Cause for Alarm: The Volunteer Fire Department in the Nineteenth-Century City
ISBN: 9780691603438 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Though central to the social, political, and cultural life of the nineteenth-century city, the urban volunteer fire department has nevertheless been largely ignored by historians. Redressing this neglect, Amy Greenberg reveals the meaning of this central institution by comparing the fire departments of Baltimore, St. Louis, and San Francisco from the late eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century. Volunteer fire companies protected highly flammable cities from fire and provided many men with friendship, brotherhood, and a way to prove their civic virtue. While other scholars have claimed... Though central to the social, political, and cultural life of the nineteenth-century city, the urban volunteer fire department has nevertheless bee... |
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186,69 zł |
When Justice Fails: Now I Lay Me Down My Heart
ISBN: 9781460205938 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1997, George Henderson, who was staying in a homeless shelter, asked for the help of author, Dr. Bonnie Clark Douglass. George's brother Paul Henderson, who was nicknamed "Poncho," was only 17 when he went missing on Halloween night. Poncho's lifeless body was found a couple of weeks later on Nov. 14th, 1981, at the end of the catwalk under the Centennial Bridge in Miramichi City. Poncho's sneakers were found neatly placed, side by side, atop a pillar approximately 50 yards from the body; not one police report retrieved mentions this fact. George refused to "live with it," after the family...
In 1997, George Henderson, who was staying in a homeless shelter, asked for the help of author, Dr. Bonnie Clark Douglass. George's brother Paul Hende...
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122,60 zł |
When Justice Fails: Now I Lay Me Down My Heart
ISBN: 9781460205952 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1997, George Henderson, who was staying in a homeless shelter, asked for the help of author, Dr. Bonnie Clark Douglass. George's brother Paul Henderson, who was nicknamed "Poncho," was only 17 when he went missing on Halloween night. Poncho's lifeless body was found a couple of weeks later on Nov. 14th, 1981, at the end of the catwalk under the Centennial Bridge in Miramichi City. Poncho's sneakers were found neatly placed, side by side, atop a pillar approximately 50 yards from the body; not one police report retrieved mentions this fact. George refused to "live with it," after the family...
In 1997, George Henderson, who was staying in a homeless shelter, asked for the help of author, Dr. Bonnie Clark Douglass. George's brother Paul Hende...
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182,72 zł |
Blackstone's Policing for the Pcso
ISBN: 9780198704546 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Blackstone's Policing for the PCSO is the third edition of the bestselling Blackstone's PCSO Handbook, representing the changing needs of this unique group within the police service. Providing up-to-date and comprehensive coverage of the role and functions of Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs), this revised format offers a more effective and practical resource covering all the elements of PCSO training nationally.
With clear explanations of powers and procedures, the third edition has been updated to reflect the evolution of the PCSO's role within the police family since its... Blackstone's Policing for the PCSO is the third edition of the bestselling Blackstone's PCSO Handbook, representing the changing needs of this unique ...
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162,27 zł |
Hazards, Risks, and Disasters in Society
ISBN: 9780123964519 / Angielski / Twarda / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hazards, Risks, and Disasters in Society provides analyses of environmentally related catastrophes within society in historical, political and economic contexts. Personal and corporate culture mediates how people may become more vulnerable or resilient to hazard exposure. Societies that strengthen themselves, or are strengthened, mitigate decline and resultant further exposure to what are largely human induced risks of environmental, social and economic degradation. This book outlines why it is important to explore in more depth the relationships between environmental hazards, risk... Hazards, Risks, and Disasters in Society provides analyses of environmentally related catastrophes within society in historical, political a... |
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527,00 zł |
The United Nations Human Rights Council: A Critique and Early Assessment
ISBN: 9781138828896 / Angielski / Miękka / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The United Nations Human Rights Council was created in 2006 to replace the UN Commission on Human Rights. The Council s mandate and founding principles demonstrate that one of the main aims, at its creation, was for the Council to overcome the Commission s flaws. Despite the need to avoid repeating its predecessor's failings, the Council s form, nature and many of its roles and functions are strikingly similar to those of the Commission. This book examines the creation and formative years of the United Nations Human Rights Council and assesses the extent to which the Council... The United Nations Human Rights Council was created in 2006 to replace the UN Commission on Human Rights. The Council s mandate and founding princi... |
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187,44 zł |
The Triumph of the Gun-Rights Argument: Why the Gun Control Debate Is Over
ISBN: 9781440830358 / Angielski / Twarda / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Gun control evokes passions equaled by few other subjects. As this book shows, the debate over firearms begins with cultural values and extends into questions of constitutional rights, public health and safety, and politics. Examining its subject through the prism of the Sandy Hook shootings, the book looks at the influence of elected officials, the courts, interest groups, and average citizens in shaping gun-control laws. It shares poll results detailing what the public really thinks about guns and why, and it explains the various components of gun policy and policymaking to show how they... Gun control evokes passions equaled by few other subjects. As this book shows, the debate over firearms begins with cultural values and extends int... |
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397,10 zł |
Governing the Embedded State: The Organizational Dimension of Governance
ISBN: 9780199684168 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Governing the Embedded State integrates governance theory with organization theory and examines how states address social complexity and international embeddedness. Drawing upon extensive empirical research on the Swedish government system, this volume describes a strategy of governance based in a metagovernance model of steering by designing institutional structures. This strategy is supplemented by micro-steering of administrative structures within the path dependencies put in place through metagovernance. Both of these strategies of steering rely on subtle methods of providing political...
Governing the Embedded State integrates governance theory with organization theory and examines how states address social complexity and international...
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471,95 zł |
The Year of the Gun 2014
ISBN: 9781633153097 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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126,55 zł |
Corporate Security Management: Challenges, Risks, and Strategies
ISBN: 9780128029343 / Angielski / Miękka / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Corporate Security Management provides practical advice on efficiently and effectively protecting an organization's processes, tangible and intangible assets, and people. The book merges business and security perspectives to help transform this often conflicted relationship into a successful and sustainable partnership. It combines security doctrine, business priorities, and best practices to uniquely answer the Who, What, Where, Why, When and How of corporate security. Corporate Security Management explores the diverse structures of security organizations in... Corporate Security Management provides practical advice on efficiently and effectively protecting an organization's processes, tangible and ... |
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222,92 zł |
K9 Personal Protection: A Manual for Training Reliable Protection Dogs
ISBN: 9781550595888 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Create a safe, successful K9 training program that results in reliable protection dogs.
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Dr. Resi Gerritsen and Ruud Haak, leading dog trainers from the Netherlands, share their proven, comprehensive program for... Create a safe, successful K9 training program that results in reliable protection dogs.
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202,69 zł |
Data Mining and Predictive Analysis: Intelligence Gathering and Crime Analysis
ISBN: 9780128002292 / Angielski / Miękka / 422 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Data Mining and Predictive Analysis: Intelligence Gathering and Crime Analysis, 2nd Edition, describes clearly and simply how crime clusters and other intelligence can be used to deploy security resources most effectively. Rather than being reactive, security agencies can anticipate and prevent crime through the appropriate application of data mining and the use of standard computer programs. Data Mining and Predictive Analysis offers a clear, practical starting point for professionals who need to use data mining in homeland security, security analysis, and operational law... Data Mining and Predictive Analysis: Intelligence Gathering and Crime Analysis, 2nd Edition, describes clearly and simply how crime clusters... |
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298,92 zł |
Citizen-Protectors: The Everyday Politics of Guns in an Age of Decline
ISBN: 9780199347551 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From gang- and drug-related shootings to mass shootings in schools, shopping centers, and movie theatres, reports of gun crimes fill the headlines of newspapers and nightly news programs. At the same time, a different kind of headline has captured public attention: a steady surge in pro-gun sentiment among Americans. A Gallup poll conducted just a month after the Newtown school shootings found that 74% of Americans oppose a ban on hand-guns, and at least 11 million people now have licenses to carry concealed weapons as part of their everyday lives. Why do so many Americans not only own guns...
From gang- and drug-related shootings to mass shootings in schools, shopping centers, and movie theatres, reports of gun crimes fill the headlines of ...
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152,67 zł |
Safeguarding Homeland Security: Governors and Mayors Speak Out
ISBN: 9781489984036 / Angielski / Miękka / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The terrorist attack of September 11, 2001, and the natural disasters of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita demonstrated the challenges that governments face in initial response and recovery efforts. This book details the important steps that governors and mayors have initiated to address the serious problems illustrated by these recent disasters. The innovative solutions include developing more reliable communications, creating public private partnerships to supplement public emergency services, establishing fusion c- ters that interpret information, and creating joint operations centers to manage...
The terrorist attack of September 11, 2001, and the natural disasters of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita demonstrated the challenges that governments face...
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506,99 zł |
Secret Intelligence: A Reader
ISBN: 9780415705684 / Angielski / Miękka / 654 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This Reader in the field of intelligence studies focuses on policy, blending classic works on concepts and approaches with more recent essays dealing with current issues and the ongoing debate about the future of intelligence. Aiming to be more comprehensive than existing books, and to achieve truly international coverage of the field, this expanded and revised new edition of the Secret Intelligence Reader provides key readings and supporting material for students and course convenors. It is divided into four main sections, each of which includes full summaries of each... This Reader in the field of intelligence studies focuses on policy, blending classic works on concepts and approaches with more recent essays deali... |
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243,18 zł |
A Practitioner's Way Forward: Terrorism Analysis
ISBN: 9780983074564 / Angielski / Miękka / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides practitioners and analysts in the field with effective tools for conducting analysis of terrorist groups and other violent substate groups. Free from unnecessary jargon and presented in a user-friendly format, the book offers analytical perspectives and techniques that are practical as well as intellectually rigorous; accessible and instantly applicable, while also based on solid social science theory and methodology. Part handbook, part reference book, it identifies the major obstacles to effective analysis, examines the most commonly used interpretations of terrorism,... This book provides practitioners and analysts in the field with effective tools for conducting analysis of terrorist groups and other violent subst... |
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150,30 zł |
Suspicion Nation: The Inside Story of the Trayvon Martin Injustice and Why We Continue to Repeat It
ISBN: 9781619024687 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many thought the election of our first African American president put an end to the conversation about race in this country, and that America had moved into a post-racial era of equality and opportunity. Then, on the night of February 26, 2012, a black seventeen-year-old boy walking to a friend's home carrying only his cell phone, candy, and a fruit drink was shot and killed by a neighborhood watch coordinator. The public, especially African-American journalists and activists, clamored for the media to pay attention to the killing of Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman. The July 2013 trial...
Many thought the election of our first African American president put an end to the conversation about race in this country, and that America had move...
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77,09 zł |
Czars in the White House: The Rise of Policy Czars as Presidential Management Tools
ISBN: 9780472119585 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Combining public administration and political science approaches to the study of the American presidency and institutional politics, Justin S. Vaughn and Jose D. Villalobos argue that the creation of policy czars is a strategy for combating partisan polarization and navigating the federal government's complexity. They present a series of in-depth analyses of the appointment, role, and power of various czars: the energy czar in the mid-1970s, the drug czar in the late 1980s, the AIDS czar in the 1990s, George W. Bush's trio of national security czars after 9/11, and Obama's controversial czars...
Combining public administration and political science approaches to the study of the American presidency and institutional politics, Justin S. Vaughn ...
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341,38 zł |
Interrogation, intelligence and security: Controversial British techniques
ISBN: 9780719091483 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Interrogation, Intelligence and Security examines the origins and effects of the use of interrogation techniques known as the 'five techniques'.
Through its in-depth analysis the book reveals how British forces came to use such controversial methods in counter-insurgency, counter-terrorism and internal security contexts. There are clear parallels between the three case studies examined and the controversial interrogation techniques that continue to be used around the world today. By identifying and analysing the short- and long-term results of the use of the 'five techniques' in these... Interrogation, Intelligence and Security examines the origins and effects of the use of interrogation techniques known as the 'five techniques'.
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453,39 zł |
Evaluating Transitional Justice: Accountability and Peacebuilding in Post-Conflict Sierra Leone
ISBN: 9781137468215 / Angielski / Twarda / 293 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This major study examines the successes and failures of the full transitional justice programme in Sierra Leone. It sets out the implications of the Sierra Leonean experience for other post-conflict situations and for the broader project of evaluating transitional justice.
This major study examines the successes and failures of the full transitional justice programme in Sierra Leone. It sets out the implications of the S...
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428,99 zł |