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When Women Kill - Four Crimes Retold (Paperback): Alia Trabucco Zeran When Women Kill - Four Crimes Retold (Paperback)
Alia Trabucco Zeran; Translated by Sophie Hughes
R341 R309 Discovery Miles 3 090 Save R32 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Winner of the 2022 British Academy Prize for Global Cultural Understanding. Novelist Alia Trabucco Zeran has long been fascinated not only with the root causes of violence against women, but by those women who have violently rejected the domestic and passive roles they were meant by their culture to inhabit. Choosing as her subject four iconic homicides perpetrated by Chilean women in the twentieth century, she spent years researching this brilliant work of narrative nonfiction detailing not only the troubling tales of the murders themselves, but the story of how society, the media and men in power reacted to these killings, painting their perpetrators as witches, hysterics, or femmes fatales . . . That is, either evil or out of control. Corina Rojas, Rosa Faundez, Carolina Geel and Teresa Alfaro all committed murder. Their crimes not only led to substantial court decisions, but gave rise to multiple novels, poems, short stories, paintings, plays, songs and films, produced and reproduced throughout the last century. In When Women Kill, we are provided with timelines of events leading up to and following their killings, their apprehension by the authorities, their trials and their representation in the media throughout and following the judicial process. Running in parallel with this often horrifying testimony are the diaries kept by Trabucco Zeran while she worked on her research, addressing the obstacles and dilemmas she encountered as she tackled this discomfiting yet necessary project.

Mr. Clean - Cash, Drugs and the CIA - The True Story of a Master Money Launderer (Hardcover): Bruce Aitken Mr. Clean - Cash, Drugs and the CIA - The True Story of a Master Money Launderer (Hardcover)
Bruce Aitken; Foreword by Howard Marks
R948 R827 Discovery Miles 8 270 Save R121 (13%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Strange Case of Israel Lipski - A Story of London's East End in 1887 (Hardcover): Bob Biderman The Strange Case of Israel Lipski - A Story of London's East End in 1887 (Hardcover)
Bob Biderman
R651 R595 Discovery Miles 5 950 Save R56 (9%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
A Man of Good Hope (Paperback, New Edition): Jonny Steinberg A Man of Good Hope (Paperback, New Edition)
Jonny Steinberg
R260 R232 Discovery Miles 2 320 Save R28 (11%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

In January 1991, when civil war came to Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, two-thirds of the city's population fled.

Among them was eight-year-old Asad Abdullahi. His mother murdered by a militiaman, his father somewhere in hiding, he was swept into the great wartime migration that scattered the Somali people throughout sub-Saharan Africa and the world.

Serially betrayed by the people who promised to care for him, Asad lived his childhood at a sceptical remove from the adult world, his relation to others wary and tactical.

By the time he had reached the cusp of adulthood, Asad had honed an array of wily talents. At the age of seventeen, in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, he made good as a street hustler. He also courted the famously beautiful Foosiya and, to the astonishment of his peers, married her.

Buoyed by success in work and in love, Asad put $1 200 into his pocket and made his way down the length of the African continent to Johannesburg, South Africa. And so began a shocking adventure in a country richer and more violent than he could possibly have imagined.

A Man of Good Hope is the story of a person shorn of the things we have come to believe make us human - personal possessions, parents, siblings. And yet Asad's is an intensely human life, one suffused with dreams and desires and a need to leave something of permanence on this earth.

A Doorway to Heroism - A decorated German-Jewish Soldier who became an American Hero (Hardcover): W Jack Romberg A Doorway to Heroism - A decorated German-Jewish Soldier who became an American Hero (Hardcover)
W Jack Romberg
R647 Discovery Miles 6 470 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Need to Kill - Identifying Addictive Serial Killing (Hardcover): Darren Freeman Need to Kill - Identifying Addictive Serial Killing (Hardcover)
Darren Freeman
R477 R445 Discovery Miles 4 450 Save R32 (7%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Napa Murder of Anita Fagiani Andrews - A Cold Case That Caught a Serial Killer (Hardcover): Raymond A. Guadagni Napa Murder of Anita Fagiani Andrews - A Cold Case That Caught a Serial Killer (Hardcover)
Raymond A. Guadagni
R687 Discovery Miles 6 870 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
No Intermission (Hardcover): Mary Spilsbury Ross No Intermission (Hardcover)
Mary Spilsbury Ross
R589 R541 Discovery Miles 5 410 Save R48 (8%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Dream It and Do It - 100 Career Role Models for Girls and Boys (Hardcover): Holly A Sharp Dream It and Do It - 100 Career Role Models for Girls and Boys (Hardcover)
Holly A Sharp
R875 Discovery Miles 8 750 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Cyber Harassment and Policy Reform in the Digital Age - Emerging Research and Opportunities (Hardcover): Ramona S. Mcneal,... Cyber Harassment and Policy Reform in the Digital Age - Emerging Research and Opportunities (Hardcover)
Ramona S. Mcneal, Susan M. Kunkle, Mary Schmeida
R3,607 Discovery Miles 36 070 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

As the digital world assumes an ever-increasing role in the daily life of the public, opportunities to engage in crimes increase as well. The consequences of cyber aggression can range from emotional and psychological distress to death by suicide or homicide. Cyber Harassment and Policy Reform in the Digital Age: Emerging Research and Opportunities is a critical scholarly resource that examines cyber aggression and bullying and policy changes to combat this new form of crime. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics such as anti-bullying programs, cyberstalking, and social exclusion, this book is geared towards academicians, researchers, policy makers, and students seeking current research on cyberstalking, harassment, and bullying.

Duck Tale - Memoir of a Quacking Good Trek to Manhood (Hardcover): Richard C Meehan Duck Tale - Memoir of a Quacking Good Trek to Manhood (Hardcover)
Richard C Meehan
R746 R660 Discovery Miles 6 600 Save R86 (12%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Sunbeams through the Trees - You Are Not Alone All Our Stories Matter (Hardcover): Savannah Daisyfield Sunbeams through the Trees - You Are Not Alone All Our Stories Matter (Hardcover)
Savannah Daisyfield
R803 Discovery Miles 8 030 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Never Enough - The Carl Katz Story - A Man Hunted by the Nazis Long After the Fall of the Third Reich: The Carl Katz Story... Never Enough - The Carl Katz Story - A Man Hunted by the Nazis Long After the Fall of the Third Reich: The Carl Katz Story (Hardcover)
Elise Garibaldi
R660 Discovery Miles 6 600 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Etna - A Murder Out of Time (Hardcover): Michael Mancuso, Eric J Kerchner Etna - A Murder Out of Time (Hardcover)
Michael Mancuso, Eric J Kerchner
R1,054 Discovery Miles 10 540 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Ship, The Lady and the Lake (Hardcover): Larken Meriel Ship, The Lady and the Lake (Hardcover)
Larken Meriel 1
R612 Discovery Miles 6 120 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

An extraordinary account of one woman's single-minded campaign to restore a Victorian steamship to her former glory and make her an Andean attraction Here is a vivid account of Meriel Larken's incredible quest to restore the "Yavari" steamship against the odds--a ship that is now celebrating its 150 year anniversary in 2012. In 1862 the English-built "Yavari" was taken to bits and shipped to South America. In an epic logistical feat it was carried in thousands of pieces, by mule, up the Andes to Lake Titicaca, 12,500 feet above sea level, the world's highest navigable waterway. She was reconstructed and for more than a century plied her trade up and down the lake, but by 1985 she was a sad rotting hulk--until she was found by Larken, who led the quest to project to restore and preserve the ship. The oldest single screw iron passenger ship in the world, this nautical and engineering jewel is now a major Peruvian tourist attraction.

Naked Rain - A True-Life Crime Drama (Hardcover): Lorraine Taylor Ramkeesoon Naked Rain - A True-Life Crime Drama (Hardcover)
Lorraine Taylor Ramkeesoon
R651 Discovery Miles 6 510 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Deathly Shade of Passion (Hardcover): Vicki Williams A Deathly Shade of Passion (Hardcover)
Vicki Williams
R557 Discovery Miles 5 570 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket) (Hardcover):... The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket) (Hardcover)
James Weldon Johnson
R911 Discovery Miles 9 110 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
L.A.'s Last Street Cop - Surviving Hollywood Freaks, the Aryan Brotherhood, and the L.A.P.D.'s Homicidal Vendetta... L.A.'s Last Street Cop - Surviving Hollywood Freaks, the Aryan Brotherhood, and the L.A.P.D.'s Homicidal Vendetta Against Me (Hardcover)
Al Moreno
R724 Discovery Miles 7 240 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Project Azalea (Hardcover): J E Conery Project Azalea (Hardcover)
J E Conery
R672 Discovery Miles 6 720 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
False Flag Jack The Ripper (Hardcover, Expanded of 'Jewbaiter Jack the Ripper: New Evidence & Theory' ed.): Stephen... False Flag Jack The Ripper (Hardcover, Expanded of 'Jewbaiter Jack the Ripper: New Evidence & Theory' ed.)
Stephen Senise
R796 Discovery Miles 7 960 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"Stephen Senise's... newly published study of the case, offers the most important clue not just as to whodunit, but why." TIMES OF ISRAEL "fascinating" - Gareth Williams, editor RIPPEROLOGIST, The Journal Of Jack The Ripper, East End & Victorian Studies "remarkable" - APN NEWS & MEDIA, Australia "painstaking research" - JEWISH CHRONICLE, London Did Jack The Ripper flee London for the colony of New South Wales at the height of the world's most notorious serial-murder rampage? Was the deadly attack on Alice McKenzie in 1889 his last bid in pursuit of what was, not just a brazen killing spree, but a macabre, politically motivated publicity stunt? Is it conceivable that a maniac took it upon himself to try and shut down the flow of Jewish refugees spilling into London's East End, just as the area was being thrust into the political spotlight? Journalist Stephen Senise, explores these questions and the neighbourhoods of old Whitechapel to discover that by February 1888 community tensions were so high that two parliamentary select committees of investigation were dispatched to advise the House of Commons and the House of Lords on the social and industrial tensions tearing a community apart. Enter an opportunist hell-bent on broadcasting a hateful message... a madman, ready to unleash an 'Autumn of Terror'.

What's In Emerald City? - The Power Of The Heart (Hardcover): Yolanda Trevino What's In Emerald City? - The Power Of The Heart (Hardcover)
Yolanda Trevino
R559 Discovery Miles 5 590 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Courage in my Carry-On (Hardcover): Rachel Hamilton Courage in my Carry-On (Hardcover)
Rachel Hamilton
R430 R401 Discovery Miles 4 010 Save R29 (7%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
A Myopic Life Resonated From The Brink of The Abyss (Hardcover): Simeon Johnson A Myopic Life Resonated From The Brink of The Abyss (Hardcover)
Simeon Johnson
R415 Discovery Miles 4 150 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Shirt on His Back - Escape from Liberia (Hardcover): Virginia Bergin MacKenzie Ofs The Shirt on His Back - Escape from Liberia (Hardcover)
Virginia Bergin MacKenzie Ofs
R588 Discovery Miles 5 880 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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