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Donnie Brasco
By Joseph D. Pistone, Richard Woodley. 1987
Donnie Brasco is Pistone's unforgettable account of how be became part of the mysterious underworld that is the Mafia--the first…
and only account by a law enforcement agent--and it is amazing and intriguing as the flamboyant, deadly world it portrays.The Hands of Strangers: Poems from the Nursing Home (American Poets Continuum)
By Janice N. Harrington. 2011
As people live longer, we face the challenges that come with caring for, and living as, an aging population. This…
collection focuses on the sad, funny, mundane reality of life in a nursing home. In her own words, Janice N. Harrington worked her way through college as a nurses' aide and wrote The Hands of Strangers because she "cannot forget the 'girls' I worked with or the 'residents' under my care. I haven't forgotten what I saw, heard, felt, or learned." Janic N. Harrington's debut Even the Hollow My Body Made is Gone earned teh 2007 Kate Tufts Discovery Award, the A. Poulin Jr. Poetry Prize, and an NEA fellowship for poetry.Social Gerontology (9th Edition)
By Nancy R. Hooyman, H. Asuman Kiyak. 2011
The primary focus of this book is on social gerontology and to present the diversities of the aging experience, the…
interaction between biological, psychological, social and cultural forces on aging, and the heterogeneity of the older population in a multidisciplinary manner.This book examines the legal conundrum of reconciling international human rights law in a Muslim majority country and identifies a…
trajectory for negotiating the protection of religious minorities within Islam. The work explores the history of religious minorities within Islam in Indonesia, which contains the world’s largest Muslim population, as well as the present-day ways by which the government may address issues through reconciling international human rights law and Islamic law. Given the context of multiple sets of religious norms in Indonesia, this is a complicated endeavour. In addition to amending and enacting human rights norms, the government is also negotiating with the long history of Islamisation in Indonesia. Particularly relevant is the practice of customary law, which puts the rights of community over individualism. This practice directly affects the rights of religious minorities within Islam. Readers, especially those conducting research, will also be provided with information and references which are relevant to the field of human rights, especially in relation to religious minorities and international law. The book will be a valuable resource for academics and researchers in the fields of International Human Rights Law, Law and Religion, and Islamic Studies.Chinese Senior Migrants and the Globalization of Retirement
By Nicole DeJong Newendorp. 2020
The 21st century has seen growing numbers of seniors turning to migration in response to newfound challenges to traditional forms…
of retirement and old-age support, such as increased longevity, demographically aging populations, and global neoliberal trends reducing state welfare. Chinese-born migrants to the U.S. serve as an exemplary case of this trend, with 30 percent of all migrants since 1990 being at least 60 years old. This book tells their story, arguing that they demonstrate the significance of age as a mediating factor that is fundamentally important for considering how migration is experienced. The subjects of this study are situated at the crossroads of Chinese immigrant and Chinese-American experiences, embodying many of the ambiguities and paradoxes that complicate common understandings of each group. These are older individuals who have waited their whole lives to migrate to the U.S. to rejoin family but often experience unanticipated family conflict when they arrive. They are retirees living at the social and economic margins of American society who nonetheless find significant opportunities to achieve meaningful retired lifestyles. They are members of a diaspora spanning vast regional and ideological differences, yet their wellbeing hinges on everyday interactions with others in this diverse community. Their stories highlight the many possibilities for mutual engagement that connect Chinese and American ways of being and belonging in the world.Biology Of Aging
By Roger B. McDonald. 2014
Biology of Aging presents the biological principles that have led to a new understanding of the causes of aging and…
describes how these basic principles help one to understand the human experience of biological aging, longevity, and age-related disease. Intended for undergraduate biology students, it describes how the rate of biological aging is measured; explores the mechanisms underlying cellular aging; discusses the genetic pathways that affect longevity in various organisms; outlines the normal age-related changes and the functional decline that occurs in physiological systems over the lifespan; and considers the implications of modulating the rate of aging and longevity. The book also includes end-of-chapter discussion questions to help students assess their knowledge of the material.Crisis Intervention: The Criminal Justice Response to Chaos, Mayhem, and Disorder
By William M. Harmening, Douglas Craig. 2014
Crisis Intervention: The Criminal Justice Response to Chaos, Mayhem, and Disorder introduces readers to the methods and techniques of crisis…
intervention employed by police and correctional officers. Rather than focusing on abstract theories, this text presents real-life situations first and then explores the theories and methods relevant to those situations. It goes beyond the simple presentation of facts and incorporates best practices of policing and other topics usually found only in police training manuals. The text also examines the psychological effects of crisis on criminal justice professionals and ethical considerations related to crisis response.Female Terrorism in America: Past and Current Perspectives (Contemporary Terrorism Studies)
By Jonathan Matusitz, Elena Berisha. 2021
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of female terrorism in America, both past and present. The volume takes a fresh…
look at women’s actions of left-wing political violence, right-wing political violence, and religious extremist violence (among others). It also examines the multitude of roles that women have played over the past few decades in such organizations (including leadership positions and more passive roles)—not to mention the diverse methods of recruitment, radicalization, and propaganda. The objective of this book is to examine—using a wide range of case studies, facts, statistics, and theoretical methodologies—how collective or personal factors have influenced or reinforced the actions that these women take. Government agencies continue to underestimate the ability of women to support and perpetrate terrorism. As such, the United States is facing a wholly inaccurate and incomplete picture of the complexities of domestic terrorism, and this is contributing to a serious neglect of the issue at the national level. This volume ultimately aims to offer policy-relevant solutions to decrease the threat of domestic female political violence in the United States. Female Terrorism in America will be of much interest to students of terrorism and political violence, American politics, gender studies, and sociology.After Stroke: Enhancing Quality of Life
By Wallace Sife. 1998
After Stroke: Enhancing Quality of Life brings together an extraordinary selection of advice, practical survivor techniques, information about resources, and…
personal stories of triumph. It is designed to help those who have experienced a stroke attain the highest quality of life possible, under their new physical restrictions.Recuperating from a stroke is an arduous process that has only just begun when the survivor is released from the hospital. This book shows anyone interested how to create an effective climate for healing and how to help the survivor realize his/her fullest recovery potential. It offers varied perspectives of everyone involved with a stroke: the patient, the family, and friends as well as the team of specialized physicians, nurses, psychologists, physical therapists, speech pathologists, and diverse therapists.Through its interesting and varied essays, After Stroke: Enhancing the Quality of Life offers the reader a clearer understanding of the injuries that the body as well as the mind have sustained. This anthology is carefully designed to present enhanced perspectives into all aspects of the healing and recovery processes that follow the personal tragedy of a stroke.Big Dirty Money: The Shocking Injustice and Unseen Cost of White Collar Crime
By Jennifer Taub. 2020
How ordinary Americans suffer when the rich and powerful break the law to get richer and more powerful--and how we…
can stop it.There is an elite crime spree happening in America, and the privileged perps are getting away with it. Selling loose cigarettes on a city sidewalk can lead to a choke-hold arrest, and death, if you are not among the top 1%. But if you're rich and commit mail, wire, or bank fraud, embezzle pension funds, lie in court, obstruct justice, bribe a public official, launder money, or cheat on your taxes, you're likely to get off scot-free (or even win an election). When caught and convicted, such as for bribing their kids' way into college, high-class criminals make brief stops in minimum security "Club Fed" camps. Operate the scam from the executive suite of a giant corporation, and you can prosper with impunity. Consider Wells Fargo & Co. Pressured by management, employees at the bank opened more than three million bank and credit card accounts without customer consent, and charged late fees and penalties to account holders. When CEO John Stumpf resigned in "shame," the board of directors granted him a $134 million golden parachute.This is not victimless crime. Big Dirty Money details the scandalously common and concrete ways that ordinary Americans suffer when the well-heeled use white collar crime to gain and sustain wealth, social status, and political influence. Profiteers caused the mortgage meltdown and the prescription opioid crisis, they've evaded taxes and deprived communities of public funds for education, public health, and infrastructure. Taub goes beyond the headlines (of which there is no shortage) to track how we got here (essentially a post-Enron failure of prosecutorial muscle, the growth of "too big to jail" syndrome, and a developing implicit immunity of the upper class) and pose solutions that can help catch and convict offenders.Texas Rangers: Lives, Legend, And Legacy
By Donaly E. Brice, Bob Alexander. 2017
Authors Bob Alexander and Donaly E. Brice grappled with several issues when deciding how to relate a general history of…
the Texas Rangers. Should emphasis be placed on their frontier defense against Indians, or focus more on their role as guardians of the peace and statewide law enforcers? What about the tumultuous Mexican Revolution period, 1910-1920? And how to deal with myths and legends such as One Riot, One Ranger? Texas Rangers: Lives, Legend, and Legacy is the authors’ answer to these questions, a one-volume history of the Texas Rangers. The authors begin with the earliest Rangers in the pre-Republic years in 1823 and take the story up through the Republic, Mexican War, and Civil War. Then, with the advent of the Frontier Battalion, the authors focus in detail on each company A through F, relating what was happening within each company concurrently. Thereafter, Alexander and Brice tell the famous episodes of the Rangers that forged their legend, and bring the story up through the twentieth century to the present day in the final chapters.Follow the Money: The Shocking Deep State Connections of the Anti-Trump Cabal
By Dan Bongino. 2020
As seen on The Ben Shapiro Show! Follow the Money exposes the labyrinth of connections between D.C.&’s slimiest swamp creatures—Democrat operatives,…
lying informants, desperate and destructive FBI agents, Obama power brokers, CIA renegade John Brennan, George Soros, and more—who conspired to attack Trump by manufacturing one bogus scandal after another.Bestselling author, podcast favorite, and Fox News contributor Dan Bongino delivers the third and most shocking of his acclaimed series chronicling the Deep State war against Donald Trump. Starting with the Trump impeachment hearings, Bongino works forward and backward to piece together the connections of a vast, well-funded cabal of wealthy Democrats and D.C. swamp elite to the non-stop deluge of manufactured scandals launched specifically to attack, destabilize, and ultimately remove Trump and his administration. Zooming in on Ukraine, Bongino unspools a complex sequence of corruption—from the miraculous &“discovery&” of a mysterious black ledger that linked financial transactions to Trump campaign insider Paul Manafort and cast a shadow over the entire Trump team, to Joe Biden&’s unexamined quid pro quo interference with Kyiv politics as he threatened to withhold a loan unless a prosecutor was removed from office. The former Secret Service agent exposes how Glenn Simpson, the corrupt cheerleader behind the lie-filled Steele dossier, wrangled millions from top Democrat donor George Soros to meddle in Ukraine politics. Bongino also reveals Soros&’s desperate multimillion-dollar plan to stop Trump&’s re-election. Using FBI documents, Bongino reveals the outrageous actions of Robert Mueller&’s investigators, who sat on evidence that proved the supposedly damning Trump Tower meeting between a Russian lawyer and senior campaign officials was nothing more than a twenty-minute waste of time for all involved. Other chapters delve into the disturbing presence of Obama&’s fixer, obstruction angel Kathryn &“Kathy&” Ruemmler, who represents a rogues gallery of Russiagate political operatives; the FBI&’s inside source on the National Security Council, Anthony Ferrante, who dedicated himself to the fruitless task of trying to prove the Steele dossier was legitimate; and &“Special Agent 1&” Stephen M. Somma&’s curious obsession with Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, which was stoked by a Flynn-fixated paid operative named Stefan Halper. Flynn is the centerpiece of one of the book&’s most revealing chapters, in which Bongino deconstructs the FBI&’s elaborate takedown of Trump&’s National Security Advisor, revealing how and why the three-star general was set up not once…but three times. Bongino also returns to the last, desperate attempt to derail Trump—the impeachment trial—and uncovers Adam Schiff&’s lies and the Ukraine-call whistleblower&’s multiple secret ties to never-Trumpers and Schiff himself. In the final chapter, Bongino unveils the newest front to stop Trump: the unleashing of COVID-19 from China and how the disease mutated from a killer plague in Wuhan to a weapon to destroy America&’s economy and, with it, Trump&’s re-election chances. Follow the Money displays dizzying detective work from a truly relentless, passionate, and patriotic reporter. An astonishing chronicle of the relentless war to destroy Donald Trump and his administration, this exposé is a must-read for anyone who wants to unravel the most shocking and corrupt campaign to unseat a sitting president in American history.Police & Society
By Kenneth Novak Gary Cordner Bradley Smith Roy Roberg. 2017
Focusing on the relationship between the police and the community and how it has changed throughout the years, the authors…
explore the most important theoretical foundations and incisive research on contemporary policing and show how that research is put into practice.Aging Mechanisms: Longevity, Metabolism, and Brain Aging
By Nozomu Mori, Inhee Mook-Jung. 2015
This book brings together the most up-to-date information on recent research results of leading laboratories on aging science in East…
Asia particularly in Japan Korea and Hong Kong Starting with a comprehensive overview of various hypotheses on biological mechanisms of aging by Dr Sataro Goto each chapter covers broad aspects of the most recent findings in aging-related topics centenarian studies and genome analysis of progeria metabolic biochemistry and neurobiology longevity controls in yeast and nematodes oxidative stress and calorie restriction and neurodegeneration mechanisms in Alzheimer s and Huntington s diseases with further potential therapeutic approaches to these age-related neurodegenerative diseases Also included in part is a summary and the outcomes of a scientific discussion forum called the Asian Aging Core for Longevity AACL that has been held annually alternating between Japan and Korea during the last decade This book can serve as a useful resource for finding appropriate collaborators in the areas it covers The target readership is made up of graduate students and researchers at universities medical and or life-science schools and biomedical and pharmaceutical institutes Why does aging exist How do we age How is each organism s lifespan determined These are fundamental questions in the field We may be still far from achieving a complete view of aging mechanisms but this book Aging Mechanisms offers an excellent opportunity to become familiar with the most updated progress in the biomedical research of aging in Japan and Korea the two leading nations for human longevityThis fourth edition of the first true textbook on the death penalty engages the reader with a full account of…
the arguments and issues surrounding capital punishment The book begins with the history of the death penalty from colonial to modern times and then examines the moral and legal arguments for and against capital punishment It also provides an overview of major Supreme Court decisions and describes the legal process behind the death penalty In addressing these issues the author reviews recent developments in death penalty law and procedure including ramifications of newer case law such as that regarding using lethal injection as a method of execution The author s motivation has been to understand what motivates the deathquest of the American people leading a large percentage of the public to support the death penalty The book will educate readers so that whatever their death penalty opinions are they are informed onesAging Veterans with Disabilities: A Cross-National Study of Policies and Challenges
By Arie Rimmerman. 2021
The number of older war veterans receiving disability benefits is steadily growing and is predicted to rise in the next…
decade. This book provides comprehensive knowledge about health and psychosocial concerns of veterans aging with disabilities and unmet needs and compares policy in three countries that have been involved in massive warfare in the 20th century––the United Kingdom (UK), the United States (US), and Israel. Using a cross-national comparative study of the policies, legislation and services provided by these three countries, which have significant numbers of aging disabled military veterans, this book provides evidence-based knowledge on the trajectories and attendant mental-health and psychosocial problems this sub-group faces when aging with a disability. It sheds light on the paradox in which most veterans with disabilities in the UK, USA and Israel are older, while the current legislation and budget target younger veterans with disabilities. The book reflects the current debate regarding the desired policy toward older veterans with disabilities in these countries and whether to provide them with proactive health services prior to retirement to prevent "accelerated aging". It also evaluates the dilemma of whether to serve aging veterans separately as a unique population or to provide them with the same services used by the general population. This book will be of interest to all academics and students working in disability studies, rehabilitation studies, gerontology, psychology, sociology, social work, social policy, and law more broadly.Corporate Crime Under Attack: The Fight to Criminalize Business Violence
By Gray Cavender, Francis T. Cullen, William J. Maakestad, Michael L. Benson. 2015
In exploring the criminalization of corporations this book uses the landmark Ford Pinto case as a centerpiece…
for exploring corporate violence and the long effort to bring such harm within the reach of the criminal law Corporations that illegally endanger human life now must negotiate the surveillance of government regulators and risk civil suits from injured parties seeking financial compensation They also may be charged with criminal offenses and their officials sent to prisonAlcohol and Aging: Clinical and Public Health Perspectives
By Alexis Kuerbis, Alison Moore, Paul Sacco, Faika Zanjani. 2017
This book provides a current perspective on alcohol and aging to better understand the trends costs benefits …
and clinical and community evidenced-based strategies This book embraces not only the physical cognitive psychological and social health benefits of moderate drinking in the elderly it also delves into the risks of excessive drinking including physical and psychiatric morbidity neurodegeneration medication complications and accidents and injuries and loss of independence Written by experts in the field this book is the only current text that includes the most current scientific research empirical and practice information alongside a comprehensive review of the status of the field that will help guide alcohol use management and stimulate future research Alcohol and Aging is the ultimate resource for all researchers educators clinicians and professionals working with older adults who drinkDeviance and Crime: Theory, Research and Policy
By Shahid Alvi, Walter S. Dekeseredy, Desmond Ellis. 2015
This book sensitizes the reader to the fact that there is substantial disagreement within the academic community and among…
policymakers and the general public over what behaviors conditions e g physical attributes and people should be designated as deviant or criminal Normative conceptions the societal reaction labeling approach and the critical approach are offered as frameworks within which to study these definitions A comprehensive explanation of theory and social policy on deviance is constructedLong-Term Care: How to Plan & Pay for It
By Joseph Matthews. 2020
Get the best care, in the right place, at the right price To find the right kind of long-term care,…
you may need to make difficult personal, medical, and financial decisions during emotionally tough times. Long-Term Care helps you and your family understand the range of available choices. Even more important, it guides you toward the best care you can afford. You’ll learn how to: explore your options for home care, assisted living, and nursing homes get the most out of Medicaid, Medicare, and veterans’ programs evaluate whether long-term care insurance is worth the significant expense consider the special needs of loved ones with dementia or Alzheimer’s, and protect your loved ones from elder fraud. The 13th edition is completely updated with the latest long-term care costs, Medicaid rules, and resources.