Choice Outstanding Academic TitleOn September 11, 2001, author J. Samuel Walker was far from home when he learned of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Stricken by incredulity and anxiety, he found the phone lines jammed when he tried to call his wife, who worked in downtown Washington, DC. At the time and ever since, Walker, like many of his fellow Americans, was and remains troubled by questions about the disaster that occurred on 9...

The law currently sees bodies as passive material upon which our values are inscribed rather than as an active part of the production of normative values. Rethinking current legal understandings of embodiment, this book proposes that peoples’ experiences of embodiment play an important role in the development of normative values and that the legal system should adopt an embodied understanding of all individuals.Examining perspectives from multiple sub-disciplines, the book develops...

The first thorough study of the Justice Department’s pattern or practice program, examining how it works and how court-imposed consent decrees implement needed reformsAmerican society grapples with an enduring crisis in policing which is inextricably intertwined with the nation’s deeply rooted racial issues. While there have been great strides in policing over the past five decades, the United States continues to wrestle with serious crime and strained relations be...

Raised in the heart of Columbus, GA, Samuel’s journey began with humble roots. His unwavering determination and desire to make a difference in his life led him to take actions described in Smarter You Smarter Them. These actions were instrumental with his successes in life, a 22-year career as a distinguished and decorated US Marine Corps officer, father of three, post military career as a Senior Process Engineer in Banking, Vice President of a Nonprofit, Accredited Investor, and countless...

Unity is the Shift is a spiritual quest memoir that illuminates multiple pathways of self-discovery, resurfacing a more authentic version of self. Each life lesson unraveled utilizes a multi-planed perspective to help readers navigate the seas of inner work and digest the cohesion between spirituality, emotional intelligence, and self-accountability. Unify your heart & mind so you can shift your life and show up as a more authentic, productive, and creative you.

This book is a history of the civil liberties records of American presidents from Woodrow Wilson to Barack Obama. It examines the full range of civil liberties issues: First Amendment rights of freedom of speech, press and assembly; due process; equal protection, including racial justice, women's rights, and lesbian and gay rights; privacy rights, including reproductive freedom; and national security issues. The book argues that presidents have not protected or advanced civil liberties, an...

Since its founding after World War I, the American Civil Liberties Union has become an integral part of American society. The history of the ACLU parallels the extension of civil rights and liberties in the United States. With a total of 1454 entries spanning almost three quarters of a century, this annotated bibliography provides an important research tool for scholars, attorneys, and policy analysts. The author has organized the work into six chapters: general works concerning the ACLU, ...

Billionaire. Single dad. My new nightmare boss.Holland Alistair is the gorgeous computer prodigy who took the real estate game by storm.Arrogant. Surly. Eyes of steel.He meets me on the worst day of my life and gets his fern kicked. Literally.I’m sure I’m getting sued. Instead, I get a job offer.Turns out, managing Alistair’s schedule—and temper—is actually his revenge.In the office, his eyes follow me everywhere. Is he going...

In this concise account of why America used atomic bombs against Japan in 1945, J. Samuel Walker analyzes the reasons behind President Truman’s most controversial decision. Delineating what was known and not known by American leaders at the time, Walker evaluates the options available for ending the war with Japan. In this new edition, Walker incorporates a decade of new research — mostly from Japanese archives only recently made available — that provides fresh insight on the strategic con...

"This book gives a brief yet thorough summary of the main components of police accountability in the 21st century. What works, what doesn’t, and where are we going in the future? I love to use it with my undergraduate students to help them understand the complexities of policing in the modern era."—Janne E. Gaub, East Carolina UniversityCompletely revised to cover recent events and research, the Third Edition of The New World of Police Accou...

J. Samuel Walker recounts the dramatic standoff between a populist Republican president and protesting college students—and what the crisis of higher education under President Nixon can teach us today.College students frustrated with the state of American society and foreign policy under a Republican president, rising up in protest across the country. Sound familiar? With new sources and fresh perspective, esteemed historian J. Samuel Walker studies the campus cris...

"Left behind were hundreds of burned-out buildings, whole blocks that looked as though they had been bombed into oblivion." These words, written by the *Washington Post'*s Leonard Downie Jr., do not describe a war zone but rather the nation's capital reeling in the wake of the riots of April 1968. In the devastating aftermath of Martin Luther King's assassination, a community already plagued by poor living conditions, unfair policing, and segregation broke into chaos. These riots brought w...