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Wrinkles in Time
ISBN: 9781483947693 / Angielski / Miękka / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. (photos in black/white) SAVING LIVES AND CATCHING BAD GUYS.... Missing children, lost Alzheimer's patients, suicidal adults, as well as murderers, rapists and robbers on the run all have one thing in common. Somebody is looking for them. Frequently, traditional search methods fail to find these people or fail to find them in time. This is where law enforcement agencies fortunate enough to possess a properly trained bloodhound in their K-9 unit have a distinct advantage. These are true stories from K-9 handlers who have received bloodhounds from the non-profit Kody Snodgrass Memorial...
(photos in black/white) SAVING LIVES AND CATCHING BAD GUYS.... Missing children, lost Alzheimer's patients, suicidal adults, as well as murderers, rap...
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57,11 zł |
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Crime & Incompetence: The Guide to America's Broken Immigration Problem
ISBN: 9780987834348 / Angielski / Miękka / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An explosive and unvarnished look at America's immigration problem. Crime & Incompetence: Guide to America's Immigration Crisis takes the reader into a world of crime, corruption, and incompetence that politicians and faceless bureaucrats do not want you to know exists.
Using government reports and criminal indictments, investigative journalist Marinka Peschmann's eye-opening book exposes the dark side of the broken legal immigration system. Bribery-cash, gifts, or sex-is but one criminal element at the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). ... An explosive and unvarnished look at America's immigration problem. Crime & Incompetence: Guide to America's Immigration Crisis takes the reade...
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66,11 zł |
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Csi: The Real World: Volume 1
ISBN: 9781484009826 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Not every crime scene is a homicide... There are things to learn and humor to be found in a great many aspects of police and crime scene work. In short, life on the streets is oftentimes interesting and sometimes downright comical. This series is a compilation of stories gleaned from my years of serving and protecting the citizens of a moderate sized, mid-western city. The basic facts are true, although the names of those involved have been changed, not necessarily to protect any innocence, but rather to hopefully reduce any liability on my part. Unlike television, not every case is over in...
Not every crime scene is a homicide... There are things to learn and humor to be found in a great many aspects of police and crime scene work. In shor...
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39,69 zł |
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Payola in the Music Industry: A History, 1880-1991
ISBN: 9780786476145 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Payola is as old as the music industry and continues today. Contrary to popular belief, the acceptance of payola is legal. (Only the nonreporting of it would be illegal.)
The recipients of payola and the reasons behind it are discussed decade-by-decade. The early bribes to the minstrel groups and vaudeville players are traced, as are modern-day payments to disc jockeys and radio station program directors, where drugs are often given instead of cash. Particular attention is paid to 1959 and 1960 when federal investigators attempted to eradicate the practice.
Payola is as old as the music industry and continues today. Contrary to popular belief, the acceptance of payola is legal. (Only the nonreporting of i...
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182,41 zł |
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The Subculture of Violence: Towards an Integrated Theory in Criminology
ISBN: 9780415606318 / Angielski / Miękka / 412 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The search for the social causes of violence has been an ongoing preoccupation of criminologists since the early 20th century, when researchers attempted to look beyond biological and psychological explanations to understand crime. In 'The Subculture of Violence', Wolfgang and Ferracuti draw upon Wolfgang's earlier work on inner-city African-American neighbourhoods in Philadelphia in order to formulate an operational definition of the concept of a subculture.
The search for the social causes of violence has been an ongoing preoccupation of criminologists since the early 20th century, when researchers attemp...
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267,08 zł |
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Suit Of Blue: Could A Woman Really Bear The Full Weight Of The Badge?
ISBN: 9781480258884 / Angielski / Miękka / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Suit Of Blue" brings into full view the poignant moments of one of Ontario, Canada's first female police officers assigned to general patrol duties. She was an officer in Peel Region, right next to Toronto. Heather worked all shifts without a partner, responding to the same calls as her male counterparts. Suit of Blue is a must read for anyone interested to move behind the scenes into some of the most emotionally charged situations affecting police officers, male or female. Twists of irony and humour thread through an unrelenting undercurrent of action and anguish, and of physical and...
"Suit Of Blue" brings into full view the poignant moments of one of Ontario, Canada's first female police officers assigned to general patrol duties. ...
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70,34 zł |
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Prater: Leave the Financials to Me
ISBN: 9781481789516 / Angielski / Miękka / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Frank Prater served as a British army officer throughout World War II, a commission granted by His Majesty King George VI due, in part, to his university degree, a Bachelor of Science. Major K. F. Prater married Rose Haynes, whose brothers ran a large furniture manufacturing company dating back to the early twenties. He began working for the Haynes brothers' family firm around 1946 and soon became financial director, which is where his financial escapades began. The story covers five of his several financial adventures spanning the period 1946-1975. Frank Prater was a clever man who possessed...
Frank Prater served as a British army officer throughout World War II, a commission granted by His Majesty King George VI due, in part, to his univers...
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91,16 zł |
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The Biggest Gang in Britain - Shining a Light on the Culture of Police Corruption
ISBN: 9781781486061 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first of two hard hitting, brutally honest accounts of police work during the late 1960s and 1970s. Whilst explicit, they are often humorous, refreshing and equally unbelievable. In this ?rst book of a trilogy the author takes the reader through his early police service and in the second book Fifty Shades of Black 'n' Blue, his later years. The series of two gritty yet humorous books are written with such explicit content that leaves little doubt that many working practices of the 60s and 70s have in reality actually become a culture of dishonesty, lies and often stupidity which has been...
The first of two hard hitting, brutally honest accounts of police work during the late 1960s and 1970s. Whilst explicit, they are often humorous, refr...
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65,81 zł |
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Hidden Genocides: Power, Knowledge, Memory
ISBN: 9780813561622 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why are some genocides prominently remembered while others are ignored, hidden, or denied? Consider the Turkish campaign denying the Armenian genocide, followed by the Armenian movement to recognize the violence. Similar movements are building to acknowledge other genocides that have long remained out of sight in the media, such as those against the Circassians, Greeks, Assyrians, the indigenous peoples in the Americas and Australia, and the violence that was the precursor to and the aftermath of the Holocaust.
The contributors to this collection look at these cases and others from a... Why are some genocides prominently remembered while others are ignored, hidden, or denied? Consider the Turkish campaign denying the Armenian genocide...
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688,38 zł |
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Hidden Genocides: Power, Knowledge, Memory
ISBN: 9780813561639 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why are some genocides prominently remembered while others are ignored, hidden, or denied? Consider the Turkish campaign denying the Armenian genocide, followed by the Armenian movement to recognize the violence. Similar movements are building to acknowledge other genocides that have long remained out of sight in the media, such as those against the Circassians, Greeks, Assyrians, the indigenous peoples in the Americas and Australia, and the violence that was the precursor to and the aftermath of the Holocaust.
The contributors to this collection look at these cases and others from a... Why are some genocides prominently remembered while others are ignored, hidden, or denied? Consider the Turkish campaign denying the Armenian genocide...
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195,22 zł |
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If Loving You is Wrong: The teacher and student sex case that shocked the world
ISBN: 9781481049016 / Angielski / Miękka / 388 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Wonderfully researched...Searing and brilliant...A must-read "-- Ann Rule, the undisputed queen of True Crime The first case -- the one that launched an epidemic of teacher/student abuse cases -- written by New York Times bestselling author, Gregg Olsen. You know how the story ended...but do you know how it all started? Within hours of giving birth to her sixth child, Mary Kay Letourneau had her baby daughter whisked from her arms. She was then shackled and returned to her jail cell. Just years ago, the pretty, personable Seattle schoolteacher was living a life many would envy-- she had a...
"Wonderfully researched...Searing and brilliant...A must-read "-- Ann Rule, the undisputed queen of True Crime The first case -- the one that launched...
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73,87 zł |
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Ultimate Betrayal: The Sex Abuse Case against Dr. Earl Bradley
ISBN: 9781482335927 / Angielski / Miękka / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. No one knowingly hides a pedophile...or do they? Was he born like that or did childhood trauma drive him to commit the most heinous of crimes - those against defenseless children. Dr. Earl Bradley, a once-respected pediatrician, is serving fourteen life sentences plus 164 years in prison for the rape, assault and sexual exploitation of 86 children. The story begins in a small seaside resort town in Lewes, Delaware where in December, 2009 Bradley was arrested and incarcerated in what became the largest case of documented child molestation in history. At first Bradley was known to be a...
No one knowingly hides a pedophile...or do they? Was he born like that or did childhood trauma drive him to commit the most heinous of crimes - those ...
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65,93 zł |
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Just One Riot: Episodes of Texas Rangers in the 20th Century
ISBN: 9781571684141 / Angielski / Miękka / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Texas Rangers - Emotions evoked by these words run the gamut, from undying admiration and respect, to fear and hatred. John Salmon "Rip" Ford, an early Texas Ranger captain who fought the Comanches to a standstill, described the Rangers in this manner: "They ride like Mexicans, trail like Indians, shoot like Tennesseans, and fight like the devil." Ben Procter, veteran Texas historian, takes up where the later Walter Prescott Webb, noted historian of the frontier, including the Texas Rangers, left off. The book chronicles episodes of the Texas Rangers in the twentieth century.
The Texas Rangers - Emotions evoked by these words run the gamut, from undying admiration and respect, to fear and hatred. John Salmon "Rip" Ford, an ...
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92,19 zł |
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The Gambler and the Bug Boy: 1939 Los Angeles and the Untold Story of a Horse Racing Fix
ISBN: 9780803271708 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Scandal on the Turf the Los Angeles Times proclaimed. It was October 1940, a mere few months after Seabiscuit had won the Santa Anita Derby, and now this bombshell: Six Jockeys Admit Horse Races Fixed. The Gambler and the Bug Boy recounts this dark chapter in horse racing history. At its center is Bernard Big Mooney, a flashy LA bookmaker who began his seedy career by threatening young jockeys with death if they didn t pull their horses. His unwilling partner is Albert Siler, a callow eighteen-year-old apprentice rider (a so-called bug boy) from eastern Oregon.... Scandal on the Turf the Los Angeles Times proclaimed. It was October 1940, a mere few months after Seabiscuit had won the Santa Anita Derb... |
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100,59 zł |
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American Coin: A True Story of Betrayal, Gambling, and Murder in Las Vegas
ISBN: 9781475985085 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As Judge Robert Clive Jones enters the courtroom, plaintiff Frank Romano takes a deep breath. Finally, after all this time, his opportunity to seek justice has arrived. As Judge Jones bangs his gavel, a trial to determine the responsibility for the largest cheating scandal in Nevada Gaming History begins. Several years earlier, beneath the neon lights of Las Vegas, Romano became a partner in the American Coin Company. In the 1980s, as the company grew to be the third largest slot company in Nevada, Romano was content with his challenging and profitable work, despite regularly being... As Judge Robert Clive Jones enters the courtroom, plaintiff Frank Romano takes a deep breath. Finally, after all this time, his opportunity to seek... |
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71,19 zł |
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American Coin: A True Story of Betrayal, Gambling, and Murder in Las Vegas
ISBN: 9781475985092 / Angielski / Twarda / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As Judge Robert Clive Jones enters the courtroom, plaintiff Frank Romano takes a deep breath. Finally, after all this time, his opportunity to seek justice has arrived. As Judge Jones bangs his gavel, a trial to determine the responsibility for the largest cheating scandal in Nevada Gaming History begins. Several years earlier, beneath the neon lights of Las Vegas, Romano became a partner in the American Coin Company. In the 1980s, as the company grew to be the third largest slot company in Nevada, Romano was content with his challenging and profitable work, despite regularly being... As Judge Robert Clive Jones enters the courtroom, plaintiff Frank Romano takes a deep breath. Finally, after all this time, his opportunity to seek... |
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113,19 zł |
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Willis Newton: The Last Texas Outlaw
ISBN: 9780985278021 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This the true story of Willis Newton and his outlaw gang who robbed trains and over seventy banks-more than Jessie James, the Daltons, and all of the rest of the Old West outlaws-combined. They robbed a number of banks at gunpoint, but their specialty was hitting banks in the middle of the night and blowing the vaults with nitroglycerine. One frigid night in January of 1921 they even hit two banks, back to back, in Hondo, Texas. Their biggest haul occurred in 1924 when they robbed a train outside of Rondout, Illinois-getting away with $3,000,000. They still hold the record for the biggest...
This the true story of Willis Newton and his outlaw gang who robbed trains and over seventy banks-more than Jessie James, the Daltons, and all of the ...
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87,98 zł |
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Who Called the Police?: Real Police. Real Drama. Real Funny.
ISBN: 9781481751933 / Angielski / Miękka / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Who Called The Police contains riveting accounts of real life events on the front lines of policing. Each chapter encounters new characters and situations that the test the commitment and dedication of author D.R. Novak and his partner, Sam, who use a special brand of humor and irreverence to fight crime. So strap yourself in and ride along, and discover the most useful weapon of a police officer is not on his gun belt--it's his funny bone.
Who Called The Police contains riveting accounts of real life events on the front lines of policing. Each chapter encounters new characters and situat...
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74,72 zł |
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It's One Of California's Biggest Disasters: How Massive Corruption in the California Parole Department Creates More Crime and Wastes Billions of Dolla
ISBN: 9781481299008 / Angielski / Miękka / 86 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This shocking new book exposes massive corruption in the California parole department and explains how it paradoxically increases crime and wastes billions of dollars. It includes the national stories of Jaycee Dugard (who was kidnapped for 18 years before being found alive) and Polly Klaas (who was kidnapped at a slumber party and later murdered by Richard Allen Davis). The book also includes a shocking Foreward section by the former Deputy Commissioner of the California Parole Board - Larry Starn, Esq. The book California wants banned It is One of California's Biggest Failures Billions of...
This shocking new book exposes massive corruption in the California parole department and explains how it paradoxically increases crime and wastes bil...
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48,29 zł |
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Confessions of a Silk Road User: Life on the Road
ISBN: 9780578123882 / Angielski / Miękka / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book has been written by an anonymous author as this is a rather touchy subject. The subject is the hidden, online, illegal good superstore aka The Silk Road Marketplace. Hackers and drug dealers unite on this hidden website to distribute goods to whoever wants them. Anything can be bought here from the safety of your recliner. There is no need for face to face meetings with drug dealers in shady environments. Silk Road has taken the violence aspect of purchasing drugs out of the equation. This book outlines one man's experience with the site and how it has changed his life in both...
This book has been written by an anonymous author as this is a rather touchy subject. The subject is the hidden, online, illegal good superstore aka T...
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79,59 zł |