Small Crimes

Author : Dave Zeltserman
Publisher : Serpent's Tail
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781847656247

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Small Crimes by Dave Zeltserman Pdf

Chosen by NPR and the Washington Post as one of the best crime & mystery novels of 2008, Small Crimes is now a major film starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Game of Thrones' Jaime Lannister) Bent copper Joe Denton gets out of prison suspiciously early after disfiguring the district attorney. Nobody wants Joe to hang around, not his ex-wife, his parents or his former colleagues - if he had any decency he'd get out of town and start over. Unfortunately, Joe has precious little decency - and a whole lot of unfinished business to attend to. A tale of redemption and revenge as dark and violent as it's bitterly comic, Small Crimes is the UK debut of hard-boiled hotshot Dave Zeltserman.

Author : Richard Fifield
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-10
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781984835901

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The Small Crimes of Tiffany Templeton by Richard Fifield Pdf

The Serpent King meets Girl in Pieces in this moving and darkly funny story about a teenage girl coming of age and learning how to grieve in small-town Montana. Tiffany Templeton is tough. She dresses exclusively in black, buys leather jackets that are several sizes too big, and never backs down from a fight. She's known in her tiny Montana town as Tough Tiff, and after her shoplifting arrest and a stint in a reform school, the nickname is here to stay. But when she comes back home, Tiffany may not be the same old Tough Tiff that everybody remembers. Her life is different now: her mother keeps her on an even shorter leash than before, she meets with a probation officer once a month, and she's still grieving her father's recent death. As Tiffany navigates her new life and learns who she wants to be, she must also contend with an overbearing best friend, the geriatric cast of a high-maintenance drama production, her first boyfriend, and a town full of eccentric neighbors--not to mention a dark secret she's been keeping about why the ex-football coach left town.

Author : Matthew Kneale
Publisher : Anchor Canada
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385672849

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Small Crimes in an Age of Abundance by Matthew Kneale Pdf

The author of the award-winning novel English Passengers takes readers around the world in twelve deftly crafted stories that illuminate the uncertainties of life at home and abroad. Matthew Kneale received high praise for the prize-winning English Passengers, an epic romp on the high seas and across nineteenth-century cultures, ingeniously woven together by a multitude of narrators. In Small Crimes In An Age of Abundance, Kneale brings his mastery of storytelling to our present morally ambiguous world. Set in lands ranging from England to China, South America, the Middle East, and Africa, these powerfully themed stories follow ordinary people as they try to survive and make sense of their worlds. We follow a well-intentioned English family who leave their tour group in China to travel alone, and collide with the ruthless side of the country, slowly becoming complicit in its violence; a ploddingly respectable London lawyer who chances upon a stash of cocaine and realizes it offers the wealth and status he hungers for; a salesman in Africa who becomes caught up in a riot that turns his life upside down; a self-doubting suicide bomber. Kneale transports readers across continents in a nanosecond, reaching to the heart of faraway societies with rare perceptiveness. As the stories gain momentum — tense, funny, and always compassionate — they make readers see the world in a new way. At times reminiscent of Julian Barnes’s A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters, at times Primo Levi’s The Periodic Table, Small Crimes In An Age of Abundance is a groundbreaking book, by a master narrator of the uncertainties of our time.

Author : Fred Landman
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030427115

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Iceberg Semantics for Mass Nouns and Count Nouns by Fred Landman Pdf

Iceberg semantics is a new framework of Boolean semantics for mass nouns and count nouns in which the interpretation of a noun phrase rises up from a generating base and floats with its base on its Boolean part set, like an iceberg. The framework is shown to preserve the attractive features of classical Boolean semantics for count nouns; the book argues that Iceberg semantics forms a much better framework for studying mass nouns than the classical theory does. Iceberg semantics uses its notion of base to develop a semantic theory of the differences between mass nouns and count nouns and between different types of mass nouns, in particular between prototypical mass nouns (here called mess mass nouns) like water and mud versus object mass nouns (here called neat mass nouns) like poultry and pottery. The book shows in detail how and why neat mass nouns pattern semantically both with mess mass nouns and with count nouns. Iceberg semantics is a compositional theory and in Iceberg semantics the semantic distinctions defined apply to noun phrases of any complexity. The book studies in depth the semantics of classifier noun phrases (like three glasses of wine) and measure noun phrases (like three liters of wine). The classical wisdom is that classifier interpretations are count. Recent literature has argued compellingly that measure interpretations are mass. The book shows that both connections follow from the basic architecture of Iceberg semantics. Audience: Scholars and students in linguistics - in particular semantics, pragmatics, computational linguistics and syntax – and neighbouring disciplines like logic, philosophy of language, and cognitive science.

Author : George L. Kelling,Catherine M. Coles
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780684837383

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Fixing Broken Windows by George L. Kelling,Catherine M. Coles Pdf

Cites successful examples of community-based policing.

Author : Donald F. Lach,Edwin J. Van Kley
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1998-12-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0226467686

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Asia in the Making of Europe, Volume III by Donald F. Lach,Edwin J. Van Kley Pdf

This monumental series, acclaimed as a "masterpiece of comprehensive scholarship" in the New York Times Book Review, reveals the impact of Asia's high civilizations on the development of modern Western society. The authors examine the ways in which European encounters with Asia have altered the development of Western society, art, literature, science, and religion since the Renaissance. In Volume III: A Century of Advance, the authors have researched seventeenth-century European writings on Asia in an effort to understand how contemporaries saw Asian societies and peoples. Book 3: Southeast Asia examines European images of the lands, societies, religions, and cultures of Southeast Asia. The continental nations of Siam, Vietnam, Malaya, Pegu, Arakan, Cambodia, and Laos are discussed, as are the islands of Java, Bali, Sumatra, Borneo, Amboina, the Moluccas, the Bandas, Celebes, the Lesser Sundas, New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Mindanao, Jolo, Guam, and the Marianas.

Author : Susan Robinson,Tracy Cussen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137609045

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The Criminology and Criminal Justice Companion by Susan Robinson,Tracy Cussen Pdf

This companion offers a user-friendly and practical introduction to the various aspects of studying and researching Criminology and Criminal Justice. With study skills coverage integrated alongside broad overviews of the key theories and concepts that drive Criminology and Criminal Justice, the book offers an authoritative overview for those starting out in their studies. It is also packed with helpful reflective questions to encourage the reader to think more deeply about the material and its application in the real world. This is an essential resource for students with no prior experience of studying Criminology or Criminal Justice, as well as for those who want a handy reference book at any point in their study and further career. It has been designed to be used as pre-course reading, as a core text on introductory Criminology, Criminal Justice or Criminological Skills modules, or as complimentary reading on Criminological Theory modules.

Author : G. K. Chesterton
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 2058 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788027302079

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CHESTERTON MYSTERIES: 100+ Crime Thrillers, Murder Mysteries & Detective Tales by G. K. Chesterton Pdf

e-artnow presents to you this ultimate murder mystery collection by the master of the genre: The Father Brown Stories: The Innocence of Father Brown: The Blue Cross The Secret Garden The Queer Feet The Flying Stars The Invisible Man The Honour of Israel Gow The Wrong Shape The Sins of Prince Saradine The Hammer of God The Eye of Apollo The Sign of the Broken Sword The Three Tools of Death The Wisdom of Father Brown: The Absence of Mr. Glass The Paradise of Thieves The Duel of Dr. Hirsch The Man in the Passage The Mistake of the Machine The Head of Caesar The Purple Wig The Perishing of the Pendragons The God of the Gongs The Salad of Colonel Cray The Strange Crime of John Boulnois The Fairy Tale of Father Brown The Incredulity of Father Brown: The Resurrection of Father Brown The Arrow of Heaven The Oracle of the Dog The Miracle of Moon Crescent The Curse of the Golden Cross The Dagger with Wings The Doom of the Darnaways The Ghost of Gideon Wise The Secret of Father Brown: The Mirror of the Magistrate The Man With Two Beards The Song of the Flying Fish The Actor and the Alibi The Vanishing of Vaudrey The Worst Crime In the World The Red Moon of Meru The Chief Mourner of Marne The Secret of Flambeau The Scandal of Father Brown: The Quick One The Blast of the Book The Green Man The Pursuit of Mr. Blue The Crime of the Communist The Point of a Pin The Insoluble Problem The Vampire of the Village The Donnington Affair The Mask of Midas Novels: The Man who was Thursday Manalive Short Stories: The Club of Queer Trades: The Tremendous Adventures of Major Brown The Painful Fall of a Great Reputation The Awful Reason of the Vicar's Visit The Singular Speculation of the House-Agent The Noticeable Conduct of Professor Chadd The Eccentric Seclusion of the Old Lady The Man Who Knew Too Much The Trees of Pride Tales of the Long Bow The Poet and the Lunatics Four Faultless Felons The Paradoxes of Mr. Pond The White Pillars Murder The Sword of Wood

Author : Robert Regoli,John Hewitt,Matt DeLisi
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
Page : 693 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780763764340

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Delinquency in Society by Robert Regoli,John Hewitt,Matt DeLisi Pdf

Delinquency in Society, Eighth Edition provides a systematic introduction to the study of juvenile delinquency, criminal behavior, and status offending youths. This text examines the theories of juvenile crimes and the social context of delinquency including the relevance of families, schools, and peer groups. Reorganized and thoroughly updated to reflect the most current trends and developments in juvenile delinquency, the Eighth Edition includes discussions of the history, institutional context, and societal reactions to delinquent behavior. Delinquency prevention programs and basic coverage of delinquency as it relates to the criminal justice system are also included to add context and support student comprehension.

Author : Arthur Conan Doyle,Ernest Bramah,Arthur Morrison,Thomas W. Hanshew,Edgar Wallace,J. S. Fletcher,R. Austin Freeman,G. K. Chesterton,H. C. McNeile,Victor L. Whitechurch,Annie Haynes,Rober Barr
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 10886 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547680376

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The Best British Detective Books: 270+ Murder Mysteries, Crime Stories & Suspense Thrillers by Arthur Conan Doyle,Ernest Bramah,Arthur Morrison,Thomas W. Hanshew,Edgar Wallace,J. S. Fletcher,R. Austin Freeman,G. K. Chesterton,H. C. McNeile,Victor L. Whitechurch,Annie Haynes,Rober Barr Pdf

This unique collection of "THE BRITISH DETECTIVES COLLECTION - 270+ Murder Mysteries, Crime Stories & Suspense Thrillers (Illustrated)" has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards. Contents: Sherlock Holmes Series: A Study in Scarlet The Sign of Four The Hound of the Baskervilles The Valley of Fear The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes The Return of Sherlock Holmes His Last Bow The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes Father Brown Stories: The Innocence of Father Brown The Wisdom of Father Brown The Incredulity of Father Brown The Secret of Father Brown The Scandal of Father Brown Inspector Furnival Series: The Abbey Court Murder The House in Charlton Crescent The Crow's Inn Tragedy Inspector Stoddart Series: The Man with the Dark Beard Who Killed Charmian Karslake? The Crime at Tattenham Corner The Crystal Beads Murder Martin Hewitt Series: Martin Hewitt, Investigator Chronicles of Martin Hewitt Adventures of Martin Hewitt The Red Triangle Dr. Thorndyke Series: The Red Thumb Mark The Eye of Osiris The Mystery of 31 New Inn A Silent Witness Helen Vardon's Confession The Cat's Eye The Mystery of Angelina Frood The Shadow of the Wolf The D'Arblay Mystery A Certain Dr. Thorndyke As a Thief in the Night Mr. Pottermack's Oversight Pontifex, Son and Thorndyke When Rogues Fall Out Dr. Thorndyke Intervenes For the Defence: Dr. Thorndyke The Stoneware Monkey Mr. Polton Explains The Jacob Street Mystery Percival Bland's Proxy The Missing Mortgagee Dr. Thorndyke's Cases The Adventures of Dr. Thorndyke Dr. Thorndyke's Casebook Hamilton Cleek Series: Cleek, the Master Detective Cleek of Scotland Yard Cleek's Government Cases Max Carrados Mysteries Thorpe Hazell Mysteries P.C. Lee Stories Paul Campenhaye – Specialist in Criminology Eugéne Valmont Mysteries...

Author : Trinity Townsend and Travis Townsend
Publisher : Torinity, LLC
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780983522454

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When the Cops Come Knockin': An Illustrated Guide to Criminal Law by Trinity Townsend and Travis Townsend Pdf

Author : Donald F. Kettl
Publisher : CQ Press
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781506383507

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Little Bites of Big Data for Public Policy by Donald F. Kettl Pdf

Little Bites of Big Data for Public Policy brings to life the quest to make better policy with better evidence. This brief book frames the big puzzles and, through lively stories and clear examples, provides a valuable how-to guide for producing analysis that works—that speaks persuasively to policy makers, in the language they can best hear, on the problems for which they most need answers. Author Donald F. Kettl brings together the cutting-edge streams of data analytics and data visualization to frame the big puzzles and find ways to make the pieces fit together. By taking little bites of a wide variety of useful data, and then by analyzing it in ways that decision makers will find most helpful, analysts can be much more effective in shaping solutions to the most important problems governments face.

Author : Manhattan Prep
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 1345 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781506218717

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TOEFL 5lb Book of Practice Problems by Manhattan Prep Pdf

"1,500+ practice problems in book and online"--Cover.

Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Science and Technology Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-02
Category : Computer crimes
ISBN : 0215041550

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Malware and cyber crime by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Science and Technology Committee Pdf

Malicious software - designed to infect computers to steal bank details and identity information - poses a growing threat in the UK as more people use the internet and an increasing proportion of economic activity takes place online. The Science and Technology Committee say the Government must do more to help the public understand how to stay safe online. It calls for a prolonged awareness raising campaign to increase public understanding of personal online security. Eighty per cent of protection against cyber-attack is routine IT hygiene, yet currently there is no single first point of advice and help for consumers and much of the online information about internet security is often technical or jargon filled. Television exposure is crucial to gain the widest possible exposure to the safety message, and more should be done to promote and resource the existing Government website Get Safe Online. Advice from Get Safe Online should be provided with every device capable of accessing the internet and all Government websites should link to the website and highlight the latest security updates. The provision of Government services by the 'digital by default' policy will increasingly require those in receipt of Government benefits and services to access these online. The Committee raises concerns that the scheme will be of greater use in protecting the Government against welfare fraud than the individual user against crime. The Government should investigate the potential for imposing statutory safety standards if the industry cannot demonstrate that voluntary self-regulation can improve security.

Author : Georges E. Guibord
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2008-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781434362186

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Thinkerings by Georges E. Guibord Pdf

This book covers a wide variety of subjects, ranging from a New World Calendar to Einstein's Theories of Relativity. It describes interesting aspects of Astronomy, History, Philosophy and Life, using simple terms that do no require prior knowledge of these matters. Several natural phenomena are examined and many scientific aspects of our environment and of life in general, are presented. The book is full of fascinating information that effectively makes it a short course in basic science and astronomy and an imaginative study of many aspects of human nature. A short section on humour provides a relaxing variation from the seriousness of the technical subjects and the controversial nature of the human aspects.