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In this New York Times bestselling must-read, executive producer
and host of Dirty Jobs Mike Rowe presents a delightfully
entertaining, seriously fascinating collection of his favorite
episodes from America's #1 short-form podcast, The Way I Heard It,
along with a host of personal memories, ruminations, and insights
that will leave you captivated. The Way I Heard It presents
thirty-five mysteries "for the curious mind with a short attention
span." Every one is a trueish tale about someone you know, filled
with facts that you don't. Movie stars, presidents, bloody
do-gooders, and villains--they're all here, waiting to shake your
hand, hoping you'll remember them. Delivered with Mike's signature
blend of charm, wit, and ingenuity, their stories are part of a
larger mosaic--a memoir full of surprising revelations, sharp
observations, and intimate, behind-the-scenes moments drawn from
Mike's own remarkable life and career.
This book takes a critical and comparative approach to the
analysis of the governance of police stops across Europe.
It draws on an EU COST Action research network on Police
Stops which engaged academics and practitioners from 29
countries to better understand the practice of police
stops. It begins by examining how police stops are defined
and the various legal rules and levels of accountability afforded.
The chapters are arranged by theme to focus on a core aspect
of the governance of police stops. These include:Â legal
frameworks and police discretion; internal governance; external
accountability and civilian oversight; possibilities for legal
recourse; and the different roles of data and
technology. Each compares the distinct approaches
evident across Europe, often employing case studies. The book
adopts a critical approach, acknowledging governance as contested
and involving diverse (state, non-state and supranational)
actors. It considers implications for policing in a rapidly
changing environment globally.
1. Police ethnographies are always popular because they offer
unique perspectives on police work and organisation. This book is
provocative in challenging past conceptions of police culture. 2.
Policing remains a popular area of teaching and is also the topic
of specific degree pathways. In the UK, Police Culture is often an
upper level module on Professional Policing degrees, so this book
offers useful supplementary reading.
The book will explore the impact of the Lawrence Report since it
was published in 1999. Upon publication, Home Secretary Jack Straw
promised that the Macpherson Inquiry would lead to real change in
the policing of minority ethnic communities in Britain. Several
senior police officers made similar pledges and insisted that the
benchmark against which their commitment should be judged should be
the extent to which progress was made 'on the ground'. In the
aftermath of the report, a host of initiatives have addressed
issues ranging from police liaison with victims, first aid
training, to stop and search procedures and police complaints. As
well as exploring the many ways in which the Lawrence Report has
impacted on the police service and on society more widely, this
collection assesses the extent to which, in retrospect, the
Macpherson Inquiry has led to significant changes to policing, and
highlights areas where future efforts ought to be concentrated.
Over recent years race has become one of the most important issues
faced by the police. This book seeks to analyse the context and
background to these changes, to assess the impact of the Lawrence
Inquiry and the MacPherson Report, and to trace the growing
emphasis on policing as an 'antiracist' activity, proactively
confronting racism in both crime and non-crime situations. Whilst
this change has not been wholly or consistently applied, it does
represent an important change in the discourse that surrounds
police relations with the public since it changes the traditional
role of the police as 'neutral arbiters of the law'. This book
shows why race has become the most significant issue facing the
British police, and argues that the police response to race has led
to a consideration of fundamental issues about the relation of the
police to society as a whole and not just minority groups who might
be most directly affected.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Executive producer and host Mike Rowe
presents a delightfully entertaining, seriously fascinating
collection of his favorite episodes from America's #1 short-form
podcast, The Way I Heard It, along with a host of personal
memories, ruminations, and insights. It's a captivating must-read.
The Way I Heard It presents thirty-five mysteries "for the curious
mind with a short attention span." Every one is a trueish tale
about someone you know, filled with facts that you don't. Movie
stars, presidents, bloody do-gooders, and villains--they're all
here, waiting to shake your hand, hoping you'll remember them.
Delivered with Mike's signature blend of charm, wit, and ingenuity,
their stories are part of a larger mosaic--a memoir full of
surprising revelations, sharp observations, and intimate,
behind-the-scenes moments drawn from Mike's own remarkable life and
career.
This book demonstrates the unique contribution police ethnographies
make to our understanding of policing cultures and practices in a
variety of international settings. It features contemporary
examples of police ethnographies that demonstrate the continuing
value of ethnographic work to our understanding of policing. The
first section of the book focuses on the police and Anglo-American
policing. The second section is international in scope and seeks to
enrich our understandings of policing ‘beyond’ the police.
Chapters explore police interactions during a stop and search and
at a carnival. They peer behind the scenes at the control room and
at the use of intelligence. We listen in to the experiences of new
recruits and the stories told in canteens. They also take us into
the world of private security agencies, to Kenya and to Vietnam.
The book explores the position of ethnographers asking: whether we
do too much with rather than on the police; and whether our work
reveals more about us as academics than them as officers. Together,
they are revealing of a changing policing landscape. Ethnography
and the Evocative World of Policing demonstrates the unique value
of ethnographic work in the fields of policing studies and
criminology. It will be a key resource for scholars and researchers
of policing, criminology, sociology, law, and research methods.The
chapters in this book were originally published in two special
issues of Policing and Society.
World football has undergone unprecedented change over the past
decade. On the field, the richest European clubs have retained
their pre-eminence, but with multinational playing squads backed up
by global marketing industries. Club ownership rests increasingly
with impersonal shareholders, rather than local business figures.
Domestic and international football competitions are being
transformed by the financial power of the mass media. The world's
top players are paid far more than their peers from previous eras.
This volume covers a wide range of topical issues which football
players, fans and administrators will have to confront in the years
to come.
World football has undergone unprecedented change over the past
decade. On the field, the richest European clubs have retained
their pre-eminence, but with multinational playing squads backed up
by global marketing industries. Club ownership rests increasingly
with impersonal shareholders, rather than local business figures.
Domestic and international football competitions are being
transformed by the financial power of the mass media. The world's
top players are paid far more than their peers from previous eras.
This volume covers a wide range of topical issues which football
players, fans and administrators will have to confront in the years
to come.
The book will explore the impact of the Lawrence Report since it
was published in 1999. Upon publication, Home Secretary Jack Straw
promised that the Macpherson Inquiry would lead to real change in
the policing of minority ethnic communities in Britain. Several
senior police officers made similar pledges and insisted that the
benchmark against which their commitment should be judged should be
the extent to which progress was made 'on the ground'. In the
aftermath of the report a host of initiatives have addressed issues
ranging from police liaison with victims, first aid training, to
stop and search procedures and police complaints. As well as
exploring the many ways in which the Lawrence Report has impacted
on the police service and on society more widely this collection
assesses the extent to which, in retrospect, the Macpherson Inquiry
has led to significant changes to policing, and highlights areas
where future efforts ought to be concentrated.
This open access book analyses the utilisation, regulation and
legitimacy of police powers. Drawing upon six-years of ethnographic
research in two police forces in England, this book uncovers the
importance of time and place, supervision and monitoring, local
policies and law. Covering a period when the police were under
intense scrutiny and subject to austerity measures, the authors
contend that the concept of police culture does not help us
understand police discretion. They argue that change is a dominant
feature of policing and identify fragmented responses to law and
policy reform, varying between police stations, across different
policing roles, and between senior and frontline ranks. The open
access edition of this book is available under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by
University of Manchester Library.
This book examines  the timely issue of police stops as
a public and political issue, focussing on the European
states. Contrary to much other work it focuses on wider Europe and
the social and political context in which the police practice of
stopping citizens emerges, develops and can be curtailed. More
specifically, the volume analyses public controversies about police
stops, i.e. events in which conflicts emerge about how the
performance of police stops is explained and
justified.  This book stems from an EU COST Action
research network on Police Stops which engages academics and
practitioners from 29 countries. It appeals to those
in law, criminology and policing studies with some potential
for wider interest in cultural studies/history and public
policy/politics, as well as to practitioners in police
scrutiny, oversight and other professional bodies and in training
organisations.
Your job is not your vocation. Everyone hungers for work that has
meaning and purpose. But what gives work meaning? Vocation, or
"calling," is the answer Protestant Christianity offers: each
person is called by God to serve the common good in a particular
line of work. Your vocation, evidently, might be almost anything:
as a nurse, a wilderness guide, a calligrapher, a missionary, an
activist, a venture capitalist, a politician, an executioner...
Yet, as Will Willimon writes in this issue, the New Testament knows
only one form of vocation: discipleship. And discipleship is far
more likely to mean leaving father and mother, houses and land,
than it is to mean embracing one's identity as a fisherman or tax
collector. This issue of Plough focuses on people who lived their
lives with that sense of vocation. Such a life demands
self-sacrifice and a willingness to recognize one's own supposed
strengths as weaknesses, as it did for the Canadian philosopher
Jean Vanier. It involves a lifelong commitment to a flesh-and-blood
church, as Coptic Archbishop Angaelos describes. It may even
require a readiness to give up one's life, as it did for Annalena
Tonelli, an Italian humanitarian who pioneered the treatment of
tuberculosis in the Horn of Africa. But as these stories also
testify, it brings a gladness deeper than any self-chosen path.
Also in this issue: - Scott Beauchamp on mercenaries - Nathan
Schneider on cryptocurrencies - Stephanie Saldana on Syrian refugee
art - Peter Biles on loneliness at college - Phil Christman on
Bible translation - Michael Brendan Dougherty on fatherhood -
Insights on vocation from C. S. Lewis, Therese of Lisieux, Mother
Teresa, Eberhard Arnold, Dorothy Sayers, Jean Vanier, and Gerard
Manley Hopkins - poetry by Devon Balwit and Carl Sandburg - reviews
of books by Robert Alter, Edwidge Danticat, Matthew D. Hockenos,
Amy Waldman, and Jeremy Courtney - art and photography by Pola
Rader, Dean Mitchell, Mark Freear, Timothy Jones, Pawel Filipczak,
Mary Pal, Harley Manifold, Sami Lalu Jahola, Marc Chagall, and
Russell Bain. Plough Quarterly features stories, ideas, and culture
for people eager to put their faith into action. Each issue brings
you in-depth articles, interviews, poetry, book reviews, and art to
help you put Jesus' message into practice and find common cause
with others.
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Chicago has always had a reputation as a "wide open town" with a
high tolerance for gangsters, illegal liquor, and crooked
politicians. It has also been the home for countless black
musicians and the birthplace of a distinctly urban blues,more
sophisticated, cynical, and street-smart than the anguished songs
of the Mississippi delta,a music called the Chicago blues. This is
the history of that music and the dozens of black artists who
congregated on the South and Near West Sides. Muddy Waters, Big
Bill Broonzy, Howlin' Wolf, Elmore James, Tampa Red, Little Walter,
Jimmy Reed, Otis Rush, Sonny Boy Williamson, Junior Wells, Eddie
Taylor,all of these giants played throughout the city and created a
musical style that had imitators and influence all over the world.
British blues fan Mike Leadbitter launched the magazine Blues
Unlimited in 1963. The groundbreaking publication fueled the
then-nascent, now-legendary blues revival that reclaimed seminal
figures like Son House and Skip James from obscurity. Throughout
its history, Blues Unlimited heightened the literacy of blues fans,
documented the latest news and career histories of countless
musicians, and set the standard for revealing long-form interviews.
Conducted by Bill Greensmith, Mike Leadbitter, Mike Rowe, John
Broven, and others, and covering a who's who of blues masters,
these essential interviews from Blues Unlimited shed light on their
subjects while gleaning colorful detail from the rough and tumble
of blues history. Here is Freddie King playing a string of
one-nighters so grueling it destroys his car; five-year-old
Fontella Bass gigging at St. Louis funeral homes; and Arthur "Big
Boy" Crudup rising from life in a packing crate to music stardom.
Here, above all, is an eyewitness history of the blues written in
neon lights and tears, an American epic of struggle and
transcendence, of Saturday night triumphs and Sunday morning
anonymity, of clean picking and dirty deals. Featuring interviews
with: Fontella Bass, Ralph Bass, Fred Below, Juke Boy Bonner, Roy
Brown, Albert Collins, James Cotton, Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup, Joe
Dean, Henry Glover, L.C. Green, Dr. Hepcat, Red Holloway, Louise
Johnson, Floyd Jones, Moody Jones, Freddie King, Big Maceo
Merriweather, Walter Mitchell, Louis Myers, Johnny Otis, Snooky
Pryor, Sparks Brothers, Jimmy Thomas, Jimmy Walker, and Baby Boy
Warren.
British blues fan Mike Leadbitter launched the magazine Blues
Unlimited in 1963. The groundbreaking publication fueled the
then-nascent, now-legendary blues revival that reclaimed seminal
figures like Son House and Skip James from obscurity. Throughout
its history, Blues Unlimited heightened the literacy of blues fans,
documented the latest news and career histories of countless
musicians, and set the standard for revealing long-form interviews.
Conducted by Bill Greensmith, Mike Leadbitter, Mike Rowe, John
Broven, and others, and covering a who's who of blues masters,
these essential interviews from Blues Unlimited shed light on their
subjects while gleaning colorful detail from the rough and tumble
of blues history. Here is Freddie King playing a string of
one-nighters so grueling it destroys his car; five-year-old
Fontella Bass gigging at St. Louis funeral homes; and Arthur "Big
Boy" Crudup rising from life in a packing crate to music stardom.
Here, above all, is an eyewitness history of the blues written in
neon lights and tears, an American epic of struggle and
transcendence, of Saturday night triumphs and Sunday morning
anonymity, of clean picking and dirty deals. Featuring interviews
with: Fontella Bass, Ralph Bass, Fred Below, Juke Boy Bonner, Roy
Brown, Albert Collins, James Cotton, Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup, Joe
Dean, Henry Glover, L.C. Green, Dr. Hepcat, Red Holloway, Louise
Johnson, Floyd Jones, Moody Jones, Freddie King, Big Maceo
Merriweather, Walter Mitchell, Louis Myers, Johnny Otis, Snooky
Pryor, Sparks Brothers, Jimmy Thomas, Jimmy Walker, and Baby Boy
Warren.
This open access book analyses the utilisation, regulation and
legitimacy of police powers. Drawing upon six-years of ethnographic
research in two police forces in England, this book uncovers the
importance of time and place, supervision and monitoring, local
policies and law. Covering a period when the police were under
intense scrutiny and subject to austerity measures, the authors
contend that the concept of police culture does not help us
understand police discretion. They argue that change is a dominant
feature of policing and identify fragmented responses to law and
policy reform, varying between police stations, across different
policing roles, and between senior and frontline ranks. The open
access edition of this book is available under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by
University of Manchester Library.
Over recent years race has become one of the most important issues
faced by the police. This book seeks to analyse the context and
background to these changes, to assess the impact of the Lawrence
Inquiry and the MacPherson Report, and to trace the growing
emphasis on policing as an 'antiracist' activity, proactively
confronting racism in both crime and non-crime situations. Whilst
this change has not been wholly or consistently applied, it does
represent an important change in the discourse that surrounds
police relations with the public since it changes the traditional
role of the police as 'neutral arbiters of the law'. This book
shows why race has become the most significant issue facing the
British police, and argues that the police response to race has led
to a consideration of fundamental issues about the relation of the
police to society as a whole and not just minority groups who might
be most directly affected.
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