Download or read book Outlaw Bikers as Organized Crime written by Arjan Blokland and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-08-05 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The title of this volume Outlaw Bikers as Organized Crime reluctantly combines two highly contested concepts into a statement that is perhaps disputed even more. Who and what do we refer to when we talk about ‘outlaw bikers’ and ‘outlaw biker clubs’? What is meant by ‘organized crime’? And, how – if at all – are these two concepts related? All the chapters in this volume deal with these questions some way or the other, either explicitly or implicitly, each providing its own answers based on the data and methods at hand. This volume presents cutting-edge research on outlaw bikers and outlaw biker clubs from countries all over the globe and reflects the different ways that academic researchers have approached the outlaw biker phenomenon from the theoretical and methodological vantage point of organized crime research.
Download or read book Cowgirl Bikers MC The Complete Series written by Esther E. Schmidt and published by Esther E. Schmidt. This book was released on 2022-08-09 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This boxed set contains the complete Cowgirl Bikers MC series. The Valorous Sally all-female motorcycle club is located at a huge ranch which breeds horses and other livestock. These women are not pretending to be bikers or clueless on how keep the ranch afloat; they are strong women who fight hard for what they want and those they hold dear. Life is never easy, a future never granted, and love never guaranteed. Hudsyn & Ezra: Being a nomad fits my state of mind until the perfect woman jumps right into my welcoming arms. She might not realize it, but I considered her mine right then and there. All I need to do now is win her feisty heart by showing her I’m fully committed. To give her the support she needs, even if she’s in the middle of choices involving life and death. Medley & Ivar: Being wealthy doesn’t mean you have everything your heart desires; family is important and the reason why I want my half-sister to come live in the city me. When I arrive at the ranch to bring her home I’m confronted with Medley, a feisty woman who stands up for my half-sister and puts me in my place. Medley is captivating, loyal, and family driven; willing to do anything to keep her sisters safe. Claiming this woman as mine is easy, getting her to acknowledge my claim is taking one step at a time. Especially when she’s focused on keeping the members of her MC safe and whole. Ramona & Perry: Everyone has scars, either on the outside for all to see or the ones tormenting you each and every day and prevent you from moving forward in life. The woman I’ve been texting with for months suffers from scars inflicted by someone she trusted; similar to what happened to me. It’s why we make a pact to overcome our issues. Until her past collides with our future, throwing all our lives in danger. Cassia & Calvin: I’ve been keeping her at arm's length, trying to focus on my new job as the sheriff of this town while raising my son. She’s everything I want in a woman, but my son is top priority right now. Priorities shift when my son’s past comes back to threaten all of our lives. I grab hold of what matters most; my son and the woman who completes our future. Each book in the Cowgirl Bikers MC series is a standalone novella featuring a new couple and can be read together or separately. Includes: Love at first sight. Off the charts chemistry. HEA. And each story will leave you wanting more cowgirl bikers!
Download or read book The Ultimate Biker Anthology An Introduction To Books About Motorcycle Clubs Outlaw Bikers written by Edward Winterhalder and published by Blockhead City. This book was released on 2013-11-15 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outlaw bikers and 1%er motorcycle clubs have always carefully guarded their privacy, however in recent years more and more books have come to be written by and about outlaw bikers, the lifestyle, and the realities of life inside the patched motorcycle club world. This anthology brings together some of the best authors in the world, who have recently written about motorcycle clubs, outlaw bikers and the biker culture. It features excerpts from internationally well-known authors such as Peter Edwards, Tony Thompson, Edward Winterhalder and Iain Parke, but also contains literary work from those who are relatively unknown and those who have only achieved recognition on a local scale. Covering both factual accounts of life inside clubs such as the Hells Angels, Satan’s Choice, Bandidos, Rock Machine, and the Outlaws, as well as leading examples of biker based fiction that explore the images of bikers and crucial themes such as loyalty, respect and honor, this compilation is intended to introduce the reader to the secretive world of motorcycle clubs and outlaw bikers.
Download or read book Mountain Biking at Tsali written by James M. Bowker and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Biker Gangs and Transnational Organized Crime written by Thomas Barker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biker Gangs and Transnational Organized Crime, Second Edition, describes and analyzes a rapidly expanding global problem: criminal acts committed by motorcycle gangs. Thomas Barker, one of the world’s top experts on outlaw biker gangs, offers fascinating details about the Bandidos, the Vagos, the Mongols, and other "one percenters" (criminal biker gangs, as opposed to the vast majority of motorcycle enthusiasts). He combines this data with a strengthened conceptual framework that makes sense of this complicated picture. U.S.-based motorcycle gangs like the Hells Angels have proliferated, especially in Canada and Europe, to the point where these gangs have more members in other countries than in the United States. Increasingly more often in recent years their crimes are not limited to rumbles or drug use—these gangs challenge the dominance of organized crime, leading to violent conflicts between the rivals. Germany, Scandinavia, the UK, the Netherlands, and Canada are particularly hard-hit by this rising violence. One of Barker’s unique contributions is his Criminal Organization Continuum, building on the groundbreaking network approach to organized crime proposed by Klaus von Lampe. Introduced in the first edition, Barker elaborates his continuum tool and makes it more multi-dimensional to help refine the definition of adult criminal gangs. The product of years of research, this book lays the groundwork for further study by offering students, police, and researchers the most thorough account available of outlaw motorcycle gangs.
Download or read book Bikers written by Suzanne McDonald-Walker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC. This book was released on 2000-03 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From The Wild Ones to Easy Rider, the motorcycle has inflamed the imaginations of the media and the general public alike. Marlon Brando, sporting leather jacket, jeans, and moody glare, became a cultural icon summing up 'the road' in all its maverick glory. But does the myth of the renegade cyclist, an outcast from mainstream society who takes to the road in pursuit of freedom, correlate with reality in any meaningful way? Who really rides motorcycles and why? What are the chief concerns of motorcyclists and how are these represented and contested in the political sphere? This book, based on extensive fieldwork amongst bikers and the bikers' rights movement, overturns the ingrained prejudice that equates bikers with deviancy and explodes the myths emphasizing the rebellious and dysfuntional aspects of biking. Instead, the author focuses on what biking means to those involved - the rewards, the risks, the addictiveness, but also the stigma and attacks on the biking lifestyle. In response to the negative imagery surrounding bikers and growing legislative threats from Europe, bikers' rights associations evolved between the 1960s and 1980s in the UK and Europe. The author discusses the aims and achievements of these lobbies, and the future of motorcycling more generally as it becomes fashionable as a middle-aged, middle-class pursuit.
Download or read book American Bikers written by Sandro Miller and published by Te Neues Publishing Company. This book was released on 1998 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American bikers are the cowboys of the 20th century. Rebellious, nomadic, and clannish, they are often perceived as violent and dangerously antisocial. This arresting collection of duotone portraits displays another side of this unusual population, one which portrays them as vulnerable, romantic, and compassionate. 63 photos.
Download or read book Moon Northern California Biking written by Ann Marie Brown and published by Moon Travel. This book was released on 2012-04-10 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Avid biker and experienced travel writer Ann Marie Brown knows the best places to cycle in Northern California, from steep ocean-front rides to meandering, scenic trails through Sonoma and Napa. Moon Northern California Biking guides seasoned riders and beginning bikers to the best trails, paths, and roads throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, Tahoe, Yosemite, and Northern California wine country. Complete with elevation charts, route maps, and options to extend or shorten each route, as well as information on bike shops, riding clubs, and bike organizations throughout the region, Moon Northern California Biking gives bicyclists the tools they need to create a more personal and memorable experience.
Download or read book Biking the Arizona Trail written by and published by Big Earth Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to Arizona's north-south single-track bike trail includes detailed route maps, elevation profiles, and 28 day rides, including trails in the Grand Canyon and Saguaro National Park areas.
Download or read book Biker Boinker written by Evan Davis and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Joe Biker written by Wesley Stout and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2005-06 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mountain Biking written by Susanna Mills and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For beginning and experienced riders. How to choose, ride, and maintain a bike. Overview of racing and training. Offroad safety. Destinations. Copiously illustrated.
Download or read book Biker s Handbook written by Jay Barbieri and published by Motorbooks International. This book was released on 2007-11-15 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barbieri explains everything a new rider needs to know to become a real biker. By sharing the lessons he learned the hard way, Barbieri gives the new biker a head start to become more comfortable, credible, and knowledgeable about the motorcycle culture.
Download or read book Dead Biker written by Jerry Langton and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-02-08 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes, you make bad choices. Sometimes, bad choices are made for you. Ned "Crash" Aiken thought he had made a clean break. He had turned on his biker brothers in the Sons of Satan and entered the FBI's witness protection program, only to end up in a different kind of prison, one of mediocre work and cheap apartments. He then fell in with the Russian mob, learning their brutal code first-hand and fleeing their organization when the stakes got too high. Between the FBI, the Sons and the Russians, there are a lot of people who want to get their hands on the innocent-looking ex-drug trafficker. Now he's in Mexico, trying to go straight and stay alive. But Mexico isn't like the United States. It isn't even like it used to be in its heyday as a playground for wealthy gringos to vacation or college kids to party on the cheap. Ned is no stranger to drugs, violence and brutality, and what he sees in Mexico he can only try to ignore. But even while Ned tries his best to mind his own business, he is forced back into the underworld against his will. He finds himself at the mercy of a cartel and its notorious leader, and now the game is just about survival. But how can you play the game when there are no rules? From the author of the best-selling Gangland, a searing read about the Mexican cartels, Dead Biker is a disturbing story about immense power and indiscriminate brutality, and lives held hostage in more ways than one.
Download or read book Auctioned To The Biker written by Mia Ford and published by Mia Ford. This book was released on 2019-12-14 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She’s mine, only mine. I will guard her, save her – even if it means, protecting her from members of my own gang. Yes, we bought her innocence at the auction together, But one taste of her, And I realize I’m not ready to share. I know this is against our rules, But who the f*ck cares when rules involve a woman as gorgeous as Jenny.
Download or read book Freedom s Rush Tales from The Biker and The Beast written by Foster Kinn and published by Hugo House Publishers, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-09-26 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When you're out riding, things happen. If you keep at it, everything happens.... Thus goes the simple wisdom of Foster Kinn in Freedom's Rush: Tales from a Biker and His Beast. Join Foster as he travels through the continental United States with an occasional detour into Canada, experience with him all that can happen in the "day in a life" of a biker: "Sometimes you're hungry, sometimes you eat too much. Sometimes you're unbearably hot, sometimes painfully cold. You lose things and get lost; you find things and find your way. You fall in love, you find things to despise. You bleed and you heal; you get sick, then you're invincible. The rains pelt, the snows blind, the winds make you helpless. You ride through gorgeous scenery and through desolate wastelands; all places are the way they're supposed to be and they're all perfect. It's life in microcosm." In part a celebration of the grandness of this wide, wonderful world, in part a meditation on the meaning of freedom and our sacred right to create, you will laugh with Kinn at all the wonderfully wacky characters he meets on the road, and you will be dazzled by the utter joy he finds as he rides. When you read the last line, you will know what he means when he writes: As long as freedoms exist, we will ride; As long as we ride, freedoms will exist.
Download or read book Foot tracks in New Zealand written by Pete McDonald and published by Pete McDonald. This book was released on 2011-08-11 with total page 1004 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foot-tracks in New Zealand examines the development of walking tracks over two centuries, from the early 19th century to about 2011. The paperback version comes in two volumes but is otherwise identical to the electronic version. Page size: A4 Format: Paperback, 2 vol. ISBN: 0473191911, 9780473191917 Number of pages: 1000 About: Trails, Tracks, New Zealand, History, Recreation, Land access. Availability: By print on demand from The Fine Print Company, Waipukurau, Central Hawke’s Bay, 4200, NZ.
