In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in el Barrio
Book: In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in el Barrio , by Philippe I. Bourgois, ISBN-10: 0521017114 ISBN-13: ISBN13: 9780521017114, Cambridge University Press, December 2002, Paperback
This new edition brings this study of inner-city life up to date.Publishers WeeklyAnthropologist Bourgois chose "addicts, thieves, and [drug] dealers to be [his] best friends and acquaintances" during his three-and-one-half-year research residency in New York City's Spanish Harlem. This experience-packed...
Is That Real? Identification and Assessment of the Counterfeiting Threat for U.S. Banknotes
Book: Is That Real? Identification and Assessment of the Counterfeiting Threat for U.S. Banknotes , by Committee on Technologies to Deter Currency Counterfeiting, National Research Council, ISBN-10: 0309101247 ISBN-13: ISBN13: 9780309101240, National Academies Press, May 2006, Paperback
A key mission of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing of the Department of the Treasury is the design and printing of U.S. banknotes. The BEP is responsible for producing easily recognizable currency that is difficult to counterfeit. In recent...
The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary
Book: The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary , by Eric S. Raymond, Bob Young, ISBN-10: 0596001088 ISBN-13: ISBN13: 9780596001087, O'Reilly Media, Incorporated, February 2001, Paperback
Subtitled "Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary", this book explores Open Source, and the billions of dollars that have been made and lost based on the ideas in this book. Its conclusions will be studied, debated,...
The Adderall Diaries
Book: The Adderall Diaries , by Stephen Elliott, ISBN-10: 1555975704 ISBN-13: ISBN13: 9781555975708, Graywolf Press, September 2010, Paperback
In this groundbreaking memoir, Stephen Elliott pursues parallel investigations: a gripping account of a notorious San Francisco murder trial, and an electric exploration of the self. Destined to be a classic, The Adderall Diaries was described by The Washington Post...
Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe
Book: Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe , by Charles Nicholl, Christopher Marlowe, ISBN-10: 0226580245 ISBN-13: ISBN13: 9780226580241, University of Chicago Press, July 1995, Paperback
In 1593 the brilliant but controversial young playwright Christopher Marlowe was stabbed to death in a Deptford lodging house. The circumstances were shady, the official account—a violent quarrel over the bill, or "recknynge"—has been long regarded as dubious.Here, in a...
Who Killed My Daughter?: The True Story of a Mother's Search for Her Daughter's Murderer
Book: Who Killed My Daughter?: The True Story of a Mother's Search for Her Daughter's Murderer , by Lois Duncan, ISBN-10: 0440213428 ISBN-13: ISBN13: 9780440213420, Random House Publishing Group, February 1994, Mass Market Paperback
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My Dark Places
Book: My Dark Places , by James Ellroy, ISBN-10: 0679762051 ISBN-13: ISBN13: 9780679762058, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, September 1997, Paperback
"Astonishing . . . original, daring, brilliant." --Philadelphia InquirerIn 1958 Jean Ellroy was murdered, her body dumped on a roadway in a seedy L.A. suburb. Her killer was never found, and the police dismissed her as a casualty of a...
