Author: J. Samuel Walker
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Keywords: atomic, bombs, japan, truman, president, utter, destruction, prompt
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 1997-09
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0807846627
ISBN-13: 9780807846629

A study of the events and circumstances that lay behind President Truman’s use of atomic bombs against Japan. It examines the popular mythology about how the decision was made and evaluates the role of US-Soviet relations and American domestic politics.

Author: Samuel Walker
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: justice, criminal, american, history, popular
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 1997-09-04
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0195074513
ISBN-13: 9780195074512

This popular one-volume analysis of the evolution of American criminal justice places contemporary issues of crime and justice in historical perspective. Walker identifies the major periods in the development of the American system of criminal justice, from the small institutions of the colonial period to the creation of the police, the prison, and the juvenile court in the nineteenth century and the search for professionalism in the twentieth century. He argues that the democratic tradition is responsible for the worst as well as the best in the history of criminal justice in the United State

Author: Dr. Samuel Walker
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Keywords: accountability, police, world, new
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2005-01-04
List price: $51.95
ISBN-10: 1412909449
ISBN-13: 9781412909440

The New World of Police Accountability is the first book to provide an original and comprehensive analysis of some of the most important developments in policing over the past ten years. Esteemed author Samuel Walker synthesizes the major developments in the area of police accountability and argues that these developments represent a new period in the history of police reform that promises to address the historic problems of police abuse. This text assesses both the achievements and limitations of police accountability and reshapes the conventional wisdom on this topic. The book covers such is

Author: Samuel Walker
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Keywords: contemporary, world, issues, handbook, reference, liberties, america, civil
Number of Pages: 323
Published: 2004-04-15
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 1576079279
ISBN-13: 9781576079270

Written for a general audience, this work clearly defines civil liberties and explains their legal basis in the Bill of Rights, state constitutions, legal statutes, and administrative regulations. It reviews the subject’s history from 1917 to the present, and covers the full range of civil liberties issues: the First Amendment, due process, equal protection, and privacy.In addition to extensive material on past controversies such as the Scopes trial and the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, the book discusses important contemporary issues such as censorship on the Int

Author: Professor Samuel Walker
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Keywords: history, aclu, second, liberties, american, defense
Number of Pages: 536
Published: 1999-11-03
List price: $27.50
ISBN-10: 0809322706
ISBN-13: 9780809322701

Authors:Chad Walker, Eric Walker, Jani Kajala,
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers
Keywords: game, demo, developer, library, wordware, concept, making, gold
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2005-07-12
List price: $44.95
ISBN-10: 1556220480
ISBN-13: 9781556220487

Making a Game Demo: From Concept to Demo Gold provides a detailed and comprehensive guide to getting started in the computer game industry. Written by professional game designers and developers, this book combines the fields of design, art, scripting, and programming in one book to help you take your first steps toward creating a game demo. Discover how the use of documentation can help you organize the game design process. Understand how to model and animate a variety of objects, including human characters. Explore the basics of scripting with Lua. Learn about texturing, vertex light

Authors:Lawrence Walker, Joe Walker, Richard J. Hobbs,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: series, environmental, management, springer, succession, restoration, ecological, linking
Number of Pages: 190
Published: 2007-02-13
List price: $79.95
ISBN-10: 038735302X
ISBN-13: 9780387353029

While studies of restoration and ecological succession have been published independently, there is much overlap between these approaches that has not been adequately explored. Linking Restoration and Ecological Succession integrates practical information from restoration projects around the world with the latest developments in successional theory. This innovative book recognizes the critical roles of disturbance ecology, landscape ecology, ecological assembly, invasion biology, ecosystem health, and historical ecology in habitat restoration and argues that restoration within a successional