Author: Ann Larabee
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0190201177
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
"A fascinating, timely, and often disturbing history of how underground do-it-yourself weapons manuals have influenced violent radicalism, and how the state has responded"--
The Wrong Hands
Author: Ann Larabee
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0190201177
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
"A fascinating, timely, and often disturbing history of how underground do-it-yourself weapons manuals have influenced violent radicalism, and how the state has responded"--
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0190201177
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
"A fascinating, timely, and often disturbing history of how underground do-it-yourself weapons manuals have influenced violent radicalism, and how the state has responded"--
Born Into the Wrong Hands: A Story of Child Abuse, Murder, and Miracles
Author: Beverly Dalton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780974434506
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Overcompensating for his numerous personal inadequacies, Tom Mayes, a small-town bad boy from Springfield, Ohio, bullied and intimidated anyone who crossed his path, regardless of age or gender. His heartless and inhumane actions eventually cost him his family and his freedom. Twenty years later-before the creation of the Internet, social media, and DNA websites-the remnants of this broken family were reunited, and four siblings shared the missing pieces of their unknown pasts to find answers, peace and closure. Based on a true story, the Mayes children concluded that their reunion occurred, not by chance encounters or by plain luck, but through miraculous events.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780974434506
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Overcompensating for his numerous personal inadequacies, Tom Mayes, a small-town bad boy from Springfield, Ohio, bullied and intimidated anyone who crossed his path, regardless of age or gender. His heartless and inhumane actions eventually cost him his family and his freedom. Twenty years later-before the creation of the Internet, social media, and DNA websites-the remnants of this broken family were reunited, and four siblings shared the missing pieces of their unknown pasts to find answers, peace and closure. Based on a true story, the Mayes children concluded that their reunion occurred, not by chance encounters or by plain luck, but through miraculous events.
The Wrong Hands
Author: Ann Larabee
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190201185
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
"[A] valuable account ... The Wrong Hands brilliantly guides us through [the] challenges to American democracy." -Howard P. Segal, Times Higher Education Gun ownership rights are treated as sacred in America, but what happens when dissenters moved beyond firearm possession into the realm of high explosives? How should the state react? Ann Larabee's The Wrong Hands, a remarkable history of do-it-yourself weapons manuals from the late nineteenth century to the recent Boston Marathon bombing, traces how efforts to ferret out radicals willing to employ ever-more violent methods fueled the growth of the American security state. But over time, the government's increasingly forceful targeting of violent books and ideas-not the weapons themselves-threatened to undermine another core American right: free expression. In the 1886 Haymarket Square bombing, a new form of revolutionary violence that had already made its mark in Europe arrived in the United States. At the subsequent trial, the judge allowed into evidence Johann Most's infamous The Science of Revolutionary Warfare, which allegedly served as a cookbook for the accused. Most's work was the first of a long line of explosive manuals relied on by radicals. By the 1960s, small publishers were drawing from publicly available US military sources to produce works that catered to a growing popular interest in DIY weapons making. The most famous was The Anarchist Cookbook (1971), which soon achieved legendary status-and a lasting presence in the courts. Even novels, such as William Pierce's The Turner Diaries, have served as evidence in prosecutions of right-wing radicals. More recently, websites explaining how to make all manner of weapons, including suicide vests, have proliferated. The state's right to police such information has always hinged on whether the disseminators have legitimate First Amendment rights. Larabee ends with an analysis of the 1979 publication of instructions for making a nuclear weapon, which raises the ultimate question: should a society committed to free speech allow a manual for constructing such a weapon to disseminate freely? Both authoritative and eye-opening, The Wrong Hands will reshape our understanding of the history of radical violence and state repression in America.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190201185
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
"[A] valuable account ... The Wrong Hands brilliantly guides us through [the] challenges to American democracy." -Howard P. Segal, Times Higher Education Gun ownership rights are treated as sacred in America, but what happens when dissenters moved beyond firearm possession into the realm of high explosives? How should the state react? Ann Larabee's The Wrong Hands, a remarkable history of do-it-yourself weapons manuals from the late nineteenth century to the recent Boston Marathon bombing, traces how efforts to ferret out radicals willing to employ ever-more violent methods fueled the growth of the American security state. But over time, the government's increasingly forceful targeting of violent books and ideas-not the weapons themselves-threatened to undermine another core American right: free expression. In the 1886 Haymarket Square bombing, a new form of revolutionary violence that had already made its mark in Europe arrived in the United States. At the subsequent trial, the judge allowed into evidence Johann Most's infamous The Science of Revolutionary Warfare, which allegedly served as a cookbook for the accused. Most's work was the first of a long line of explosive manuals relied on by radicals. By the 1960s, small publishers were drawing from publicly available US military sources to produce works that catered to a growing popular interest in DIY weapons making. The most famous was The Anarchist Cookbook (1971), which soon achieved legendary status-and a lasting presence in the courts. Even novels, such as William Pierce's The Turner Diaries, have served as evidence in prosecutions of right-wing radicals. More recently, websites explaining how to make all manner of weapons, including suicide vests, have proliferated. The state's right to police such information has always hinged on whether the disseminators have legitimate First Amendment rights. Larabee ends with an analysis of the 1979 publication of instructions for making a nuclear weapon, which raises the ultimate question: should a society committed to free speech allow a manual for constructing such a weapon to disseminate freely? Both authoritative and eye-opening, The Wrong Hands will reshape our understanding of the history of radical violence and state repression in America.
Abridged Classics
Author: John Atkinson
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 006274786X
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
A collection of irreverent summations of more than 100 well-known works of literature, from Anna Karenina to Wuthering Heights, cleverly described in the fewest words possible and accompanied with funny color illustrations. Abridged Classics: Brief Summaries of Books You Were Supposed to Read but Probably Didn’t is packed with dozens of humorous super-condensed summations of some of the most famous works of literature from many of the world’s most revered authors, including William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Emily Brontë, Leo Tolstoy, Jane Austen, Mark Twain, J.R.R. Tolkien, Margaret Atwood, James Joyce, Plato, Ernest Hemingway, Dan Brown, Ayn Rand, and Herman Melville. From "Old ladies convince a guy to ruin Scotland" (Macbeth) to "Everyone is sad. It snows." (War and Peace), these clever, humorous synopses are sure to make book lovers smile.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 006274786X
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
A collection of irreverent summations of more than 100 well-known works of literature, from Anna Karenina to Wuthering Heights, cleverly described in the fewest words possible and accompanied with funny color illustrations. Abridged Classics: Brief Summaries of Books You Were Supposed to Read but Probably Didn’t is packed with dozens of humorous super-condensed summations of some of the most famous works of literature from many of the world’s most revered authors, including William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Emily Brontë, Leo Tolstoy, Jane Austen, Mark Twain, J.R.R. Tolkien, Margaret Atwood, James Joyce, Plato, Ernest Hemingway, Dan Brown, Ayn Rand, and Herman Melville. From "Old ladies convince a guy to ruin Scotland" (Macbeth) to "Everyone is sad. It snows." (War and Peace), these clever, humorous synopses are sure to make book lovers smile.
Not Safe After Dark, and Other Stories
Author: Peter Robinson
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
ISBN: 1551991942
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Peter Robinson’s first collection of short crime fiction to be published in Canada spans his writing career and reveals his impeccable grasp of both mystery and suspense writing. The sixteen stories are set in places as far flung as Inspector Alan Banks’s turf in Yorkshire, Robinson’s own neighbourhood in Toronto, and in Los Angeles and Florida. They also reach back in time: to 1873 to an utopian milltown in northern England, to Thomas Hardy country in 1939, and to a small Yorkshire town during the Second World War. The collection also includes a novella, featuring Robinson’ s celebrated sleuth Inspector Banks. Going Home is a chilling yet profoundly moving tale of just how hard it can be to visit one’s elderly parents, even for only a few days. Four of the stories have won awards: ‘Innocence” won the Crime Writers of Canada Best Short Story Award in 1991, and “The Two Ladies of Rose Cottage” won the Mystery Readers International’s Macavity Award in 1998 and was nominated for both the Agatha and Arthur Ellis awards. “Murder in Utopia” won Robinson his fifth Arthur Ellis Award in 2001, the same year that “Missing in Action” won the Edgar Award.
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
ISBN: 1551991942
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Peter Robinson’s first collection of short crime fiction to be published in Canada spans his writing career and reveals his impeccable grasp of both mystery and suspense writing. The sixteen stories are set in places as far flung as Inspector Alan Banks’s turf in Yorkshire, Robinson’s own neighbourhood in Toronto, and in Los Angeles and Florida. They also reach back in time: to 1873 to an utopian milltown in northern England, to Thomas Hardy country in 1939, and to a small Yorkshire town during the Second World War. The collection also includes a novella, featuring Robinson’ s celebrated sleuth Inspector Banks. Going Home is a chilling yet profoundly moving tale of just how hard it can be to visit one’s elderly parents, even for only a few days. Four of the stories have won awards: ‘Innocence” won the Crime Writers of Canada Best Short Story Award in 1991, and “The Two Ladies of Rose Cottage” won the Mystery Readers International’s Macavity Award in 1998 and was nominated for both the Agatha and Arthur Ellis awards. “Murder in Utopia” won Robinson his fifth Arthur Ellis Award in 2001, the same year that “Missing in Action” won the Edgar Award.
Illegal Guns in the Wrong Hands
Author: David C. May
Publisher: Rlpg/Galleys
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Illegal Guns in the Wrong Hands uses data from a sample of approximately 800 incarcerated juveniles from Indiana to examine how juvenile offenders obtain firearms, the causes of their firearm acquisition and use, their preferences when it comes to choosing a firearm and the reasons for that choice, and the role that guns play in their offending behaviors.
Publisher: Rlpg/Galleys
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Illegal Guns in the Wrong Hands uses data from a sample of approximately 800 incarcerated juveniles from Indiana to examine how juvenile offenders obtain firearms, the causes of their firearm acquisition and use, their preferences when it comes to choosing a firearm and the reasons for that choice, and the role that guns play in their offending behaviors.
Regression and Other Stories
Author: Andrew Gelman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110702398X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 551
Book Description
A practical approach to using regression and computation to solve real-world problems of estimation, prediction, and causal inference.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110702398X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 551
Book Description
A practical approach to using regression and computation to solve real-world problems of estimation, prediction, and causal inference.
The Wrong Hand
Author: Jane Jago
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 1405920432
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
We all make mistakes. Moments that change us and the path we are on irrevocably. For Rachel Allen it was the moment that she let her son's hand slip from hers. For Danny Simpson and Graham Harris it was the moment one of them took it. Seven years ago Danny and Graham were just children themselves, angry, marginalized and unguided. That was, until they committed a crime so heinous that three families were left devastated. They were no longer just boys. They were monsters. Released from juvenile detention, it is time for the boys, now men, to start again; new names, new people. But they can never escape who they are or what they did. And their own families, now notorious; the Allens, destroyed with grief; and the country at large have never been able to forget. They will always be running. They will always be hiding. But are some mistakes too large, the ripples to far reaching, to outrun forever?
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 1405920432
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
We all make mistakes. Moments that change us and the path we are on irrevocably. For Rachel Allen it was the moment that she let her son's hand slip from hers. For Danny Simpson and Graham Harris it was the moment one of them took it. Seven years ago Danny and Graham were just children themselves, angry, marginalized and unguided. That was, until they committed a crime so heinous that three families were left devastated. They were no longer just boys. They were monsters. Released from juvenile detention, it is time for the boys, now men, to start again; new names, new people. But they can never escape who they are or what they did. And their own families, now notorious; the Allens, destroyed with grief; and the country at large have never been able to forget. They will always be running. They will always be hiding. But are some mistakes too large, the ripples to far reaching, to outrun forever?
The Fairy Radio And Other Stories
Author: Siva
Publisher: V Murali
ISBN: 1469912465
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 173
Book Description
Fairies, Gnomes, Pixies, Brownies, Giants and what not!....... Tales from Fairyland are on the way.... Go on, proceed and take a look inside to be pulled in to the land of fantasy where you will encounter many wonders!
Publisher: V Murali
ISBN: 1469912465
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 173
Book Description
Fairies, Gnomes, Pixies, Brownies, Giants and what not!....... Tales from Fairyland are on the way.... Go on, proceed and take a look inside to be pulled in to the land of fantasy where you will encounter many wonders!
This is What We Are and Other Stories
Author: Josy Bongiovanni
Publisher: Darktag Publishing
ISBN: 106888780X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
Escape into vividly-imagined worlds where little is as it seems with This is What We Are and Other Stories. Aliens, dystopian nightmares, and gateways to other dimensions are just the beginning in Josy Bongiovanni and Nora Bencsics's exciting debut anthology of science fiction, magic, and horror. Be sure to look for the common thread that weaves these stories into a greater whole. Can you find the connection in each of the stories? In the midst of political upheaval, a pregnant woman finds refuge as an alien descends to earth to meet her. ("Witness") A spectral voice offers hope to a troubled woman ("Possessed") The dangerous beat of a shaman's drum guides a woman's quest for answers. ("Seekers") As civilization crumbles around them, an urban couple desperately seeks shelter in the countryside. ("The Road to Ruby's") The dangers of a world decimated by a ravening virus drive an ill-assorted group of survivors into hiding ("This Is What We Are") A rebellious young woman uncovers more than she bargained for lurking in her personal device. ("Hidden Lights") When she claims her inheritance, a hapless woman unearths a deadly secret ("Masks") She's tagged and now Mary's on the run. Will she find out why people's life-changing implants are being stolen before it's too late? ("Tagged") Don't wait to immerse yourself in these chilling tales of escape and redemption! Read This is What We Are and Other Stories today!
Publisher: Darktag Publishing
ISBN: 106888780X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
Escape into vividly-imagined worlds where little is as it seems with This is What We Are and Other Stories. Aliens, dystopian nightmares, and gateways to other dimensions are just the beginning in Josy Bongiovanni and Nora Bencsics's exciting debut anthology of science fiction, magic, and horror. Be sure to look for the common thread that weaves these stories into a greater whole. Can you find the connection in each of the stories? In the midst of political upheaval, a pregnant woman finds refuge as an alien descends to earth to meet her. ("Witness") A spectral voice offers hope to a troubled woman ("Possessed") The dangerous beat of a shaman's drum guides a woman's quest for answers. ("Seekers") As civilization crumbles around them, an urban couple desperately seeks shelter in the countryside. ("The Road to Ruby's") The dangers of a world decimated by a ravening virus drive an ill-assorted group of survivors into hiding ("This Is What We Are") A rebellious young woman uncovers more than she bargained for lurking in her personal device. ("Hidden Lights") When she claims her inheritance, a hapless woman unearths a deadly secret ("Masks") She's tagged and now Mary's on the run. Will she find out why people's life-changing implants are being stolen before it's too late? ("Tagged") Don't wait to immerse yourself in these chilling tales of escape and redemption! Read This is What We Are and Other Stories today!