different countries. Illicit Drug Policies, Trafficking, and Use the World Over provides a wide breadth of valuable data and analy...
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    74,60 €

  • Intercountry Adoptees Tell Their Stories
    Heather Ahn-Redding / Rita J. Simon / Rita James Simon / Rita JSimon
    Intercountry Adoptees Tell Their Stories reflects the thoughts and experiences of adult transracial adoptees. The authors conducted in-depth interviews in order to understand and examine the adoptees. The men and women interviewed in this study offer the readers a detailed and personal glimpse into their worlds. They represent a range of positive and negative adoption stories a...
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    85,91 €

  • Women’s Roles and Statuses the World Over
    Rita J Simon / Rita J. Simon / Rita James Simon / Rita JSimon / Stephanie Hepburn
    Women’s Roles and Statuses the World Over stands alone in the unique contribution it makes to the field of women’s rights. Based solely on statistics and empirical data as opposed to opinion, authors Stephanie Hepburn and Rita Simon have crafted an important contribution to the study of women in society by comparing women’s position in society within 26 nations throughout the w...
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    74,68 €

  • Insanity Defense the World Over
    Heather Ahn-Redding / Rita J. Simon / Rita James Simon / Rita JSimon
    The Defense of Insanity, The World Over is the tenth in a series of books that examines and compares social issues or social problems from an explicitly comparative perspective. This volume examines and compares the criteria and procedures surrounding the defense of insanity across twenty-two countries. ...
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    150,52 €

  • Women’s Roles and Statuses the World Over
    Rita J Simon / Rita J. Simon / Rita James Simon / Rita JSimon / Stephanie Hepburn
    Women’s Roles and Statuses the World Over stands alone in the unique contribution it makes to the field of women’s rights. Based solely on statistics and empirical data as opposed to opinion, authors Stephanie Hepburn and Rita Simon have crafted an important contribution to the study of women in society by comparing women’s position in society within 26 nations throughout the w...
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    150,43 €

  • Illicit Drug Policies, Trafficking, and Use the World Over
    Caterina Gouvis Roman / Heather Ahn-Redding / Rita J Simon / Rita J. Simon / Rita James Simon / Rita JSimon
    Focusing specifically on cannabis, cocaine, and heroin, the contributors to this volume present a brief history and analysis of the current laws and policies regarding illicit drugs-widely considered to be a growing international health threat-in 25 different countries. Illicit Drug Policies, Trafficking, and Use the World Over provides a wide breadth of valuable data and analy...
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    158,34 €

  • Crimes Women Commit
    Heather Ahn-Redding / Rita J Simon / Rita J. Simon / Rita James Simon / Rita JSimon
    In the past thirty years, women and crime has become a major intellectual and professional specialty. The Crimes Women Commit: The Punishments They Receive represents the third edition of Women in Crime, a classic in the field by Rita J. Simon first published in 1975. This classic text will become an essential tool for teachers and researchers within criminology and criminal ju...
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    69,63 €

  • Sporting Equality
    Rita J. Simon
    As part of its Education Amendments, the United States Congress passed Title IX in 1972 to ensure that no person should be discriminated against in any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance ...
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    88,41 €

  • Global Perspectives on Social Issues
    Paola Zalkind / Rita J Simon / Rita J. Simon / Rita James Simon / Rita JSimon
    Global Perspectives on Social Issues: Juvenile Justice Systems is an attempt to characterize juvenile offenders in twenty-five nations in North America, South America, Western, and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and Australia. Each chapter represents a fact sheet and contemporary report on juvenile justice systems in the eight different regions of the world. ...
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    146,80 €

  • Global Perspectives on Social Issues
    Delene Bromirski / Lisa Banks / Rita J Simon / Rita J. Simon / Rita James Simon / Rita JSimon
    This third book in the Global Perspectives on Social Issues series grants scholars and policy makers an overview of the steps being taken by governments and educational organizations worldwide to increase the quality, standards, goals, and accessibility of education. Authors Rita J. Simon and Lisa Banks examine and compare the system of education, literacy rates, enrollment rat...
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    138,95 €

  • Immigration the World Over
    James P Lynch / James P. Lynch / James PLynch / Rita J Simon / Rita J. Simon / Rita James Simon / Rita JSimon
    Examines immigration statutes and policies and the societal reactions to immigrants in seven industrialized nations. ...
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    215,45 €

  • Immigration the World Over
    Charles James Rosen / James P Lynch / James P. Lynch / James PLynch / Rita J Simon / Rita J. Simon / Rita James Simon / Rita JSimon
    Examines immigration statutes and policies and the societal reactions to immigrants in seven industrialized nations. ...
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    91,57 €

  • Global Perspectives on Social Issues
    Howard Altstein / Rita J Simon / Rita J. Simon / Rita James Simon / Rita JSimon
    Global Perspectives on Social Issues: Marriage and Divorce examines the history of marriage and divorce and the role played by both institutions in the lives of citizens around the world, using a broad range of detailed information and statistics from twenty-five countries. Topics such as social restrictions on marriage, marriage and sexual identity, property transference, and ...
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    130,05 €

  • Global Perspectives on Social Issues
    Richard Procida / Rita J Simon / Rita J. Simon / Rita James Simon / Rita JSimon
    Pornography is a volatile issue in the United States_depending on the source of opinion, it can be viewed as either demeaning or empowering. explores whether the issue is similarly contentious around the world. ...
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    131,36 €

  • Women in the Military
    Rita J. Simon
    The role, status, and treatment of women is one of the major issues confronting the military today ...
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    88,33 €

  • Immigrant Women
    Rita J. Simon
    The obstacles to assimilation and fair treatment of immigrant women are major issues confronting immigrant receiving nations. This text provides a range of perspectives on the concerns, the sources of problems, how issues might be addressed, and the future of immigrant women. ...
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    88,30 €

  • Adoption across Borders
    Howard Altstein / Rita J. Simon / Rita James Simon / Rita JSimon
    For over thirty years, Rita J. Simon and Howard Altstein have been studying transracial and intercountry adoptions. The families they have studied include white parents; African American, Hispanic, and Korean children; and Jewish Stars of David families, among others. This book summarizes their findings and compares them with other studies. It is an invaluable source of data on...
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    61,59 €

  • Renaissance Women in Science
    Louise Q. Does / Louise Q. Van Der Does / Louise QVan Der Does / Rita J Simon / Rita J. Simon / Rita James Simon / Rita JSimon / Van Der Does Louise Q / Van Der Louise Q Does / van der Louise Q. Does / van der Louise QDoes
    Renaissance Women in Science contains the fascinating stories of seventeen scientists who unlocked secrets of the universe and whose discoveries helped change the future of the world. Pursuing careers ranging from astronomy and atomic research to chemistry and medicine, a number of these women went on to win Nobel prizes for their work. All were dedicated to learning and discov...
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    89,15 €


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