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Ivy League Fools and Felons: Over 100 "Elite" Nitwits at their Best and Brightest!
ISBN: 9781475176872 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over 100 "Elite" nitwits who ruined their own reputations, or went to prison, or just made themselves look plain foolish. There are academic cheats, plagiarists, convicted murderers, thieves, sex criminals, bank robbers, fraudsters and more. And then there are simply those who wield their Ivy League diplomas as badges of their own superiority, only to have the facts revealed of how they actually were admitted - such as maybe Mommy and Daddy pulled some strings
Over 100 "Elite" nitwits who ruined their own reputations, or went to prison, or just made themselves look plain foolish. There are academic cheats, p...
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41,90 zł |
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The Trafficking of Persons; National and International Responses
ISBN: 9780820463278 / Angielski / Miękka / 159 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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282,66 zł |
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Newswire
ISBN: 9781467897112 / Angielski / Miękka / 84 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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68,27 zł |
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5 Screenplays
ISBN: 9781469781303 / Angielski / Miękka / 768 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. George N. Rumanes, who now lives in Los Angeles with his family, is a writer who works in the film industry. His second novel, The Man With The Black Worrybeads, a worldwide best seller, will be filmed in Hollywood, Greece and North Africa. During the past seven years, Mr. Rumanes wrote five original camera ready screenplays and he is now finishing, Between the Palm and the Cypress Trees, his next novel. THE SCREENPLAYS: The Land of Gods and Lovers Vector One Mystery George Malvasia Two Ladies and the Mob George N. Rumanes, who now lives in Los Angeles with his family, is a writer who works in the film industry. His second novel, The Man With The Bla... |
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150,99 zł |
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5 Screenplays
ISBN: 9781469781327 / Angielski / Twarda / 768 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. George N. Rumanes, who now lives in Los Angeles with his family, is a writer who works in the film industry. His second novel, The Man With The Black Worrybeads, a worldwide best seller, will be filmed in Hollywood, Greece and North Africa. During the past seven years, Mr. Rumanes wrote five original camera ready screenplays and he is now finishing, Between the Palm and the Cypress Trees, his next novel. THE SCREENPLAYS: The Land of Gods and Lovers Vector One Mystery George Malvasia Two Ladies and the Mob George N. Rumanes, who now lives in Los Angeles with his family, is a writer who works in the film industry. His second novel, The Man With The Bla... |
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192,99 zł |
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The Grave Robber Next Door... A Love Story: The true story behind Naperville's most notorious secret...
ISBN: 9781475241693 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How far would you go to bring back to life a loved-one you had lost? In 1912, an educated man in the Midwest laid his beautiful young wife to rest in a local cemetery - but she didn't stay there for long. You see, her beloved husband has an idea.... Torrid and true, it's the story of a man driven to vacant desperation in the wake of his bride's demise. Some people shouldn't be allowed to own a shovel...
How far would you go to bring back to life a loved-one you had lost? In 1912, an educated man in the Midwest laid his beautiful young wife to rest in ...
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88,20 zł |
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I, the People: How Marvin Zindler Busted the Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
ISBN: 9781468186628 / Angielski / Miękka / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The Chicken Ranch was the one, great festering, frustrating sore on the face of law enforcement in Texas." The year was 1973. The State of Texas had just elected a new reform-minded governor and attorney general. And Houston's ABC-TV affiliate station at Channel 13 had just launched a new consumer-oriented investigative feature by hiring flamboyant former lawman Marvin Zindler to seize the spotlight. The roads from those disparate events crossed quickly in dramatic fashion to national acclaim in the Texas Hill Country village of La Grange, which had harbored the country's longest continually...
"The Chicken Ranch was the one, great festering, frustrating sore on the face of law enforcement in Texas." The year was 1973. The State of Texas had ...
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44,06 zł |
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MysteriShorts - Collection 2
ISBN: 9781470140663 / Angielski / Miękka / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. These three short stories are unrelated mysteries that will have you guessing through their final chapters. The first mystery involves a cross-border boating story. A powerful motor boat speeds across calm moonlit waters. The owner checks in with US Customs and anchors in a cove on one of the many islands near the border. Come morning local bay residents observe odd behavior of the boat's passengers . At a resort in the remote wilds of pristine Canadian waters four girls hired for guests entertainment are returned to Nanaimo by the same boat observed crossing the border two nights before....
These three short stories are unrelated mysteries that will have you guessing through their final chapters. The first mystery involves a cross-border ...
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57,11 zł |
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True Lies
ISBN: 9781622303649 / Angielski / Miękka / 134 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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70,52 zł |
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The Internationalisation of Corruption: Scale, Impact and Countermeasures
ISBN: 9781409411291 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Corruption scandals hit the headlines all around the world, across a diverse range of institutional, organisational and cultural settings. Corruption is a major obstacle to political, social and economic development - its 'internationalisation' has had profound implications for counter corruption efforts. The Internationalisation of Corruption provides readers with an analytical framework with which to approach the issue of corruption in international affairs, from the perspective of international studies as an interdisciplinary space in the social sciences. The authors also examine the...
Corruption scandals hit the headlines all around the world, across a diverse range of institutional, organisational and cultural settings. Corruption ...
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744,88 zł |
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The Price of Honesty: The Terrible Confession of Former Mobster
ISBN: 9781467890762 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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98,76 zł |
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Stop and Think! She Could Send You to Prison
ISBN: 9780615407142 / Angielski / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Justin Smith is an African-American male in his late 20's. He is a former college football player who earned his degree and established a small marketing business. He had an off and on relationship with a woman for several years and at one point provided her with fraudulent transcripts which she used to obtain a Bachelor's degree. During an argument, she hit him in the head with a baseball bat. He tried to escape by driving off in her vehicle. She hopped in the passenger seat and then inexplicably jumped out of the vehicle while it was still moving. He was later arrested on the charge of...
Justin Smith is an African-American male in his late 20's. He is a former college football player who earned his degree and established a small market...
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43,88 zł |
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Real Gangstas: Legitimacy, Reputation, and Violence in the Intergang Environment
ISBN: 9780813553740 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Street gangs are a major concern for residents in many inner-city communities. However, gangs' secretive and, at times, delinquent tendencies limit most people's exposure to the realities of gang life. Based on eighteen months of qualitative research on the streets of Indianapolis, Real Gangstas provides a unique and intimate look at the lives of street gang members as they negotiate a dangerous peer environment in a major midwestern city.Timothy R. Lauger interviewed and observed a mix of fifty-five gang members, former gang members, and non-gang street offenders. He spent much of...
Street gangs are a major concern for residents in many inner-city communities. However, gangs' secretive and, at times, delinquent tendencies limit mo...
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179,80 zł |
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The British Connection: Operation Highlander
ISBN: 9781458203823 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On the face of it, author Tim Daly was an unlikely candidate for undercover agent. Not only had he lived in America for less than a decade, but his strong Scottish accent was unintelligible to many Americans. At age fiftythree, he should have been looking forward to a peaceful retirement rather than a dangerous new career. But when they approached him in 1985, US Customs knew that what he lacked in youth, he more than made up for in experience. In The British Connection, Daly, a seasoned sailor, provides a firsthand account of the extremely murky underworld of drug deals in a... On the face of it, author Tim Daly was an unlikely candidate for undercover agent. Not only had he lived in America for less than a decade, but his... |
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79,92 zł |
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The British Connection: Operation Highlander
ISBN: 9781458203847 / Angielski / Twarda / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On the face of it, author Tim Daly was an unlikely candidate for undercover agent. Not only had he lived in America for less than a decade, but his strong Scottish accent was unintelligible to many Americans. At age fiftythree, he should have been looking forward to a peaceful retirement rather than a dangerous new career. But when they approached him in 1985, US Customs knew that what he lacked in youth, he more than made up for in experience. In The British Connection, Daly, a seasoned sailor, provides a firsthand account of the extremely murky underworld of drug deals in a... On the face of it, author Tim Daly was an unlikely candidate for undercover agent. Not only had he lived in America for less than a decade, but his... |
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169,68 zł |
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The Grave Wall
ISBN: 9781470013646 / Angielski / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Entirely rooted in true events, this firsthand non-fiction account is as strange as anything in a murder mystery novel. Taruk Ben- Ali had been missing for over four years. His wife was devastated, and Taruk's father worked to convince her that his son had skipped out on her. In truth, Taruk had never gone anywhere. Could his father have murdered his own son, hiding Taruk's body in the walls of an apartment building ? Wendy Wilburn, Taruk's wife, never gave up hope. She refused to file divorce papers and kept her wedding ring on her finger. With each passing year, she hardened herself to the...
Entirely rooted in true events, this firsthand non-fiction account is as strange as anything in a murder mystery novel. Taruk Ben- Ali had been missin...
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52,88 zł |
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Lasting Impressions
ISBN: 9781477436585 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this day and age, with forensic science in the news all the time, it makes one wonder why people still commit crimes at all. Criminal minds are always active and trying to outsmart law enforcement. Only now, law enforcement agencies around the world have the very best weapon for combating crime at their disposal - Forensic Science. Forensic science is everywhere and in just about every discipline. From Chemistry to DNA to latent prints, there are trained scientists waiting to do their part to help solve some of today's most complicated crimes. Unlike television, forensic scientists do not...
In this day and age, with forensic science in the news all the time, it makes one wonder why people still commit crimes at all. Criminal minds are alw...
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52,88 zł |
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Death Row's Oddest Inmates
ISBN: 9781477450659 / Angielski / Miękka / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Robert Vickers killed his prison cellmate because the other man drank his Kool-Aid. Varnall Weeks believed that after his execution he would be reincarnated as a giant turtle who would rule the universe. Hit man and former Elvis impersonator James Paster tried to escape from his cell by slathering himself with hair tonic and squeezing through a tiny air vent. Death Row's Oddest Inmates features 13 of the most bizarre and unique killers the prison system has ever seen. Meet a man who wore a homemade toga during his trial and wanted the bodies of his victims brought to the courtroom so God...
Robert Vickers killed his prison cellmate because the other man drank his Kool-Aid. Varnall Weeks believed that after his execution he would be reinca...
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39,47 zł |
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The Curious Disappearance of Seamus Muldoon
ISBN: 9781477578414 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When Jack Gordon mysteriously disappears from the face of the earth in the foothills of the rugged Sangre de Cristo Mountains, his friends and family are left with nothing but unanswered questions and speculation. As the locals gossip, several well-intended but misdirected explanations come forward, ranging from simple infidelity to alien abduction. But before Jack can be relegated to being just another missing person statistic we meet the enigmatic Seamus Muldoon. Seamus (a product of Jack's fertile mind) relives several scenarios that might explain Jack's disappearance. Seamus retraces...
When Jack Gordon mysteriously disappears from the face of the earth in the foothills of the rugged Sangre de Cristo Mountains, his friends and family ...
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66,11 zł |
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French Crime Fiction and the Second World War: Past Crimes, Present Memories
ISBN: 9780719082658 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study explores France's preoccupation with memories of the Second World War through an examination of popular culture and one of its more enduring forms, crime fiction. It examines what such popular narratives have to tell us about past and present perceptions of the war years in France and how they relate to post-war debates over memory, culture and national identity.Starting with narratives of the Resistance in the late 1940s and concluding with contemporary crime fiction for younger readers, Gorrara examines popular memories of the Second World War in dialogue with the changing... This study explores France's preoccupation with memories of the Second World War through an examination of popular culture and one of its more endu... |
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459,64 zł |