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  • The Man Who Never Died

    The Life, Times, and Legacy of Joe Hill, American Labor Icon

    by William M. Adler ...
    In 1914, Joe Hill was convicted of murder in Utah and sentenced to death by firing squad, igniting international controversy. Many believed Hill was innocent, condemned for his association with the Industrial Workers of the World-the radical Wobblies. Now, following four years of intensive investigation, William M. Adler gives us the first full-scale biography of Joe Hill, and presents never ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • Religious Justification For War In American History. A Savage Embrace: The Pequot War 1636-37

    by William A. Adler ...
    This thesis examines the ideological justification and conduct of the Pequot War (1636-1637) in Southern New England. It will address as a central issue the role religion played for the English in shaping their response to the challenges of colonization and resistance from indigenous tribes. The first chapter will serve as an introduction to the topic. Chapter's two and three will describe the ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Healing and the Jewish Imagination

    Spiritual and Practical Perspectives on Judaism and Health

    by Eitan Fishbane, PhD, Arnold Eisen, PhD, Rabbi Rachel Adler, PhD, Tamara Eskenazi, PhD ...
    Where Judaism and health intersect, healing may begin.Essential reading for people interested in the Jewish healing, spirituality and spiritual direction movements, this groundbreaking volume explores the Jewish tradition for comfort in times of illness and Judaism’s perspectives on the inevitable suffering with which we live.Pushing the boundaries of Jewish knowledge, scholars, teachers, artists ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Isle of Vanishing Men: A Narrative of Adventure in Cannibal-land

    by William F. Adler ...
    Two bells tinkles within the master’s cabin, and the quartermaster on the bridge repeats the announcement of nine o’clock with two strokes upon the bronze bell near his station at the wheel. It is sailing-time. The townspeople have turned out en masse to bid us farewell, and the open spaces on the new concrete wharf are ablaze with color. The chatter of a thousand voices comes to us as we stand ... Read more

    $6.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mollie's Job

    A Story of Life and Work on the Global Assembly Line

    by William M. Adler ...
    Following the flight of one woman's factory job from the United States to Mexico, this compelling work offers a provocative and fresh perspective on the global economy -- at a time when downsizing is unraveling the American Dream for many working families.Mollie's Job is an absorbing and affecting narrative history that traces the postwar migration of one factory job as it passes from the cradle ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Land of Opportunity

    One Family's Quest for the American Dream in the Age of Crack

    by William M. Adler ...
    Part true crime, part work of urban sociology, Land of Opportunity is a meticulously researched account of the rise and fall of the Chambers brothers, who ran a multi-million-dollar crack cocaine operation in Detroit in the 1980s. Descended from Arkansas sharecroppers, BJ, Larry, and Willie Chambers moved to Detroit seeking economic opportunity, and built a successful drug empire by applying ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Victim 2117

    A Department Q Novel

    by Jussi Adler-Olsen ...
    Translated by William Frost ...
    Series Book 8 - A Department Q Novel
    **INSPIRATION FOR THE NETFLIX SERIES DEPT. QIn the heart-pounding next installment of the New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling Department Q series, a terrifying international investigation reveals the complex backstory of one of the department's own—the enigmatic Assad.**The newspaper refers to the body only as Victim 2117—the two thousand one hundred and seventeenth refugee to die in ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Criminology of Criminal Law

    Edited by William S. Laufer, Freda Adler ...
    Series series Advances in Criminological Theory
    The Criminology of Criminal Law considers the relation between criminal law and theories of crime, criminality and justice. This book discusses a wide range of topics, including: the way in which white-collar crime is defined; new perspectives on stranger violence; the reasons why criminologists have neglected the study of genocide; the idea of boundary crossing in the control of deviance; the ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The Shadow Murders

    A Department Q Novel

    by Jussi Adler-Olsen ...
    Translated by William Frost ...
    Series Book 9 - A Department Q Novel
    **INSPIRATION FOR THE NETFLIX SERIES DEPT. QIn the exhilarating penultimate thriller of the New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling Department Q series, the team must hunt for a nefarious criminal who has slipped under the radar for decades.**On her sixtieth birthday, a woman takes her own life. When the case lands on Detective Carl Mørck’s desk, he can’t imagine what this has to do with ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Engineering Expansion

    The U.S. Army and Economic Development, 1787-1860

    by William D. Adler ...
    Series series American Governance: Politics, Policy, and Public Law
    Engineering Expansion examines the U.S. Army's role in U.S. economic development from the nation's founding to the eve of the Civil War. William D. Adler starts with a simple question: if the federal government was weak in its early years, how could the economy and the nation have grown so rapidly?Adler answers this question by focusing on the strongest part of the early American state, the U.S. ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • Engineering Expansion

    The U.S. Army and Economic Development, 1787-1860

    by William D. Adler ...
    Series series American Governance: Politics, Policy, and Public Law
    Engineering Expansion examines the U.S. Army's role in U.S. economic development from the nation's founding to the eve of the Civil War. William D. Adler starts with a simple question: if the federal government was weak in its early years, how could the economy and the nation have grown so rapidly?Adler answers this question by focusing on the strongest part of the early American state, the U.S. ... Read more

    $61.19 USD

  • New Directions in Criminological Theory

    Volume 4, New Directions in Criminological Theory

    Edited by Freda Adler, William S. Laufer ...
    Series series Advances in Criminological Theory
    New Directions in Criminological Theory focuses on new approaches to theory construction, with particular emphasis on reformulations and new applications of existing paradigms. It includes an assessment of labeling theory, demonstrating how the approach could become part of a more comprehensive explanation of crime. A case is made for studying crime in terms of the social context in which crimes ... Read more

    $64.99 USD