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The book presents discussions of the application of Stan Cohen's theories alongside empirical contributions in the fields of critical and green criminology. Taken together, the authors critically address harms and crimes against the environment, as well as against human and nonhuman victims.

This collection of thoughtful and timely essays offers refreshing and intelligent new perspectives on postwar American liberalism. Sophisticated yet accessible, Making Sense of American Liberalism challenges popular myths about liberalism in the United States. The volume presents the Democratic Party and liberal reform efforts such as civil rights, feminism, labor, and environmentalism as a more united, more radical force than has been depicted in scholarship and the media emphasizing the decline and disunity of the left._x000B__x000B_Distinguished contributors assess the problems liberals have confronted in the twentieth century, examine their strategies for change, and chart the successes and potential for future liberal reform. Each chapter tackles a different example of the challenges and achievements of liberal politics, from organized labor to the links between liberalism and social democracy in U.S. political life._x000B__x000B_An excellent compendium of recent political history and a timely resource for those seeking to assess the place of liberalism in contemporary political arenas, Making Sense of American Liberalism emphasizes the powerful liberal reform impulse in making modern American politics--something that few works have done convincingly in recent years--while remaining cognizant of the importance of the right in shaping policy and ideology._x000B__x000B_Contributors are Anthony J. Badger, Jonathan Bell, Lizabeth Cohen, Susan Hartmann, Ella Howard, Bruce Miroff, Nelson Lichtenstein, Doug Rossinow, Timothy Stanley, and Timothy Thurber.

In recent decades the debate among scholars, lawyers, politicians and others about how societies deal with their past has been constant and intensive. 'Legal Institutions and Collective Memories' situates the processes of transitional justice at the intersection between legal procedures and the production of collective and shared meanings of the past. Building upon the work of Maurice Halbwachs, this collection of essays emphasises the extended role and active involvement of contemporary law and legal institutions in public discourse about the past, and explores their impact on the shape that collective memories take in the course of time. The authors uncover a complex pattern of searching for truth, negotiating the past and cultivating the art of forgetting. Their contributions explore the ambiguous and intricate links between the production of justice, truth and memory.

This book describes approaches to professional development for cooperative learning and how the use of cooperative learning for teacher learning is leading to new insights into professional growth in schools. Part 1, \"Begin with the Teacher: Focusing Professional Development for Cooperative Learning,\" offers \"Introduction: Professional Development and Cooperative Learning\" (C. Brody and N. Davidson) and the first four chapters: (1) \"The Significance of Teacher Beliefs for Professional Development and Cooperative Learning\" (C. Brody); (2) \"Creating Sustained Professional Growth Through Collaborative Reflection\" (C. Cooper and J. Boyd); (3) \"The Role of Staff Developers in Promoting Effective Teacher Decision-Making\" (C. Rolheiser and L. Stevahn); and (4) \"Staff Development That Makes a Difference\" (P. Roy). Part 2, \"Lessons From the Field: Approaches to Cooperative Learning and Implications for Professional Development,\" includes: (5) \"Staff Development and the Structural Approach to Cooperative Learning\" (S. Kagan and M. Kagan); (6) \"Beyond the Workshop: Evidence from Complex Instruction\" (R. Lotan, E. Cohen, and C. Morphew); (7) \"A Social Constructivist Approach to Cooperative Learning and Staff Development: Ideas from the Child Development Project\" (M. Watson, S. Kendzior, S. Dasho, S. Rutherford, and D. Solomon); (8) \"Preparing Teachers and Students for Cooperative Work: Building Communication and Helping Skills\" (S. Farivar and N. Webb); (9) \"The Cognitive Approach to Cooperative Learning: Mediating the Challenge to Change\" (J. Bellanca and R. Fogarty); and (10) \"Professional Development for Socially-Conscious Cooperative Learning\" (N. Schniedewind and M. Sapon-Shevin). Part 3, \"The Learning Community: Cooperative Learning and Organizational Change,\" includes: (11) \"Effective Staff Development in Cooperative Learning: Training, Transfer, and Long-Term Use\" (D. Johnson and R. Johnson); (12) \"Mutually-Sustaining Relationships between Organization Development and Cooperative Learning\" (R. Schmuck); (13) \"Faculty Development Using Cooperative Learning\" (S. Ellis); and (14) \"Developing a Collaborative Environment through Job-Embedded Staff Development: One District's Journey\" (L. Munger). Part 4, \"Return to the Vision of Community,\" includes: (15) \"Cooperative Learning Communities: Expanding from Classroom Cocoon to Global Connections\" (L. Forest) and (16) \"Afterword: Promising Practices and Responsible Directions\" (C. Brody and N. Davidson). (SM)

After initial skepticism, it's now generally accepted that prions exist, they differ from all other pathogens, and they are infectious in several species. Prions are implicated in spongiform encephalopathies such as kuru, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and fatal familial insomnia in humans, scrapie in sheep, and a bovine encephalopathy that may be transmissible to humans. Driven by prions' novelty and by concern about their public health effects, awareness of these pathogens has grown enormously in recent years, prompting an immense amount of sometimes conflicting research. This definitive account of prion biology and disease was assembled to provide investigators with reliable reference material, young scientists with encouragement to explore the field, and educators with information on a topic that has captureed the imagination of students at every level. The most authoritative and up-to-date source of knowledge yet published on this unique for of pathogen, the book has been written by Stanley Prusiner, winner of a 1997 Nobel Prize for his discovery of prions, and a group of internationally recognized experts on prions' biology and pathogenic effects.

Sir, - In \"Israel has a distorted, shallow view of Diaspora Jewry\" (October 28) Ted Sokolsky repeats the slogan that Israel should see to it that Diaspora Jews are (Jewishly) educated. If not, a large group like the \"American Jewish community\" will be \"an iceberg that's drifting away.\" Sir, - Inconsequential, yet irritating: \"Named to Britain's House of Lords\" is both clumsy and inaccurate. The accepted term is \"raised\" or \"elevated\" (\"Lloyd Webber diagnosed with cancer,\" October 26). Smaller artists in niche industries, like my band, don't fare as well. But instead of being deterred by the world of file-sharing, we decided to tweak it, with, as is Shlock Rock's practice, a bit of a moral message. The campaign was never \"Take It for Free\" - it was \"Pay What You Want.\"