Sentences with phrase «books about crime»
This is a book club / group for ALL books about crime, mysteries, and thrillers.
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Fuhrman has since written numerous books about crime, including The Murder Business: How the Media Turns Crime Into Entertainment and Subverts Justice and Silent Witness: The Untold Story of Terri Schiavo's Death.
Not exact matches
Yet Stewart — the Pulitzer Prize — winning author of numerous books, including Den of Thieves, about insider trading on Wall Street — believes that perjury is a growing phenomenon, one that «threatens to swamp the legal system and undermine the prosecution of white - collar crime.»
He gave himself a comic - book type persona, embraced his crimes, even wrote a book about his exploits called «Secrets of a Superthief.»
Haaretz: With help of popular taboo - breaking book, Haredim teach children about sexual abuse The success of a new book aimed at helping ultra-Orthodox parents teach their children how to protect themselves from sexual abuse is a strong indication that a community once reluctant to acknowledge the crime is now beginning to face reality.
Unless you can prove otherwise God is merely a character in a book and, as far as I know, it isn't a crime to speak your mind about a literary character, is it?
do I need any approval before I practice my religion, do I have to prove my religion before I practice, my holy book further describe that you must carry a gun in 21st century because there is too much crime in this world, but it doesn't say much about if I migrate to another country these rules will still apply, Or I should modified them according to my comfort, like talking in English which is not my religious language wearing pants or not, having education or not, standing in line or not, I am so confused what should I do can someone help me, should I go back to country where my religion originated or back in time ask my guru questions about western world confusion, or just decide by myself what suites me, or preach other develop country that you guys are wrong be peaceful.
TheLies» comment above about your post as usual conveniently ignores the critical point that crimes done by Stalin et al were not done under any guidance of atheism, whereas the guidance to do the many atrocities that Christians have done can be found in the many horrific instructions «from god» presented in the Christian book of nasty AKA the bible.
Imagine that you pick up an ancient history book and it tells you about three men who were put to death around 33 BC for religious and political crimes.
Who cares what a 2000 year old book says about it... it is not the way things are today and unless a court of law bans tattooing ones own body, no crime is being committed.
MONDAY, MAY 18, NOON EST... the ladies of Looking Glass Lane reconvened our online discussion following our talk with Ayelet Waldman's about her memoir and latest book, Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace.
Either Guy Verhofstadt's book De Verenigde Staten Van Europa which won the first Europe Book Prize four years ago (in English, The United States of Europe), or Roberto Saviano's Gomorrah which won this year's prize, because it describes from the inside the spreading of cross-border organised crime about which we are doing much too little because the shocking scale of it is kept hidbook De Verenigde Staten Van Europa which won the first Europe Book Prize four years ago (in English, The United States of Europe), or Roberto Saviano's Gomorrah which won this year's prize, because it describes from the inside the spreading of cross-border organised crime about which we are doing much too little because the shocking scale of it is kept hidBook Prize four years ago (in English, The United States of Europe), or Roberto Saviano's Gomorrah which won this year's prize, because it describes from the inside the spreading of cross-border organised crime about which we are doing much too little because the shocking scale of it is kept hidden.
In an article about the future of litigation against «Don't Ask, Don't Tell,» Aubrey Sarvis, executive director of the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, was quoted last week in Politico as suggesting the administration's defense of the law in court would allow the federal hate crimes law to stay on the books.
About this Book: Future Crimes: Everything Is Connected, Everyone Is Vulnerable, and What We Can Do About It Marc Goodman Doubleday, 2015
She is author of the upcoming book, Roadmap to Hell: Sex, Drugs and Guns on the Mafia Coast, about sex trafficking and organized crime in Italy.
Reporter and storyteller Steven Berkowitz talks to science journalist and author Douglas Starr about his book The Killer of Little Shepherds: A True Crime Story and the Birth of Forensic Science
Bristol, England About Blog Reviews & All Things Book Related, I'm a reader, blogger, & coffee addict I mostly read crime, mystery & psychological thrillers.
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Amazon # 1 best selling book about racial violence and black on white crime.
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So, once the fellow was caught, the journalist tracked him down and after finding out the reason for the deception (Flattering answer: The man was a fan) proposed that the two collaborate on a book about the awful crime and resulting trial.
EXTRAS: The three - disc set includes a 44 - minute featurette on making the season, interviews with Patrick Wilson and Keith Carradine about the Lou Solverson character, and a look at the fictional book, «The History of True Crime in the Midwest,» that appears in the penultimate episode.
WHY: Robert De Niro may be choosing better scripts these days, but he's not immune to appearing in bad movies, as evidenced in this direct - to - video thriller that plays like a mix between «Speed» and «John Q.» Director Scott Mann and writer Stephen Cyrus Sepher have created an incredibly predictable crime flick that uses just about every cliché in the book, from the desperate father trying to save his child, to the villain with a crisis of conscience.
A24 has debuted the first trailer for The Vanishing of Sidney Hall, the new mystery from Shawn Christensen (director of the Acadamy Awarding winning short Curfew) about a mysterious set of arson crimes connected to the books written by a missing author.
Still, it'll make for a cracking crime tale and Gyllenhaal's Nine Stories production company is adapting Jonas Bonnier's book about the case, which is still in manuscript form.
OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening March 6, 2009 BIG BUDGET FILMS Watchmen (R for nudity, sexuality, profanity and graphic violence) Sci - fi thriller, based on the graphic comic book series of the same name, about a group of vigilantes determined to avenge the murder of a crime - fighting superhero.
Also interesting is that the screenplay by Biderman (Primal Fear), Mann and Bennett (Lucky Break) touches on the broader scope of Burrough's book, which is a broad, non-fiction account of the gangster era and the creation of the FBI, and made it a personal film about Dillinger as a lover and a fighter, and Purvis as a love of crime fighting.
Still, the more apt comparison might be to Random Family, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc's 2003 book about two young women caught up in a suffocating web of destructive relationships, teen pregnancy, drugs, crime, and general dysfunction in the South Bronx.
The Nanjing Atrocities: Crimes of War online companion to our print book includes a rich multimedia collection of maps, videos, timelines, and teaching strategies that place the Nanjing Atrocities within the larger context of World War II in East Asia, and will challenge students to consider the complex questions this history raises about wartime violence, justice, and memory.
With the support of the Open Society Foundations, Professor Forman is currently writing a book about African - American attitudes towards crime and punishment in the age of mass incarceration.
And, to answer the question above about selling hundreds of thousands of books without a major publishing house — check out a post I wrote in August of last year when I hit the 100,000 milestone in crime book sales.
«Young Adult: I'm always looking for genre - bending books that can be an exciting puzzlement when thinking about how precisely to market; specifically mystery and crime for teens, the grittier the better; high - concept contemporary stories with addicting romantic tension.
If you're a true crime reader or want to know more about the mystery that gripped a city for more than 30 years, check out the book and our Q&A with the authors.
Lowry's book is as much about the tactics and culture of American law enforcement as it is about this specific crime.
Hard Case Crime also released Stephen King's Joyland, so we're feeling optimistic about the Lange books.
The book is about an LA slacker who cleans crime scenes for a living — and then becomes entangled in the underworld himself.
Book reviewer Sarah Meckler and I talk about Montana, mentoring young writers, and why the Hungry Horse Dam makes a great setting for a crime.
My private - eye mystery - suspense series books staring Tony Avanti are always about more than just solving a crime.
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Our areas of interest will mostly be history, young adult (but not children's), fiction (including world and crime), poetry, weird stuff and spirituality, left politics, landscape / built environment, lesbian and gay, psychology, counterculture, language and books about books.
After writing the first two in the series, he took almost a 10 year break, during which time he added to his true crime series, and wrote two books (one fiction, one non-fiction) about the early days of radio (see sidebar for more on these).
This movie (based on the 1965 novel by Sol Yurick) took the most terrifying thing about the New York City of that era — roving bands of gangs and criminals behind the sky - high crime rate — and moved it into comic book territory.
But, the book is about Easy and about solving crimes but she's not doing that.
Verdict: 5 Stars The delightful thing about O'Donohue's book is not just the charming premise of a local girl - sleuth who solves crimes out of her grandmother's quilt shop with the help of a motley band of elderly quilters.
The information about Bloody Crimes shown above was first featured in «The BookBrowse Review» - BookBrowse's online - magazine that keeps our members abreast of notable and high - profile books publishing in the coming weeks.
With my nonfiction hat on, I wrote a book on 19th - century murder and how real - life crimes were used for entertainment purposes: Where today we have films about the Boston strangler or whatever, they had plays and novels and even puppet shows.
Paul Doiron is the author of The Poacher's Son (published May 11 by Minotaur Books), a crime novel about a rookie Maine game warden who is thrust into the hunt for a murderous fugitive — his own father.
With that in mind, I spoke with Alison Bruce, the new Executive Director of Crime Writers of Canada (CWC) to see what wonderful events they have planned for Bouchercon, about her new role as ED of the CWC and her much anticipated second book in her Men in Uniform Series.
She says that the thing she loved most about writing Eye Contact was creating a central character who was as much of a mystery as the perpetrator of the crime; she also comments that 20 % of Americans currently identify themselves as disabled, «an enormous group of people that has been underrepresented in books, movies and TV»; so her next book will be a mystery centered around a woman with cerebral palsy who is the unlikely center of a love triangle and the victim of a crime committed in its wake.
When GoodeReader first interviewed McMillan in 2011, he was still adamant that he wrote this book to simply make sure people learned about the horrific events that took place in this case of white - on - black crime in Mississippi, but also to learn that in at least this one instance, people stepped up and did the right thing, ensuring that justice was served against the men involved.