Local Government category: 1701 books

With Photos! New York Times bestselling authors Gregg Olsen and Rebecca Morris take a new look at Utah’s most notorious crimes, including Megan Huntsman, the Utah mother who hid seven dead infants in a garage; a cold case that was finally solved by a child’s Lego; the rogue Fundamentalist...

The sound of the #METOO MOVEMENT. A collective voice against sexual harassment, sexual assault, abuse, domestic abuse, and inequality. The message from courageous women who were humiliated, is loud and clear, that all people should be respected, protected and treated with decency. Let us all stand...

Why gender-specific books are needed -- for the simple fact that women's work is never done! About the Author Alexandra Kitty is a dangerous woman who is the author of Don’t Believe It!: How lies become news, OutFoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s war on journalism, and Consumer-isms in 12...

Teenage Kicks is a book that every parent and guardian should read. It explains things that many teenagers get up to with no responsible adults around.  Things that teenagers enjoy doing, and "showing off" with friends, not realizing that the risks taken could be fatal... However,...

“Dunne has a wicked eye for the telling details, an uncanny ear for the revealing phrase.”—The New York Times.   Quintana & Friends gathers thirty-three brilliant essays written by a pioneer of New Journalism between 1963 and 1978. John Gregory Dunne's gifts for...

“Funny, outrageous, cynical, and spellbinding.”—People magazine.   In this first-ever digital edition of John Gregory Dunne’s acclaimed collection Crooning, readers find evidence from the get-go confirming the writer’s reputation as one of the most clear-seeing,...

New edition of the popular pocket-sized collection of former Detroit mayor Coleman Young’s most memorable quotes.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Clinton Cash comes an explosive new political expose!

This is the most comprehensive, and most comprehensively chilling, study of modern torture yet written. Darius Rejali, one of the world's leading experts on torture, takes the reader from the late nineteenth century to the aftermath of Abu Ghraib, from slavery and the electric chair to electrotorture...

Shocking true stories of mass killings that include suicidal passenger plane pilots, police officers going on a rampage and crazed men walking door-to-door shooting their neighbors - many in the space of ten minutes, with killings in double-digits. This book brings together the world's most shocking...

The true story of a potentially devastating terrorist plot in New York City—and the heroes who risked their lives to prevent it.   On the morning of July 31, 1997, two young Palestinian men living in Brooklyn, New York, were prepared to sacrifice themselves as martyrs to their bloody cause. Their...

Air travel is one of the safest modes of travel when we take into account the distances and freedom that it allows us. And yet, we still remain obsessed with aviation disasters. What caused these accidents? Whose fault was it? In her series of books, Why Planes Crash, Sylvia Wrigley investigates the...

"And so a tortuous, roundabout refugee trail sprang up: Guatemala City to Tecún Umán, across the Río Suchiate to Tapachula, then by third-class bus or foot along the Pacific coast to Arriaga in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas..." In 2010, Australian journalist...

Are you looking for a journey that will take you through 100 of the Best Museums In Europe, along with funny comments and a word puzzle? Then this book is for you. Whether you are looking at this book for curiosity, choices, options, or just for fun; this book fits any criteria. Creating 100 of the...