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Violent Death in the City

Author : Roger Lane
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674939462
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Violent Death in the City written by Roger Lane and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roger Lane uses the statistics on violent death in Philadelphia from 1839 to 1901 to study the behavior of the living. His extensive research into murder, suicide, and accident rates in Philadelphia provides an excellent factual foundation for his theories. A computerized study of every homicide indictment during the sixty-two years covered is the source of the most detailed information. Analysis of suicide and accident statistics reveals differences in behavior patterns between the sexes, the races, young and old, professional and laborer, native and immigrant, and how these patterns changed overtime. Using both these group differences and the changing overall incidence of the three forms of death, Lane synthesizes a comprehensive theory of the influences of industrial urbanization on social behavior. He believes that the demands of the rising industrial system, as transmitted through factory, school, and bureaucracy, combined to socialize city dwellers in new ways, to raise the rate of suicide, and to lower rates of simple accident and murder. Finally, Lane suggests a relation between these developments and the violent disorder in the postindustrial city, which has lost the older mechanisms of socialization without finding any effective new ones. Original and probing, Lane's combination of statistics and theory makes this a significant new work in social, urban, and medical history.

Death in the City of Light

Author : David King
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307452913
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Death in the City of Light written by David King and published by Crown. This book was released on 2011-09-20 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gripping, true story of a brutal serial killer who unleashed his own reign of terror in Nazi-Occupied Paris. As decapitated heads and dismembered body parts surfaced in the Seine, Commissaire Georges-Victor Massu, head of the Brigade Criminelle, was tasked with tracking down the elusive murderer in a twilight world of Gestapo, gangsters, resistance fighters, pimps, prostitutes, spies, and other shadowy figures of the Parisian underworld. But while trying to solve the many mysteries of the case, Massu would unravel a plot of unspeakable deviousness. The main suspect, Dr. Marcel Petiot, was a handsome, charming physician with remarkable charisma. He was the “People’s Doctor,” known for his many acts of kindness and generosity, not least in providing free medical care for the poor. Petiot, however, would soon be charged with twenty-seven murders, though authorities suspected the total was considerably higher, perhaps even as many as 150. Petiot's trial quickly became a circus. Attempting to try all twenty-seven cases at once, the prosecution stumbled in its marathon cross-examinations, and Petiot, enjoying the spotlight, responded with astonishing ease. Soon, despite a team of prosecuting attorneys, dozens of witnesses, and over one ton of evidence, Petiot’s brilliance and wit threatened to win the day. Drawing extensively on many new sources, including the massive, classified French police file on Dr. Petiot, Death in the City of Light is a brilliant evocation of Nazi-Occupied Paris and a harrowing exploration of murder, betrayal, and evil of staggering proportions.

Violent Death in the City

Author : Roger Lane
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Violent Death in the City written by Roger Lane and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprints the original 1979 edition with a new bibliographic essay by Lane (social science, Haverford College), and a foreword by Johnson (history, U. of Texas). Much more than a morbid excursion through obituaries of the period 1839-1901, this book relates patterns of violence to specific developments in Philadelphia and elsewhere--e.g., industrialization and white monopolization of industrial opportunities. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Murder City

Author : Charles Bowden
Publisher : Bold Type Books
ISBN 13 : 9781568586458
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Murder City written by Charles Bowden and published by Bold Type Books. This book was released on 2011-03-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ciudad Juarez lies just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. A once-thriving border town, it now resembles a failed state. Infamously known as the place where women disappear, its murder rate exceeds that of Baghdad. In Murder City, Charles Bowden-one of the few journalists who spent extended periods of time in Juarez-has written an extraordinary account of what happens when a city disintegrates. Interweaving stories of its inhabitants-a beauty queen who was raped, a repentant hitman, a journalist fleeing for his life-with a broader meditation on the town's descent into anarchy, Bowden reveals how Juarez's culture of violence will not only worsen, but inevitably spread north. Heartbreaking, disturbing, and unforgettable, Murder City was written at the height of his powers and established Bowden as one of America's leading journalists.

Death in the City

Author : Francis A. Schaeffer
Publisher : Crossway
ISBN 13 : 1433516578
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (335 download)

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Download or read book Death in the City written by Francis A. Schaeffer and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2002-05-30 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few Christians had greater impact during the last half of the twentieth century than Dr. Francis A. Schaeffer. A man with penetrating insight into post-Christian, post-modern life, Schaeffer also cared deeply about people and their search for truth, meaning, and beauty. If there is one central theme throughout Schaeffer's work, it is that "true truth" is revealed in the Bible by "the God who is there," and that what we do with this truth has decisive consequences in every area of life. Death in the City was Schaeffer's third book and is foundational to his thinking. Written against the backdrop of the sixties countercultural upheaval, it reads today with the same ring of truth regarding personal, moral, spiritual, and intellectual concerns. Especially in light of 9/11, Schaeffer seems disturbingly prophetic. The death that Schaeffer writes about is more than just physical death—it is the moral and spiritual death that subtly suffocates truth and meaning and beauty out of the city and the wider culture. What is the answer that Schaeffer offers in response? It is commitment to God's Word as truth—a costly practice in the midst of the intellectual, moral, and philosophical battles of our day. It is compassion for a world that is lost and dying without the Gospel. It is yielding our lives to God and allowing Him to bring forth His fruit through us. Few have demonstrated this commitment to truth and "persistence of compassion" so consistently as Schaeffer did. And because of this, few who begin reading these pages will come to the end without having their life profoundly changed.

Murder in the City

Author : Wilfried Kaute
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250128706
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Murder in the City written by Wilfried Kaute and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2017-06-13 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When night falls on New York, the shadows are everywhere and death wears many faces. How the victims leave their bodies is deeply personal, but the witnesses to their death and the factors that brought it about belong to the public world—a somber world which is encapsulated in this gruesome survey of crime and violence in the 1910s. Parts of the city that are today among its trendiest neighborhoods were once the battlegrounds of evil forces, which left their mark in unforgettable ways. Here, newspaper clippings, police reports and testimonies are placed alongside the scenes that they describe, fleshing them out and giving life to the departed. Complete with an introduction from German actor and writer Joe Bausch, this book is a must for anyone who has ever anxiously imagined how dark an activity like dying can be—and isn’t that everyone?

First in Violence, Deepest in Dirt

Author : Jeffrey S. Adler
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674020081
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book First in Violence, Deepest in Dirt written by Jeffrey S. Adler and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1875 and 1920, Chicago's homicide rate more than quadrupled, making it the most violent major urban center in the United States--or, in the words of Lincoln Steffens, "first in violence, deepest in dirt." In many ways, however, Chicago became more orderly as it grew. Hundreds of thousands of newcomers poured into the city, yet levels of disorder fell and rates of drunkenness, brawling, and accidental death dropped. But if Chicagoans became less volatile and less impulsive, they also became more homicidal. Based on an analysis of nearly six thousand homicide cases, First in Violence, Deepest in Dirt examines the ways in which industrialization, immigration, poverty, ethnic and racial conflict, and powerful cultural forces reshaped city life and generated soaring levels of lethal violence. Drawing on suicide notes, deathbed declarations, courtroom testimony, and commutation petitions, Jeffrey Adler reveals the pressures fueling murders in turn-of-the-century Chicago. During this era Chicagoans confronted social and cultural pressures powerful enough to trigger surging levels of spouse killing and fatal robberies. Homicide shifted from the swaggering rituals of plebeian masculinity into family life and then into street life. From rage killers to the "Baby Bandit Quartet," Adler offers a dramatic portrait of Chicago during a period in which the characteristic elements of modern homicide in America emerged.

Murder in Sin City

Author : Jeff German
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061749931
Total Pages : 531 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (617 download)

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Download or read book Murder in Sin City written by Jeff German and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reckless heir to the Horseshoe Club fortune, fifty-five-year-old Vegas casino boss Ted Binionlived the high life constantly teetering on the edge—surrounding himself with guns, heroin, cash, babes and mobsters. But it was a beautiful ex-stripper and her new lover who gave him the final, fatal push over the side. The gripping true story of the fall of a powerful man that culminated in the most publicized murder in Las Vegas history—an almost perfect crime undone by the unbelievable greed of its perpetrators—Jeff German's Murder in Sin City is a stunning account of human deterioration and depravity, a neon-tinged view of the poisonous rot that festers beneath the Vegas glitter. Check out the original Lifetime movie, Sex and Lies in Sin City, based on the book Murder in Sin City by Jeff German, premiering on October 25, 2008 at 8 p.m. EST.

City of Death

Author : Abheek Barua
Publisher : Juggernaut Books
ISBN 13 : 8193237218
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book City of Death written by Abheek Barua and published by Juggernaut Books. This book was released on 2016 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a young woman from a well-connected family is found brutally murdered, Sohini Sen is brought back from a bureaucratic wasteland to the thick of the action. But the investigation is a political minefield with the tabloids baying for blood. Will the real killer be caught?

City of Death

Author : Laurence Yep
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0765319268
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (653 download)

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Download or read book City of Death written by Laurence Yep and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-02-05 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A conclusion to the popular series finds Scirye and her loyal companions working with old friends and new allies in an ultimate battle against the villainous Mr. Roland that is complicated by the arrival of an even more dangerous adversary. By the Newbery Honor-winning author of Dragon's Gate.

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Author : Jane Jacobs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (244 download)

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Download or read book The Death and Life of Great American Cities written by Jane Jacobs and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Prayers for the People

Author : Rebecca Louise Carter
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022663583X
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)

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Download or read book Prayers for the People written by Rebecca Louise Carter and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-07-05 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Grieve well and you grow stronger.” Anthropologist Rebecca Louise Carter heard this wisdom over and over while living in post-Katrina New Orleans, where everyday violence disproportionately affects Black communities. What does it mean to grieve well? How does mourning strengthen survivors in the face of ongoing threats to Black life? Inspired by ministers and guided by grieving mothers who hold birthday parties for their deceased sons, Prayers for the People traces the emergence of a powerful new African American religious ideal at the intersection of urban life, death, and social and spiritual change. Carter frames this sensitive ethnography within the complex history of structural violence in America—from the legacies of slavery to free but unequal citizenship, from mass incarceration and overpolicing to social abandonment and the unequal distribution of goods and services. And yet Carter offers a vision of restorative kinship by which communities of faith work against the denial of Black personhood as well as the violent severing of social and familial bonds. A timely directive for human relations during a contentious time in America’s history, Prayers for the People is also a hopeful vision of what an inclusive, nonviolent, and just urban society could be.

Death in an Elegant City

Author : Sara Rosett
Publisher : Sara Rosett
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death in an Elegant City written by Sara Rosett and published by Sara Rosett. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

City of Death

Author : Ephraim Mattos
Publisher : Center Street
ISBN 13 : 154608181X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book City of Death written by Ephraim Mattos and published by Center Street. This book was released on 2018-10-23 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A frontline witness account of the deadly urban combat of the Battle of Mosul told by former Navy SEAL and frontline combat medic Ephraim Mattos. After leaving the US Navy SEAL teams in spring of 2017, Ephraim Mattos, age twenty-four, flew to Iraq to join a small group of volunteer humanitarians known as the Free Burma Rangers, who were working on the frontlines of the war on ISIS. Until being shot by ISIS on a suicidal rescue mission, Mattos witnessed unexplainable acts of courage and sacrifice by the Free Burma Rangers, who, while under heavy machine gun and mortar fire, assaulted across ISIS minefields, used themselves as human shields, and sprinted down ISIS-infested streets-all to retrieve wounded civilians. In City of Death: Humanitarian Warriors in the Battle of Mosul, Mattos recounts in vivid detail what he saw and felt while he and the other Free Burma Rangers evacuated the wounded, conducted rescue missions, and at times fought shoulder-to-shoulder with the Iraqi Army against ISIS. Filled with raw and emotional descriptions of what it's like to come face-to-face with death, this is the harrowing and uplifting true story of a small group of men who risked everything to save the lives of the Iraqi people and who followed the credence, "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." As the coauthor of the #1 New York Times bestselling American Sniper, Scott McEwen has teamed up with Mattos to help share an unforgettable tale of an American warrior turned humanitarian forced to fight his way into and out of a Hell on Earth created by ISIS.

Rethinking Southern Violence

Author : Gilles Vandal
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814208380
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Southern Violence written by Gilles Vandal and published by Ohio State University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vandal (history and political science, U. de Sherbrooke, Canada) analyzes the statistics of nearly 5,000 homicides over an 18-year period, as well as other sources, to provide a picture of the level of physical violence in Louisiana after the Civil War. Some of the themes addressed include rural versus urban patterns of violence; homicides in a gender perspective; and the black response to white violence. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Violent Death

Author : Edward K. Rynearson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135926336
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Violent Death written by Edward K. Rynearson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-11-06 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book pulls together a definitive collection of work on the theory and practice of clinical, spiritual, and emotional support after the experience of violent death - counseling beyond the crisis. Over the past decade, there have been countless publications devoted to crisis response, crisis intervention and counseling, disaster mental health services, and support for victims of traumatic events, but almost none devoted to the response planning and community care for those individuals who continue to struggle with trauma and grief issues for more than a few months after a violent death. The chapters in this volume, written by national and international experts in the field, provide the reader with the theoretical and clinical bases necessary for planning and implementing clinical and spiritual services to meet the needs of survivors, witnesses, family and community members of violent death.

Death in the Air

Author : Kate Winkler Dawson
Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 0316506850
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Death in the Air written by Kate Winkler Dawson and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A real-life thriller in the vein of The Devil in the White City, Kate Winkler Dawson's debut Death in the Air is a gripping, historical narrative of a serial killer, an environmental disaster, and an iconic city struggling to regain its footing. London was still recovering from the devastation of World War II when another disaster hit: for five long days in December 1952, a killer smog held the city firmly in its grip and refused to let go. Day became night, mass transit ground to a halt, criminals roamed the streets, and some 12,000 people died from the poisonous air. But in the chaotic aftermath, another killer was stalking the streets, using the fog as a cloak for his crimes. All across London, women were going missing--poor women, forgotten women. Their disappearances caused little alarm, but each of them had one thing in common: they had the misfortune of meeting a quiet, unassuming man, John Reginald Christie, who invited them back to his decrepit Notting Hill flat during that dark winter. They never left. The eventual arrest of the "Beast of Rillington Place" caused a media frenzy: were there more bodies buried in the walls, under the floorboards, in the back garden of this house of horrors? Was it the fog that had caused Christie to suddenly snap? And what role had he played in the notorious double murder that had happened in that same apartment building not three years before--a murder for which another, possibly innocent, man was sent to the gallows? The Great Smog of 1952 remains the deadliest air pollution disaster in world history, and John Reginald Christie is still one of the most unfathomable serial killers of modern times. Journalist Kate Winkler Dawson braids these strands together into a taut, compulsively readable true crime thriller about a man who changed the fate of the death penalty in the UK, and an environmental catastrophe with implications that still echo today.