Download or read book The City Where Crime Is Play Classic Reprint written by John Collier and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The City Where Crime Is Play A new administration has taken the reins in New York. This administration was elected on a constructive platform. It gained power through the most sweeping reform victory in the history of New York. It is pledged to efficiency, and it is not likely to fail in its pledges. But there is another kind of service to which the new ad ministration is not definitely pledged. This service is not less vital than efficiency, and is more human. It is the development in New York of those elements of home life which, in a great city, can only be provided through public enterprise. It will be easier for the new administration to establish efficiency than to establish human contact. But it will be easier for it to remain in power through establishing human contact than merely through establishing efficiency. What is Tammany Hall - the type of politics represented by Tammany Hall? We know what Tammany Hall is from the standpoint of city government, but what is Tammany Hall from the standpoint of the common man, woman and child? Tam many Hall does not succeed because it is wicked. The weakest thing about Tammany Hall is its wickedness. The weakest thing about good government in New York has always been its lack of human contact, and of distinctive social policy. Tammany Hall, looked at through the personal eyes of the wage-earning masses, is a social and human resource. Scientific views about government, and lofty civic ideals, are recent acquisitions, and only a minority have ever attained them in New York City. But everyone is human; everyone is social. Everyone needs a local, personal and human connection with the city government. Tammany, through its district organiza tion, provides this local and human bond. Tammany uses its power to exploit the city, but this is a fact which does not mean much to the plain man, who first of all requires the human and the social. Tammany Hall is a means through which our sumptuary laws, inflexible and often out of relation to the people's need, are made adjustable to the neighborhood and racial peculiari ties of New York. It may be that Tammany, while mitigating the severity of law, also extorts blackmail, but the mass of those who are loyal to Tammany Hall are more interested in the mitiga tion than in the blackmail. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The City Where Crime Is Play written by The People Institute and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-24 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book A Dictionary of Old English Plays Existing Either in Print Or in Manuscript from the Earliest Times to the Close of the Seventeenth Century written by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wicked City Classic Reprint written by Grant Eugene Stevens and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-24 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Wicked City All these forces working hand in hand are rapidly making a new Chicago. Exposures of evil of all sorts in high as well as low circles are continuous. God's pure sunlight is being poured into some of the foulest haunts the world has ever known and the festering evil is slowly but surely being cleansed and purified by its rays. But crime is not yet dead, for new conditions have to be met with newer methods but dishonest business men and grafting poli ticians, the thug with his sand bag and the confidence man with his oily manner eke but a precarious living in the new Chicago. The foregoing remarks are, perhaps, out of the ordinary, - Jbut, The Wicked City is a New Idea book by a New Idea man. Mr. Stevens has studied for years the phase of life with which this book deals and his work shows a full knowledge of the subject differing widely from the vaporings of the stranger sociological student who visits the city for a few days and then inflicts the result of his observations upon the public in the form of an essay. The Wicked City is an odd story, well plotted, and written in an unusual way, ably mingling fact and fiction. Mr. Stevens is essentially a business man, and the fact is apparent in his work for it is his idea to give his readers a story of living breathing people connected with well authenticated facts of Chicago history with which the whole country is familiar, only making necessary changes of the names of the principal characters. He makes no attempt at idealistic rhetorical flights, and eliminating all unnecessary descrip tion, through dealing with a phase of life with which few people are familiar. It is a real story of real life in the real true Chi cago. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The English Crime Play in the Twentieth Century written by Beatrix Hesse and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-08-02 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive study of the English crime play, presenting a survey of 250 plays performed in the London West End between 1900 and 2000. The first part is historically orientated while the second one establishes a tentative poetics of the genre. The third part presents an analysis of some 20 plays adapted from detective fiction.
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Download or read book Darker than Night written by Tom Henderson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-10-03 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the bitter cold of 1985, two buddies embark on a hunting trip from suburban Detroit to rural Michigan, unaware they would soon become the hunted. Darker than Night tells the chilling true story of the mystery that haunted a community and baffled the police for two decades. The eerie silence surrounding their sudden disappearance is broken after nearly two decades when a relentless investigator inspires a terrified witness to break her silence. The witness narrates a haunting scene that had unfolded years back, pointing fingers at the prime suspects–the Duvall brothers. With no bodies unearthed, the justice system is riveted by the startling revelations during an electrifying trial in 2003. The brothers, Raymond and Donald Duvall, had bragged about the murders, evocatively explaining how they dismembered their victims and fed them to pigs. Despite the shocking confession, the case holds its ground purely on a single witness's account, taking the courtroom through a labyrinth of dark secrets and sinister acts. This gripping thriller presents a vivid tale of crime that reveals the devastating power of evil.
Download or read book Edmund Wilson written by Sherman Paul and published by Urbana, U. of Illinois P. This book was released on 1965 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Old Curiosity Shop and Reprinted Pieces written by Charles Dickens and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-05-08 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Download or read book Juvenile Delinquency in Rural New York Classic Reprint written by Kate Holladay Claghorn and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-05-18 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Juvenile Delinquency in Rural New York The subject of juvenile delinquency almost automatically calls up a picture of tenements and city streets, where traffic and trade and play shoulder one another for room. This report is based upon its study in an opposite setting. The investigators, leaving the main crowded trail, went into country villages that were perhaps feeling the stir of a new industrial life or of an influx of city folk in search of a playground, or perhaps were holding to the old sleepy routine as small trading centers of farming districts. From these they went out to still tinier straggles of houses, clustering along a turnpike or crossroads, and then back to solitary farms far up in the hill country. Among children growing up in the isolation and comparative monotony of the countryside, they found a seepage of delinquency, as a rule little noticed and carelessly handled. AS 111 the city, it covered the range from mischief to crime. No guess is hazarded as to the amount of trouble in comparison with that caused by urban conditions. The answer could be given only through statistics, and in this field statistics are misleading. Therefore, figures are not a feature of this report. But a description is presented which makes clear the causes of rural delinquency among children and the form which it takes. One fact made evident is that degeneracy is not wholly a product of cities. Many of these country children have back of them a sorry ancestry and around them a thriftless family group, often weak in body and mind. The most dramatic instances of this are found in the children brought up in squalor and ignorance by some wretched family which has wandered into a lonely and desolate region of the hills. Not all such groups find their level in the slums; some have still the nomad instinct for solitary places. Here they strip off standards built up by the process of civilization. But in the villages also is found, here and there, the run-out stock which has re mained inert during the period of city migration. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book WARLOCK S PLAY 550 Supernatural Mysteries Macabre Horror Classics written by Mary Shelley and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2018-12-21 with total page 22434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Musaicum Books presents to you this unique collection, designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Content: Mary Shelley: Frankenstein The Mortal Immortal… John William Polidori: The Vampyre Bram Stoker: Dracula The Jewel of Seven Stars… Gaston Leroux: The Phantom of the Opera Marjorie Bowen: Black Magic James Malcolm Rymer & Thomas Peckett Prest: Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street Washington Irving: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Charles Dickens: The Mystery of Edwin Drood Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray Edgar Allan Poe: The Tell-Tale Heart The Murders in the Rue Morgue The Black Cat… Henry James: The Turn of the Screw The Ghostly Rental… H. P. Lovecraft: The Dunwich Horror The Shunned House… Algernon Blackwood: The Willows A Haunted Island Ancient Sorceries… Théophile Gautier: Clarimonde The Mummy's Foot Richard Marsh: The Beetle Arthur Conan Doyle: The Hound of the Baskervilles The Silver Hatchet… Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu: Carmilla Uncle Silas… Ann Radcliffe: The Mysteries of Udolpho The Italian M. R. James: Ghost Stories of an Antiquary A Thin Ghost and Others Wilkie Collins: The Haunted Hotel The Devil's Spectacles Émile Erckmann & Alexandre Chatrian: The Man-Wolf The Waters of Death… Amelia B. Edwards: Monsieur Maurice The Phantom Coach… Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: The Wind in the Rose-bush The Shadows on the Wall Arthur Machen: The Great God Pan The Terror… William Hope Hodgson: The House on the Borderland The Night Land M. P. Shiel: Shapes in the Fire Ralph Adams Cram: Black Spirits and White Grant Allen: The Reverend John Creedy Wilhelm Hauff: The Severed Hand Adelbert von Chamisso: Shadowless Man Edward Bulwer-Lytton: The Haunted and the Haunters… Robert E. Howard: Beyond the Black River Devil in Iron People of the Dark David Lindsay: The Haunted Woman Marie Belloc Lowndes: From Out the Vast Deep Edward Bellamy: Dr. Heidenhoff's Process
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Download or read book Unprepared To Die written by Paul Slade and published by Soundcheck Books. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gory Stories Behind The Murder Ballads Cheerfully vulgar, revelling in gore, and always with an eye on the main chance, murder ballads are tabloid newspapers set to music, carrying word of the latest ‘orrible murders to an insatiable public. Victims are bludgeoned, stabbed or shot in every verse and killers often hanged, but the songs themselves never die. Instead, they mutate – morphing to suit local place names as they criss cross the Atlantic and continue to fascinate each generation’s biggest musical stars. Paul Slade traces this fascinating genre’s history through eight of its greatest songs. Stagger Lee’s “biographers” alone include Duke Ellington, James Brown, Bob Dylan, Dr John, The Clash and Nick Cave. No two tell his story in quite the same way. Covering eight classic murder ballads, including “Knoxville Girl”, “Tom Dooley” and “Frankie & Johnny”, Slade investigates the real-life murder which inspired each song and traces its musical development down the decades. Billy Bragg, The Bad Seeds’ Mick Harvey, Laura Cantrell, Rennie Sparks of The Handsome Family and a host of other leading musicians add their own insights.
Download or read book Crime Control and Everyday Life in the Victorian City written by David Churchill and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of modern crime control is usually presented as a narrative of how the state wrested control over the governance of crime from the civilian public. Most accounts trace the decline of a participatory, discretionary culture of crime control in the early modern era, and its replacement by a centralized, bureaucratic system of responding to offending. The formation of the 'new' professional police forces in the nineteenth century is central to this narrative: henceforth, it is claimed, the priorities of criminal justice were to be set by the state, as ordinary people lost what authority they had once exercised over dealing with offenders. This book challenges this established view, and presents a fundamental reinterpretation of changes to crime control in the age of the new police. It breaks new ground by providing a highly detailed, empirical analysis of everyday crime control in Victorian provincial cities - revealing the tremendous activity which ordinary people displayed in responding to crime - alongside a rich survey of police organization and policing in practice. With unique conceptual clarity, it seeks to reorient modern criminal justice history away from its established preoccupation with state systems of policing and punishment, and move towards a more nuanced analysis of the governance of crime. More widely, the book provides a unique and valuable vantage point from which to rethink the role of civil society and the state in modern governance, the nature of agency and authority in Victorian England, and the historical antecedents of pluralized modes of crime control which characterize contemporary society.
Download or read book The Survey written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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