Fully revised and updated edition, including coverage of the analysis of decommissioned nuclear plants, computer modelling systems for calibration and uncertainty measurements in QA. Presents the topic from a laboratory practice point-of-view Professor S.[...]

Explains how political and economic forces, ranging from global to local, conjoined to produce the prison boom. This book examines this issue through statewide, rural, and urban perspectives to explain how the expansion developed from surpluses of finance capital, labor, land, and state capacity.[...]

Every summer, thousands gather from around the world in the blistering heat of Nevada's Black Rock Desert for the seven-day celebration of art, community, and fire known as Burning Man. Culminating in the spectacular incineration of a wooden effigy, this festival is grand-scale theater for self-expr[...]

In Washington, D.C., life inside the Goldstein home is as tumultuous as the swiftly changing times. In 1979, the Cold War is waning and the age of protest has come and gone, leaving a once radical family to face a new set of challenges. "Something Red" is a masterly novel that unfurls with suspense,[...]

This work examines the television series "Gilmore Girls" from a post-feminist perspective, evaluating how the show's main female characters and supporting cast fit into the classic portrayal of feminine identity on popular television. The book begins by placing "Gilmore Girls" in the context of the [...]

"Yes, women are the greatest evil Zeus has made, and men are bound to them hand and foot with impossible knots by God."-Semonides, seventh century B.C. Men put women on a pedestal to worship them from afar-and to take better aim at them for the purpose of derision. Why is this paradoxical response [...]

Every year, nearly one million people die from suicide...More than 20 times as many people attempt...What if they had waited just one more day? "The Next Day" is a groundbreaking graphic novella constructed from intimate interviews with survivors of near-fatal suicide attempts. In this poetic and pr[...]