The concept of ‘organised crime’ is constructed and mobilised by a milieu of complex factors and discourses including a politics of law and order, and international insecurity, combined with the vested interests and priorities of scholars, politicians, government officials, and policing authorities. This book challenges existing assumptions and accepted understandings of organised crime, and explores the ways in which it is amplified and reconstructed for political purposes.This bo...

This book addresses the use of biometrics – including fingerprint identification, DNA identification and facial recognition – in the criminal justice system: balancing the need to ensure society is protected from harms, such as crime and terrorism, while also preserving individual rights. It offers a comprehensive discussion of biometric identification that includes a consideration of: basic scientific principles, their historical development, the perspectives of political philosophy, crit...

Art practices reveal the entwinement of perception and understanding, opening possibilities for new ways of enacting the political. An artwork can serve as more than solely an aesthetic object: in the public sphere it beckons us to resist, challenge, and change the world around us.Wide-ranging in scope and application, Life in Art showcases how, at the intersection of art and phenomenology, sociopolitical issues can be examined anew. Thirteen diverse, international, establ...

Mijn lieve Cecilia, als je dit leest, ben ik dood… Stel je voor dat je man een brief aan je heeft geschreven, om te openen na zijn dood. Stel je voor dat die brief zijn diepste, meest donkere geheim bevat, die niet alleen het leven van jullie samen kan kapotmaken, maar ook dat van anderen. En stel je dan eens voor dat je deze brief toevallig vindt terwijl je man nog springlevend is. Cecilia Fitzpatrick is een succesvolle zakenvrouw, staat voor iedereen klaar en is een toegewijde echtgenote...

Is there more to a man than the worst thing he has ever done?In his raw and unflinching memoir, Waiting to Die: One Man's Journey on Death Row, Feltus Taylor, Jr., a young man from Louisiana, recounts the circumstances shaped by early trauma, instability, and devastating choices that led him to violence and ultimately to Louisiana State Penitentiary's death row. Abandoned as an infant by a drug-addicted mother in and out of prison, Taylor's first three yea...

Ten of Monique and Cassandra's twenty-five tips...Get your act togetha, so when you finally do meet Mr. Right, he can't resist you.Smile and say "hello" to every Black man you see.Forgive old lovers and make peace with them.Tell everyone you know that you're looking for a husband.Go on as may blind dates as possible.Date men who are not your "type"--you may be pleasantly surprised.If you ask...

Bloomsbury presents Waiting to Die: One Man's Journey on Death Row by Feltus Taylor Jr and Monique Morrison, read by Adam Roussell.Is there more to a man than the worst thing he has ever done?In his raw and unflinching memoir, Waiting to Die: One Man’s Journey on Death Row, Feltus Taylor, Jr., a young man from Louisiana, recounts the circumstances shaped by early trauma, instability, and devastating choices that led him to violence and ult...

He lived a dangerous life... But I couldn't leave him...One black woman will find her in danger as she clings to a hunky white man...Angel is fresh out of high school and on the road trying to find herself and some independence. Her mom might not ever forgive her for hitchhiking across the US alone, but at least her dad promised to keep the money flowing.Things were fine until a crazy old lady left her stranded in the middle of the Arizona desert. No one will stop fo...

The author's desire to read the Bible and acquire a relationship with God, resulted in her becoming disgusted at the God in the Bible. Almost an atheist because of the it, the Bible left her feeling angry and let down.The author breaks down many scriptures in the Bible that reveal the horrific truth about who God in the Bible really is. The God that people many people don't want us to know exists is finally revealed, scripture, by horrifying scripture.

This book is a collection of my life experiences of dating after a divorce, going through a divorce and details advice on how to survive and start over.

Viet Thanh Nguyen is vier jaar oud als hij en zijn familie gedwongen worden om Vietnam te verlaten. Als vluchtelingen komen ze aan in de Verenigde Staten, waar de kleine Viet direct bij zijn ouders wordt weggehaald en bij een Amerikaanse familie wordt ondergebracht. Later is het gezin weer herenigd en vestigt zich in San José. Achter de zonnige façade van wat Nguyen AMERIKA™ noemt, gaat geweld schuil. Op kerstavond, als de negenjarige Viet thuis tekenfilms kijkt, hoort hij dat zijn ouders ...