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Author: Kevin Borgeson
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 0763777307
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the act of criminal profiling and the effective methods of case analysis and linkage. Intriguing cases studies are used to thoroughly examine the behavioural aspect of serial homicide and the investigative issues that criminal justice professioals face.
Author: Gregory Brazeal
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2024-10-08
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 1643150669
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow American fiction represents soldiers--and soldier criminality--in depictions of the Iraq War
Author: Jordan Castro
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2021-06-15
Total Pages: 126
ISBN-13: 1664173757
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAt the peak of the Coronavirus Pandemic, Jaxton Bello seeks to take his own life on the George Washington Bridge. He is rescued by Cason Sax, an NYPD Sergeant, and September 11th survivor, who rips Jaxton off the ledge and into the hearts of readers. Cason implores Jaxton to return home and rebuild his life with his wife and daughter. Jaxton must first journey into his past, through his consciousness and along the vacant avenues of a New York City on ‘pause.’ During this self-reflection, Jaxton trespasses at shuttered venues, outruns pursuing cops, collides with former love interests and crashes a Black Lives Matter protest. “The Great Silent Roar” is a colorful tale that voyages into a man’s wounded soul and delivers a valentine to the most remarkable city in human history. As riots rage, past demons must be slayed if Jaxton is to reignite his flame for living and complete his odyssey home.
Author: Paul Hurh
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2015-06-09
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 0804794510
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIf America is a nation founded upon Enlightenment ideals, then why are so many of its most celebrated pieces of literature so dark? American Terror returns to the question of American literature's distinctive tone of terror through a close study of three authors—Jonathan Edwards, Edgar Allan Poe, and Herman Melville—who not only wrote works of terror, but who defended, theorized, and championed it. Combining updated historical perspectives with close reading, Paul Hurh shows how these authors developed terror as a special literary affect informed by the way the concept of thinking becomes, in the wake of Enlightenment empiricism, increasingly defined by a set of austere mechanic processes, such as the scientific method and the algebraic functions of analytical logic. Rather than trying to find a feeling that would transcend thinking by subtending reason to emotion, these writers found in terror the feeling of thinking, the peculiar feeling of reason's authority over emotional schemes. In so doing, they grappled with a shared set of enduring questions: What is the difference between thinking and feeling? Why does it seem impossible to reason oneself out of an irrational fear? And what becomes of the freedom of the will when we discover that affects can push it around?
Author: Gilda R. Daniels
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2021-10-05
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 147981198X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn answer to the assault on voting rights—crucial reading in light of the 2024 presidential election The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is considered one of the most effective pieces of legislation the United States has ever passed. It enfranchised hundreds of thousands of voters, particularly in the American South, and drew attention to the problem of voter suppression. Yet in recent years there has been a continuous assault on access to the ballot box in the form of stricter voter ID requirements, meritless claims of rigged elections, and baseless accusations of voter fraud. In the past these efforts were aimed at eliminating African American voters from the rolls, and today, new laws seek to eliminate voters of color, the poor, and the elderly, groups that historically vote for the Democratic Party. Uncounted examines the phenomenon of disenfranchisement through the lens of history, race, law, and the democratic process. Gilda R. Daniels, who served as Deputy Chief in the United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division and has more than two decades of voting rights experience, argues that voter suppression works in cycles, constantly adapting and finding new ways to hinder access for an exponentially growing minority population. She warns that a premeditated strategy of restrictive laws and deceptive practices has taken root and is eroding the very basis of American democracy—the right to vote!
Author: Stanley Cavell
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780804745437
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is Stanley Cavells definitive expression on Emerson. Over the past thirty years, Cavell has demonstrated that he is the most emphatic and provocative philosophical critic of Emerson that America has yet known. The sustained effort of that labor is drawn together here for the first time into a single volume, which also contains two previously unpublished essays and an introduction by Cavell that reflects on this book and the history of its emergence. Students and scholars working in philosophy, literature, American studies, history, film studies, and political theory can now more easily access Cavells luminous and enduring work on Emerson. Such engagement should be further complemented by extensive indices and annotations. If we are still in doubt whether America has expressed itself philosophically, there is perhaps no better space for inquiry than reading Cavell reading Emerson.
Author: Sophie Littlefield
Publisher: Untreed Reads
Published: 2010-10-20
Total Pages: 110
ISBN-13: 1611870070
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIf you thought standing in line at your local warehouse store was murder, then you haven't been to Megamart. From over 40 authors come flash fiction tales of superstore madness and mayhem that will make you think twice the next time you hear "clean up on aisle 13." In addition to new and emerging authors this anthology also contains stories from legends such as Ed Gorman and Sandra Scoppettone.
Author: Charles Ota Heller
Publisher: Abbott Press
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 275
ISBN-13: 145820121X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor Charles Ota Heller's early childhood in Czechoslovakia was idyllic, but his safe and happy world didn't last long, Three years after his birth, Germany forced an occupation of his country; afterward, most of his young life consisted of running and hiding. His life, just like those of the other youths who lived in Europe during the late 1930s and early 1940s, was shaped forever by the dangers, horrors, and unsettling events he experienced. In this memoir, Heller, born Ota Karel Heller, narrates his family's story—a family nearly destroyed by the Nazis. Son of a mixed marriage, he was raised a Catholic and was unaware of his Jewish roots, even after his father escaped to join the British army and fifteen members of his family disappeared. Prague: My Long Journey Home tells of his Christian mother being sent to a slave labor camp and of his hiding on a farm to avoid deportation to a death camp. With the war coming to a close, Heller tells of how he picked up a revolver and shot a Nazi when he was just nine years old. Heller, now an assimilated American, left the horrors of the past—along with his birth name—behind to live the proverbial American Dream. In his memoir, he recalls how two cataclysmic events following Czechoslovakia's Velvet Revolution brought him face-to-face with demons of his former life. On his personal journey Heller discovered and embraced his heritage—one which he had abandoned decades earlier.
Author: Barbara Perry
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-05-03
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 1135957827
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn The Name of Hate is the first book to offer a comprehensive theory of hate crimes, arguing for an expansion of the legal definitions that most states in the U.S. hold. Barbara Perry provides an historical understanding of hate crimes and provocatively argues that hate crimes are not an aberration of current society, but rather a by-product of a society still grappling with inequality, difference, fear, and hate.
Author: Karen Rock
Publisher: Lyrical Press
Published: 2018-07-17
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 151610613X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKONE NIGHT ONLY Special Agent Katherine Bowden doesn’t do girls’ nights out. She doesn’t do blazing hot dances with male strippers or unbelievable, uninhibited one-night-stands. If you ask her ex, all she does is work: study evidence, profile criminals, track them down. And now Katherine’s back home in Dallas, with a new set of all-male colleagues second-guessing her every move, and a possible serial killer hunting women just like her. But just this once, Katherine is going to try all those things she doesn’t do . . . Growing up on the Reservation led Nash Hawkins down paths he’d rather forget. When his dream of joining the police force was crushed, he turned his hard body and wicked imagination into a meal ticket. His chemistry with Katherine is like nothing he’s ever felt. And though he’s sure a woman like her won’t want to get seriously involved with him, Nash knows things—things that might help catch a killer. Nash and Katherine can save lives, if they put aside the desire that torments them both. But the closer they get, the more they have to lose . . . “A highly entertaining and cohesive suspense novel with an emotionally satisfying romance that will keep readers glued to the page.” —RT Book Reviews, 4 Stars on Dangerous Moves
