Sometime after dark on March 27, 2010, Arizona rancher Robert Krentz was found dead next to his four-wheeler on the grounds of his ranch on the Arizona-Mexico border. Krentz and his dog, Blue, had been missing since that morning. They were last heard from when he radioed his brother to say that he'd found an illegal alien on the property and was going to offer him assistance. The man Krentz encountered that day shot and killed him and his dog, without warning, before escaping to Mexico.

This is the first issue of the Bicycle Reader, a new collection of quality writing about cycling. Two thoughts inspired us to start this collection.The first is that there is a great deal of brilliant article and essay-length writing about cycling that remains inaccessible to most readers. Some of it languishes out of print. Other pieces appeared in publications read by only a tiny minority of cyclists.The second is that eBook readers are the natural companion of cyclists. ...

You do not have to know anything about the police, but it may harm your understanding of the world you live in if you do not read this book.Arresting 10-year-olds for for stealing sweets… Nicking adults for denying the existence of Santa Claus… Investigating Kelly's ex's new girlfriend's sister's boyfriend's ex for sending her a nasty message on Facebook.These are the things the cops spend their time on (as well as fighting drunk thugs, finding toddlers dead in car crashes ...

What turned Iraq war veteran Tim McVeigh from patriotic soldier to a man who considered his own government, Americas biggest enemy. He commited the worst home terror act in American history, which shook the nation to its core. Waco and Ruby ridge were catalysts which pushed Mcveighs conceptions that his government was out of cotrol and he needed to act. This book covers the background of Mcveigh, the build up and aftermath from his act of terror, the hunt, arrest, trial and execution of a ...

Over one million people commit suicide each year. The World Health Organization estimates it is the thirteenth-leading cause of death worldwide and the National Safety Council rates it sixth in America. It is a leading cause of death among teenagers and adults under 35 years of age. Rates of suicide are higher in men than in women and an estimated 15 million non-fatal attempted suicides occur every year worldwide, meaning 1 in 15 suicides are fatal and not failed attempts.This book...

A great many people who want to be writers say that they want to have a career in journalism. They may envision themselves going to exotic locales to cover stories. While these things do happen to journalists, it takes a long time to make your bones before you are sent on any interesting assignments. A journalist is someone who reports on timely events. Timing is everything to a journalist. Whether you write for a periodical or a newspaper, you need to make sure that your articles are time...

How will three months living in a small wooden hut in the forests of a Buddhist Monastery in the South of France affect him? How about seeing his brother for the first time in two years, the brother who now happens to be a Monk? See how one email from his brother led Sutter, a lost young man and vagabond, to fly across the world and how that one email will change the direction of his life forever. It will be opposite to the days and nights he spent in bars drinking, taking drugs and chasin...

This book has traits that can be applied to all governments, but it has one precise goal: to personify one political system in particular that has not varied in its methods for a single day since the unfortunate and, alas, already too faraway date of its inauguration.This is not a lampoon or a pamphlet; the senses of modern people are already too policed to accept violent truths about contemporary politics. The supernatural duration of certain successes [in this field] is furthermo...

Sensemaking diagnoses the ills of the US Intelligence community and provides solutions to its shortcomings.  This critical thinking book is among the most available books for government, intelligence, military, and corporate leaders.

Hobbes's extreme political views have commanded so much attention that they have eclipsed his work on language and mind, and on reasoning, personhood, and group formation. But this work is of immense interest in itself, as Philip Pettit shows in Made with Words, and it critically shapes Hobbes's political philosophy.Pettit argues that it was Hobbes, not later thinkers like Rousseau, who invented the invention of language thesis--the idea that language is a cultural innovat...

In this highly anticipated revision, editors Barbara Norrander and Clyde Wilcox expose students to the substance and process of public opinion research in an accessible way. Capturing the diversity of this research with 12 essays—10 new to this edition and 2 fully updated—well-respected contributors highlight the many approaches social scientists use to explore public opinion while citing actual research and teasing out the political implications of their findings.Understanding...

Ten years ago the Lysistrata Project asked people to take part in a worldwide act of theatrical dissent (dramatic huh?) In Dumfries and Galloway a bunch of writers responded by writing their own sketches and monologues and performing them live.Ten years on we are revisiting the event by publishing some of the original pieces as well as some editorial reflection on the whole experience then and now.Contributing writers are: Jo Abbott, Jackie Baldwin, Mark Frankland, Vivien J...