Author: Thomas H Wicke Ph D
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781729779927
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 142
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Crime may be the most reliable and inevitable feature of community. Criminal behavior exists in and afflicts every nation, state and town. This book contains the accounts of law, deviance and police actions in Lovell, Wyoming and surrounding communities as originally reported in the Lovell Chronicle. Citizens consistently rate fear of becoming a victim to criminal acts as one of their highest concerns. While the consequences of crime are profound and have lasting effects, social deviance also has a lighter side. Contrary to the movies, criminal masterminds more often reveal themselves as masterfully inept and intellectually challenged. Sometimes criminal efforts are an embarrassment, sometimes crime is ridiculous, sometimes it is absurd. Sometimes, with the passage of time, we can laugh about things where we were the victim or the perpetrator. Rather than a heavy and depressing account, readers will enjoy what are often lighthearted and comical exploits. The character of a community is revealed, to a degree, by the severity of crime and deviance occurring in that community. From the reports of crime and chaos contained within this book, Lovell is likely a place where citizens enjoy the good life.
Author: Paul O'Mahony
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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Ireland's crime scene has experienced a drastic disimprovement. The political establishment and state institutions, such as the police, the courts, and the penal system, have failed to rise to the challenge. Unrelenting media focus on the growth of crime and violence in Irish society has helped generate a climate of exaggerated public fear, promoting a 'get tough' political agenda.2This book dicusses the multiple crises in the social and criminal justice system responses to crime and its causes. It provides an in-depth examination of:22* The 'hardline' consensus between politicians, the media and the 'moral majority' resulting in draconian legislation and incursions on traditional civil liberties2* Violent crime2* Drug-related crime2* Sexual offending, including child sexual abuse2* Demoralisation in the suggested structural and policy changes2* Malaise in the Garda Siochana, the Irish national police force, and suggested structural and policy changes22* The 'culture of non-accountability' in Irish public life
Author: Charles Colson
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
ISBN: 1496425057
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 919
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This collection bundles two of popular author Chuck Colson’s classics into one volume for a great value! The Good Life What constitutes “the good life?” Chuck Colson explores the ways in which people define and live “the pursuit of happiness.” Colson uses fascinating real-life stories to illustrate the philosophies and worldviews by which individuals seek the good life. Colson speaks directly and revealingly about his Watergate years, and he examines the beliefs and assumptions that make up the fabric of our lives. The Good Life searches for answers to the questions we all ask: Who am I? Why am I here? How can I make my life count? How Now Shall We Live? True Christianity goes far beyond John 3:16—beyond private faith and personal salvation. It is nothing less than a framework for understanding all of reality. It is a worldview. In How Now Shall We Live?, the 2000 Gold Medallion winner for best book about Christianity and society, Chuck Colson and Nancy Pearcey show that the great spiritual battle today is a cosmic struggle between competing worldviews. Through inspiring true stories and compelling teaching, they demonstrate how to Expose the false views and values of modern culture Live a more fulfilling life the way God created us to live Contend for the faith by understanding how nonbelievers think Build a society that reflects biblical principles In short, How Now Shall We Live? will give you the confidence you need to make a difference in the world today and most of all in the lives of people around you.
Author: Jean-Claude Izzo
Publisher: Europa Editions
ISBN: 1609453964
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 211
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An ex-cop takes on the mafia in the blockbuster novel that kicks off the Marseilles trilogy with what “may be the most lyrical hard-boiled writing yet” (The Nation). In Jean-Claude Izzo’s “Mediterranean noir” mysteries, the city of Marseilles is explosive, breathtakingly beautiful, and deadly. Total Chaos introduces readers to Fabio Montale, a disenchanted cop who turns his back on a police force marred by corruption and racism and, in the name of friendship, takes the fight against the mafia into his own hands. Ugo, Manu, and Fabio grew up together on the mean streets of Marseilles where friendship means everything. They promised to stay true to one another and swore that nothing would break their bond. But people and circumstances change. Ugo and Manu have been drawn into the criminal underworld of Europe’s toughest and most violent city. When Manu is murdered and Ugo returns from abroad to avenge his friend’s death, only to be killed himself, it is left to the third in this trio, Det. Fabio Montale, to ensure justice is done. Despite warnings from both his colleagues in law enforcement and his acquaintances in the underworld, Montale cannot forget the promise he once made Manu and Ugo. He’s going to find their killer no matter the consequences. “One of the masterpieces of modern noir.” —The Washington Post “Like the best noir writers—and make no mistake, he is among the best—Izzo not only has a keen eye for detail . . . but also digs deep into what makes men weep.” —Time Out New York “The holy grail of noir fiction . . . a fast paced and stylishly told modern tragedy.” —NB Magazine
Author: Dell Shannon
Publisher: Murder Room
ISBN: 1471914240
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 203
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An early June hot spell takes its toll as it fuels a wave of bloody and bizarre crimes for Luis Mendoza of the LAPD. Grisliest by far is the psycho they call the werewolf, who gets his kicks by killing hookers before vanishing into the dark. A gorgeous teenage redhead holds up liquor stores with her boyfriend. And to make the caseload really interesting, 'Jack the Stripper' hits the city's gas stations - stealing cash and his victim's clothes . . . 'A Luis Mendoza mystery means superlative suspense' Los Angeles Times
Author: Siddharth Kotu
Publisher: Notion Press
ISBN: 1638065322
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 139
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Would the AI really rebel? Is Hell that bad? What is love? What is being humane? What becomes of people in crime world? An anthology of dreams, a collection of romance and crime, horror and humor, fantasy and fiction. And underlying all these, is the spark of hope. The hope of a fresh start for a naïve girl. The hope of a fresh start for a race, be they human or alien or in-human. The hope of achieving, given a second chance. The hope of a love life with your dear one. What does it all comes down to? Welcome to the tres worlds of futuristic world, fantasy realm and the contemporary world. A collection of innovative, unique and thought-provoking stories and beautiful set of poems for you to read, ruminate and cherish. A book to read. A book to keep.
Author: Neal Silvester
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595481787
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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Author: Galen Strawson
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1681372215
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 241
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An original collection of lauded philosopher Galen Strawson's writings on the self and consciousness, naturalism and pan-psychism. Galen Strawson might be described as the Montaigne of modern philosophers, endlessly curious, enormously erudite, unafraid of strange, difficult, and provocative propositions, and able to describe them clearly—in other words, he is a true essayist. Strawson also shares with Montaigne a particular fascination with the elastic and elusive nature of the self and of consciousness. Of the essays collected here, “A Fallacy of Our Age” (an inspiration for Vendela Vida’s novel Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name) takes issue with the commencement-address cliché that life is a story. Strawson questions whether it is desirable or even meaningful to think about life that way. “The Sense of the Self” offers an alternative account, in part personal, of how a distinct sense of self is not at all incompatible with a sense of the self as discontinuous, leading Strawson to a position that he sees as in some ways Buddhist. “Real Naturalism” argues that a fully naturalist account of consciousness supports a belief in the immanence of consciousness in nature as a whole (also known as panpsychism), while in the final essay Strawson offers a vivid account of coming of age in the 1960s. Drawing on literature and life as much as on philosophy, this is a book that prompts both argument and wonder.
Author: C. Clarke
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230390544
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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This book investigates the development of crime fiction in the 1880s and 1890s, challenging studies of late-Victorian crime fiction which have given undue prominence to a handful of key figures and have offered an over-simplified analytical framework, thereby overlooking the generic, moral, and formal complexities of the nascent genre.
Author: John Curran
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062006525
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 560
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A fascinating exploration of the contents of Agatha Christie's seventy-three private notebooks, including illustrations and two unpublished Poirot stories When Agatha Christie died in 1976, at age eighty-five, she had become the world's most popular author. With sales of more than two billion copies worldwide, in more than one hundred countries, she had achieved the impossible—more than one book every year since the 1920s, every one a bestseller. So prolific was Agatha Christie's output—sixty-six crime novels, twenty plays, six romance novels under a pseudonym and more than one hundred and fifty short stories—it was often claimed that she had a photographic memory. Was this true? Or did she resort over those fifty-five years to more mundane methods of working out her ingenious crimes? Following the death of Agatha's daughter, Rosalind, at the end of 2004, a remarkable legacy was revealed. Unearthed among her affairs at the family home of Greenway were Agatha Christie's private notebooks, seventy-three handwritten volumes of notes, lists and drafts outlining all her plans for her many books, plays and stories. Buried in this treasure trove, all in her unmistakable handwriting, are revelations about her famous books that will fascinate anyone who has ever read or watched an Agatha Christie story. How did the infamous twist in The Murder of Roger Ackroyd really come about? Which very famous Poirot novel started life as an adventure for Miss Marple? Which books were designed to have completely differ-ent endings, and what were they? What were the plot ideas that she considered but rejected? Full of details she was too modest to reveal in her own autobiography, this remarkable new book includes a wealth of excerpts and pages reproduced directly from the notebooks and her letters, plus, for the first time, two newly discovered complete Hercule Poirot short stories never before published.
