A tragic and riveting true story of teenage obsession, torture, and murder.From Michael Quinlan, staff member of the Louisville Courier-Journal and the only journalist to interview all the parties involved, meticulously recounts the shocking and horrific events surround the murder of twelve-year-old Shandra Sharer by a group of teenage girls.

Twenty years ago a killer with a unique and horrific signature terrorized the city. As it became clear the killer's cooling off periods between murders halved each time, the police desperately tried to catch him before he might take another innocent life. After eight murders he stopped. Because he died, or was incarcerated for another offense, or moved away, or ...? Serial killers do not stop of their own volition. Correct?

A young doctor enters the U.S. military at the quiet end of the Cold War, expecting a career of steady medicine and controlled risk—but history has other plans. From the trauma wards of Cook County Hospital to the battlefields of Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation Iraqi Freedom, and the shadow war of Operation Observant Compass, he is thrust into a world where life, death, and moral ambiguity collide daily. Rising throu...

In the 35th century they sought the mind of God. Something answered.

What would you do if you heroin worth millions of dollars?Turn it in to the authorities to keep it off the street?Or sell it to try and reignite a viscious sectarian war?

What would you do if you found $50 million worth of almost pure heroin?Use it?Sell it?Turn it in?Start a war?

The fatal crash of a DC-10 outside of Paris in 1974 kills all 346 on board and is the worst in aviation history. A Parisian newspaper sends a young French journalist to investigate the cause. When she uncovers the truth implicating powerful men across both sides of the Atlantic her life is suddenly in danger.

This book examines how convicts played a key role in the development of capitalism in Australia and how their active resistance shaped both workplace relations and institutions. It highlights the contribution of convicts to worker mobilization and political descent, forcing a rethink of Australia’s foundational story. It is a book that will appeal to an international audience, as well as the many hundreds of thousands of Australians who can trace descent from convicts. It will enable the l...

Contesting Inequality and Worker Mobilisation: Australia 1851-1880 provides a new perspective on how and why workers organise, and what shapes that organisation.The author’s 2018 Origins of Worker Mobilisation examined the beginning of worker organisation, arguing inequality at work, and regulatory subordination of labour, drove worker resistance, initially by informal organization that slowly transitioned to formal organisation. This new volume analyses worker mobilisatio...

This is a book on how and why workers come together. Almost coincident with its inception, worker organisation is a central and enduring element of capitalism. In the 19th and 20th centuries’ mobilisation by workers played a substantial role in reshaping critical elements of these societies in Europe, North America, Australasia and elsewhere including the introduction of minimum labour standards (living wage rates, maximum hours etc), workplace safety and compensation laws and the rise of ...

'A remarkable book, small in size but with great clarity and insight into moral and ethical principles that need to be understood and reaffirmed' - Henry KissingerEvery society and every period of history has had to face the reality of war. War inevitably yields situations in which the normal ethical rules of society have to be overridden. The Just War tradition has evolved over the centuries as a careful endeavour to impose moral discipline and humanity on resort to war a...

A multidimensional biography of one of Philadelphia’s ultimate power brokersMost sports team owners make their money elsewhere and purchase a team as an extravagant hobby—but that is not the story of Ed Snider. One of the few owners in history to start a franchise by mortgaging nearly everything to his name, the Philadelphia Flyers founder would go on to form the billion-dollar empire of Comcast-Spectacor and cement his standing as one of the biggest movers and sha...