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  • Orchestrating the Instruments of Power

    A Critical Examination of the U.S. National Security System

    by D. Robert Worley ...
    National security, a topic routinely discussed behind closed doors by Washington’s political scientists and policy makers, is believed to be an insider’s game. All too often this highly specialized knowledge is assumed to place issues beyond the grasp—and interest—of the American public. Author D. Robert Worley disagrees. The U.S. national security system, designed after World War II and ... Read more

    $21.29 USD

  • Peace, War, and Partnership

    Congress and the Military since World War II

    by Jeremy P. Maxwell, Charles A. Stevenson, Robert David Johnson, Alexander A. Falbo-Wild, Nathan Packard, Jeffrey Crean, D. Robert Worley, Claire Leavitt, Douglas L. Kriner ...
    Series series Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series
    Covering the period from World War II through the Trump presidency, Peace, War, and Partnership: Congress and the Military since World War II unpacks the vital and dynamic relationship between Congress and the military, two entities that have worked together, at times with different purposes, to solve myriad important issues impacting the United States in both peace and war. Congress and the ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Bells, Books and Candles

    by Robert Worley ...
    After his fathers death in World War I, Robert Worley was brought up by his widowed mother in the village of Brigstock, set in Rockingham Forest, Northamptonshire. He attended the village school and left at the age of fourteen in 1932, a time of mass unemployment.With encouragement, and a testimonial from the headmaster, he obtained a position as office boy at a firm of accountants in Northampton. ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • American Prisons and Jails

    An Encyclopedia of Controversies and Trends [2 volumes]

    Edited by Vidisha Barua Worley, Robert M. Worley ...
    This two-volume encyclopedia provides a comprehensive and authoritative examination of the history and current character of American prisons and jails and their place in the U.S. corrections system.This encyclopedia provides a rigorous and comprehensive summary of correctional systems and practices and their evolution throughout US history.Topics include sentencing norms and contemporary ... Read more

    $161.99 USD

  • Dreams, Doubt, and Dread

    The Spiritual in Film

    by Gregory Alan Thornbury ...
    Films are modern spiritual phenomena. They function as such in at least three profound ways: world projection, thought experiments, and catharsis (i.e., as dreams, doubt, and dread). Understanding film in this way allows for a theological account of the experience that speaks to the religious possibilities of film that far extend the portrayal of religious themes or content. Dreams, Doubt, and ... Read more

    $19.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    by Andrew Martin ...
    Series Book 7 - Jim Stringer
    WINNER OF THE ELLIS PETERS AWARD'Superb.' Lancashire Evening Post'Richly satisfying.' Sunday TelegraphOn the first day of the Somme enlisted railwayman Jim Stringer lies trapped in a shell hole, smoking cigarette after cigarette under the bullets and the blazing sun. He calculates his chances of survival - even before they departed for France, a member of Jim's unit had been found dead.Durin... ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • If I Don’t Write It Nobody Else Will

    by Eric Sykes ...
    The long awaited story of one of Britain’s greatest comic legends.'Some people walk on stage and the audience warms to them. You can't explain it, and you shouldn't try. It's an arrogant assumption to say you 'decide' to become a comedian. The audience decides for you.' Eric Sykes, December 2001From his early days writing scripts for Bill Fraser and Frankie Howerd through decades of British radio ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Women in the Second World War

    by Collette Drifte ...
    Women in the Second World War explores the experiences of women who served in the armed forces, or complimentary services. Using interviews, anecdotes, memoirs and/or accounts from the women (or, where appropriate, their children), the book tells the women's personal accounts of what their lives were like and what particular experiences they had while serving. They were all ordinary British women, ... Read more

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The War on our Doorstep

    London's East End and how the Blitz Changed it Forever

    by Harriet Salisbury, The Museum of London Group ...
    London's East Enders are known for being a tough, humorous and lively lot. In the early 20th century, families crowded into single rooms, children played on the streets and neighbours' doors were never locked in case you needed an escape route from the police...World War 2 changed everything. During the Blitz, men set off for work never to return and rows of houses were reduced to rubble overnight ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • Criminal (In)Justice

    What the Push for Decarceration and Depolicing Gets Wrong and Who It Hurts Most

    by Rafael A. Mangual ...
    In his impassioned-yet-measured book, Rafael A. Mangual offers an incisive critique of America's increasingly radical criminal justice reform movement, and makes a convincing case against the pursuit of "justice" through mass-decarceration and depolicing.After a summer of violent protests in 2020—sparked by the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Rayshard Brooks—a dangerously false ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • In My Wildest Dreams

    by Leslie Thomas ...
    From Barnardo boy to original virgin soldier; from apprentice journalist in London's Fleet Street to famous novelist...At times funny, at times sad, but always honest and utterly compulsive, Leslie Thomas's story is straight out of fiction. As an orphan, he picked his way through the rubble of post-war Britain and was sent on national service to the Far East. Later he became a Fleet Street ... Read more

    $19.89 USD

  • When Prisoners Come Home

    Parole and Prisoner Reentry

    by Joan Petersilia ...
    Series series Studies in Crime and Public Policy
    Every year, hundreds of thousands of jailed Americans leave prison and return to society. Largely uneducated, unskilled, often without family support, and with the stigma of a prison record hanging over them, many if not most will experience serious social and psychological problems after release. Fewer than one in three prisoners receive substance abuse or mental health treatment while ... Read more

    $29.69 USD