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Understanding Police Intelligence Work

by Adrian James ...

Series series Key Themes in Policing
Although police intelligence is becoming increasingly reliant on technology, it remains a human activity. This is the first textbook to offer a comprehensive and up-to-date account of police intelligence work based on current research, and to assess how intelligence may be used wisely and ethically to influence policing policy and practice.After explaining the basic tenets of intelligence, the ... Read more

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Although police intelligence is becoming increasingly reliant on technology, it remains a human activity. This is the first textbook to offer a comprehensive and up-to-date account of police intelligence work based on current research, and to assess how intelligence may be used wisely and ethically to influence policing policy and practice.After explaining the basic tenets of intelligence, the
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Couples, Conflict and Change

Social Work with Marital Relationships

by Adrian James ...

Series series Tavistock Library of Social Work Practice
The A3 process is a way to look with new eyes at a specific problem identified by direct observation or experience. It offers a structure that begins by always defining the issue through the eyes of the customer.In A3 Problem Solving for Healthcare Cindy Jimmerson explains an essential tool borrowed from the Toyota Production System, which is an extension of work identified with the well-known ... Read more

$68.99 USD

The A3 process is a way to look with new eyes at a specific problem identified by direct observation or experience. It offers a structure that begins by always defining the issue through the eyes of the customer.In A3 Problem Solving for Healthcare Cindy Jimmerson explains an essential tool borrowed from the Toyota Production System, which is an extension of work identified with the well-known
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The Maritime History of Cornwall

by Prof. Philip Payton, Prof. Philip Payton, Alston Kennerley, Alston Kennerley, Helen Doe, Helen Doe, John C. Appleby, John Armstrong, G.H. and R. Bennett, Terry Chapman, Wendy R. Childs0, Janet Cusack1, Bernard Deacon2, Roy Fenton3, Maryanne Kowaleski4, Tony Pawlyn5, Cathryn Pearce6, Caradoc Peters7, N.A.M. Rodger8, John Rule9, W.B. Stephens0, Prof. Mark Stoyle1, John Symons2, Simon Trezise3, Adrian James Webb4, Paul Willerton5 ...

Cornwall is quintessentially a maritime region. Almost an island, nowhere in it is further than 25 miles from the sea. Cornwall’s often distinctive history has been moulded by this omnipresent maritime environment, while its strategic position at the western approaches—jutting out into the Atlantic—has given this history a global impact.It is perhaps surprising then, that, despite the central ... Read more

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Cornwall is quintessentially a maritime region. Almost an island, nowhere in it is further than 25 miles from the sea. Cornwall’s often distinctive history has been moulded by this omnipresent maritime environment, while its strategic position at the western approaches—jutting out into the Atlantic—has given this history a global impact.It is perhaps surprising then, that, despite the central
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Knight & Culverhouse Box Set - Books 7-9

by Adam Croft ...

Narrated by Adrian James ...

Series series Knight & Culverhouse
Unabridged

16 hours 48 min

WITH A VENGEANCEEleven years ago. A bungled armed robbery led by career criminal Freddie Galloway leaves a police officer shot in the face, fighting for his life.Present day. The shooter is released from prison, hell bent on revenge. That night, Freddie Galloway leaps to his death to escape a blazing inferno in his country mansion.With arson confirmed as the cause of the fire, Mildenheath CID are ... Read more

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WITH A VENGEANCEEleven years ago. A bungled armed robbery led by career criminal Freddie Galloway leaves a police officer shot in the face, fighting for his life.Present day. The shooter is released from prison, hell bent on revenge. That night, Freddie Galloway leaps to his death to escape a blazing inferno in his country mansion.With arson confirmed as the cause of the fire, Mildenheath CID are
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Knight & Culverhouse Box Set - Books 4-6

by Adam Croft ...

Narrated by Adam Croft, Adrian James ...

Series series Knight & Culverhouse
Unabridged

16 hours 34 min

THE BLOCKBUSTING, BESTSELLING CRIME SERIES WITH MORE THAN 250,000 COPIES SOLD AROUND THE WORLDThis exclusive, limited edition box set includes the fourth, fifth and sixth books in the bestselling Knight & Culverhouse crime thriller series plus an exclusive prequel novella.ROUGH JUSTICEWhen a man is found dead, mutilated in his house, DS Wendy Knight and DCI Jack Culverhouse soon realise that Jeff ... Read more

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THE BLOCKBUSTING, BESTSELLING CRIME SERIES WITH MORE THAN 250,000 COPIES SOLD AROUND THE WORLDThis exclusive, limited edition box set includes the fourth, fifth and sixth books in the bestselling Knight & Culverhouse crime thriller series plus an exclusive prequel novella.ROUGH JUSTICEWhen a man is found dead, mutilated in his house, DS Wendy Knight and DCI Jack Culverhouse soon realise that Jeff
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With A Vengeance

by Adam Croft ...

Narrated by Adrian James ...

Series Audiobook 7 - Knight & Culverhouse
Unabridged

5 hours 33 min

Eleven years ago. A bungled armed robbery led by career criminal Freddie Galloway leaves a police officer shot in the face, fighting for his life.Present day. The shooter is released from prison, hell bent on revenge. That night, Freddie Galloway leaps to his death to escape a blazing inferno in his country mansion.With arson confirmed as the cause of the fire, Mildenheath CID are left battling a ... Read more

$9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Eleven years ago. A bungled armed robbery led by career criminal Freddie Galloway leaves a police officer shot in the face, fighting for his life.Present day. The shooter is released from prison, hell bent on revenge. That night, Freddie Galloway leaps to his death to escape a blazing inferno in his country mansion.With arson confirmed as the cause of the fire, Mildenheath CID are left battling a
... Read more
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Dead & Buried

by Adam Croft ...

Narrated by Adrian James ...

Series Audiobook 8 - Knight & Culverhouse
Unabridged

5 hours 36 min

Two dead bodies. A corrupt trafficking ring. A betrayal that'll shake Mildenheath to the core.Two dead bodies are found buried beneath undergrowth just outside Mildenheath. The race is on to uncover their identities and catch their killers.When two young men tell police they've escaped with their lives from a local brothel where they were kept as male prostitutes, DCI Jack Culverhouse and DS Wendy ... Read more

$8.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Two dead bodies. A corrupt trafficking ring. A betrayal that'll shake Mildenheath to the core.Two dead bodies are found buried beneath undergrowth just outside Mildenheath. The race is on to uncover their identities and catch their killers.When two young men tell police they've escaped with their lives from a local brothel where they were kept as male prostitutes, DCI Jack Culverhouse and DS Wendy
... Read more
Joint Force Harrier

by Adrian Orchard, James Barrington ...

Days after arriving in Kandahar, the Harriers of 800 Naval Air Squadron were in the thick of fierce fighting. Armed with rockets and bombs, the pilots were flying crucial danger-close attack missions in defence of troops engaged in the most intense battles seen by British forces since the Korean War. While facing the constant threat of surface-to-air missiles, the British Top Guns knew that any ... Read more

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Days after arriving in Kandahar, the Harriers of 800 Naval Air Squadron were in the thick of fierce fighting. Armed with rockets and bombs, the pilots were flying crucial danger-close attack missions in defence of troops engaged in the most intense battles seen by British forces since the Korean War. While facing the constant threat of surface-to-air missiles, the British Top Guns knew that any
... Read more
Darwin's Sacred Cause

How a Hatred of Slavery Shaped Darwin's Views on Human Evolution

by Adrian Desmond, James Moore ...

An "arresting" and deeply personal portrait that "confront[s] the touchy subject of Darwin and race head on" ( The New York Times Book Review).It's difficult to overstate the profound risk Charles Darwin took in publishing his theory of evolution. How and why would a quiet, respectable gentleman, a pillar of his parish, produce one of the most radical ideas in the history of human thought? Drawing ... Read more

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An "arresting" and deeply personal portrait that "confront[s] the touchy subject of Darwin and race head on" ( The New York Times Book Review).It's difficult to overstate the profound risk Charles Darwin took in publishing his theory of evolution. How and why would a quiet, respectable gentleman, a pillar of his parish, produce one of the most radical ideas in the history of human thought? Drawing
... Read more
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Rookie, The

A Young Culverhouse prequel novella

by Adam Croft ...

Narrated by Adrian James ...

Series series Young Culverhouse
Unabridged

59 min

Mildenheath. 1981.Jack Culverhouse's first day at Mildenheath CID wasn't what he expected. Hoping to make a good impression, he walks straight into a culture of lies and corruption.Set up for a fall by his new boss, the only way he can save himself is to solve the crime alone — without the help of his colleagues. And it could end his career before it's even started.The Rookie is a prequel novella ... Read more

$4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Mildenheath. 1981.Jack Culverhouse's first day at Mildenheath CID wasn't what he expected. Hoping to make a good impression, he walks straight into a culture of lies and corruption.Set up for a fall by his new boss, the only way he can save himself is to solve the crime alone — without the help of his colleagues. And it could end his career before it's even started.The Rookie is a prequel novella
... Read more
Dialogues on Migration Policy

by Marco Giugni, Adrian Favell, Gary Freeman, James Hollifield, Valerie F. Hunt, Patrick Ireland, David Jacobson, Hanspeter Kriesi, Etienne Piguet0, John Rex1, Galya Benarieh Ruffer2, Saskia Sassen3, Paul Statham4, Daniel J. Tichenor5, Triadafilos Triadafilopoulos6, Andrej Zaslove7 ...

Series series Program in Migration and Refugee Studies
Dialogues on Migration Policy brings together leading American and European scholars of immigration politics to address migration policy. Editors Marco Giugni and Florence Passy's aim to present a number of informed "dialogues" addressing three main theoretical concerns in this field: the role of the national state in a globalizing world, the determinants of policy change, and the role of ... Read more

$42.89 USD

Dialogues on Migration Policy brings together leading American and European scholars of immigration politics to address migration policy. Editors Marco Giugni and Florence Passy's aim to present a number of informed "dialogues" addressing three main theoretical concerns in this field: the role of the national state in a globalizing world, the determinants of policy change, and the role of
... Read more
Reports from the Deep End

Stories inspired by J. G. Ballard

by Rick McGrath, Will Self, Iain Sinclair, Michael Moorcock, Christopher Fowler, Chris Beckett, Lavie Tidhar, Ramsey Campbell, Barry Malzberg, Adrian Cole, Jeff Noon, James Lovegrove, Toby Litt, Rhys Hughes ...

A fascinating and unsettling anthology of 32 science fiction short stories in tribute to the prophetic dystopias of New Wave sci-fi pioneer, and literary titan of the twentieth century, J. G. Ballard—featuring Will Self, Iain Sinclair, Christopher Fowler, Chris Beckett, and a new Jerry Cornelius story from Michael Moorcock.Few authors are so iconic that their name is an adjective – Ballard is one ... Read more

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A fascinating and unsettling anthology of 32 science fiction short stories in tribute to the prophetic dystopias of New Wave sci-fi pioneer, and literary titan of the twentieth century, J. G. Ballard—featuring Will Self, Iain Sinclair, Christopher Fowler, Chris Beckett, and a new Jerry Cornelius story from Michael Moorcock.Few authors are so iconic that their name is an adjective – Ballard is one
... Read more