Merry Wiesner-Hanks 
Concise History of the World 

This volume takes stock of contemporary perspectives on gender and crime. In 1975, Freda Adler published her pathbreaking book, Sisters in Crime: The Rise of the New Female Criminal. She made the …

Drawing on historical sources, myth and folklore, Fantastic Creatures in Mythology and Folklore explores the roles of fantastical beasts – particularly the unicorn, the mermaid, and the dragon – in …

First published in 1999, Illegal Drug Use in the United Kingdom provides a comprehensive review of information and interventions available in drug misuse in order to inform local drug policies. In ke …

Originally published in 1999, this book was the first study to provide a systematic reconstruction of the OAU”s ideological ground-work. It is based on OAU documents; a corpus of African perceptions …