Genocide
ISBN: 9780415493758 / Angielski / Twarda / 2640 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Stimulated anew in the 1990s by the slaughter and the so-called ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia, and by the horrors of Rwanda, research about and around genocide flourishes as never before. Genocide studies has now accrued a large, sophisticated, and growing, body of scholarly literature. This growth looks set to continue: historians and social scientists are increasingly casting their analytical nets further into the past to investigate whether group destruction and population expulsions have been constitutive of imperial and state expansion over millennia. And, moreover, events... Stimulated anew in the 1990s by the slaughter and the so-called ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia, and by the horrors of Rwanda, research a... |
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Internet Child Abuse: Current Research and Policy
ISBN: 9780415559805 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Internet Child Abuse: Current Research and Policy provides a timely overview of international policy, legislation and offender management and treatment practice in the area of Internet child abuse. Internet use has grown considerably over the last five years, and information technology now forms a core part of the formal education system in many countries. There is however, increasing evidence that the Internet is used by some adults to access children and young people in order to 'groom' them for the purposes of sexual abuse; as well as to produce and distribute indecent illegal... Internet Child Abuse: Current Research and Policy provides a timely overview of international policy, legislation and offender management ... |
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770,57 zł |
Joyce McKinney and the Case of the Manacled Mormon
ISBN: 9780955823886 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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94,96 zł |
Codename Greenkil: The 1979 Greensboro Killings
ISBN: 9780820331485 / Angielski / Miękka / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On November 3, 1979, in a Greensboro, North Carolina, housing project, gunfire erupted when a group of Klansmen and Nazis responded to public challenges to "face the wrath of the people" at a Communist-sponsored anti-Klan demonstration. Eighty-eight terror-filled seconds later, four demonstrators were dead, one was dying, and nine others were wounded. All of the dead were members of the Communist Workers Party (CWP). In "Codename Greenkil," Elizabeth Wheaton goes behind the scenes of the shootings to reveal the sixteen-year history of people and events that set the stage for the tragedy... On November 3, 1979, in a Greensboro, North Carolina, housing project, gunfire erupted when a group of Klansmen and Nazis responded to public chall... |
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195,54 zł |
Sex Sins and Scandals of Freed Hardeman University
ISBN: 9781441551917 / Angielski / Miękka / 48 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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70,52 zł |
Murder and Mayhem on Chicago's West Side
ISBN: 9781596296930 / Angielski / Miękka / 125 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Blazing from the West Side, the Great Chicago Fire left nothing but ashy remnants of the developing city, leveling its landscape but certainly not its spirit. While the West Side was home to the infamous O'Leary barn, it was also where news of some of the city's most gruesome and horrific crimes reverberated throughout the state and across the country. Read about the bloody end of Roger The Terrible"? Touhy, who, although he undoubtedly lived up to his name, met an ill-deserved fate. Troy Taylor also delves into the life of John Wayne Gacy, the depraved man masked by the clown costume, and...
Blazing from the West Side, the Great Chicago Fire left nothing but ashy remnants of the developing city, leveling its landscape but certainly not its...
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92,36 zł |
Not Wanted
ISBN: 9781440179716 / Angielski / Miękka / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In March 1976 five members of the family of State Department employee William Bradford Bishop, Jr., were found slain in a shallow grave in rural eastern North Carolina. It was determined that the murders had been committed in the family home in suburban Washington, D.C. Bishop was missing, and the authorities quickly named him the one and only suspect in the brutal and seemingly motiveless crimes. The family station wagon was found abandoned at the western side of Great Smoky National Park. Bishop vanished and since that time has allegedly been an international fugitive. The author, Bishop's...
In March 1976 five members of the family of State Department employee William Bradford Bishop, Jr., were found slain in a shallow grave in rural easte...
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50,19 zł |
The Green Wall: The Story of a Brave Prison Guard's Fight Against Corruption Inside the United States' Largest Prison System
ISBN: 9781440140594 / Angielski / Miękka / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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62,79 zł |
The Green Wall: The Story of a Brave Prison Guard's Fight Against Corruption Inside the United States' Largest Prison System
ISBN: 9781440140570 / Angielski / Twarda / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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104,79 zł |
Untold Stalking Story
ISBN: 9781440187490 / Angielski / Miękka / 76 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is intended to describe how African American Blacks, in this instance treated with unfairness and racism. Although, the last century change was blink circumstances with white hate crime popping up from the eastern shore as far south as Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas. These crimes were incidents like slavery issues dating back to 1619, the first African American brought to Jamestown, Virginia. Further, there has been a hanging report, and one instance in Mississippi seemingly race related, the 21st Century (2000s). Racism has criss crossed the United States, and it has no...
This book is intended to describe how African American Blacks, in this instance treated with unfairness and racism. Although, the last century change ...
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45,99 zł |
Genocide at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century: Rwanda, Bosnia, Kosovo, and Darfur
ISBN: 9780230621893 / Angielski / Twarda / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At the end of World War II, the international community deemed genocide a crime against humanity. Yet, at the dawn of the twenty-first century it has occurred repeatedly. This book explains why genocide began to occur in the twenty-first century and why the United States has been ineffective at preventing it and stopping it once it occurs.
At the end of World War II, the international community deemed genocide a crime against humanity. Yet, at the dawn of the twenty-first century it has ...
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193,19 zł |
Satan's Playground: Mobsters and Movie Stars at America's Greatest Gaming Resort
ISBN: 9780822346913 / Angielski / Twarda / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Satan s Playground chronicles the rise and fall of the tumultuous and lucrative gambling industry that developed just south of the U.S.-Mexico border in the early twentieth century. As prohibitions against liquor, horse racing, gambling, and prostitution swept the United States, the vice industry flourished in and around Tijuana, to the extent that reformers came to call the town Satan s Playground, unintentionally increasing its licentious allure. The area was dominated by Agua Caliente, a large, elegant gaming resort opened by four entrepreneurial Border Barons (three Americans and...
Satan s Playground chronicles the rise and fall of the tumultuous and lucrative gambling industry that developed just south of the U.S.-Mexico ...
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529,13 zł |
Stolen, Smuggled, Sold: On the Hunt for Cultural Treasures
ISBN: 9780759121935 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Stolen, Smuggled Sold: On the Hunt for Cultural Treasures tells the dark and compelling stories of iconic cultural objects that were stolen, smuggled or sold, and eventually returned back to their original owner. There are many books about museum heists, Holocaust artwork, insider theft, trafficking in antiquities, and stolen Native American objects. Now, there's finally a book for the general public that covers the entire terrain. The book includes full-color photos of the objects. Stolen, Smuggled, Sold features seven vivid and true stories in which the reader joins the author as she...
Stolen, Smuggled Sold: On the Hunt for Cultural Treasures tells the dark and compelling stories of iconic cultural objects that were stolen, smuggled ...
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75,65 zł |
The Mind Of A Cop: What They Do, And Why They Do It
ISBN: 9781440186547 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "If you're a cop, this book will remind you why you started the job. If you're not, it might help you understand our behavior, and the importance of obtaining all the facts before passing judgment on a cop...it will take you on a roller coaster ride in the lives of law enforcement officers, interlaced with dark humor, unimaginable horrors and practical jokes."
Lt. Doug Gregg, Washington County (TN) Sheriff's Office "If you're a cop, this book will remind you why you started the job. If you're not, it might help you understand our behavior, and the importance of o...
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66,99 zł |
Corruption: The Enemy Within: The Enemy Within
ISBN: 9789041107121 / Angielski / Twarda / 398 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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1235,22 zł |
Organized Crime in the U.S.
ISBN: 9781607415244 / Angielski / Twarda / 105 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Organised crime has taken on an increasingly transnational nature, and with more open borders and the expansion of the Internet, criminals endanger the United States not only from within the borders, but beyond. This book consists of public documents which
Organised crime has taken on an increasingly transnational nature, and with more open borders and the expansion of the Internet, criminals endanger th...
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549,62 zł |
Backdating of Stock Options
ISBN: 9781607419846 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Employee stock options are contracts giving employees the right to buy the company's common stock at a specified exercise price, at a specified time or during a specified period, and after a specified vesting period. This book highlights the issue of backd
Employee stock options are contracts giving employees the right to buy the company's common stock at a specified exercise price, at a specified time o...
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318,45 zł |
Empire, Colony, Genocide: Conquest, Occupation, and Subaltern Resistance in World History
ISBN: 9781845457198 / Angielski / Miękka / 502 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1944, Raphael Lemkin coined the term "genocide" to describe a foreign occupation that destroyed or permanently crippled a subject population. In this tradition, Empire, Colony, Genocide embeds genocide in the epochal geopolitical transformations of the past 500 years: the European colonization of the globe, the rise and fall of the continental land empires, violent decolonization, and the formation of nation states. It thereby challenges the customary focus on twentieth-century mass crimes and shows that genocide and "ethnic cleansing" have been intrinsic to imperial expansion. The...
In 1944, Raphael Lemkin coined the term "genocide" to describe a foreign occupation that destroyed or permanently crippled a subject population. In th...
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164,14 zł |
Ocean Piracy
ISBN: 9781607414957 / Angielski / Twarda / 134 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The apparent motive of many active Somali pirate groups is profit, and piracy has proven to be a lucrative activity for many thus far. This title explores the increase in pirate attacks off the Horn of Africa which is directly linked to continuing insecurity and the absence of the rule of law in war-torn Somalia.
The apparent motive of many active Somali pirate groups is profit, and piracy has proven to be a lucrative activity for many thus far. This title expl...
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739,69 zł |
Addressing Illegal, Unreported, & Unregulated Fishing
ISBN: 9781607414896 / Angielski / Twarda / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Reauthorization Act (MSRA) was adopted by the US Congress and signed by the US President in January 2007. This Act contains new provisions that will shape the focus of fisheries management. This book consists of public documents which have been located and reformatted with a subject index.
The Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Reauthorization Act (MSRA) was adopted by the US Congress and signed by the US President in J...
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888,67 zł |