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This important new work updates the arguments of Christopher Hood's classic work The Tools of Government for the Twenty-First century. Comprehensively revised throughout, it includes increased coverage of how government gets information and an assessment of how the tools available to government have changed over time.

Dealing CIA Cocaine... And A City Dies!Killing Detroit pulls the sheets off a well-planned government scheme that left broken neighborhoods, fractured families, and dead bodies in its wake. Over fifty years later, Detroit is still reeling from this scheme of murder and financial destruction. For the first time since before the Civil War, Detroit is no longer among the nation's 20 most populous cities. Detroit's population was 677,116 last summer, a loss of 3,107 residents from the previous year, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. That loss was enough to drop the city to the 21st largest city in the nation, surpassed by Seattle, Denver, and, of all places, El Paso, Texas. At one time, Detroit was the richest and fourth largest city in America, behind New York, Chicago, and Philadelphia. Killing Detroit exposes the critical events behind the rapid decline of this once-great city.About Killing DetroitKilling Detroit is the true story of a black activist searching for justice. Carl, a lifelong resident of Detroit, notices rampant drug dealing on the streets of the city's black neighborhoods. Drug houses and street dealers have the protection of the Detroit Police Department. Carl is outraged and forms a group to expose the corruption inside the FBI and Detroit Police Department. His tireless efforts resulted in a series of unexpected and violent attacks by the federal government. Killing Detroit reveals in detail for the first time the plot to destroy a city and its citizens and the voices of dissent. Learn what transformed this once-thriving city into the nation's most notorious drug den almost overnight. The award-winning screenplay is now in book form order today!

Dealing CIA Cocaine... And A City Dies!Killing Detroit pulls the sheets off a well-planned government scheme that left broken neighborhoods, fractured families, and dead bodies in its wake. Over fifty years later, Detroit is still reeling from this scheme of murder and financial destruction. For the first time since before the Civil War, Detroit is no longer among the nation's 20 most populous cities. Detroit's population was 677,116 last summer, a loss of 3,107 residents from the previous year, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. That loss was enough to drop the city to the 21st largest city in the nation, surpassed by Seattle, Denver, and, of all places, El Paso, Texas. At one time, Detroit was the richest and fourth largest city in America, behind New York, Chicago, and Philadelphia. Killing Detroit exposes the critical events behind the rapid decline of this once-great city.About Killing DetroitKilling Detroit is the true story of a black activist searching for justice. Carl, a lifelong resident of Detroit, notices rampant drug dealing on the streets of the city's black neighborhoods. Drug houses and street dealers have the protection of the Detroit Police Department. Carl is outraged and forms a group to expose the corruption inside the FBI and Detroit Police Department. His tireless efforts resulted in a series of unexpected and violent attacks by the federal government. Killing Detroit reveals in detail for the first time the plot to destroy a city and its citizens and the voices of dissent. Learn what transformed this once-thriving city into the nation's most notorious drug den almost overnight. The award-winning screenplay is now in book form order today!

It was meant to be a chance to escape the hustle and bustle of Tokyo. Nicola was working hard as an English teacher in Japan; she desperately needed a holiday. A long weekend with her boyfriend, Akira, and two other friends, Mai and Masashi, seemed ideal. The four of them would travel by Japan's safest form of transport, the shinkansen ('bullet train'), before boarding a ferry for the trip across to the quiet island of Sado. However, Nicola and her friends could never imagine that they would become caught up in a hijacking. Why would someone want to hijack this train? How would Nicola and her friends respond to being on a hijacked train? Would the police be able to catch those responsible? Hijacking Japan follows events in a real-time format during a dramatic day that threatens to bring the Japanese government to its knees. Hijacking Japan is available in two versions; the original version (for those over 15) and a clean version.

The blame game, with its finger-pointing and mutual buck-passing, is a familiar feature of politics and organizational life, and blame avoidance pervades government and public organizations at every level. Political and bureaucratic blame games and blame avoidance are more often condemned than analyzed. In The Blame Game, Christopher Hood takes a different approach by showing how blame avoidance shapes the workings of government and public services. Arguing that the blaming phenomenon is not all bad, Hood demonstrates that it can actually help to pin down responsibility, and he examines different kinds of blame avoidance, both positive and negative. Hood traces how the main forms of blame avoidance manifest themselves in presentational and "e;spin"e; activity, the architecture of organizations, and the shaping of standard operating routines. He analyzes the scope and limits of blame avoidance, and he considers how it plays out in old and new areas, such as those offered by the digital age of websites and e-mail. Hood assesses the effects of this behavior, from high-level problems of democratic accountability trails going cold to the frustrations of dealing with organizations whose procedures seem to ensure that no one is responsible for anything. Delving into the inner workings of complex institutions, The Blame Game proves how a better understanding of blame avoidance can improve the quality of modern governance, management, and organizational design.

This important new work updates the arguments of Christopher Hood's classic work The Tools of Government for the Twenty-First century. Comprehensively revised throughout, it includes increased coverage of how government gets information and an assessment of how the tools available to government have changed over time.