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The second edition of Issues and Controversies in Policing Today breaks down the most contemporary policing issues from an academic and practitioner perspective. This edition features two new chapters on (1) the critical shortage of police officers and (2) the conflict and tensions between street cops and management cops.

(Paperback, Second Edition)

The second edition of Issues and Controversies in Policing Today breaks down the most contemporary policing issues from an academic and practitioner perspective. This edition features two new chapters on (1) the critical shortage of police officers and (2) the conflict and tensions between street cops and management cops.

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Helpful French vocabulary, questions and activities, and a resource guide accompany each issue to round out the unit.

The authors are careful to tie in the French issues to American society and culture.

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Mayoral takeovers of big city public education systems are desperation measures. After decades of decline in school quality, something must be done to make sure city children learn enough to function as adults in American society.

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Challenges the conventional wisdom that media creates a toxic environment for America's youth, diverting us from the real origins of problems affecting children today

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Hollywood celebrities are doing it. Corporate moguls are doing it. Even one glowing ex-president is living testimony to the extraordinary health benefits of the vegan lifestyle. But what about those of us living in the real world-and on a real budget

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This book presents a bold, unconventional plan to rescue our nation's schoolchildren from a failing public education system. The plan reflects the author's rare fusion of on-the-ground experience as school board member, public administrator and political activist and exhaustive policy research.

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The Italians were the junior partners of the Axis alliance in the European war, and although operating less capable aircraft than the Luftwaffe, the Regia Aeronautica and ANR (post the 1943 surrender) still produced 102 pilots who qualified as aces by scoring five or more kills.

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"Italian Battleships of World War II".

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This volume details the fighting men of the Italian city states that successfully resisted the Holy Roman Emperor. As well as covering the social and political background of the city militias, the author covers their weapons and armour, recruitment policy, pay and conditions.

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A detailed and meticulously researched encyclopedia on all aspects of Jack the Ripper, one of the world's most famous, and mysterious, serial killers.

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Charts the wartime career of JG 2 from its first aerial kills on the Franco-German border in November 1939 through to the destruction of its own Fw 190s in the face of the Allied advance at Prague-Ruzyne airfield in late April 1945.

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Jagdgeschwader 52 was the most successful and highest-scoring fighter unit, not just in Germany's Luftwaffe, but in the entire annals of aviation history. This text provides a full combat history of the JG 52 and its members, including the three top-scoring aces of all time, who claimed a total of 900 victories between them.

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Arguably the archetypal Luftwaffe fighter unit of World War 2, JG 53 aircraft were encountered on almost every fighting front from the first day of hostilities until the last. Based on the author's years of researching the German archives, along with his personal contact with several veterans, this book presents an account of JG 53's eventful war.

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After struggling with inadequate supplies of aircraft and materiel, the veteran pilots of the Geschwader would go on to enjoy incredible successes against French and American opponents in September 1918.

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This title takes a close look at the Jagdpanzer 28 "Hetzer" - one of the most successful of Germany's late-war assault guns. It features an annotated cutaway as its centre piece, this title covers the technical details of the jagdpanzer and its variants.

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Assesses James G Blaine's role as an architect of empire and revisits the ambitious imperialistic goals of this two-time secretary of state.

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Jane Addams was a tireless campaigner for social justice in late 19th and early 20th century America, championing the causes of women's rights, racial equality and the needs of poor urban immigrants. Later vilified for her pacifism during the Great War, Addams was at one time the most honoured woman in the US.

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Japan and Germany under the U.S. Occupation explores the reconstruction of education in both countries after World War II. In Japan large-scale reforms were undertaken swiftly after the nation's surrender, whereas in the U.S. Zone of Germany most of the traditional aspects of ...

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After more than a half century of withdrawal from international politics, Japan is back. What are the implications for the United States