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To Protect and Serve: How to Fix America's Police
Norm Stamper · Nation Books
Pages: 309
Format: Print book
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The police in America belong to the people - not the other way around. Yet millions of Americans experience their cops as racist, brutal, and trigger-happy: an overly aggressive, militarized enemy of the people. For their part, today's officers feel they are under siege - misunderstood,... |
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Democracy: A Case Study
David A Moss · The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pages: 784
Format: Print book
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To all who declare that American democracy is broken -- riven by partisanship, undermined by extremism, and corrupted by wealth -- history offers hope. In nearly every generation since the nation's founding, critics have made similar declarations, and yet the nation is still standing.... |
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Called to Rise
DAVID O BROWN · Ballantine Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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The Dallas police chief who inspired a nation with his compassionate, community-focused response to the killing of five of his officers shares his uplifting personal story and a blueprint for the future of policing. |
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Whistleblower at the CIA: An Insider's Account of the Politics of Intelligence
Melvin A Goodman · City Lights Books
Pages: 300
Format: Print book
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"Mel Goodman has spent the last few decades telling us what's gone wrong with American intelligence and the American military . . . he is also telling us how to save ourselves."--Seymour M. Hersh, The New Yorker"Whistleblower at the CIA offers a fascinating glimpse into... |
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Police Officer
National Learning Corporation. · National Learning Corp.
Pages: 200
Format: Paperback
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This item is Non-Returnable. |
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Between existentialism and Marxism
Jean Paul Sartre · Pantheon Books; First American Ed. edition
Format: Hardcover
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This book presents a full decade of Sartre’s work, from the publication of the Critique of Dialectical Reason in 1960, the basic philosophical turning-point in his postwar development, to the inception of his major study on Flaubert, the first volumes of which appeared in 1971. The essays... |
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Untitled on HRC
Jonathan Allen · Crown
Pages: 448
Format: Print book
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It was never supposed to be this close. And of course she was supposed to win. How Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election to Donald Trump is the tragic story of a sure thing gone off the rails. For every Comey revelation or hindsight acknowledgment about the electorate, no explanation of defeat... |
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Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
James Jr Forman · Farrar
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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In recent years, America's criminal justice system has become the subject of an increasingly urgent debate. Critics have assailed the rise of mass incarceration, emphasizing its disproportionate impact on people of color. As James Forman, Jr., points out, however, the war on crime that... |
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Handbook of Good English 1ed
Johnson · Facts On File Inc; BOMC ed. edition
Format: Hardcover
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Now substantially revised and updated, this essential guide is arranged in an easy-to-follow, topical style that takes readers from the rules governing basic sentence structure to methods of achieving effective expression. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this... |
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Age of Anger: A History of the Present
Pankaj Mishra · Farrar
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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One of our most important public intellectuals reveals the hidden history of our current global crisisHow can we explain the origins of the great wave of paranoid hatreds that seem inescapable in our close-knit world - from American 'shooters' and ISIS to Trump, from a rise in vengeful... |
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Black Genealogy
Charles L. Blockson · Black Classic Press
Format: Paperback
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First published in 1977, black genealogy remains a unique guide guide among standard genealogical references. author charles blockson, a noted genealogist and african american historian, traced his own family roots back through the 18th century. along his journey, he discovered obstacles... |
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