Blinded in one eye by a childhood incident, his tormentors called him 'One Eye' or 'Cyclops'; it could have instilled a victim mentality in him, but instead he became a fighter.
When the young and impressionable sons and daughters of rural Australia were promised power and riches beyond their wildest dreams by an older sadistic boss, they become a highly manipulated and dangerous group of drug dealers.
Dokumentation auf Basis aktueller Forschungsaufträge und Rückfragen bei Bundesarchiven sowie Forschungs- und Gedenkstätten in Berlin (Normannenstraße), Dresden (Riesaer Straße, Fuchsbau) und Leipzig (Rundes Eck), u.
I'm In No Mood For Love is a gorgeously enjoyable rom-com from New York Times bestseller Rachel Gibson - perfect for fans of Jill Shalvis, Jo Watson and Christina Lauren.
There cannot be many cities where crime could mean anything from singing a seditious song to stealing a ship, but nineteenth-century Glasgow was a unique place with an amazing dynamism.
As a pioneer of the modern legal novel and a criminal lawyer, Scott Turow has been involved with the death penalty for more than a decade, including successfully representing two different men convicted in death-penalty prosecutions.
'EXCELLENT WRITING AND RESEARCH' - RUTH RENDELLThe Crime Museum of New Scotland Yard - invariably known as 'the Black Museum' - houses a remarkable collection of exhibits, photographs and documents connected with some of the most notorious crimes in this country's history.
The inside story of a treasured profession, in the footsteps of Confessions of a GP and Kitchen ConfidentialSince making his journalistic debut breaking into Piers Morgans office, BBC foreign correspondent Nick Bryant has rattled Donald Rumsfeld, had tea with President Karzai, and lunched with the Tamil Tigers.
On 3 August 2012, as London was gripped by the Olympics, Tia Sharp, a 12-year old schoolgirl, was reported missing from her grandmother's home in New Addington, south London.
David Remnick is a man much praised for his powers of observation, description and analysis, and Reporting contains his very best pieces from his first fifteen years as editor of The New Yorker.
Originally published in 1906, this volume contains a wealth of information on the methods and history of various criminal art forms such as pick-pocketing, burglary, confidence tricksters and much more by legendary escapologist Harry Houdini.
In the post-civil war American south, the despicable act of lynching was commonplace and considered to be a form of vigilantism that was used to murder African Americans for alleged "e;crimes"e; ranging from acting suspiciously to "e;insulting whites"e;.
En este numero de Texturasse pueden encontrar textos de Jean-Jacques Pauver, Gonzalo Ponton, Carlos Diaz, Daniel Goldin, Mike Shatzkin, Robert Paris Riger, Joaquin Rodriguez, Gabriela Torregrosa, Inigo Garcia Ureta, Rudiger Wischenbart, Paco Puche, Javier Luque, Jose Maria Barandiaran, Frances Steloff y Henry Miller.
Este texto es una respuesta al debate sobre la necesidad de reformar o no la Constitución para regular el mercado de cannabis o de cualquier sustancia psicoactiva ilícita en Colombia, dada la prohibición al porte y consumo introducida al artículo 49 constitucional en 2009.
"Pero el libro de Marisol Donis no es solamente el relato truculento de unos infaustos crímenes sino que también es toda una obra maestra sobre la vida y sociedad del siglo XIX en España y la forma en que los españoles veían el mundo que tenían ante ellos.
Alice Morse Earle was a social historian of great note at the turn of the century, and many of her books have lived on as well-researched and well-written texts of everyday life in Colonial America.
For over fifty years, Freddie Foreman's name has commanded respect, and occasionally fear, from those who work to uphold the law - and those who operate just outside of it.
Delve Into the Shadows of Historys Greatest MysteriesStep into a world where the past refuses to be forgotten, where mysteries linger unsolved, and the truth waits to be uncovered.
En este número de Texturas se pueden encontrar textos de Verónica García, Letras Corsarias, Ana Garralón, Ricardo Artola, Bárbara Mingo, Miguel Aguilar, Catalina Martínez Muñoz, Guillermo Schavelzon, Natalia Zarco, Antonio Iturbe, Joaquín Rodríguez, Javier Marías, Carlos Alberto Scolari, Antonio Muñoz Molina, Maica Rivera, Antonio Mª Ávila, Elvira Marco, José Manuel Anta, Manuel Gil, Maribel Riaza y Matías Maggio-Ramírez.
The history of corporal punishment provides a fascinating window into societal attitudes towards law and order, gender relationships and generational discipline as well.
