Download or read book Aliens Mafia Susegaad written by T. M. Konni and published by Partridge Publishing. This book was released on 2014-12-24 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Alexander Philip moved from the land of God's own country-Kerala, to the land of Sun Sand and Sex-Goa in search of job. His intolerance to injustice and corruption made his life difficult in a foreign land where he was treated as alien or Ghatti. Soon he realised that the entire administration is controlled by an underground organisation known as Club Susegaad. They controlled the administration indirectly through their political party and their corrupt unethical ministers. This club and the mafia was controlled by a brothel madam Fatima. She had feelers in every departments. All corrupt politicians and even police officers were in her mafia gang. Through drug trafficking and prostitution the mafia members amassed huge wealth. One of the members Andrew Akbar kidnapped a college girl during a cultural event. Principal, Dr. Alexander Philip was worried because of this abduction. Though he tried to rescue her none of the authorities helped him, instead they accused him for that abduction. He was transferred to difficult stations as punishments by the authorities. Where ever he was posted he unearthed the corruption and exposed the double standards of his superiors. A newly appointed DGP decided to clear up the underground drug mafia gang at any cost and decided to nab them during the funeral of a Susegaad member.

Download or read book Yesterday in Paradise written by Cyprian Fernandes and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2016-09-15 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Cyprian Fernandes was born a war baby in 1943 in Kenya. Forced to leave school at the age of thirteen because he would not drop his pants for a caning, Fernandes experienced a wild and epic childhood. In Yesterday in Paradise, he tells his story growing up in colonial British East Africa. With a history of the region and the people originating from the state of Goa, India, and the Republic of Kenya, East Africa, woven in, Fernandes shares a host of stories that became a part of his first twenty-plus years. He was in the middle of the bloodcurdling Mau Mau rebellion and was arrested with thousands of others. He was there when Pio Gama Pinto was murdered. He embarked on an adventure that eventually took him to the four corners of the Earth. He travelled the length and breadth of Africa, the United Kingdom, and Europe as an investigative reporter. Providing a look at Fernandes eventful past, Yesterday in Paradise narrates a memoir filled with prejudice, murder, conflict, and more. He shares the events, the people, and the many, many places that fashioned his life.

Download or read book The Industrial Vagina written by Sheila Jeffreys and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-11-19 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The industrialization of prostitution and the sex trade has created a multibillion-dollar global market, involving millions of women, that makes a substantial contribution to national and global economies. The Industrial Vagina examines how prostitution and other aspects of the sex industry have moved from being small-scale, clandestine, and socially despised practices to become very profitable legitimate market sectors that are being legalised and decriminalised by governments. Sheila Jeffreys demonstrates how prostitution has been globalized through an examination of: the growth of pornography and its new global reach the boom in adult shops, strip clubs and escort agencies military prostitution and sexual violence in war marriage and the mail order bride industry the rise in sex tourism and trafficking in women. She argues that through these practices women’s subordination has been outsourced and that states that legalise this industry are acting as pimps, enabling male buyers in countries in which women’s equality threatens male dominance, to buy access to the bodies of women from poor countries who are paid for their sexual subservience. This major and provocative contribution is essential reading for all with an interest in feminist, gender and critical globalisation issues as well as students and scholars of international political economy.

Download or read book An English Konkani Dictionary written by Angelus Francis Xavier Maffei and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Report on Torture written by Amnesty International and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Konkani Grammar written by Angelus Francis Xavier Maffei and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Weasel written by Adrian Humphreys and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-11-28 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the world of organized crime the bosses grab the headlines, as the names Capone, Gotti, Bonnano, Cotroni and Rizzuto attest. But a crime family has many working parts and the young mobster known as The Weasel was the epitome of a crucial, invisible cog-the soldier, the muscle, the driver, the gopher. By a quirk of fate, Marvin Elkind-later The Weasel-was placed in the foster home of a tough gangster family, immersing him from the age of nine in a daring world of con men, cheats, bootleggers, loan sharks, bank robbers, leg breakers and Mafia bosses. During a Golden Age of underworld life in New York, Detroit and across Canada, The Weasel found himself working with a surprising cast of colourful characters. He befriended powerful gangsters by smuggling bottles of Scotch to their tables as a waiter at New York's famed Copacabana; he was pushed to be Jimmy Hoffa's chauffeur. But his disenchantment with the broken promises of mob life brought him into another fraternity, one offering the same adrenaline rush, danger and dark comedy he craved. After a startling confrontation, he was embraced by law enforcement, and a cop with a reputation for results. Now a career informant, The Weasel learned he was a far better fink than he ever was a crook. With his impeccable gangland pedigree, enormous girth, cold stare and sausage-like fingers adorned with chunky rings, no one questioned The Weasel's loyalty. The backroom doors were flung open and The Weasel slipped in, bringing undercover cops with him. For case after case over two decades, he worked for the FBI, U.S. Customs, Scotland Yard, RCMP, Ontario Provincial Police and other law enforcement agencies on three continents, trapping and betraying mobsters, mercenaries, spies, drug traffickers, pornographers, union fat cats and corrupt politicians. With unflinching honesty, The Weasel and many of the undercover officers he worked with revealed their successes and failures to award-winning crime reporter and best-selling author Adrian Humphreys. The Weasel is the riveting chronicle of a unique and engaging figure who lived a most dangerous and rare experience. It is a story that was never supposed to be told.

Download or read book Kafka s Law written by Robert P. Burns and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Franz Kafka s vision of the Law in "The Trial "is so strange, arbitrary, and unjust that it would seem to be the antithesis of our own. Yet, that is what makes Robert Burns latest book so compelling. Robert Burns brilliantly shows that Kakfa s masterpiece provides an uncanny lens through which to see and understand the American criminal justice system today. It provokes a shock of recognition that makes us see it in a very different light. Assuming no prior knowledge of Kafka s book, Burns tells the story, at once funny and grim, of Josef K., caught in the Law s grip and then crushed by it. Laying out the characteristics of Kafka s Law, Burns argues that the American criminal justice system has taken on too many of those same qualities. In the overwhelming majority of cases, our system is composed of police interrogation followed by plea bargaining, where the courts only function is but to set a sentence on an individual already determined to be guilty. Like Kafka s nightmarish vision, too much of our criminal law and procedure has become unknowable, ubiquitous, and bureaucratic. It too has come to rely on deception in dealing with suspects and jurors, to limit the role of defense counsel, and to increasingly dispense justice without the protections of formal procedures. Burns compellingly explains how and why we have become an increasingly punitive society. Finally, he takes up the question of whether we have the resources to change these Kafkaesque aspects of our criminal justice system and shows how the jury trial has that potential, but only if it is returned to a more central place in our system."

Download or read book Don t Spill Red Wine written by Bazzy-Bee and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2020-04-22 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lone gangster builds up the rank in the criminal ladder, goes to jail and streets, and recruits people to join his gang and take over other drug dealers. He commits crimes and gains respect. The story or moral of the book is to educate people about gang lifestyle, drugs, guns and police. The author is also continuing the book with an 8-part series and continues the story then on. It's a book about crime and has adventure as well and other parts may contain graphic scenes but is a good source of entertainment.

Download or read book The Triumph of Faith written by Rodney Stark and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-08-22 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "God is not dead." —Wall Street Journal Believe it or not, the world is more religious than ever before. Everyone seems to take it for granted that the world is getting more secular—that faith is doomed by modernity. Scientists, secularists, and atheists applaud the change; religious believers lament it. But here's the thing: they're all wrong—and the bestselling author and influential scholar of religion Rodney Stark has the numbers to prove it.The Triumph of Faith explodes the myth that people around the world are abandoning religion. Stark marshals an unprecedented body of data—surveys of more than a million people in 163 nations—to paint the full picture that both scholars and popular commentators have missed. And he explains why the astonishing growth of religion is happening and what it means for our future. Stark's bracing book is full of insights that defy the conventional wisdom. With vigorous prose he reveals: •Why claims about Millennials' lack of religion are overblown and historically ignorant •Why Islam is NOT overtaking Christianity •How 4 out of 5 people worldwide now belong to an organized religion •How 50 percent have attended a worship service in the past week •Why much-ballyhooed studies from the Pew Research Center and others get the religious landscape wrong •Why atheists remain few, anywhere—despite all the talk of the "New Atheism" As Stark shows, secularists have been predicting the imminent demise of religion for centuries. It is their unshakable faith in secularization that may be the most "irrational" of all beliefs. As the author of How the West Won, The Victory of Reason, and many other bestselling works, Rodney Stark has a richly deserved reputation for writing page-turning, myth-busting books. He is also a groundbreaking scholar who has so reshaped the social scientific study of religion that his work has become the basis of a "new paradigm." Stark puts all those talents on full display in The Triumph of Faith.This book will change how you see both religion and the forces of secularization.

Download or read book Prohibition Gangsters written by Marc Mappen and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-06 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master story teller Marc Mappen applies a generational perspective to the gangsters of the Prohibition era—men born in the quarter century span from 1880 to 1905—who came to power with the Eighteenth Amendment. On January 16, 1920, the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution went into effect in the United States, “outlawing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors.” A group of young criminals from immigrant backgrounds in cities around the nation stepped forward to disobey the law of the land in order to provide alcohol to thirsty Americans. Today the names of these young men—Al Capone, Lucky Luciano, Dutch Schultz, Legs Diamond, Nucky Johnson—are more familiar than ever, thanks in part to such cable programs as Boardwalk Empire. Here, Mappen strips way the many myths and legends from television and movies to describe the lives these gangsters lived and the battles they fought. Placing their criminal activities within the context of the issues facing the nation, from the Great Depression, government crackdowns, and politics to sexual morality, immigration, and ethnicity, he also recounts what befell this villainous group as the decades unwound. Making use of FBI and other government files, trial transcripts, and the latest scholarship, the book provides a lively narrative of shootouts, car chases, courtroom clashes, wire tapping, and rub-outs in the roaring 1920s, the Depression of the 1930s, and beyond. Mappen asserts that Prohibition changed organized crime in America. Although their activities were mercenary and violent, and they often sought to kill one another, the Prohibition generation built partnerships, assigned territories, and negotiated treaties, however short lived. They were able to transform the loosely associated gangs of the pre-Prohibition era into sophisticated, complex syndicates. In doing so, they inspired an enduring icon—the gangster—in American popular culture and demonstrated the nation’s ideals of innovation and initiative. View a three minute video of Marc Mappen speaking about Prohibition Gangsters.

Download or read book Public Enemies Public Heroes written by Jonathan Munby and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-04-24 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study of Hollywood gangster films, Jonathan Munby examines their controversial content and how it was subjected to continual moral and political censure. Beginning in the early 1930s, these films told compelling stories about ethnic urban lower-class desires to "make it" in an America dominated by Anglo-Saxon Protestant ideals and devastated by the Great Depression. By the late 1940s, however, their focus shifted to the problems of a culture maladjusting to a new peacetime sociopolitical order governed by corporate capitalism. The gangster no longer challenged the establishment; the issue was not "making it," but simply "making do." Combining film analysis with archival material from the Production Code Administration (Hollywood's self-censoring authority), Munby shows how the industry circumvented censure, and how its altered gangsters (influenced by European filmmakers) fueled the infamous inquisitions of Hollywood in the postwar '40s and '50s by the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Ultimately, this provocative study suggests that we rethink our ideas about crime and violence in depictions of Americans fighting against the status quo.

Download or read book Bound by Brotherhood written by Jayshree Bajoria and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The report, "'Bound by Brotherhood': India’s Failure to End Killings in Police Custody," examines police disregard for arrest regulations, custodial deaths from torture, and impunity for those responsible. It draws on in-depth investigations into 17 deaths in custody that occurred between 2009 and 2015, including more than 70 interviews with victims' family members, witnesses, justice experts, and police officials. In each of the 17 cases, the police did not follow proper arrest procedures, making the suspect more vulnerable to abuse"--Publisher's description.

Download or read book How to Drink Like a Mobster written by Albert W. A. Schmid and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-01 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From John Dillinger's Gin Fizz to Al Capone's Templeton Rye, mobsters loved their liquor—as well as the millions that bootlegging and speakeasies made them during the Prohibition. In a time when any giggle juice could land you in the hoosegow, mobsters had their own ways of making sure the gin mill never ran dry and the drinks kept flowing. And big screen blockbusters like The Godfather, GoodFellas, and Scarface and small screen hits like The Sopranos and Boardwalk Empire ensure that our obsession with mobsters won't run dry, either. Mixology expert Albert W. A. Schmid shows how you can recreate the allure of the gangster bar life with step-by-step instructions on how to set up the best Prohibition-style bar and pour the drinks to match. Recipes include mob favorites like the Machete, the Paralyzer, Greyhound (Salty Dog), Say Hello to My Little Friend, and Angel Face, as well as classics like the Gimlet, Kamikaze, and Bee's Knees. How to Drink Like a Mobster also includes profiles of the most notorious mobsters' connections to the booze business, along with tips to stay under the radar in any speakeasy: always have at least one or more aliases ready, pay with cash, don't draw attention to yourself, and in the case of a raid, drink the evidence as fast as you can!

Download or read book Prosecuting the President written by Andrew Coan and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[This book provides a] history of special prosecutors in American politics. For more than a century, special prosecutors have struck fear into the hearts of presidents, who have the power to fire them at any time. How could this be, [the author] asks? And how could the nation entrust such a high responsibility to such subordinate officials? [The author] demonstrates that special prosecutors can do much to protect the rule of law under the right circumstances. Many have been thwarted by the formidable challenges of investigating a sitting president and his close associates; a few have abused the powers entrusted to them. But at their best, special prosecutors function as catalysts of democracy, channeling an unfocused popular will to safeguard the rule of law. By raising the visibility of high-level misconduct, they enable the American people to hold the president accountable. Yet, if a president thinks he can fire a special prosecutor without incurring serious political damage, he has the power to do so. Ultimately, [the author] concludes, only the American people can decide whether the President is above the law."--

Download or read book White Paper White Ink written by Jonathan Morgan and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to Picketberg Prison and to the historic moment in time when the gang-lord keepers of the code, for their own reasons, decide to publish the entire Pure White Book. Two prisoners, neither of them gangsters, find themselves drawn into this project as ghostwriters. They are Sipho Madini--a street kid and gifted writer and poet wrongfully imprisoned for burglary--and Don February, in his late 60s, who grew up in District 6 as a young gangster but who has since distanced himself from a gangster identity. Don, who did time on Robben Island in the 1970s, when it was still called "the University," has made it his mission to transform this backwater prison into a place of higher learning. Even the gangsters begin to show interest in Don's weekly discussion groups which deal with the themes of colonization, dispossession, and slavery. Through this process they begin to interrogate their own gang histories, inscribed on their bodies in the form of tattoos, and their own stories begin to unfold and weave in ways they never could have predicted. This is the story of two men's efforts to not only survive harsh prison conditions but also to bring mental freedom and higher consciousness to the other inmates, challenging them to ask what the difference is between a freedom fighter and a common criminal. It is a crash course in South African history presented as a prison thriller.

Download or read book Twilight of the Exiles written by Cyprian Fernandes and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TWILIGHT OF THE EXILES I DEDICATE THIS book (could be my last unless ...) to all the people who were forced to leave their birth-mother countries because of the Africanisation program enforced by the newly independent nations. I call these people, myself and my family included the exiles of eastern Africa. Most exiles have adopted and adapted to their new homes and countries of the diaspora. There are some, however, who will never forgive the Africans, especially the Ugandan dictator Idi Amin, for virtually chucking them out. It was generally a quite brutal exodus for most, but Idi Amin was particularly savage in forcing the Asians out of their beloved Uganda. Others knew from the very start of the independence process that there was no place for them in African and that a day would come when they would have to leave. My family and I were this mind that is why we did not Kenya citizenship. But you can't stop loving the yearning for the country of your birth. Sure, some of these countries are no longer 100% safe with a high crime rate and most people tend to say "thank God I live in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Europe" or elsewhere. But that does not stop them from jumping out of comfy chairs screaming their lungs out, encouraging a Kenya victory on the track while watching it on television. Nostalgia binds us all and memory and nostalgia are stepmothers of a kind. We return at least once (or twice or three times, or whenever we can) to the old country and bask in its sunshine, feast on its cuisine and devour its fruit, and go on safaris in search of the Big Five Lion, Leopard, Elephant, Rhino, Buffalo and relive the dreams and memories of yesterday.One of the key elements of these nostalgia safaris is to meet up with friends and family who remained behind. They have prospered and done well for themselves. A visit to the Nairobi Goan Gymkhana, a meet-and-greet or a "koroga" (cooking) party at the Nairobi Goan Institute or the Mombasa Goan Institute is always high on the travelling menu.For a few days, or a week or two, or four, we live the life that we had become accustomed to before we had to leave. From the sidelines of the diaspora, most exiles wish nothing but the best for their countries of birth: safe cities and towns, a solution for the shanty towns and their people, elimination of political and monetary corruption. Most exiles remember one side of the colonial era with great nostalgia: good law and order. The other, colour-bar, exploitation of the African and the wholesale robbery of tribal lands and the crimes committed against the people of these former colonies, they would rather not think about. Most Africans have forgotten about the sad and ugly past. Similarly, like much of the nostalgia, Nairobi is wiping out with every new mega-structure, the bits that will now live in the memory of the aged (both exiles and the folks who live there) and soon all that reminds of the past in Nairobi will be there no longer. For a start, the exiles cannot recognise the new street names. Nor can we remember what was where in our youth or while we were adults. There are those who have cut the umbilical cord and have erased Kenya from all of their memory but bear no ill feelings towards anyone.If there are no keepers of our collective and individual memory left alive, then we cease to exist completely, much more so than if we were remembered. The ground is called laterite and is a clay which has been enriched with Iron and aluminium that has been developed over long periods by the heavy rainfalls and the intense heat. Sometimes the material is rock hard but when scuffed by vehicle wheels, it becomes a choking, red dust. The iron is the origin of the redness, it is a rusty red colour. - Jack Hill.FOR a long time, I have been writing and talking about our East African DNA. Most Europeans will tell you of their love for their Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania... The histories of these countries' past are "in the blood."