The fifth edition of this highly praised study charts and explains the progress that continues to be made towards the goal of worldwide abolition of the death penalty. The majority of nations have now abolished the death penalty and the number of executions has dropped in almost all countries where abolition has not yet taken place. Emphasizing the impact of international human...(展开全部)

The 4th edition of this authoritative study of the death penalty, now written jointly with Carolyn Hoyle, brings up-to-date developments in the movement to abolish the death penalty worldwide. It draws on Roger Hood's experience as consultant to the United Nations for the UN Secretary General's five-yearly surveys of capital punishment and on the latest information from non-gov...(展开全部)

Book Description This is the completely revised and updated third edition of Roger Hood's classic study on the death penalty. In it he surveys and analyses the status of the death penalty as a punishment worldwide, taking into account the changes that have taken place during the six years since the last edition was published. This new edition is especially valuable at a time wh...(展开全部)

欧内斯特·范·登·哈格，博士，福德汉姆大学的约翰·M·奥林法学与公共政策研究中心教授(1983年写作本书时)，遗产基金会方面的著名学者。曾任教于纽约大学、纽约法学院、瓦瑟学院和新社会调查学院等。著有The Jewish Mystique Punishing Criminals他还参撰了40多部著作的部分章节，写了无数的文章，散见于《纽约时报》、《哈伯杂志》(Harper’s)、《大西洋月刊》、《财富》和《国家评论》等，以及许多法律杂志和学术类出版物。

欧内斯特·范·登·哈格，博士，福德汉姆大学的约翰·M·奥林法学与公共政策研究中心教授(1983年写作本书时)，遗产基金会方面的著名学者。曾任教于纽约大学、纽约法学院、瓦瑟学院和新社会调查学院等。著有The Jewish Mystique Punishing Criminals他还参撰了40多部著作的部分章节，写了无数的文章，散见于《纽约时报》、《哈伯杂志》(Harper’s)、《大西洋月刊》、《财富》和《国家评论》等，以及许多法律杂志和学术类出版物。

The latest edition of the bestselling introduction to the field of linguistic semantics, updated throughout and featuring a wholly new chapter on inferential pragmatics Semantics, Fifth Edition, is a comprehensive and well-balanced introduction to the study of the communication of meaning in language. Assuming no previous background in semantics and limited familiarity with for...(展开全部)

Robert Barro's Macroeconomics has become the classic textbook presentation of the equilibrium approach to macroeconomics. In its first four editions, this book has shown undergraduates how market-clearing models with strong microeconomic foundations can be used to understand real-world phenomena and to evaluate alternative macroeconomic policies. Moreover, a single, unified fra...(展开全部)

The fifth edition of this seminal textbook by best-selling author Andrew Heywood continues to lead the way in providing a comprehensive and authoritative introduction to politics. Renowned for its engaging and accessible style, this book helps students to understand the discipline’s foundational concepts and theories and use these to make sense of its key subfields, from electi...(展开全部)

Featuring more than 2000 drawings--a goldmine of information for learning and innovating in mechanical design Mechanisms and Mechanical Devices Sourcebook, Fifth Edition covers the past, present, and future of mechanisms and mechanical devices. Among the thousands of proven mechanisms illustrated and described are many suitable for recycling into new mechanical, electromechanic...(展开全部)

Featuring more than 2000 drawings--a goldmine of information for learning and innovating in mechanical design Mechanisms and Mechanical Devices Sourcebook, Fifth Edition covers the past, present, and future of mechanisms and mechanical devices. Among the thousands of proven mechanisms illustrated and described are many suitable for recycling into new mechanical, electromechanic...(展开全部)