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  • Busting the Mob

    The United States v. Cosa Nostra

    by James B Jacobs, Christopher Panarella, Jay Worthington ...
    The decades-long fight to bring down the mob is examined through five crucial cases in this authoritative and vividly detailed book.From Al Capone to John Gotti, organized crime bosses have achieved notoriety as anti- heroes in popular culture. In practice, the Cosa Nostra grew strong and wealthy by supplying illicit goods and services and by obtaining control over labor unions and key industries ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Eternal Criminal Record

    by James B. Jacobs ...
    For 60 million Americans a criminal record overshadows everything else about their identity. Citizens have a right to know when someone around them represents a threat. But convicted persons have rights too. James Jacobs examines the problem of erroneous records and proposes ways to eliminate discrimination for those who have been rehabilitated. ... Read more

    $46.19 CAD

  • Preserving Government Information: Past, Present, and Future

    by James A Jacobs, James R Jacobs ...
    The digital information that the U.S. federal government publishes is not being adequately preserved. Current preservation practices are built on a paper-era infrastructure that does not work in the digital age. In this textbook, the authors examine how preservation practices of the past affect digital preservation, analyze publishing and preservation data to characterize the current gaps in ... Read more

    Free

  • Breaking the Devil’s Pact

    The Battle to Free the Teamsters from the Mob

    by James B. Jacobs, Kerry T. Cooperman ...
    An in-depth study of the U.S. v. the International Brotherhood of TeamstersIn 1988, Manhattan U.S. Attorney Rudy Giuliani brought a massive civil racketeering suit against the leadership of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT), at the time possibly the most corrupt union in the world. The lawsuit charged that the mafia had operated the IBT as a racketeering enterprise for decades, ... Read more

    $31.89 CAD

  • From the Imjin to the Hook

    A National Service Gunner in the Korean War

    by James Jacobs ...
    The British Armys considerable contribution to The Korean War 1950 1953 was largely composed of conscripts or national servicemen. Plucked from civilian life on a lottery basis and given a short basic training, some like Jim Jacobs volunteered for overseas duty and suddenly found themselves in the thick of a war as intensive and dangerous as anything the Second World War had had to offer.As a ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Toughest Gun Control Law in the Nation

    The Unfulfilled Promise of New York's SAFE Act

    by James B. Jacobs, Zoe Fuhr ...
    A comprehensive assessment of real gun reform legislation with recommendations for better design, implementation and enforcementA month after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, New York State passed, with record speed, the first and most comprehensive state post-Sandy Hook gun control law. In The Toughest Gun Control Law in the Nation, James B. Jacobs and Zoe Fuhr ask whether the 2013 SAFE ... Read more

    $20.89 CAD

  • Who Governs?

    Presidents, Public Opinion, and Manipulation

    by James N. Druckman, Lawrence R. Jacobs ...
    A comprehensive examination of how American politicians influence the public and undermine how a democratically elected government is supposed to work.America's model of representational government rests on the premise that elected officials respond to the opinions of citizens. This is a myth, however, not a reality, according to James N. Druckman and Lawrence R. Jacobs. In Who Governs?, Druckman ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Blue Economy in African Coastal Communities, Volume I

    Economic Resilience, Climate Change Mitigation, and Practical Policymaking

    Edited by Alhassan Abdul-Wakeel Karakara, Georgina Yaa Oduro, James Atta Peprah, Jacob Nunoo, Denis Worlanyo Aheto ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book, the first of two volumes, offers a comprehensive guide to the blue economy and the economic activity of African coastal communities. It brings together a broad range of topics, from local policymaking to marine conservation activities, that enable sustainable growth within African marine economies. The requirements for sustainable development in Africa are outlined, with a particular ... Read more

    $230.59 CAD

  • Breaking the Devils Pact

    The Battle to Free the Teamsters from the Mob

    by James B. Jacobs, Kerry T. Cooperman ...
    In 1988, despite powerful Congressional opposition, U.S. Attorney Rudy Giuliani brought a massive civil racketeering (RICO) suit against the leaders of the behemoth International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) and more than two dozen Cosa Nostra (LCN) leaders. Intending to land a fatal blow to the mafia, Giuliani asserted that the union and organized-crime defendants had formed a devil’s pact. He ... Read more

    $23.39 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Crossing Borders

    by Marie James ...
    Narrated by Jacob Morgan, Teddy Hamilton ...
    Series Audiobook 10 - Blackbridge Security

    Unabridged

    7 hours 4 min

    Although I take my job very seriously—being the resident charmer, the man responsible for helping clients with security, all the while making it look like I’m the newest love interest of insanely gorgeous women—it looks like it’s all fun and games.I’m getting paid to go on dates to some of the most glamourous places all around the world after all, but at the end of the day, it’s still work.When ... Read more

    $20.60 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mobsters, Unions, and Feds

    The Mafia and the American Labor Movement

    by James B Jacobs ...
    "This worthy successor to Gotham Unbound . . . is an exhaustive . . . survey of the grip La Cosa Nostra has exerted on the country's most powerful unions." – Publishers WeeklyNowhere in the world has organized crime infiltrated the labor movement as effectively as in the United States. Yet the government, the AFL-CIO, and the civil liberties community all but ignored the situation for most of the ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Classic Tales of Horror

    by Ambrose Bierce, E Nesbitt, Amelia B Edwards, Bram Stoker, Charles Dickens, Daniel Defoe, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry James, Honore de Balzac, HP Lovecraft, Jack London, M.R. James, Mary Shelley, WW Jacobs ...
    Narrated by Sarah Douglas, John Waite, Ben Onwukwe, Michael Fenton-Stevens ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 2 min

    Classic Tales Of Horror offers up fifteen slices of powerful story-telling from the world’s great authors. From Henry James and Ambrose Bierce to Bram Stoker and Charles Dickens. Read by John Waite (BBC Radio 4), Sarah Douglas (Superman I & II), Michael Fenton-Stevens (Spitting Image, KYTV, Hitch-hiker’s Guide) and Ben Onwukwe (London’s Burning, Othello).The Man & The Snake by Ambrose Bierce – ... Read more

    $16.49 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus