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3000 Degrees
Grand Central Publishing 2008; US$ 9.99The unforgettable and heartbreaking true story of the firemen who bravely fought "the perfect fire" is now in paperback. more...
7-7
Gibson Square 2010; US$ 5.82How could a moment of triumph about the Olympic Bid turn into a catastrophe? These terrible events follow on the continuing revelations that the intelligence reports that were the government's basis for the invasion of Iraq were deeply flawed and the recent admission by the Ministry of Defence that it failed to foresee the size and ferocity of the... more...
Above the Law
Free Press 2010; Not AvailableThe now-famous videotape of the beating of Rodney King precipitated a national outcry against police violence. Skolnick and Fyfe, two of the nation's top experts on law enforcement, use the incident to introduce a revealing historical analysis of such violence and the extent of its survival in law enforcement today. more...
Above the Law
Free Press 2010; Not AvailableThe now-famous videotape of the beating of Rodney King precipitated a national outcry against police violence. Skolnick and Fyfe, two of the nation's top experts on law enforcement, use the incident to introduce a revealing historical analysis of such violence and the extent of its survival in law enforcement today. more...
The Accidental System
Westview Press 1999; US$ 36.00An insightful policy study that shows that in the American political context, health care is neither exclusively a public right nor a private privilege. more...
African Police and Soldiers in Colonial Zimbabwe, 1923-80
Boydell & Brewer 2011; US$ 90.00A look at the ambiguous experience of black security force personnel in white minority ruled colonial Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). more...
Against Security
Princeton University Press 2012; US$ 35.00Remember when an unattended package was just that, an unattended package? Remember when the airport was a place that evoked magical possibilities, not the anxiety of a full-body scan? In the post-9/11 world, we have become focused on heightened security measures, but do you feel safer? Are you safer? Against Security explains how our anxieties... more...
All Fired Up
Orion 2012; US$ 18.11A unique and gloriously nostalgic account of one eventful year in the fire service. more...
All Fired Up
Orion 2012; Not AvailableA unique and gloriously nostalgic account of one eventful year in the fire service. more...
Alphaville
Pan Macmillan 2011; US$ 7.66Welcome to Alphabet City in the Lower Eat Side, Manhattan's most crime-ridden neighbourhood. Murder, rape and violence are hitting record levels the streets, fuelled by a drug problem that?s got the city by the throat so hard it could explode into full-blown anarchy. It was into this vision of hell that Mike Codella and his partner Gio stepped in... more...









