Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment (Davis Angela J.)(Paperback)

Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment (Davis Angela J.)(Paperback)

A comprehensive, readable analysis of the key issues of the Black Lives Matter movement, this thought-provoking and compelling anthology features essays by some of the nation's most influential and respected criminal justice experts and legal scholars. Policing the Black Man explores and critiques

Scum of the Earth (Koestler Arthur)(Paperback)

A new edition of Arthur Koestler's gripping tale of arrest, imprisonment, and subsequent escape to London from Nazi-occupied

Women, Culture & Politics (Davis Angela Y.)(Paperback)

A collection of speeches and writings by political activist Angela Davis which address the political and social changes of the past decade as they are concerned with the struggle for racial, sexual, and economic

Are Prisons Obsolete? (Davis Angela Y.)(Paperback)

With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case for the latest abolition movement in American life: the abolition of the prison. As she quite correctly notes, American life is replete with abolition movements, and when they were engaged in these

In the Heat of the Night (Ball John)(Paperback / softback)

A musician found dead on the highway. It's no surprise when white detectives arrest a black man for the murder. What is a surprise is that the black man - Virgil Tibbs - is himself a skilled homicide detective from California, whom inexperienced Chief Gillespie reluctantly recruits to help with the

Black Masculinity and the Cinema of Policing (Sexton Jared)(Paperback)

This book offers a critical survey of film and media representations of black masculinity in the early twenty-first-century United States, between President George W. Bush's 2001 announcement of the War on Terror and President Barack Obama's 2009 acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize. It argues that

Rethinking Holocaust Justice: Essays Across Disciplines (Goda Norman J. W.)(Paperback)

Since the end of World War II, the ongoing efforts aimed at criminal prosecution, restitution, and other forms of justice in the wake of the Holocaust have constituted one of the most significant episodes in the history of human rights and international law. As such, they have attracted sustained

Private Policing (Button Mark)(Paperback)

The second edition of Private Policing details the substantial involvement of private agents and organisations involved in policing beyond the public police. It develops a taxonomy of policing and explores in depth each of the main categories, examining the degree of privateness, amongst several

Abolition Democracy - Open Media Series - Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture (Davis Angela Y)(Paperback / softback)

Angel on The Dead Tree (Watson L J)(Paperback)

City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (Davis Mike)(Paperback)

A fiercely elegant and wide-ranging history of L.A.'s Dickensian extremes and Pynchonesque conspiraciesNo metropolis has been more loved or more hated. To its official boosters, 'Los Angeles brings it all together.' To detractors, L.A. is a sunlit mortuary where 'you can rot without feeling it.' To

Wretched of the Earth (Fanon Frantz)(Paperback / softback)

'This century's most compelling theorist of racism and colonialism' Angela Davis Written at the height of the Algerian war for independence from French colonial rule and first published in 1961, Frantz Fanon's Wretched of the Earth has provided inspiration for anti-colonial movements ever since,

Good Policing: Trust, Legitimacy and Authority (Hough Mike)(Paperback)

Renowned criminologist Mike Hough illuminates the principles and practices of good policing in this important analysis of the police service's legitimacy and the factors such as public trust that drive it. As concern grows at the growth in crimes of serious violence, he challenges conventional

Problem-Oriented Policing: Successful Case Studies (Scott Michael S.)(Paperback)

Problem-Oriented Policing: Successful Case Studies is the first systematic and rigorous collection of effective problem-oriented policing projects. It includes more than twenty case studies from among the thousands of projects submitted for the Herman Goldstein Award for Excellence in

Crimen Exceptum: The English Witch Prosecution in Context (Durston Gregory J.)(Paperback)

As the author notes, 'The early-modern European witch-hunts were neither orchestrated massacres nor spontaneous pogroms. Alleged witches were not rounded up at night and summarily killed extra-judicially or lynched as the victims of mob justice. They were executed after trial and conviction with

The Cambridge Handbook of Policing in the United States (Lave Tamara Rice)(Paperback)

This volume provides a comprehensive collection of essays on police and policing, written by leading experts in political theory, sociology, criminology, economics, law, public health, and critical theory. This accessible, interdisciplinary work will be valuable for anyone interested in

Policing Iraq: Legitimacy, Democracy, and Empire in a Developing State (Wozniak Jesse)(Paperback)

Policing Iraq chronicles the efforts of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) of Iraq to rebuild their police force and criminal justice system in the wake of the US invasion. Jesse S. G. Wozniak conducted extensive ethnographic research during multiple stays in the KRG, observing such signpost

Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties (Davis Mike)(Paperback)

Los Angeles Times Bestseller This riveting tour through 1960s Los Angeles is a 'history from below, in the very best sense' as it celebrates the 'grassroots heroes and struggles' of the social movements of the era (Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Natural Causes). 'Authoritative and impressive.' --Los

Creative Black and White: Digital Photography Tips and Techniques (Davis Harold)(Paperback)

Learn to master the unique challenges of black and white photography, and create high-quality, beautiful images In this newly revised and expanded classic guide to black and white photography, renowned photographer Harold Davis breaks through the mystery of digital monochrome. Using more than 200

Angela Davis: Seize the Time (Beegan Gerry)(Pevná vazba)

Inspired by a private archive and featuring contemporary work by artists who acknowledge the continued relevance of Angela Davis's experience and politics, the essays, interviews, and images in this book provide a compelling and layered narrative of her journey through the junctures of race,

A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary (Clark-Hall J. R.)(Paperback)

This classic dictionary deals carefully and exhaustively with all the words which occur in Anglo-Saxon poetry and prose. Variant dialectic forms are given, together with variant forms found in the same dialect. Purely poetic words and words not common in prose are indicated, and references are

The Cross and the Beatitudes (Sheen Fulton J.)(Paperback)

Fulton J. Sheen was remarkable in his ability to uncover many layers of meaning in the life and words of Jesus of Nazareth. The Seven Beatitudes and The Seven Words from the Cross - both were delivered from a mountain, but the connection runs deeper than that. As Bishop Sheen points out, Our Lord

Easter Ross and the Black Isle (Uncles Christopher J.)(Paperback / softback)

The Highway, 2 (Rudolph J.)(Paperback)

The Complex is in ruins. The zombies are everywhere. Cali Anglin and the other survivors have one slim hope: sanctuary in Idaho, thousands of miles away. They must take to the Highway - Interstate 15, the only path to safety. Their trek across a devastated America is one horror stacked on another,