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Badfellas
ISBN: 9780241954744 / Angielski / Miękka / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Offers an account of how organized crime evolved in Ireland over the decades. Drawing on the author's inside knowledge of the criminal underworld, a range of contacts and eye witness interviews, this title provides an insight into the godfathers - and events - that have dominated gangland since the late 1960s.
Offers an account of how organized crime evolved in Ireland over the decades. Drawing on the author's inside knowledge of the criminal underworld, a r...
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58,97 zł |
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Lynching Beyond Dixie: American Mob Violence Outside the South
ISBN: 9780252078958 / Angielski / Miękka / 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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132,48 zł |
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Nameless
ISBN: 9780330538626 / Angielski / Miękka / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. They took her children away, and she will fight to the end to get them back
Growing up in the war-torn backstreets of the East End, Ruby Darke, mixed-race and hated by her family, is determined not to become embroiled in a life of crime like her two brothers. After a disastrous affair with Cornelius Bray, a handsome peer of the realm with dubious underworld connections, Ruby gives birth to illegitimate twins who are taken from her at birth: Daisy, born white, is taken to be raised in luxury by Cornelius and his wife, but the son is dark-skinned like Ruby and is taken by Ruby's brother,... They took her children away, and she will fight to the end to get them back
Growing up in the war-torn backstreets of the East End, Ruby Darke, m... |
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48,24 zł |
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Inspector Minahan Makes a Stand : The Missing Girls of England
ISBN: 9780330544658 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A hung Parliament, terrorist bombs, sex trafficking and tabloid war ... Welcome to London, 1885.
A hung Parliament, terrorist bombs, sex trafficking and tabloid war ... Welcome to London, 1885.
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53,60 zł |
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Perfect Victim
ISBN: 9780352325617 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Colleen Stan was a sweet-natured 20-year-old when she set out to hitchhike from her home in Washington to southern California. Seven years later, she emerged from hell, the victim of a bizarre and chilling crime.
Colleen Stan was a sweet-natured 20-year-old when she set out to hitchhike from her home in Washington to southern California. Seven years later, she ...
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91,16 zł |
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Creative Accounting, Fraud and International Accounting Scandals
ISBN: 9780470057650 / Angielski / Twarda / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Business scandals are always with us from the South Sea Bubble to Enron and Parmalat. As accounting forms a central element of any business success or failure, the role of accounting is crucial in understanding business scandals. This book aims to explore the role of accounting, particularly creative accounting and fraud, in business scandals.
Business scandals are always with us from the South Sea Bubble to Enron and Parmalat. As accounting forms a central element of any business success or...
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289,74 zł |
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Fraud Auditing 4E
ISBN: 9780470564134 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Praise for the Fourth Edition of Fraud Auditing and Forensic Accounting "Tommie and Aaron Singleton have made important updates to a book I personally rely very heavily upon: Fraud Auditing and Forensic Accounting (FAFA). In the newest edition, they take difficult topics and explain them in straightforward actionable language. All my students benefitted from reading the third edition of the FAFA to better understand the issues and area of fraud and forensic accounting. With their singular focus on understandability and practicality, this Fourth Edition of the book makes a very... Praise for the Fourth Edition of Fraud Auditing and Forensic Accounting "Tommie and Aaron Singleton have made important updates to a book I ... |
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450,70 zł |
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Global Outlaws: Crime, Money, and Power in the Contemporary Worldvolume 16
ISBN: 9780520250963 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Carolyn Nordstrom explores the pathways of global crime in this stunning work of anthropology that has the power to change the way we think about the world. To write this book, she spent three years traveling to hot spots in Africa, Europe, Asia, and the United States investigating the dynamics of illegal trade around the world--from blood diamonds and arms to pharmaceuticals, exotica, and staples like food and oil. Global Outlaws peels away the layers of a vast economy that extends from a war orphan in Angola selling Marlboros on the street to powerful transnational networks reaching...
Carolyn Nordstrom explores the pathways of global crime in this stunning work of anthropology that has the power to change the way we think about the ...
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160,97 zł |
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Madeleine: Our daughter's disappearance and the continuing search for her
ISBN: 9780552165150 / Angielski / Miękka / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Kate McCann's personal account of the agonizing search for her missing daughter "The decision to publish this book has been very difficult, and taken with heavy hearts. My reason for writing it is simple: to give an account of the truth. Writing this memoir has entailed recording some very personal, intimate and emotional aspects of our lives. Sharing these with strangers does not come easily to me, but if I hadn't done so I would not have felt the book gave as full a picture as it is possible for me to give. As with every action we have taken over the last four years, it ultimately...
Kate McCann's personal account of the agonizing search for her missing daughter "The decision to publish this book has been very difficult, and...
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58,97 zł |
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The Westies: Inside New York's Irish Mob
ISBN: 9780553819564 / Angielski / Miękka / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Even among the Mob, the Westies were feared. Out of a partnership between two sadistic thugs - James Coonan and Mickey Featherstone - the gang dominated the decaying slice of New York City's West Side known as Hell's Kitchen in the 1970s and '80s. This edition tells the story of the Westies with snapshots of the men and women of the Westies.
Even among the Mob, the Westies were feared. Out of a partnership between two sadistic thugs - James Coonan and Mickey Featherstone - the gang dominat...
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61,06 zł |
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Under Household Government: Sex and Family in Puritan Massachusetts
ISBN: 9780674066335 / Angielski / Twarda / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Seventeenth-century New Englanders were not as busy policing their neighbors' behavior as Nathaniel Hawthorne or many historians of early America would have us believe. Keeping their own households in line occupied too much of their time. Under Household Government reveals the extent to which family members took on the role of watchdog in matters of sexual indiscretion. In a society where one's sister's husband's brother's wife was referred to as "sister," kinship networks could be immense. When out-of-wedlock pregnancies, paternity suits, and infidelity resulted in legal... Seventeenth-century New Englanders were not as busy policing their neighbors' behavior as Nathaniel Hawthorne or many historians of early America w... |
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278,73 zł |
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The Case Of Mary Bell: A Portrait of a Child Who Murdered
ISBN: 9780712662970 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1968, 11-year-old Mary Bell was found guilty of the manslaughter of two young boys. This study asks why one child would murder another, and provides the background to the Bell case. The author also gives her account of the case of James Bulger, now that the debate has tragically re-opened.
In 1968, 11-year-old Mary Bell was found guilty of the manslaughter of two young boys. This study asks why one child would murder another, and provide...
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80,43 zł |
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The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: or The Murder at Road Hill House
ISBN: 9780747596486 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The fascinating story of a famous Victorian murder case - and the notorious detective who solved it
The fascinating story of a famous Victorian murder case - and the notorious detective who solved it
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55,97 zł |
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Midnight Express
ISBN: 9780751541984 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For Billy Hayes, 1970 was a horrifying year. It was the year when he tried to smuggle 4lbs of hashish from Istanbul back to his home in America. It was the year when he was arrested at Istanbul airport, tried, and sentenced to 30 years in a Turkish jail. This is the story of the five years he spent there.
For Billy Hayes, 1970 was a horrifying year. It was the year when he tried to smuggle 4lbs of hashish from Istanbul back to his home in America. It wa...
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55,97 zł |
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The Cult Of Violence : The Untold Story of the Krays
ISBN: 9780752847948 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a re-examination of the bizarre and frightening story of the Kray twins. It offers revelations about their criminal past and their extraordinary activities in prison. The author also explores what made the Krays criminal celebrities.
This is a re-examination of the bizarre and frightening story of the Kray twins. It offers revelations about their criminal past and their extraordina...
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48,24 zł |
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When Kids Kill
ISBN: 9780753507582 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Kids. They know about sex, they are experimenting with drugs and, increasingly, they are committing offences and finding themselves in court. There are also those who commit the worst possible crimes: those who have ended another person's life before their own have properly begun.
Kids. They know about sex, they are experimenting with drugs and, increasingly, they are committing offences and finding themselves in court. There ar...
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69,70 zł |
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The Believers: How America Fell for Bernie Madoff's $50 Billion Investment Scam
ISBN: 9780753827437 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How America fell for financier Bernie Madoff's $65 billion investment scam.
It was luxurious Palm Beach, by the manicured lawns and Olympic-sized swimming pool, that financier Bernard Madoff ravaged the world of philanthropy and high society he had strived so hard to join, vaporising the assets of charities, foundations and individuals that had trusted him with their funds. It seems nothing was sacrosanct to Madoff, possibly the greatest con-man in history. Even Elie Wiesel's foundation has lost tens of millions. How could Madoff, a pillar of the Jewish community, do this to a... How America fell for financier Bernie Madoff's $65 billion investment scam.
It was luxurious Palm Beach, by the manicured lawns and Olympic... |
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58,97 zł |
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The Treatment and Rehabilitation of Offenders
ISBN: 9780761960393 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this book Iain Crow provides an accessible overview of the concepts of treatment and rehabilitation, adopting a deliberately broad definition, and considers the historical basis of treatment, and its place within the penal system and British criminology.
In this book Iain Crow provides an accessible overview of the concepts of treatment and rehabilitation, adopting a deliberately broad definition, and ...
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265,05 zł |
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Terrorism as Crime: From Oklahoma City to Al-Qaeda and Beyond
ISBN: 9780814736968 / Angielski / Miękka / 271 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Car bombing, suicide bombing, abduction, smuggling, homicide, and hijacking are all profoundly criminal acts. In Terrorism as Crime Mark S. Hamm presents an understanding of terrorism from a criminological point of view, arguing that the most successful way to understand, detect, prosecute and deter these acts is to use conventional criminal investigation methods. Whether in Oklahoma City or London, Terrorism as Crime demonstrates that criminal activity is the lifeblood of terrorist groups and that there are simple common denominators at work that can remove the mystery... Car bombing, suicide bombing, abduction, smuggling, homicide, and hijacking are all profoundly criminal acts. In Terrorism as Crime Mark S... |
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142,67 zł |
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Slobodan Milosevic on Trial
ISBN: 9780826414113 / Angielski / Twarda / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From 1991 to 1999, Slobodan Milosevic launched and ultimately lost four Balkan wars, resulting in the deaths of hundreds of thousands and the displacement of millions. He saw himself as a modern day Abe Lincoln, employing force in a valiant effort to hold his crumbling Yugoslavia together. But the ruthless Serb leader's tactics included systematic war crimes and ethnic cleansing, ultimately prompting the U. S. and its NATO allies to launch a controversial military intervention in the spring of 1999 to halt the bloodshed.Now Milosevic is on trial in The Hague before the United... From 1991 to 1999, Slobodan Milosevic launched and ultimately lost four Balkan wars, resulting in the deaths of hundreds of thousands and the displ... |
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203,89 zł |