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Today, Sussex is best-known to railway aficionados as the home of
the Bluebell Line, Great Britain's first preserved standard gauge
passenger-carrying railway, but at one time the sound of steam
could be heard across the county. Many main line routes had been
electrified in the 1930s but only the passenger services were
affected and, well into the BR era, steam traction continued
unchallenged on a variety of tasks, ranging from Bulleid Pacifics
on long distance inter-regional expresses to diminutive LBSCR
'Terriers' pottering around on menial shunting duties. Some
distinctive designs, such as the elegant Billinton K Class
'Moguls', were closely associated with Sussex and gave the county a
special identity. Using some of the most evocative images available
this album vividly recalls the closing years of steam in this
much-loved county.
Primer on Cerebrovascular Diseases is a handy reference source for
scientists, students, and physicians needing reliable, up-to-date
information on basic mechanisms, physiology, pathophysiology, and
medical issues related to brain vasculature. The book consists of
short, specific chapters written by international experts on
cerebral vasculature, and presents the information in a
comprehensive and easily accessible manner. The book also contains
valuable information on practical applications of basic research.
Key Features
* Presents topics in a comprehensive and accessible format
* Written by international authorities on cerebral
vasculature
* Provides practical applications for researchers
Corrections: A Critical Approach (third edition) confronts mass
imprisonment in the United States, a nation boasting the highest
incarceration rate in the world. This statistic is all the more
troubling considering that its correctional population is
overrepresented by the poor, African-Americans, and Latinos.
Not only throwing crucial light on matters involving race and
social class, this book also identifies and examines the key social
forces shaping penal practice in the US politics, economics,
morality, and technology. By attending closely to historical and
theoretical development, the narrative takes into account both
instrumental (goal-oriented) as well as expressive (cultural)
explanations to sharpen our understanding of punishment and the
growing reliance on incarceration.
Covering five main areas of inquiry penal context, penal
populations, penal violence, penal process, and penal state this
book is essential reading for both undergraduate and graduate
students interested in undertaking a critical analysis of
penology.
When British Railways took its first hesitant steps towards
modernisation, it was probably disappointing for railway fans when
the first main line diesel locomotives emerged in the black livery
used on steam traction in the same power classification. Railway
bosses must have had a change of heart in the mid-1950s because, on
19th August 1956, a party touring Derby works discovered Nos. 10000
and 10201 standing in the paint shop bedecked in green livery
together with a diesel shunter that was undergoing the same
treatment. This marked the beginning of the green diesel era which
lasted until official policy changed in favour of corporate rail
blue in 1965. The change was only gradual, however, and it was many
years before green disappeared completely from the scene. Using
some of the most evocative images available, this album will
rekindle happy memories for the many who witnessed this era and
provide an insight into the diesel railway at that time for those
not so lucky.
London's position as Great Britain's Capital city ensured it had
special status and nearly all of the famous, prestigious named
trains such as the 'Cornish Riviera Express', 'Royal Scot',
'Atlantic Coast Express' and 'Flying Scotsman' fanned out from the
Capital. Locomotive sheds such as Kings Cross and Stratford had a
proud tradition and were renowned for the exemplary condition of
many locomotives in their care. In addition to long-distance
expresses London also boasted a dense suburban network, much of
which was still steam operated well into the 1950s, and there were
also massive marshalling yards to deal with huge amounts of goods
traffic. Using the best available photographs from the collections
of some of the most accomplished photographers this album vividly
portrays the twilight of the steam age in the Capital from the
mid-1950s to the end of BR steam traction in July 1967.
Since 9/11, a new configuration of power situated at the core of
the executive branch of the U.S. government has taken hold. In
Crimes of Power & States of Impunity, Michael Welch takes a
close look at the key historical, political, and economic forces
shaping the country's response to terror.
Welch continues the work he began in Scapegoats of September
11th and argues that current U.S. policies, many enacted after the
attacks, undermine basic human rights and violate domestic and
international law. He recounts these offenses and analyzes the
system that sanctions them, offering fresh insight into the complex
relationship between power and state crime. Welch critically
examines the unlawful enemy combatant designation, Guantanamo Bay,
recent torture cases, and collateral damage relating to the war in
Iraq. This book transcends important legal arguments as Welch
strives for a broader sociological interpretation of what
transpired early this century, analyzing the abuses of power that
jeopardize our safety and security.
Hampton has a problem. He is a vampire and tired of being
invisible. Against the wishes of his family, he appears on
television, contracts to write a book and heads up a movement to
establish vampires as a recognized minority group in America. What
follows is a public that wishes to exploit him, a government that
wants to suppress him and a family that wants to disown him.
Lurking in the background is Lord Evido, a.k.a. Earl. He is
Hampton's worst fear: an old fashioned vampire who knows the danger
of destroying an age old myth.
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All 13 episodes from the first season of the US zombie adventure.
Set three years into a zombie apocalypse, a group of survivors
transport the only known survivor of a zombie attack, Murphy (Keith
Allan), from New York to the last known research lab in California
in the hope of finally developing a cure to the deadly ZN1 virus.
The episodes are: 'Puppies and Kittens', 'Fracking Zombies',
'Philly Feast', 'Full Metal Zombie', 'Home Sweet Zombie',
'Resurrection Z', 'Welcome to the Fu-Bar', 'Zunami', 'Die, Zombie,
Die...Again', 'Going Nuclear', 'Sisters of Mercy', 'Murphy's Law'
and 'Doctor of the Dead'.
Corrections: A Critical Approach (3rd edition) confronts mass
imprisonment in the United States, a nation boasting the highest
incarceration rate in the world. This statistic is all the more
troubling considering that its correctional population is
overrepresented by the poor, African-Americans, and Latinos.
Not only throwing crucial light on matters involving race and
social class, this book also identifies and examines the key social
forces shaping penal practice in the US - politics, economics,
morality, and technology. By attending closely to historical and
theoretical development, the narrative takes into account both
instrumental (goal-oriented) as well as expressive (cultural)
explanations to sharpen our understanding of punishment and the
growing reliance on incarceration.
Covering five main areas of inquiry - penal context, penal
populations, penal violence, penal process, and penal state - this
book is essential reading for both undergraduate and graduate
students interested in undertaking a critical analysis of
penology.
In this new book, readers are treated to a huge variety of views
illustrating numerous different vehicles from all three pregrouping
companies that made up the Southern Railway, as well as vehicles
built by the SR itself. The images portray the coaches both solely,
in various formations, and sometimes in their final days, stored or
in departmental use. Informative and detailed captions complement
the illustrations. Liveries are also varied-red, crimson and cream,
green, and even Bullied designs in BR Maroon. The author is well
respected and will need no introduction to the railway fraternity.
Renowned for his ability to locate amazing color images, his books
on Southern matters have ensured a wide following, and this is
certain to be no exception.
The resurrection of former prisons as museums has caught the
attention of tourists along with scholars interested in studying
what is known as dark tourism. Unsurprisingly, due to their grim
subject matter, prison museums tend to invert the Disneyland
"experience, becoming the antithesis of the happiest place on
earth." In Escape to Prison, the culmination of years of
international research, noted criminologist Michael Welch explores
ten prison museums on six continents, examining the complex
interplay between culture and punishment. From Alcatraz to the
Argentine Penitentiary, museums constructed on the former locations
of surveillance, torture, colonial control, and even rehabilitation
tell unique tales about the economic, political, religious, and
scientific roots of each site's historical relationship to
punishment.
"A superb book on the treatment of race, gender, and punishment."-
Susan L. Miller, professor of sociology and criminal justice,
University of Delaware "This volume stands as first-rate evidence
that the sociological imagination is alive and well. The
contributors move the discussion of race, gender, and social
control beyond the statistical morass with their
historically-situated analyses that simultaneously demonstrate the
diversity of socially constructed categories."-Claire M. Renzetti,
University of Dayton The disproportionate representation of black
Americans in the U.S. criminal justice system is well documented.
Far less well-documented are the entrenched systems and beliefs
that shape punishment and other official forms of social control
today. In this book, Mary Bosworth and Jeanne Flavin bring together
twelve original essays by prominent scholars to examine not only
the discrimination that is evident, but also the structural and
cultural forces that have influenced and continue to perpetuate the
current situation. Contributors point to four major factors that
have impacted public sentiment and criminal justice policy:
colonialism, slavery, immigration, and globalization. In doing so
they reveal how practices of punishment not only need particular
ideas about race to exist, but they also legitimate them. The
essays unearth troubling evidence that testifies to the nation's
brutally racist past, and to white Americans' continued fear of and
suspicion about racial and ethnic minorities. The legacy of slavery
on punishment is considered, but also subjects that have received
far less attention such as how colonizers' notions of cultural
superiority shaped penal practices, the criminalization of
reproductive rights, the link between citizenship and punishment,
and the global export of crime control strategies. Mary Bosworth is
University Lecturer in criminology and fellow of St. Cross College
at the University of Oxford. Jeanne Flavin is an associate
professor in the sociology and anthropology department at Fordham
University.
Pocahontas is FUN --that s what your students will say. This is an
accurate version of the story, and it constantly encourages the
students to use CRITICAL THINKING to analyze her ethical decisions;
but it s a READ ALOUD CLASSROOM PLAY, so they BECOME the fabulous
characters, they EXPERIENCE the plot! This is SOCIAL READING. They
comprehend more-- because they have BECOME what they read. I think
it will take about three hours of class time. I wrote it for
FIFTH-EIGHTH GRADERS (especially for the GIFTED, but I think older
students could also use it because of the sophistication of the
ideas. Pocahontas is EASY to use for the teacher. Detailed TEACHER
INSTRUCTIONS tell you what to say and do. It does NOT cause control
problems because everybody is busy all the time mentally. It s
perfect for the busy teacher who wants something different for a
change, a FUN addition to a unit on EARLY American History.
"CLEOPATRA and the WARRIORS" retells two of Shakespeare"s greatest
stories, in language students can understand. To build suspense, it
adds an original plot about the evil Snakemen who want to destroy
her. This is part of the READ ALOUD PLAY PROGRAM, CCSS based,
designed especially for GIFTED STUDENTS, and others in Language
Arts/English classes, grades 6-12+. It centers on a SMART, STRONG
WOMAN who leads her country. As the students read it aloud in
class, they examine her LEADERSHIP skills, and also see the
mistakes she makes because of love and pride. The assessment leads
them to learn from her experience to improve their own real life.
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