Intelligence is used daily by law enforcement personnel across the world in operations to combat terrorism and drugs and to assist in investigating serious and organized crime. Managing Intelligence: A Guide for Law Enforcement Professionals is designed to assist practitioners and agencies build an [...]
Meticulously researched and drawing on many new original interviews with friends and associates, this book is the first serious and weighty, but also page-turning and entertaining, biography of the Queen Mum of Pop, whose enormous influence on the music business it is now cool to acknowledge. Fully [...]
Historian John Buckley offers a radical reappraisal of Great Britain's fighting forces during World War II, challenging the common belief that the British Army was no match for the forces of Hitler's Germany. Following Britain's military commanders and troops across the battlefields of Europe, from [...]
The popular perception of the performance of British armour in the Normandy campaign of 1944 is one of failure and frustration. Despite overwhelming superiority in numbers, Montgomery's repeated efforts to employ his armour in an offensive manner ended in a disappointing stalemate. Explanation of th[...]
Cannae och Poltava, Waterloo och Gettysburg, Azincourt och Stalingrad Världshistoriens största slag presenterar slag och konflikter från 490 f Kr och fram till år 2003. Rikt illustrerat behandlas strider från alla epoker: antiken, medeltiden, renässansen och fram til[...]
Born the eighth of seventeen children in Philadelphia, Betsy Ross lived in a time when the American colonies were yearning for independence from British rule. Ross worked as a seamstress and was eager to contribute to the cause, making tents and repairing uniforms when the colonies declared war. By [...]
Criminal Interrogation and Confessions, Fifth Edition presents the Reid Technique of interviewing and interrogation and is the standard used in the field. This updated Fifth Edition presents interviewing and interrogation techniques, based on actual criminal cases, which have been used successfully [...]
The lively and accessible narrative and the hallmark focus on social and cultural history that has made "A History of World Societies" one of the most successful textbooks for the world history course is now available in a lower price format. The two-color Value Edition includes the full narrative, [...]