![]() |
Sinners on Trial
ISBN: 9780674052970 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In post-Reformation Poland--the largest state in Europe and home to the largest Jewish population in the world--the Catholic Church suffered profound anxiety about its power after the Protestant threat. Magda Teter reveals how criminal law became a key tool in the manipulation of the meaning of the sacred and in the effort to legitimize Church authority. The mishandling of sacred symbols was transformed from a sin that could be absolved into a crime that resulted in harsh sentences of mutilation, hanging, decapitation, and, principally, burning at the stake. Teter casts new light on... In post-Reformation Poland--the largest state in Europe and home to the largest Jewish population in the world--the Catholic Church suffered profou... |
cena:
323,82 zł |
![]() |
Through Angela's Eye
ISBN: 9781456805333 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
cena:
88,16 zł |
![]() |
Fires...Accidental or Arson?: Fire Investigations
ISBN: 9781432766887 / Angielski / Miękka / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
cena:
83,79 zł |
![]() |
A Study in Crimson - the Further Adventures of Mrs. Watson and Mrs. St Clair Co-founders of the Watson Fanshaw Detective Agency - with a Supporting Cast Including Sherlock Holmes and Dr.Watson
ISBN: 9781907685408 / Angielski / Miękka / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mrs. Watson continues her hilarious career. A Female Sherlock Holmes casting her net widely to include solving the Long Island Cave Mystery, bringing the murderer of an English woman found dead in Baden-Baden to justice and finding a Holy Grail for a Scottish Laird.
Mrs. Watson continues her hilarious career. A Female Sherlock Holmes casting her net widely to include solving the Long Island Cave Mystery, bringing ...
|
cena:
93,85 zł |
![]() |
Undertow: A Crime's Story
ISBN: 9781453816233 / Angielski / Miękka / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This fast-paced true crime story takes you inside the professional and personal life of Ed Bentz, the criminal mastermind whom J. Edgar Hoover proclaimed "King of the bank robbers." During the height of the nationwide crime spree of 1933, Bentz is lured out of retirement to teach Baby Face Nelson the art of robbing banks. You are part of the gang as Bentz' plan unfolds, and you ride with the police during their manhunt to bring the perpetrators to justice. A great weekend read for the beach or backyard
This fast-paced true crime story takes you inside the professional and personal life of Ed Bentz, the criminal mastermind whom J. Edgar Hoover proclai...
|
cena:
70,34 zł |
![]() |
all faces of harassment: practical guide to resolving workplace crisis
ISBN: 9781453615027 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. book to help you how to recognise and best approach crisis at work
book to help you how to recognise and best approach crisis at work
|
cena:
176,36 zł |
![]() |
Through Angela's Eye
ISBN: 9781456805340 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
cena:
158,71 zł |
![]() |
Convicts, Jailbirds, and Reform School Girls: True Life Tales of Crime and Punishment in the 1950s
ISBN: 9781419687204 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. CONVICTS: They are hardcore career criminals, tough, unregenerate wise guys who are so smart that they spend most of their lives in prison. They live for rape, robbery, narcotics, violence and murder - and that's when they're behind bars.
JAILBIRDS: Here are the gutter sweepings of the jailhouse system: second-rate, penny-ante crooks, thieves, dope peddlers, strong-arm goons and scam artists. They dream only of getting up enough nerve to pull off some heavy scores and graduate to big-time plunder and murder. AND REFORM SCHOOL GIRLS: Forming switchblade-wielding girl gangs, taking... CONVICTS: They are hardcore career criminals, tough, unregenerate wise guys who are so smart that they spend most of their lives in prison. They live ...
|
cena:
83,75 zł |
![]() |
Sex Kill: Lust crimes that shocked a generation!
ISBN: 9781419656651 / Angielski / Miękka / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Inside the twisted mind of the sex killer, lust and murder are inextricably linked. He needs to control, terrorize and degrade his victims. Too often, violation becomes torture and murder- and sometimes, the unholy desecration of the deceased. Here, from the detective and police magazines of the 1950s, is a casebook of the most infamous sex fiends ever to stain the true crime annals of the first half of the 20th century. Nightmare figures, many of whom continue to haunt our popular culture and motion pictures: Ed Gein, sex butcher and necrophile who inspired Alfred Hitchcock's PSYCHO; Leopold...
Inside the twisted mind of the sex killer, lust and murder are inextricably linked. He needs to control, terrorize and degrade his victims. Too often,...
|
cena:
83,75 zł |
![]() |
Fraud: Organization, Motivation and Control, Volumes I and II: Volume I the Extent and Causes of White-Collar Crime Volume II the Social, Administrati
ISBN: 9781855217164 / Angielski / Twarda / 910 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The International library of Criminology, Criminal Justice and Penology is an important publishing initiative that brings together the most significant contemporary published journal essays in current criminology, criminal justice and penology. The series makes available to researchers, academics and students of criminology an extensive range of essays which are indispensable for obtaining an overview of the latest theories and findings in this fast developing field.
The International library of Criminology, Criminal Justice and Penology is an important publishing initiative that brings together the most significan...
|
cena:
2311,71 zł |
![]() |
Into The Blast - The True Story of D.B. Cooper - Revised Edition
ISBN: 9780982327180 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. November 24, 1971 - A man using the assumed name of 'Dan Cooper' leaped from the aft stairwell of a Boeing 727 jetliner after demanding four parachutes and $200,000 in cash. He was never seen again, and four decades later, he has never been identified - until now. Kenneth Peter Christiansen, a former World War II paratrooper and later a purser for Northwest Airlines, was the man who pulled off one of the boldest unsolved crimes in history. Skipp Porteous of Sherlock Investigations, New York, and Robert Blevins of Adventure Books of Seattle present the case that Christiansen and Cooper were...
November 24, 1971 - A man using the assumed name of 'Dan Cooper' leaped from the aft stairwell of a Boeing 727 jetliner after demanding four parachute...
|
cena:
50,36 zł |
![]() |
Trends in Corruption and Regulatory Burden in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
ISBN: 9780821386712 / Angielski / Miękka / 98 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Historically countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia have faced a number of obstacles in their transition to democracy and market-based economies. These obstacles include higher levels of corruption, and greater administrative and regulatory burdens as they pass laws and implement programs to combat corruption and promote private sector development. This report uses the results of the most recent Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS) to examine trends in corruption and administrative burden of regulations on private sector firms in 29 Eastern European and Central...
Historically countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia have faced a number of obstacles in their transition to democracy and market-based economies...
|
cena:
94,50 zł |
![]() |
The Naked Truth Bound in Scorn
ISBN: 9781453846421 / Angielski / Miękka / 610 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Through years of daily, dedicated, and thorough research, Jody Ortiz has worked tirelessly to bring truth to the spin created by the local media on a high profile case in Oklahoma. Kelsey Smith Briggs was raped and murdered in 2005, and Kelsey's mom, Raye Dawn Smith was then wrongfully convicted of enabling child abuse with a 27-year sentence with no chance of parole after facing a jury that had been tainted by biased members of the media. Kelsey's stepfather, Mike Porter, though charged with sexual assault and murder, was given a 30-year plea for enabling child abuse at the request of...
Through years of daily, dedicated, and thorough research, Jody Ortiz has worked tirelessly to bring truth to the spin created by the local media on a ...
|
cena:
90,10 zł |
![]() |
Dennis Littrell's True Crime Companion: Reviews of Some of the Best True Crime Books Ever Penned With Updates
ISBN: 9781456598570 / Angielski / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dennis Littrell's True Crime Companion lets the reader snuggle up to reviews of some of the more lurid, sensational and frankly unbelievable books written about how the best laid plans of idiots, degenerates, psychopaths and other criminals can go horribly wrong-or right, depending on your point of view. Littrell highlights the JonBenet Ramsey case, and in case you were in doubt, solves it. He recalls the satanic sexual abuse hysteria of the late 1980s and early 1990s and sets the perception of what happened and why straight as a laser beam. The war on drugs? He's got a take on that. Scott...
Dennis Littrell's True Crime Companion lets the reader snuggle up to reviews of some of the more lurid, sensational and frankly unbelievable books wri...
|
cena:
43,88 zł |
![]() |
Bobby's Trials
ISBN: 9781439261187 / Angielski / Miękka / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since 1963, Bobby Wilson has held his tongue in regards to the presumed murder of his family in which he was put on trial. In Bobby's Trials, he pens an insightful, heartbreaking memoir of the events that led up to the violent deaths of his mother and sister. As he chronicles his early childhood, he reveals what life was like for him growing up as an Oklahoma farm boy with a mother who suffered debilitating depression as well as strange fits of paranoiac rage. An absolutely spellbinding true-life crime drama, this intimate debut proves to be a strangely uplifting anecdote of survival. As...
Since 1963, Bobby Wilson has held his tongue in regards to the presumed murder of his family in which he was put on trial. In Bobby's Trials, he pens ...
|
cena:
60,28 zł |
![]() |
Lost and Turned Out: Naughty Nadine
ISBN: 9781450599085 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a story of a lost and turned out female. Raised in a middle class family in Oakland Cailfornia. Due to unfortunate events in her life fall prey to the life of prostitution.This is a true story, not science fiction.
This is a story of a lost and turned out female. Raised in a middle class family in Oakland Cailfornia. Due to unfortunate events in her life fall pre...
|
cena:
39,65 zł |
![]() |
The Real L.A. Confidential
ISBN: 9781451526141 / Angielski / Miękka / 442 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The Real L.A. Confidential" by Pete Noyes covers more than a half-century of investigative reporting by one of the nation's most honored newsmen. It provides startling new information about some of L.A.'s most notorious cases including the "Black Dahlia," "Bugsy" Siegel, Charles Manson and O.J. Simpson murders. Noyes tells how a bribe paid to a high government official got a condemned rapist off "Death Row." How a serial killer who worked for the Los Angeles Times was a winning contestant on TV's "Dating Game." Noyes takes a hard look at the Roman Polanski child-rape case and the death of...
"The Real L.A. Confidential" by Pete Noyes covers more than a half-century of investigative reporting by one of the nation's most honored newsmen. It ...
|
cena:
70,34 zł |
![]() |
Estimation of Victimization Prevalence Using Data from the National Crime Survey
ISBN: 9780387960203 / Angielski / Miękka / 165 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The National Crime Survey is a sample survey of housing units conducted by the U.S. Bureau of the Census. All eligible occupants of a sampled unit are interviewed every six months (for up to seven interviews) about victimizations that they have experienced during the previous six months. In this monograph several longitudinal analyses are performed using a subsample of the data covering the years 1973 through 1975. In particular. several methods of estimating the proportion of units that are crime-free for a given year. denoted by 8. are discussed. First. several ad hoc. as opposed to...
The National Crime Survey is a sample survey of housing units conducted by the U.S. Bureau of the Census. All eligible occupants of a sampled unit are...
|
cena:
386,41 zł |
![]() |
Mass Marketing & Consumer Fraud: Background, Issues & Data
ISBN: 9781606927939 / Angielski / Twarda / 139 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Explores consumer fraud and identity theft as well as telemarketing fraud which is both the oldest, and in some respects, the most persistent form of mass-marketing fraud that Canada and the United States have been actively combating for many years now.
Explores consumer fraud and identity theft as well as telemarketing fraud which is both the oldest, and in some respects, the most persistent form of ...
|
cena:
549,62 zł |
![]() |
Disability Hate Crimes: Does Anyone Really Hate Disabled People?
ISBN: 9781409407812 / Angielski / Twarda / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Disability hate crimes are a global problem. They are often violent and hyper-aggressive, with life-changing effects on victims, and they send consistent messages of intolerance and bigotry. This ground-breaking book shows that disability hate crimes do exist, that they have unique characteristics which distinguish them from other hate crimes, and that more effective policies and practices can and must be developed to respond and prevent them. With particular focus on the UK and USA's contrasting response to this issue, this book will help readers to define hate crimes as well as place them...
Disability hate crimes are a global problem. They are often violent and hyper-aggressive, with life-changing effects on victims, and they send consist...
|
cena:
744,88 zł |