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Author | : Daniel Orozco |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 14 |
Release | : 2011-09-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1466800607 |
A love affair blooms between two officers in the impartially worded pages of a police blotter. "Officers Weep" is a story from Daniel Orozco's critically acclaimed collection Orientation, which leads the reader through the hidden lives and moral philosophies of bridge painters, men housebound by obesity, office temps, and warehouse workers. He reveals the secret pleasures of late-night supermarket trips for cookie binges, exceptional data entry, and an exiled dictator's occasional piss on the U.S. embassy. A new employee's first-day office tour includes descriptions of other workers' most private thoughts and actions; during an earthquake, the consciousness of the entire state of California shakes free for examination. Orientation introduces a writer at the height of his powers, whose work surely invites us to reassess the landscape of American fiction.
Author | : Francisco Cantú |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2018-02-06 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0735217726 |
NAMED A TOP 10 BOOK OF 2018 BY NPR and THE WASHINGTON POST WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE IN CURRENT INTEREST FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE NONFICTION AWARD The instant New York Times bestseller, "A must-read for anyone who thinks 'build a wall' is the answer to anything." --Esquire For Francisco Cantú, the border is in the blood: his mother, a park ranger and daughter of a Mexican immigrant, raised him in the scrublands of the Southwest. Driven to understand the hard realities of the landscape he loves, Cantú joins the Border Patrol. He and his partners learn to track other humans under blistering sun and through frigid nights. They haul in the dead and deliver to detention those they find alive. Plagued by a growing awareness of his complicity in a dehumanizing enterprise, he abandons the Patrol for civilian life. But when an immigrant friend travels to Mexico to visit his dying mother and does not return, Cantú discovers that the border has migrated with him, and now he must know the full extent of the violence it wreaks, on both sides of the line.
Author | : Jason Rorick |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 114 |
Release | : 2020-12-16 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
A book about Jason's journey, to fulfill a dream and become a police officer. After witnessing several traumatic events that dream had became a nightmare, as he continued to struggle he finally sought and received help. He received a diagnoses of severe PTSD from 2 psychologist in 2014, by 2016 he had returned to full duty, where he continues, enjoying his life and work. In 2020 Jason wrote this book as inspiration for the many others walking though this challenge, and an encouragement that they are not alone, and do not have to feel that they are.
Author | : Philip K. Dick |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0547572255 |
Altered reality, genetic enhancement and drugs combine to create one of the most popular and enduring science fiction novels from award-winning novelist Philip K. Dick.
Author | : Daniel Orozco |
Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 2011-05-24 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1429995211 |
Breakfast's boiled egg, the overhead hum of fluorescent lights, the midmorning coffee break—daily routines keep the world running. But when people are pushed—by a coworker's taunt, a face-to-face encounter with a woman in free fall from a bridge—cracks appear, revealing alienation, casual cruelty, madness, and above all a simultaneous hunger for and fear of the unknown. Daniel Orozco leads the reader through the hidden lives and moral philosophies of bridge painters, men housebound by obesity, office temps, and warehouse workers. He reveals the secret pleasures of late-night supermarket trips for cookie binges, exceptional data entry, and an exiled dictator's occasional piss on the U.S. embassy. A love affair blooms between two officers in the impartially worded pages of a police blotter; a new employee's first-day office tour includes descriptions of other workers' most private thoughts and actions; during an earthquake, the consciousness of the entire state of California shakes free for examination. Orientation introduces a writer at the height of his powers, whose work surely invites us to reassess the landscape of American fiction. Orientation is a Kirkus Reviews Best of 2011 Short Story Collections title.
Author | : Todd Hunsaker |
Publisher | : Independently Published |
Total Pages | : 275 |
Release | : 2018-12-26 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781792160288 |
A Police Officer's journey through depression and healing. This is the story of how I sunk into depression as a police officer, where I nearly killed myself. I saw things I never wanted to see and I did things I never wanted to do. This is also the story of how I overcame that depression to lead a healthy life.
Author | : Deborah Crombie |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2009-10-13 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 006183002X |
Newly appointed Detective Inspector Gemma James has never thought to question her friend Hazel Cavendish about her past. So it is quite a shock when Gemma learns that their holiday retreat to a hotel in the Scottish Highlands is, in fact, Hazel's homecoming -- and that fellow guest Donald Brodie was once Hazel's lover, despite a vicious, long-standing feud between their rival, fine whiskey distilling families. And the fires of a fierce and passionate affair may not have burned out completely -- on Brodie's part at least, since he's prepared to destroy Hazel's marriage to win back his "Juliet." But when a sudden, brutal murder unleashes a slew of sinister secrets and long-seething hatreds, putting Hazel's life in peril, Gemma knows she will need help unraveling this very bloody knot -- and calls for the one man she trusts more than any other, Duncan Kincaid, to join her far from home ... and in harm's way.
Author | : Radley Balko |
Publisher | : PublicAffairs |
Total Pages | : 497 |
Release | : 2021-06-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1541700287 |
This groundbreaking history of how American police forces have been militarized is now revised and updated. Newly added material brings the story through 2020, including analysis of the Ferguson protests, the Obama and Trump administrations, and the George Floyd protests. The last days of colonialism taught America’s revolutionaries that soldiers in the streets bring conflict and tyranny. As a result, our country has generally worked to keep the military out of law enforcement. But over the last two centuries, America’s cops have increasingly come to resemble ground troops. The consequences have been dire: the home is no longer a place of sanctuary, the Fourth Amendment has been gutted, and police today have been conditioned to see the citizens they serve as enemies. In Rise of the Warrior Cop, Balko shows how politicians’ ill-considered policies and relentless declarations of war against vague enemies like crime, drugs, and terror have blurred the distinction between cop and soldier. His fascinating, frightening narrative that spans from America’s earliest days through today shows how a creeping battlefield mentality has isolated and alienated American police officers and put them on a collision course with the values of a free society.
Author | : Mark Holbrook, Ph.D. |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2017-10-19 |
Genre | : Self-Help |
ISBN | : 1387304410 |
In this, the Second Edition, Dr. Holbrook has added new chapters on tactical teams and police officer's wives, and he expanded existing chapters. This is a self-help book intended for police officers and their families but the material is applicable to all first-responders, servicemen and women, and veterans. The book is a practical guide for anyone who wants to improve their life by living better and improving their sleep. The author, Mark Holbrook has a Ph.D. in clinical psychology and he is in private practice in Maine. He works primarily with police officers, active duty military personnel and their families.
Author | : Ad Vingerhoets |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2013-02-28 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 0191639974 |
Crying has fascinated mankind for millenia. Since ancient times, we have known that emotional tears are a unique human characteristic. Unsurprisingly, over hundreds of years, scholars from different backgrounds have speculated about the origin and functions of human tears. According to Charles Darwin, tears fulfilled no adaptive function. And yet, this seems in sharp contrast to statements in the popular media about the significance of crying. Crying is thought to bring relief and is considered healthy - and withholding tears unhealthy. In addition, tears have been said to inhibit aggression in assaulters and to promote social bonding. Perhaps that could explain why tears have been so important in our evolution. Ad Vingerhoets is one of the few scientists in the world to have studied crying. He examines in Why only humans weep which claims about crying are scientifically tenable - which are fact and which are fiction? Though a psychologist, he doesn't just restrict himself to the current psychological literature, but also explores work in evolutionary biology, neurosciences, theology, art, history, and anthropology to provide an integrated perspective on this complex phenomenon. Written throughout in an academically accessible style, this book is groundbreaking in contributing to a modern scientific understanding of crying. It will have broad appeal to psychologists, psychiatrists, philosophers, biologists, and anthropologists.