Stamp Counterfeiting: The Evolution of an Unrecognized Crime
ISBN: 9780615508856 / Angielski / Miękka / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Stamp Counterfeiting" looks into an intriguing crime that originated in Chicago in the 1890s - the so-called Gilded Age, when charlatans and crooks flocked to the cities to make their fortune by nefarious means. Covering the period from 1894 to 1940, author H.K. Petschel delves into the true crime cases that flourished as criminals of all stripes began to try their hand at counterfeiting stamps, ranging from the lone operator running a printing press in his living room to the organized crime syndicates. A former postal inspector who investigated many of the postal counterfeits in the 1970s,...
"Stamp Counterfeiting" looks into an intriguing crime that originated in Chicago in the 1890s - the so-called Gilded Age, when charlatans and crooks f...
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114,08 zł |
The Las Vegas Chronicles: The Inside Story of Sin City, Celebrities, Special Players and Fascinating Casino Owners
ISBN: 9780965849951 / Angielski / Miękka / 450 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The Las Vegas Chronicles" assembles the true stories of the city's most conniving mobsters and how they ran Sin City during its heyday. Pairing McLean's personal experience working in Las Vegas with his vivid investigative style of writing, this beautifully illustrated book gives you a unique look into the history of this extraordinary city. Uncover the Hollywood myth behind Bugsy Siegel and his wacko schemes for the Flamingo Hotel, and witness the real evolution of the fabulous Strip.
In addition to exploring the annals of Mob activity in Vegas, you get a handy, fact-based Timeline of... "The Las Vegas Chronicles" assembles the true stories of the city's most conniving mobsters and how they ran Sin City during its heyday. Pairing McLea...
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109,70 zł |
The Pirates of Somalia: Inside Their Hidden World
ISBN: 9780307476562 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first close-up look at the hidden world of Somali pirates by a young journalist who dared to make his way into their remote havens and spent a year infiltrating their lives. For centuries, stories of pirates have captured imaginations around the world. The recent ragtag bands of pirates off the coast of Somalia, hijacking multimillion-dollar tankers owned by international shipping conglomerates, have brought the scourge of piracy into the modern era. Jay Bahadur's riveting narrative expose--the first of its kind--looks at who these men are, how they live, the forces that created...The first close-up look at the hidden world of Somali pirates by a young journalist who dared to make his way into their remote havens and spent a ... |
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71,04 zł |
The Boston Mob Guide: Hit Men, Hoodlums & Hideouts
ISBN: 9781609494209 / Angielski / Miękka / 159 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The capture of notorious mobster James "Whitey" Bulger closed an infamous chapter in Boston history. Yet the city's criminal underworld has a long and bloody rap sheet that stretches back to the beginning of the twentieth century. Boston journalists Beverly Ford and Stephanie Schorow reveal the underbelly of Boston through profiles of ruthless gangsters like Charles "King" Solomon, the Angiulo brothers, Joseph "The Animal" Barboza, Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi and many more. Ford and Schorow navigate the backrooms and seedy hangouts where deadly hits and lucrative heists were hatched to...
The capture of notorious mobster James "Whitey" Bulger closed an infamous chapter in Boston history. Yet the city's criminal underworld has a long and...
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83,54 zł |
The Magic Bus (Bust) - El Magic Bus (Busto): Inside the Case-A Closer Look, Dentro de la caja, Una mirada más cercana
ISBN: 9781462011452 / Angielski / Miękka / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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45,76 zł |
It's My Life And My World
ISBN: 9781466489585 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Life story of a Hustler, a tell all book about the dark side of society. Tells how women can be turned-out, to anything conceivable? The Prostitution world isn't very well lit, but it is there in the darkness.
The Life story of a Hustler, a tell all book about the dark side of society. Tells how women can be turned-out, to anything conceivable? The Prostitut...
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65,82 zł |
No Colors: 100 Ways to Stop Gangs from Taking Away Our Communities
ISBN: 9781614480990 / Angielski / Miękka / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. No Colors is a Warning
No Colors is a Warning
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83,37 zł |
Corporate Godfathers
ISBN: 9781908293114 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Your career is your future - are you going to let your competitors climb over you to get to the top? Or are you prepared to take a leaf out of the Mafia s book and use their career guide to get to the position that you want, and deserve? Corporate Godfathers is the Mafia s secret career guide, issued to the new recruits that are being placed into corporations everywhere. You can either stand back and let them take those promotions from right under your nose, or you can learn their methods and play them at their own game. The Mob is infiltrating its bright, ambitious and loyal young men and...
Your career is your future - are you going to let your competitors climb over you to get to the top? Or are you prepared to take a leaf out of the Maf...
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70,36 zł |
Branded by Ronnie Kray
ISBN: 9781904034544 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lenny Hamilton has been at the receiving end of one of Ronnie Kray's most brutal acts of violence. This book gives a first-hand account of life under the Twins' brutal regime and should change the way they are perceived by the public. It also reveals the identity of Reggie's secret love child.
Lenny Hamilton has been at the receiving end of one of Ronnie Kray's most brutal acts of violence. This book gives a first-hand account of life under ...
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74,84 zł |
The Invisible Maiming Torture Enterprise of Organized Stalking Assaults
ISBN: 9781466486515 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. If you are a witness to a crime or a victim of a crime, of which no evidence is left other than your testimony, the author of the crime does not have to kill you in order to perfect the crime. Indeed, your sudden death or disappearance will naturally raise law enforcement's suspicion. A crime syndicate can provide a service of perfecting the crime by undermining your psychological credibility: systematic stalking and clandestinely invisible assaults by a multitude of conspiring individuals can be strategically engineered to make your experience resemble either the diagnostic description of...
If you are a witness to a crime or a victim of a crime, of which no evidence is left other than your testimony, the author of the crime does not have ...
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87,76 zł |
Relax and Breath Easy
ISBN: 9781470048693 / Angielski / Miękka / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Life as a mid-level organized crime associate has its perks; money, women, power but when trusted high-level associate's starts acting funny, the boss is nowhere to be found and enemies are turning into allies. In a world where double crossing is expected and people get flipped as soon as their made, its difficult to tell who's your friends and when you discover your girlfriend was kidnapped, all barriers are shattered. Racing against the foreboding clock our narrator will have to decide who's a friend, who's an enemy and carefully navigate the seedy under belly of Southern California, All...
Life as a mid-level organized crime associate has its perks; money, women, power but when trusted high-level associate's starts acting funny, the boss...
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87,72 zł |
El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency
ISBN: 9781608194018 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The world has watched, stunned, the bloodshed in Mexico. Forty thousand murdered since 2006; police chiefs shot within hours of taking office; mass graves comparable to those of civil wars; car bombs shattering storefronts; headless corpses heaped in town squares. And it is all because a few Americans are getting high. Or is it part of a worldwide shadow economy that threatens Mexico's democracy? The United States throws Black Hawk helicopters, DEA assistance, and lots of money at the problem. But in secret, Washington is at a loss. Who are these mysterious figures who threaten Mexico's... The world has watched, stunned, the bloodshed in Mexico. Forty thousand murdered since 2006; police chiefs shot within hours of taking office; mass... |
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75,22 zł |
Prayer in the shadow of death
ISBN: 9780615579511 / Angielski / Miękka / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Places and names have not been changed. This is the revised edition of "Bloodcaine." The true story of a devoted Christian mother who looses her oldest son to a violent cocaine underworld network. Her faithful unshakable FAITH in GOD's WORD & help. As her praying life is rewarded by God; who rescues Robert Vidal from the traps of his enemies and the near justice toll booth of death row. "Believe In the POWER of PRAYER." Love, money, violence, family, redemption, new life in Christ.] DRUGS will change peoples lives and visions.. "SAY NO TO DRUGS"
Places and names have not been changed. This is the revised edition of "Bloodcaine." The true story of a devoted Christian mother who looses her oldes...
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52,44 zł |
Jackpot: High Times, High Seas, and the Sting That Launched the War on Drugs
ISBN: 9780762780303 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the late 1970s and early '80s, a cadre of freewheeling, Southern pot smugglers lived at the crossroads of Miami Vice and a Jimmy Buffett song. These irrepressible adventurers unloaded nearly a billion dollars worth of marijuana and hashish through the eastern seaboard's marshes. Then came their undoing: Operation Jackpot, one of the largest drug investigations ever and an opening volley in Ronald Reagan's War on Drugs. In Jackpot, author Jason Ryan takes us back to the heady days before drug smuggling was synonymous with deadly gunplay. During this golden age of marijuana trafficking, the...
In the late 1970s and early '80s, a cadre of freewheeling, Southern pot smugglers lived at the crossroads of Miami Vice and a Jimmy Buffett song. Thes...
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68,88 zł |
The Hitman: The True Story of Murder, Redemption and the Melrose Diner
ISBN: 9781470172091 / Angielski / Miękka / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How a poor kid from South Philly became a Mafia hit man, survived three gunshots to the head to become a federally protected witness who brought down the Philly mob ... and then reinvented himself as a wildly successful car salesman.
How a poor kid from South Philly became a Mafia hit man, survived three gunshots to the head to become a federally protected witness who brought down ...
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57,00 zł |
The Almighty Black P Stone Nation: The Rise, Fall, and Resurgence of an American Gang
ISBN: 9781613744918 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This expose investigates the evolution of the Almighty Black P Stone Nation, a motley group of poverty-stricken teens transformed into a dominant gang accused of terroristic intentions. Interwoven into the narrative is the dynamic influence of leader Jeff Fort, who despite his flamboyance and high visibility instilled a rigid structure and discipline that afforded the young men a refuge and a sense of purpose in an often hopeless community. Details of how the Nation procured government funding for gang-related projects during the War on Poverty era and fueled bonuses and job security for law...
This expose investigates the evolution of the Almighty Black P Stone Nation, a motley group of poverty-stricken teens transformed into a dominant gang...
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75,01 zł |
Knox Vegas: Murder on Market Square
ISBN: 9781450528627 / Angielski / Miękka / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Boomsday fireworks light up the skies in downtown Knoxville. The light show reflecting off the Tennessee River's surface disguises the caustic waters beneath, polluted by years of improper regulation by inept, corrupt politicians. A troubled mayor and his personal assistant watch the show from the top floor of the city-county administration building. The mayor wonders if the patients staring out of the windows of Baptist Hospital on the bluff across the river are enjoying the incineration of $100,000 of their tax money for the brief show. Little does he know that one of those silhouettes in...
Boomsday fireworks light up the skies in downtown Knoxville. The light show reflecting off the Tennessee River's surface disguises the caustic waters ...
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65,60 zł |
Organized Crime in Chicago: Beyond the Mafia
ISBN: 9780252037306 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides a comprehensive sociological explanation for the emergence and continuation of organized crime in Chicago. Tracing the roots of political corruption that afforded protection to gambling, prostitution, and other vice activity in Chicago and other large American cities, Robert M. Lombardo challenges the dominant belief that organized crime in America descended directly from the Sicilian Mafia. According to this widespread "alien conspiracy" theory, organized crime evolved in a linear fashion beginning with the Mafia in Sicily, emerging in the form of the Black Hand in... This book provides a comprehensive sociological explanation for the emergence and continuation of organized crime in Chicago. Tracing the roots of ... |
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524,95 zł |
Organized Crime in Chicago: Beyond the Mafia
ISBN: 9780252078781 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides a comprehensive sociological explanation for the emergence and continuation of organized crime in Chicago. Tracing the roots of political corruption that afforded protection to gambling, prostitution, and other vice activity in Chicago and other large American cities, Robert M. Lombardo challenges the dominant belief that organized crime in America descended directly from the Sicilian Mafia. According to this widespread "alien conspiracy" theory, organized crime evolved in a linear fashion beginning with the Mafia in Sicily, emerging in the form of the Black Hand in... This book provides a comprehensive sociological explanation for the emergence and continuation of organized crime in Chicago. Tracing the roots of ... |
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115,80 zł |
Gangster Squad: Covert Cops, the Mob, and the Battle for Los Angeles
ISBN: 9781250020116 / Angielski / Miękka / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Read this man's book." --James Ellroy GANGSTER SQUAD chronicles the true story of the secretive police unit that waged an anything-goes war to drive Mickey Cohen and other hoodlums from Los Angeles after WWII. In 1946, the LAPD launched the Gangster Squad with eight men who met covertly on street corners and slept with Tommy guns under their beds.... "Read this man's book." --James Ellroy |
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66,82 zł |