Failed State: Dysfunction and Corruption in an American Statehouse, Hardcover

Wayne Jenkins and his team of plain-clothed officers - the Gun Trace Task Force - were the city's lauded and decorated heroes.

For years, Sgt Wayne Jenkins and his elite team of plain-clothed officers - the Gun Trace Task Force - had been the city's lauded heroes, working t...

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Reducere. This meticulously researched book explores the concept of fame in all its fleeting glory and confounding inconsistency. Why do so many entertainers...

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Drawing on twenty years of research and observations on bribery and corruption in countries with weak institutional environments, Li offers a novel...

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Why do police officers turn against the people they are hired to protect? This question seems all the more urgent in the wake of recent global prot...

The Others reconstructs of the history of migration and naturalization of foreigners in Mexico during the first half of the twentieth century.Publi...

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Reducere. This new study revolves around the Tonkawa tribe in the history of the Lone Star State and the greater Southwest. The chronological account allows ...

Jos Antonio Navarro (1795-1871) played a central role in Texas history. A close associate of and facilitator for Stephen F. Austin, he was a signat...

Sword of Empire: The Spanish Conquest of the Americas from Columbus to Cortés, 1492-1529 is, by design, an approachable and accessible history of s...

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Publisher: State House PressAuthor(s): John A. PearceNumber of pages: 300Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 152 x 227 x 30Cover type: Paperback / so...

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Miriam Ferguson was a quiet, private person who preferred to stay home in her big house in Temple, Texas, and take care of her husband, raise her t...

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Reducere. Jeff Hamilton, only thirteen when purchased in 1853 by Sam Houston at a slave auction in Huntsville, Texas, was Houston's personal body servant dur...

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Publisher: State House PressAuthor(s): Gary D. JoinerIllustration(s): Sidebarsw 19;maps 20; b&w photos 20Number of pages: 224Collection: Civil War ...

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From writer and political analyst Jared Yates Sexton comes a journey through the history of the United States, from the nation's founding to the tw...

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DescriptionThe collapse in January 2018 of the construction giant Carillion, outsourcer of huge Government building contracts, is one of the great ...

Reducere. Gen. Phil Sheridan called the Red River War of 1874 the most successful Indian campaign ever waged. Many of its incidents have become frontier lege...

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Reducere. Nashville 1964. Eighteen-year-old babysitter Paula Herring is murdered in her home while her six-year-old brother apparently sleeps through the gri...

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Focuses on works that expand the parameters of US foreign relations. This work also focuses on such areas as identity formation and projection, bor...

Attempts to understand how Roman Britain ends and Anglo-Saxon England begins have been undermined by the division of studies into pre-Roman, Roman ...