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The Most Remarkable Woman in England: Poison, Celebrity and the Trials of Beatrice Pace
ISBN: 9780719086175 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The most remarkable woman in England examines an extraordinary legal sensation of the inter-war years, the 1928 trial of Beatrice Pace for the arsenic murder of her husband. It recounts the case and analyses its place in 1920s Britain with regard to justice, celebrity culture and civil liberties.
Illuminating the workings of Britain's criminal justice system in the early twentieth century, this book traces the investigations by Scotland Yard detectives into the mysterious death of Harry Pace and the lengthy coroner's inquest and astonishing trial proceedings that followed. It also... The most remarkable woman in England examines an extraordinary legal sensation of the inter-war years, the 1928 trial of Beatrice Pace for the arsenic...
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425,04 zł |
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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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425,04 zł |
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Serial Murderers
ISBN: 9781606922040 / Angielski / Twarda / 92 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The topic of serial murder occupies a unique niche within the criminal justice community. This book is based on information from who have successfully investigated and apprehended serial killers as well as mental health, academic, and other experts who have studied serial killers and shared their expertise through education and publication.
The topic of serial murder occupies a unique niche within the criminal justice community. This book is based on information from who have successfully...
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428,98 zł |
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A Tale of Two Murders: Passion and Power in Seventeenth-Century France
ISBN: 9780822334590 / Angielski / Twarda / 225 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As scandalous as any modern-day celebrity murder trial, the "Giroux affair" was a maelstrom of intrigue, encompassing daggers, poison, adultery, archenemies, servants, royalty, and legal proceedings that reached the pinnacle of seventeenth-century French society. In 1638 Philippe Giroux, a judge in the highest royal court of Burgundy, allegedly murdered his equally powerful cousin, Pierre Baillet, and Baillet's valet, Philibert Neugot. The murders were all the more shocking because they were surrounded by accusations (particularly that Giroux had been carrying on a passionate affair with...
As scandalous as any modern-day celebrity murder trial, the "Giroux affair" was a maelstrom of intrigue, encompassing daggers, poison, adultery, arche...
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429,03 zł |
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Murder: A Tale of Modern American Life
ISBN: 9780822320531 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What exactly is it about murder that claims such a powerful hold on the American imagination? In this book, Sara L. Knox examines postwar America's preoccupation with this act of violence. Demonstrating how American culture both consumes and produces tales of murder, Knox examines numerous relevant narratives--news stories, psychiatric testimony, legal transcripts, fictional accounts, and examples from the thriving literary genre of true crime.
In her approach to the telling of this cultural phenomenon, Knox draws on historical analysis and original research. She discusses such subjects as... What exactly is it about murder that claims such a powerful hold on the American imagination? In this book, Sara L. Knox examines postwar America's pr...
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429,03 zł |
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Men of Blood: Violence Manliness and Criminal Justice in Victorian England
ISBN: 9780521831987 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the treatment of violence by men against women in nineteenth-century England. Criminal law came to punish violence more systematically and severely during Victoria's reign because it was promoting a new, more pacific ideal of manliness. Yet, this apparently progressive legal development triggered strong resistance, not only from violent men but others who engaged in arguments about democracy, humanitarianism and patriarchy to establish sympathy with "men of blood."
This book examines the treatment of violence by men against women in nineteenth-century England. Criminal law came to punish violence more systematica...
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436,65 zł |
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Murder in Renaissance Italy
ISBN: 9781107136649 / Angielski / Twarda / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This invaluable collection explores the many faces of murder and its cultural presences across the Italian peninsula in the Renaissance.
This invaluable collection explores the many faces of murder and its cultural presences across the Italian peninsula in the Renaissance.
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436,65 zł |
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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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436,65 zł |
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Murder of Mr. Grebell: Madness and Civility in an English Town
ISBN: 9780300099850 / Angielski / Twarda / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On a winter night in 1743, a local magistrate was stabbed to death in the churchyard of Rye by an angry butcher. Why did this gruesome crime happen? What does it reveal about the political, economic, and cultural patterns that existed in this small English port town? To answer these questions, this fascinating book takes us back to the mid-sixteenth century, when religious and social tensions began to fragment the quiet town of Rye and led to witch hunts, riots, and violent political confrontations. Paul Monod examines events over the course of the next two centuries, tracing the... On a winter night in 1743, a local magistrate was stabbed to death in the churchyard of Rye by an angry butcher. Why did this gruesome crime happen... |
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440,91 zł |
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Respect, Defense, and Self-Identity; Profiling Parricide in Nineteenth-Century America, 1852-1899
ISBN: 9781433121067 / Angielski / Twarda / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ever since Oedipus unwittingly killed his father and married his mother in Sophocles play, parricide the killing of a parent or another close relative has been a dominant motif in works of literature, film, psychoanalytic theory, and criminology. Yet, parricide, for much of the twentieth and twenty-first century, has been framed as an adolescent phenomenon, with child abuse proffered as the overriding cause related to the killing of parents. Respect, Defense, and Self-Identity provides a new way of understanding parricides by analyzing the behavior of offenders and victims at the scene...
Ever since Oedipus unwittingly killed his father and married his mother in Sophocles play, parricide the killing of a parent or another close relative...
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445,34 zł |
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The Wrong Carlos: Anatomy of a Wrongful Execution
ISBN: 9780231167222 / Angielski / Twarda / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1989, Texas executed Carlos DeLuna, a poor Hispanic man with childlike intelligence, for the murder of Wanda Lopez, a convenience store clerk. His execution passed unnoticed for years until a team of Columbia Law School faculty and students almost accidentally chose to investigate his case and found that DeLuna almost certainly was innocent. They discovered that no one had cared enough about either the defendant or the victim to make sure the real perpetrator was found. Everything that could go wrong in a criminal case did. This book documents DeLuna's conviction, which was based on a...
In 1989, Texas executed Carlos DeLuna, a poor Hispanic man with childlike intelligence, for the murder of Wanda Lopez, a convenience store clerk. His ...
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446,29 zł |
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Murder at the Select Specialty Hospital Med Center, in Houston, Texas. Part 1: How to expose a deceptive murderess.
ISBN: 9781976107962 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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446,51 zł |
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Sapphic Slashers: Sex, Violence, and American Modernity
ISBN: 9780822326090 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On a winter day in 1892, in the broad daylight of downtown Memphis, Tennessee, a middle class woman named Alice Mitchell slashed the throat of her lover, Freda Ward, killing her instantly. Local, national, and international newspapers, medical and scientific publications, and popular fiction writers all clamored to cover the ensuing girl lovers murder trial. Lisa Duggan locates in this sensationalized event the emergence of the lesbian in U.S. mass culture and shows how newly modern notions of normality and morality that arose from such cases still haunt and distort lesbian and gay politics...
On a winter day in 1892, in the broad daylight of downtown Memphis, Tennessee, a middle class woman named Alice Mitchell slashed the throat of her lov...
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449,21 zł |
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Lynching in the West: 1850-1935
ISBN: 9780822337812 / Angielski / Twarda / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Accounts of lynching in the United States have primarily focused on violence against African Americans in the South. Ken Gonzales-Day reveals racially motivated lynching as a more widespread practice. His research uncovered 350 instances of lynching that occurred in the state of California between 1850 and 1935. The majority were perpetrated against Latinos, Native Americans, and Asian Americans; more Latinos were lynched in California than were persons of any other race or ethnicity.
An artist and writer, Gonzales-Day began this study by photographing lynching sites in order to... Accounts of lynching in the United States have primarily focused on violence against African Americans in the South. Ken Gonzales-Day reveals racially...
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449,21 zł |
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Making Murder Public: Homicide in Early Modern England, 1480-1680
ISBN: 9780198835622 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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451,00 zł |
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Swanson: The Life and Times of a Victorian Detective
ISBN: 9780993180613 / Angielski / Twarda / 792 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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452,81 zł |
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Man-Leopard Murders : History and Society in Colonial Nigeria
ISBN: 9780748625536 / Angielski / Twarda / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Provides an account of murder and politics in Africa, and an historical ethnography of southern Annang communities during the colonial period. This book's narrative leads to events between 1945 and 1948 when the Imperial gaze of police, press and politicia
Provides an account of murder and politics in Africa, and an historical ethnography of southern Annang communities during the colonial period. This bo...
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454,26 zł |
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Serial Killers Around the World: The Global Dimensions of Serial Murder
ISBN: 9781608058433 / Angielski / Miękka / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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455,45 zł |
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Pioneering Death: The Violence of Boyhood in Turn-of-the-Century Oregon
ISBN: 9780295749983 / Angielski / Twarda / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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459,31 zł |
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The Courtesan and the Gigolo: The Murders in the Rue Montaigne and the Dark Side of Empire in Nineteenth-Century Paris
ISBN: 9781503600157 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The intrigue began with a triple homicide in a luxury apartment building just steps from the Champs-Elysees, in March 1887. A high-class prostitute and two others, one of them a child, had been stabbed to death--the latest in a string of unsolved murders targeting women of the Parisian demimonde. Newspapers eagerly reported the lurid details, and when the police arrested Enrico Pranzini, a charismatic and handsome Egyptian migrant, the story became an international sensation. As the case descended into scandal and papers fanned the flames of anti-immigrant politics, the investigation... The intrigue began with a triple homicide in a luxury apartment building just steps from the Champs-Elysees, in March 1887. A high-class prostitute... |
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459,31 zł |
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