wyszukanych pozycji: 13
Comrade J: The Untold Secrets of Russia's Master Spy in America After the End of the Cold W AR
ISBN: 9780425225622 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. When the Cold War ended, the spying that marked the era did not. An incredible true story from the Pulitzer Prize-nominated New York Times bestselling author of Crazy.
Between 1995 and 2000, "Comrade J" was the go-to man for SVR (the successor to the KGB) intelligence in New York City, overseeing all covert operations against the U.S. and its allies in the United Nations. He personally handled every intelligence officer in New York. He knew the names of foreign diplomats spying for Russia. He was the man who kept the secrets. But there was one more secret he was... When the Cold War ended, the spying that marked the era did not. An incredible true story from the Pulitzer Prize-nominated New York Times b...
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104,58 zł |
Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness
ISBN: 9780425213896 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Former Washington Post reporter Pete Earley had written extensively about the criminal justice system. But it was only when his own son-in the throes of a manic episode-broke into a neighbor's house that he learned what happens to mentally ill people who break a law.
This is the Earley family's compelling story, a troubling look at bureaucratic apathy and the countless thousands who suffer confinement instead of care, brutal conditions instead of treatment, in the "revolving doors" between hospital and jail. With mass deinstitutionalization, large numbers of state mental patients... Former Washington Post reporter Pete Earley had written extensively about the criminal justice system. But it was only when his own son-in the ...
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87,15 zł |
No Human Contact: Solitary Confinement, Maximum Security, and Two Inmates Who Changed the System
ISBN: 9780806541884 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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127,53 zł |
Collusion: A Novel
ISBN: 9780062859990 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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91,47 zł |
The Serial Killer Whisperer: How One Man's Tragedy Helped Unlock the Deadliest Secrets of the World's Most Terrifying Killers
ISBN: 9781439199039 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. From New York Times bestselling author Pete Earley--the strange but true story of how a young man's devastating brain injury gave him the unique ability to connect with the world's most terrifying criminals. Fifteen-year-old Tony Ciaglia had everything a teenager could want until he suffered a horrific head injury at summer camp. When he emerged from a coma, his right side was paralyzed, he had to relearn how to walk and talk, and he needed countless pills to control his emotions. Abandoned and shunned by his friends, he began writing to serial killers on a whim...
From New York Times bestselling author Pete Earley--the strange but true story of how a young man's devastating brain injury gave him...
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82,75 zł |
Circumstantial Evidence: Death, Life, and Justice in a Southern Town
ISBN: 9780553763560 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Pete Earley's The Hot House gave America a riveting, uncompromising look at the nation's most notorious prison--the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas--a book that Kirkus Reviews called a "fascinating white-knuckle tour of hell, brilliantly reported." Now Earley shows us a different, even more intimate view of justice--and injustice--American-style. In Monroeville, Alabama, in the fall of 1986, a pretty junior college student was found murdered in the back of the dry cleaning shop where she worked. Several months later, Walter "Johnny D." McMillian, a black man with...
Pete Earley's The Hot House gave America a riveting, uncompromising look at the nation's most notorious prison--the federal penitentiary in Lea...
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108,94 zł |
The Hot House: Life Inside Leavenworth Prison
ISBN: 9780553560237 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 1993 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A stunning account of life behind bars at the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas, where the nation's hardest criminals do hard time.
"A page-turner, as compelling and evocative as the finest novel. The best book on prison I've ever read."--Jonathan Kellerman The most dreaded facility in the prison system because of its fierce population, Leavenworth is governed by ruthless clans competing for dominance. Among the "star" players in these pages: Carl Cletus Bowles, the sexual predator with a talent for murder; Dallas Scott, a gang member... A stunning account of life behind bars at the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas, where the nation's hardest criminals do hard time. |
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39,18 zł |
Collusion
ISBN: 9780062888013 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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121,97 zł |
Resilience: Two Sisters and a Story of Mental Illness
ISBN: 9781455530229 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Close sisters are descended from very prominent and wealthy ancestors. When the Close sisters were very young, their parents joined a cult called the MRA, or Moral Rearmament. The family was suddenly uprooted to a cult school in Switzerland and, ultimately, to the Belgian Congo where their father became a surgeon in the war ravaged republic, and ultimately the personal physician to President Mobutu. Shortly after the girls returned to the US for boarding school, Jessie first started to exhibit symptoms of severe bipolar disorder (she would later learn that this ran in the family, a...
The Close sisters are descended from very prominent and wealthy ancestors. When the Close sisters were very young, their parents joined a cult called ...
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241,58 zł |
Resilience: Two Sisters and a Story of Mental Illness
ISBN: 9781455548804 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. At a young age, Jessie Close struggled with symptoms that would transform into severe bipolar disorder in her early twenties, but she was not properly diagnosed until the age of fifty. Jessie and her three siblings, including actress Glenn Close, spent many years in the Moral Re-Armament cult. Jessie passed her childhood in New York, Switzerland, Connecticut, Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo), and finally Los Angeles, where her life quickly became unmanageable. She was just fifteen years old.
Jessie's emerging mental illness led her into a life of addictions, five failed... At a young age, Jessie Close struggled with symptoms that would transform into severe bipolar disorder in her early twenties, but she was not properly...
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95,82 zł |
Vengeance
ISBN: 9781478923039 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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108,90 zł |
Duplicity
ISBN: 9781455530427 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The greatest nightmare for the free world today would be a master terrorist hiding somewhere, controlling and coordinating radical Islamic groups at the highest level around the globe. In DUPLICITY, the newest thriller from former Speaker of the House and bestselling author Newt Gingrich, such an invisible hand overseeing havoc worldwide plays a major role. Gingrich has teamed with former "Washington Post "reporter and bestselling author Pete Earley to create a highly plausible mix of domestic and global action in this ripped-from-the-headlines thriller. And of course, it's set... The greatest nightmare for the free world today would be a master terrorist hiding somewhere, controlling and coordinating radical Islamic groups ... |
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230,60 zł |
Witsec Inside the Federal Witness Protection Program
ISBN: 9780553582437 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 2003 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. For decades no law enforcement program has been as cloaked in controversy and mystery as the Federal Witness Protection Program. Now, for the first time, Gerald Shur, the man credited with the creation of WITSEC, teams with acclaimed investigative journalist Pete Earley to tell the inside story of turncoats, crime-fighters, killers, and ordinary human beings caught up in a life-and-death game of deception in the name of justice. WITSEC
Inside the Federal Witness Protection Program When the government was losing the war on organized crime in the early 1960s, Gerald Shur, a... For decades no law enforcement program has been as cloaked in controversy and mystery as the Federal Witness Protection Program. Now, for the first ti...
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39,18 zł |