A Charles: 534 books

Many police departments report difficulties in creating a workforce that represents community demographics, is committed to providing its employees the opportunity for long-term police careers, and effectively implements community policing. This book summarizes lessons on recruiting and retaining effective workforces.

The sequel to the bestselling An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution, this volume focuses on the nation's early political history from the adoption of the Constitution through the end of the Jefferson administration. This period saw the rise and triumph of Jefferson's agrarian, slave-holding...

Truth in the Public Sphere seeks to understand the significance of truth for the everyday world of human communication. To this end, this book explores the place of truth in several facets of the public sphere: language, ethics, journalism, politics, media, and art. Featuring an international group...

EINE WEIHNACHTSGESCHICHTE "‚Fröhliche Weihnachten? Was für ein Recht hast du, fröhlich zu sein? Du bist arm genug.‘ ‚Nun‘, antwortete der Neffe heiter‚ was für ein Recht haben Sie, grämlich zu sein? Sie sind reich genug.‘ " Drei Geister besuchen den grantigen...

Different eras and civilisations have treated erotic images with varying acceptance and different concepts of erotica and these tendencies are reflected within the works themselves. From ancient statues devoted to fertility to Renaissance engravings designed to encourage procreation within marriage,...

From the thousand-year-old statues celebrating fertility, to the odalisques of the modern painters, erotic art has always held a prominent place in societies, whatever their morals or cultural references. This work assembles one thousand images of erotic art, from all times and all continents, to...

Human Strengths and Resilience is intended to serve as a bridge between these two rapidly expanding disciplines by focusing on the critical issue of human strengths and resilience in cross-cultural and international perspective. To achieve these ambitious goals the editors have assembled an international...

Originally published in 1955, Hellcats of the Sea chronicles the activities of the U.S. Navy’s Pacific submarine fleet in World War II. At the heart of the book lies Operation Barney, the secret mission to bring the war closer to the islands of Japan; until June 9, 1945, the war extended to the...

A historical study of the origins of the beliefs of Christians.

An early Spanish explorer’s account of American Indians.   This volume mines the Pardo documents to reveal a wealth of information pertaining to Pardo’s routes, his encounters and interactions with native peoples, the social, hierarchical, and political structures of the Indians,...

I INTRODUCES THE BOYS It was late in the fall of the second year of the civil war that I rejoined my company at Santa Fe, New Mexico, from detached service in the Army of the Potomac. The boom of the sunrise gun awoke me on the morning after my arrival, and I hastened to attend reveille roll-call. As...

George C. Homans: History, Theory, and Method offers original essays written by scholars from the fields of sociology, history, anthropology, and literature with the aim of assessing Homans's rich and diverse intellectual contributions. It is the first volume in over thirty years to offer a reappraisal of the life and work of one of the twentieth century's leading social scientists.

Membrane proteins continue to be prime drug targets because they perform essential processes in the cell including controlling the flow of information and materials between cells and mediating activities like hormone action and nerve impulses. The study of membrane proteins could lead to new and improved...

Covers recent research on coffee genetics, physiology and genetic diversity  Reviews the latest developments in breeding new varieties  Assesses advances in measuring and understanding the chemical composition, sensory and nutraceutical properties of coffee