Explores the ever-present experiences of risk that characterized the daily existence of individuals
Breaking Women foregrounds the gendered and racialized assumptions behind tough-on-crime policies while offering a vivid account of how the contemporary penal system impacts individual lives
He received his PhD from the latter at the age of twenty-four
but it also illustrates the limits of economic development in postindustrial cities
describing in this work the realities of an Italy of the future with colorful characters portrayed in limpid but lively prose
Paris in the Middle Ages HISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies / General Explores the ever-present experiences ofParis in the Middle Ages was home to royalty, mountebanks, Knights Templar, merchants, prostitutes, and canons. Bursting outward from the encompassing wall, it was Europe's largest, most cosmopolitan city. Simone Roux chronicles the lives of Parisians over the course of a dozen generations as Paris grew from a military stronghold after the Battle of Bouvines in 1214 to a city recovering from the Black Death of the 1390s. Roux peers into the private