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1. Honor-Based Violence

   Policing and Prevention

   By Karl Anton Roberts, Gerrard Campbell, Glen Lloyd

   Series: Advances in Police Theory and Practice

   To Be Published March 14th 2013 by CRC Press
2. East European Diasporas, Migration and Cosmopolitanism

   Edited by Ulrike Ziemer, Sean P. Roberts

   Series: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies

   Following the demise of the USSR in 1991, and the ensuing collapse of communist regimes in Eastern Europe, widespread population movements took place across Central and Eastern Europe. Whole nations disappeared and (re)-emerged and diasporic transnational ties and belonging have experienced a...

   To Be Published November 29th 2012 by Routledge
3. Two Degrees: The Built Environment and Our Changing Climate

   By Alisdair McGregor, Cole Roberts, Fiona Cousins

   The Earth's temperature has been rising at exponential rates over the twentieth century. The IPCC has given a grave, but difficult goal to avert catastrophe: reduce greenhouse emissions until warming is no more than two degrees Celsius. How do we get there? Two Degrees reviews the current...

   To Be Published October 29th 2012 by Routledge
4. Low-Carbon Energy Controversies

   Edited by Roberts Thomas, Paul Upham, Carly McLachlan, Sarah Mander, Clair Gough, Philip Boucher, Dana Abi-Ghanem

   Governments, big business and communities are coming under increased pressure to develop low carbon energy supply technologies. However, public opposition to the development of the siting and implementation of the technology associated infrastructure often complicates progress. This is sometimes...

   To Be Published September 16th 2012 by Routledge
5. Tourism, Planning, and Community Development

   Edited by Rhonda Phillips, Sherma Roberts

   Series: CDS Current Issues Series

   The intersection of community development, tourism and planning is a fascinating one. Tourism has long been used as a development strategy, in both developed and developing countries, from the national to local levels. These approaches have typically focused on economic dimensions with decisions...

   To Be Published July 10th 2012 by Routledge
6. Forensic Crime Scenes

   Health and Safety

   By Gareth W. Roberts

   Series: International Forensic Science and Investigation

   An examination of the needs of the individual and the organization in relation to health and safety at forensic scenes, this book covers practical considerations and the underpinning laws of the United States, the United Kingdom, and Europe. It covers history, facilities provide by different...

   To Be Published June 14th 2012 by CRC Press
7. Plant Reproduction

   Edited by Sharman O'Neill, Jeremy A. Roberts

   Series: Sheffield Annual Plant Reviews

   Plant Reproduction presents an overview of plant reproduction at the research and professional level, covering physiological and molecular control of the floral transition, floral organ development, embryogenesis, pollination, and senescence. The volume is directed at plant geneticists, molecular...

   To Be Published June 14th 2012 by Blackwell
8. Leaf Development and Canopy Growth

   Edited by Bruce Marshall, Jeremy A. Roberts

   Series: Sheffield Biological Siences

   The focus of leaf development modeling in the last two decades has been on predicting commercial crop yields and identifying the constraints on them. The weakness of this approach: the implicit belief in the existence of a "global brain" deciding which parts of the plant are deficient and directing...

   To Be Published June 14th 2012 by Blackwell
9. Hearing the Victim

   Adveresarial Justice, Crime Victims and the State

   Edited by Anthony Bottoms, Julian Roberts

   Series: Cambridge Criminal Justice Series

   In recent years far more attention has been paid to victims of crime both in terms of awareness of the effect of crime upon their lives, and in changes that have been made to the criminal justice system to improve their rights and treatment. This process seems set to continue, with legislative...

   Published May 16th 2012 by Routledge
10. Liminal Landscapes

    Travel, Experience and Spaces In-between

    Edited by Hazel Andrews, Les Roberts

    Series: Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility

    Ideas and concepts of liminality have long shaped debates around the uses and practices of space in constructions of identity, particularly in relation to different forms of travel such as tourism, migration and pilgrimage, and the social, cultural and experiential landscapes associated with these...

    Published April 2nd 2012 by Routledge