Mike Dash executed, no pun intended, an enormous amount of research in this book to bring the early years of the mafia in America to light. Because there is an extensive list of individuals, the names dropped are as long as a city block. Thankfully, Mike gives a list of characters and their brief...
"We have just come out of such a sorrow that the mind is still a little confused." -- Gijsbert Bastiaensz*****Commerce. Psychopaths.What do the two have in common? If I were asked that before I read this book, I’d be glib and respond with something like “trajectory.” But no. I’ve learned it’s som...
This was an odd book. When I had first read the description I had pictured one of those larger books that went into the history of the tulip and probably many detailed drawings or photographs of different varieties. That is not what this book is about.This book covers the history of the great Tul...
Thuggee, or strangulation for robbery, was the modus operandi of organized groups of murderers active for about two centuries in Northern and Central India before eradicated, prompted by the efforts of one Willam Sleeman of the East India Company who was the first outsider to recognize the cult, ...