True Accounts

In these gripping, terrifying stories, Pincus concludes that violent criminal behavior is the catastrophic product of a dysfunctional brain coupled with an abusive environment. Focusing on these critical factors, he questions how society can prevent the development of potentially violent persons fro... More

Taking readers deep inside the world of money laundering, this intriguing book shows it to be a highly sophisticated business that poses a threat to the world's financial institutions and global markets.The Washing Machine is an intriguing book that takes the reader deep inside the world of money la... More

A CIA speechwriter and analyst scours sources as diverse as the Bible, spy novels, James Bond movies, and presidential speeches to illuminate the mysterious world of intelligence and espionage through more than 3,000 quotations."The Literary Spy "provides" "a unique view of the intelligence world th... More

This book argues that modern presidents could learn much from Franklin Roosevelt's method of organizing his presidency. Roosevelt consciously avoided a large, functionally specialized White House bureaucracy. Instead, he developed staff agencies composed mostly of civil servants and personally manag... More

Fifteen experts on the nineteenth-century serial killer turn the case inside out looking for the true identity of the legendary murderer who terrorized the streets of Victorian London. Original.... More

Praise For Wall Street People VOLUMES 1 and 2 "The people in this book have one thing in common. For better or worse, each made a lasting impression on the landscape of our business. While some are viewed as heroes, and others as rascals or villains, there is something to be learned from each of th... More

In this fast-paced book, named one of the "Top Ten of 2001" by BusinessWeek, Mitchell Pacelle tells the gripping story of the ten-year struggle for control of America's most famous skyscraper-a tale of greed and duplicity that consumed, and nearly destroyed, some of the real estate world's most cont... More

Empire THE UNTOLD STORY BEHIND THE BATTLE FOR THE ULTIMATE PRIZE "Great business writing and even greater gossip . . . [Pacelle] has great fun with the bizarre cast of characters who plot and connive against one another in what reads like a cross between film noir and a Harold Robbins novel." --Pub... More

Using multiple data sources and methods, this book presents a micro-historical analysis of the nature of change and stability in homicidal situations over time. With a focus on the homicidal situation as the unit of analysis, it explores similarities and differences in the context of homicide for di... More

They called themselves "Vampires, " "Dragons, " and "Egyptian Kings." They were divided by race, ethnicity, and neighborhood boundaries, but united by common styles, slang, and codes of honor. They fought--and sometimes killed--to protect and expand their territories. In postwar New York, youth gang... More

The entertaining story of the first five years of Amazon.com is recounted by employee number 55. "The most impressive aspect . . . is Marcus's sculpting of self into an everyman caught between two magnets--culture and commerce."--David Shields ("Remote: Reflections on Life in the Shadow of Celebrity... More

In the years before the communist coup and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Veronica Doubleday set up home in the ancient city of Herat with her husband, who was researching Central Asian music. At first, her only glimpses of women were as shadows--faceless and voiceless. Gradually, however, she ... More

This book offers a radically new and definitive reappraisal of Allied responses to Nazi human experiments and the origins of informed consent. It places the victims and Allied Medical Intelligence officers at centre stage, while providing a full reconstruction of policies on war crimes and trials re... More

Studies of the criminal career to date have focused on common criminals and street crime; criminologists have overlooked the careers of white-collar offenders. David Weisburd and Elin Waring offer here the first detailed examination of the criminal careers of people convicted of white-collar crimes.... More

Few crimes capture our imagination as completely as child kidnapping. Paula Fass explores how our awareness of violence toward the young has evolved from a time when Americans were shocked to discover that their children could be held for ransom, until today, when sexual predators seem to threaten o... More

Known at various times as "Abu Sindi," "Timothy Sean McCormick," "Saro," and "Commander Avo," Monte Melkonian was denounced in Europe as an international terrorist, while his adopted homeland of Armenia decorated him as a national hero who led a force of 4,000 men to victory in Azerbaijan. Markar Me... More

Darnell M. Hunt explores the relationship between social identity (race, class, gender, etc.), our perceptions of everyday reality and the O. J. Simpson double murder trial to ask: why was America so obsessed by this case? Why were so many people invested in particular outcomes? And what are we to m... More