Tag: Rogues

Free Download Radicals and Rogues: The Women Who Made New York Modern by Lottie Whalen
English | January 22nd, 2024 | ISBN: 1789147867 | 312 pages | True EPUB | 4.30 MB
From artists to activists, an explosive and eye-opening new history of the women who gave us New York.

Free Download Bob Kroll, "Rogues and Rascals: True Stories of Maritime Lives and Legends"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 1551098644 | EPUB | pages: 214 | 0.3 mb
Open Rogues and Rascals to any page, and you’ll find yourself drawn into the fascinating lives of ordinary Maritimers. A natural storyteller, Bob Kroll relates more than 200 true tales of our very own ancestors, and introduces us to heroes, failures, murderers, and soul savers who bring the everyday history of the Maritimes to vivid life.

Free Download Philip Hook, "Rogues’ Gallery: The Rise (and Occasional Fall) of Art Dealers, the Hidden Players in the History of Art"
English | 2017 | pages: 320 | ISBN: 1615194169, 1615194967 | EPUB | 96,1 mb
Here for the first time is the history of art dealers, those extraordinary men and woman who, over centuries (and almost entirely out of the public eye), built their profession on a singular skill: identifying the intangible but infinitely desirable qualities that characterize the greatest works of art-and finding clients for whom those qualities are irresistible.

Free Download Graeme Hunt, "Hustlers, rogues & bubble boys: White-collar mischief in New Zealand"
English | 2012 | pages: 222 | ISBN: 0790008211 | EPUB | 10,3 mb
‘White-collar-crime’ is a term that only recently came into use in New Zealand. But as Graeme Hunt illustrates in this highly readable book, sharp practice and outright cons have been part of New Zealand’s society since the nation’s founding – starting with the first treasurer George Cooper.

Free Download Simon Kuper, "Soccer Men: Profiles of the Rogues, Geniuses, and Neurotics Who Dominate the World’s Most Popular Sport"
English | 2011 | pages: 400 | ISBN: 156858458X, 1568586876 | EPUB | 0,5 mb
Simon Kuper’s New York Times bestseller Soccernomics pioneered a new way of looking at soccer through meticulous empirical analysis and incisive – and witty – commentary. Kuper now leaves the numbers and data behind to explore the heart and soul of the world’s most popular sport in the new, extraordinarily revealing Soccer Men.

Free Download Rogues’ Gallery: The Birth of Modern Policing and Organized Crime in Gilded Age New York by John Oller
English | September 21, 2021 | ISBN: 1524745650 | 528 pages | PDF | 31 Mb
From the beginnings of big-city police work to the rise of the Mafia, Rogues’ Gallery is a colorful and captivating history of crime and punishment in the bustling streets of Old New York.