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Product Description: In the United States, military-style police enforcement is fast becoming the norm—even the smallest police departments now field costly SWAT units. While the fact that police forces have increased capabilities to deal with urgent or dangerous situations may seem positive, this type of aggressive response is problematic; court settlements regarding excessive SWAT raids cost law enforcement agencies millions of dollars every year, not to mention that these brute-force strategies often traumatize, injure, and kill innocent people...read more
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9780313391910 | Praeger Pub Text, September 2, 2010, cover price $44.95 | About this edition: In the United States, military-style police enforcement is fast becoming the norm—even the smallest police departments now field costly SWAT units.

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Product Description: Television shows like CSI, Forensic Files, and The New Detectives make it look so easy. A crime-scene photographer snaps photographs, a fingerprint technician examines a gun, uniformed officers seal off a house while detectives gather hair and blood samples, placing them carefully into separate evidence containers...read more
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9780813542713 | Rutgers Univ Pr, April 30, 2008, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Television shows like CSI, Forensic Files, and The New Detectives make it look so easy.

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Product Description: If you have ever stared a page that remains stubbornly blank; if you have ever wondered why writers write, or whether good writers are born or made; if you are a novelist, playwright, poet, or journalist, or simply delight in the written word, The Writer’s Quote book is for you...read more
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9780813538822 | Rutgers Univ Pr, September 25, 2006, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: If you have ever stared a page that remains stubbornly blank; if you have ever wondered why writers write, or whether good writers are born or made; if you are a novelist, playwright, poet, or journalist, or simply delight in the written word, The Writer’s Quote book is for you.

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Product Description: In this illustrated examination of the Lindbergh kidnapping case, Jim Fisher seeks to set the record straight regarding Bruno Hauptmann's guilt in "the crime of the century."In February 1935, following a sensational, six-week trial, a jury in Flemington, New Jersey, found German carpenter Hauptmann guilty of kidnapping and murdering the twenty-month-old son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh...read more
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9780809322855 | Ill edition (Southern Illinois Univ Pr, November 1, 1999), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: A study of the Lindbergh kidnapping re-opens what was then known as the 'trial of the century' only to establish Bruno Hauptmann's guilt, which was questioned by revisionists in the 1970s.

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9780809327171 | Southern Illinois Univ Pr, September 13, 2006, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: In this illustrated examination of the Lindbergh kidnapping case, Jim Fisher seeks to set the record straight regarding Bruno Hauptmann's guilt in "the crime of the century.

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Product Description: Former FBI agent Jim Fisher upends the genteel racket of fee-based literary agents and vanity publishers in this searing look at the rise and fall of one bogus entrepreneur who systematically swindled thousands of would-be writers out of millions of dollars with promises of having their work turned into salable books...read more
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9780809325757 | Southern Illinois Univ Pr, May 1, 2004, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Former FBI agent Jim Fisher upends the genteel racket of fee-based literary agents and vanity publishers in this searing look at the rise and fall of one bogus entrepreneur who systematically swindled thousands of would-be writers out of millions of dollars with promises of having their work turned into salable books.

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The shocking true story of murder in Amish country revisits the chilly March evening when Edward Gingerich slaughtered his wife with his two children as witnesses. Original.
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9780425174333 | Berkley Pub Group, May 1, 2000, cover price $7.50 | About this edition: The shocking true story of murder in Amish country revisits the chilly March evening when Edward Gingerich slaughtered his wife with his two children as witnesses.

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9781885758125 | Quality Sports Pubns, July 1, 1998, cover price $10.95

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In a story featured on national television programs, a former FBI agent recounts how he uncovered the framing of two boys in a pair of unrelated murders committed in 1956 and 1958 in Pennsylvania, leading to the reopening of their cases. UP. (view table of contents)
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9780809320691 | Southern Illinois Univ Pr, December 14, 1996, cover price $32.00 | About this edition: In a story featured on national television programs, a former FBI agent recounts how he uncovered the framing of two boys in a pair of unrelated murders committed in 1956 and 1958 in Pennsylvania, leading to the reopening of their cases.

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9780809321032 | Southern Illinois Univ Pr, November 1, 1996, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Jim Fisher, criminal justice professor and former FBI agent, reveals how he uncovered the framing of two boys in a pair of unrelated murders committed in 1956 and 1958.

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Product Description: "If I had only one book to read on the Lindbergh case I should . . . choose Fisher's. It is balanced, impartial, and contains much material not to be found elsewhere."--Francis Russell, The New York Review of Books "Fisher . . . goes against the revisionist tide and argues strongly--and persuasively--for Hauptmann's guilt ...read more
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9780813521473 | Reprint edition (Rutgers Univ Pr, September 1, 1994), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: "If I had only one book to read on the Lindbergh case I should .

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