Designed specifically for criminology students, this book takes them to the heart of the contradictions, confusions and blurred boundaries around the subject of crime, about what crime is, about social regulation and control, and about social responsibility.

Questioning Identity: Gender, Class, Ethnicity provides an accessible exploration of identity as a contemporary concern in everyday life and as a key concept in the social sciences.

Questioning the Language of Improvement and Reform in Education challenges the language used in education.

Designed for both Muslims and Western non-Muslim students this book examines the Qur'an in Western scholarship and provides an overview of its rich interpretive traditions. It is a concise introduction to various aspects of the Qur'an.

The Qur'an plays a central role in Islam. This volume presents the diversity of thought, approach and school, in order to give an appreciation of the range of response that the text has provoked throughout its history. It covers various aspects of the text and its reception.

Due to its data handling and modeling capabilities as well as its flexibility, R is the most widely used software in bioinformatics. This title explores the programming skills needed to use this software tool for the solution of bioinformatics and computational biology problems. It covers the general properties of the R language.