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Public Rape: Representing Violation in Fiction and Film

Public Rape: Representing Violation in Fiction and Film...

Author: Tanya Horeck
ISBN: 9781299287983
Format: Electronic book text
$330.00

Second-wave feminism fought to end the blanket silence shrouding rape and bring it to public attention. Now feminist...  Read More >>

Sexual Assault and Abuse: Sociocultural Context of Prevention

Sexual Assault and Abuse: Sociocultural Context of Prevention...

Author: Robert E Hess ,  Carolyn F Swift
ISBN: 9781299288799
Format: Electronic book text
$132.00

Contributors address the need to change social and cultural beliefs and practices that permit the sexual victimization...  Read More >>

Architect of Desire

Architect of Desire

Author: Suzannah Lessard
ISBN: 9781299056329
Format: Electronic book text
$150.48

The story of Stanford White--his scandalous affair with the 16-year-old actress Evelyn Nesbit, his murder in 1906...  Read More >>

Whitey

Whitey

Author: Dick Lehr
ISBN: 9781299177000
Format: Electronic book text
$118.80

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Conspiracy of Brothers: A True Story of Bikers, Murder and the Law

Conspiracy of Brothers: A True Story of Bikers, Murder...

Author: Mick Lowe
ISBN: 9781299468337
Format: Electronic book text
$209.09

To coincide with Random House Canada's publication of the groundbreaking book Unrepentant by Peter Edwards and...  Read More >>

Son of a Gun: A Memoir

Son of a Gun: A Memoir

Author: Justin St Germain
ISBN: 9781299754737
Format: Electronic book text
$126.72

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLY In the tradition of Tobias Wolff, James Ellroy, and...  Read More >>

Duel with the Devil

Duel with the Devil

Author: Paul Collins
ISBN: 9781299619944
Format: Electronic book text
$126.72

BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE EDGAR FINALIST, MURDER OF THE CENTURY In the closing days of 1799, the United States...  Read More >>

Among the Thugs

Among the Thugs

Author: Bill Buford
ISBN: 9781299461529
Format: Electronic book text
$126.72

What sort of man spends his Saturday afternoons with people named Bonehead, Paraffin Pete and Steamin' Sammy? This...  Read More >>

Alger Hiss, Whittaker Chambers and the Case That Ignited McCarthyism

Alger Hiss, Whittaker Chambers and the Case That Ignited...

Author: Lewis Hartshorn
ISBN: 9781299732476
Format: Electronic book text
$118.80

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Women and English Piracy, 1540-1720: Partners and Victims of Crime

Women and English Piracy, 1540-1720: Partners and Victims...

Author: John C Appleby
ISBN: 9781299875081
Format: Electronic book text
$250.80

Drawing on a wide body of evidence, the book argues that the support of women was vital to the persistence of piracy...  Read More >>

Hurricane

Hurricane

Author: James S Hirsch
ISBN: 9781299910379
Format: Electronic book text
$39.57

In 1967, the black boxer Rubin Hurricane Carter and a young acquaintance, John Artis, were wrongly convicted of...  Read More >>

Sex Offenders: Punish, Help, Change or Control?: Theory, Policy and Practice Explored

Sex Offenders: Punish, Help, Change or Control?: Theory,...

Author: Jo Brayford (University of Wales, Newport) ,  Francis Cowe (University of Wales, Newport)
ISBN: 9781299539310
Format: Electronic book text
$396.00

Sex offending, and in particular child sex offending, is a complex area for policy makers, theorists and practitioners....  Read More >>

Insurance Fraud Casebook: Paying a Premium for Crime

Insurance Fraud Casebook: Paying a Premium for Crime...

Author: Joseph T Wells (Association of Certified Fraud Examiners)
ISBN: 9781299619074
Format: Electronic book text
$250.80

Real case studies on insurance fraud written by real fraud examiners Insurance Fraud Casebook is a one-of-a-kind...  Read More >>

Covert Capital

Covert Capital

Author: Andrew Friedman
ISBN: 9781299718197
Format: Electronic book text
$184.80

The capital of the U.S. Empire after World War II was not a city. It was an American suburb. In this innovative...  Read More >>

Swift to Wrath

Swift to Wrath

Author: Professor of History William D Carrigan (Rowan University) ,  Pasker Chair of American History Christopher Waldrep (San Francisco State University, USA San Francisco State University San Francisco State University)
ISBN: 9781299485907
Format: Electronic book text
$156.42

Scholarship on lynching has typically been confined to the extralegal execution of African Americans in the American...  Read More >>

City of Dreadful Delight

City of Dreadful Delight

Author: Judith R Walkowitz
ISBN: 9781299545502
Format: Undefined
$118.80

From tabloid exposes of child prostitution to the grisly tales of Jack the Ripper, narratives of sexual danger pulsated...  Read More >>

An Atlas of Trafficking in Southeast Asia

An Atlas of Trafficking in Southeast Asia

Author: Pierre-Arnaud Chouvy
ISBN: 9781299659896
Format: Electronic book text
$248.16

Mainland Southeast Asia is one of the world s key regions for the smuggling and trafficking of illegal goods. Armed...  Read More >>

Research Handbook on Money Laundering

Research Handbook on Money Laundering

Author: B Unger ,  D Van Der Linde
ISBN: 9781299819597
Format: Undefined
$654.72

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Last Chance for Justice: How Relentless Investigators Uncovered New Evidence Convicting the Birmingham Church Bombers

Last Chance for Justice: How Relentless Investigators...

Author: T K Thorne
ISBN: 9781306011099
Format: Electronic book text
$58.05

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Medianoche En Mexico

Medianoche En Mexico

Author: Alfredo Corchado
ISBN: 9781306045292
Format: Electronic book text
$126.72

Es medianoche en MExico, 2007. El periodista, Alfredo Corchado recibe una llamada telefOnica de su fuente principal...  Read More >>

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