Through real calls, field narratives, and thinkers from Du Bois and Weber to Simmel and Foucault, this book reframes the dispatcher’s role from a clerical function to a moral one. Dispatchers make split-second decisions that impact the fate of everyone a call involves, yet they remain the most consequential and least examined actors in policing. Sociologist Peter J. Marina draws on urban ethnography, social theory, and the 30 years of street-level law enforcement experience of retired New ...

Relying on intense ethnographic research and extensive experiences teaching human rights policing to police officers, this book teaches law enforcement professionals how to apply human rights to their everyday interactions with community members. The data collected throughout this research process offers the reader first-hand accounts of police officers addressing the most important human rights as they relate to policing, telling stories of using their human agency while on the job, and p...

This book carries an ethnographic signature in approach and style, and is an examination of a small Brooklyn, New York, African-American, Pentecostal church congregation and is based on ethnographic notes taken over the course of four years. The Pentecostal Church is known to outsiders almost exclusively for its members’ “bizarre” habit of speaking in tongues. This ethnography, however, puts those outsiders inside the church pews, as it paints a portrait of piety, compassion, caring, love—...

Focusing on ten islands through the Caribbean, this ethnography examines how charismatic religious leaders develop creative transnational religious networking strategies that help spread the movement and increase its potential to become a greater force in shaping the future in the English-speaking Caribbean. The large and explosive global Charismatic movement spread in powerful ways in the small and tranquil English-speaking Caribbean. It is here in the deep Caribbean world of demonic poss...

Learn how to easily create a steady income stream from royalties.Royalty Income might become the next big thing in investments due to its very low correlation with other asset classes.Stocks may fall but people continue to listen to their favorite music.

Diamonds, Pearls and so on we know. But have you ever wondered what other great gems and precious stones exist apart from the ones we usually know? This book tells you more about them in an easy to follow way. You will also read some stories about famous stones and get some buying tips.

In today's digital age, the world of publishing is evolving rapidly, and authors need to adapt to new opportunities to succeed. "Generating eBook Income for Intellectuals" is your definitive guide to not only becoming a published author but also harnessing the power of eBooks to generate income that reflects your intellectual prowess.This comprehensive book takes you on a journey through the intricacies of eBook publishing, offering invaluable insights and strategi...

Martin Muller is an Audit Manager working with one of the big auditing firms. On a newly assigned auditing engagement, he is challenged by fulfilling the demands of his boss as well as coping with deadlines. And then there is the attractive mid-forty female CEO of the small regional bank he is auditing this week. As the door of the vault of the bank closes unexpectedly and both of them are locked in it gets hot down there...

Under the hot Brasilian sun, waiting as the last in the queue for boarding the cruise ship to New York, Monica Jackson, is not at all delighted. Assigned as an auditor to this Steampunk-themed cruise, the journey is going to be more work than fun. But then another passenger is queuing up behind her. And when a deep, velveting voice from behind wishes her a "Bom dia" she turns around. Seeing the tall, strong, good-looking man, she starts to looking forward to a more promising and hotter cru...

Get ready for a scintillating journey through the boardrooms of New York to the romantic streets of Paris in "Auditing and French Kisses," the sizzling second installment in the thrilling corporate romance series.Meet Martin Muller, the audaciously handsome audit manager with a penchant for both numbers and passion. Sent on a training assignment to the enchanting city of Paris, Martin finds himself entangled in a web of desire, balancing on the fine line between professionalism and...

Envisioning a future in which the Christian church plays a viable and transformative role in shaping society, Gretta Vosper argues that if the church is to survive at all, the heart of faith must undergo a radical change. Vosper, founder of the Canadian Centre for Progressive Christianity and a minister in Toronto, believes that what will save the church is an emphasis on just and compassionate living -- a new and wholly humanistic approach to religion. Without this reform, the church as w...

When four religious leaders walk across the road, it's not the beginning of a joke. It's the start of one of the most important conversations in today's world.Can you be a committed Christian without having to condemn or convert people of other faiths? Is it possible to affirm other religious traditions without watering down your own?In his most important book yet, widely acclaimed author and speaker Brian McLaren proposes a new faith alternative, one built...