Policing has a permission problem.For decades, policing has answered its hardest problems the same way. Hire better people. Train them harder. Hold the wrong individuals accountable. Raise the pay, add a wellness program, and run a community outreach campaign. Each response contains some truth, and each one functions as a diagnosis. The fires keep burning.Lance C. Arnold, EdD, is an active police chief with nearly three decades in the profession and a doctorate in organizat...

Steve Chambliss just may be the sexiest carpenter in San Francisco. At least that’s what TV talk show host Gwen Talbot thinks when Steve arrives at her apartment to repair her bedroom door. And when Steve agrees to appear on Gwen’s show, all of San Francisco agrees with her. Before long, he’s got bands of groupies chasing him through the city and offering themselves up to him.Steve finds the attention amusing, but there’s only one woman in town who turns him on: Gwen. The trouble i...

Discover a classic exploration of traditional witchcraft from two of the most influential figures in modern British Wicca.In The Secrets of Ancient Witchcraft, Arnold and Patricia Crowther open a window onto the beliefs, symbolism, folklore, and magical practices that shaped the twentieth-century revival of witchcraft.Drawing upon their experience within the Craft, the Crowthers explore the survival of magical traditions, the figur...

Traditional Journalism in a Digital World offers a distinct view of independent community media by treating it as a subculture, outside of mainstream local media. Independent operators exist on the margins of mainstream media, and by recognizing them as a subculture, their struggles are revealed.The book features the personal accounts of a sample of UK independent publishers and follows them across a ten-year period. It records their highs...

“I ended up devouring the entire book in just one sitting… I was completely pulled into this one and found myself completely unable to put this down.” Little Miss Book Lover 87, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐It’s been five years since Detective Amanda Steele’s life was derailed by the tragic death of her young daughter. The small community of Dumfries, Virginia, may have moved on, but Amanda cannot. When the man who killed Lindsey is found murdered, she can’t keep away from...

Widowed schoolteacher Lainie Lovett has three passions: her two nearly-grown children, her fourth-grade students at the Hopwell School, and the Rockettes, her recreational soccer team. One evening after soccer practice, she’s startled to spot the husband of one of her teammates canoodling with another woman in a local eatery. She’s even more shocked when he turns up dead the next day. And more shocked yet when she winds up under suspicion as an accessory to murder. But Lainie is smart and ...

The Forgotten Girl meets Hide and Seeker in this terrifying MG horror that returns the Zombie to its homeland, the island nation of Haiti.Lena is a descendant of a long line of Mambos -- Vodou priestesses. She's basically been raised to stir things up. There's no mess she can't wriggle out of, even when she's the one who made it in the first place. But there are problems that even Lena can't fix... She can't bring her father back from the dead. Sh...

This book tells the inside story of the US Army’s transformation from an outdated personnel system to a cutting-edge talent management approach.It provides an authoritative account of how talent management can directly enhance organizational readiness, innovation, and long-term effectiveness. Written by the very leaders who drove these reforms, the authors describe the bold initiatives they designed and implemented to modernize how a million-person force is recruited, developed, em...

Future Build exposes the devastating environmental impact of modern construction while offering a bold vision for change.Construction shapes the world we live in, but also leaves one of the heaviest footprints on our planet. From the relentless heat of cement kilns to the towering steel and concrete skeletons of our cities, Future Build reveals how our dependence on five key materials has led to soaring carbon emissions, waste and ecological destr...

It doesn’t matter how sexy Ben Strother is; he’s Stephanie Webb’s boss at the ad agency where she’s an assistant creative director, so they can never have a relationship. Besides, they’re a poor match. She’s a working-class woman, stubborn and quirky and a free spirit. He’s polished, wealthy, and a bit starchy. But that doesn’t mean they can’t plot to set Ben’s widowed father up with Stephanie’s widowed mother.The problem is, Ben’s father and Stephanie’s mother believe Ben and Step...

Future Build exposes the devastating environmental impact of modern construction while offering a bold vision for change.Construction shapes the world we live in, but also leaves one of the heaviest footprints on our planet. From the relentless heat of cement kilns to the towering steel and concrete skeletons of our cities, Future Build reveals how our dependence on five key materials has led to soaring carbon emissions, waste and ecological destr...

Prim, proper Amelia Potts tries to keep her rowdy sister Mary out of trouble, a nearly impossible task. When Mary finds herself in big trouble—arrested for displaying an obscene sculpture in the front window of her art gallery—Amelia races to town to bail Mary out. But Mary has already hired a fiery civil rights attorney, Patrick Levine, to fight her case for her.Patrick is principled. He’s determined. He’s brash. He’s also the sexiest man Amelia has ever encountered. When he meets...