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  • Tales of the Alaska State Troopers

    Stories of Courage, Survival, and Honor from the Last Frontier

    by Peter B. Mathiesen ...
    With the elements against them, the state troopers of Alaska face every day with a fight for their lives.In the state of Alaska, anything goes. For the state troopers, an average day can include blizzard conditions, midnight sunsets, and subzero temperatures. Tales of the Alaska State Troopers gives insight to just how the brave men and women of the law combat these conditions while still ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

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    An Undercover FBI Agent, an Illicit Affair, and a Murder of Passion

    by Joe Sharkey ...
    The "uncommonly trenchant account of the only known FBI agent to confess to murder" ( Kirkus Reviews).When rookie FBI agent Mark Putnam received his first assignment in 1987, it was the culmination of a lifelong dream, if not the most desirable location. Pikeville, Kentucky, is high in Appalachian coal country, an outpost rife with lawlessness dating back to the Hatfields and McCoys. As a rising ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The United Nations: A Very Short Introduction

    by Jussi M. Hanhimaki ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The United Nations has been called everything from "the best hope of mankind" to "irrelevant" and "obsolete." With this much-needed introduction to the UN, Jussi Hanhimäki engages the current debate over the organizations effectiveness as he provides a clear understanding of how it was originally conceived, how it has come to its present form, and how it must confront new challenges in a rapidly ... Read more

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  • U.S. Marshals

    Inside America's Most Storied Law Enforcement Agency

    by Mike Earp, David Fisher ...
    Blending history and memoir, retired U.S. Marshal Mike Earp—a descendant of the legendary lawman Wyatt Earp—offers an exclusive and fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the most storied law enforcement agency in America, illuminating its vital role in the nation’s development for more than two hundred years.Mike Earp spent his career with the U.S. Marshals Service, reaching the number three ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Blue

    A Memoir – Keeping the Peace and Falling to Pieces

    by John Sutherland ...
    A Sunday Times top-five bestseller'This is a remarkable book . . . profound and deeply moving . . . It has as much to tell us about mental illness as it does about policing' Alastair StewartJohn Sutherland joined the Met in 1992, having dreamed of being a police officer since his teens. Rising quickly through the ranks, he experienced all that is extraordinary about a life in blue: saving lives, ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • Called to Rise

    The Power of Community in a Nation Divided

    by Michelle Burford, Chief David O. Brown ...
    The Dallas police chief who inspired a nation with his response to the killing of five of his officers shares his personal story and his faith in America’s potential to unite communities through a dedication to transparency and trust.“The real deal: a real Christian, a real man, a real leader.”—Whoopi Goldberg, The View“A front-row seat to the tension between law enforcement and minority residents ... Read more

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  • Introduction to International Disaster Management

    by Damon P. Coppola ...
    Disaster management is a vibrant and growing field, driven by government spending in the wake of terrorist attacks and environmental debacles, as well as private-sector hiring of risk managers and emergency planners. An ever-increasing number of practicing professionals needs a reference that can provide a solid foundation in ALL major phases of supervision – mitigation, preparedness, response, ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • Who'd be a copper?

    Thirty years a frontline British cop

    by Jonathan Nicholas ...
    Who’d be a copper? follows Jonathan Nicholas in his transition from a long-haired world traveller to becoming one of ‘Thatcher’s army’ on the picket lines of the 1984 miner’s dispute and beyond. His first years in the police were often chaotic and difficult, and he was very nearly sacked for not prosecuting enough people. Working at the sharp end of inner-city policing for the entire thirty years, ... Read more

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  • The Grangegorman Murders

    Dean Lyons, Mark Nash and the Story behind the Grangegorman Murders

    by Alan Bailey ...
    On the morning of 7 March 1997, the bodies of two elderly female patients were discovered in their sheltered accommodation at Grangegorman Psychiatric Hospital in Dublin.It would be a further 16 years before Mark Nash was convicted of the notorious Grangegorman murders, but not before Dean Lyons, an innocent man, spent months in prison for a crime he did not commit, only to tragically die of a ... Read more

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  • The Thin Black Line

    True Stories by the Black Law Enforcement Officers Policing America's Meanest Streets

    by Hugh Holton ...
    A nonfiction collection of the exploits and accomplishments of African American law enforcement officers.LaVerne Dunlap - She infiltrates drug gangs and testifies against them in court . . . only to have the drug lords come gunning for her.Dep. County Sheriff Winroe Reed - He goes into America's "Homicide Capital" alone to apprehend a 6'9" homicidal crack dealer . . . a man so dangerous no other ... Read more

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  • Law & Disorder

    The Chaotic Birth of the NYPD

    by Bruce Chadwick ...
    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 as high. The staggering amount of crime threatened to topple a city that was experiencing meteoric growth ... Read more

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  • The Texas Rangers

    by Chuck Parsons ...
    The Texas Rangers. The words evoke exciting images of daring, courage, high adventure. The Rangers began as a handful of men protecting their homes from savage raiding parties; now in their third century of existence, they are a highly sophisticated crime-fighting organization. Yet at times even today the Texas Ranger mounts his horse to track fugitives through dense chaparral, depending on his ... Read more

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