Unequal Exchange
ISBN: 9781514398937 / Angielski / Miękka / 414 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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66,28 zł |
Executive Deception
ISBN: 9781514860335 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Brian O'Brien, a Miami police sergeant, becomes an inadvertent hero while saving a man and his daughter in a canal car accident. The man is a politician, Carlos Luis Bentincore, who is favored to become the next president of Colombia, South America. The grateful candidate bonds with his rescuer and young family, but O'Brien's celebrated moment in the spotlight is short lived. The "accident" was in reality an assassination attempt. Bentincore is the target of a sinister White House scheme to place a puppet government into the Colombian presidency. The feds objective now is to use O'Brien to...
Brian O'Brien, a Miami police sergeant, becomes an inadvertent hero while saving a man and his daughter in a canal car accident. The man is a politici...
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57,42 zł |
Beautiful Disaster
ISBN: 9781515242437 / Angielski / Miękka / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Robin Richie is a single gal, that has looked for love in all the wrong places. When she meets Mitchell Jenkins, on an online dating site, Robin feels she has met the man of her dreams. Mitchell is good-looking, God-fearing, has a successful job and writes poems that melts Robin's heart. Robin's friend Kassidy- a reporter for a local news channel warns Robin that Mitchell is not the man for her Kassidy believes that Mitchell is a scammer and a danger to Robin. Robin doesn't take Kassidy's warnings to heart. Robin begins a love-affair with Mitchell. A love affair that quickly turns to deadly....
Robin Richie is a single gal, that has looked for love in all the wrong places. When she meets Mitchell Jenkins, on an online dating site, Robin feels...
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66,32 zł |
The Shadow of Kenyan Democracy: Widespread Expectations of Widespread Corruption
ISBN: 9781472467683 / Angielski / Twarda / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why has democracy failed to reduce corruption in Kenya? Framing the challenge in game theoretical terms, Dominic Burbidge examines how mutual expectations between citizens dictate the success or failure of political reforms. Since 1992, Kenya has conducted multiparty elections with the hope of promoting accountability and transparency in government. This is being undermined by ongoing corruption and an increasingly centralised state response to terrorism. Providing a nuanced assessment of democracy's difficult road in Kenya, Burbidge discusses the independent role being played by widespread...
Why has democracy failed to reduce corruption in Kenya? Framing the challenge in game theoretical terms, Dominic Burbidge examines how mutual expectat...
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693,51 zł |
Environmental Crime in Transnational Context: Global Issues in Green Enforcement and Criminology
ISBN: 9781472469625 / Angielski / Twarda / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Environmental crime is one of the most profitable and fastest growing areas of international criminal activity. The increasing cross-border scope of environmental crimes and harms is one of the reasons why governments and the enforcement community have trouble in finding the proper responses. Law enforcement cooperation between western industrialized states is often time consuming and problematic, and the problems increase exponentially when environmental criminals take advantage of situations where government and law enforcement are weak. This book provides an overview of the... Environmental crime is one of the most profitable and fastest growing areas of international criminal activity. The increasing cross-border scope o... |
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770,57 zł |
Solving Cold Cases: True Crime Stories that Took Years to Crack
ISBN: 9781517402877 / Angielski / Miękka / 102 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Chilling. One of the best words to describe the cases recounted in this book. These gruesome crimes seemed to hit a dead end... That is until the case was reopened for investigation years later and solved. From the more famous cases to the more obscure, the crimes and hardships that the victims had to suffer will send shivers down your spine. Notably detailing the disappearance of Chandra Levy to the multiple murders committed by Dennis Rader.You will find that this book includes:
Chilling. One of the best words to describe the cases recounted in this book. These gruesome crimes seemed to hit a dead end... That is until th... |
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32,00 zł |
When The Quarterback Got Cut
ISBN: 9781517285821 / Angielski / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Admittedly the most difficult book she ever began, WHEN THE QUARTERBACK GOT CUT is Mylia Tiye Mal Jaza's 15th published book. It is also her first work exposing her experiences as a "survivor who overcame" the sexual trauma of acquaintance rape during a hostage situation. WHEN THE QUARTERBACK GOT CUT is a literary time machine that takes an abbreviated trip back to the 1990s with stops that are as exciting and hopeful as they are shocking and unfortunate. Written with the hope of inspiring other rape survivors to "shake off the shame and share their stories," this tome of truth offers...
Admittedly the most difficult book she ever began, WHEN THE QUARTERBACK GOT CUT is Mylia Tiye Mal Jaza's 15th published book. It is also her first wor...
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88,20 zł |
Murder on the Andaman Sea: Sex, Drugs with Murder the Goal
ISBN: 9781517603915 / Angielski / Miękka / 566 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Learn how Russian spies embedded in Salt Lake City, Utah weave a complicated web of financial fraud and extortion. Our family vacation to Phuket, Thailand resulted in attempted kidnapping and murder. The ensuing investigation would create worldwide headlines and be inextricably intertwined with corruption up to the highest levels. No one could have predicted the outcome.
Learn how Russian spies embedded in Salt Lake City, Utah weave a complicated web of financial fraud and extortion. Our family vacation to Phuket, Thai...
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88,38 zł |
Kidnapped by Muslim Rebels
ISBN: 9781503570085 / Angielski / Twarda / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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159,11 zł |
Kidnapped by Muslim Rebels
ISBN: 9781503570092 / Angielski / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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88,38 zł |
Crime and Deception: How Lennar Corporation Swindled America's Largest Pension Fund
ISBN: 9780986244834 / Angielski / Twarda / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 2008, a highly placed Lennar manager wrote an anonymous whistleblower letter to our company disclosing accounting irregularities and criminal activity by the top Lennar executives. The letter was remarkably similar to the letter sent to the chairman of Enron that led to the collapse of the company and the revelation of outstanding criminal activity. At the direction of CEO Stuart Miller, Lennar has spent over tens of millions of dollars of shareholder money to conceal the identity of the letter writer, deny any and all allegations in the letter, and to avoid prosecution for these... In 2008, a highly placed Lennar manager wrote an anonymous whistleblower letter to our company disclosing accounting irregularities and criminal ac... |
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89,55 zł |
Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town
ISBN: 9780804170567 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Missoula, Montana, is a typical college town, home to a highly regarded state university whose beloved football team inspires a passionately loyal fan base. Between January 2008 and May 2012, hundreds of students reported sexual assaults to the local police. Few of the cases were properly handled by either the university or local authorities. In this, Missoula is also typical. In these pages, acclaimed journalist Jon Krakauer investigates a spate of campus rapes that occurred in Missoula over a four-year period. Taking the town as a case study for a crime that is sadly prevalent... Missoula, Montana, is a typical college town, home to a highly regarded state university whose beloved football team inspires a passionately loyal ... |
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80,00 zł |
Art Crime: Terrorists, Tomb Raiders, Forgers and Thieves
ISBN: 9781137407566 / Angielski / Twarda / 364 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When one thinks of art crime, a Hollywood image is conjured, one of black-clad cat burglars, thieves in top hats and white gloves, and perhaps the occasional criminal collector twirling his waxed moustache as he cackles maniacally over a stolen horde in his Bavarian castle. But the truth behind art crime is far more sinister, and more intriguing. Art crime has its share of cinematic thefts and larger-than-life characters, but it is also the realm of transnational organized crime groups and terrorists, and is integrally linked to the drug and arms trades. Since the Second World War, art...
When one thinks of art crime, a Hollywood image is conjured, one of black-clad cat burglars, thieves in top hats and white gloves, and perhaps the occ...
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580,98 zł |
I Will Find You: A Reporter Investigates the Life of the Man Who Raped Her
ISBN: 9780802122605 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is it. My rape. I knew it was coming. Every woman knows. And now here it is. My turn.
When Joanna Connors was thirty years old on assignment for the Cleveland Plain Dealer to review a play at a college theater, she was held at knife point and raped by a stranger who had grown up five miles away from her. Once her assailant was caught and sentenced, Joanna never spoke of the trauma again, until 21 years later when her daughter was about to go to college. She resolved then to tell her children about her own rape so they could learn and protect themselves, and she... This is it. My rape. I knew it was coming. Every woman knows. And now here it is. My turn.
When Joanna Connors was thirty years ol... |
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105,26 zł |
Chronicles of A Hustler: " The Birth"
ISBN: 9780692513125 / Angielski / Miękka / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "People say that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. I guess that's true with me and my pops; even though I've only met him twice in my life, once at the age of seven, and again at twenty-two, we had a lot in common. What we had in common was in my bloodline from the start; pimpin' and dealing drugs." - Handle Ur Biz
"People say that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. I guess that's true with me and my pops; even though I've only met him twice in my life, on...
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88,42 zł |
Once Upon a Time in Russia: Memoirs of the Chief of Criminal Investigation for the Russian Empire
ISBN: 9781517133474 / Angielski / Miękka / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The very name of this detective made the criminal world tremble. He is the one who first created a uniquely accurate card index of criminals and developed a special evidence identification system later adopted by Scotland Yard. At the turn of the 20th century, Arkady Koshko was a legend.
At the International Congress of Criminal Investigators in 1913 in Switzerland, Russian forensic research methods were recognized as the best in the world because of their exceptionally high crime detection rate. This achievement is no wonder, since the Imperial Criminal Investigation Department was headed... The very name of this detective made the criminal world tremble. He is the one who first created a uniquely accurate card index of criminals and devel...
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44,16 zł |
Impunity, Human Rights, and Democracy: Chile and Argentina, 1990-2005
ISBN: 9781477309827 / Angielski / Miękka / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Universal human rights standards were adopted in 1948, but in the 1970s and 1980s, violent dictatorships in Argentina and Chile flagrantly defied the new protocols. Chilean general Augusto Pinochet and the Argentine military employed state terrorism in their quest to eradicate Marxism and other forms of "subversion." Pinochet constructed an iron shield of impunity for himself and the military in Chile, while in Argentina, military pressure resulted in laws preventing prosecution for past human rights violations. When democracy was reestablished in both countries by 1990, justice for crimes... Universal human rights standards were adopted in 1948, but in the 1970s and 1980s, violent dictatorships in Argentina and Chile flagrantly defied t... |
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87,28 zł |
The Oxford Murder
ISBN: 9781504990844 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Oxford Murder that gripped the country in 1931 would grace any episode of Inspector Morse. Yet it was horrifically real. Annie Kempson was a defenceless widow bludgeoned and stabbed to death in her own home for the sake of a few pounds-a despicable crime for which the killer could expect no mercy. Following a nationwide man-hunt, career criminal Henry Seymour was arrested by Scotland Yard's 'Lucky John' Horwell. And thanks to renowned pathologist Sir Bernard Spilsbury a guilty verdict was returned. This truly was an Oxford murder from beginning to end. The crime was committed in Oxford....
The Oxford Murder that gripped the country in 1931 would grace any episode of Inspector Morse. Yet it was horrifically real. Annie Kempson was a defen...
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91,39 zł |
Standing In Love: A Story of Loving Through Abuse and Claiming Victory Through God's Grace
ISBN: 9781517511586 / Angielski / Miękka / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Published with the assistance of BePublished.Org, this debut work by Nicene Van Ness is a candid expression of some of the challenges faced by survivors of molestation and the courageous steps one woman took to move past them.
Published with the assistance of BePublished.Org, this debut work by Nicene Van Ness is a candid expression of some of the challenges faced by survivo...
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57,26 zł |
Vile: Peeking Under the Skin of Murderers: Peeking Under the Skin of Murderers
ISBN: 9780764350900 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Experience 42 horrific stories about the world's more extreme killers in this comprehensive tome of grisly lusts and depraved pleasures of people who started out human and became something else. Read not only what they did, but why they did it--often from the killer's own words. Meet legendary murderers Jack The Ripper, Jeffrey Dahmer, Henry Lee Lucas, and Ed Gein. Become intimate with lesser knowns, such as Edmund Kemper, Louis Wagner, and Carl Panzram. Bear witness to depraved sexual sadists Albert Fish, Gary Heidnik, and Richard Ramirez. Discover the insanity of Joseph Kallinger, "The...
Experience 42 horrific stories about the world's more extreme killers in this comprehensive tome of grisly lusts and depraved pleasures of people who ...
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118,10 zł |