News and investigations

Perfect Victim

von Christine McGuire & Carla Norton

Called the "sex slave," and "the girl in the box" case, this is the story behind Colleen Stan's terrifying, seven-year-long imprisonment by Cameron Hooker as told by the district attorney who tried the case....

The Devouring Dragon

von Craig Simons

China’s rise is assaulting the natural world at an alarming rate. In a few short years, China has become the planet’s largest market for endangered wildlife, its top importer of tropical trees, and its biggest...

From Midnight to Guntown: True Crime Stories from a Federal Prosecutor in Mississippi

von John Hailman

As a federal prosecutor in Mississippi for over thirty years, John Hailman worked with federal agents, lawyers, judges, and criminals of every stripe. In From Midnight to Guntown, he recounts amazing trials...

Bloody Versicles: The Rhymes of Crime

von Jonathan Goodman

An updated and enlarged edition of an annotated collection originally published more than 20 years ago, Bloody Versicles serves as two books in one: an anthology of ribald, moralistic, sad, yet amusing and entertaining...

Warehouse Safety: A Practical Guide to Preventing Warehouse Incidents and Injuries

von CSP, George Swartz

Because warehouses typically contain no dangerous machines or high-risk operations, employers and employees often develop a false sense of safety and security. With this book, you will learn how to proactively...

Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think

von Viktor Mayer-Schönberger & Kenneth Cukier

A revelatory exploration of emerging trends in "big data"—our newfound ability to gather and interpret vast amounts of information—and the revolutionary effects these developments are producing in business,...

Kiss of the She-Devil

von M. William Phelps

Phelps shows how the ugliest crimes can take place in the quietest of suburbs. --Library Journal

When librarian Martha Gail Fulton was gunned down in a Michigan parking lot on a quiet evening, there were two...

Academic Writing: A Handbook for International Students

von Stephen Bailey

Most international students need to write essays and reports for exams and coursework. Yet writing good academic English is a demanding task. This new edition of Academic Writing has been fully revised to help...

Metropolitan Problems

von S. Miles

Metropolitan Problems is the end-product of one of the most dynamic research programmes of its kind ever conceived and executed. The book, which took three years to complete, represents the culmination of a...

Il Dottore: The Double Life of a Mafia Doctor

von Ron Felber

Il Dottore is the riveting true story of a Jewish kid from the Bronx who became a Mafia insider and physician to top NY Mafia dons such as John Gotti, Carlo Gambino, Paul Castellano and Joe Bonanno. The doctor...

Hoax: Hitler's Diaries, Lincoln's Assassins, and Other Famous Frauds

von Edward, Jr. Steers & Joe Nickell

Did a collector with a knack for making sensational discoveries really find the first document ever printed in America? Did Adolf Hitler actually pen a revealing multivolume set of diaries? Has Jesus of Nazareth's...

Phake: The Deadly World of Falsified and Substandard Medicines

von Roger Bate

Roger Bate has spend years on the trail of counterfeit medicines in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, learning the anatomy of a nebulous, far-reaching black market that has resulted in countless deaths and...

The Extraordinary Book of Native American Lists

von Arlene Hirschfelder & Paulette F. Molin

This is an extensively researched book on Native American accomplishments. Topics covered include Native American contributions to the performing arts, literature, art, history, sports, politics, education,...

Conviction

von Leonard Levitt

On October 30, 1975, fifteen-year-old Martha Moxley headed home from Halloween Eve antics with her Greenwich, Connecticut, neighbors Tommy and Michael Skakel. She never made it. Her brutal murder with a golf...

Land Your Dream Career: Eleven Steps to Take in College

von Tori Randolph Terhune & Betsy A. Hays

It is clear that the path from college to work has changed dramatically in recent years—current statistics show that half of young college graduates are either jobless or underemployed in positions that don’t...

Progressive Capitalism: How to achieve economic growth, liberty and social justice

von David Sainsbury

The neo-liberalism that dominated economic thinking since the advent of Thatcher and Reagan is now seen to have serious flaws. Progressive Capitalism seeks to replace it with a new Progressive political economy,...

Real Hard Cases: Unsolved crimes reinvestigated

von Les Brown & Robert Jeffrey

Some serious crimes are open-and-shut cases, what the cops call no-brainers, but others- the REAL HARD CASES - remain either unsolved or with serious doubts hanging over them. Sometimes for years. Now, after...

Hangman's Brae: True crime and punishment in Aberdeen and the North-East

von Norman Adams

Hangman's Brae is a vividly written account of the blood-curdling crimes and brutal forms of punishment of north-east Scotland. The book explores the area's underworld and features the grave-robbers, jail-breakers,...

When Greed Turns Deadly

von Dixie Murphy & Patricia Terry

The two women found dead in their beds had been executed. There was no robbery, no sexual motivation.

The satanic writings and red candles found at the scene had been staged to throw investigators off track....

The Notorious Bacon Brothers: Inside Gang Warfare on Vancouver Streets

von Jerry Langton

A searing look at one of Canada's most dangerous gangs

Gang violence is nothing new to Vancouver, but the brutality of the Bacon Brothers—Jonathan, Jarrod, and Jamie—has become legendary. The Notorious Bacon...