Author: Laura Scandiffio
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781484421574
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Experience all the thrills and suspense of chasing down the world's highest-profile criminals. What does it take to catch a criminal? Not just any criminal, but one of the world's most wanted? This book chronicles eight of history's most famous manhu
Outlaws, Spies, and Gangsters
Author: Laura Scandiffio
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781484421574
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Experience all the thrills and suspense of chasing down the world's highest-profile criminals. What does it take to catch a criminal? Not just any criminal, but one of the world's most wanted? This book chronicles eight of history's most famous manhu
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781484421574
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Experience all the thrills and suspense of chasing down the world's highest-profile criminals. What does it take to catch a criminal? Not just any criminal, but one of the world's most wanted? This book chronicles eight of history's most famous manhu
Outlaws and Spies
Author: McCarthy Conor McCarthy
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474455964
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
By reading two bodies of literature not normally read together - the outlaw literature and espionage literature - Conor McCarthy shows how these genres represent and critique the longstanding use of legal exclusion as a means of supporting state power. Texts discussed range from the medieval Robin Hood ballads, Shakespeare's history plays, and versions of the Ned Kelly story to contemporary writing by John le Carre, Don DeLillo, Ciaran Carson and William Gibson.
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474455964
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
By reading two bodies of literature not normally read together - the outlaw literature and espionage literature - Conor McCarthy shows how these genres represent and critique the longstanding use of legal exclusion as a means of supporting state power. Texts discussed range from the medieval Robin Hood ballads, Shakespeare's history plays, and versions of the Ned Kelly story to contemporary writing by John le Carre, Don DeLillo, Ciaran Carson and William Gibson.
Outlaws, Gunslingers, and Thieves
Author: Heather E. Schwartz
Publisher: Lerner Publications
ISBN: 1467710369
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Hang on to your wallet—and watch your neck! You're about to encounter some of the worst gunslingers to wreak havoc on the Old West. The most notorious outlaws were known for their fearless drive, their quick shot with a pistol, their odd trademarks, and their way of escaping the law over and over again. Are you brave enough to read on?
Publisher: Lerner Publications
ISBN: 1467710369
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Hang on to your wallet—and watch your neck! You're about to encounter some of the worst gunslingers to wreak havoc on the Old West. The most notorious outlaws were known for their fearless drive, their quick shot with a pistol, their odd trademarks, and their way of escaping the law over and over again. Are you brave enough to read on?
Gangsters, Swindlers, Killers, and Thieves
Author: Lawrence Block
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019976994X
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Drawing on his experience in creating fictional bad guys, crime novelist Lawrence Block surveys the underside of American history through fifty of its most infamous characters. Some, like Jesse James, Bonnie Parker, and Joe Colombo, led a life of crime; others, like John Wilkes Booth and John White Webster, committed one notorious act. Some, like Pretty Boy Floyd or the elusive thief Railroad Bill, have become folk heroes, whether or not the real details of their lives matched the myths they inspired. Others, like Ed Gein and Ted Bundy, will be forever reviled. Block introduces each biography with a writer's eye for character and a good story. He begins the book with a short essay that considers how Americans have defined and regarded villains through history. The biographies, culled from the pages of the American National Biography and illustrated with archival photographs, describe each villain's background, exploits, and eventual fate--often with unexpected details. The convicted killer Nathan Leopold, for example, became the administrator of a leprosy hospital after his parole. The gangster Dutch Schultz was known not only for his bootlegging expertise but also for his cheap, ill-fitting clothes. The stagecoach bandit Black Bart fancied himself a poet (or, as he put it, "PO8"). And when outlaw Bill Doolin finally met his end, only a rusting buggy axle marked his grave. Ideal for readers of true crime, crime fiction, and history, Gangsters, Swindlers, Killers, and Thieves brings a fresh perspective to American's fascination with crime and its perpetrators.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019976994X
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Drawing on his experience in creating fictional bad guys, crime novelist Lawrence Block surveys the underside of American history through fifty of its most infamous characters. Some, like Jesse James, Bonnie Parker, and Joe Colombo, led a life of crime; others, like John Wilkes Booth and John White Webster, committed one notorious act. Some, like Pretty Boy Floyd or the elusive thief Railroad Bill, have become folk heroes, whether or not the real details of their lives matched the myths they inspired. Others, like Ed Gein and Ted Bundy, will be forever reviled. Block introduces each biography with a writer's eye for character and a good story. He begins the book with a short essay that considers how Americans have defined and regarded villains through history. The biographies, culled from the pages of the American National Biography and illustrated with archival photographs, describe each villain's background, exploits, and eventual fate--often with unexpected details. The convicted killer Nathan Leopold, for example, became the administrator of a leprosy hospital after his parole. The gangster Dutch Schultz was known not only for his bootlegging expertise but also for his cheap, ill-fitting clothes. The stagecoach bandit Black Bart fancied himself a poet (or, as he put it, "PO8"). And when outlaw Bill Doolin finally met his end, only a rusting buggy axle marked his grave. Ideal for readers of true crime, crime fiction, and history, Gangsters, Swindlers, Killers, and Thieves brings a fresh perspective to American's fascination with crime and its perpetrators.
Gangsters, Bootleggers, and Bandits
Author: Heather E. Schwartz
Publisher: Lerner Publications
ISBN: 1467710318
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Robbery, smuggling, gambling—gangsters did it all. They fought the law. They fought each other. And not all of them made it out alive. Find out the true stories of the United States' most feared hoodlums and mob bosses. Learn how a two-bit car thief built a criminal empire—and how the mob's top man wound up in prison. Are you bold enough to read on?
Publisher: Lerner Publications
ISBN: 1467710318
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Robbery, smuggling, gambling—gangsters did it all. They fought the law. They fought each other. And not all of them made it out alive. Find out the true stories of the United States' most feared hoodlums and mob bosses. Learn how a two-bit car thief built a criminal empire—and how the mob's top man wound up in prison. Are you bold enough to read on?
Moral Principles and Political Obligations
Author: A. John Simmons
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691213240
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Outlining the major competing theories in the history of political and moral philosophy--from Locke and Hume through Hart, Rawls, and Nozick--John Simmons attempts to understand and solve the ancient problem of political obligation. Under what conditions and for what reasons (if any), he asks, are we morally bound to obey the law and support the political institutions of our countries?
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691213240
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Outlining the major competing theories in the history of political and moral philosophy--from Locke and Hume through Hart, Rawls, and Nozick--John Simmons attempts to understand and solve the ancient problem of political obligation. Under what conditions and for what reasons (if any), he asks, are we morally bound to obey the law and support the political institutions of our countries?
Outlaws, Fakes and Monsters
Author: Chris Boge
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australian fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australian fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Outlaws, Mobsters & Crooks
Author: Marie J. MacNee
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
YA. Volume 1 of a three volume set which details 75 criminals and the officers who apprehended them. Shows what they did, how and why they did it.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
YA. Volume 1 of a three volume set which details 75 criminals and the officers who apprehended them. Shows what they did, how and why they did it.
Assassins, Traitors, and Spies
Author: Elaine Landau
Publisher: Lerner Publications ™
ISBN: 1512452475
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
James Bond may be one of the good guys, but the spies in this book definitely aren't—nor are the traitors and assassins! Crack open this book to uncover more secrets about history's most terrible assassins, traitors, and spies.
Publisher: Lerner Publications ™
ISBN: 1512452475
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
James Bond may be one of the good guys, but the spies in this book definitely aren't—nor are the traitors and assassins! Crack open this book to uncover more secrets about history's most terrible assassins, traitors, and spies.
American Murder
Author: Mike Mayo
Publisher: Visible Ink Press
ISBN: 1578592569
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 451
Book Description
How would you treat a murderer? If you’re from Hollywood and he’s notorious, you might turn him into a folk hero. Separate the facts from the many legends and revisions that have blossomed around these killers in this frightening look at the bloody real lives of movie’s infamous antiheroes. You’ll find a blood-curdling assortment of the “criminal elite” in American Murder: Criminals, Crime and the Media, a rogue’s gallery of our most famous killings, killers and other scoundrels (and some that ought to be more famous than they are). A collection of high-profile murderers, gangsters, assassins, psychopaths, such as O.J., Amy Fisher, Robert Blake, Susan Smith, Claus Von Bulow, the Menendez brothers, Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, Richard Speck, Al Capone, Pretty Boy Floyd, Bugsy Siegel, Jesse James, John Dillinger, Charles Manson, Albert Fish, T. Cullen Davis, Ronald DeFeo, Jr., Edmund Kemper, Beulah Annan, Bonnie and Clyde, Billy the Kid, Charlie Starkweather, as well as an assortment of lesser known killers with some incredible tales! With numerous photos and illustrations, this tome is richly illustrated, and its helpful bibliography and extensive index add to its usefulness. American Murderexplores the legends as depicted in movies, stories, and songs. You’d not want to meet any of them in person – either the real or Hollywood versions!
Publisher: Visible Ink Press
ISBN: 1578592569
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 451
Book Description
How would you treat a murderer? If you’re from Hollywood and he’s notorious, you might turn him into a folk hero. Separate the facts from the many legends and revisions that have blossomed around these killers in this frightening look at the bloody real lives of movie’s infamous antiheroes. You’ll find a blood-curdling assortment of the “criminal elite” in American Murder: Criminals, Crime and the Media, a rogue’s gallery of our most famous killings, killers and other scoundrels (and some that ought to be more famous than they are). A collection of high-profile murderers, gangsters, assassins, psychopaths, such as O.J., Amy Fisher, Robert Blake, Susan Smith, Claus Von Bulow, the Menendez brothers, Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, Richard Speck, Al Capone, Pretty Boy Floyd, Bugsy Siegel, Jesse James, John Dillinger, Charles Manson, Albert Fish, T. Cullen Davis, Ronald DeFeo, Jr., Edmund Kemper, Beulah Annan, Bonnie and Clyde, Billy the Kid, Charlie Starkweather, as well as an assortment of lesser known killers with some incredible tales! With numerous photos and illustrations, this tome is richly illustrated, and its helpful bibliography and extensive index add to its usefulness. American Murderexplores the legends as depicted in movies, stories, and songs. You’d not want to meet any of them in person – either the real or Hollywood versions!