Popular Crime: Reflections on the Celebration of Violence, Paperback - Bill James

Reducere. From the one-of-kind mind of Bill James, famous for revolutionizing the way we think about baseball, comes a "thought-provoking meditation" (Seattl...

He focuses on how feelings of shame cause violent and vengeful behaviour, argues that conventional punitive legal and penal systems which are based...

Publisher: Edinburgh University PressAuthor(s): Marc CreponTranslator: Tyler WilliamsNumber of pages: 288Collection: IncitementsPublication date: 2...

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Publisher: Atebol CyfyngedigAuthor(s): Peter O'NeillNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 268 x 153 x 35Cover type: Paperback / sof...

DescriptionOften dismissed as the rumblings of "the street, " popular politics is where political modernity is being formed today, according to Par...

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Clastres's final, posthumous book on the affirmative role of violence in "primitive societies." The war machine is the motor of the social machine;...

The radical, urgent new novel from the author of The End of Eddy - a personal and powerful story of violence. I met Reda on Christmas Eve 2012, at ...

Nathacha Appanah returns with a powerful, beautiful novel about lost youth on a far-flung, forgotten islandPublisher: Quercus PublishingAuthor(s): ...

Partha Chatterjee reconsiders the concept of popular sovereignty in order to explain today's dramatic outburst of movements claiming to speak for "...

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Reducere. The Letter of James is the most practical moral treatise among New Testament writings. Jesus' younger brother, the first leader of the Jerusalem ch...

You can't attend your own funeral. But you can have a blast planning it! Death is scary--but planning your funeral doesn't have to be! It's Your Fu...

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The first truly global history of sexual violence, by acclaimed historian Joanna Bourke.Publisher: Reaktion BooksAuthor(s): Joanna BourkeNumber of ...

DescriptionHistory of Violence is international bestselling French author Edouard Louis's autobiographical novel about surviving a shocking sexual ...

25th February 1995 The Dark Destroyer vs the G-ManNigel Benn and Gerald McClennan Two men with a reputation to defend - a reputation for brutal, un...

Reducere. In this book of 24 reflections, James Howell takes inspiration from well-known carols and Christmas songs to explore the birth of Jesus. He groups ...

Reducere. Description"Magical Crows, Ravens and the Celebration of Death" takes us on the inevitable journey many of us dread most. It takes us past the sorr...

An in-depth exploration of the random acts of violence that reverberate across our communities and strike at the heart of our societyIllustrations:...

Long before President Barack Obama praised his work as "an all-encompassing, all-hands-on-deck anti-poverty effort that is literally saving a gener...

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Harpur & Iles to uncover a trail of illegal art trading and money laundering. "I found I had a flair for tag-along, street level stealth. It thrill...

From the dawn of the modern civil rights movement, James Meredith has offered a unique perspective on democracy, racial equality, and the meaning o...

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The man is found dead in the local dockyard, shot frombehind. Colin Harpur predicts the execution spells imminent trouble. Iles' tolerance of the l...

Reducere. For two years, Philip Gambone traveled the length and breadth of the United States, talking candidly with LGBTQ people about their lives. In additi...

From the author of the Scott and Bailey series, Quiet Acts of Violence is a novel about family and betrayal, injustice and poverty, the ties that b...

Reducere. DescriptionHaunted by the past and his own limitations, Israeli Detective Avraham Avraham must stop a criminal ruthless enough to target children i...

Local crook Ralph Ember wants some art to elevate his gentleman's club; and who else would he visit to procure this art but profoundly dodgy fine a...

Publisher: Canongate Books LtdAuthor(s): Bill JamesNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2009Dimensions: 215 x 139 x 18Cover type: Paperback / soft...

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This book considers the intellectual legacy of James F. Short, Jr., to criminology and sociology, and covers the full range of his pioneering resea...

Reducere. 24 Tales of Madmen, Monsters, and Misery.A tantalizing blend of horror, suspense, and crime stories; each unique but all dark, disturbing, and viol...

Publisher: Between the LinesAuthor(s): James T BrophyNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 127 x 201 x 18Cover type: Paperback / so...

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In Give a Man a Fish James Ferguson examines the rise of social welfare programs in southern Africa, in which states make cash payments to their lo...

Reducere. Pink Higgins was a rugged Texan who lived a life of classic Western adventure. He was a cowboy, Indian fighter, trail driver, stock detective, ranc...