Emergency services Books

Step inside a real-life, missing person investigation in this compelling, true crime must-read.Uncover what happened to missing estate agent Suzy Lamplugh, as David Videcette takes you on a quest to unpick her mysterious disappearance and scrutinise the...

Retired NYPD Detective Vic Ferrari provides a humorous behind the scene look into the New York City Police Department with NYPD: Through The Looking Glass, stories from inside America’s largest police department. Ferrari narrates a fascinating...

PRAIRIE FIVE-0 encapsulates forty years of law enforcement in Western Canada. Former Medicine Hat Police Service Sergeant Dave Peskor relates the funny and sometimes amazingly absurd events he and his colleagues encountered as they strove to Serve and...

Beyond the Gates of Hell: The Untold Stories will provide an in-depth investigative look into a sinister group of Canada's criminal elite, most of whom Correctional Manager Neil MacLean crossed paths with in his twenty-five years within the Correctional...

Police Custody in Ireland brings together experts from policing studies, law, criminology, and psychology, to critically examine contemporary police custody in Ireland, what we know about it, how it operates, how it is experienced, and how it might be...

This book maps and analyses the official British construction of the threat of cyberterrorism.By using interpretive discourse analysis, this book identifies 'strands' from a corpus of policy documents, statements, and speeches from UK Ministers, MPs, and...

This book provides a foundational project management methodology relevant to the emergency management practice, and explains and demonstrates how project management can be applied in the context of emergency and public safety organizations.

Why serious and violent crimes skyrocket in this country's most dangerous and deadly cities is no esoteric mystery. Most cops sworn to "serve and protect" their ever complacent communities are purposely IMPOTENT and suffer from that most powerful and...

"Finally, an amazingly honest book that details exactly how my brother was set up" - Brad DasseyInnocent people do go to jail. Sometimes mistakes are made. But even more terrifying is when the authorities conspire to frame them. That's what...

This primer succinctly summarises key theoretical concepts in fiscal choice for both practitioners and scholars. The author contends that fiscal choice is ultimately a choice of both politics and economics. The book first introduces budget institutions...

This book identifies new formations of race, racism and ethnicity at the intersection of neoliberalism, security, urban governance and the law through a comparative, international analysis of police organizations and practices.This book was published as...

Getting Through Security offers an unprecedented look behind the scenes of global security structures. The authors unveil the "secret colleges" of counterterrorism, a world haunted by the knowledge that intelligence will fail, and Leviathan will not...

The forty-percent drop in crime that occurred across the U.S. from 1991 to 2000 remains largely an unsolved mystery. Even more puzzling is the eighty-percent drop over nineteen years in New York City. Twice as long and twice as large, it is the largest...

""L'Union du Royaume de Portugal ������ la Couronne de Castille, contenant les derni�����res nouvelles"" est un livre �����crit par Di Conestaggio et Girolamo Franchi en 1600. Le livre traite de l'union du Royaume de Portugal avec la Couronne de...

Liber intitulatus ""Degli Antichi Duchi E Consoli O Ipati Della Citta Di Gaeta"" auctore Federici, Giovanni Battista, editus anno MDCCXCI, continet historiam antiquorum ducum et consulorum seu ducum civitatis Gaetanae, quorum nomina et gesta recensentur...

The Standard Bearers: True Stories Of Heroes Of Law And Order is a book written by Katherine Mayo and published in 1918. The book is a collection of inspiring and heroic stories of people who have dedicated their lives to upholding the law and order in...

Police Leadership as Practice applies a leadership-as-practice approach (emphasising leader-employee relationships) to law enforcement. This book provides a progressive and collaborative leadership text for students of law enforcement, as well as...

This book traces the history of the Civil Defence in Western Australia, from the mid-1930s, to when the State Emergency Service was first formed in 1959, and the subsequent years as it passed through a number of government departments including the...

First published in 1970, Akehurst's Modern Introduction to International Law rapidly established itself as a widely used and successful textbook in its field. Being the shortest of all the major textbooks in this area, it continues to offer a concise and...

Persistent international conflicts, increasing inequality in many regions or the world, and acute environmental and climate-related threats to humanity call for a better understanding of the processes, actors and tools available to face the challenges of...

What happens when you're the threat?Sergeant John Kelly discovered during his thirty-year career in law enforcement that the biggest threat to his own survival wasn't the multiple attempts on his life, but came from within. When facing external dangers,...

Eagle with a Badge is the true story of pilot Paul Creech, who flew Texas state police helicopters and other aircraft for thirty years, preceded by ten years as a Texas Highway Patrolman. It was a life of extreme danger, with times of stark terror,...

THIS SECOND VOLUME OF JULIA TORRES' THRILLING STORY takes us intothe rough-and-tumble of an undercover narcotic cop's life-solicitingmale escorts, rubbing shoulders with racketeers in dimly lit night spots,working an international hustle in Paris, and...

"An invaluable addition to the library of all who in any way are involved in court services or courthouse design and construction. It will be a definitive reference on current and future bridging between judicial administration and space management of...

Alaska Bush Cop: And the Beat Goes On is the second of a four-book series, outlining my nearly 32-year career as police chief of a small Alaska bush community. I was hired off the street, with no previous experience, and was asked to single-handedly...

“What do I do when I am stopped by the police?” This is a very relevant question these days. Law Enforcement Encounters will educate the reader on this and many other questions related to police stops. The book breaks down the three major...

This wickedly funny non-fiction book spans the 30-year career of (retired) DEA Special Agent Philippa LeVine.   She spent the bulk of her early years in a clandestine lab group chasing methamphetamine cooks and tweekers.  In salty sarcastic...

Das Buch ""Der Reichskanzler und seine Gegner"" von Hermann Robolsky, ver������ffentlicht im Jahr 1890, besch�����ftigt sich mit der politischen Landschaft des Deutschen Reiches zur Zeit des Kanzlers Otto von Bismarck. Der Autor analysiert die...

Histoire Des Legislateurs Et Des Constitutions De La Grece Antique V2 (1852) est un livre �����crit par Lerminier, Eugene. Ce livre est une �����tude approfondie de l'histoire des l�����gislateurs et des constitutions de la Gr�����ce antique. Il explore...

The History Of The Reign Of Henry The Second V2: And Of Richard And John, His Sons is a historical book written by Joseph Berington in the year 1793. The book is a detailed account of the reigns of King Henry II, his sons Richard and John, and their...

Crime and Terrorism Risk is a collection of original essays and articles that presents a broad overview of the issues related to the assessment and management of risk in the new security age. These original articles show how researchers, experts and...

The promotion of the rule of law has become an increasingly important element of peacekeeping and peacebuilding operations, particularly in Africa, where there have been numerous internal armed conflicts and missions over the last decade.　 This book...

This book investigates the use and utility of military force in modern war.After the Cold War, Western armed forces have increasingly been called upon to intervene in internal conflicts in the former Third World. These forces have been called upon to...

This edited book explores how psychology can be used to improve our understanding of terrorism and counterterrorism.This work firstly aims to provide balanced and objective insight into the psychology of terrorists; what their motivations are, what keeps...

Georgia is one of the most corrupt and crime-ridden nations of the former Soviet Union. In the Soviet period, Georgians played a major role in organized crime groups and the shadow economy operating throughout the Soviet Union, and in the post-Soviet...

A Fireman's View of the World From The Back Step is a captivating memoir that takes you behind the scenes of a firefighter's life. Sal's story is a tribute to the heroes who run toward danger, driven by an unwavering sense of duty. Join him on the back...

Intellectual property management encompasses creation, protection and exploitation of Intellectual Property Rights. Patents play a critical role in research and development of intensive industries. Patent rights are known to provide significant benefits...

¿Cómo funcionan los servicios de Inteligencia?Diario de un Espía es una obra de no ficción que nos sumerge en el apasionante mundo de la inteligencia desde una perspectiva real y actualizada de un exagente de los servicios de Inteligencia españoles.Se...

First ever, all-in-one, practical resource for evacuating people of all ages and health conditions from all kinds of workplaces, including small offices, skyscrapers, business and college campuses, industrial plants, stores, hospitals, and schools.Based...

This field manual (FM) provides keystone Army doctrine for civil support operations. It expands on the discussion of civil support operations, the fourth element of full spectrum operations, in FM 3-0. This manual focuses on the planning, preparation,...