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Land. Race. Murder. Betrayal. The true story of a case that broke a South African town, originally released in August 2020 and now available in paperback b-format.
At dusk, on a warm evening in 2016, a group of forty men gathered in the corner of a dusty field on a farm outside Parys in the Free State. Some were in fury. Others treated the whole thing as a joke - a game. The events of the next two hours would come to haunt them all. They would rip families apart, prompt suicide attempts, breakdowns, divorce, bankruptcy, threats of violent revenge and acts of unforgivable treachery.
These Are Not Gentle People is the story of that night, and of what happened next. It's a murder story, a courtroom drama, a profound exploration of collective guilt and individual justice, and a fast-paced literary thriller.
Award-winning foreign correspondent and author Andrew Harding traces the impact of one moment of collective barbarism on a fragile community - exploding lies, cover-ups, political meddling and betrayals, and revealing the inner lives of those involved with extraordinary clarity. The book is also a mesmerising examination of a small town trying to cope with a trauma that threatens to tear it in two - as such, it is as much a journey into the heart of modern South Africa as it is a gripping tale of crime, punishment and redemption.
When a whole community is on trial, who pays the price?
Winner of the Sunday Times 2021 Literary Award for Non-Fiction.
During the last few decades, corrupt financial practices were
increasingly being monitored in many countries around the globe.
The past few decades have been eventful for these issues. Today,
tackling money laundering and terrorism financing are considered
key issues in developed and developing countries alike. Eradication
of money laundering and terrorism financing through a holistic
approach of awareness, prevention, and enforcement is a current
need. It has enabled the birth of new regulatory regimes based on
strict compliance, robust processes, and technology. One of the
many problems with this is the lack of general awareness about all
these issues among various stakeholders including researchers and
practitioners. Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing in Global
Financial Systems deepens the discourse about money laundering,
terrorism financing, and risk management in a modern-day
environment. It provides a fascinating and invaluable guide for
understanding the theory, practice, and cases of these topics.
Split into two sections, the first being money laundering and
terrorism financing and the second being financial governance and
risk management, the chapters create comprehensive knowledge on
these acts of crime in the financial industry by defining the
crimes themselves, the many challenges and impacts, and potential
solutions. This book is ideal for government officials, financial
professionals, policymakers, academicians, business professionals,
managers, IT specialists, researchers, and students.
A raw, gritty memoir--part true-life cop thriller, part
unputdownable history of a storied time and place--that will grip
you by the throat until the explosive end
Alphabet City in 1988 burned with heroin, radicalism, and
anti-police sentiment. Working as a plainclothes narcotics cop in
the most high-voltage neighborhood in Manhattan, Detective Sergeant
Mike Codella earned the nickname "Rambo" from the local dealers, as
well as a $50,000 bounty on his head. The son of a cop who grew up
in a mob neighborhood in Brooklyn, Codella understood the unwritten
laws of the shadowy businesses that ruled the streets. He knew that
the further east you got from the relative safety of 5th Avenue,
Washington Square Park and NYU, the deeper you entered the sea of
human misery, greed, addiction, violence and all the things that
come with an illegal retail drug trade run wild. With his partner,
Gio, Codella made it his personal mission to put away Davie Blue
Eyes--a stone cold murderer and the head of Alphabet City's heroin
supply chain. Despite the hell they endured--all the beatings and
gunshots, the footchases and close calls--Codella and Gio always
saw Alphabet City the same way: worth saving.
"Alphaville," Codella's riveting, no-holds-barred memoir,
resurrects the vicious streets that Davie Blue Eyes owned, and
tells the story of how Codella bagged the so-called Forty Thieves
that surrounded Davie, slowly working his way to the head of the
snake one scale at a time. With the blistering narrative spirit of
"The French Connection," the insights of a seasoned insider, and a
relentless voice that reads like the city's own, "Alphaville "is at
once the story of a dedicated New York cop, and of New York City
itself.
In March 2012, eccentric antiques dealer Raymond Scott was found
dead in his prison cell, apparently after having cut his own
throat. It was the final tragic act in one of the most bizarre
criminal cases ever held in England. The story begins in 1998 after
a rare copy of a Shakespeare First Folio was stolen from Durham
University just 10 miles from where Scott lived. For a decade the
authorities had been stumped as to what had happened to it until
Raymond Scott strolled into the famous Folger Library in Washington
DC to have it authenticated for sale. Printed in 1623, the First
Folio is widely regarded as the most important non-secular printed
book in the English language and one in pristine condition (like
the Durham copy had been when stolen) could be worth millions. The
flamboyantly-attired Scott had a taste for Ferraris and
Lamborghinis yet had spent most of his time living with his aged
mother, Hannah, on social security payments in a modest home in
Washington, Tyne on Wear. Scott, 55 when he died, wanted the money
from selling the First Folio to live the high life with his
beautiful 21-year-old Cuban dancer girlfriend he met during
frequent trips to Havana. In one of the many strange twists, he
claimed he obtained the book from a friend in Cuba who was a former
bodyguard to President Fidel Castro. Scott, who never took the
stand, was eventually jailed for eight years for handling stolen
goods but was cleared of stealing the First Folio. For 18 months,
from just after his arrest to his death, Scott conducted a series
of interviews with reporter Mike Kelly during which never heard
before evidence was revealed including the naming of an alleged
second suspect. Even after Scott was jailed they kept in touch via
frequent correspondence. Shakespeare & Love reveals the true
story behind the theft of the Durham Shakespeare First Folio and
uncovers for the first time the man dubbed by the press as 'Bling
Lear'.
The shocking first-hand account of one man’s remarkable fight for freedom; now an award-winning motion picture.
‘Why had I not died in my young years – before God had given me children to love and live for? What unhappiness and suffering and sorrow it would have prevented. I sighed for liberty; but the bondsman's chain was round me, and could not be shaken off.’
1841: Solomon Northup is a successful violinist when he is kidnapped and sold into slavery. Taken from his family in New York State – with no hope of ever seeing them again – and forced to work on the cotton plantations in the Deep South, he spends the next twelve years in captivity until his eventual escape in 1853.
First published in 1853, this extraordinary true story proved to be a powerful voice in the debate over slavery in the years leading up to the Civil War. It is a true-life testament of one man’s courage and conviction in the face of unfathomable injustice and brutality: its influence on the course of American history cannot be overstated.
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Rude Awakening
(Hardcover)
Sheree Ann Martines, John Robert Whedbee
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'Since I was a child, I've been interested in dead bodies. When I
was eight years old, I dug up the remains of my pet budgie Zazbut.
He had been buried for about eight weeks in a patch of grass
outside our house in Dasmarinas, a fortified village in Manila, in
the Philippines. 'The first exhumation was the beginning of my
intrigue with death, which has persisted. As a journalist, I've
written about graveyards, funerals and death doulas. I always visit
the local cemetery wherever I am in the world. But one thing that
has largely been hidden from me in this death trip is the dead
body.' Dissection might not be a normal topic to contemplate but
when both your paternal grandparents donate their bodies to science
it does intermittently cross your mind. This is the story of how
Jackie Dent's grandparents-Ruby and Julie-gave their bodies to
science when they died. No one in her family seems to know why, or
what really happened with their bodies afterwards. Were they avid
science buffs? Was it to save on cremation costs? How do scientists
tackle the practicalities and ethics of cutting up the dead for
research? And who are body donors generally? Weaving the personal
with the history of anatomy and the dissected, Jackie Dent explores
the world of whole-body donation - all the while looking for
answers as to what happened to her grandparents.
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