A Pictorial History of Crime Films
Author : Ian Alexander Cameron
Publisher : Book Sales
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 45,55 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780600370222
The Great Pictorial History of World Crime
Author : Jay Robert Nash
Publisher :
Page : 982 pages
File Size : 34,38 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Crime
ISBN :
Book Description
Crimes and Punishment
Author : Harford Montgomery Hyde
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 31,77 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780863073694
Book Description
Book Row
Author : Marvin Mondlin
Publisher : Carroll & Graf Publishers
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 18,77 MB
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780786716524
Book Description
The city has eight million stories, and this one unfolds just south of 14th Street in Manhattan, mostly on the seven blocks of Fourth Avenue bracketed by Union Square and Astor Place. There, for nearly eight decades, from the 1890s to the 1960s, thrived a bibliophiles' paradise. They called it the New York Booksellers' Row, or, more commonly, Book Row. It's an American story, the story that this richly anecdotal historical memoir amiably tells: as American as the rags-to-riches tale of the Strand, which began its life as book stall on Eighth Street and today houses 2.5 million volumes in twelve miles of space. It's a story cast with colorful characters: like the horse-betting, poker-playing go-getter and book dealer George D. Smith; the irascible Russian-born book hunter Peter Stammer, the visionary Theodore C. Schulte; Lou Cohen, founder of the still-surviving Argosy Book Store; gentleman bookseller George Rubinowitz and his legendary shrewd wife Jenny. Rising rents, street crime, urban redevelopment, television-the reasons are many for the demise of Book Row, but in this volume, based on interviews with dozens upon dozens of the book people who bought, sold, and collected there, it lives again.
A Pictorial History of Horror Movies
Author : Denis Gifford
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 11,11 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Horror films
ISBN : 9780600373087
Book Description
Kings of the Road
Author : Rob Leicester Wagner
Publisher : Metro Books
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 16,20 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781567994131
Book Description
Pictures and text explore the history of commercial trucking from the beginning of the 20th century to the present, including an introduction of some well-known trucking companies and manufacturers.
Museum of the Missing
Author : Simon Houpt
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 20,39 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781402728297
Book Description
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Savage Pastimes
Author : Harold Schechter
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 48,13 MB
Release : 2005-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780312282769
Book Description
In this cogent and well-researched book, Harold Schechter argues that, unlike the popular conception of the media inciting violence through displaying it, without these outlets of violence in the media a basic human need would not be met and would have to be acted out in much more destructive ways. Schechter demonstrates how violent images saturated the earliest newspaper, how art and disturbing images are not incompatible and how the demoaisation of comic books in the 1950s det up a pattern of equating testosterone fuelled entertainment with aggression.
The Joker
Author : Matthew Manning
Publisher : Universe
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 40,98 MB
Release : 2011-10-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0789322471
Book Description
Explores the character of the Joker and his significance as the quintessential villain.
No Place Like Murder
Author : Janis Thornton
Publisher : Quarry Books
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 30,28 MB
Release : 2020-09-29
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 0253052793
Book Description
A modern retelling of 20 sensational true crimes, No Place Like Murder reveals the inside details behind nefarious acts that shocked the Midwest between 1869 and 1950. The stories chronicle the misdeeds, examining the perpetrators' mindsets, motives, lives, apprehensions, and trials, as well as what became of them long after. True crime author Janis Thornton profiles notorious murderers such as Frankie Miller, who was fed up when her fiancé stood her up for another woman. As fans of the song "Frankie and Johnny" already know, Frankie met her former lover at the door with a shotgun. Thornton's tales reveal the darker side of life in the Midwest, including the account of Isabelle Messmer, a plucky young woman who dreamed of escaping her quiet farm-town life. After she nearly took down two tough Pittsburgh policemen in 1933, she was dubbed "Gun Girl" and went on to make headlines from coast to coast. In 1942, however, after a murder conviction in Texas, she vowed to do her time and go straight. Full of intrigue and revelations, No Place Like Murder also features such folks as Chirka and Rasico, the first two Hoosier men to die in the electric chair after they brutally murdered their wives in 1913. The two didn't meet until their fateful last night. An enthralling and chilling collection, No Place Like Murder is sure to thrill true crime lovers.
