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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

  • 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

  • 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

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  • 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

  • Moving a Community College Forward

    My Story as an Educator, Researcher, President, and Radical

    by James Jacobs ...
    Series series The Futures Series on Community Colleges
    What makes this book distinctive is the unique perspective of its author. James Jacobs spent fifty years at Macomb Community College, starting as a part-time instructor in 1967 and retiring in 2017 as president. After being temporarily fired by the college in 1970 for activist activities, Jacobs not only won his job back but began a transformation that led to a national role in developing ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Hostile Territory

    by Marie James ...
    Narrated by Jacob Morgan, Callie Dalton ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - Blackbridge Security

    Unabridged

    7 hours 36 min

    Can you call someone an enemy if you haven’t seen them for the better part of a decade?Deacon Black is perfectly content with the status quo—work, sleep, repeat.Who cares if he’s rigid, structured, and set in his ways?It’s a job requirement that keeps his men safe and his company’s doors open.One phone call is all it takes to upend his life and land him right back into a past he has tried to ... Read more

    $20.60 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Folk Lore

    Enriched edition. Superstitious Beliefs in the West of Scotland within This Century

    by James Napier, Jacob Sloane ...
    In "Folk Lore," James Napier intricately weaves a tapestry of myth, tradition, and regional storytelling, exploring the rich narratives that shape cultural identity. Stylistically, the book is characterized by its lyrical prose and vivid imagery, which immerses the reader in the rituals and beliefs of various communities. Napier's profound attention to detail and deep understanding of folk ... Read more

    Was $2.99 CAD Now $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

  • 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

  • The Christmas Library

    250+ Essential Christmas Novels, Poems, Carols, Short Stories...by 100+ Authors

    by A.A. Milne, Santa Claus, Adelaide Anne Procter, Algernon Blackwood, Alice Duer Miller, Alice Hale Burnett, Amy Ella Blanchard, Andy Adams, Anne Hollingsworth Wharton, Annie Eliot Trumbull, Annie Roe Carr, Anonymous, Anton Chekhov, Arthur Conan Doyle, Banjo Paterson, Beatrix Potter, Berthold Auerbach, Bret Harte, Brothers Grimm, Grimm Brothers, C.H. Mead, Cecil Frances Alexander, Charles Dickens, Charles Edward Carryl, Christopher North, Clement Clarke Moore, Cornelia Redmond, Don Marquis, Dylan Thomas, Edward Payson Roe, Eleanor Hallowell Abbott, Elia W. Peattie, Elizabeth Anderson, Elizabeth Margaret Chandler, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Ellis Parker Butler, Ernest Vincent Wright, Eugene Field, Evaleen Stein, Florence L. Barclay, Francis Pharcellus Church, Frank Stockton, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, G.K. Chesterton, George A. Baker, George Augustus Sala, George Robert Sims, H.W. Collingwood, H.P. Lovecraft, Hans Christian Andersen, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry van Dyke, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hesba Stretton, Hezekiah Butterworth, Jacob August Riis, James Whitcomb Riley, John Bowring, John Greenleaf Whittier, John Kendrick Bangs, John Masefield, John Milton, John Strange Winter, José María de Pereda, Julia Schayer, Juliana Horatia Ewing, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Katharine Lee Bates, Kenneth Grahame, L. Frank Baum, Lyman Frank Baum, Laura Lee Hope, Leo Tolstoy, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Lewis Carroll, Lope de Vega, Louisa May Alcott, Lucy Maud Montgomery, L.M. Montgomery, M.E.S, Margaret E. Sangster, Margery Williams, Mark Twain, Martha Finley, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Mary Louisa Molesworth, Meredith Nicholson, Montague Rhodes James, Mother Goose, Mrs. W.H. Corning, Nahum Tate, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Newton Booth Tarkington, O.Henry, Olive Thorne Miller, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Peter Christen Asbjornsen, Ralph Henry Barbour, Richmal Crompton, Robert Browning, Robert Burns, Robert Ervin Howard, Robert Frost, Robert Ingersoll, Robert Louis Stevenson, R.L. Stevenson, Rose Terry Cooke, Rudyard Kipling, S. Weir Mitchell, Saki, Sara Teasdale, Stephen Leacock, Theodore Parker, Thomas Chatterton, Thomas Hardy, Thomas Hill, Thomas Nelson Page, Viktor Rydberg, Washington Irving, Willa Cather, William Dean Howells, William Henry Davies, William J. Locke, William Makepeace Thackeray, William Shakespeare, Zona Gale ...
    This holiday, we proudly present to you this unique collection of the greatest Christmas stories. Over 250 of them are included by your favourite authors:Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Willa Cather, Beatrix Potter, Louisa May Alcott, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Hans Christian Andersen, E.T.A. Hoffmann, O. Henry, Mark Twain and many more! ... Read more

    $14.99 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

  • Detached America

    Building Houses in Postwar Suburbia

    by James A. Jacobs ...
    Series series Midcentury
    During the quarter century between 1945 and 1970, Americans crafted a new manner of living that shaped and reshaped how residential builders designed and marketed millions of detached single-family suburban houses. The modest two- and three-bedroom houses built immediately following the war gave way to larger and more sophisticated houses shaped by casual living, which stressed a family's easy ... Read more

    $57.19 CAD