Keeping the peace : a police chief looks at his job
Harper & Row, January 1970. Hardcover. Gift inscription on front pastedown partially marked out; else, very good condition. More
Harper & Row, January 1970. Hardcover. Gift inscription on front pastedown partially marked out; else, very good condition. More
University of Georgia, 1969. Hardcover. Inked name on front pastedown; pencilled notes on front free endpaper. Light foxing; else, very good. More
Longstreet Press, May 1996. Hardcover. For visitors and recent arrivals, Atlanta Rising, will serve as the essential primer on the ins and outs of the South's capital city. For natives, the book offers up a rich menu of surprising new facts and fresh insights about their own hometown. More
Menasha Ridge Press, June 2022. Paper Back. Get the authoritative guide to the waterways of Georgia, offering thousands of miles of paddling. Wet your paddle--and whet your paddling appetite--with Canoeing & Kayaking Georgia, the definitive guide to whitewater, smoothwater, and everything in between. From the Chattahoochee River Watershed in the..... More
Palgrave Macmillan Trade, January 2016. Hardcover. **Winner, Phillip D. Reed Award for Outstanding Writing on the Southern Environment** **A Planetizen Top Planning Book for 2017** After decades of sprawl, many American city and suburban residents struggle with issues related to traffic (and its accompanying challenges for our health and productivity)..... More
Blair, February 2008. Trade Paperback. Mile for mile, St. Simons Island--one of Georgia's Golden Isles--boasts as much history as any community on the East Coast. Originally an Indian hunting ground, it has been occupied or invaded by Spanish missionaries, British settlers, planters and their slaves, the Union army, the United..... More
Regan Books, November 2005. Hardcover. Every place has its history. But what is it about New Orleans that makes it more than just the sum of the events that have happened there? What is it about the spirit of the people who live there that could produce a music, a...... More
Palgrave Macmillan Trade, January 2016. Hardcover. **Winner, Phillip D. Reed Award for Outstanding Writing on the Southern Environment** **A Planetizen Top Planning Book for 2017** After decades of sprawl, many American city and suburban residents struggle with issues related to traffic (and its accompanying challenges for our health and productivity)..... More
University of Georgia Press, 1993. Trade Paperback. This lively guidebook surveys four hundred buildings within the Atlanta metropolitan area--from the sleek marble and glass of the Coca-Cola Tower to the lancet arches and onion domes of the Fox Theater, from the quiet stateliness of Roswell's antebellum mansions to the art-deco..... More
Basic Books, May 2017. Hardcover. What we can learn from Atlanta's struggle to reinvent itself in the 21st Century Atlanta is on the verge of tremendous rebirth-or inexorable decline. A kind of Petri dish for cities struggling to reinvent themselves, Atlanta has the highest income inequality in the country, gridlocked..... More
Palgrave Macmillan, November 2002. Hardcover. In 1963, Winson Hudson finally registered to vote in Leake County, Mississippi, when she interpreted part of the state constitution by saying, "It meant what it said and it said what it meant." Her first attempt had been in 1937. A lifelong native of the..... More
Emons Publishers, August 2020. Paper Back. The ultimate insider's guide to Atlanta Features interesting and unusual places not found in traditional travel guides Part of the international 111 Places/111 Shops series with over 250 titles and 1.5 million copies in print worldwide Appeals to both the local market (more than..... More
The University of North Carolina Press, September 2002. Trade Paperback. Richard B. Russell, Jr., represented Georgia in the United States Senate from 1933 to 1971, a period of sweeping social change. Russell (1879-1971) was regarded by his fellow senators as the quintessential member of the Senate's establishment, and they dubbed..... More
Louisiana State University Press, 1958. Hardcover. Gift inscription from the Rudolph Matas Trust Fund on the front free endpaper; else, a clean, very good copy. Jacket is quite worn. Volume 1 only. More
Wildsam Field Guides, June 2020. Paper Back. Wildsam Field Guides: Atlanta reveals theSouth's largest city through local stories, travel intel and modern lore, seeking out the real and rooted things, what's truly authentic and sharing the soul of a place, for travelers and locals alike. Explore this progressive Southern hub..... More
Arcadia Publishing, September 2008. Trade Paperback. Inman Park documents the rich and interesting history of this diverse suburb of Atlanta. The story of Inman Park, Atlanta's first planned suburb, is one closely tied with transportation ingenuity, trade, and the progressive determination of its citizens. Situated two miles east of downtown..... More
Hill Street Press, January 2002. Hardcover. Nearly a decade and a half before the novelist Margaret Mitchell conceived the immortal fictive world of Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell the cub reporter was pounding the real-life streets of her Atlanta hometown in search of the who, what, when, and where..... More
Penguin (Non-Classics), May 1997. Trade Paperback. The intersection of Peachtree Street, historically the residential and commercial street of Atlanta's white elite, and Sweet Auburn, the spiritual main street of Atlanta's black community, mirrors the often separate but mutually dependent worlds of whites and blacks in this southern city. In "Where..... More
Penguin (Non-Classics), July 1984. Trade Paperback. Porter Osborne Jr. is a precocious, sensitive, and rambunctious boy trying to make it through adolescence during the depression years. On a red-clay farm in Georgia he learns all there is to know about cotton chopping, hog killing, watermelon thumping, and mule handling. School..... More
Mercer Univ Pr, March 2004. Trade Paperback. Every city has its charm, every county has its character, and every neighborhood has its nuances. In Central Georgia, you don't have to go far to find an adventure.This collection of stories and adventures has been gathered from glimpses of billboards, travels on..... More
Mercer University Press, October 2016. Hardcover. More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, April 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Dispatches from the new front lines of parenthood When the two-time National Book Award finalist Melissa Fay Greene confided to friends that she and her husband planned to adopt a four-year-old boy from Bulgaria to add to their four children at..... More
NewSouth Books, April 2017. Trade Paperback. Hailed as the most restrictive immigration bill in the nation, the Beason-Hammon Alabama Taxpayer & Citizen Protection Act (known as HB 56) went into effect in September 2011. Its intent was to create jobs for Alabamians by making the lives of undocumented immigrants in..... More
Simon & Schuster, March 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. The world's discrimination and violence against women and girls is the most serious, pervasive, and ignored violation of basic human rights: This is President Jimmy Carter's call to action. President Carter was encouraged to write this book by a wide coalition of..... More
Longstreet Press, July 1997. Trade Paperback. More