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The phrase crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED) was first used by C. Ray Jeffery, a criminologist from Florida State University. The phrase began to gain acceptance after publishing his 1971 book of the same name. Jeffery's work was based on the precepts of experimental psychology represented in modern learning theory. (Jeffery ...
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Crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED) is another practical application, based on the title of Jeffery's earlier publication, promotes the idea that situational factors such as the environment (poor lighting or design of circulation spaces [5]) can make crime more likely to occur at a particular time and place. CPTED measures to ...
C. S. Forester: Several: The Knight of Sainte-Hermine: Alexandre Dumas: Claude Schopp: The nearly complete lost novel was rediscovered in 1990 by Dumas expert Schopp, who wrote three more chapters. [6] The Last Theorem: Arthur C. Clarke: Frederik Pohl: Suffering from ill health and writer's block, Clarke asked Pohl to finish the novel. Clarke ...
Title Author Publisher ISBN Release Date Notes Batman vs. Three Villains of Doom: Winston Lyon (William Woolfolk) New American Library: None April 1966 Based on the Batman television series (1966–1968); plot material adapted from "The Black Cat Crimes" (Detective Comics #122, April 1947), "The Crime Parade" (Detective Comics #124, June 1947), and "The State-Bird Crimes!"
This is a list of novelists from the United States, listed with titles of a major work for each. This is not intended to be a list of every American (born U.S. citizen, naturalized citizen, or long-time resident alien) who has published a novel. (For the purposes of this article, novel is defined as an extended work of fiction. This definition ...
Nigerian academic Ainehi Edoro criticized the lack of literature by African authors and the predominance of American literature on the list and called the list "an act of cultural erasure". [4] The list was also criticized for its lack of genres such as graphic fiction, science fiction, fantasy, and children's literature. [5]
The Guardian asked readers a fortnight after the conclusion of McCrum's list to name the novels that they wish had been on the list. The book with the highest number of votes was Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, the second Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things, and the third Toni Morrison's Beloved.