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Mass incarceration and lower crime rates have not made city dwellers feel safe. Programmes designed to deal with this problem focus on increased police protection. In this study, Lewis and Salem question the validity of these assumptions and the effectiveness of this approach.

Offers a sustained record of Hamid Dabashi's reflections over many years on the question of authority and the power to represent. Who gets to represent whom and by what authority? Dabashi's book is not as much a critique of colonial representation as it is of the manners and modes of fighting back and resisting it.

From John F. Kennedy to George W. Bush, every American president has left office either under a cloud or as a failed leader. Michael A. Genovese argues that presidents are set up for failure; it is not specific presidents but the presidency itself that is the problem.

Humans form theories and general laws that can be applied to common social experience. This is balanced by a will to define events and conditions particular to specific times, places, and individuals. Dennis H. Wrong argues that the scientific standard of universal laws and propositions has only limited relevance to human historical phenomena.

A study of communications and contemporary language, focusing on the use of profanity and obscenity in journalism and the media. Melvin J. Lasky critically evaluates the historic effort of the avant-garde of "dirty realism" to find a path towards what he calls "a usable profanity".