This powerful book reveals the shocking true story of Scott Sullivan, who survived twenty years of total domestic captivity inside a locked attic cell.
With never-before-revealed information, the first-ever insider's account of how the FBI took down the Mafia's Five Families once and for all using RICO law, from their investigation's bold and brilliant inception to its epic, history-making endgamerevealed by the then-untested agent who controlled the investigation that ultimately led to the convictions of the top ranks of Cosa Nostra .
In July 1847, a Maya community in the eastern Yucatán Peninsula rose against the criollo state that had enclosed their land, taxed their ceremonies, and conscripted their men into other people's wars.
This book explores one of the major developments in twentieth-century European history: the gradual emergence of welfare states aimed at providing social security, adequate health care, and equal education for citizens.
In the spring of 1689, a German-born wine merchant named Jacob Leisler seized control of a crumbling fort at the tip of Manhattan and held it for nearly two years in the name of the Protestant monarchs William and Mary.
This book argues that the European Coal and Steel Community in 1951 solved the historic French-German conflict over control of the coal deposits of the Ruhr valley.
Sailing Through Shadows follows the emotional journey of Jeff Gibson, a man deeply affected by the loss of his wife, Karen, who died in a car accident caused by a drunk driver.
Molly Farrell tells the story of colonial America as a testing ground for new ways of conceptualizing numbers, uncovering overlooked forms of numerical thinking to argue that colonialism and the rise of racial capitalism incited a struggle about what exactly a number is and what it can do.
Almost everyone carries a picture of it: a great hall of columns and scrolls, consumed in a single catastrophic blaze, the knowledge of antiquity turning to smoke, a thousand years of progress stolen in a night.
Molly Farrell tells the story of colonial America as a testing ground for new ways of conceptualizing numbers, uncovering overlooked forms of numerical thinking to argue that colonialism and the rise of racial capitalism incited a struggle about what exactly a number is and what it can do.
A briskly written primer on the North Korean decisions, foreign interventions and accidents of fate which have both threatened and, ultimately, preserved the country's dictatorship.
The Hyksos and the War for Egypt tells the dramatic story of one of the most decisive turning points in ancient Egyptian history: the age when foreign rulers rose in the Delta, Egypt fractured into rival kingdoms, and Thebes transformed from a regional power into the force that would reunify the land.
In August 1921, ten thousand armed coal miners marched south through the West Virginia mountains toward Blair Mountain, carrying Springfield rifles and wearing red bandanas at their throats.
This collective volume represents a significant contribution to the critical and historiographical debate on the three major religious and cultural traditions of the Mediterranean-Christianity, Islam, and Judaism-analyzed through the lens of judicial practices rooted in peace-making.
