Suchergebnisse

Cover -- Book Title -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Into the Darkness -- Chapter 2 Snapped? -- Chapter 3 Bogeymen -- Chapter 4 The Blackout Ripper (London 1942) -- Chapter 5 'Perfect' Murders -- Chapter 6 Notorious -- Chapter 7 Death on the Roads -- Chapter 8 The Blackout Bonnie and Clyde (Staines, Surrey 1944) -- Chapter 9 The Colne Strangler (Colne, Lancashire 1941 and Ellough, Suffolk 1944) -- Chapter 10 The Witchcraft Murder (Upper Quinton, Warwickshire 1945) -- Select Bibliography -- Acknowledgements -- Back cover.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Foreign Policy and Economic Dependence -- 1. Introduction -- 2. International Economic Dependence -- 3. Foreign Policy Compliance -- 4. United States Economic Dependencies -- 5. Compliance in the General Assembly -- 6. Theoretical and Policy Implications -- Notes -- Index

This little book is a repository of intriguing, fascinating, obscure, strange and entertaining facts and trivia about the one certainty in all our lives - death. Within this volume are some horrible, unfortunate and downright ludicrous ends. Find out what body parts of the departed great and famous are still with us (and, in some cases, what they sold for). Learn of odd last requests, burials, epitaphs and death rites from around the world, as well as the strange fates of some cadavers - and a whole host of horrible tales about mummies, vampires, zombies, audo-icons and body-snatchers. An

The Little Book of Murder is a chilling compendium of intriguing, obscure and strange facts and trivia about murders and murderers. From infamous cases and serial killers, to unusual murder weapons and crime scene investigation, this book is sure to make you sit up and say. 'I never knew that!' A reference book and a quirky guide, this volume can be dipped in to time and time again to reveal something new about the murderers, the victims, the people who write about crime, and the advances in scientific detection. A remarkably engaging little book, this is essential reading for true crime and c

Neil R Storey's macabre calendar chronicles the darker side of life in Essex. Murderers and footpads, pimps and prostitutes, riots, rebels, bizarre funerals, disaster and peculiar medicine all feature. The book is illustrated with engravings, newspaper reports, photographs and original documents. If it is horrible, if it is ghastly, if it is strange, then it is here! If you have the stomach for it, then read on.

"The Jew" as homme/femme fatale: Jewish (art)ifice, Trilby, and Drefyus -- Emancipation to das Muskelj'den: Zionism, masculinity, and the liberated Jewish body -- The feminized Jewish pugilist: racial ambivalence and weak muscle-Jews -- Gendered-Jewishness in Ulysses: Bloom as semi-queer Jew -- From Klugman to Pipik: Philip Roth and postcolonial/postmodern old-new Jewish gender -- Coda

London: Crime, Death & Debauchery is an alternative history of the darker side of Britain's capital city. No other book on London covers this topic in such a complete fashion with cases ranging from the Restoration to the early nineteenth century. It weaves macabre accounts into an entertaining criminal history accessible to all. Featuring countless stories of infamous misdeeds and scandalous behaviour, the book includes duelling, murder, gaol breaks, rioting, body snatchers, robbery, suicide, drinking, infanticide, gambling, highwaymen, fraud and executions. Illustrated with a series of engra