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Death of a Dissident: The Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko and the Return of the KGB
ISBN: 9781416552024 / Angielski / Miękka / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The assassination of former Russian intelligence officer Alexander "Sasha" Litvinenko in November 2006 -- poisoned by the rare radioactive element polonium -- caused an international sensation. Within a few short weeks, the fit forty-three-year-old lay gaunt, bald, and dying in a hospital, the victim of a "tiny nuclear bomb." Suspicions swirled around Russia's FSB, the successor to the KGB, and the Putin regime. Traces of polonium radiation were found in Germany and on certain airplanes, suggesting a travel route from Russia for the carriers of the fatal poison. But what really happened? What...
The assassination of former Russian intelligence officer Alexander "Sasha" Litvinenko in November 2006 -- poisoned by the rare radioactive element pol...
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92,44 |
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Parents Who Killed Their Children: Filicide
ISBN: 9781494787066 / Angielski / Miękka / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Warning: Content contains sensitive material that may not be suitable for all readers. Filicide is the intended act of parents killing their children. The act is also regarded as an offence since it amounts to murder. It appears to very unnatural for a parent to end the life of his child. As much as this appears to be inhumane and unimaginable, there are some parents who kill their offspring. We consider mothers to hold the highest status in our lives. For a son, there is no greater being on this planet than his mother. She gives birth to the child, cares for him when he is at his most...
Warning: Content contains sensitive material that may not be suitable for all readers. Filicide is the intended act of parents killing their children....
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56,61 |
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Fear the Reaper
ISBN: 9781892523907 / Angielski / Miękka / 426 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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112,75 |
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Interview mit einer alten Dame: Eine ungewoehnliche Familiengeschichte
ISBN: 9781499180091 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 462 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Die siebzehnjahrige Melanie gerat in Bedrangnis, als ihr Lehrer sie vor das Ultimatum stellt: Entweder liefert sie das ihr auferlegte Projekt mit Note eins ab, oder sie fliegt ohne Abschluss von der Schule. Gelangweilt, faul und bockig geht Melanie an das Projekt Interview mit einer alten Dame heran. Sie gerat an eine knackige Alte und zwei Welten prallen aufeinander. Erst der beilaufig eingestreute Satz "Ich habe meine Schwester ermordet," alarmiert das junge Madchen und ein spannendes Katz- und Mausspiel zwischen den unterschiedlichen Generationen beginnt. Mit Witz und Einfuhlungsvermogen...
Die siebzehnjahrige Melanie gerat in Bedrangnis, als ihr Lehrer sie vor das Ultimatum stellt: Entweder liefert sie das ihr auferlegte Projekt mit Note...
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64,46 |
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Blood Runs Green: The Murder That Transfixed Gilded Age Chicago
ISBN: 9780226248950 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It was the biggest funeral Chicago had seen since Lincoln's. On May 26, 1889, four thousand mourners proceeded down Michigan Avenue, followed by a crowd forty thousand strong, in a howl of protest at what commentators called one of the ghastliest and most curious crimes in civilized history. The dead man, Dr. P. H. Cronin, was a respected Irish physician, but his brutal murder uncovered a web of intrigue, secrecy, and corruption that stretched across the United States and far beyond. Blood Runs Green tells the story of Cronin's murder from the police investigation to the trial. It...
It was the biggest funeral Chicago had seen since Lincoln's. On May 26, 1889, four thousand mourners proceeded down Michigan Avenue, followed by a cro...
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412,44 |
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Listening to Killers: Lessons Learned from My Twenty Years as a Psychological Expert Witness in Murder Cases
ISBN: 9780520282872 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Listening to Killers offers an inside look at twenty years' worth of murder files from Dr. James Garbarino, a leading expert psychological witness who listens to killers so that he can testify in court. The author offers detailed accounts of how killers travel a path that leads from childhood innocence to lethal violence in adolescence or adulthood. He places the emotional and moral damage of each individual killer within a larger scientific framework of social, psychological, anthropological, and biological research on human development. By linking individual cases to broad social and...
Listening to Killers offers an inside look at twenty years' worth of murder files from Dr. James Garbarino, a leading expert psychological witn...
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108,27 |
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The Brooklyn Thrill-Kill Gang and the Great Comic Book Scare of the 1950s
ISBN: 9781440833724 / Angielski / Twarda / 167 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. After ongoing months of daily headlines about gang shootouts, stomp-killings, and millions of dollars worth of vandalism, by the summer of 1954, America had had enough of juvenile delinquency. It was in this environment that 18-year-old Jack Koslow and the other three teenage members of the Brooklyn Thrill Killers committed their heinous crimes and achieved notoriety. The Brooklyn Thrill-Kill Gang and the Great Comic Book Scare of the 1950s exposes the underbelly of America's mid-century, the terrible price of assimilation, the uncomfortable bedfellows of comic books and juvenile... After ongoing months of daily headlines about gang shootouts, stomp-killings, and millions of dollars worth of vandalism, by the summer of 1954, Am... |
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221,69 |
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Incomplete Without My Brother, Adonis
ISBN: 9781628577761 / Angielski / Miękka / 766 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "We walked on a patch of grass that seemed to have been burnt a few hours earlier, with soot covering our feet. There, in front of us, lay my beloved brother, Adonis, lifeless, his body facing up. There were numerous stab wounds on his body, including his face, and his lumber jacket was half burnt."
Thus begins Kaizer Nyatsumbas tragic story of his twin brothers horrible murder. It is also an intriguing look into aspects of South African life hitherto unknown to many. They were twins of a special kind, the closest of friends, and each others confidantes. Their mothers were sisters, they... "We walked on a patch of grass that seemed to have been burnt a few hours earlier, with soot covering our feet. There, in front of us, lay my beloved ...
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111,75 |
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Parents Who Killed Their Children: Filicide (Large Print)
ISBN: 9781500835330 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What can possibly incite parents to kill their own children? This collection of "Filicidal Killers" provides a fast-paced, gripping overview of how things can go horribly wrong in once-loving families. This book depicts ten of the most notorious and horrific cases of homicidal parental units out of control. People like--Andrea Yates, Diane Downs, Susan Smith, and Jeffrey MacDonald--who received a great deal of media attention. The author explores the reasons; from addiction to postpartum psychosis, insanity to altruism. Each story is detailed with background information on the parents, the...
What can possibly incite parents to kill their own children? This collection of "Filicidal Killers" provides a fast-paced, gripping overview of how th...
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64,58 |
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Lost Girls
ISBN: 9781250036360 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A New York Times Bestseller A New York Times Bestseller |
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154,10 |
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Looking Into the Eyes of a Killer: A Psychiatrist's Journey Through the Murderer's World
ISBN: 9780306457913 / Angielski / Miękka / 271 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drew Ross explores the many contradictions and misconceptions that prevail when juries and judges evaluate insanity pleas and issues of blame. From 1990-1997, Ross served as a forensic psychiatrist for the criminal justice system. His job was to judge the "sanity" of people charged with murder. The law requires black and white answers: Did someone kill because of a psychosis? Should he or she be confined to a prison or to a mental hospital? What makes a person into a killer? In session after session, Ross was drawn into the killers' - and their victims' - nightmares. Unfortunately his...
Drew Ross explores the many contradictions and misconceptions that prevail when juries and judges evaluate insanity pleas and issues of blame. From 19...
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201,24 |
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Blow: How a Small-Town Boy Made $100 Million with the Medellín Cocaine Cartel and Lost It All
ISBN: 9781250067784 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. BLOW is the unlikely story of George Jung's roller coaster ride from middle-class high school football hero to the heart of Pable Escobar's Medellin cartel-- the largest importer of the United States cocaine supply in the 1980s. Jung's early business of flying marijuana into the United States from the mountains of Mexico took a dramatic turn when he met Carlos Lehder, a young Colombian car thief with connections to the then newly born cocaine operation in his native land. Together they created a new model for selling cocaine, turning a drug used primarily by the entertainment elite... BLOW is the unlikely story of George Jung's roller coaster ride from middle-class high school football hero to the heart of Pable Escobar's ... |
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77,07 |
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Lizzie Borden on Trial: Murder, Ethnicity, and Gender
ISBN: 9780700620715 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Most people could probably tell you that Lizzie Borden "took an axe and gave her mother forty whacks," but few could say that, when tried, Lizzie Borden was acquitted, and fewer still, why. In Joseph A. Conforti's engrossing retelling, the case of Lizzie Borden, sensational in itself, also opens a window on a time and place in American history and culture. Surprising for how much it reveals about a legend so ostensibly familiar, Conforti's account is also fascinating for what it tells us about the world that Lizzie Borden inhabited. As Conforti--himself a native of Fall River, the site of...
Most people could probably tell you that Lizzie Borden "took an axe and gave her mother forty whacks," but few could say that, when tried, Lizzie Bord...
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284,07 |
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Alice in Shandehland: Scandal and Scorn in the Edelson/Horwitz Murder Case
ISBN: 9780773545595 / Angielski / Twarda / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. By 1931, Ben and Alice Edelson had been married for two decades and had seven children, but for years Alice had been having an affair with the married Jack Horwitz. On the night of 24 November, Ben, Alice, and Jack met at Edelson Jewellers to "settle the thing." Words flew, a brawl erupted, and Jack was shot and killed. The tragedy marked the start of a sensational legal case that captured Ottawa headlines, with the prominent jeweller facing the gallows. Through a detailed examination of newspaper coverage, interviews with family and community members, and evocative archival photographs,...
By 1931, Ben and Alice Edelson had been married for two decades and had seven children, but for years Alice had been having an affair with the married...
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181,22 |
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Insulin Uses & Abuses
ISBN: 9781934844632 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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107,90 |
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Murder Inc.: The Rise and Fall of Ireland's Most Dangerous Criminal Gang
ISBN: 9780241970461 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Murder Inc. is the latest blockbuster by Ireland's most respected crime writer and journalist, Paul Williams. Murder Inc. is the definitive account of how organized crime exploded in Limerick from the 1990s and in the noughties. It describes the depravity and decadence of the gangs, their deadly rivaliries, and their reigns of terror over the community in which they lived. Finally, Williams traces the faultlines that eventually led to the implosion of the gangs and their defeat. Drawing on his vast inside knowledge of the criminal underworld, an unparalleled range of contacts and eye witness...
Murder Inc. is the latest blockbuster by Ireland's most respected crime writer and journalist, Paul Williams. Murder Inc. is the definitive account of...
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55,31 |
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The Perfect Kill: 21 Laws for Assassins
ISBN: 9780147516503 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An odyssey through the art, theory, and brutality of modern political murder by Robert Baer, New York Times bestselling author, former CIA operative, and, yes, assassin
All four of Robert B. Baer s previous books were New York Times bestsellers, and it s no wonder. A recipient of the Career Intelligence Medal, Baer served as a CIA operative for decades, and his career was the model for the acclaimed movie Syriana. Now, Baer draws on his extensive firsthand experience including a decades-long cat-and-mouse hunt for the greatest assassin of the modern age... An odyssey through the art, theory, and brutality of modern political murder by Robert Baer, New York Times bestselling author, former CIA o...
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92,48 |
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Manson, Sinatra and Me: A Hollywood Party Girl's Memoir and How She Helped Vincent Bugliosi with the Helter Skelter Case
ISBN: 9781771432054 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Manson, Sinatra and Me is a Hollywood party girl's memoir that details her encounters with former Presidents, Senators, Congressmen, foreign dignitaries, celebrities, sports stars, businessmen - you name it - including the likes of Frank Sinatra and other members of the Rat Pack. The average man or woman may not have heard of Virginia Graham, but everybody in the know was aware of what her game was as a key player in the Hollywood Screw System. Manson, Sinatra and Me is a Hollywood party girl's memoir that details her encounters with former Presidents, Senators, Congressmen, foreign... |
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86,10 |
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Elementary: The Explosive File on Scott Watson and the Disappearance of Ben & Olivia - What Haven't They Told You?
ISBN: 9780994106469 / Angielski / Miękka / 364 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book that shocked a nation, with a major new twist in one of the most perplexing maritime murder mysteries of this millennium. Fifteen-hundred revelers gathered for New Year's Eve at a picturesque Lodge, accessible only by boat, in New Zealand's stunningly scenic Marlborough Sounds. Two of those revelers, 21 year old Ben Smart and 17 year old Olivia Hope, were never seen again. This is, for the first time, the real story of what happened. Scott Watson was convicted of their murders, but the question has always lingered: did he really do it. Now, we have the answers that even police...
The book that shocked a nation, with a major new twist in one of the most perplexing maritime murder mysteries of this millennium. Fifteen-hundred rev...
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107,86 |
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Waterfront
ISBN: 9780733632518 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The colourful and gripping story of the criminal exploits, larger-than-life characters, the politics and the crooks who have populated Australia's docks, wharves and ports - from the First Fleet to today.
The colourful and gripping story of the criminal exploits, larger-than-life characters, the politics and the crooks who have populated Australia's doc...
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116,48 |