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"Midnights is both a comedy of errors and an affectionate portrait of small-town police, those beleaguered souls charged with the task of keeping their neighbors in line....A reminder that those assigned to protect are often vulnerable and quietly h..
14.77£
Brand: Arcadia Publishing
Minneapolis has a bloody, unacknowledged heritage. On the shore of Lake Harriet, Ojibwe warriors killed a Dakota man, triggering two retaliatory massacres. Ten years later, pioneer settlers roved the land of Minneapolis in gangs for protection from..
22.91£
Brand: Arcadia Publishing
By the late 20th century, Montpelier, the home of James and Dolley Madison, had been altered until it would no longer have been recognizable to the couple.In 2000 the newly-created Montpelier Foundation took over management of the historic home wit..
24.83£
The histories of the trans and sex worker rights movements are closely intertwined and, particularly in the UK, it's rare to find a carceral feminist who isn't also a rabid transphobe. What does it mean to write as part of a community that is under ..
13.85£
Brand: Arcadia Publishing
Murder & Mayhem in Coeur d'Alene and the Silver Valley uncovers pain and punishment in the panhandleNorthern Idaho's natural beauty shrouds tales of gamblers, prostitutes and violent prospectors. Illegal gambling, excessive drinking and vicious dis..
22.91£
Brand: Arcadia Publishing
Gruesome Tales From the Gem City of the Great LakesFrom the French and Indian War to Oliver Hazard Perry at the Battle of Lake Erie, the city of Erie has a prideful place in the American story, but there also exists a seedy history of crime and mur..
22.91£
Brand: HarperCollins Publishers
Over the course of twenty-five years, Dr. Helen Morrison has profiled more than eighty serial killers around the world. What she learned about them will shatter every assumption you've ever had about the most notorious criminals known to man.Judging..
12.04£
Mystery, Millions & Murder in North Jersey The Tragic Kidnapping of Exxon's Sidney Reso - True Crime
Brand: Arcadia Publishing
Author John E. O'Rourke recounts the crime that rocked a sleepy community and brought the nation's eyes to North Jersey.On a spring morning in Morristown in 1992, authorities discovered a car idling in a driveway with the door open and the driver m..
23.26£
Brand: Arcadia Publishing
Well known for its picturesque setting, Napa Valley is also home to crimes perpetrated in the name of greed, love and rage.Shocking incidents have rocked the small communities nestled among the vineyards, like that of greedy young Billy Duvall, who..
22.91£
The New Handbook for a Post-Roe America is a comprehensive and user-friendly manual for understanding and preparing for the looming changes to reproductive rights law, and getting the health care you need. Activist and writer Robin Marty guides read..
18.71£
Brand: Arcadia Publishing
Revolutionary-era Manhattan was a chaotic scene of Loyalists, British occupation troops, Patriot spies and thousands of people seeking to live ordinary lives during extraordinary times. In the 1730s, the colonial legislature of New York officially ..
22.91£
Embarking on a public toilet tour from London to San Francisco to Toronto, from pay potties to deserted alleyways, No Place To Go is a marriage of urbanism, social narrative, and pop culture that shows the ways public toilets just don't work. Peel b..
13.76£
Brand: Random House
Late one July night in 2020, armed men, identified only by the word POLICE written across their uniforms, began snatching supporters of Black Lives Matter off the street in Portland, Oregon, and placing them in unmarked vans. These mysterious action..
29.79£
Brand: University of Georgia Press
Although adopting global norms often improves domestic systems of governance, domestic obstacles to norm diffusion are frequent. States that decide to reinvent their political authority simultaneously evaluate which current global norms are desirabl..
39.54£
From the cooks who have quietly fed rebels and revolutionaries to the collective kitchens set up after hurricanes and floods, food has long played a crucial role in resistance, protest, and mutual aid. Twenty-three contributors-cooks, farmers, write..
20.46£
"This book considers the range of skills and roles that nurse's now undertake within specialist CAMHS, it provides a good basic introduction for nurses and clinicians from other disciplines. Discussion around medication management as part of a nurse..
30.69£
'Insightful and refreshing.' - Professor Dennis Klass, Webster University Religion Department, St. Louis, USA'A tour de force.' - Dr Colin Murray Parkes, OBE, MD, FRCPsych, President of CRUSESome societies and some individuals find a place for their..
41.22£
Brand: BookBaby
"On Sacred Ground" offers an unexpectedly spiritual approach to the account of a controversial, officer-involved shooting as told by the retired, well-seasoned officer who pulled the trigger. Scott Haslar's memoir offers a look into race-related iss..
23.59£
Brand: The New Press
Six million workers in America are tipped workers, relying on a subminimum wage and the whims of customers to feed themselves and their families. Over a million of them are immigrants, and the unpredictability of tips combined with the unpredictabil..
27.28£
Brand: Wiley
Online Risk to Children brings together the most up-to-date theory, policy, and best practices for online child protection and abuse prevention. Moves beyond offender assessment and treatment to discuss the impact of online abuse on children themse..
48.67£
Brand: Wiley
Online Risk to Children brings together the most up-to-date theory, policy, and best practices for online child protection and abuse prevention. Moves beyond offender assessment and treatment to discuss the impact of online abuse on children themse..
96.61£
Brand: Arcadia Publishing
Over the past century, some of the world's largest wildland fires have occurred in Oregon. Accidentally set by a disgruntled cook on an English ship, the Great Fire of 1845 displaced multiple tribes and boiled wildlife alive in the Columbia River. ..
22.24£
In this classic account, historian Philip Foner traces the radical history of Black workers' contribution to the American labour movement. ISBN: 9781608467877Publisher: Haymarket BooksImprint: Haymarket BooksPublished date: 04 Jan 2018DEWEY: 331.639..
26.20£
Brand: Random House
Life expectancies are declining in North America. Someone is dying every two hours in Canada from illicit drug overdose. Fentanyl has become a looming presence. The victims include the poor and forgotten but also professionals, students, and parents..
18.47£