Practical Plant Protection and Policing
Charles C. Thomas, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Clean inside. No highlighting or underlining.
Charles C. Thomas, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Clean inside. No highlighting or underlining.
Random House, January 1994. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. Shots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty, early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly.....
Atlantic Monthly Press, April 2019. Hardcover. On March 29, 1975, sisters Katherine and Sheila Lyon, age 10 and 12, vanished from a shopping mall in suburban Washington, D.C. As shock spread, then grief, a massive police effort found nothing. The investigation was shelved, and mystery endured. Then, in 2013, a......
W W Norton & Co Inc, December 2001. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. The case that shocked a nation the incredible book that tells what really happened. It began August 9 and 10, 1969, when seven people were shot, stabbed, and bludgeoned to death in Los Angeles. It ended.....
W W Norton & Co Inc, December 2001. Trade Paperback. A new copy. The case that shocked a nation the incredible book that tells what really happened. It began August 9 and 10, 1969, when seven people were shot, stabbed, and bludgeoned to death in Los Angeles. It ended when.....
Citadel, August 2016. Trade Paperback. A new copy. Painstakingly researched over three years, based on nearly one hundred hours of exclusive interviews with Richard Ramirez on California's Death Row, "The Night Stalker" is the definitive account of America's most feared serial murderer. From Ramirez's earliest brushes with the law to.....
Knopf, May 2019. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. ONE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2019 NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2019 BY Time, LitHub, Vulture, Glamour, O Magazine, Town and Country, Suspense Magazine, Inside Hook New York Times Best Seller.....
New Press, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. In this study of the use of violence by police forces in Latin America and the United States as well as in the Caribbean, Paul Chevigny investigates torture and the use of.....
Library of Congress, 1973. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 169 pages. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in orange wrappers (paperback). 'I.1.4' mark in ink on upper front cover.
Dey Street Books, May 2020. Trade Paperback. A new copy. The legendary FBI criminal profiler, number-one New York Times bestselling author, and inspiration for the hit Netflix show Mindhunter delves deep into the lives and crimes of four of the most disturbing and complex predatory killers, offering never-before-revealed details about.....
Gallery Books, October 2017. Trade Paperback. A new copy. Now a Netflix original series Discover the classic, behind-the-scenes chronicle of John E. Douglas' twenty-five-year career in the FBI Investigative Support Unit, where he used psychological profiling to delve into the minds of the country's most notorious serial killers and criminals.....
Hachette Books, January 2021. Trade Paperback. *** A NEW YORK TIMES "100 Notable Books of 2020" ***A stunning, complex narrative about the fractured legacy of a decades-old double murder in rural West Virginia -- and the writer determined to put the pieces back together. In the early evening of June.....
Financial Times, 2004. Trade Paperback. Second printing. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Light edge wear. Provides insight into the political and social forces driving imprisonment in America. This book charts a path for reform, one that could make America not merely more humane, but safer. It exposes.....
Twelve, November 2010. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. A tiny, ebullient Jew who started as America's leading liberal and ended as its most famous judicial conservative. A Klansman who became an absolutist advocate of free speech and civil rights. A backcountry lawyer who started.....
D. Appleton, 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. viii, 284 pages. 'A translation of that portion of Professor Ferri's volume on Criminal Sociology which is immediately concerned with the practical problems of criminality.' Ferri offered 'scientific' criteria to ascertain guilt or at least criminal tendencies. Among his criteria were tattooing, physical and.....
Knopf, June 2023. Hardcover. A new copy. NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - One of the most remarkable true-crime narratives of the twenty-first century: the story of the world's most prolific art thief, Stéphane Breitwieser. - "The Art Thief, like its title character, has confidence, élan, and a great sense.....
St. Martin's Griffin, July 2014. Trade Paperback. A new copy. THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Wonderful... [Flanders] shines in her readings of literary novels containing criminal and detective elements, such as Oliver Twist, Mary Barton and Tess of the D'Urbervilles, but can be sharp and very funny about the vagaries.....
St. Martin's Griffin, July 2014. Trade Paperback. A new copy. THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Wonderful... [Flanders] shines in her readings of literary novels containing criminal and detective elements, such as Oliver Twist, Mary Barton and Tess of the D'Urbervilles, but can be sharp and very funny about the vagaries.....
Georgetown University Press, 1999. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 164 pages. First paperback edition (first printing). A fine copy in wrappers (paperback). The increasing reliance on private security services raises questions about the effects of privatization on the quality of public police forces, particularly in high-crime, low-income areas. In an effective.....
Blumberg & Co., printers, 1898. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 42 pages. Illustrated with black-and-white photographic images of the author and of the church. Emmanuel Baptist Church was the scene of two brutal murders in 1895 for which William Durant was convicted and hanged. Durant maintained his innocence and Gibson was.....
Roxburghe Club, 1963. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 17 pages. 10-1/4 by 15-1/4 inches. One of 200 copies. Transcript of the proceedings in memory of the Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. Printed at the Grabhorn Press. First edition (first printing). Sewn wrappers.....
Common Courage Press, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition (first printing). Corners lightly bumped else a fine copy in a fine dust jacket. In 1998, Mike Gray changed the political landscape with his book Drug Crazy: How We Got Into This Mess and How We Can Get Out. His book.....
Berkley, May 2020. Trade Paperback. A new copy. Robert Graysmith's New York Times bestselling account of the desperate hunt for a serial killer and his own investigation of California's unsolved Zodiac murders. A sexual sadist, the Zodiac killer took pleasure in torture and murder. His first victims were a teenage.....
Berkley, May 2020. Trade Paperback. A new copy. Robert Graysmith's New York Times bestselling account of the desperate hunt for a serial killer and his own investigation of California's unsolved Zodiac murders. A sexual sadist, the Zodiac killer took pleasure in torture and murder. His first victims were a teenage.....
PublicAffairs, June 2010. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. On September 30, 2006 gunfire echoed through the thin air near Advance Base Camp on Cho Oyu Mountain. Frequented by thousands of climbers each year, Cho Oyu lies nineteen miles east of Mt. Everest on the.....