Crime Sociology

In Why We Love Serial Killers, criminology professor Dr. Scott Bonn explores our powerful appetite for the macabre, while also providing new and unique insights into the world of the serial killer, including those he has gained from his correspondence with two of the world’s most notorious examples, David Berkowitz ("Son of Sam") and Dennis Rader ("Bind, Torture, Kill").

Olśniewająca i zabójczo niebezpieczna: jak wiele można poświęcić w pogoni za modowym trendem? Zieleń o jadowitym, szmaragdowym odcieniu to jedno z najbardziej niezwykłych odkryć chemicznych przełomu XVIII i XIX wieku. Pożądana przez artystów i miłośników piękna, zyskała formę, której trudno było się oprzeć. Jednak jej niewątpliwy czar krył mroczną tajemnicę – związki arsenu. Zielony pigment w różnych wariantach – od zieleni Scheelego, szwajnfurckiej po paryską, choć niezwykle atrakcyjny, niósł ze sobą śmiertelne zagrożenie.

**WINNER OF THE 2020 DANGER PRIZE** From the acclaimed author of THE SUITCASE BABY and THE SUICIDE BRIDE, the fascinating story of a series of horrific murders that began in 1930s Sydney - and a killer who remained at large for over two decades. In December 1932, as the Depression tightened its...

The True American tells the story of Raisuddin Bhuiyan, a Bangladesh Air Force officer who dreams of immigrating to America and working in technology. But days after 9/11, an avowed "American terrorist" named Mark Stroman, seeking revenge, walks into the Dallas minimart where Bhuiyan has found temporary work and shoots him, maiming and nearly killing him. Two other victims, at other gas stations, aren't so lucky, dying at once. The True American traces the making of these two men, Stroman and Bhuiyan, and of their fateful encounter.

New York Times Editors’ Choice Winner of the Bancroft Prize Winner of the New York Society Library's New York City Book Award A riveting Revolutionary Era drama of the first published rape trial in American history and its long, shattering aftermath, revealing how much has changed over two...