The End of Iraq : How American Incompetence Created a War Without End by Peter Galbraith
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The invasion of Iraq by American, British and other coalition forces has indeed transformed the Middle East, but not as the Bush and Blair administrations had imagined. It is Iran, not Western-style democracy, that has emerged as the big winner, creating a Tehran-Baghdad axis that would have been unthin ...Show more
TRIBES TRIUMPHANT : RETURN JOURNEY TO THE MIDDLE EAST by CHARLES GLASS
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Blacks in America 1492-1970 by Irving J. Sloan (ed)
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Ethnic Chronology Ser.
Scandal : Inside Stories of Power, Intrigue and Corruption
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Secrets and Lies : Exposing the World of Cover-ups and Deception by David Southwell
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BUSTED : MUG SHOTS AND ARREST WARRANTS OF THE FAMOUS AND INFAMOUS by Thomas J. Craughwell
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A riveting lineup of the world's most famous and infamous arrests, from Lizzie Borden (double murder) to Lindsay Lohan (DUI) to Roman Polanski (unlawful sexual intercourse) Although the headlines fade, the humiliation, vulnerability, and sometimes chilling smugness of the alleged criminal in the mug sho ...Show more
Talking with Psychopaths and Savages: Guilty but Insane by Christopher Berry-Dee
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Category: POLITICS
A study of convicted murderers who have attempted to escape justice, and even the death penalty, by entering a plea of insanity - and sometimes succeeded The plea of insanity in criminal cases can be traced back at least to the Babylonian Code of Hammurabi, which dates from 1755-1759 BC. It is a complic ...Show more
The Walnut Tree: Untold Histories Of Violence, Women And The Law by Kate Morgan
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Category: POLITICS
A devastating work of non-fiction that reveals a hidden history of women, violence and the law. ' A woman, a dog and a walnut tree, the more they are beaten, the better they'll be.' So went the proverb quoted by a prominent MP in the Houses of Parliament in 1853. His words - intended ironically in a deb ...Show more
Tokyo Vice: A Western Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan by Jake Adelstein
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At 19, Jake Adelstein went to Japan in search of peace and tranquility. What he got was a life of crime - crime reporting, that is, at the prestigious Yomiuri Shinbun. For twelve years of 80-hour work weeks, he covered the seedy side of Japan, where extortion, murder, human trafficking, and corruption a ...Show more
The Terror Courts - Rough Justice at Guantanamo Bay by Jess Bravin
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Soon after the September 11 attacks in 2001, the United States captured hundreds of suspected al-Qaeda terrorists in Afghanistan and around the world. By the following January the first of these prisoners arrived at the U.S. military's prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where they were subject to Pres ...Show more
Six Moments of Crisis: Inside British Foreign Policy by Gill Bennett
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Former Whitehall insider Gill Bennett unravels the story of six crucial British foreign policy challenges since the Second World War, from the Korean War to the Falklands conflict, offering an inside account of episodes that shaped Britain's position in the world for decades to come - and in some cases ...Show more
The Last Narco: Hunting El Chapo, the World's Most-wanted Drug Lord by Malcolm Beith
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Mexico, April 2009. The bodies of a pair of undercover military intelligence agents, disguised as campesinos (farmers), are dumped by the side of the road. Beside the corpses is a message on a scrap of paper: 'You'll never get El Chapo.' Such is the fate of many who have dared to try to catch El Chapo, ...Show more