The Exposed City

Amoroso draws on unseen elements of the city - like crime rates and surveillance - to create mapping for the twenty-first century. Including expert interviews and examples of maps exposing the hidden elements of the city, The Exposed City shows how the urban invisibles can be made visible.

Defendants were indicted for a conspiracy to obtain goods under false pretenses.

The author is a former police chief and three-time Texas whistle-blower, he now owns a private investigations company. Bret Adams tells a story that is inspired by true events. The story reveals everything you ever wanted to know about police corruption in Texas. Adams was the class president and valedictorian at the police academy, and served in all most every Texas Law Enforcement capacity. Adams has filed whistle-blower type lawsuits against state law-enforcement agency administrators, police chiefs, law-enforcement organization leaders, sheriffs, dozens of police officers, multimillion dollar companies, city councilmen, and mayors. Adams ended a corrupt sheriff's career and exposed a huge cover-up in a famous whistle-blower law suit. The story also includes a unique look into the murder of a deputy sheriff and explores the possibility that the deputy was murdered by fellow officers. Also read how Adams exposed one the most flagrant and outrageous speed traps in Texas history. It does not stop there; in fact, the story details how Chief Adams's police department was disbanded by the mayor to obstruct an investigation into the mayor's company which allegedly employed hundreds of illegal immigrants. Read how the mayor's fifty million dollar a year company was suspected of bribing sheriffs, district attorneys, and a former United States Congressman. The story provides valuable information for protecting you and your family from police corruption. This story is also an absolute must for the policeman hopeful, as it will give the new officer essential knowledge going into their career. From speeding ticket quotas and racial profiling to one of the most corrupt towns in Texas, all the way up to murder, this story will finally reveal the other side of the blue line and what goes on outside the public eye.

This book presents select proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Civil Engineering (ACE 2020). The book examines the recent advancements in construction management, construction materials, environmental engineering, geotechnical engineering, transportation engineering, water resource engineering, and structural engineering. The topics covered include sustainable construction process and materials, smart infrastructures, green building technology, global environmental change and ecosystem management, theoretical and analytical solutions for foundation engineering, smart transportation systems and policy, GIS applications in water resource management, structural analysis for blast and impact resistance, and soft computing techniques in civil engineering. The book will be useful for researchers and professionals in the field of civil engineering.

As author of this book, I have noticed a great need for cleanups. This book is about making chores more enjoyable instead of being a hard task with no rewards. We must realize the day and time is now to clean up. Why wait until a hurricane, earthquake, tornado, lightning, or some terrible snow or firestorm, or even a disaster flood that comes and makes cleaning worse? There are other areas that need cleanup, such as credit, friendship, religious membership and acquaintances. Also social lives are in a cleanup mode. Let's begin cleanups with a smile from the heart. This book is about helping free us from the slavery of cleaning up, to find joy in cleaning up our interests, belongings and our health. Why should we make a lot of work for someone else to do for us what we don't want or like to do? Christians should make a difference, wherever we go. The Lord is the light of our life and we are the ones to make or let our light shine in these difficult times, because cleanup is needed each day. Our Christian duty is to teach and do, to help avoid a lot of unhappiness. Our minds need to be clear to think on good things. Remember, only Jesus can clean our souls.