Leading the Police: A History of Chief Constables 1835-2017
Kim Stevenson and Iain Channing
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In 2015 the College of Policing published its Leadership Review with specific reference to the type...
City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York
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A defining American story of millions of immigrants, hundreds of languages, and one great city ...
History social issues
The Wisdom of Birds: An Illustrated History of Ornithology
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For thousands of years people have been fascinated by birds, and today that fascination is still...
Steaming Through Britain: A History of the Nation's Railways
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This lavish new volume explores Britain's extensive railway heritage, offering a comprehensive...
Train Wrecks: A Pictorial History of Accidents on the Main Line
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American railroad history is filled with accounts of misadventure. Steam boilers blew up. Bridges...
Science in Print: Essays on the History of Science and the Culture of Print
Rima Apple, Gregory Downey and Stephen Vaughn
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Ever since the threads of seventeenth-century natural philosophy began to coalesce into an...
How Democracies Die: What History Tells Us About Our Future
Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt
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Two Harvard professors explain the dangerous world we face today Democracies can die with a coup...
history and politics
The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe
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Arthur Koestler's extraordinary history of humanity's changing vision of the universe In this...