Books by David Wilson

This is the book that inspired the TV series Dark Angel. Mary Ann Cotton is not just the first but perhaps the 1st's most prolific female serial killer, with more victims than Myra Hindley, Rosemary West, Beverly Allit or male predators such as Jack the Ripper and Dennis Nilsen.

A clinical guide to caring for children and their families in the hospital, community, and home. It features care plans, assessment tools, skills and procedures, patient teaching, and reference data. It includes modifiable nursing care plans, medication tables, emergency treatment information, and illustrated dermatologic problems.

When retired solicitor Alasdair Mills is burgled, the robbers leave behind his money and valuables, only stealing a pair of slippers that once belonged to Sir Walter Scott.

"In Moral Judgment, James Q. Wilson demonstrates how our judicial system has compromised its obligation to discriminate between right and wrong. Citing highly publicized verdicts, he makes an erudite c"

A superbly targeted resource for those learning about serial killings. Serial Killers and the Phenomenon of Serial Murder examines and analyses some of the best known (as well as lesser) cases from English criminal history, ancient and modern.

Examines the 1990's rise of a black ghetto in rust belt America, 'the global ghetto.' This work finds out how race and political economy in cities dynamically connect in ways to deepen deprivation in these areas. It is useful for students of geography, urban studies and sociology.

* The definitive account of a national tragedy: by the journalist who broke the story and the UK's 'Number One Expert on Serial Killing' - with full details of the January 08 trial

'Only two big facts are known for certain: you are on a large spinning rock hurtling through space at about 67,000 mph, and one day your body is going to die.

Edited by two leading experts and with an all-star cast of contributors, British Local Government into the 21st Century brings together a set of specially-commissioned and tightly-edited chapters to provide a comprehensive assessment of the issues and challenges facing local authorities as they search for a new role in a new century.

The transformation of local governance in the 1980s and 1990s has put the nature and prospects for local democracy in question.

Alex Alexandrowicz spent 22 years in prison protesting his innocence - the result of a plea bargain which went wrong and turned into a Kafkaesque nightmare.

Until recently, evolution and religion have been considered contending, irreconcilable theories of origin and existence. David Sloan Wilson takes the radical step of joining the two, while thinking of society as an organism, one in which morality and religion are adaptations.