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Prison as Punishment
ISBN: 9781500140373 / Angielski / Miękka / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The law sends people to prison as punishment-- not, for punishment. "Tough on crime" is a popular political buzz phrase, but it has been confused with tough on criminals. They are not the same.
The law sends people to prison as punishment-- not, for punishment. "Tough on crime" is a popular political buzz phrase, but it has been confused with...
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87,60 |
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Adirondack Outlaws: Bad Boys and Lawless Ladies
ISBN: 9781560376118 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Local author and historian Niki Kourofsky exposes the North Country's shadowy past of crime and dark deeds. Her wry, lively storytelling puts readers right in the thick of shootouts, jewel heists, bank robberies, manhunts, and unsolved murders. Spanning eight decades of Adirondack history and ranging from Glens Falls to the Canadian border, Adirondack Outlaws is a rollicking page-turner, rich in chilling details and amply illustrated with historical photographs.
Local author and historian Niki Kourofsky exposes the North Country's shadowy past of crime and dark deeds. Her wry, lively storytelling puts readers ...
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56,83 |
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The World's Most Lethal Ladies
ISBN: 9781500841331 / Angielski / Miękka / 60 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Acts of murder committed by women are always perceived by the public as being far more disturbing than those carried out by their male counterparts. Women are often considered to be 'the fairer sex', and the majority are seen as being essentially caring and nurturing by nature. However, around fifteen percent of serial killers are known to be women; a shocking statistic Even more disturbing is the widely held belief that not all female serial killers will be caught and brought to justice; many are simply too smart, and are often overlooked by the authorities. This book will introduce you to...
Acts of murder committed by women are always perceived by the public as being far more disturbing than those carried out by their male counterparts. W...
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59,66 |
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My Guarded Secrets: A True Story
ISBN: 9781500875763 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Greg grows up on a farm in Charles City, Iowa. The son of alcoholic parents, neglected and left to fend for himself, Greg is drinking and driving at the age of thirteen. Never getting an allowance, he finds an easy way to access cash...once he masters his father's signature. Kindhearted Greg, feeling an inner desire to help people, dreams of becoming a police officer. At the age of eighteen, he is ready to pursue that dream, but his father does the unthinkable...putting Greg's life on hold and causing his dreams to shatter. Alienated from his family and feeling deep resentment, Greg spends...
Greg grows up on a farm in Charles City, Iowa. The son of alcoholic parents, neglected and left to fend for himself, Greg is drinking and driving at t...
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47,82 |
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Yours for Eternity: A Love Story on Death Row
ISBN: 9780147516220 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. New York Times bestselling author Damien Echols and his wife Lorri Davis reveal their intimate and affecting letters, written while Echols was wrongfully imprisoned on death row.
An explosive bestseller, Life After Death turned a national spotlight on Damien Echols, who was just eighteen when he was wrongly condemned to death. But one of the most remarkable parts of his story still remained untold. After seeing a documentary about the "West Memphis Three," Lorri Davis--a New Yorkbased landscape architect--wrote him a letter, beginning a thirteen-year correspondence... New York Times bestselling author Damien Echols and his wife Lorri Davis reveal their intimate and affecting letters, written while Echols w...
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91,22 |
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ANTECEDENT (Before - The Memoir)
ISBN: 9781477654309 / Angielski / Miękka / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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99,57 |
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Aberration in the Heartland of the Real: The Secret Lives of Timothy McVeigh
ISBN: 9781634240031 / Angielski / Miękka / 720 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Presenting startling new biographical details about Timothy McVeigh and exposing stark contradictions and errors contained in previous depictions of the "All-American Terrorist," this book traces McVeigh's life from childhood to the Army, throughout the plot to bomb the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building and the period after his 1995 arrest until his 2001 execution. McVeigh's life, as Dr. Wendy Painting describes it, offers a backdrop for her discussion of not only several intimate and previously unknown details about him, but a number of episodes and circumstances in American History as well....
Presenting startling new biographical details about Timothy McVeigh and exposing stark contradictions and errors contained in previous depictions of t...
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94,84 |
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Monks, Meatballs and Machine Guns: Monks, Meatballs and Machine Guns
ISBN: 9781479294626 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The humorous inside story of America's most famous Military high school which housed the "juvenile delinquent" sons of major corporate, political, and crime figures since 1883. Greg Vitrano was a student there from 1972-1976, this is his story.
The humorous inside story of America's most famous Military high school which housed the "juvenile delinquent" sons of major corporate, political, and...
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59,83 |
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The Life and Adventures of John A. Murrell, the Great Western Land Pirate
ISBN: 9781940127088 / Angielski / Miękka / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. John Andrews Murrell (1806-1844) was a horse thief, a slave stealer, and a counterfeiter who was transformed into a legendary highway robber and murderous outlaw whose criminal exploits took him throughout the South in the 1820s and 1830s. Modern-day treasure hunters are still trying to find his supposed caches of hidden gold in Tennessee, Arkansas, Illinois, Louisiana, and Mississippi. The disappearance of two slaves belonging to a friend in 1834 prompted Virgil A. Stewart to pursue Murrell in the hopes of learning their whereabouts. Stewart befriended him on his journey to Arkansas, and he...
John Andrews Murrell (1806-1844) was a horse thief, a slave stealer, and a counterfeiter who was transformed into a legendary highway robber and murde...
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126,39 |
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I: The Creation of a Serial Killer
ISBN: 9780312241988 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Prize-winning journalist Jack Olsen, armed with unprecedented access to one of the most infamous serial killers in American history, provides a fascinating glimpse into the mind of a murderer in the killer's own words . . . In February 1990, Oregon State Police arrested John Sosnovke and Laverne Pavlinac for the vicious rape and murder of Taunja Bennet, a troubled 23-year-old barfly who had suffered mild retardation since birth. Pavlinac had come forth and confessed, implicating her boyfriend and producing physical evidence that linked them to the crime. Authorities closed the... Prize-winning journalist Jack Olsen, armed with unprecedented access to one of the most infamous serial killers in American history, provides a fas... |
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152,00 |
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Motown Mafia: Memoirs of a Kingpin's Kid
ISBN: 9780982850602 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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67,81 |
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''Living On The Wrong Side Of The Tracks'' (Beauty And The Hardcore Beast)
ISBN: 9781502348364 / Angielski / Miękka / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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59,87 |
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Infamous Lady: The True Story of Countess Erzsébet Báthory: Second Edition
ISBN: 9781502581464 / Angielski / Miękka / 428 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This new and expanded second edition explores the life of the 16th-century "Blood Countess" of Hungary, Erzsebet Bathory. Reputed to be both a vampire and the world's worst female serial killer, she allegedly bathed in the blood of her 650 victims. Based on newly-found source material, translated into English for the first time, this book explores the actual life and trial of Countess Bathory, through letters, documents, and trial transcripts."
This new and expanded second edition explores the life of the 16th-century "Blood Countess" of Hungary, Erzsebet Bathory. Reputed to be both a vampire...
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99,57 |
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The Escape to Cabo
ISBN: 9781502720627 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Scott Frieze has a pretty comfortable life, a home in the Tucson foothills, Lincoln Mark VIII and a Road King in the garage, even has a fiery little spinner at his side running interference on his life's mundane. Once deciding that it's now or never to fulfill a childhood fantasy... his self proclaimed destiny, Scott Andrew Frieze finds himself on the Legal Systems "Devils Doorstep" This based on a true story emotion grabber will have you tagging along as Scotty's life unravels and does a complete one eighty. Experience his "Destiny," his journey through the court system and join him behind...
Scott Frieze has a pretty comfortable life, a home in the Tucson foothills, Lincoln Mark VIII and a Road King in the garage, even has a fiery little s...
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55,84 |
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Dirty Money
ISBN: 9781502827531 / Angielski / Miękka / 460 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Autobiography of Joe LaFratta. His father was the head of one the largest Mafia illegal gambling rings on the East Coast and he was groomed to follow in his fathers footsteps. He learned early on the Mafia was on the decline and adapted his criminal tactics to accomplish mind blowing illegal profits in ventures the Mafia never dreamed of. This book gives insight into the new face of Organized Crime, and how it works hand in hand with corporate America, corrupt politicians, and so called "respectable citizens." Get a look inside the real Boston Mob.
Autobiography of Joe LaFratta. His father was the head of one the largest Mafia illegal gambling rings on the East Coast and he was groomed to follow ...
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Blood Aces: The Wild Ride of Benny Binion, the Texas Gangster Who Created Vegas Poker
ISBN: 9780143127581 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A rip-roaring saga of murder, money, and the making of Las Vegas
They say in Vegas you can t understand the town unless you understand Benny Binion mob boss, casino owner, and creator of the World Series of Poker. Beginning as a Texas horse trader, Binion built a gambling empire in Depression-era Dallas. When the law chased him out of town, he loaded up suitcases with cash and headed for Vegas. The place would never be the same. Dramatic as any gangster movie, Blood Aces draws readers into the colorful world of notorious mobsters like Clyde Barrow and Bugsy Siegel. Given... A rip-roaring saga of murder, money, and the making of Las Vegas
They say in Vegas you can t understand the town unless you understand Benn... |
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91,22 |
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Colors of Oppression
ISBN: 9780692294994 / Angielski / Miękka / 70 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Charles Carpenter, the author of the revered memoir Handcuffed does it again with Colors of Oppression. The well written narrative explores the anatomy of the often hostile, racially divided prison environment. Charles Carpenter details the social and psychological ramifications of oppression, and describes the wisdom needed to navigate through a microcosm of hatred, racism, deception, and prison politics. This book highlights various deceitful tactics employed by the correctional officers and inmates, thus giving the general public an unadulterated glimpse into the world with a world -...
Charles Carpenter, the author of the revered memoir Handcuffed does it again with Colors of Oppression. The well written narrative explores the anatom...
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59,66 |
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3 Killers at Dallas
ISBN: 9781499076295 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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143,63 |
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3 Killers at Dallas
ISBN: 9781499076301 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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75,98 |
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The Map Thief: The Gripping Story of an Esteemed Rare-Map Dealer Who Made Millions Stealing Priceless Maps
ISBN: 9781592409402 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The story of an infamous crime, a revered map dealer with an unsavory secret, and the ruthless subculture that consumed him
Maps have long exerted a special fascination on viewers both as beautiful works of art and as practical tools to navigate the world. But to those who collect them, the map trade can be a cutthroat business, inhabited by quirky and sometimes disreputable characters in search of a finite number of extremely rare objects. Once considered a respectable antiquarian map dealer, E. Forbes Smiley spent years doubling as a map thief until he was finally arrested... The story of an infamous crime, a revered map dealer with an unsavory secret, and the ruthless subculture that consumed him
Maps have long ... |
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91,22 |
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