Thomas H. Cook & Otto Penzler 
Best American Crime Writing: 2003 Edition [EPUB ebook] 

This collection of published and unpublished creative non-fiction essays represents the lifelong reflections of a creatively afflicted mind, from humorous to serious, extraordinary to ordinary, biogr …

Frances Bowar lived in Ethan, South Dakota, a smallfarming community. She kept a diary from 1938 to1970, recording the activities of her family, her ownthoughts, feelings, and judgments, and the birt …

He Liyi belongs to one of China“s minorities, the Bai, and he lives in a remote area of northwestern Yunnan Province. In 1979 his wife sold her fattest pig to buy him a shortwave radio. He spent eve …

As the last presumptive founder of American sociology, Edward Alsworth Ross (1866û1951) was the first to secure its place in public discourse. Originally an economist who strongly criticized monopoli …

Around the world there are thousands of pet statues and memorials with fascinating stories behind them. Some reveal insights into our social history, such as the little brown dog in Battersea that wa …

Throughout America“s history, lawyers with a crusading zeal have, through their moral stance, intellectual integrity, and sheer brilliance, made use of the law to fight social injustice. In short bi …

Edward Said, the famous Palestinian American scholar and activist, was one of the twentieth century“s most iconic public intellectuals, whose pioneering and – to some – controversial work on Orienta …

In Food and Feast in Premodern Outlaw Tales editors Melissa Ridley Elmes and Kristin Bovaird-Abbo gather eleven original studies examining scenes of food and feasting in premodern outlaw texts rangin …

“ Poignant … A meditation on life, love and the importance of nature“ IRISH TIMES When they were in their twenties, Niall Williams and Christine Breen made the impulsive decision to leave New Yor …

This book reframes the study of multicide (that is, serial and mass murder) to use objective measures, and aims to expand our understanding of multicide offending through descriptive and inferential …