Book Description
Storytime Giants provides large-format versions of favourite picture stories by well-known authors. This is a rhyming text.
Author : Janet Ahlberg
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,4 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Big books
ISBN : 9780582435193
Storytime Giants provides large-format versions of favourite picture stories by well-known authors. This is a rhyming text.
Author : Anthony Bonato
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 30,67 MB
Release : 2011-08-16
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0821853473
This book is the first and only one of its kind on the topic of Cops and Robbers games, and more generally, on the field of vertex pursuit games on graphs. The book is written in a lively and highly readable fashion, which should appeal to both senior undergraduates and experts in the field (and everyone in between). One of the main goals of the book is to bring together the key results in the field; as such, it presents structural, probabilistic, and algorithmic results on Cops and Robbers games. Several recent and new results are discussed, along with a comprehensive set of references. The book is suitable for self-study or as a textbook, owing in part to the over 200 exercises. The reader will gain insight into all the main directions of research in the field and will be exposed to a number of open problems.
Author : Gerald W. Clemente
Publisher : Quinlan Press (MA)
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 10,20 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Author : John Townsend
Publisher : Heinemann-Raintree Library
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 26,99 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781410914286
Discover the risks robbers will take to steal money and how police use dogs to sniff out criminals.
Author : Peter Moskos
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 42,22 MB
Release : 2009-08-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1400832268
When Harvard-trained sociologist Peter Moskos left the classroom to become a cop in Baltimore's Eastern District, he was thrust deep into police culture and the ways of the street--the nerve-rattling patrols, the thriving drug corners, and a world of poverty and violence that outsiders never see. In Cop in the Hood, Moskos reveals the truths he learned on the midnight shift. Through Moskos's eyes, we see police academy graduates unprepared for the realities of the street, success measured by number of arrests, and the ultimate failure of the war on drugs. In addition to telling an explosive insider's story of what it is really like to be a police officer, he makes a passionate argument for drug legalization as the only realistic way to end drug violence--and let cops once again protect and serve. In a new afterword, Moskos describes the many benefits of foot patrol--or, as he calls it, "policing green."
Author : Tristan Bancks
Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 28,97 MB
Release : 2022-07-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1760148466
If your mum was a cop and your dad was a crim who needed your help to commit a crime, would you do it to save him? At what cost? Nash Hall's dad is a criminal who just can't seem to go straight. He wants Nash to help him commit a robbery. A big one. The trouble is, Nash's mum is a cop. And the robbery is at Nash's school. But Dad owes a lot of money to some very dangerous people and if Nash doesn't help him do the job, it could cost both their lives. From the bestselling author of Two Wolves, The Fall and Detention.
Author : Ant Anstead
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 37,64 MB
Release : 2018-05-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0008245061
TV presenter and all-round car nut Ant Anstead takes the reader on a journey that mirrors the development of the motor car itself from a stuttering 20mph annoyance that scared everyone’s horses to 150mph pursuits with aerial support and sophisticated electronic tracking.
Author : Robert R. Ernst
Publisher : Publishamerica Incorporated
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 17,43 MB
Release : 2009-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781608136209
Raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Lawrence DeVol was in trouble with the police from the age of ten when he was confined in a juvenile facility. During his years of crime he committed burglaries, armed robberies and murders in eleven states throughout the Midwest. Eleven people met his guns and died violently at his hands, six of them being police officers protecting their communities and others when he was hired to murder them. During his career he escaped from three county jails, one state prison and one state hospital for the criminally insane. For the last few years of his life he was a member of one of the most notorious gangs of the 20s and 30s known as the Barker-Karpis gang. This gang committed bank robberies in several states, taking in over $600,000 in cash and bonds, a huge amount for the times. After killing two police officers during a Minneapolis bank robbery, he was captured in St. Paul. Given a life sentence, he escaped from a state hospital for the criminally insane and continued his reign of terror with a series of bank robberies until cornered in Enid, Oklahoma. One police officer was killed and two others wounded before Lawrence DeVol met his death at the hands of police guns at the age of only thirty-two.
Author : Patrick J Proudler
Publisher :
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 34,45 MB
Release : 2021-02-02
Category :
ISBN : 9781946754172
A law enforcement officer's thirty-year professional journey is recounted through his lectures to recruits attending the police academy. Commentaries on the business of policing intertwine with colorful accounts of investigations and assignments. Sketches portraying his role as a patrol officer, detective, homicide cop, internal affairs investigator, and police academy training coordinator richly depict the variety of positions afforded to a career police officer. The lecture series is both educational and compelling. This easy-to-read book will engage both the civilian and sworn communities. The chronicles are inspired by actual events infused with the personal and thoughtful insight of the city police detective who lived them.
Author : Peter Houlahan
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 27,25 MB
Release : 2019-06-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1640092129
5 young men. 32 destroyed police vehicles. 1 spectacular bank robbery. This “cinematic” true crime story transports readers to the scene of one of the most shocking bank heists in U.S. history—a crime that’s almost too wild to be real (The New York Times Book Review). Norco ’80 tells the story of how five heavily armed young men—led by an apocalyptic born–again Christian—attempted a bank robbery that turned into one of the most violent criminal events in U.S. history, forever changing the face of American law enforcement. Part action thriller and part courtroom drama, this Edgar Award finalist for Best Fact Crime transports the reader back to the Southern California of the 1970s, an era of predatory evangelical gurus, doomsday predictions, megachurches, and soaring crime rates, with the threat of nuclear obliteration looming over it all. In this riveting true story, a group of landscapers transforms into a murderous gang of bank robbers armed to the teeth with military–grade weapons. Their desperate getaway turns the surrounding towns into war zones. And when it’s over, three are dead and close to twenty wounded; a police helicopter has been forced down from the sky, and thirty–two police vehicles have been completely demolished by thousands of rounds of ammo. The resulting trial shakes the community to the core, raising many issues that continue to plague society today: from the epidemic of post–traumatic stress disorder within law enforcement to religious extremism and the militarization of local police forces.