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Cricket in the Web: The 1949 Unsolved Murder That Unraveled Politics in New Mexico
ISBN: 9780826343420 / Angielski / Miękka / 215 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The murder of 18-year-old Ovida Cricket Coogler in 1949 launched a series of court inquiries and trials that would reshape the direction of New Mexico politics and expose political corruption. Paula Moore examines the infamous murder and the events that unfolded in its wake.University of New Mexico Press
The murder of 18-year-old Ovida Cricket Coogler in 1949 launched a series of court inquiries and trials that would reshape the direction of New Mexico...
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83,21 |
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The Enigma Woman: The Death Sentence of Nellie May Madison
ISBN: 9780803224506 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Crack shot. Enigma woman. Good with ponies and pistols. A much-married woman.
What if such an unconventional woman and the press unanimously agreed that Nellie May Madison was indeed unconventional were to get away with murder? Shortly after her husband s bullet-riddled body was found in the couple s Burbank apartment, police issued an all-points bulletin for the beautiful, dark-haired widow. The ensuing drama unfolded with all the twists and turns of a noir crime novel. In this intriguing cultural history, Kathleen A. Cairns tells the tale of Nellie May Madison, the first woman on Death... Crack shot. Enigma woman. Good with ponies and pistols. A much-married woman.
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63,62 |
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Infamous Murders and Mysteries: Cold Case Files and Who-Done-Its
ISBN: 9780595631834 / Angielski / Twarda / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the author of "Profiling the Criminal Mind" comes these true stories of cold cases and true mysteries. A truly compelling collection of adventures from the files of a career police detective and university professor that takes the reader inside the mysteries and murders that intrigue the author and make the reader listen for "things that go bump in the night." From spies to ghosts to celebrities and the places we like to spend time reading spy and murder mystery adventures, this collection has something for every mind that seeks adventure.
From the author of "Profiling the Criminal Mind" comes these true stories of cold cases and true mysteries. A truly compelling collection of adventure...
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165,51 |
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Infamous Murders and Mysteries: Cold Case Files and Who-Done-Its
ISBN: 9780595503995 / Angielski / Miękka / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the author of "Profiling the Criminal Mind" comes these true stories of cold cases and true mysteries. A truly compelling collection of adventures from the files of a career police detective and university professor that takes the reader inside the mysteries and murders that intrigue the author and make the reader listen for "things that go bump in the night." From spies to ghosts to celebrities and the places we like to spend time reading spy and murder mystery adventures, this collection has something for every mind that seeks adventure.
From the author of "Profiling the Criminal Mind" comes these true stories of cold cases and true mysteries. A truly compelling collection of adventure...
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126,98 |
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Small-Town Slayings in South Carolina
ISBN: 9781596295582 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ax assault, kidnapping, brutal murder: how could these things happen in a small town? Although regional crimes hardly ever make it to the national circuit, they will always remain with the families and communities of the victims and a part of the area's history. After working with the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division as special agent/forensic photographer for twenty-four years, Rita Shuler has a passion for remembering the victims. In Small-town Slayings, Shuler takes us back in time, showing differences and similarities of crime solving in the past and present and some surprising...
Ax assault, kidnapping, brutal murder: how could these things happen in a small town? Although regional crimes hardly ever make it to the national cir...
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84,74 |
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Getting Away with Murder on the Texas Frontier: Notorious Killings and Celebrated Trials
ISBN: 9780896726512 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1916, in the tiny West Texas town of Benjamin, a gunman slips into a courtroom and murders the defendant. In 1912, in Fort Worth s finest hotel, a young man kills an old gentleman in cold blood in the middle of the lobby. The verdict in both of these murderers trials? Not guilty. The explanation? This is Texas. Laws passed by politicians in far-off Austin meant little to Westerners living on the Texas frontier. Sagebrush justice relied less on written statutes than on common sense, grass-roots fairness, and vague notions of folk law drawn from the Old South s Victorian code of chivalry and...
In 1916, in the tiny West Texas town of Benjamin, a gunman slips into a courtroom and murders the defendant. In 1912, in Fort Worth s finest hotel, a ...
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73,03 |
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Murdresses in German Writing, 1720-1860
ISBN: 9780521519779 / Angielski / Twarda / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An analysis of how female criminals were perceived both in the legal sphere and in general culture.
An analysis of how female criminals were perceived both in the legal sphere and in general culture.
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442,46 |
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Long Dark Road: Bill King and Murder in Jasper, Texas
ISBN: 9780292721432 / Angielski / Miękka / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On a long dark road in deep East Texas, James Byrd Jr. was dragged to his death behind a pickup truck one summer night in 1998. The brutal modern-day lynching stunned people across America and left everyone at a loss to explain how such a heinous crime could possibly happen in our more racially enlightened times. Many eventually found an answer in the fact that two of the three men convicted of the murder had ties to the white supremacist Confederate Knights of America. In the ex-convict ringleader, Bill King, whose body was covered in racist and satanic tattoos, people saw the ultimate... On a long dark road in deep East Texas, James Byrd Jr. was dragged to his death behind a pickup truck one summer night in 1998. The brutal modern-d... |
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96,34 |
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Parricide in the United States, 1840-1899
ISBN: 9780786445233 / Angielski / Miękka / 203 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The case of Lizzy Borden stands out in the history of sensational criminal cases, but she was not the only person to be accused of killing her parents. This book examines 103 selected cases of individuals charged with parricide - the murder of a father or mother - in the United States.
The case of Lizzy Borden stands out in the history of sensational criminal cases, but she was not the only person to be accused of killing her parents...
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114,15 |
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Sex, Murder, & the Unwritten Law: Gender and Judicial Mayhem, Texas Style
ISBN: 9780896726628 / Angielski / Twarda / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the 1880s until after World War I, Texas prosecutions for adultery, fornication, rape, seduction, and sodomy were many, but formal penal code seemed much too merciful to suit most southerners, who believed in direct and personal redress of such wrongs. Unwritten law seemed to justify the killing or at least maiming of almost anyone who by actual physical contact or inappropriate comment offended southern notions of female virtue, male honor, or sanctity of marriage.Illicit sex is the catalyst in all the Texas murder trials recounted in Sex, Murder, and the Unwritten Law. In each account...
From the 1880s until after World War I, Texas prosecutions for adultery, fornication, rape, seduction, and sodomy were many, but formal penal code see...
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115,42 |
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The Last Lawyer: The Fight to Save Death Row Inmates
ISBN: 9781604733556 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Last Lawyer is the true, inside story of how an idealistic legal genius and his diverse band of investigators and fellow attorneys fought to overturn a client's final sentence. Ken Rose has handled more capital appeals cases than almost any other attorney in the United States. The Last Lawyer chronicles Rose's decade-long defense of Bo Jones, a North Carolina farmhand convicted of a 1987 murder. Rose called this his most frustrating case in twenty-five years, and it was one that received scant attention from judges or journalists. The Jones case bares the thorniest... The Last Lawyer is the true, inside story of how an idealistic legal genius and his diverse band of investigators and fellow attorneys fough... |
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308,55 |
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Murder Two: The Second Casebook of Forensic Detection
ISBN: 9780471215325 / Angielski / Twarda / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. PRAISE FOR The Casebook of Forensic Detection
""Pithy, concise, and remarkably accurate."" -Science Books & Films ""Contains ample material to hold the attention and foster interest in science."" -Science Teacher ""A mystery novelist's essential resource guide."" -Book News, Inc. ""Even the most dedicated devotee of the genre will find much that is new in these brief but exciting accounts."" -Publishers Weekly PRAISE FOR The Casebook of Forensic Detection
""Pithy, concise, and remarkably accurate."" -Science Books & Films ""Contains ample material t... |
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142,39 |
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Women, Murder and Femininity: Gender Representations of Women Who Kill
ISBN: 9780230222755 / Angielski / Twarda / 205 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Women who kill rupture our assumptions about what a woman is. This book explores different socio-cultural understandings of women who commit, or are accused, of murder. A wide range of cases are discussed in order to highlight the ways in which such women have been perceived, and how such cases reflect important social and cultural shifts.
Women who kill rupture our assumptions about what a woman is. This book explores different socio-cultural understandings of women who commit, or are a...
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342,14 |
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The Politics of the Northwest Passage
ISBN: 9780773506138 / Angielski / Twarda / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In August 1985, the United States Coast Guard icebreaker Polar Sea sailed through the Northwest Passage without requesting Canadian permission. The voyage served to highlight the American belief that the channels of the Canadian Arctic archipelago are an international strait. As such, it challenged Canada's understanding that the Northwest Passage has historically been an integral part of Canada's national domain. In September of 1985, the Canadian government made explicit its claim to exclusive jurisdication over the Passage and associated waters. The contributors to Politics of the...
In August 1985, the United States Coast Guard icebreaker Polar Sea sailed through the Northwest Passage without requesting Canadian permission. The vo...
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489,77 |
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Murder in Lexington: VMI, Honor and Justice in Antebellum Virginia
ISBN: 9781540207913 / Angielski / Twarda / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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138,68 |
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Honour, Violence, Women and Islam
ISBN: 9780415565424 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why are honour killings and honour-related violence (HRV) so important to understand? What do such crimes represent? And how does HRV fit in with Western views and perceptions of Islam? This distinctively comparative collection examines the concept of HRV against women in general and Muslim women in particular. The issue of HRV has become a sensitive subject in many South Asian and Middle Eastern countries and it has received the growing attention of the media, human rights groups and academics around the globe. However, the issue has yet to receive detailed academic study in the United... Why are honour killings and honour-related violence (HRV) so important to understand? What do such crimes represent? And how does HRV fit in with W... |
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832,62 |
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Musical Mysteries: From Mozart to John Lennon
ISBN: 9781606350263 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Crime has formed the basis of countless plots in music theater and opera. Several famous composers were murder victims or believed to be murdered, and one of the greatest Renaissance composers slaughtered his wife and her lover. In Musical Mysteries, renowned true crime historian Albert Borowitz turns his attention to the long and complex history of music and crime. The book is divided into two parts. The first addresses three aspects of musical crime: the clashes between envious and competitive musicians, the recurrent question of whether genius and criminality can coexist in the same soul,...
Crime has formed the basis of countless plots in music theater and opera. Several famous composers were murder victims or believed to be murdered, and...
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123,31 |
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The Family Debt: The True Story of Giacomo Jack Bianco
ISBN: 9781450207706 / Angielski / Twarda / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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88,44 |
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Lynchings of Women in the United States: The Recorded Cases, 1851-1946
ISBN: 9780786458981 / Angielski / Miękka / 195 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Between 1850 and 1950, at least 115 women were lynched by mobs in the United States. The majority of these women were black. This book examines the phenomenon of the lynching of women, which was a much more rare experience than the lynching of men. Over the same period covered in this text, more than 1,000 white men were lynched, while thousands of black men were murdered by mobs. Of particular importance in this examination is the role of race in lynching, particularly the increase in the number of black lynchings as the century progressed. Details are provided--when available--for the...
Between 1850 and 1950, at least 115 women were lynched by mobs in the United States. The majority of these women were black. This book examines the ph...
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114,15 |
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Serial Killers - Philosophy for Everyone: Being and Killing
ISBN: 9781405199636 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Serial Killers - Philosophy for Everyone investigates our profound intrigue with mass-murderers. Exploring existential, ethical and political questions through an examination of real and fictional serial killers, philosophy comes alive via an exploration of grisly death.
Serial Killers - Philosophy for Everyone investigates our profound intrigue with mass-murderers. Exploring existential, ethical and political q...
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71,91 |
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