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* The benefits of living in a digital, globalised society are enormous; so too are the dangers. * The world has become a law enforcer's nightmare and every criminal's dream. We bank online, shop online, date, learn, work and live online. But have the institutions that keep us safe on the streets...

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Zero Zero Zero by Roberto Saviano, read by Paul Michael. From the international bestselling author of Gomorrah, this searing exposé of dirty money and the drug trade reveals how they are at the heart of our lives, our economy...

Recalling the great muckrakers of the past, an outraged team of America's best-selling writers unite to confront the disasters of wrongful convictions. Wrongful convictions, long regarded as statistical anomalies in an otherwise sound justice system, now appear with frightening regularity. But few people understand just how or why they happen and, more important, the immeasurable consequences that often haunt the lucky few who are acquitted years after they are proven innocent.

There was no pattern to the murders, no common thread other than the fact that the victims were all vacationers, robbed of their possessions, and slain in seemingly random crimes. Authorities across three continents and a dozen nations had no idea they were all looking for the same man: Charles Sobhraj, aka "The Serpent". A handsome Frenchman of Vietnamese and Indian origin, Sobhraj targeted backpackers on the "hippie trail" between Europe and South Asia. A master of deception, he used his powerful intellect and considerable sex appeal to lure naive travelers into a life of crime.

Beziehungen, Elternschaft & persönliche Entwicklung/Beziehungen Vom Autor des New York Times Bestsellers "Überflieger: Warum manche Menschen erfolgreich sind – und andere nicht" Malcolm Gladwell. "Das beste Buch 2019": The Financial Times, Bloomberg, Chicago Tribune und Detroit Free Press...

The strange and sinister world of cults is a source of endless fascination. Their secrets, rituals and shadowy hierarchies make for some of the most disturbing and shocking revelations in history. Most chilling of all is the fact that many of their followers forfeit all independence in order to carry out the often sadistic bidding of a mysterious master manipulator - and continue to defend their leader to this day. 

Brought to you by Penguin. The heart-wrenchingly honest new book about life and death from forensic pathologist and bestselling author of Unnatural Causes, Dr Richard Shepherd. This book is about death, but in it I will take readers on a journey through life... What can death teach us about life?...

How China used a network of surveillance to intern over a million people and produce a system of control previously unknown in human history Novel forms of state violence and colonization have been unfolding for years in China’s vast northwestern region, where more than a million and a half...

The Bronx-born son of a Jewish bootlegger, "Joey the Hit Man" was introduced to crime when he was just eleven years old. For the next thirty years he was a numbers king, scalper, loan shark, enforcer, and drug smuggler. He hijacked trucks, fenced stolen goods, and trafficked in pornography. But Joey really made his name as a Mafia assassin, racking up thirty-eight cold-blooded hits-thirty-five for cash, three for revenge.

I Handbok för fifflare granskar Hanne Kjöller det buffébord av välfärdsförmåner där var och en med rymligt samvete kan förse sig. Med offentliga uppgifter från statliga utredningar, remissvar och rapporter visar hon hur fusket går till och hur riskerna att ertappas ser ut. Samt hur...

Nervgas och radioaktiva ämnen, toxiner och tallium, hemliga agenter och terrorister. Ulf Ellervik gräver djupare i den onda kemin när han tar sig an konsten att giftmörda. Det visar sig vara svårare än vad man kan tro, och tillvägagångssätten är många och påhittiga. Vad sägs om...

С середины 1990-х в небольшом сибирском городе Ангарске почти каждый месяц находили тела убитых и изнасилованных женщин. Журналистка Саша Сулим рассказывает историю самого кровавого убийцы в России и о людях, которые профессионально искали, находили и сажали в тюрьму серийных преступников вопреки инерции и противодействию правоохранительной системы. Это ответ не только на вопрос, как ловят маньяков в России, но и на вопрос, почему их часто не ловят вовсе.

¿Cómo el país más peligroso del mundo se convirtió en el más seguro de todo el continente americano en menos de una década? La pacificación de El Salvador durante la gestión de Nayib Bukele ha sido polémica, pero ha traído resultados concretos: entre 2019 y 2025, la tasa de homicidios...

Судебно-медицинский эксперт Алексей Решетун (более известный как жж-блогер mossudmed) знаком со смертью не понаслышке. Он имеет с ней дело каждый рабочий день вот уже 17 лет: собственно, ее причины и есть объект его изучения. А значит, ему лучше, чем кому бы то ни было, известно, почему мы умираем и что не надо делать, чтобы не попасть до времени на секционный стол. Читатели его блога стремительно бросают курить, выпивать и начинают заниматься спортом. Хотя он вовсе не читает мораль: просто показывает, чем все закончится, если продолжать в том же духе.

The criminal justice system is diverse and complex and raises questions about the use of imprisonment, the effects of capital punishment, the purposes of sentencing, and the role of the victim. In this Very Short Introduction, Julian V. Roberts discusses all stages of the criminal justice system...

This groundbreaking work takes readers deep into the world of police oversight and reveals what really happens when everyday people try to hold the police accountable. When you think about the police, who do you think of: Do you think of one officer, or the police as an institution? From movies...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In John Grisham’s first work of nonfiction since The Innocent Man, “the master of the legal thriller” (Associated Press) teams up with Jim McCloskey, “the godfather of the innocence movement” (Texas Monthly), to share ten harrowing true stories of...

A New York Times bestseller, the shocking story of one of the few people born in a North Korean political prison to have escaped and survived. Blaine Harden's latest book, King of Spies, will be available from Viking in Fall 2017. North Korea is isolated and hungry, bankrupt and belligerent. It...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The “entertaining [and] often-moving account” (The Wall Street Journal) of the remarkable POWs whose relentlessly creative attempts to escape a notorious Nazi prison embodied the spirit of resistance against fascism, from the author of The Spy and the Traitor...

Named one of the best nonfiction books of the year by The Washington Post “Tangled Up in Blue is a wonderfully insightful book that provides a lens to critically analyze urban policing and a road map for how our most dispossessed citizens may better relate to those sworn to protect and serve...