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By the turn of the century, the elderly will comprise about 20 percent of the population in North" America, and 28 percent of those who drive. Place this percentage in high-powered automobiles, and the need for planning and policy development...

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J. Peter Rothe (Author) J. Peter Rothe is affiliated with the Department of Sociology at the Univer sity of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. Other books of his include The Trucker's World and The Safety of Elderly Drivers.

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First published in 1989, the main thrust in this volume has been to denote and elucidate a source of information on motorcyclists?a source which the editors believe is particularly rich with data about characteristics, images and everyday social b...

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Traditionally, efforts to promote traffic safety have been limited to the sphere of driver, vehicle, and roadway. Only recently has research begun to look at the larger society. Despite this, most areas of traffic policy remain telescopic. This vo...

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Despite our best efforts, traffic injuries and fatalities continue to increase. Traditional solutions do not seem to fix the problem; perhaps we need to approach these problems in a new way. This collection attempts to expand thinking about traffi...

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The charge: first-degree murder. The murder weapon: a 1987 Ford Escort. A car as a murder weapon? In Driven to Kill, J. Peter Rothe unflinchingly examines the use of vehicles in cases of assault, abduction, rape, gang warfare, terrorism, suicide, ...

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This volume is a revised edition of The Institute for Contemporary Study's report on national health insurance (NHI). The debate on the NHI program has broadened in recent years as a greatly intensified public consciousness about costs has been fa...

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First published in 1989, the main thrust in this volume has been to denote and elucidate a source of information on motorcyclists a source which the editors believe is particularly rich with data about characteristics, images and everyday social b...

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By the turn of the century, the elderly will comprise about 20 percent of the population in North America, and 28 percent of those who drive. Place this percentage in high-powered automobiles, and the need for planning and policy development becom...

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First published in 1989, the main thrust in this volume has been to denote and elucidate a source of information on motorcyclists a source which the editors believe is particularly rich with data about characteristics, images and everyday social b...

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By the turn of the century, the elderly will comprise about 20 percent of the population in North America, and 28 percent of those who drive. Place this percentage in high-powered automobiles, and the need for planning and policy development becom...

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By the turn of the century, the elderly will comprise about 20 percent of the population in North" America, and 28 percent of those who drive. Place this percentage in high-powered automobiles, and the need for planning and policy development...

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Written by one of the world's most eminent personality theorists, this book provides a simply written, comprehensive introduction to recent research about personality structure and the nature of individual differences. The Scientific Analysis of P...

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Written by one of the world's most eminent personality theorists, this book provides a simply written, comprehensive introduction to recent research about personality structure and the nature of individual differences. The Scientific Analysis of P...

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This is a book about truck driver's lives, risks, and views on safety. As a group, truckers represent a significant population of road users whose high-exposure driving creates a major challenge for safety. Research into the larger social, politic...

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Peter Rothe's absorbing volume ex amines one of the most important areas of modern life, the culture of the automobile. Rothe takes a problem central to everyday life - auto safety - and reconstructs it into a means of revealing the human conditio...

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This is a book about truck driver's lives, risks, and views on safety. As a group, truckers represent a significant population of road users whose high-exposure driving creates a major challenge for safety. Research into the larger social, politic...

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This collection of essays continues a long and venerable debate in the history of the Christian church regarding the legacy of the Roman emperor Constantine the Great. For some, Constantine's conversion to Christianity early in the fourth century ...

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The sixteenth Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference was held in Cambridge in March 2006. Sixty papers were given during the two-day conference and covered the breadth and length of the Roman world. The issues of identity, its expression and rec...

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