Author: Robert H. Chaires
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
ISBN: 9780966808025
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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Star Trek Visions of Law and Justice collects fourteen articles connecting popular media with academic inquiry, illustrating the connections between the future world of Star Trek and current issues in international law, law and justice, and the American legal system. It makes an ideal text to teach students interdisciplinary academic concepts using a familiar, popular media phenomenon.
Author: Robert M. Utley
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195127420
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 417
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"In the annals of law enforcement few groups or agencies have become as encrusted with legend as the Texas Rangers. The always-readable historian Robert Utley has done a thorough job of chipping away these encrustations and revealing the Ranger's rather rag-and-bone, catch-as-catch-can beginning in a time when the Texas frontier was very far from being stable or safe. A fine book."--Larry McMurtry, author of Lonesome Dove From The Lone Ranger to Lonesome Dove, the Texas Rangers have been celebrated in fact and fiction for their daring exploits in bringing justice to the Old West. In Lone Star Justice, best-selling author Robert M. Utley captures the first hundred years of Ranger history, in a narrative packed with adventures worthy of Zane Grey or Larry McMurtry. The Rangers began in the 1820s as loose groups of citizen soldiers, banding together to chase Indians and Mexicans on the raw Texas frontier. Utley shows how, under the leadership of men like Jack Hays and Ben McCulloch, these fiercely independent fighters were transformed into a well-trained, cohesive team. Armed with a revolutionary new weapon, Samuel Colt's repeating revolver, they became a deadly fighting force, whether battling Comanches on the plains or storming the city of Monterey in the Mexican-American War. As the Rangers evolved from part-time warriors to full-time lawmen by 1874, they learned to face new dangers, including homicidal feuds, labor strikes, and vigilantes turned mobs. They battled train robbers, cattle thieves and other outlaws--it was Rangers, for example, who captured John Wesley Hardin, the most feared gunman in the West. Based on exhaustive research in Texas archives, this is the most authoritative history of the Texas Rangers in over half a century. It will stand alongside other classics of Western history by Robert M. Utley--a vivid portrait of the Old West and of the legendary men who kept the law on the lawless frontier. "A rip-snortin', six-guns-blazin' saga of good guys and bad guys who were sometimes one and the same. By taking on the Texas Rangers, Utley, an accomplished and well-regarded historian of the American West, risks treading on ground that is both hallowed and thoroughly documented. He skirts those issues by turning in a balanced history.... An accessible survey of some interesting--and bloody--times."--Kirkus Reviews
Author: Michael-Scott Earle
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781951641276
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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The final battle between Adam and the unstoppable SAVO has arrived.Odin's avatar has his amazing wives, an army of tiger-men soldiers, vampire witches, goddess-angel space-ships, and an entire Space Viking navy.But the draugr are older than the galaxy itself, and their evil and hunger cannot be measured by any mortal.And their queen knows that Adam is coming.She's been waiting an eternity to destroy him.
Author: Bruce Hammack
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781735030203
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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He's lived a lie for sixteen years.His mother murdered, his father convicted, Texas State Trooper David Harper started over. Now, truth is rising to the surface. It won't be contained.The conviction overturned, David has to come clean with everyone-especially CJ, his wife of five months. It's time for truth. It's time to deal with this gnawing need for revenge?his mother deserves justice.Working behind the scenes, David and CJ stir the pot. A den of snakes comes out striking. Another murder is committed. His father is next on the list. David races against the clock to catch a killer intent on silencing the only family he has left.
Author: Bruce Hammack
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781737344353
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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A killer is out for revenge? and she's the target.On maternity leave from Agape University, Assistant Chief of Police CJ Harper finds herself conflicted. Will she continue the career she has worked so hard for, or embrace the new dream of full-time mom? The choice is made for her when she comes upon the murder of a local judge. Thrown into the midst of the case, CJ's not one to leave a job undone. There's a killer to be found.When a bullet narrowly misses her, the case takes on a personal dimension? someone wants her dead. CJ must put the pieces together to identify the link between her and the judge before the madman tries again. Can she find the deranged killer before he finds her? Or will murder shatter the peace of the midnight clear?
Author: Michael-Scott Earle
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781951641252
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Adam is now the Nordar King of Kings and the most powerful human ruler to ever exist. Except he isn't human. He knows that he is Tiger.He knows that he has to save the universe.But all kings have enemies, and it's time to deliver some fucking payback. Elaka Nota is responsible for the agony and torture that Adam's wife Eve has endured, and the best way to remedy this is to take their most prized possessions. Possessions that might be Adam's best chance at destroying the Draugr.
Author: Sungju Lee
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 161312340X
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 299
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Written for a young audience, this intense memoir explores the harsh realities of life on the streets in contemporary North Korea. Every Falling Star is the memoir of Sungju Lee, who at the age of twelve was forced to live on the streets of North Korea and fend for himself. To survive, Sungju creates a gang and lives by thieving, fighting, begging, and stealing rides on cargo trains. Sungju richly recreates his scabrous story, depicting what it was like for a boy alone to create a new family with his gang, “his brothers,” to daily be hungry and to fear arrest, imprisonment, and even execution. This riveting memoir allows young readers to learn about other cultures where freedoms they take for granted do not exist.
Author: Johnnie L. Cochran
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780345413673
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 420
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He's become a household name: Johnnie L. Cochran, Jr., the brilliant orator and legal strategist who captained the Dream Team in the trial of the century. But behind the man the media created is a story of a life spent in the trenches of the American legal system, fighting not for clients as high-profile as O. J. Simpson but for individuals whose voices are too often silenced. JOURNEY TO JUSTICE is an unflinching portrait of Johnnie Cochran and the legal system that he has so profoundly influenced. It will forever change our understanding of what works and what doesn't in America's most noble and troubling institution.
Author: Bruce Hammack
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781737344315
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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How many more college students will die before CJ stops the deadly menace?Moonshine and fentanyl are wreaking havoc on her campus. One student already paid the ultimate price. As assistant chief of police, it's up to CJ to rid the campus of the deadly threat. In the meantime, the body count goes up in nearby communities.While CJ and her team work to discover the source of the illicit substances, another body is found. The murder points to a calculating drug lord from CJ's past? and he plays for keeps. The name that's haunted her dreams ignites her worst fears. This time his deadly reign must end, but will the price be more than CJ's willing to pay?
Author: Regan Black
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781590803868
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Whoever said, "you only live once" didn't know Jaden Michaels. Attacked by an evil nobleman in 1066, her life took a dramatic detour. In the following millennium, she's lived repeatedly with one goal: eliminate the demon that preys on women and children. Now, in 2096, Jaden must fight to find the one weapon that will banish him forever.
