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Arizona Autobiography Asteroids Collisions with Earth Collisions (Astrophysics) Impact craters Military Medicine Arizona Autobiography Near-Earth objects United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation Officials and employees Biography United States. Navy. Violence Arizona Wounds and Injuries surgery Arizona AutobiographyDillow, Gordon L.
Summary: "Combining history, popular science, and in-depth reporting, here is a fascinating account of asteroids and other space objects that hit Earth long ago and those streaming toward us even now--as well as a look at the preparations humanity is making against asteroid-caused catastrophe. Journalist Gordon L. Dillow examines what a small but dedicated group of astronomers have long known--that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 523.44 DILLetersky, Paul
Summary: "In 1965, at the beginning of the chaos, twenty-two-year old Paul Letersky was assigned to assist the legendary FBI director J. Edgar Hoover who'd just turned seventy and had, by then, led the Bureau for an incredible forty-one years. Hoover was a rare and complex man who walked confidently among the most powerful. His personal privacy was more tightly guarded than the secret "files" he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LETERSKY, PAUL LETCampisi, Charles
Summary: From 1996 through 2014 Charles Campisi headed NYPD's Internal Affairs Bureau, working under four police commissioners and gaining a reputation as hard-nosed and incorruptible. When he retired, only one man on the 36,000-member force had served longer. During Campisi's IAB tenure, the number of New Yorkers shot, wounded, or killed by cops every year declined by ninety percent, and the number of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363 CAMRehder, William J.
Contents: Smitty's mistake -- Everybody likes Eddie -- Casper -- The Hole in the Ground Gang -- Insiders -- Shoot-out in North Hollywood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1552 REHRhee, Peter
Summary: Documents the life story of the trauma surgeon who helped save Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, describing his upbringing in South Korea and Africa, his selection as President Clinton's personal physician, and his wartime service.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014