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As "animal factories" go, the Ohio Penitentiary was one of the
worst. For 150 years, it housed some of the most dangerous
criminals in the United States, including murderers, madmen and
mobsters. Peer in on America's first vampire, accused of sucking
his victims' blood five years before Bram Stoker's fictional
villain was even born; peek into the cage of the original Prison
Demon; and witness the daring escape of John Hunt Morgan's band of
Confederate prisoners. Uncover the full extent of mayhem and
madness locked away in one of history's most notorious
maximum-security prisons.
In Historic Columbus Crimes, the father-daughter team of David
Meyers and Elise Meyers Walker looks back at sixteen tales of
murder, mystery and mayhem culled from city history. Take the rock
star slain by a troubled fan or the drag queen slashed to death by
a would-be ninja. Then there's the writer who died acting out the
plot of his next book, the minister's wife incinerated in the
parsonage furnace and a couple of serial killers who outdid the Son
of Sam. Not to mention a gunfight at Broad and High, grave-robbing
medical students, the bloodiest day in FBI history and other
fascinating stories of crime and tragedy. They're all here, and
they're all true
During the late nineteenth century, Ohio was reeling from a wave of
lynchings and most reasonable people felt something had to be done.
But it wasn't just lynchings, there were organized floggings, tar
and featherings, and even large scale riots. They were acts born of
anger, frustration, distrust of law enforcement, and, of course,
racial and ethnic intolerance. In 1892, Ohio-born Benjamin Harrison
was the first U.S. President to call for an anti-lynching
legislation. Four years later, his home state responded with the
Smith Act - "an Act for the Suppression of Mob Violence." It was a
major step forward and the most severe anti-lynching law in the
country, but it did nothing to address the underlying causes.
During the period 1771-1938, hundreds of acts of mob violence took
place within the bounds of Ohio. Cities burned and innocent people
died. Many of these acts were attributed to well-known and
respected men-and women-in the community, but few were ever
prosecuted. And some were even lauded for taking the law into their
own hands. While times have changed, many hearts have not. This is
the first book to take a detailed look at mob violence in Ohio.
An Applied Treatment of Modern Graphical Methods for Analyzing
Categorical Data Discrete Data Analysis with R: Visualization and
Modeling Techniques for Categorical and Count Data presents an
applied treatment of modern methods for the analysis of categorical
data, both discrete response data and frequency data. It explains
how to use graphical methods for exploring data, spotting unusual
features, visualizing fitted models, and presenting results. The
book is designed for advanced undergraduate and graduate students
in the social and health sciences, epidemiology, economics,
business, statistics, and biostatistics as well as researchers,
methodologists, and consultants who can use the methods with their
own data and analyses. Along with describing the necessary
statistical theory, the authors illustrate the practical
application of the techniques to a large number of substantive
problems, including how to organize data, conduct an analysis,
produce informative graphs, and evaluate what the graphs reveal
about the data. The first part of the book contains introductory
material on graphical methods for discrete data, basic R skills,
and methods for fitting and visualizing one-way discrete
distributions. The second part focuses on simple, traditional
nonparametric tests and exploratory methods for visualizing
patterns of association in two-way and larger frequency tables. The
final part of the text discusses model-based methods for the
analysis of discrete data. Web ResourceThe data sets and R software
used, including the authors' own vcd and vcdExtra packages, are
available at http://cran.r-project.org.
The first narrative biography of the Bee Gees, the phenomenally
popular vocal group that has sold more than 200 million records
worldwide--sales in the company of the Beatles and Michael Jackson.
"The Bee Gees" is the epic family saga of brothers Barry, Robin,
and Maurice Gibb, and it's riddled with astonishing
highs--especially as they became the definitive band of the disco
era, fueled by "Saturday Night Fever" and crashing lows, including
the tragic drug-fueled downfall of youngest brother, Andy. In
recent years, a whole new generation of fans has rediscovered the
undeniable grooves and harmonies that made the Bee Gees and songs
like "Stayin' Alive," "How Deep is Your Love," "To Love Somebody,"
and "I Started a Joke" timeless.
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