Описание: An Edgar Award finalist for Best Fact Crime, this ';impressiveopen-eyed investigative inquiry wrapped within a cultural history of rural America' (The Wall Street Journal) shows legendary statistician and baseball writer Bill James applying his analytical acumen to crack an unsolved century-old mystery surrounding one of the deadliest serial killers in American history.
Between 1898 and 1912, families across the country were bludgeoned in their sleep with the blunt side of an axe. Some of these caseslike the infamous Villisca, Iowa, murdersreceived national attention. But most incidents went almost unnoticed outside the communities in which they occurred.
Few people believed the crimes were related. And fewer still would realize that all of these families lived within walking distance to a train station. When celebrated true crime expert Bill James first learned about these horrors, he began to investigate others that might fit the same pattern.
Applying the same know-how he brings to his legendary baseball analysis, he empirically determined which crimes were committed by the same person. Then after sifting through thousands of local newspapers, court transcripts, and public records, he and his daughter Rachel made an astonishing discovery: they learned the true identity of this monstrous criminal and uncovered one of the deadliest serial killers in America.
';A suspenseful historical account' (Publishers Weekly, starred review), The Man from the Train paints a vivid, psychologically perceptive portrait of America at the dawn of the twentieth century, when crime was regarded as a local problem, and opportunistic private detectives exploited a dysfunctional judicial system. James shows how these cultural factors enabled such an unspeakable series of crimes to occur, and his groundbreaking approach to true crime will convince skeptics, amaze aficionados, and change the way we view criminal history.
';A beautifully written and extraordinarily researched narrativeThis is no pure whodunit, but rather a how-many-did-he-do' (Buffalo News).
Описание: Examines debates over women`s rights in the first half of the twentieth century, to show how Czechs gradually turned away from democracy and established the separation of state and domestic issues, at the expense of personal freedoms.
Although many observers have assumed that pluralism prevailed in American political life from the start, inherited ideals of civic virtue and moral unity proved stubbornly persistent and influential. The tension between these conceptions of public life was especially evident in the young nation's burgeoning cities. Exploiting a wide range of sources, including novels, cartoons, memoirs, and journalistic accounts, James J. Connolly traces efforts to reconcile democracy and diversity in the industrializing cities of the United States from the antebellum period through the Progressive Era.
The necessity of redesigning civic institutions and practices to suit city life triggered enduring disagreements centered on what came to be called machine politics. Featuring plebian leadership, a sharp masculinity, party discipline, and frank acknowledgment of social differences, this new political formula first arose in eastern cities during the mid-nineteenth century and became a subject of national discussion after the Civil War. During the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, business leaders, workers, and women proposed alternative understandings of how urban democracy might work. Some tried to create venues for deliberation that built common ground among citizens of all classes, faiths, ethnicities, and political persuasions. But accommodating such differences proved difficult, and a vision of politics as the businesslike management of a contentious modern society took precedence. As Connolly makes clear, machine politics offered at best a quasi-democratic way to organize urban public life. Where unity proved elusive, machine politics provided a viable, if imperfect, alternative.
Описание: A highly original account of how literature and neuroscience interact to explain the relationship between the mind, body, and brain
Featuring a foreword by renowned neuroscientist Joseph E. LeDoux, this book is an illuminating, comprehensive survey of contemporary literature's engagement with neuroscience. Jason Tougaw analyzes the works of contemporary writers--including Oliver Sacks, Temple Grandin, and Siri Hustvedt--arguing that their experiments with literary form offer a necessary counterbalance to a wider cultural neuromania that seeks out purely neural explanations for human behaviors as varied as reading, economics, empathy, and racism.
Автор: Williams Kristen Arn Название: Firebird ISBN: 0692154361 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780692154366 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 1786.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание:
When we terraformed Mars, we doomed Earth.
It is now the year 3000, and there is no hope. Unity controls Earth, ruling with the mind-warping technology of the BioMage. And on Mars, where humanity fled, we answer to the criminal factions of the Overlords. There is no freedom.
There is no hope.
Until, of course, Firebird rose. And as the most powerful BioMage ever born, her will could be the one that changes a life, that changes the Worlds.
My name is Jezi Lurk, and these are the Firebird Chronicles.
Автор: Olivier Rachel V. Название: Firebird Sweet ISBN: 1105588521 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781105588525 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 876.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Nicole, guitarist for Canto Sybilla and a senior at University of Southport, can't seem to settle down and concentrate on anything - school, work, the band. She's restless and can't figure out why. It could just be spring fever, couldn't it? Meanwhile Victor's Nana has him taking time off work to run strange errands all over town for the "good of the family", and it includes following some college co-ed. He yearns to go back to his engineering job, and just hopes he doesn't get arrested for stalking. Of course, the Others of Southport can't resist meddling in the affairs of their local humans. Welcome to Book II of Canto Sybilla, the series that follows the lives of bandmembers Holly, Nicole, Julie, Donna and some of their friends as they live and love in the city of Southport.
Автор: Dolby Ian Название: Earthcare: Book Three in the Firebird Series ISBN: 0648717909 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780648717904 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 3449.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: An Eco-terrorist organisation...a ratbag wealthy industrialist egomaniac...a plot to overturn the entire Australian political process...a major natural gas processing plant at risk...a giant crocodile...RAN patrol boats...an assassination contract targeting the PM. All the ingredients for a Firebird cocktail...definitely shaken, not stirred!
Автор: Merton Orren Название: Firebird Alex ISBN: 0692232133 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780692232132 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2240.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Mairi Mackinnon Название: The Firebird ISBN: 140950669X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781409506690 Издательство: Usborne Рейтинг: Цена: 791.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The Russian folktale retold for children growing in reading confidence and ability. Prince Ivan sets off in search of the Firebird, which has been stealing his father`s golden apples. Part of the Usborne Reading Programme.
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