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Here is a wide-ranging, comprehensive account of the mathematical formulation of problems involving free boundaries as they occur in such diverse areas as hydrology, metallurgy, chemical engineering, soil science, molecular biology, materials science, and steel and glass production.Many new methods of solution are discussed, including modern computer techniques which address multidimensional, multiphase practical problems. ... Read more

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a classic book
Crank's book on free and moving boundary problems is a classic one. The ideas and methodology presented in this book are lasting and instructive. ... Read more

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The enclosed papers are the culmination of a project Dr. John Crank and Dr. Colleen Kadleck carried out assessing issues facing the police into the early 21st century. The papers are future oriented, in the sense that they anticipate trends visible today. Everywhere, our scholars found that the organizational concept, practice, and function of the police undergoing transition. Yet, the seeming state-level hardening of the police function was ubiquitous. Two themes were noteworthy. On the one hand, in developing or ‘second world’ countries, police face endemic problems of corruption, organized crime, and drugs. Police, in response, are undergoing centralization and intensification of law enforcement activities. In countries with first world economies – Canada, the United States, and Australia – we also see trends toward expansion of the police function, a trend described by Brodeur as toward high policing. It reflects the growing reliance on surveillance for crime control and for the tracking of minority, indigenous, and immigrant populations in crime prevention efforts. We fond that governments, sometimes encouraged by their citizenry, seem increasingly to rely on the police to deal with a broad array of social as well as criminal problems. This book was published as a special issue of Police Practice and Research.

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Police culture has been widely criticized as a source of resistance to change and reform, and is often misunderstood. This book seeks to capture the heart of police culture-including its tragedies and celebrations-and to understand its powerful themes of morality, solidarity, and common sense, by systematically integrating a broad literature on police culture into middle-range theory, and developing original perspectives about many aspects of police work.

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Understanding Police Culture
This book presents an interesting book on police cutlure. I am sure that not all cops fall into his descriptions, but I think the author got the essence of how some cops deal with things. The author is coming from an academic stand point especailly since he teaches at a University in Florida. This is an easy book to read.

Not very insightful
The author, Crank, isn't a cop!It's obvious from his writing that he doesn't understand police culture at all.While there are some interesting observations made in this book, they are the observations of an academic who has studied cops---and who doesn't understand what we go through on a daily basis.I wouldn't waste my money on this one.Just my honest opinion. ... Read more

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CT
I'd agree with the above review. However, it is a good text book for college or CT related studies. It has some dry areas, but very informative. It was very helpful for my class and I also refer to it from time to time for CT related material. I would not recommend it for general reading.

A Dry Diatribe
This is a textbook that addresses the major issues concerning Counter-Terrorism. The book is very detailed, almost too detailed. The greatest problem with the book is that it is extremely hard to stay awake while reading it. This is a 5 cup of coffee book/hour. If you can stomach the coffee than good luck in your reading. Other than the completely dry content, it was an alright textbook. ... Read more

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The Wobbling Crank is a book about the movies and their beginnings by the best unknown film scholar of his generation-- Cuthbbert Cuthbbertsön. Cuthbbertsön does for the movies what P.D.Q. Bach has done for classical music, Monty Python for large snakes, Dame Edna for cross-dressing and haute couture.

This is the second edition of The Wobbling Crank. The first edition (3 copies), printed on cigarette paper and bound in clapboards, appeared and disappeared in 1985 when left behind by Cuthbbertsön in the Stanley Theater, Jersey City, after a revival showing of The Last Days of Pompeii. The present edition (2 copies) has been reconstructed with ridiculous fidelity from the original unoriginal handwritten manuscript (carpenter's pencil on foolscap).

To understand why the movies and why serious writing about the movies are today in such a sorry state one must read this book. Wobbling Crank takes us back to the beginnings of the whole mess, focusing ruthlessly on the "prehistory" of the movies and the so-called silent film error.

"The only way to understand what happened in the past ('history')," writes Cuthbbertsön in this ground breaking (pothole) work, "is to focus on what did not happen ('prehistory'). Mine is a 'prehistory.'"

The Wobbling Crank documents with uncommon honesty the "prehistoric" experiments, discoveries, accidents, bad personal habits, and criminal behaviors that led to the invention of the moving pictures (the felonious activities of Thomas Edison and his assistant, Black Maria; the poor dietary habits of the Lumiére brothers; violin recitals by Georges Méliès at beheadings, and more). Not the kind of stuff you'll find in your ordinary paperback history of the movies.

The Wobbling Crank is mainly devoted, however, to an exhaustive (exhausting) oral "prehistory" of the silent film error--the recorded stories of movie pioneers who were there although not all there in the beginning. This senseless remnant includes: a studio laundress, a sausage maker, a ghost town projectionist, a porter-inventor-dramatist, a giant camerawoman, some wardrobe mistresses, an incendiary cinematographer, a Hollywood ventriloquist-dentist, a producer's mother, a bordello proprietress, a not-so-special effects man, and others equally strange or insignificant.

Cuthbbertsön makes no claim for the absolute (or even minimal) accuracy of the recorded accounts of these obscure witnesses, especially given their age and mental and physical condition (few ambulatory, all over 90, some dead). Then, again, these interviews were transcribed from scratchy audio tape and memory onto scraps of brittle yellow foolscap using a carpenter's pencil, adding considerably to the problem. But these are small matters.

The Wobbling Crank remains a hugely entertaining account of the early movies, no matter how distorted, unreliable, or downright untrue that narrative may be. This forgotten and forgettable work can thus confidently be expected to take its place among the many cinematic studies of its kind that continue to be published at an alarming rate in America, Europe, the Near and Far East, and parts of Africa--by academic scholars, journalists, film historians, critics, reviewers, and other comic writers.

The Wobbling Crank marks the end of film scholarship as we know it. ... Read more

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This book provides an examination of noble cause, how it emerges as a fundamental principle of police ethics and how it can provide the basis for corruption. The noble cause - a commitment to "doing something about bad people" - is a central "ends-based" police ethic that can be corrupted when officers violate the law on behalf of personally held moral values. This book is about the power that police use to do their work and how it can corrupt police at the individual and organizational levels. It provides students of policing with a realistic understanding of the kinds of problems they will confront in the practice of police work. Key terms supplement each chapter. Provides students of policing with a realistic understanding of problems that arise in police work. ... Read more

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I enjoyed this book very much. I also learned through reading it the many different ways that officers can become coppupt and how to notice corruption before it even starts. This is an excellent book and I do recommend it to anyone who is interested in corruption of police and their departments.

Police ethics are much more than this
After reading this book, I wondered whether the authors are or were cops themselves.At least one of them (Crank) isn't, and never has been.This makes sense, because the ethics cases presented in this book are bland and barely skim the surface of what we (cops) go through every day.On the face of it, the ethics questions seem reasonable.To those of us in the profession, they are laughable.Sorry, but this book is another one of those written by college professors who don't really understand the world of the cop.

A must read for all future employees of the Criminal Justice
Excellant Book! A must read for all future employees of the Criminal Justice System. This reminds me of another book I just read and recommend, U.S. Customs Badge of Dishonor. Both of these books demonstrate just how tuff it is to be a cop. ... Read more

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This book provides an examination of noble cause, how it emerges as a fundamental principle of police ethics and how it can provide the basis for corruption. The noble cause - a commitment to "doing something about bad people" - is a central "ends-based" police ethic that can be corrupted when officers violate the law on behalf of personally held moral values. This book is about the power that police use to do their work and how it can corrupt police at the individual and organizational levels. It provides students of policing with a realistic understanding of the kinds of problems they will confront in the practice of police work.

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Though it incorporates much new material, this new edition preserves the general character of the book in providing a collection of solutions of the equations of diffusion and describing how these solutions may be obtained. ... Read more

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Classic and essential read for diffusion problems!
Crank's Mathematics of diffusion is a comprehensive summary of solutions to several diffusion related problems. The insights offered are clear and logical, mathematics is at a level that anyone with a college level understanding of calculus (and differential equations) can comprehend and appreciate. The book is particularly useful for researchers and experimentalists who wish to design measurements to understand diffusion behavior into pratically realizable substrates. Time dependent, concentration dependent and temperature dependent effects are included and non-Fickian behavior is discussed. Moving boundaries, sorption and problems involving diffusion in heterogeneous media are also described. Of course, the discussions are neither exhaustive nor recent results feature in the book, for which one must look on his own. This is more like a basic text, and must be used likewise.

The book does not discuss mass transfer under convective flow conditions, and does not incorporate discussion of experimental methods used to measure concentration gradients. Yet it is an essential text to compare many observed concentration profiles to the known solutions plotted in the book. Mass Transfer by Hines and Maddox can be used as supplement for looking at chemical engineering type mass transfer problems. For anyone familiar with an excellent text by Carslaw and Jaegar on the Conduction of heat in solids, Crank's text provides a nice mapping of heat transfer problems discussed in that book to diffusion related problems. The mathematics of diffusion, once mastered, is useful in understanding similar problems in heat problems, momentum transport etc. For everyone involved in studies involving diffusion, Crank's treatise is a must have, must read book.

So many examples
This book does it all.Any problems you have Crank has got you.Don't read it without knowing transport though, he solves mad prolems but that's really it.No insight or anything like that.Who cares he does MAD problems

Superior text on diffusion
This text is a great resource for understanding diffusion. It is accessible to your average scientist (my background is soil science), but you will have to do some work if your not a mathematician. Don't let that stop you though, this is THE text on diffusion maths. It's an invaluable tool.

A great reference resource
This classic diffusion text continues where many other texts end, and covers a broad variety of problem types.This is an excellent resource for diffusion solutions for less-common boundary conditions and assumptions, including thorough mathematical developments of the solutions and many references to the original works.Non-mathematicians will often need to roll up their sleeves to digest portions of the derivations, but the insight into the solution processes is often very revealing.This makes this book an invaluable reference, although it is probably not well suited as your only book on diffusion.

Classic solutions to diffusion problems.
This book is a classic, collecting analytical solutions to common differential equations arising from common problems in mass transport. ... Read more

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Imagining Justice seeks to move away from normative thinking about justice, particularly in the area of justice education, suggesting that what is needed today is a way to think about the enterprise of justice that will capture its full potential. By providing an introduction to the intellectual potential of the field of justice, we can acknowledge that the field is wider than formerly recognized, and ultimately imagine the full richness that justice can encompass.

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This book doesn't live up to its promises
As a fellow academic and a social science professional, I agree with the author that the concept of "justice"----what was originally meant by the idea, how it is currently played out in the streets and in the courtrooms of today---is an intriguing one, certainly worthy of dissection in a scholarly book.

Yet, this book simply doesn't deliver what it promises in the opening pages. It truly reminds me of a long term paper one might do in a social science thesis course.After an introduction of various textbook justice perspectives in chapter 1, the author provides an uninteresting, tedious and poorly written overview of the social sciences, and then draws the evolution of criminal justice as a discipline within higher education.

Then, when I am still waiting to read about this concept called "justice," Crank continues (Chapter 4) to review criminal justice theories.At this point I began to believe I have wasted almost $50 on a Criminal Justice 101 textbook when I thought I was getting an advanced book on justice issues.

The author continues with basic qualitative/quantitative methodologies (Chapter 5), another topic for an introductory course. Finally, in chapters 6 and 7, Crank brings up culture and gender and I hope to at last hear some more advanced issues raised.However, based on the shallow treatment of both of these very important areas in the context of justice studies, I wonder if Crank did substantial research in either area?The loose writing style reminds me of a discussion one might have with a student or a friend---not a well-researched, thoughtful essay on critical justice issues in culture and gender.

In chapter 8 the author discusses ethics, which (if you've read any of his previous books on police ethics) is a brief summary of the jist of his stance on police ethics.The author has made a living writing about police ethics, and while he is considered an expert in this area I don't find that the insertion of his ethics thoughts is useful in this book.Truthfully, it looked like the author was reaching for more pages---the ethics material sticks out like a sore thumb, adding nothing to the discussion of "imagining justice."

Overall, I was extremely disappointed in this book and don't recommend it to anyone except as a primer or source of lecture notes for the instructor of a basic criminal justice course.It is a tedious, poorly written text on the field of academic criminal justice (first 5 chapters) and then a loose and ill-conceived, even haughty sermon on how the author thinks others should view culture and gender issues in justice.Crank is not a credible source in either culture or gender issues, and I find it impossible to take his opinions seriously.I would prefer to have some type of reasoned arguments and research instead of unsubstantiated assertions.

In the end, I'd much rather see a published monograph based on substantial, sustained, thoughtful doctoral-level research and insight in this area.There are several political science dissertations that have been devoted to this subject, in the last 10 years, that the author would benefit by reading.The Crank text seems to have been written fast, much too fast.It is an amalgam of lectures, maybe, he has given and random conversations he has had.

A Must Read for the future CJS Academic
I don't out stars gratuitously, 4 out of 5 is very good--a 5 out of 5 may involve the author reading the book to me...

This book dicusses the formation of justice studies and its imergence in academia.It challanges the reader to define 'justice' for themselves while providing contextual background for the concept.

The author makes the case that justice studies include all the hallmarks of 'social science' fused with 'the humanities'.

The changing dynamics of America, a call to recognize the growing role of women in the field and the import of imparting ethics to future practitioners are elaborated upon as well.

This book ties together some points, while stressing others, that I find yet to have been made to date in my academic endeavors.

As close to a 'must-read' for any future academic.

Watered down picture of justice
I just read this book and got very little out of it.The writing style is full of big words from a professor (NOT a cop, which is one of my pet peeves with this author's work). There are many, many other good books on the justice system and the role of police in that system.I wouldn't waste my money on this one. ... Read more

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Chapters: Churchtown, Merseyside, Crank Caverns, St John's Gardens, Halewood, Meols Park, Newsham Park, Marshside, Merseyside, Sefton, Merseyside, Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley, Little Crosby, Greenbank Park, Noctorum, Liverpool City Region, Court Hey Park, Princes Park, Liverpool, Canning, Liverpool, Stanley Park, Liverpool, Wavertree Playground, Clock Face, Merseyside, Billinge Hill, Ribble and Alt Estuaries, North Wirral Coastal Park, Anfield Cemetery, Landican, Allerton Cemetery, Clubmoor, Merseyside County Council, Reynolds Park, River Alt, Thurstaston Common, Broadgreen, Clatterbridge, Southport Pier, Southport Airshow, Fairfield, Liverpool, Whiston Rural District, Makerfield, Greater Merseyside, Egerton Dock, Kennessee Green, Lunt, Huyton With Roby Urban District, Gillmoss, Dovecot, Merseyside, Blackbrook, Merseyside, Raby Mere, Woolton Woods and Camphill, Orrell, Merseyside, Carr Mill Dam, Holy Land, Poulton, Merseyside, Warbreck, Dibbinsdale, Spaceport, Otterspool Promenade, Stoneycroft, Caldy Hill, Little Altcar, Orrell Park, Windle, Merseyside, Concert Square, Liverpool, Allerton Tower Park, Wirral Urban District, Cast Iron Shore, West Lancashire Rural District, Sefton Park, South Ferry Basin, Larton, Formby Golf Club, Walton Hall Park, Port of Garston, Central, Liverpool, Meols Cop, Red Rocks, Kirkby Urban District, Wallasey Dock, West Derby Cemetery, the Dungeon Sssi, Dingesmere, Heswall Dales, Page Moss, Highpark, Merseyside, Sherdley Park, Bowring Park, Merseyside, Rimrose Valley, Ford, Merseyside, Cressington, Nutgrove, St Helens, Merseyside, Tuebrook ... Read more

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Now in a new edition, Police & Society offers a descriptive and analytical look at the process of policing, from police behavior and organization to operations and historical perspectives. With an emphasis on the relationship between the police and the community and how this relationship has changed through the years, coauthors Roy Roberg, Kenneth Novak, and Gary Cordner explore the most important theoretical foundations and incisive research on contemporary policing practices.

To draw students into this complex subject, the authors provide many fascinating examples of policing at work: Inside Policing boxes address real-world police issues and operations and also offer biographical sketches of important police leaders. Voices From the Field boxes feature insights from nationally recognized police executives who discuss current policing practices in a lively Q&A format.

Revised throughout, the fourth edition incorporates such timely new topics as media relations, intelligence-led policing, and changes in CompStat procedures. The authors also address the impact of society's evolution on current policing practices, paying special attention to the challenges of community policing and policing in the post-9/11 era. The book's rich pedagogical features include an expanded glossary, which provides clear definitions of key terms. An Interactive Student Study Guide CD is packaged with the text, and an Instructor's Manual is also available.

An essential resource for policing in the twenty-first century, Police & Society, Fourth Edition, provides a dynamic introduction to this compelling field. ... Read more

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Police And Society
This book is good for someone who is interested in learning more about law enforcement adminstration and the demands of supervison.

Decent overview of Police and Society
This book takes a theoretical approach to policing in modern day society. I had to use this book by one of the professors who was an author of the book and I enjoyed the book and the teaching. Just because a professor or author has never been a police officer does not mean they do not understand the challenges and theories of teaching Criminal Justice students. This book is very basic and if you are looking for a great overview of Criminal Justice, this should be sufficient. I enjoyed learning from this book and I feel I learned a lot from it. If you are interested in learning about Policing concepts and theories, I would suggest using this book!

Not a very helpful portrayal of cops, society and culture
I was in a class where this book was required by one of the authors.This was alright with me because I thought I was getting a good deal---the book and the author.I came to find out that this particular professor (author) has never been a cop!He talked about cops as if he knew the life of a cop, but he couldn't answer even simple questions about what it was really like, for 'police and society.' The book isn't very good because it's impossible to believe the word of professors who haven't 'been there' like most of us in the classroom.

Adequate for an introductory course but not much more
While this book is an adequate general overview of the general topic "police and society," and appropriate for a high school class or a freshman-level college class, I find it is not very interesting beyond skimming the surface of what is surely a fascinating topic.

Other books (such as Vila and Morris, 1999, The Role of Police in American Society, just off the top of my head---and also the several books in the "Policing and Society" series) provide a much meatier, much more intriguing and substantial treatment of the topic.

Unless you know absolutely nothing about this topic and want to just know the general, most rudimentary basics, I'd suggest looking at other books written by seasoned law enforcement practitioners. ... Read more