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Corporate Crime in the Pharmaceutical Industry
ISBN: 9780415815628 / Angielski / Twarda / 450 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1984, this book examines corporate crime in the pharmaceutical industry. Based on extensive research, including interviews with 131 senior executives of pharmaceutical companies in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Mexico and Guatemala, the book is a major study of white-collar crime. Written in the 1980s, it covers topics such as international bribery and corruption, fraud in the testing of drugs and criminal negligence in the unsafe manufacturing of drugs. The author considers the implications of his findings for a range of strategies to control corporate...
First published in 1984, this book examines corporate crime in the pharmaceutical industry. Based on extensive research, including interviews with 131...
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899,00 zł |
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Seducers Among Our Children: How to Protect Your Child from Sexual Predators
ISBN: 9780984636655 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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70,34 zł |
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Lords of Corruption
ISBN: 9781401048020 / Angielski / Twarda / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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141,08 zł |
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Adequately Explained by Stupidity?: Lockerbie, Luggage and Lies
ISBN: 9781783062508 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tunnel vision or organised cover-up? How the Lockerbie investigation got the wrong man. Twenty-five years after Maid of the Seas crashed on the town of Lockerbie, this groundbreaking book introduces an entirely new perspective on the controversial investigation and subsequent conviction. Concentrating almost entirely on the transfer baggage evidence, it exposes shocking deficiencies in both the police inquiry and the forensic investigation, which led the hunt in entirely the wrong direction. Cleverly constructed to lead the reader through the complexities of the case, the book provides...
Tunnel vision or organised cover-up? How the Lockerbie investigation got the wrong man. Twenty-five years after Maid of the Seas crashed on the town o...
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66,45 zł |
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My Friend the Felon: Memoirs of a Cub Reporter
ISBN: 9781478387381 / Angielski / Miękka / 60 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A friend struggles to climb the ladder of criminal success which culminates in early-morning terror for a banker's family in a small Alabama town. Simultaneously the author worries about his cousin who runs into a wall of silence when she tries to locate and gain custody of her child who was fathered by singer Hank Williams.
A friend struggles to climb the ladder of criminal success which culminates in early-morning terror for a banker's family in a small Alabama town. Sim...
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26,24 zł |
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Patched: The History of Gangs in New Zealand
ISBN: 9781869407292 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For more than five decades, gangs have played a pivotal role in New Zealand crime life, beginning with the bodgies and widgies of the 1950s. Based on 10 years of gang research, this book chronicles the rise of the Hell's Angels and other bike gangs in the 1960s, the growth of the Mongrel Mob and Black Power in the 1970s, and organized crime during the last decade. With descriptions of such events as the Devil's Henchmen throwing Molotov cocktails at the Epitaph Riders in Christchurch's first gang war and Black Power members surrounding Prime Minister Rob Muldoon at Wellington's Royal Tiger... For more than five decades, gangs have played a pivotal role in New Zealand crime life, beginning with the bodgies and widgies of the 1950s. Based ... |
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270,10 zł |
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vanity of vanities
ISBN: 9781468101010 / Angielski / Miękka / 410 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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74,93 zł |
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Thirty Years of Lynching in the United States 1889-1918
ISBN: 9781584779650 / Angielski / Twarda / 114 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. COMPREHENSIVE STUDY OF LYNCHING Published by the NAACP in 1919 to promote awareness of lynching in the United States, this seminal study provides information on the lynchings of 3,224 African-Americans between 1889 and 1918. With a new introduction by noted slave historian, Paul Finkelman.
"The book reprinted here is one of the most comprehensive studies of lynching in U.S. history. The NAACP data shows that most lynchings were not about interracial sex-the great paranoia of the southern white Americans. Many blacks were lynched because they had allegedly committed murders. However, many... COMPREHENSIVE STUDY OF LYNCHING Published by the NAACP in 1919 to promote awareness of lynching in the United States, this seminal study provides info...
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169,28 zł |
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Women Warriors: Stories from the Thin Blue Line
ISBN: 9781590956960 / Angielski / Miękka / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Women Warriors: Stories from the Thin Blue Line features a compelling collection of stories about women in law enforcement. From a dispatcher on the radio trying to remain calm and do her job while her husband is involved in a gun battle, to a desperate search for a missing child during a frightening storm, to a courageous lone officer staring down the barrel of a gun inside a crowded department store, the tales in this book will have your pulse racing.
Police officers, federal agents, chaplains, corrections officers and dispatchers, all share their stories, each one... Women Warriors: Stories from the Thin Blue Line features a compelling collection of stories about women in law enforcement. From a dispa...
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84,44 zł |
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New Wicked Evil: The Pursuit Files with Radley Scott
ISBN: 9780985504311 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. ...New Wicked Evil: The Pursuit Files with Radley Scott... ...Detective Radley Scott knows who she is...or at least she thought she did. She sets out to find others like herself, but somehow paranormal activity seems to find her when she's not looking. Her Biblical History leads her around the globe, and the struggle between her faith and evildoers sends her on a whirlwind landslide. A family secret changes who she is forever. Follow this new Heroine as the Old Testament clashes with the New Wicked Evil roaming the earth...
...New Wicked Evil: The Pursuit Files with Radley Scott... ...Detective Radley Scott knows who she is...or at least she thought she did. She sets out ...
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94,44 zł |
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The Language of Bribery Cases
ISBN: 9780199945139 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In The Language of Bribery Cases, Roger W. Shuy analyzes the role that language plays in bribery cases. He describes twelve court cases for which he served as an expert witness or consultant and explains the issues at stake in each of these cases, for both lawyers and linguists. The cases described include the bribery or alleged bribery of United States senators, congressmen, judges, businessmen, and brothel owners. Shuy describes the often-unused linguistic analytical tools that are available to both the prosecution and defense as they argue these cases. He illustrates how...
In The Language of Bribery Cases, Roger W. Shuy analyzes the role that language plays in bribery cases. He describes twelve court cases for w...
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454,04 zł |
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Lynching Beyond Dixie: American Mob Violence Outside the South
ISBN: 9780252037467 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In recent decades, scholars have explored much of the history of mob violence in the American South, especially in the years after Reconstruction. However, the lynching violence that occurred in American regions outside the South, where hundreds of persons, including Hispanics, whites, African Americans, Native Americans, and Asian Americans died at the hands of lynch mobs, has received less attention. This collection of essays by prominent and rising scholars fills this gap by illuminating the factors that distinguished lynching in the West, the Midwest, and the Mid-Atlantic. The volume adds...
In recent decades, scholars have explored much of the history of mob violence in the American South, especially in the years after Reconstruction. How...
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575,36 zł |
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Gangland Queensland
ISBN: 9780522861235 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A comprehensive investigation of organized crime in Queensland, Australia, this study heads north of the border to tell the exploits of a colorful pantheon of mobsters, shysters, club owners, drug dealers, Black Hand gangs, crooked police, and bikers throughout the last century. Beginning with the drug and sex trades of the early 1900s--and including the infamous fire at the Whiskey Au Go Go club, the explosive revelations of The Fitzgerald Inquiry, and organized crime syndicates such as Japan's Yakuza--this account discusses these topics in forensic and fascinating detail.
A comprehensive investigation of organized crime in Queensland, Australia, this study heads north of the border to tell the exploits of a colorful pan...
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98,74 zł |
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Everything Runs Like a Movie: The Strange But True Story of Bank Robber Hermann Beier
ISBN: 9781459708297 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A true story of a bank robber and a chilling car chase worthy of an Elmore Leonard novel or a Brian De Palma movie. Like many new arrivals to Canada, Hermann Beier came to this country with big dreams - visions of a wide-open country where hard work and entrepreneurial flair would make him rich. A charismatic handyman, martial arts teacher, and small business owner, he charmed women and earned the respect of men. He was loved in his community of Alliston, Ontario, and had a plan to make a million bucks. But when those dreams soured, Beier turned to crime to pay the bills.... A true story of a bank robber and a chilling car chase worthy of an Elmore Leonard novel or a Brian De Palma movie. Like many new arri... |
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83,96 zł |
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Property: The True Story of a Polygamous Church Wife
ISBN: 9781459709768 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The true story of a brave woman's nearly 40 years in a polygamous cult, her eventual escape, and her struggle to integrate into a world she barely knew. In the early 1970s an innocent teenager who had led a sheltered life was forced to leave her family and enter into a polygamous, abusive, and deviant relationship with a man called the Prophet. In 2008, nearly 40 years later, she fled his religious sect. The true story of a brave woman's nearly 40 years in a polygamous cult, her eventual escape, and her struggle to integrate into a world she barely ... |
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83,96 zł |
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The Doffer Boys
ISBN: 9781478147114 / Angielski / Miękka / 58 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As the last St Blaise procession winds its way by torchlight through the sleepy Yorkshire valley, life will never be the same again. Living in 1830's England Tom and Billy are resourceful fourteen year olds, looking for the right opportunities and if it takes an omission of the truth, or to be involved in murder then that's where you will find them. Billy has ideas, ideas which will draw Tom into the dark world of the swing riot gangs and grave minders. The buildings are burning with Tom left alone fighting for his life, with Billy in jail captured by the peelers and a hanging should be the...
As the last St Blaise procession winds its way by torchlight through the sleepy Yorkshire valley, life will never be the same again. Living in 1830's ...
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42,34 zł |
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Cops Don't Just Eat Donuts
ISBN: 9781478321040 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers a new perspective for those who think cops only eat doughnuts and pull people over for no reason. This book provides a chronicle of crime and, occasionally politics, in Kansas City, Missouri, over the span of half a century. These are real cops, sharing their observations and feelings. These are real cops who have spent countless hours poring over fingerprints, cataloguing evidence to identify suspects. These are real cops, who when the state prosecutor's office wouldn't file cases to help break up a notorious Gypsy crime ring, went against the system, using a television...
This book offers a new perspective for those who think cops only eat doughnuts and pull people over for no reason. This book provides a chronicle of c...
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66,15 zł |
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Family Jewels
ISBN: 9780615701714 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Jewelry Heist Ring. That is how the New England press referred to us. The sad fact is, we were also a family: my brother the muscle, my dad the ringleader, and me a young man who would have robbed the Pope if Dad asked. We started by simply trying to get back money stolen from my father, but that success led us on a five-year crime spree, regional notoriety, and prison terms. Includes an appendix with articles from The Boston Herald and The Boston Globe.
A Jewelry Heist Ring. That is how the New England press referred to us. The sad fact is, we were also a family: my brother the muscle, my dad the ring...
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57,11 zł |
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The Boys of the Dark: A Story of Betrayal and Redemption in the Deep South
ISBN: 9781250039255 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A story that garnered national attention, this is the harrowing tale of two men who suffered abuses at a reform school in Florida in the 1950s and 60s, and who banded together fifty years later to confront their attackers. Michael O'McCarthy and Robert W. Straley were teens when they were termed "incorrigible youth" by authorities and ordered to attend the Florida School for Boys. They discovered in Marianna, the "City of Southern Charm," an immaculately groomed campus that looked more like an idyllic university than a reform school. But hidden behind the gates of the Florida... A story that garnered national attention, this is the harrowing tale of two men who suffered abuses at a reform school in Florida in the 1950s a... |
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79,76 zł |
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The Kebble Collusion: 10 Fateful Days in a R26 Billion Fraud
ISBN: 9781431404643 / Angielski / Miękka / 469 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There are some who would say that the Brett Kebble 'saga' is over - or at least that it's been fully explained. The Kebble Collusion shows that nothing could be further from the truth. This is a story that starts unfolding 15 years ago, in 1997, and which stretches out to the present day. And it is a story of the world's biggest unprosecuted fraud. How is it that not a single person has been prosecuted where damages of R26 billion can be proven? The narrative unravels this remarkable story, which covers the period of Brett Kebble's reign as a 'Randlord', from around September 1997 until his...
There are some who would say that the Brett Kebble 'saga' is over - or at least that it's been fully explained. The Kebble Collusion shows that nothin...
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102,47 zł |