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I Am Not A Gangster
ISBN: 9780091960063 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'I am not a gangster,' I spat. 'I'm a businessman trying to make a hard-earned crust. Understood?' I didn't give him time to reply. I took the barrel out of his mouth and smashed him in the face with the butt. His lip split, but he wasn't a dead man. He seemed to appreciate that his life had been spared. He spluttered his thanks: 'Ok, you're not a gangster. You are not a gangster.' This is the gripping true story of how one man ruled his north London manor with an iron fist - and a sawn-off shotgun called Kennedy. It's a shocking insight into a society where the rules are made by gangland...
'I am not a gangster,' I spat. 'I'm a businessman trying to make a hard-earned crust. Understood?' I didn't give him time to reply. I took the barrel ...
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75,26 |
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Public Enemy Number One: The True Story of the Brady Gang
ISBN: 9781608935116 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Al Brady was an armed robber and murderer in the 1930s and became the FBI's Public Enemy #1. The crime spree of Brady and his gang brought them from the south and midwest to Maine. A hardware store owner in Bangor became suspicious when Brady requested a large supply of ammunition and paid with an equally large amount of cash, and notified police. The FBI was waiting in ambush for them when they arrived to pick up the ammo. The rest is history, as on October 12, 1937, Brady and an accomplice were killed in a hail of bullets in broad daylight in downtown Bangor. This spectacular public...
Al Brady was an armed robber and murderer in the 1930s and became the FBI's Public Enemy #1. The crime spree of Brady and his gang brought them from t...
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71,39 |
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I am Raymond Washington
ISBN: 9780692359877 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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51,68 |
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Deprived of a Fighting Chance: An inside look at Rehabilitation in a Canadian Detention Centre
ISBN: 9781503182622 / Angielski / Miękka / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Deprived of a Fighting Chance" is an Education Coordinator's memoir of 21/2 years she worked in a maximum security detention centre. The work involved delivering correspondence courses to inmates, networking between security, volunteer tutors, and the Ministries of Corrections and Educataion and Training from a broom closet which correctional officers told her was the only room in the building that could not be locked. Her supervisor warned her to hide her telephone at night from the correctional officers. Efforts to provide educational opportunities to the inmates were regularly subjected...
"Deprived of a Fighting Chance" is an Education Coordinator's memoir of 21/2 years she worked in a maximum security detention centre. The work involve...
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79,82 |
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Killer Child: : Mary Bell: A Tragic True Story
ISBN: 9781508556633 / Angielski / Miękka / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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34,28 |
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Shadow of My Father
ISBN: 9780692395882 / Angielski / Miękka / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For four decades the name Gotti has been synonymous with organized crime in the minds of the public, who were told stories about them with varying degrees of accuracy. But now in Shadow of My Father, the real story of the King of the Volcano is revealed for the first time. John A. Gotti who survived four trials and a parole violation hearing without a guilty verdict, in four years, now takes up his pen to tell the story of his father's unwavering dedication to the street, and how as his son he entered that life and then with his father's permission left the life of crime and put the... For four decades the name Gotti has been synonymous with organized crime in the minds of the public, who were told stories about them with varying ... |
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95,58 |
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Brushy Bill: Proof That His Claim to be Billy The Kid Was a Hoax
ISBN: 9781632930552 / Angielski / Miękka / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For many years, a man known as Brushy Bill Roberts proclaimed to all who would listen that he was the historical and legendary Billy the Kid, alive and well. And there were various books written that claimed this to be true. As a result, many became convinced of the validity of Brushy's claim and Brushy's elaborate fable has continued to capture the imagination. In this book, the author has attempted to dispel the elaborate hoax once and for all. Brushy Bill Roberts was not Billy the Kid. He was, in fact, just an interesting elderly man, known by his family and acquaintances as a colorful Old...
For many years, a man known as Brushy Bill Roberts proclaimed to all who would listen that he was the historical and legendary Billy the Kid, alive an...
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75,83 |
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Every Last Tie: The Story of the Unabomber and His Family
ISBN: 9780822359807 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In August 1995 David Kaczynski's wife Linda asked him a difficult question: "Do you think your brother Ted is the Unabomber?" He couldn't be, David thought. But as the couple pored over the Unabomber's seventy-eight-page manifesto, David couldn't rule out the possibility. It slowly became clear to them that Ted was likely responsible for mailing the seventeen bombs that killed three people and injured many more. Wanting to prevent further violence, David made the agonizing decision to turn his brother in to the FBI. Every Last Tie is David's highly personal and powerful memoir of his...
In August 1995 David Kaczynski's wife Linda asked him a difficult question: "Do you think your brother Ted is the Unabomber?" He couldn't be, David th...
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140,54 |
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The Missing Beaumont Children
ISBN: 9780975674673 / Angielski / Miękka / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The case of the "Missing Beaumont Children" has been forged into Australia's psyche and soul like no other crime. A crime so shocking that it has often been described as a defining moment in this country's history. After 50 years of intense police investigation the whereabouts of Jane (9), Arnna (7) and Grant Beaumont (4) is still a mystery; Australia's most famous unsolved crime. On the morning of January 26, 1966 the three children set off from their Somerton Park home on a bus to Glenelg to enjoy a brief excursion at Adelaide's most popular beach. Apart from a brief sighting from the...
The case of the "Missing Beaumont Children" has been forged into Australia's psyche and soul like no other crime. A crime so shocking that it has ofte...
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106,39 |
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Merchant of Death: Money, Guns, Planes, and the Man Who Makes War Possible
ISBN: 9781630269944 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Praise for Merchant of Death
""A riveting investigation of the world's most notorious arms dealer--a page-turner that digs deep into the amazing, murky story of Viktor Bout. Farah and Braun have exposed the inner workings of one of the world's most secretive businesses--the international arms trade."" ""Viktor Bout is like Osama bin Laden: a major target of U.S. intelligence officials who time and again gets away. Farah and Braun have skillfully documented how this notorious arms dealer has stoked violence... Praise for Merchant of Death
""A riveting investigation of the world's most notorious arms dealer--a page-turner that digs deep into t... |
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125,24 |
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The Spirit of Ned
ISBN: 9780994282705 / Angielski / Miękka / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. If in my writing of this book my words appear to be telling the life of Ned Kelly in a different way to other books, or if some may believe that some of what my pen has been guided to write, may not be the actual facts, then I cannot apologise. I can only say that how do we or anyone write anything with the knowledge that what they write are the actual happenings? Remembering that the supposed actual facts were first written by somebody, then in our minds it will always come back to what we believe or is believable. The Indigenous Australians have the ability to through their minds, pass on...
If in my writing of this book my words appear to be telling the life of Ned Kelly in a different way to other books, or if some may believe that some ...
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63,64 |
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Speaking Ill of the Dead: Jerks in Idaho History
ISBN: 9780762793266 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Speaking Ill of the Dead: Jerks in Idaho History features fourteen short profiles of notorious bad guys, perpetrators of mischief, visionary if misunderstood thinkers, and other colorful antiheroes from the history of the Gem State. It reveals the dark side of some well-known and even revered characters from Idaho s past both part-time Jerks and others who were Jerks through and through. They include: Ezra Pound, native Idahoan and celebrated poet, who followed the slippery slope of socialism into full-on fascism, became a sycophant of Hitler and Mussolini, and eventually stood trial in the...
Speaking Ill of the Dead: Jerks in Idaho History features fourteen short profiles of notorious bad guys, perpetrators of mischief, visionary if misund...
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85,69 |
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The Life and Crimes of Railroad Bill: Legendary African American Desperado
ISBN: 9780813061207 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fascinating. Massey brings to life the stories and mysteries surrounding this legendary figure of the nineteenth-century Southeast and shows how the outlaw has influenced our cultural heritage. Susan Reynolds, associate editor, Alabama Heritage
A compelling and highly readable account of the life of a notorious figure in Florida and Alabama history and how he became the subject of legends and a folk ballad that is still sung today. John Burrison, editor of Storytellers: Folktales and Legends from the South Gives us a glimpse of how the early railroads the heart of... Fascinating. Massey brings to life the stories and mysteries surrounding this legendary figure of the nineteenth-century Southeast and shows how the o...
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83,43 |
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A Fool For an Attorney
ISBN: 9780692390320 / Angielski / Miękka / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Los Angeles County jail was infested with drug dealers and addicts, gangs, and racist of all kind, even the public defender's office. Erroll was falsely accused and arrested by the police. He was no stranger to crime and jail; he had been in trouble many times before and was in every juvenile facility in Los Angeles as a youth. State and Federal prison also became familiar terrain, but this time he was innocent. This was the worst attorney/client disconnection he had ever seen. The days of Perry Mason's and Johnny Cochran's was over, there was no way that Erroll was going to let a public...
The Los Angeles County jail was infested with drug dealers and addicts, gangs, and racist of all kind, even the public defender's office. Erroll was f...
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Chameleon: The True Story of an Impostor's Remarkable Odyssey
ISBN: 9781493509478 / Angielski / Miękka / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1908, a series of newspaper reports brought scandal and disgrace to well-known New York social and civic icon Henry Sanger Snow, who had turned to embezzlement in the wake of the Great Panic stock market crash of 1907. Rather than surrender to the police, Snow abandoned his wife, children, and even his identity, fleeing to Caracas, Venezuela, just days before fear of plague closed the port. It was the beginning of thirty-seven years of duplicity and deceit. En route to Venezuela, Snow assumed the name of Clark, claiming to represent wealthy northeastern US businessmen seeking... In 1908, a series of newspaper reports brought scandal and disgrace to well-known New York social and civic icon Henry Sanger Snow, who had turned ... |
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55,84 |
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Blackberry Juice
ISBN: 9781935656371 / Angielski / Miękka / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Blackberry Juice" by Ralph C. Hamm III, is an impressive collection of short stories, essays, poetry, and a full length play, from a remarkable man who has spent 46 years of his life in prison for a non capital offense when he was 17. It contains a wide range of his writing styles that not only attest to his talent as a writer but also to his insight, vision, and intellect as a leader of stature in the prison reform movement and the black community in general. It is powerful book, not a palliative full of mellifluous words attempting to soften the implications of the harsh truths of racism...
"Blackberry Juice" by Ralph C. Hamm III, is an impressive collection of short stories, essays, poetry, and a full length play, from a remarkable man w...
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85,86 |
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On the Fringes of Power: The Life and Turbulent Career of Stephen Wallace Dorsey
ISBN: 9781442247352 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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66,29 |
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The Life and Death of Kid Curry: Tiger of the Wild Bunch, First Edition
ISBN: 9781442247390 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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76,49 |
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Four Thousand Days: My Journey From Prison To Business Success
ISBN: 9781511431927 / Angielski / Miękka / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Duane Jackson grew up in children's homes in the the East End of London, was kicked out of two schools and left the education system with no qualifications. After being arrested in the US in possession of 6,500 ecstasy tablets he served time in prison on both sides of the Atlantic. On his release he started a business with the help of the Prince's Trust. A business that he grew and sold four thousand days after his release from prison, making him a millionaire many times over. Read his entertaining and inspiring story and realise that, no matter what your background, you too can chart your...
Duane Jackson grew up in children's homes in the the East End of London, was kicked out of two schools and left the education system with no qualifica...
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47,85 |
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Undiscovered Domestic Terrorism: Patrick Sabaitis former recruiter for the Almighty Latin King Nation
ISBN: 9781511571524 / Angielski / Miękka / 74 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Patrick Sabaitis is a former recruiter for the Almighty Latin King Nation, one of the largest domestic terrorist organizations in the United States of America. Here's one man's story of how an upbringing of turmoil led to terrorizing communities and what it took for him to turn his life around. If you or someone you love needs help then this book is for you.
Patrick Sabaitis is a former recruiter for the Almighty Latin King Nation, one of the largest domestic terrorist organizations in the United States of...
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39,87 |
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