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Author: Francine Hornberger
Publisher: Alpha Books
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Profiles over one hundred women criminals, describing their lives, crimes, and prosecution; includes such individuals such as Lizzie Borden, Bonnie Parker, Amy Fisher, and Susan Smith. Also, includes members of groups such as "lethal nurses," "'Heavenly Creatures, '" "Manson Women," "Papin Sisters," and "Symbionese Liberation Army Women."
Author: Francine LaSala
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780739428672
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Profiles over one hundred women criminals, describing their lives, crimes, and prosecution; includes such individuals such as Lizzie Borden, Bonnie Parker, Amy Fisher, and Susan Smith. Also, includes members of groups such as "lethal nurses," "'Heavenly Creatures, '" "Manson Women," "Papin Sisters," and "Symbionese Liberation Army Women."
Author: Elaine Carey
Publisher: UNM Press
Published: 2014-11-01
Total Pages: 311
ISBN-13: 0826351999
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the flow of drugs to the United States from Latin America, women have always played key roles as bosses, business partners, money launderers, confidantes, and couriers—work rarely acknowledged. Elaine Carey’s study of women in the drug trade offers a new understanding of this intriguing subject, from women drug smugglers in the early twentieth century to the cartel queens who make news today. Using international diplomatic documents, trial transcripts, medical and public welfare studies, correspondence between drug czars, and prison and hospital records, the author’s research shows that history can be as gripping as a thriller.
Author: Bill Madden
Publisher:
Published: 1972
Total Pages: 137
ISBN-13: 9780498011399
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Vickie Jensen
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2011-11-10
Total Pages: 769
ISBN-13: 0313068267
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA unique, two-volume study that examines female crime and the women who commit it. The two-volume Women Criminals: An Encyclopedia of People and Issues addresses both key topics and key figures in women's crime. The first volume provides topical essays about areas critical to the understanding of female criminals, such as the definition of women's crime, explanations of women's criminality, ethnic and age diversity in female criminals, and responses of the criminal justice system. The second volume comprises biographical entries profiling women who are obviously criminals, such as Aileen Wuornos and Myra Hindley, and also women who were victims of circumstance, unjust laws, or narrowly applied definitions of crime, such as Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, and Sophie Scholl. In addition to highlighting the breadth of women's criminality, these portraits provide a holistic, multifaceted understanding of the dynamics of women's crime and why it occurs, connecting the individual stories to the larger social-scientific perspectives. Care has been taken to include the women's own voices and perspectives where possible and to address the intentions and reasoning of the system that responded to their criminality.
Author: Nina Silber
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009-07-01
Total Pages: 343
ISBN-13: 0674043626
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDaughters of the Union casts a spotlight on some of the most overlooked and least understood participants in the American Civil War: the women of the North. Unlike their Confederate counterparts, who were often caught in the midst of the conflict, most Northern women remained far from the dangers of battle. Nonetheless, they enlisted in the Union cause on their home ground, and the experience transformed their lives. Nina Silber traces the emergence of a new sense of self and citizenship among the women left behind by Union soldiers. She offers a complex account, bolstered by women's own words from diaries and letters, of the changes in activity and attitude wrought by the war. Women became wage-earners, participants in partisan politics, and active contributors to the war effort. But even as their political and civic identities expanded, they were expected to subordinate themselves to male-dominated government and military bureaucracies. Silber's arresting tale fills an important gap in women's history. She shows the women of the North--many for the first time--discovering their patriotism as well as their ability to confront new economic and political challenges, even as they encountered the obstacles of wartime rule. The Civil War required many women to act with greater independence in running their households and in expressing their political views. It brought women more firmly into the civic sphere and ultimately gave them new public roles, which would prove crucial starting points for the late-nineteenth-century feminist struggle for social and political equality.
Author: Col. Robert Barr Smith
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2015-08-03
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 1442247304
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of short, action-filled stories of the Old West’s most egregiously badly behaved female outlaws is a great addition to Western author Robert Barr Smith’s books on the American frontier. Pulling together stories of ladies caught in the acts of mayhem, distraction, murder, and highway robbery, it includes famous names like Belle Starr and lesser known characters, and contains archival illustrations and photographs. Some famous females earned their criminal status through less-than-ladylike pursuits, making a living by capitalizing on the other sex's weaknesses of drinking, gambling, and enjoying the company of women. More than a few, like Cecilia and Edna "The Rabbit" Murray, weren't above robbing a bank or two to stay afloat for a while. Others, however, were much more sinister in their aims, earning a living by making sure others kept dying. Visitors to the homes of Kate Bender and Belle Gunness--dozens, no less--went missing over the years, only to be dug up months or years later, when suspicions were finally aroused.
Author: Tiphani Montgomery
Publisher: Dafina Books
Published: 2012-04-01
Total Pages: 333
ISBN-13: 0758263279
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Oh my God! It doesn’t get any better than this! Tiphani just yanks the readers in with her wild and outlandish character, Chloe, and her impeccable writing style. The Mistress series is a must-read!” —Azarel, author of the Bruised series Nobody leaves Chloe for dead. She’s got a new sugar daddy, new ammo, and shocking new tricks up her sleeve. But she’s still the same crazy, lusty, dangerous woman out for bloody revenge. And she’s headed toward the same target: her sister, Oshyn. And she’ll get her by taking her man, Brooklyn. And if Brooklyn doesn’t see it Chloe’s way, she’s got a plan to punish them both. . . . “Still a Mistress is a page-turner. This book is filled with so many plot twists and turns that it will leave you guessing what will happen next.” —APOOO Book Club “Over-the-top drama, murder, and mayhem.” —Urban Reviews on Still a Mistress Be sure to read all the books in the Mistress series…
Author: Francine Hornberger
Publisher: Citadel Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780806526157
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor thousands of years people have been intrigued and mystified by oracles and prophets. Yet, who are the most extrasensory preceptors' of all time - and who are the frauds? This amazing collection includes the stories of fifty of the world's all-time top psychics and details of their most astounding predictions. From St. John the Divine, who had a vision of the end of the world to the shadowy Rasputin. Nostradamus, Madame Blavatsky and Uri Geller are also included and their histories profiled, with a revealing look at how their work has been credited - or discredited'
Author: Nina Burleigh
Publisher: Bantam
Published: 2009-10-21
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 0307574172
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil meets Camelot.”—Washington Post Book World In 1964, Mary Pinchot Meyer, the beautiful, rebellious, and intelligent ex-wife of a top CIA official, was killed on a quiet Georgetown towpath near her home. Mary Meyer was a secret mistress of President John F. Kennedy, whom she had known since private school days, and after her death, reports that she had kept a diary set off a tense search by her brother-in-law, newsman Ben Bradlee, and CIA spymaster James Jesus Angleton. But the only suspect in her murder was acquitted, and today her life and death are still a source of intense speculation, as Nina Burleigh reveals in her widely praised book, the first to examine this haunting story. Praise for A Very Private Woman “Power is so utterly fascinating. Sometimes it’s used for evil purposes, like the kind of power that has silenced the telling of Mary Pinchot Meyer’s mysterious murder for over three decades. In A Very Private Woman, Nina Burleigh has finally told this tragic tale of a privileged beauty with friends in high places.”—Dominick Dunne “A superbly crafted, evocative glimpse of an adventurous spirit whose grisly murder remains a mystery.”—San Francisco Chronicle Book Review “Proves that every Washington sex scandal is juicy in its own way.”—Glamour “Nina Burleigh has dissected Washington’s most intriguing murder mystery and produced a captivating biography, a thriller, and an insightful portrait of Georgetown in its golden presidential age.”—Christopher Ogden, bestselling author of Life of the Party: The Life of Pamela Digby Churchill Hayward Harriman “Provocative, erudite . . . pure Georgetown noir.”—New York Observer “A rich array of real-life characters.”—New York Times Book Review
