Law and Criminality / True Events

United Kingdom: Sutton Pub Ltd, 1999. No Edition. Hard Cover. New/New. Drawings and Paintings. The French Revolution of 1789 did not set out to end the French monarchy. It aimed to create liberal constitutional government, with the king continuing to be responsible for national administration. This objective was believed to have been attained by the establishment of the Constitution of September, 1791. However, radicals were not satisfied and France's declaration of war against Austria in April 1792 enhanced fears of counter-revolution led by aristocratic emigre forces based in Coblenz. Although the king tried to distance himself from the aristocratic faction, radical politicians agitated increasingly against the monarchy. On the fatal day of August 10, 1792, Louis XVI was abandoned by the constitutionalists, and only the Swiss Guards, reacting autonomously to an impossible situation, made a real effort to protect him. The chain of events following the fall of the king led to the September Massacres, and for 2 years a regime of growing politiical terror led to hundreds of thousands perishing as a result of the guillotine, mass executions, and civil war. The author describes in a detail never before attempted what happened, through a careful analysis of eyewitness accounts, official minutes of institutions, and journalist reports. Many of these witness sources have never been previously published in English. This heart-rending story of human and political tragedy should be required reading for anyone gripped by the drama of the French Revolution. 248 pages including a bibliography and index. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

Offered by Nan's Book Shop (United States)

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Da Capo Pr, 2002. First Edition. Soft Cover. New/No Jacket. The facts in this case are so peculiar that no novelist would have dared to invent them." Philadelphia Inquirer. A century before Jack the Ripper haunted the streets of London, another predator held sway: A "vulgar-looking man" who slashed at female pedestrians with a knife while uttering profanities with a "tremulous eagerness" - over fifty victims during a two-year crime spree. The city was gripped with fear, outrage, and "Monster mania." The latter was abetted by a 100-pound reward and by the circulation of bawdy prints that capitalized on the Monster's tendency to slash his victims' buttocks. Armed vigilantes roamed the steets, and fashionable ladies dared not walk outdoors with strategically placed frying pans under their dresses. Drawing on contemporary evidence and reinterpreting Monster mania in the light of historical and modern instances of mass hysteria, Jan Bondeson recounts with dry wit a tale that occupies a unique place in criminal history and imagination. 241 pages, including notes, and index, and drawings. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

Offered by Nan's Book Shop (United States)

Urbana, Illinois: Univ of Illinois Press, 1997. No Edition. Hard Cover. New/New. Photographs. Even more than the well-known images of the lone gunfighter or the reckless cowboy, the penitentiary was an important symbol of violence in the American West, violence that intensified when compounded by the factors of race, class, and sex. In this pathbreaking study of women prisoners in men's penitentiaries from 1865 to 1915, Anne M. Butler shows that the women, already faced with distinct gender disadvantages within western society, were subjected to intense physical and mental violence while in prison. For women of color or of lower social class, she argues, the violence was even greater and more frequent. Butler's poignant cross-cultural account draws on prison records and the words of the women themselves. She explores how 19th-century criminologists constructed the "criminal women"; the elements, of age, race, class, and gender in women's court proceedings; the kinds of violence encountered by women inmates; their diet, illnesses, experiences with pregnancy and child-bearing; prison work systems for women; and women's own strategies for response. 262 pages including a selected bibliography and index. Bound in lavender cloth, with illustrations throughout. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

Offered by Nan's Book Shop (United States)

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster, 1998. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. The FBI's legendary profiler probes the psyches of killers, rapists, and stalkers and their victims, and tells how to fight back. Douglas takes us behind the scenes, focusing his expertise on predatory crimes, primarily against women. With a deep sense of compassion for the victims and an uncanny understanding of the perpetrators, Douglas looks at the obsessions that lead to rape, stalking, and sexual murder through such cases as Ronnie Shelton, the serial rapist who terrorized Cleveland; Joseph Thompson, New Zeland's South Auckland rapist and many others. In the final chapter Douglas shows how we can all fight back and protect ourselves and our families against the scourge of violent predators in our midst. 379 pages, including index. Price has not been clipped. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

Offered by Nan's Book Shop (United States)

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Da Capo Pr, 2000. First Publishers Edition. Soft Cover. New. No Intermissions is the first comprehensive biography of Anges de Mille, an American cultural giant: Dancer, choreographer, director, labor union leader, bestselling author, and passionate advocate of the arts. During a life that spanned most of the 20th century, de Mille worked and played with a fabulous cast of characters, from her uncle (Cecil B. de Mille), to Charlie Chaplin, Cole Porter, Noel Coward, and many others. Drawing on unpublished papers and on extensive interviews with friends, colleagues, relatives, and de Mille herself, the author takes us behind the scenes of de Mille's life. 548 pages, with 8 pages of illustrations, including bibliography and index. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

Offered by Nan's Book Shop (United States)

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Broadway Books, 2003. Fifth Printing. Hard Cover. New/New. On the surface, Christa Worthington's life had the appearance of privilege and comfort. She was a descendant of prominent New Yorkers. Her sparkling journalism earned the fashion world's respect. But she had turned her back on a glamorous career and moved to the remote Cape Cod town of Truro where she had summered as a child. When she was found murdered just after New Year's Day in 2002, her toddler daughter clinging to her side, her violent death brought to the surface the many unspoken mysteries of her life. The murder is still unsolved. 406 pages, with references. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

Offered by Nan's Book Shop (United States)

United Kingdom: Virgin Publishing Ltd., 2001. No Edition. Hard Cover. New/New. Photographs. Stalking is on the increase. And it isn't only celebrities who become the targets of irrational and desperate individuals. Men and women with everyday jobs who lead ordinary lives can just as easily become someone else's obsession. Since John Lennon's murder in 1980 the world has recognized the danger that lies behind this insidiious and threatening behavior, but has been slow to act against it. It is only as recently as 1997 that the Protection from Harrassment Act brought stalking on to the British statute books. In this thoroughly researches, serious investigation into a disturbing phenomenon, the author interviews victims, police, psychologists - and those who 'stalk the stalkers' - to provide remarkable accounts of obsession, delusion and terror. 238 pages including notes and bibliography. Black cloth cover, 8 pages of illustrations and letters. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

Offered by Nan's Book Shop (United States)

Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ Pr, 2000. Second Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Photographs. In 1904, New York nuns brought forty Irish orphans to a remote Arizona mining camp, to be placed with Catholic families. The Catholic families were Mexican, as was the majority of the population. Soon the town's Anglos, furious at this "interracial" transgression, formed a vigilante squad that kidnapped the children and nearly lynched the nuns and the local priest. The Catholic Church sued to get its wards back, but all the courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, ruled in favor of the vigilantes. This disturbing and dramatic tale is told to illuminate the creation of racial boundaries along the Mexican border. Clifton-Morenci, Arizona, was a "wild west" boomtown, where the mines and smelters pulled in thousands of Mexican immigrant workers. To the Anglos of Clifton-Morenci, placing a white child with a Mexican family was tantamount to child abuse, adn they saw their kidnapping as a rescue. In retelling this little-known piece of American history, the author brilliantly recreates and dissects the tangled intersection of family and racial values in a gripping story that resonates with today's conflicts over the "best interests of the child." 416 pages, including notes, acknowledgments, and an index. One page is dog-eared, and one page has a small wrinkle at the bottom. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

Offered by Nan's Book Shop (United States)

New York: Oxford Univ Press, 2002. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/New. The history of law can be viewed as a tale of human choices about the preservation of life, protection of property, exercise of individual liberty, fashioning of creative knowledge, and other basic social concepts. This book gives readers a comprehensive, authoritative, and accesible guide to this ongoing saga, in the form of 468 alphabetically arranged entries written by hundreds of respected scholars about a wide variety of pertinent subjects. 912 pages with a case index and general index. One page came torn, and has been properly repaired. This is a superb, concise source for lawyers, students, scholars, and lay people. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

Offered by Nan's Book Shop (United States)

New Haven, CT: Yale Univ Press, 2004. Second Printing. Hard Cover. New/New. Illustrations. One of the Annals of Communism series. The human cost of the Gulag, the Soviet labor camp system into which millions of people were imprisoned between 1920 and 1956, was staggering. There has never been a thorough historical study of this unique and tragic episode in Soviet history. This groundbreaking book presents the first comprehensive, historically accurate account of the camp system. Russian historian Oleg Khlevniuk has mined the contents of extensive archives, including long-suppressed state and Communist party documents, to uncover the secrets of the Gulag and how it became a central component of Soviet ideology and social policy. He argues persuasively that the Stalinist penal camps created in the 1930s were essential different from previous camps, and offers powerful evidence that the Great Terror was planned centrally and targeted particular categories of the population. This is an exceptionally informed and balanced view of the Gulag. 418 pages with endnotes, brief biographies, index of documents and a general index. In protective cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

Offered by Nan's Book Shop (United States)

Amherst, NY, U.S.A.: Prometheus Books, Publishers, 1997. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. On April 19, 1993, the fiery image of FBI and BATF agents conducting a deadly raid on the Branch Davidian compound at Waco, Texas was seen in its searing terror by most Americans on TV. One year earlier agents and federal marshals opened fire on illegal weapons trafficking suspect Randy Weaver and his family at Ruby Ridge, Idaho. Similar, less deadly cases arise each year. Are these the actions of responsible law enforecement officials, or tragic mistakes that should have been avoided? 524 pages including index. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

Offered by Nan's Book Shop (United States)

United Kingdom: Sutton Pub Ltd, 2005. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/New. Photographs. During the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries there were almost no career openings for women. Yet a group of intrepid and gifted females scaled the heights of what was literally a man's world - they became bawds. Taking what had been a furtive activity on the borders of legality, they turned brothel-keeping into a major industry, colonizing some of the excusive areas of London and making major contributions to the city's prosperity. This book reveals the ohter side of London's years of pomp and splendor, painting a vivid picture of the bawds, their girls and their clients. Drawing on a rich variety of sources - court records, pamphlets, newspapers, diaries and letters - this volume is fresh and original, offering humor, insight and a very candid view of the sexual behavior of Londoners through the ages. 246 pages with index, bibliography, and source notes; illustrated in black & white. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

Offered by Nan's Book Shop (United States)

London: Amber Books, 2003. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/No Jacket. This book outlines changing ideas of law and punishment, from the ancient Babylonian Code of Hammurabi through Islamic Sharia Law to modern notions of rehabilitation and the continued practice of corporal and capital punishment. Discover strange and terrible methods of punishment amongs these pages, including the pillory, flogging, branding, hanging, drawing and quartering, the guillotine, the bastinado, death of a thousand cuts, the scavenger's daughter, crucifixion, lethal injections and the electric chair. 192 pages with bibliography and index; well illustrated in black & white. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

Offered by Nan's Book Shop (United States)

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Pantheon Books, 2002. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/No Jacket. Ruth Paine, interviewed for this book, lived in Irving, Texas and met the Oswalds at a party. She went because she heard that some individuals who spoke Russian would be there, and she was interested in the language. So began her friendship with the Oswalds. Marina Oswald stayed with her for a time as her husband, Lee, went to New Orleans to look for work. They corresponded while the Oswalds were in Louisiana, and some of the letters are quoted in this book. After the Oswalds returned from New Orleans, they stayed with Mrs. Paine; she heard of an opening at the Texas School Book Depository, where Lee gained a position. He didn't work there long before using the location to assassinate President Kennedy. The rest is history. 209 pages, black binding. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

Offered by Nan's Book Shop (United States)

Carol Publishing Group, 1993. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. This is a fascinating book well-written by a former KGB Colonel who knew Lee Harvey Oswald. Ex-lib, no stamps, marred by only one glue spot where the envelope was placedon the ffep. 338 pages, includes photograhs, index, appendices, and a bibliography. Pages fine. Dust jacket in a protective cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

Offered by Nan's Book Shop (United States)

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Public Affairs, 2003. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/New. Mende Nazer lost her childhood. It all began one horrific night in 1993, when Arab raiders swept through her Nuba village on horseback. They set fire to the village huts, murdered the adults by slitting their throats, and rounded up 31 young children. Mende was twelve. A slave trader brought Mende to Khartoum and sold her to a wealthy Arab family. So began Mende's dark years of enslavement. In September 2000 she made a dramatic break for freedom. It is a story almost beyond belief. It depicts the strength and dignity of the Nuba tribe, and recounts the savage way in which the Nuba and their ancient culture are being destroyed by a secret modern-day trade in slaves. 350 pages. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

Offered by Nan's Book Shop (United States)

New York: Oxford Univ Press, 1999. First Soft Cover Edition. Soft Cover. New/No Jacket. Photographs. The Holocaust holds a unique place in American public culture and, as the author demonstrates, television has played a strategic role in establishing the Holocaust as a powerful moral paradigm in the United States. Shandler's analysis starts with wartime newsreels of liberated concentration camps, showing how they established viewing the evidence of genocide as a morally galvanizing act. He then moves through five decades of American television, exploring its many presentations of the Holocaust, including such international landmarks as the coverage of the Eichmann trial in 1961 and the 1978 Holocaust miniseries. Here, too, are lesser known examples: original drama telecasts live during the early postwar years, episodes of popular entertainment series such as All in the Family and Star Trek, as well as several decades of documentaries, newscasts, and even advertisements. By tracing the course of Holocaust television of the past half century, this book reveals how Americans have come to embrace this subject as a model for responding to other moral crises, from domestic racial strife to "ethnic cleansing" operations in Bosnia. 316 pages including endnotes and an index. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

Offered by Nan's Book Shop (United States)

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Amistad Press, 2005. First Printing. Soft Cover. New. Graphic Charts Company. In this buried chapter of American history, a nearly forgotten case of famed attorney Clarence Darrow comes hauntingly to the surface. In 1925 the NAACP approached Darrow to defend Ossian Sweet - a highly respected African-American doctor who, after integrating an all-white neighborhood in Detroit, found himself the victim of a community attack. When Sweet and his family fought back, they were caught in a melee in which a white man was fatally shot. The trial that ensued would test the basic tenets of the American Dream - the right of a man to defend his own home. 349 pages with index, bibliography and endnotes. Includes photographs. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

Offered by Nan's Book Shop (United States)

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Da Capo Pr, 2005. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/New. Perhaps no trial changed the course of history so much as one that took place in London in 1772; the case of James Somerset, a black man rescued from a ship bound for the West Indies slave markets. At this landmark trial, two encompassing worldviews clashed in an event of passionate drama and far-reaching significance. Now noted legal historian Steven M. Wise recreates each exciting moment of the case that slave owners contended would do nothing less than bring the economy of the British Empire to a crashing halt. As the case finally drew to a close and defenders of slavery pleaded with Lord Mansfield to maintain the system, the judge spoke the words that continue to resound more than two centuries later: "Let Justice be done, though the Heavens may fall." 282 pages with notes, bibliography and index. Includes photos of relevant paintings. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

Offered by Nan's Book Shop (United States)