Tag: Crooked

Free Download Jonathon Green, "Crooked Talk: Five Hundred Years of the Language of Crime"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 1847946283 | EPUB | pages: 394 | 0.8 mb
An acclaimed slang expert investigates the long and venerable history of the language of criminals, crooks, and con-men The vocabulary of crime has a long history, in fact the first dictionary of words specifically used by criminals, Hye-Way to the Spittel House, dates from as early as 1531. This survey looks at 500 years of crooks and conmen, from the hedge-creepers and counterfeit cranks of the 16th century to the blaggers and burners of the 21st. It also takes a substantial detour behind bars into the world of prisons, and, of course, the swag, the hideouts, the getaway vehicles, and allied "tools of the trade"-not forgetting the cops, peelers, fly cops, and all the other varieties of the boys in blue. Arranged thematically, the book shows where particular words came from, how they have evolved, and why they mean what they do. For anyone who has ever wondered when the police were first referred to as pigs (the 18th century), why prison guards became known as redraws ("warders" backwards), or what precisely the subtle art of dipology involves (pickpocketing), this book has all the answers.

Free Download The Jersey Sting: A True Story of Crooked Pols, Money-Laundering Rabbis by Ted Sherman, Josh Margolin
English | 2011 | ISBN: 0312654170 | 400 Pages | EPUB | 489.6 KB
In the summer of 2009 the blog Gawker stated "Everybody in New Jersey Was Arrested Yesterday." Now for the first time, the real story behind the biggest corruption bust in New Jersey’s notoriously corrupt history

Free Download Meghan Sobel Cohen, "Press Freedom and the (Crooked) Path Toward Democracy: Lessons from Journalists in East Africa "
English | ISBN: 0197634214 | 2023 | 176 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 3 MB

Free Download Crooked, but Never Common: The Films of Preston Sturges by Stuart Klawans
English | January 10, 2023 | ISBN: 023120728X, 0231207298 | True EPUB | 376 pages | 35.1 MB
In a burst of creativity unmatched in Hollywood history, Preston Sturges directed a string of all-time classic comedies from 1939 through 1948―The Great McGinty, The Lady Eve, Sullivan’s Travels, The Palm Beach Story, and The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek among them―all from screenplays he alone had written. Cynical and sophisticated, romantic and sexually frank, crazily breakneck and endlessly witty, his movies continue to influence filmmakers and remain popular to this day. Yet despite this acclaim, Sturges’s achievements remain underappreciated: he is too often categorized as a dialogue writer and Description engineer more than a director, or belittled as an irresponsible spinner of laughs.

Free Download Dahlia Scheindlin, "The Crooked Timber of Democracy in Israel: Promise Unfulfilled "
English | ISBN: 3110796457 | 2023 | 277 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
A narrative chronicle of Israeli democracy that defines historic phases and follows thematic challenges to democracy, including: competition between religion and the rule of law; the statist society and chaotic minoritocracy; modern illiberal populism and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The comprehensive portrait exposes endemic flaws of democracy in Israel, but also shows that Israel has considerable capacity – and responsibility – to fulfill the promise of democracy.

Free Download Nguyen Thai, "Crooked Bamboo: Inside the Diem Regime and South Vietnam’s Tragedy"
English | ISBN: 1682830411 | 2019 | 272 pages | AZW3, PDF | 3 + 4 MB
Crooked Bamboo is a political memoir centered on Nguyen Thai’s inside account of South Vietnam’s Ngo Dinh Diem regime. Thai was a close personal aide for Diem as well as Director General of Vietnam Press, giving him significant access to Diem and other Ngo family members. Although the Diem era is the focus of the memoir, Nguyen Thai’s post-1963 career as a government official, businessman, and confidant of several key South Vietnamese figures sheds light on the aftermath of the Diem regime and the dilemmas of South Vietnam’s anti-communist elite throughout the Vietnam War. Thai’s attempts to help bring the war to a negotiated end and his experiences as one of the first former South Vietnamese officials to return to Communist Vietnam also offer important reflections on the meaning of the war and its aftermath.

Free Download Andrea Lucado, "English Lessons: The Crooked Path of Growing Toward Faith"
English | 2017 | pages: 240 | ISBN: 1601428952, 1780781873 | EPUB | 5,0 mb
The Questions Would Teach Her More Than the Answers

Free Download Justice for Sale: Graft, Greed, and a Crooked Federal Judge in 1930s Gotham (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C9R4JPH8 | 2023 | 13 hours and 41 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 396 MB
Author: Gary Stein
Narrator: Richard Poe
The never-before-told story of Martin T. Manton, a corrupt federal appeals court judge in New York who was convicted in 1939 and sent to prison. From his misconduct, to his co-conspirators, to the sensational prosecution and trial, this is the exhaustively researched account of a discovery that shocked the nation. Martin T. Manton was a corrupt federal appeals court judge in New York who was convicted in 1939 and sent to prison. At the time, this was a hugely important story: Manton was considered the highest-ranking judge in the United States after the nine Justices of the Supreme Court, and was nearly appointed to that august body in 1922.

Free Download Crooked: Man-Made Disease Explained (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B07BHPW1M9 | 2018 | 8 hours and 50 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 302 MB
Author: Forrest Maready
Narrator: Forrest Maready
Why do babies have lopsided smiles? Why are so many people’s eyes misaligned? What started as a simple search to understand this phenomenon turned into a two-year quest that uncovered hidden links between our crooked faces and some of the most puzzling diseases of our time. From autism to Alzheimer’s and from chronic fatigue syndrome to Crohn’s disease, Crooked methodically goes through the most recent scientific research and connects the dots from the outbreak of metallic medicine in 1800s England to the eruption of neurological and autoimmune disorders so many are suffering from today. If the theories put forth in this audiobook are true, the convergence of metals, microbes, and medicine that started 200 years ago may have set humanity on a path of suffering that could make the deadliest epidemics in history pale in comparison. Thankfully, for the millions who are afflicted, who may have found nothing to explain the cause of their suffering – these same theories could also illuminate the path to healing and recovery.

Free Download Robert Henry Thouless, "Straight and Crooked Thinking Ed 5"
English | ISBN: 1444117181 | 2011 | 192 pages | PDF | 564 KB
This new edition of a timeless classic demonstrates how the use of clear, rational thinking and logic can win any argument, however emotionally charged the topic in question. It describes the typical flaws of reasoning in argument and shows how language can be used to deceive – and how to avoid being deceived. It will show you how, by learning what is ‘straight’, rational language, and clear thought, you can disentangle emotionally charged rhetoric and hold your own in any argument or debate, no matter how challenging. Although written nearly 80 years ago, this book proves that certain principles remain timeless; it has shown many thousands over the decades how to cope with media spin and distorted reasoning – and now it will do the same for you.