Be Like That Sometimes (First of a Trilogy, #1) (Be Like That Sometimes, #1)
by Biz Nolastname
Genocide at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century: Rwanda, Bosnia, Kosovo, and Darfur
by Dale C Tatum
Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Assisted by K. Rangachari Volume 3
by Edgar Thurston
This book is about a large number of deliberate or untimely deaths in what was thought to be one of the quiet backwaters of Hampshire. In this true-life thriller, Chris Heal investigates twenty local murders beginning in Roman times, over half of them since 1900 and three within the last few years. They are all here: drug runners, people traffickers, robbers and smugglers; killers of animals, of babies, young children and the senile; those who planned revenge and sought the righting of wrongs;...
The mean streets of Boston in the 1970s played host to a nefarious underworld of pimps, pushers, and addicts, and Paul "Sully" Doyle was there. From Kenmore Square hippies to South Boston junkies to Combat Zone prostitutes, this undercover operative with the federal Drug Enforcement Administration met every type of unsavory character in town in his fight to bust violent rings of dope, coke, and smack dealers during a turbulent era in the city's history. Now Special Agent Doyle bluntly chronicles...
`Riveting, tragic tale’ New Yorker `Anna Pasternak has produced an irresistible account of joy, suffering and passion’ Financial Times The heartbreaking story of the passionate love affair between Boris Pasternak and Olga Ivinskaya – the tragic true story that inspired Doctor Zhivago. Doctor Zhivago has sold in its millions yet the true love story that inspired it has never been fully explored. Pasternak would often say `Lara exists, go and m...
This is Reg Kray's autobiography, he describes his East end childhood and at the centre of it Reggie's and Ronnie's great love for their mother, Violet, describing how he and his brothers' skill in the boxing ring developed into their being a formidable street fighting team. This book contains the first detailed account of the killing of Jack "the Hat" McVitie and reveals the identity of the man who disposed of the gun following Ron's killing of George Cornell. There are revelations about succes...
Anticorruption in History
Anticorruption in History is a timely and urgent volume: corruption is widely seen today as a major problem we face as a global society, undermining trust in government and financial institutions, economic efficiency, the principle of equality before the law and human wellbeing in general. Corruption, in short, is a major hurdle on the "path to Denmark" a feted blueprint for stable and successful statebuilding. The resonance of this view explains why efforts to promote anticorruption policies ha...
A Victorian Murder. A Victorian Madman. A Modern Judgement.Gateshead, April 1866The Apprentice of Split Crow Lane takes the forgotten case of a child murder in 1866 as a springboard to delve deeply into the pysche of the Victorians. What Jane Housham finds, in this exploration of guilt, sexual deviance and madness, is a diagnosis that is still ripe for the challenging and a sentence that provokes even our liberal modern judgement. Set around Gateshead, it is a revelatory social history of the No...