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  • Realistic Martial Arts for Violence and Peace

    by H. Richard Friman, Alex Levitas, Noah Nunberg, Francisco J. Rodrìguez Romàn, Peter Hobart, C. Gutiérrez García, Rick Polland ...
    Criminals, police, military forces, and civilians practice martial arts which often utilize weapons. One major difference is weather or not the weapons are handled according to legal guidelines. This special anthology includes insightful writings that focus on aspects of martial arts as they are practiced and used by different people on both sides of the law. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Japanese Weapons: An Anthology

    by Michael DeMarco, David Jones, Ellis Andur, Reinier Hesselink, Rick Polland, Deborah Klens-Bigman, Edwin Symmes, Peter Ward ...
    This anthology presents an assortment of seven articles from the Journal of Asian Martial Arts that deal with Japanese weaponry: archery, short staff, naganita polearm, and test cutting (tamashigiri) with the long sword. A few articles are highly academic and others are easier reading, based on interviews or actual practice. There is a common theme: the importance of these to Japanese martial ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    My Year Policing Baltimore's Eastern District

    by Peter Moskos ...
    When Harvard-trained sociologist Peter Moskos left the classroom to become a cop in Baltimore's Eastern District, he was thrust deep into police culture and the ways of the street--the nerve-rattling patrols, the thriving drug corners, and a world of poverty and violence that outsiders never see. In Cop in the Hood, Moskos reveals the truths he learned on the midnight shift.Through Moskos's eyes, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Practical Karate Volume 1

    Fundamentals of Self-Defense

    by Donn F. Draeger, Masatoshi Nakayama ...
    Series series Practical Karate Series
    "Simple, clear, easy to learn…Dispenses with hours of needed to practice for the professional…Outstanding primer on selfdefense." - Marine Corps GazettePractical Karate: Fundamentals of SelfDefense is the first volume in the classic sixvolume series by Masatoshi Nakayama and Donn Draeger. Written for those too busy to devote hours a day to Karate training, it is a serious introduction to the basic ... Read more

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  • Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect?

    Police Violence and Resistance in the United States

    Edited by Maya Schenwar, Joe Macaré, Alana Yu-lan Price ...
    Essays and reports examining the reality of police violence against Black and brown communities in America.What is the reality of policing in the United States? Do the police keep anyone safe and secure other than the very wealthy? How do recent police killings of young Black people in the United States fit into the historical and global context of anti-blackness?This collection of reports and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Force Decisions

    A Citizen's Guide to Understanding How Police Determine Appropriate Use of Force

    by Rory Miller ...
    Cooperation, Compliance, Control.In a free and peaceful society where so many have been taught that all violence is wrong, citizens are often confused and dismayed when officers use force, even when the force is perfectly lawful and justified.This book allows you to 'take' a basic USE OF FORCE class just as if you were a rookie at the police academy. Below are some highlights of what is included ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Modern Ninjutsu: a Definitive Guide to the Tactics, Concepts, and Spirit of the Unconventional Combat Arts

    by J. Alaric Justice ...
    Modern Ninjutsu: A Definitive Guide to the Tactics, Concepts & Spirit of Unconventional Combat Arts is a path guide to realistic training and mind-set development for combat situations wherever they may occur. J. Alaric Justice is a military combat veteran and former anti-terrorist, as well as a former law enforcement defensive tactics instructor and crisis negotiator. Perhaps most important to ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Evidence of Things Seen

    True Crime in an Era of Reckoning

    by Sarah Weinman ...
    From Sarah Weinman, the award-winning editor of Unspeakable Acts, a groundbreaking new anthology showcasing the future of the true crime genreTrue crime, as an entertainment genre, has always prioritized clear narrative arcs: victims wronged, police detectives in pursuit, suspects apprehended, justice delivered. But what stories have been ignored?In Evidence of Things Seen, fourteen of the most ... Read more

    $15.49 USD

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  • To Protect and Serve

    How to Fix America's Police

    by Norm Stamper ...
    The police in America belong to the people -- not the other way around. Yet millions of Americans experience their cops as racist, brutal, and trigger-happy: an overly aggressive, militarized enemy of the people. For their part, today's officers feel they are under siege -- misunderstood, unfairly criticized, and scapegoated for society's ills. Is there a fix? Former Seattle Police Chief Norm ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Shielded

    How the Police Became Untouchable

    by Joanna Schwartz ...
    **Winner of the American Bar Association's Silver Gavel AwardAn urgent and definitive examination of how the legal system prevents accountability for police misconduct, from one of the country's leading scholars on policing**In recent years, the high-profile murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and so many others have brought much-needed attention to the pervasiveness of police misconduct. Yet ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • Lifers

    Seeking Redemption in Prison

    by John Irwin ...
    Series series Criminology and Justice Studies
    John Irwin writes about prisons from an unusual academic perspective. Before receiving a Ph.D. in sociology, he served five years in a California state penitentiary for armed robbery. This is his sixth book on imprisonment – an ethnography of prisoners who have served more than twenty years in a California correctional institution. The purpose of the book is to take issue with the conventional ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Above the Law

    Police and the Excessive Use of Force

    by Skolnick Fyfe ...
    The now-famous videotape of the beating of Rodney King precipitated a national outcry against police violence. Skolnick and Fyfe, two of the nation's top experts on law enforcement, use the incident to introduce a revealing historical analysis of such violence and the extent of its survival in law enforcement today. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD