This book tackles the contentious issue of policing in an age of controversy and uncertainty. It is a timely book written by police scholars - predominantly former practitioners from Europe, Australia and North America - who draw from their own research and operational experiences to illuminate key issues relating to police reform in the present day. While acknowledging some relevance of usual proposed models, such as problem-solving, evidence-based policing and procedural justice, the contributors provide an insider look at a variety of perspectives and approaches to police reform which have emerged in recent decades. It invites university students, criminologists, social scientists, police managers, forensic scientists to question and adapt their perspectives on a broad range of topics such as community policing, hate crime, Islamic radicalisation, neighborhood dynamics, situational policing, antidiscrimination and civil society, police ethics, performance measures, and advances in forensic science, technology, intelligence and more in an accessible and comprehensive manner.

This book tackles the contentious issue of policing in an age of controversy and uncertainty. It is a timely book written by police scholars - predominantly former practitioners from Europe, Australia and North America - who draw from their own research and operational experiences to illuminate key issues relating to police reform in the present day. While acknowledging some relevance of usual proposed models, such as problem-solving, evidence-based policing and procedural justice, the contributors provide an insider look at a variety of perspectives and approaches to police reform which have emerged in recent decades. It invites university students, criminologists, social scientists, police managers, forensic scientists to question and adapt their perspectives on a broad range of topics such as community policing, hate crime, Islamic radicalisation, neighborhood dynamics, situational policing, antidiscrimination and civil society, police ethics, performance measures, and advances in forensic science, technology, intelligence and more in an accessible and comprehensive manner.

This volume considers the military, economic, and political significance of Africa during World War II. The essays feature new research and innovative approaches to the historiography of Africa and bring to the fore issues of race, gender, and labor during the war, topics that have not yet received much critical attention. It explores the experiences of male and female combatants, peasant producers, women traders, missionaries, and sex workers. The first section offers three introductory essays that give a continent-wide overview of how Africa sustained the Allied effort through labor and resources. The six sections that follow offer individual case studies from different parts of the continent. Contributors offer a macro and micro view of the multiple levels on which Africa's contributions shaped the war as well as the ways in which the war affected individuals and communities and transformed Africa's political, economic, and social landscape.

In The Rule of Empires, Timothy Parsons gives a sweeping account of the evolution of empire from its origins in ancient Rome to its most recent twentieth-century embodiment. He explains what constitutes an empire and offers suggestions about what empires of the past can tell us about our own historical moment.
Parsons uses imperial examples that stretch from ancient Rome, to Britain's "new" imperialism in Kenya, to the Third Reich to parse the features common to all empires, their evolutions and self-justifying myths, and the reasons for their inevitable decline. Parsons argues that far from confirming some sort of Darwinian hierarchy of advanced and primitive societies, conquests were simply the products of a temporary advantage in military technology, wealth, and political will. Beneath the self-justifying rhetoric of benevolent paternalism and cultural superiority lay economic exploitation and the desire for power. Yet imperial ambitions still appear viable in the twenty-first century, Parsons shows, because their defenders and detractors alike employ abstract and romanticized perspectives that fail to grasp the historical reality of subjugation.
Writing from the perspective of the common subject rather than that of the imperial conquerors, Parsons offers a historically grounded cautionary tale rich with accounts of subjugated peoples throwing off the yoke of empire time and time again. In providing an accurate picture of what it is like to live as a subject, The Rule of Empires lays bare the rationalizations of imperial conquerors and their apologists and exposes the true limits of hard power.

In The Rule of Empires, Timothy Parsons gives a sweeping account of the evolution of empire from its origins in ancient Rome to its most recent twentieth-century embodiment. He explains what constitutes an empire and offers suggestions about what empires of the past can tell us about our own historical moment. Using imperial examples that stretch from ancient Rome to Britain's "new" imperialism in Kenya to the Third Reich, Parsons considers the features common to all empires, their evolutions and self-justifying myths, and the reasons for their inevitable decline. Parsons argues that far from confirming a Darwinian hierarchy of advanced and primitive societies, conquests were simply the products of a temporary advantage in military technology, wealth, and political will. Beneath the self-justifying rhetoric of benevolent paternalism and cultural superiority lay economic exploitation and the desire for power. Yet imperial ambitions still appear viable in the twenty-first century, Parsons shows, because their defenders and detractors alike employ abstract and romanticized perspectives that fail to grasp the historical reality of subjugation. Writing from the perspective of the common subject rather than that of the imperial conquerors, Parsons offers a historically grounded cautionary tale rich with accounts of subjugated peoples throwing off the yoke of empire time and time again. In providing an accurate picture of what it is like to live as a subject, The Rule of Empires lays bare the rationalizations of imperial conquerors and their apologists and exposes the true limits of hard power.

This volume considers the military, economic, and political significance of Africa during World War II. The essays feature new research and innovative approaches to the historiography of Africa and bring to the fore issues of race, gender, and labor during the war, topics that have not yet received much critical attention. It explores the experiences of male and female combatants, peasant producers, women traders, missionaries, and sex workers. The first section offers three introductory essays that give a continent-wide overview of how Africa sustained the Allied effort through labor and resources. The six sections that follow offer individual case studies from different parts of the continent. Contributors offer a macro and micro view of the multiple levels on which Africa's contributions shaped the war as well as the ways in which the war affected individuals and communities and transformed Africa's political, economic, and social landscape.

The paramount role of the Blessed Virgin Mary in human redemption is the preeminent topic of discussion in the Church and on most every secular street corner outside its doors. What miracles have been dispensed from the Immaculate Heart of Mary as the Morning Star Over America While the world's lost sinners stand ogling over material wealth and temptations of the flesh, Our Lady has been calling the American people to the Cross of Christian Salvation. She enlisted two Illinois friends to deliver Her messages on February 22, 1991 through December 28, 2008, at which time she capitalized Her appearances with some of the most beatific strains of prophetic piety ever to fall on human ears. Her AD 2006-2008 messages represent the crown jewel of Her summons to prodigal men to embrace the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ as the antidote to death. Roman Catholics have known all along that the Blessed Mother can induce the Lord to change the course of human history by simply turning to Him in prayer, and She does this most prolifically when implored by the Church. Her new millennium messages contain God's poignant, urgent, descriptive, and decisive mandates for nullifying America's crass secular culture, reversing the atrocity of infanticide, proving to the nations that the United States is not as admired by Jesus Christ as we claim to be. If not for Our Lady's appearances as the Morning Star Over America, many sinners would never invite the Holy Spirit into their hearts. They would continue walking in blind ignorance, oblivious to the fact that the Father will ultimately demand an accounting of their lives through His Crucified Son. The Blessed Mother warns humanity in Her AD 2006-2008 messages about everything we must accomplish before Jesus comes again in glory, and She prepares our spirits for His Divine Mercy at that fateful hour. This book is mandatory reading for all Catholics, Protestants, populists of all stripes, and even those who have never thought about what lies beyond the grave. The Blessed Virgin Mary appeared as the Morning Star Over America with a call to the heart to awaken humanity from our mind-numbing indifference, and Her messages are proof that the Resurrected Christ is about to annex the Earth into His eternal domain. We should welcome Our Lady's admonishments with refurbished hope because the purpose of our physical existence is uniquely revealed.

The first sequel to Mary's messages to two central Illinois men that began on February 22, 1991, this edition records what Our Lady told them about the spiritual reprise of the human heart, recapturing America's social conscience in a world embroiled in moral relativism, rededication to the Holy Sacraments of the Roman Catholic Church, and other topics.

The Blessed Virgin Mary is the most unique intercessor humanity has ever known, beginning with Her Fiat to the Archangel Gabriel. She stands with Christ in everything God demands. Our Lady is our Mother in Heaven appearing on Earth, speaking about Salvation in Jesus' Crucifixion, clarifying the consequences of God's Judgement, and facilitating the conversion of nonbelievers to the Blood of the Cross. Our Immaculate Mother began speaking to two lifelong friends from central Illinois in 1991, and this book contains Her messages from 2003-2005. Discover what the Queen of Love has to say about America's involvement in world affairs, western capitalism, the Iraq war, secular humanism, abortion, Christian evangelization, the sacred priesthood, and a host of other ecclesial prophecies. The concepts of Wisdom, charity, holiness, virtue, honor, sacrifice, peacefulness, and sanctity run pervasively throughout Our Lady's messages, and it would behoove us to heed Her advice while there remains time to act. Among Her eloquent reflections, the Mother of God says- "When the Earth looks like a wasteland in which the dregs of society have sunken to the bottom of the seas, you lift them to the surface where Jesus resuscitates them. You are not commoners in God's Kingdom, He has created you to be the chosen elect. You are not pacifiers, you are subscribers to His revolution. This is what He mandates and the reason you were given your faith." July 6, 2003 "Please spread the word that a Perfect Creature has come calling upon humanity to turn back to God. The assailants against pious goodness, hope, purity, and charity that are running rampant in the United States must be crushed. Tell them, My children, about My Sacred Heel. Show them the holy relics depicting the Mother of Jesus Christ stomping the head of evil into the ground. I must and I already have." February 15, 2004

Now comes the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of Jesus Christ, in all Her splendor, uttering the refrains of human Salvation in the Holy Cross. She exalts the blessings of Christian faith and the urgency of the world's conversion to two of Her children who, since February 22, 1991, have chronicled Her intercession during their prayers. This book contains the transcripts of those messages from January 2000 through December 2002. Our Lady speaks volumes about Roman Catholic Christianity, the Holy Sacraments, sacrificial conversion, and spiritual sanctification by citing the Church's Tradition and Doctrine; employing all the sacred essentials at Her discretion, including an occasional euphemism or figure of speech not intended for strict literal interpretation. The Holy Mother loves humanity to the ends of the Earth, and urges the completion of God's Kingdom through our obedience to Her Immaculate Heart. Let us hasten the hour when She can rise before the nations and declare that Her work has been accomplished. Thus says the Mother of God- "All anyone needs to do is review My messages from 1991 and beyond. The simple words of Love and encouragement that are found there are the begetting of a vision for new life, a beatific prefiguration for comprehending the unbounded scope of God's Plan for the culmination of human events." August 26, 2001 "It is oftentimes difficult to maintain the intensity of your faith, but this is why I come; it is why I bring you ceaseless miracles and supernatural manifestations to buoy and strengthen your faith; and this is why there are diaries in Creation that comport with the hyper-extension of God's Truth and purposes beyond the Sacred Scriptures, to assure humankind that Jesus is as alive today as when He laid down His life on the Cross and was raised from the Sepulcher on Easter." January 6, 2002

In manifesting the Salvation of man, God oftentimes resorts to inexplicable actions to ratify His people's participation in their eternal redemption, even to the point of closing the breach between Heaven and Earth with signs and miracles to rival no other age. Now, the Most Blessed Virgin Mary has appeared in the heartland of the United States to two of Her children who have been traveling an extraordinary journey beneath Her mystical guidance since 1991. The pages of this enlightening work are the supernatural product of that intercessory relationship whose purpose and character are to rescind the faithlessness which is accelerating our western culture toward the dismal abyss of certain failure. There is no truth in the declaration that Christianity is dead The King is alive It is the secular world which is lost, and Heaven is proving once again that each generation will be found within the beatific embrace of the Holy Savior of the Cross. Secular debate has never facilitated deliverance, skepticism is a diseased irrelevance, intellectualism will die of its own accord, and relativism is gasping its last breaths of unprincipled error. The unseen realms of Creation are poised to strike the preeminent blow of God's Divinity against our American culture. A mystical eclipse has commenced Sight will be given to the blind through an apocalyptic revelation to overshadow our skewed definition of history and give us a renewed vision of the submission God requires from humanity to the Redemptive Legacy of Jesus Christ and His Apostolic Church. The times could not be more urgent for the reevaluation of our existence. Every person who reads this book from cover-to-cover will be given the miraculous graces needed to look upon the world as they have never seen it before. For those shining moments, their eyes will fall upon the Truth known from the purview of Infinite Glory. Herein, the destination of deliverance is being revealed

Eighth in a series of visionary manuscripts, this book by William L. Roth, Jr. is about the spiritual blight and social dysfunction that mainstream America has been suffering for the past forty years. There is no disguising the dubious future that might be unfolding, with all the desecration, blasphemy, heresy, and penchant for outright evil that holds a grip of morbidity on the throat of the United States' popular culture. Too many citizens are adversely affected by America's lack of spirituality. Their lives are marred by senseless violence and the erosion of traditional family values. We see such degradation everyday in the news and on our neighborhood streets, but we seem to lack the time and initiative to address the problem. Our nation is burdened by a dispassionate indifference and ethical blindness that causes us to turn away from the pastoral common sense that marked the good old days. William speaks to the restoration of our civic responsibility through Jesus Christ, while offering an evocative perspective about how to approach the great moral challenges of our time. And, we are the beneficiaries of his close relationship with the Blessed Virgin Mary through this awe-inspiring work that has already revived the hopefulness of countless decent people.

"Babes in the Woods" is another outstanding expose of insightful genius flowing from the miraculous intercession of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary to two visionaries in the heartland of the American nation. Since February of 1991, this revered lady of Sacred Scripture has been showering divine wisdom upon our culture through a supernatural relationship that she initiated with two men who have been close friends since childhood. They have now commenced the dispensation of the remarkable pearls of their mystical experiences, advancing their commission with a committed boldness that uniquely marks the endowment of their enlightened writings. This most recent work courageously witnesses to the inner refinements which flourish in the recesses of our tender hearts, especially in the wholesome embodiment of grace innocently portrayed by our smallest children. The holy righteousness emanating from this amazing book unabashedly flushes into our purview the many illicit forces throughout our culture that are laying siege to our holiness and destroying the preciousness of human life; a sobering reality that forces us to delve in conscience into the solutions which we must undertake in earnest as the family of civilized man. The author has capped the divinity of this compendium of grace by incorporating a collection of the original messages which were miraculously dispensed to him during these mystical conversations with the Hosts of Paradise. It is the fifth manuscript composed in a monumental series of prophetic writings that warn of the consequences of our spiritual dereliction, while possessing the power to ultimately awaken millions to the impending Arrival of Jesus Christ in Glory.

Amidst a sweltering climate of derision toward the institution of the Holy Priesthood, a mystical voice of authority has refocused everyone's vision away from the boiling and brawling hellbroth of vengeance and retribution being swirled and stirred by this nation's secular media elite. A tribute to twenty centuries of unimpeachable virtue, a super-majority of purity, and the breathtaking heroic service that Roman Catholic priests have delivered to our contemporary world has been brought to bear upon the profiteering image-makers of our culture and their obvious anti-Catholic agendas. This magnanimous work trumpets the unreported, yet undeniable, Truth regarding the sacrificial lives of Heaven's finest robed stewards as they collectively weather the remarkable assault upon their sacred honor and the sacrificial integrity of their venerable vocation. William Roth has gracefully unveiled the higher wisdom dispensed through the miraculous intercession of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary with this passionately written treatise which rebalances the scales of honest enlightenment and widens the horizons of our grander vision, reminding everyone that the chosen recipients of the Sacrament of Holy Orders are supported and carried by a two millennium legacy of having never failed to deliver righteous counsel, resilient principle, or angelic purity to any era of humankind. While our contemporary world is floundering in the consequences of our hypersexual culture, any person who surveys the Catholic Priesthood from the purview of this work will realize that the passing and personal aberrations of a few sinful individuals will ultimately command no more than a footnote in history; a postscript which itself will be lost in the ages of their sacramental purity.

On February 22, 1991, the Mother of Jesus Christ began a supernatural relationship with two central Illinois men who themselves had been best of friends from their youth. Through appearances and mystical interior conversations, the Most Blessed Virgin Mary began instructing them in regards to the wishes and demands of Heaven during our contemporary age. "When Legends Rise Again" is one of the products of their unique and prophetic encounters with these Hosts of Paradise. Never has there been such a righteous admonition filled with so many solemn truths pertaining to the soul of the United States of America. It is a graceful, yet lambasting, rebuttal of our immoral culture and lackadaisical approach to our relationship with Jesus Christ and the responsibilities espoused by the tenets of His teachings. This expose delves into the character of those who founded this great nation, along with highlighting many sacred witnesses who have burned-out their lives guarding an almost mystical heritage that we are collectively taking for granted. It is the third work in a monumental series of mystical writings that possess the power to ultimately transform the spiritual perception of millions regarding the sacred nature of our lives in preparation for the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.

"At the Water's Edge" is the second mystical work that has been produced through the amazing grace of the miraculous intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary to two men in the central United States. This transcending collection of 70 faith-filled essays professes the bold substance of the Gospel message which the Immaculate Mother of Jesus Christ has given to these childhood friends and faithful visionaries, charging them to dispense this long-offended wisdom with courage and nobility to a spiritually darkened world. The almost surreal images painted within this hallowed manuscript are wrapped in a poetic beauty that could only have come from one of the world's greatest writers or Heaven itself. Few writings appear bearing such uncompromising passion and the strength to launch a reader's awareness into the stratospheric dignity of man, truly unveiling the sanctified identity of humankind before the unseen King of Creation and our ultimate destiny of residing once again within the ecstatic realms of the immortal Paradise from which our first parents fell. This great work possesses the power to overcome and transcend the famished appetite of any critical reader as an authentic, resilient passion for the transformation of the world pulsates page after page from the folds of this writer's heart, finally and inevitably leaving the most skeptical wondering at the turning of the last page whether God has truly allowed something so miraculous to occur. There is no disappointment in its prophetic vision, simply a triumph that is beyond the imagining hearts of both paupers and kings.

"Morning Star Over America - Volume II" is the second half of a nearly 1600-page personal Diary of two men from the heartland of America who have been the recipients of the almost daily miraculous intercession of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary since February 22, 1991. It is an immense work of devotion that chronicles the first six years of their supernatural experiences and includes not only the transcription of the prophetic messages that they were instructed to proclaim to the world through dictation and parable alike, but also a descriptive historical mosaic of their lives as they grappled with the majestic unfolding of such an astounding gift amidst substantial personal opposition from some of those closest to them. Seldom in the course of literary history has there arisen a convincing masterpiece that provides such stunning evidence to the intercessory power of the Holy Spirit, God's undeniable presence within human interaction, and the approaching destiny of Jesus' Return in Glory which they claim is in the very near offing. If there can be a work which can reorient the conscience of humankind, the courageous message written within pages of their witness could possible provide that spiritual transfiguration.

"Morning Star Over America - Volume I" is the first half of a nearly 1600-page personal Diary of two men from the heartland of America who have been the recipients of the almost daily miraculous intercession of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary since February 22, 1991. It is an immense work of devotion that chronicles the first six years of their supernatural experiences and includes not only the transcription of the prophetic messages that they were instructed to proclaim to the world through dictation and parable alike, but also a descriptive historical mosaic of their lives as they grappled with the majestic unfolding of such an astounding gift amidst substantial personal opposition from some of those closest to them. Seldom in the course of literary history has there arisen a convincing masterpiece that provides such stunning evidence to the intercessory power of the Holy Spirit, God's undeniable presence within human interaction, and the approaching destiny of Jesus' Return in Glory which they claim is in the very near offing. If there can be a work which can reorient the conscience of humankind, the courageous message written within pages of their witness could possible provide that spiritual transfiguration.