Product Description: Encyclopedia of Assassinations is the most comprehensive handbook on over 400 assassinations, attempts, and plots against political figures. The narrative entries detail history’s most turbulent moments, including the date, location, and full description of each incident, as well as biographical information about the victim and assassin and the circumstances surrounding each historical event...read more

Offers nearly 900 alphabetically arranged phrases and terms associated with the criminal world.

Offers nearly 900 alphabetically arranged phrases and terms associated with the criminal world.

From historical issues and institutions to current controversies, this encyclopedia presents entries describing terms, important individuals, legal cases, scandals, historical events, and other items related to the American penal system. Freelance writerSifakis is clearly sympathetic to leftist criticisms of the American penal system, both in terms of its current incarnation and past injustices. Subjects covered in the approximately 300 entries include prisoners such as Mumia Abu Jamal and labor activist Tom Mooney, famous riots and fires, prison programs, prominent reformers and wardens, and prisoner support organizations.More than 300 alphabetically arranged entries cover the history of the American prison system, examining prominent figures, famous prisons, riots, escapes, executions, fires, and social issues surrounding prison life.

Product Description: Throughout the history of crime in America, there have been cases and criminals that have left law enforcement agents and the public scratching their heads. This work takes a detailed look at the most bizarre crimes and their perpetrators...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Profiles America's cruelest criminals and savage killers from Frank 'the Dasher' Abbandando to the Zodiac Killer. (view table of contents)

Offers more than 2,000 entries on over one hundred years of American crime and criminals, including Billy the Kid, O.J. Simpson, the Oklahoma City bombing, the Tylenol murders, and the James brothers. (view table of contents)

Examines more than 150 notorious crimes, including the murders of Lee Harvey Oswald and JonBenet Ramsey. (view table of contents)

Documents more than 400 world leaders that were assassinated, including the historical and political background of each death, and notes the failed attempts made on Hitler, Reagan, De Gaulle, and others. Simultaneous. (view table of contents)

Examines more than 150 swindles and frauds and the people who perpetrated them, including Charles Keating and the savings and loan scandals and the sale of six copies of the Mona Lisa to American collectors. (view table of contents)

Surveys the careers of important figures involved with organized crime and discusses the Mafia's organization, criminal techniques, and underorld activities (view table of contents)

Surveys the careers of important figures involved with organized crime and discusses the Mafia's organization, criminal techniques, and underworld activities

Provides comic strip profiles and stories of hoaxes, including media hoaxes, scientific hoaxes, imposters, pranksters, and scams. (view table of contents)

Product Description: We all know that crime doesn't pay, and The Big Book of Little Criminals explains why--because most lawbreakers aren't very bright. Here are the tru e stories of dozen of the strangest and lamest criminals of all time. Fully illustrated in black. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Tells the stories of quack cures, confidence men, automobile repair scams, practical jokes, imposters, swindlers, fraudulent scientific research, phony mediums, and newspaper hoaxes

Gathers humorous and unusual anecdotes about baseball, football, basketball, boxing, golf, tennis, horse racing, auto racing, and track and field

A collection of tales about 140 of history's most unusual figures features discussions of the creator of the Graham cracker, the Svengali of superstars, and the 'Emperor' of the United States.

Provides information on gambling for sport and for profit, defines the games and their variations, and discusses the most common forms of cheating

A geographically arranged record of UFO appearances in the United States lists locations, extant markings and evidence, and sighters