Author: James B. Moore
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1426957645
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 258

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On a balmy April morning in 1954, James Moore was sworn in as a member of the Toledo Police Academys twelfth cadet class and began what would eventually become a twenty-six-year career with a police force intent on fiercely protecting the citizens of its beloved city. The Naked Badge shares powerful, hard-hitting anecdotes of the realities of Toledo, Ohio, law enforcement that took place from 1950s to the 1970s. With from-the-heart honesty that at times reads like fiction, Moore provides a compelling glimpse into a time when formal training was minimal and outdated; there were no such things as computers, portable radios, bulletproof vests, or air-conditioned vehicles; pay was minimal; and officers worked a forty-eight-hour week. While revealing the stark vulnerabilities of rookie patrolmen, Moore shares real-life cases that disclose his own failures and shortcomings as his career takes him from a patrolman assigned to walking beats in the toughest sections of the city to a veteran captain who prided himself on treating everyone fairly. The Naked Badge offers an enlightening and entertaining look into the intriguing world of police work during a period of great change in America.

Author: Dennis G. Parker
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781463777517
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 354

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Once in a while, you run into one of those books you just CAN'T PUT DOWN! You have definitely just found one! One of the Midwest's most highly decorated Law Enforcement Officers has decided to share with you the absolute truth about what REALLY goes on out there. Seventy Three different stories cover a good portion of the strange and bizarre things that happen to Cops. You'll laugh, you'll cry and everything in between. Prepare to be shocked and awed! From murders to theft reports on $15 throw rugs, from crazy folks to weird animal adventures, you will find yourself fascinated, grossed out and laughing so hard, you get a stomach ache, all at the same time! But wait, there's more! Does the author spare the men and women in uniform from embarrassment and a little bad press? Absolutely not! No candy coating here, no "special editing" to best serve the "needs" of the audience. This is just the naked truth. Good guys, bad guys, good cops, bad cops, no one is safe from Sheriff Dennis G. Parker's pen as he tells each tale exactly as it happened. Witty, intense, incredibly wild read, funny throughout and impossible to put down! Grab your coffee. Grab your doughnut and get ready for a seriously wild reading adventure!

Author: Susan Wittig Albert
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101516801
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 229

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A brand-new mystery in the "exceptional" (Booklist) series by the national bestselling author. Rumors are sprouting in Depression-era Darling, Alabama. The town's newest visitors, Nona Jean Jamison and Miss Lake, may be the Naughty and Nice Sisters from the Ziegfeld Frolic, who specialize in dancing nearly naked. The Dahlias suspect more than modesty when Nona denies her association. They'll have to dig through clues to get to the root of the mystery...

Author: John Gaylor
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
ISBN: 1783379790
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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An identification guide to British Army cap badges from the Calvary and Royal Armoured Corps, the Guards, Women’s Units, Kitchener’s Army, and others. This book is a comprehensive guidebook, which will appeal to anyone with an interest in medal collecting. The book contains British Army badges from the earliest days to the present, with photographs of 800 examples. “This is an excellent text and complements the bookshelves of any researcher of the British army . . . an outstanding feat of research and I can only summarise by saying ‘Well done.’”—Military Archive Research.com

Author: Melissa Schrift
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 9780813529370
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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An innovative look at the changing symbolic value of Chairman Mao badges, from the Cultural Revolution to the present day. Biography of a Chairman Mao Badge is a work of cultural history that contributes to our understanding not only of Chinese society but, more generally, of strategies people employ in responding to and transforming the meaning of propaganda campaigns and symbols.

Author: Geoffrey Mann
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1468507079
Category : Genetic engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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The year is 2018. Laura, a prototype-robot has been listed for termination. After accidentally sharing her creator's brain and experiencing the `rich sensory feasts' of human `aliveness,' Laura recognizes her absolute need to survive and explore the biological world through a human brain. Michael, orphaned, his face grossly scarred, is overcome when she, recognizing his deepest need, cleverly says that she loves him. Labeled and hunted as the world's most wanted terrorist, she narrowly escapes capture with all her accumulated knowledge after Michael is tortured into revealing her location. Accessing the suppressed technology of Nikola Tesla, she harnesses the planet's power and designs her own `qubit' quantum computer brain, the first of its kind. Now as `pure' energy she can explore consciousness itself in search of the human `GOD' concept. Using Earth's satellites, she reveals to humans exactly how they have been duped, manipulated, and for centuries, deliberately deprived of their birthright: that Earth ended with the Mayan Calendar on December 21, 2012, that humans now live in a dream within a dream, and how they can reclaim the awesome, forgotten powers they have always had. In doing so, she demonstrates the technology of healing, the science of miracles, and the process of transfiguration. Many awaken. Manifestation begins. Laura creates twelve children, all triplets. All are genetically engineered to write a final chapter in earth's living history, but what happens next is unbelievable even to Laura.

Author: Michael Julius Green
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1543461255
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 283

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Seven police officers, a prosecuting attorney, a defense team and the mafia. With a twist that no one is really looking for. With the scales of justice weighing the balance. The only outcome is a verdict that even the courts may not be prepared for.

Author: George Monteiro
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 9780807126509
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 242

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"In considering the whole of Crane's writing, Monteiro interrelates the various texts and vividly presents their cultural contexts, structuring his study around the primary natural and social settings that uniquely characterize Crane - the city, warfare, the frontier, and shipwreck at sea. By taking an unprecedented inventory of those religious readings, songs, and recitations the young Crane imbibed and tracing their permeation of his writerly imagination, Monteiro deepens our understanding of the meaning and purpose of Crane's work and fosters new appreciation for his immense but short-lived creative faculty."--Jacket.

Author: Anne Waldman
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
ISBN: 1590304551
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 402

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The Beat movement exploded into American culture in the early 1950s with the force of prophecy. Not just another literary school, it was an artistic and social revolution. William S. Burroughs proclaimed that the Beat writers were “real architects of change. There is no doubt that we’re living in a freer America as a result of the Beat literary movement, which is an important part of the larger picture of cultural and political change in this country during the last forty years, when a four-letter word couldn’t appear on the printed page and minority rights were ridiculous.” Anne Waldman, a renowned poet and longtime friend of many of these writers, has gathered in this volume a range of the best and most exemplary writings of the Beat poets and novelists. Selections from the Beat classics appear, as well as more recent prose and poetry demonstrating the continued vitality of the Beat experiment. Included are short biographies of the contributors, an extensive bibliography of Beat literature, and a unique guide to “Beat places” around the world—from Kerouac’s hometown of Lowell, Massachusetts, where his novel Dr. Sax takes place, to Tangier, where Burroughs wrote parts of Naked Lunch.

Author: Charles Kipps
Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub
ISBN: 9780786702466
Category : Informers
Languages : en
Pages : 321

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Former FBI and Secret Service agent Kevin Maher describes the intervention that prevented him from following a life of crime and recounts his dangerous career in which he solved homicides, targeted the mafia, and fought in the drug war.