Tuesday night is trivia night, a night for produce market owner Lee Hubbs to swing by the bar with his cop friend, a night to down a few shots and avoid the quails playing pinball, a night to maybe get some action on the side from his employee/girlfriend before heading home to his wife and kids.But this Tuesday’s different. An argument with the girlfriend, a little unintentional vehicular homicide of an unsuspecting cyclist, and the next thing...
An updated edition of a classic: an indispensable companion for a new era in cycling.The bicycle is almost unique among human-powered machines in that it uses human muscles in a near-optimum way. This essential volume offers a comprehensive account of the history of bicycles, how human beings propel them, what makes them go faster—and what keeps them from going even faster. Over the years, and through three previous editions, Bicycling Science...
A suburban lawyer obsessively searches for her out-of-work husband's sex doll, a grieving man buys a parrot for the stranger who saved his life, a retired Florida lineman discovers a power more vital than electricity. In his debut collection Adult Teeth, award-winning short story writer Jeremy T. Wilson skillfully presents a cast of compelling characters who grapple with life's big concerns: marriage, friendship, parenthood, death. With heartb...
Manchmal muss Liebe weh tun! Als der strenge Mr. Gray seine neue Sekretärin für ihre Tippfehler zum ersten Mal übers Knie legt, eröffnet sich für beide eine neue Welt. Die sympathischen Außenseiter ergänzen sich in perfekter Harmonie. Demütigung und Bestrafung werden fortan lustvoll zelebriert, das unscheinbare Büromäuschen erblüht zu verführerischer Schönheit. Und mit den Hieben wächst die Liebe - bis zum Happy End jenseits aller romantischen...
Drawing on data from nearly every major U.S. municipal police force, Community Policing in America is the first comprehensive study to examine how the organizational context and structure of police organizations impact the implementation of community policing.
Community policing is a recent and, to some, controversial approach to combating crime, particularly in larger urban areas. This book is a comprehensive examination of the implementation of community policing in the United States. It examines the influence of the task and institutional environment on community policing implementation and investigates the relationships between organizational structure and community policing. Key contributions o...
Colin Wilson's classic exploration of the rebel as genius, with a new introduction by Gary Lachman. When the upstart English writer Colin Wilson debuted on the literary scene with The Outsider in 1956, it marked one of the opening notes of the cultural revolution of the sixties. Wilson celebrated the misfit not as a figure be "fixed" and reintegrated into society, but as a lone journeyer who often had a stirring artistic, political, or spiritu...
Der Film basiert neben dem Geständnis von Eichmann (Thomas Kretschmann) auch auf den verschiedenen Untersuchungsergebnissen während des Prozesses. Insbesondere die Zeugenaussagen der Überlebenden der Konzentrationslager trugen mit dazu bei, dass die Schrecken der Verfolgung und Vernichtung der europäischen Juden einer breiten Öffentlichkeit ins Gedächtnis gerufen wurden. Das Verhör mit Captain Avner Less (Troy Garity) und der Prozess mit seine...
Shares results of a survey, sent to every U.S. police agency with at least 300 sworn officers, on recruitment and retention practices. Finds that police compensation, city size, and crime rates affected recruiting. Advertising and incentives had little effect on the number of recruits. Cohort sizes highlighted management challenges. To facilitate comparative and longitudinal staffing analyses, ongoing national data collection is recommended.
A comprehensive account of the rise of the wilderness movement in British Columbia examines the forest industry's political strategies, and analyzes the inner workings of the policy process.
For more, than three decades, British Columbia's old-growth forests have been a major source of political conflict. Wilson presents a comprehensive account of the rise of the wilderness movement, examines the forest industry's political strategies, and analyzes the inner workings of the policy process.
