A biography of the legendary pool player discusses his game against World Champion Ralph Greenleaf at the age of seven, his glory years in pool competitions, and his work as a consultant for such top pool movies as The Hustler.

Willie's Game: An Autobiography

Cohen, Stanley

Mosconi, Willie

Biographies & Memoirs

Macmillan Pub. Co.

The manufacture of news;: Social problems, deviance and the mass media (Communication and society)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Constable

Spine and cover creased, owner's inscription. Orders received by 3pm Sent from the UK that weekday.

Psychological survival: The experience of long-term imprisonment, (Pelican books)

Penguin

From sexual fantasies to holidays this marvellous book charts our escape attempts. In a series of dazzling commentaries the authors reveal the ordinary and extraordinary ways in which we seek to defy the despair of the breakfast table and the office But the book is much more than a first-rate cartography of everyday life. It crackles with important theoretical insights about how `normality' is managed. This fully revised edition contains a superb new introduction, `Life After Postmodernism', which exposes the conceits of the postmodernist adventure and which should be required reading for anyone interested in making sense of everyday life.

Escape Attempts: The Theory and Practice of Resistance to Everyday Life (Pelican books)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Taylor, Laurie

Psychology & Counseling

Penguin??Books

Recounts the 1969 baseball season when the Mets won the World Series, and includes recent interviews with alumni of that team

A Magic Summer: The '69 Mets

Sports & Outdoors

Baseball

Harcourt

In 1969, ending seven years of lovable futility, the New York Mets won the World Series. How they did it became the stuff of legend. Photographs.

Magic Summer: The '69 Mets

Harvest Books

While crime, law, and punishment are subjects that have everyday meanings not very far from their academic representations, "social control" is one of those terms that appear in the sociological discourse without any corresponding everyday usage. This concept has a rather mixed lineage. "After September 11" has become a slogan that conveys all things to all people but carries some very specific implications on interrogation and civil liberties for the future of punishment and social control.  The editors hold that the already pliable boundaries between ordinary and political crime will become more unstable; national and global considerations will come closer together; domestic crime control policies will be more influenced by interests of national security; measures to prevent and control international terrorism will cast their reach wider (to financial structures and ideological support); the movements of immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers will be curtailed and criminalized; taken-for-granted human rights and civil liberties will be restricted. In the midst of these dramatic social changes, hardly anyone will notice the academic field of "punishment and social control" being drawn closer to political matters.  Criminology is neither a "pure" academic discipline nor a profession that offers an applied body of knowledge to solve the crime problem. Its historical lineage has left an insistent tension between the drive to understand and the drive to be relevant. While the scope and orientation of this new second edition remain the same, in recognition of the continued growth and diversity of interest in punishment and social control, new chapters have been added and several original chapters have been updated and revised.

Punishment and Social Control: Essays in Honor of Sheldon L. Messinger (Social Institutions and Social Change)

Blomberg, Thomas G.

Messinger, Sheldon L.

Aldine de Gruyter

Folk devils and moral panics: The creation of the Mods and Rockers (Sociology and the modern world)

Macgibbon Kee

Stefan Kornienko, a New York City police officer, becomes obsessed with the search for his parents' murderer, Johnny Blanton, a disturbed but angelic-looking young boy

Angel Face

Literature & Fiction

United States

St Martins Pr

Folk devils and moral panics: The creation of the Mods and Rockers

Stanley Cohen's study of Mods and Rockers in the 1960s was a foundational text both in terms of investigating the workings of subcultural groups and identifying the concept of a 'moral panic' generated by the media, which leads to groups being vilified in the popular imagination, and inhibits rational debate about solutions to the social problems such groups represent.  The insights Cohen provides into subculture and mass morality are as relevant today as they were when the book was originally published in 1972, as illustrated by the author's introduction for this new edition, in which he tracks moral panics over the last thirty years, commenting on the demonization of young offenders and asylum seekers and on the News of the World's 'name and shame' campaign against paedophiles.Revisiting the theory of moral panic and exploring the way in which the concept has been used, this new edition features a select bibliography of key texts for further reading. The third edition of Folk Devils and Moral Panics makes available a valuable and widely recommended text.

Folk Devils and Moral Panics: The Creation of the Mods and Rockers

St.Martin's Press

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