History of crime in australia

History of Crime in Australia

This book provides a lively and accessible account of AustraliaÂ’s most prominent crimes and criminals of the nineteenth and twentieth century, and of

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Brief History of Australia

Examines the social, cultural, economic, and political trends in AustraliaÂ’s long history, shedding light on its unique and complex identity. Coverag

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Agatha Christie's True Crime Inspirations

Fact proves far stranger than fiction in this collection of real-life crimes, scandals, tragedies and murders which either influenced the works of the

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History of Policing, Crime, Disorder, Punishment

This engaging textbook provides a broad and unique coverage of the key historical events that shaped ideas in criminology, criminal justice and polici

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Short History of the Orthodox Church in Australia

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Sport Management in Australia

This is the only book to introduce the history, organisation, management and development of sport in Australia. Now in a fully revised and updated six

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Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books

Written by award-winning crime writer and president of the Detection Club, Martin Edwards, this book tracks the history of classic crime fiction and s

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The Pity of War - Niall Fergusson

<p>The First World War killed around eight million men and bled Europe dry. In this provocative book Niall Ferguson asks: was the sacrifice worth it? Was it all really an inevitable cataclysm and were the Germans a genuine threat? Was the war, as is often asserted, greeted with popular enthusiasm? Why did men keep on fighting when conditions were so wretched? Was th...

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Vice, Crime, and Poverty

Vice, Crime, and Poverty traces the untold history of the concept of the underworld and its representations in popular culture. From the Parisian demi

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Histories of Fascism and Anti-Fascism in Australia

Histories of Fascism and Anti-Fascism in Australia provides a history of fascist movements and anti-fascist resistance in Australia over the last cent

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Target Grade 9 Edexcel GCSE (9-1) History Crime and punishment in Britain, c1000- present Workbook

Help your students catch up, keep up and make expected progress in Edexcel GCSE (9-1) History with this new series of intervention workbooks. Targe

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Target Grade 5 Edexcel GCSE (9-1) History Crime and punishment in Britain, c1000- present Workbook

Help your students catch up, keep up and make expected progress in Edexcel GCSE (9-1) History with this new series of intervention workbooks. Ă‚Â

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Australia - turistický průvodce

Lonely Planet’s Australia is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Dive in the Great Barrier Reef, marvel at the unique wildlife, and hit the beach at Byron Bay; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Australia and begin your journey now! nside Lonely Planet’s Australia ...

Undaunted

Undaunted is a collection of true stories about Irish men and women who travelled to Australia in search of a better life and battled against the odds

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Ghosts and Gallows

Murder and ghosts go hand-in-hand and vengeful spectres seeking justice or haunting the scene of the crime or their killers have adorned the pages of

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Secret History

Truly deserving of the accolade "Modern Classic", Donna Tartt's novel "The Secret History" is a remarkable achievement - both compelling and elegant, dramatic and playful. Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humd...

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Edexcel GCSE (9-1) History Workbook: Crime and Punishment in Britain, c1000-present and Whitechapel, c1870-c1900

Practise and perfect the knowledge and skills that students need to achieve their best grade in the Edexcel GCSE (9-1) History exams. Packed full of

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Italian Crime Fiction in the Era of the Anti-Mafia Movement

Following a brief, yet detailed, history of the cultural and economic development of Sicily, this book provides a multilayered look into the evolution

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Ben Walsh History: Pearson Edexcel GCSE (9–1): Medicine in Britain, Crime and Punishment in Britain, Anglo-Saxon and Norman England and Early Elizabe

Discover a fresh approach to Pearson Edexcel GCSE History, developed by bestselling author Ben Walsh while working with hundreds of students and teach

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Macmillan Readers Australia Upper-Intermediate Pack

This Reader provides an informative overview of Australian history, culture, its people, geography and climate, food, sport and more. Australia is the sixth largest country in the world and the only one that covers a whole continent. Despite its size, Australia has a small population at just over 23 million. Also comes with audio CD.

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But Crime Does Punish - Ján Johanides

<p>"So, as you see, I am familiar with the case. However, we can't discuss it unless you learn more about some other court cases, so that you can compare your father's trial with other, more baffling cases, and see it in the context of the madness that reigned at the time." <br /> In Ján Johanides riveting Slovak novel, you the reader are thrust in m...

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Policing Sex in the Sunflower State

Tells the history of how, over a span of two decades, the Kansas detained over 5,000 women for no other crime than having a venereal disease. Nicole P

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The Gambino Crime Family - A Mafia Family Revealed (Biography)

The Gambino Crime Family - A Mafia Family Revealed is an account of the Gambino family, one of the most powerful crime families in United States history. The Gambino family, known to be one of the "Five Families" who control organized crime in New York City, are charged with scores of crimes including: loansharking, racketeering, gambling, extortion, and murder for hire. ...

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The Crime Book : Big Ideas Simply Explained - Peter James

Anotace: From Jack the Ripper to the modern day drug cartels, discover the most notorious crimes and criminals in history.With a foreword by bestselling crime author Peter James, The Crime Book explores over 100 crimes and examines the science, psychology and sociology of criminal behaviour. See the gory details of each crime and how it was solved, with renowned quotes a...

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The Crime Book : Big Ideas Simply Explained - Peter James

<p>Learn about the world's most notorious cons, heists, and murders in The Crime Book.Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format. Learn about Crime in this overview guide to the subject, brilliant for novices looking to find out more and true crime experts wishing to refresh their knowle...

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How the World Thinks: A Global History of Philosophy (1783782307)

Kniha - autor Julian Baggini, 432 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná In this groundbreaking global overview of philosophy, Julian Baggini travels the world to provide a wide-ranging map of human thought. One of the great unexplained wonders of human history is that written philosophy flowered entirely separately in China, India and Ancient Greece at more or le...

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QUIZ & ACT Australia Part 1 - Štipl Zdeněk, kolektiv autorů

Anotace: Didactic cards in English Quiz & Act is a cultural quiz that will introduce you to the culture of Australia and boost your knowledge about the most remarkable facts of this fascinating, distant country. An excellent opportunity to read, listen and speak English. With three answers to choose from, we make it easier for you. However, when a mistake happens, the fu...

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QUIZ &amp; ACT Australia Part 1 - autorů kolektiv

<p>Didactic cards in English Quiz &amp; Act is a cultural quiz that will introduce you to the culture of Australia and boost your knowledge about the most remarkable facts of this fascinating, distant country. An excellent opportunity to read, listen and speak English. With three answers to choose from, we make it easier for you. However, when a mistake happens,...

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Unmasked : Crime Scenes, Cold Cases and My Hunt for the Golden State Killer - Holes Paul

Anotace: From the detective who helped catch the Golden State Killer, a memoir about investigating America`s toughest cold cases, and the rewards - and toll - of a life spent solving crime.For a decade, from 1973, The Golden State Killer stalked and murdered Californians in the dead of night, leaving entire communities afraid to turn off the lights. Then he vanished, and...

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Unmasked : Crime Scenes, Cold Cases and My Hunt for the Golden State Killer - Paul Holes

<p>From the detective who helped catch the Golden State Killer, a memoir about investigating America's toughest cold cases, and the rewards - and toll - of a life spent solving crime. For a decade, from 1973, The Golden State Killer stalked and murdered Californians in the dead of night, leaving entire communities afraid to turn off the lights. Then he vanished, an...

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Convicts in the Colonies

Covers the history of British transportation to Australia, from the first to the the final fleet.

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Exhibiting Madness in Museums

This innovative collection of essays offers a comparative history of independent and institutional collections of psychiatric objects in Australia, Ne

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Behind the Enigma : The Authorised History of GCHQ, Britain´s Secret Cyber-Intelligence Agency - Ferris John

Anotace: You know about MI5. You know about MI6.Now discover the untold stories behind Britain's most secretive intelligence agency, in the first ever authorised history of GCHQ.For a hundred years, GCHQ - Government Communications Headquarters - has been at the forefront of innovation in national security and British secret statecraft. Famed for its codebreaking ac...

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Dungeons a Dragons RPG Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica english

A perpetual haze of dreary rain hangs over the spires of Ravnica. Bundled against the weather, the cosmopolitan citizens in all their fantastic diversity go about their daily business in bustling markets and shadowy back alleys. Through it all, ten guilds-crime syndicates, scientific institutions, church hierarchies, military forces, judicial courts, buzzing swarms, and r...

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Death in Old Mexico

Death in Old Mexico details Mexico's 'crime of the century' - a botched home invasion and the brutal murder of eleven people. An evocative history of

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Assassin in Utopia

This true crime odyssey explores a forgotten, astonishing chapter of American history, leading the reader from a free-love community in upstate New Yo

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Commonwealth of Thieves

Tells the story of modern Australia begins in eighteenth-century Britain, where people were hanged for petty offences but crime was rife, and the gaol

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The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky (PC) Steam

Modern society owes much to a mystical technology known as “orbal energy.” Fifty years ago, during what’s come to be known as the “Orbal Revolution,” the invention of this technology and the “orbments” developed from it led to a period of rapid human advancement, birthing innovations of all shapes and sizes -- not the least of whi...

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City of the Living

The spellbinding literary true crime story of one of the most vicious crimes in recent Italian history. A journey into the darkest corners of Rome and

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Nazis In The Metro

From France’s leading political crime writer comes a novel that delves into the country’s radical political movements on both the left and the right, in the wake of a brutal attack. When André Sloga, an apparently washed-up novelist with a history of baiting the system, is assaulted and left for dead in the basement of his apartment building, the freelance private eye Gab...

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Libels and Theater in Shakespeare's England

The first comprehensive history of libels in Elizabethan England, this interdisciplinary study traces the crime across law, literature, and culture, f

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A Study in Scarlet & The Sign of the Four (Collector´s Edition) - Doyle Arthur Conan

Anotace: `Doctor Watson, Mr Sherlock Holmes` - The most famous introduction in the history of crime fiction takes place in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle`s A Study in Scarlet, bringing together Sherlock Holmes, the master of science detection, and John H. Watson, the great detective`s faithful chronicler. This novel not only establishes the magic of the Holmes myth but also prov...

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Dottie : By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021 - Abdulrazak Gurnah

<p>By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021A searing tale of a young woman discovering her troubled family history and cultural pastDottie Badoura Fatma Balfour finds solace amidst the squalor of her childhood by spinning warm tales of affection about her beautiful names. But she knows nothing of their origins, and little of her family history - or the ab...

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The Dream of Europe : Travels in a Troubled Continent - Mak Geert

Anotace: How did the great European dream turn sour? And where do we go from here?From the author of the internationally acclaimed In Europe, a stunning history of our present, examining the first two decades of this most fragile and fraught new millennium.The great European project was built out of a common desire for peace, prosperity and freedom; a wish for a united E...

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The Dream of Europe : Travels in a Troubled Continent - Geert Mak

<p>How did the great European dream turn sour? And where do we go from here? From the author of the internationally acclaimed In Europe, a stunning history of our present, examining the first two decades of this most fragile and fraught new millennium. The great European project was built out of a common desire for peace, prosperity and freedom; a wish for a unite...

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In the Cage Where Your Saviours Hide

A novel of crime and corruption is set in a brooding, rain-swept Scottish city burdened by a history that is compellingly different from the one we th

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The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky (PC) Steam (PC)

Modern society owes much to a mystical technology known as &ldquo;orbal energy.&rdquo; Fifty years ago, during what&rsquo;s come to be known as the &ldquo;Orbal Revolution,&rdquo; the invention of this technology and the &ldquo;orbments&rdquo; developed from it led to a period of rapid human advancement, birthing innovations of all shapes and s...

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Nazis in the Metro - Daeninckx Didier

Anotace: From France´s leading political crime writer comes a novel that delves into the country´s radical political movements on both the left and the right, in the wake of a brutal attack. When André Sloga, an apparently washed-up novelist with a history of baiting the system, is assaulted and left for dead in the basement of his apartment building, the freelance priva...

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Short Stories in Italian for Beginners

An unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young and adult learners."I love Olly's work - and you will too!" - Barbara Oakley, PhD, Author of New York Times bestseller A Mind for NumbersShort Stories in Italian for Beginners has been written especially for students from beginner to intermediate level, designed to give a sense of ach...

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Short Stories in English for Beginners

An unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young and adult learners. "I love Olly's work - and you will too!" - Barbara Oakley, PhD, Author of New York Times bestseller A Mind for NumbersShort Stories in English for Beginners has been written especially for students from beginner to intermediate level, designed to give a sense of ac...

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Short Stories in Spanish for Intermediate Learners

"I love Olly's work - and you will too!" - Barbara Oakley, PhD, Author of New York Times bestseller A Mind for NumbersShort Stories in Spanish for Intermediate Learners has been written especially for students from beginner to intermediate level, designed to give a sense of achievement, and most importantly - enjoyment! Mapped to B1-approaching B2 on the Common European F...

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Tremors in the Blood - Katwala Amit

Anotace: Truth, murder and the birth of the lie detectorHenry Wilkens burst through the doors of the emergency room covered in his wife`s blood. But was he a grieving husband, or a ruthless killer who`d conspired with bandits to have her murdered?To find out, the San Francisco police turned to technology, and a new machine that had just been invented in Berkeley by a roo...

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Tremors in the Blood - Amit Katwala

<p>Truth, murder and the birth of the lie detector Henry Wilkens burst through the doors of the emergency room covered in his wife's blood. But was he a grieving husband, or a ruthless killer who'd conspired with bandits to have her murdered? To find out, the San Francisco police turned to technology, and a new machine that had just been invented in Berkeley by...

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The Alienist (Film Tie In) - Carr Caleb

Anotace: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - SOON TO BE A TNT ORIGINAL SERIES "A first-rate tale of crime and punishment that will keep readers guessing until the final pages."--Entertainment Weekly "Caleb Carr`s rich period thriller takes us back to the moment in history when the modern idea of the serial killer became available to us."--The Detroit News When The Alienist was f...

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Tremors in the Blood - Amit Katwala

<p>Truth, murder and the birth of the lie detector</p> <p>Henry Wilkens burst through the doors of the emergency room covered in his wife’s blood. But was he a grieving husband, or a ruthless killer who’d conspired with bandits to have her murdered?</p> <p>To find out, the San Francisco police turned to technology, and a new machine that had ...

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The Alienist (Film Tie In) - Caleb Carr

<p>NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - SOON TO BE A TNT ORIGINAL SERIES "A first-rate tale of crime and punishment that will keep readers guessing until the final pages."--Entertainment Weekly "Caleb Carr's rich period thriller takes us back to the moment in history when the modern idea of the serial killer became available to us."--The Detroit News When...

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World Atlas of Wine, 7th Edition

"Immense and beautiful - almost drinkable" -- Midweek, BBC Radio 4 "Simply superb work...buy it if you like wine at all." -- Victoria Moore, The Telegraph "If I owned only one wine book, it would be this one. And this edition, please." -- Andrew Jefford, Decanter Few wine books can be called classic but the first edition of The World Atlas of Wine made publishing history...

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Short Stories in Italian for Beginners - Richards Olly

Anotace: An unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young and adult learners."I love Olly`s work - and you will too!" - Barbara Oakley, PhD, Author of New York Times bestseller A Mind for NumbersShort Stories in Italian for Beginners has been written especially for students from beginner to intermediate level, designed to give a se...

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Short Stories in French for Beginners - Richards Olly

Anotace: An unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young and adult learners."I love Olly`s work - and you will too!" - Barbara Oakley, PhD, Author of New York Times bestseller A Mind for NumbersShort Stories in French for Beginners has been written especially for students from beginner to intermediate level, designed to give a sen...

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Short Stories in German for Beginners - Richards Olly

Anotace: An unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young and adult learners."I love Olly`s work - and you will too!" - Barbara Oakley, PhD, Author of New York Times bestseller A Mind for NumbersShort Stories in German for Beginners has been written especially for students from beginner to intermediate level, designed to give a sen...

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