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Guilty as Sin
Edward Klein · Regnery Publishing
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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An exciting new book from #1 New York Times bestselling author Edward Klein! |
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Law & Disorder: The Chaotic Birth of the NYPD
Bruce Chadwick · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 384
Format: Print book
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Nineteenth-century New York City was one of the most magnificent cities in the world, but also one of the most deadly. Without any real law enforcement for almost 200 years, the city was a lawless place where the crime rate was triple what it is today and the murder rate was five or six times... |
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Legal Guide for Lesbian & Gay Couples, A
Frederick Hertz · Nolo
Pages: 456
Format: Print book
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Laws affecting LGBT couples are changing rapidly, and while it's an exciting time for all gay and lesbian partners, keeping up with the myriad ways the shifting legal landscape touches your family life can be daunting. Now more than ever, it's important that you take the proper... |
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Substitute : going to school with a thousand children.
Nicholson Baker · Penguin Books
Pages: 736
Format: Print book
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In 2014, after a brief orientation course and a few fingerprinting sessions, Nicholson Baker became an on-call substitute teacher in a Maine public school district. He awoke to the dispatcher's five-forty a.m. phone call and headed to one of several nearby schools; when he got there, he did his best... |
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Incendiary: The Psychiatrist, the Mad Bomber, and the Invention of Criminal Profiling
Michael Cannell · Minotaur Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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Long before the specter of terrorism haunted the public imagination, a serial bomber stalked the streets of 1950s New York. The race to catch him would give birth to a new science called criminal profiling.Grand Central, Penn Station, Radio City Music Hall -- for almost two decades, no place... |
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Denying to the Grave: Why We Ignore the Facts That Will Save Us
Sara E. Gorman · Oxford University Press
Pages: 328
Format: Hardcover
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Why do some parents refuse to vaccinate their children? Why do some people keep guns at home, despite scientific evidence of risk to their family members? And why do people use antibiotics for illnesses they cannot possibly alleviate? When it comes to health, many people insist that science... |
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Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom
Thomas E Ricks · Penguin Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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From #1 New York Times bestselling author Thomas E. Ricks, a dual biography of Winston Churchill and George Orwell, whose farsighted vision and inspired action preserved democracy from the threats of authoritarianism, from the left and right alikeBoth George Orwell and Winston Churchill... |
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Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching: A Young Black Man's Education
Mychal Denzel Smith · Nation Books
Pages: 240
Format: Print book
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How do you learn to be a black man in America? For young black men today, it means coming of age during the presidency of Barack Obama. It means witnessing the deaths of Oscar Grant, Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Akai Gurley, and too many more. It means celebrating powerful moments of black... |
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The People Are Going to Rise Like the Waters Upon Your Shore: A Story of American Rage
Jared Yates Sexton · Counterpoint
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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On June 14, 2016, Jared Yates Sexton reported from a Donald Trump rally in Greensboro, North Carolina. One of the first journalists to attend these rallies and give mainstream readers an idea of the raw anger that occurred there, Sexton found himself in the center of a maelstrom. Following... |
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The Dust of Kandahar: A Diplomat Among Warriors in Afghanistan
Jonathan S Addleton · Naval Institute Press
Pages: 253
Format: Paperback
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The Dust of Kandahar provides a personal account of one diplomat's year of service in America's longest war. Ambassador Addleton movingly describes the everyday human drama of the American soldiers, local tribal dignitaries, government officials, and religious leaders he interacted... |
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A Stone of Hope: A Memoir
Jim St Germain · Harper
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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In the tradition of The Other Wes Moore and Just Mercy, a searing memoir and clarion call to save our at-risk youth by a young black man who himself was a lost cause - until he landed in a rehabilitation program that saved his life and gave him purpose.Born into abject poverty in Haiti,... |
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Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government
Christopher H Achen · Princeton University Press
Pages: 390
Format: Print book
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Democracy for Realists assails the romantic folk-theory at the heart of contemporary thinking about democratic politics and government, and offers a provocative alternative view grounded in the actual human nature of democratic citizens.Christopher Achen and Larry Bartels deploy a wealth... |
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Two Paths: America Divided or United
John Kasich · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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Two paths.One choice -- the path that exploits anger, encourages resentment, turns fear into hatred and divides people. This path solves nothing, demeans our history, weakens our country and cheapens each of us. It has but one beneficiary and that is to the politician who speaks of it.The... |
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A Country Called Childhood: Children and the Exuberant World
Jay Griffiths · Counterpoint
Format: Hardcover
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While traveling the world in order to write her award winning book Wild, Jay Griffiths became increasingly aware of the huge differences in how childhood is experienced in various cultures. One central riddle, in particular captured her imagination why are so many children in Euro-American... |
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