When her books begin to lose all contact with reality and become cliche-ridden, twenty-eight-year-old suspense novelist Jannie Shean plots a Manhattan jewelry store caper to provide the basis for a new novel.
The best kind of knowledge is uncommon knowledge. Okay, so maybe you know all the stuff you're supposed to know--that there are teenier things than atoms, that Remembrance of Things Past has something to do with a perfumed cookie, that the Monroe Doctrine means we get to take over small South American countries when we feel like it. But really, is this kind of knowledge going to make you the hit of the cocktail party, or the loser spending forty-five minutes examining the host's bookshelves? Wouldn't you rather learn things like how the invention of the bicycle affected the evolution of underwear? Or that the 1949 Nobel Prize for Medicine was awarded to a doctor who performed lobotomies with a household ice pick? Or how Catherine the Great really died? Or that heroin was sold over the counter not too long ago? For the truly well-rounded "intellectual," nothing fascinates so much as the subversive, the contrarian, the suppressed, and the bizarre. Richard Zacks, auto-didact extraordinaire, has unloosed his admittedly strange mind and astonishing research abilities upon the entire spectrum of human knowledge, ferreting out endlessly fascinating facts, stories, photos, and images guaranteed to make you laugh, gasp in wonder, and occasionally shudder at the depths of human depravity. The result of his labors is this fantastically illustrated quasi-encyclopedia that provides alternative takes on art, business, crime, science, medicine, sex (lots of that), and many other facets of human experience. Immensely entertaining, and arguably enlightening, An Underground Education is the only book that explains the birth of motion pictures using photos of naked baseball players. Richard Zacks is the author of History Laid Bare: Love, Sex and Perversity from the Ancient Etruscans to Warren G. Harding, which was excerpted in classy magazines like Harper's and earned the attention of the even classier New York Times, which noted that "Zacks specializes in the raunchy and perverse." The Georgia State Legislature voted on whether to ban the book from public libraries. He has studied Arabic, Greek, Latin, French, Italian, and Hebrew, and received the Phillips Classical Greek Award at the University of Michigan. He has also told his publisher that he made a living in Cairo cheating royalty from a certain Arab country at games of chance, although the claim remains unverified. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, Time, Life, Sports Illustrated, The Village Voice, TV Guide, and similarly diverse publications. Zacks is married and busy warping the minds of his two children, Georgia and Ziegfield. He resides in New York City, and can be reached via e-mail at rzacks@echonyc.com.
SEX FOR SALE!We are the savage sisterhood of 1950s crime. Society tells us to be "good girls", marry as virgins and raise up a mess of kids. We say, "Wise up!" We know the facts of life that you've got to use what you've got to get ahead. Men are after us for one thing only, SEX -- and they must pay for their pleasures. Don't be fooled by our soft words and sweet smiles; with us, the meter is always running. Anyone gets in our way, man, woman, or child, we get rid of them - Permanently!FATAL FEMMESWives, mothers, sweethearts, daughters any of us can and will turn killer in a heartbeat. Among us are dope-crazed addicts, homicidal housewives, vicious blackmailers, bone-crushing Amazons, axe-murderesses, switchblade-wielding gang girls, and many more. These are our stories. The trouble is, no matter how beautiful, cunning and deadly we are, our final destination is a prison cell or death chamber. But we sure look good getting there!
Documents the scandal-marked career of the early twentieth-century model and celebrity, discussing her early fame, her marriage to millionaire Harry K. Thaw, and her infamous relationship with her murdered lover, famed architect Stanford White.
On the 30th anniversary of his first appearance, enigmatic assassin Quarry stars in this gritty novel inspired by Collins's award-winning short film "A Matter of Principal," written for his acclaimed anthology movie "Shades of Noir." Lured out of retirement, Quarry is hired to kill a young librarian. He doesn't count on falling in love. Original.
This books tells the true story of three friends & their quest to build a Buck Rogers-style flying machine. Perhaps the least incredible thing about their tale is that they succeeded. But their obsession with the futurist device ruined their friendship & set in motion a chain of events involving theft, deception, & murder.
Explores the unusual odyssey of Gilbert Joseph Bland, Jr., an antiques dealer from South Florida, who stole dozens of centuries-old maps from some of the most important research libraries in Canada and the U.S.
In the spring of 1924, a poor, 19 year old laundress from Brooklyn robbed a string of New York grocery stores with a 'baby automatic', a fur coat, and a fashionable bobbed hairdo. Celia Cooney's crimes made national news and this text brings to life a world of great wealth and poverty and class conflict.
New advancements being made every day in the field of computer technology have created an equally new and high-tech method of illegal activity - computer crime. To help combat this offense, the author has designed a comprehensive primer to provide a fundamental investigative foundation for readers while moving through the basic phases of a computer crime investigation. The topics discussed cover everything from establishing evidence to developing the case for prosecution. At the conclusion of each chapter, there is a section on "Ideas for Discussion", offering the opportunity for an in-depth exploration of the material presented. This book will be an indispensable resource for college-level students of security, veteran law enforcement personnel, security professionals, and concerned business men and women.
