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Errand into the Wilderness of Mirrors Religion and the History of the CIA

Graziano Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780226767406, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 line drawings

Michael Graziano's intriguing book fuses two landmark titles in American history: Perry Miller's Errand into the Wilderness (1956), about the religious worldview of the early Massachusetts colonists, and David Martin's Wilderness of Mirrors (1980), a...

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Criminology

Extreme Killers Tales of the World's Most Prolific Serial Killers

Newton Michael

ISBN: PB: 9781454939405, GMC Group, Sterling, January 2021
320 pp., 20.8x14 cm, illus.

For fans of true crime, this fourth entry in the Profiles in Crime series presents history's most "elite" serial killers – master murderers who stretched the psychic envelope and racked up the largest number of victims. Historical in scope and intern...

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Experiments with Power Obeah and the Remaking of Religion in Trinidad

Crosson J. Brent

ISBN: PB: 9780226705484, ISBN: HB: 9780226700649, University of Chicago Press, June 2020
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 27 halftones

In 2011, Trinidad declared a state of emergency. This massive state intervention lasted for 106 days and led to the rounding up of over 7,000 people in areas the state deemed "crime hot spots". The government justified this action and subsequent poli...

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Political Science

Criminology

Expeditionary Police Advising and Militarization Building Security in a Fractured World

Stoker Donald

ISBN: HB: 9781911512868, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 9 photos, 10 charts

This original edited volume draws upon the latest work of a global cast of scholars and practitioners in several fields to examine the history, evolution and lessons of previous expeditionary police advising missions. Since the end of the Cold War, t...

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Business & Economics

Criminology

Economics of Crime Lessons For and From Latin America

Di Tella Rafael, Edwards Sebastian, Schargrodsky Ernesto

ISBN: PB: 9780226791852, ISBN: HB: 9780226153742, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, June 2012
536 pp., 23x15 cm, 95 figures, 106 tables, 1 halftone

Crime rates in Latin America are among the highest in the world, creating climates of fear and lawlessness in several countries. Despite this situation, there has been a lack of systematic effort to study crime in the region or the effectiveness of p...

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