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ÊIt may be said that society itself creates the crimes that most beset it. If the good things of life were more evenly distributed, if everyone had his rights, if there were no injustice, no oppression, there would be no attempts to readjust an unequal balance by violent or flagitious means. There is some force in this, but it is very far from covering the whole ground, and it cannot excuse many forms of crime. Crime, indeed, is the birthmark of humanity, a fatal inheritance known to the theologians as original sin. Crime, then, must be constantly present in the community, and every son of Adam may, under certain conditions, be drawn into it. To paraphrase a great saying, some achieve crime, some have it thrust upon them; but most of us (we may make the statement without subscribing to all the doctrines of the criminal anthropologists) are born to crime. The assertion is as old as the hills; it was echoed in the fervent cry of pious John Bradford when he pointed to the man led out to execution, ÒThere goes John Bradford but for the grace of God!Ó Criminals are manufactured both by social cross-purposes and by the domestic neglect which fosters the first fatal predisposition. ÒAssuredly external factors and circumstances count for much in the causation of crime,Ó says Maudsley. The preventive agencies are all the more necessary where heredity emphasises the universal natural tendency. The taint of crime is all the more potent in those whose parentage is evil. The germ is far more likely to flourish into baleful vitality if planted by congenital depravity. This is constantly seen with the offspring of criminals. But it is equally certain that the poison may be eradicated, the evil stamped out, if better influences supervene betimes. Even the most ardent supporters of the theory of the Òborn criminalÓ admit that this, as some think, imaginary monster, although possessing all the fatal characteristics, does not necessarily commit crime. The bias may be checked; it may lie latent through life unless called into activity by certain unexpected conditions of time and chance. An ingenious refinement of the old adage, ÒOpportunity makes the thief,Ó has been invented by an Italian scientist, Baron Garofalo, who declares that Òopportunity only reveals the thiefÓ; it does not create the predisposition, the latent thievish spirit.

The Illustrated London News by N.A

• Title : The Illustrated London News
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The Imperial Dictionary of Universal Biography by N.A

• Title : The Imperial Dictionary of Universal Biography
• Author : N.A
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Parliamentary Debates by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons

• Title : Parliamentary Debates
• Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
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Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons

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• Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
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The Parliamentary Debates (Hansard), Official Report, 5th Series by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords

• Title : The Parliamentary Debates (Hansard), Official Report, 5th Series
• Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords
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Ian Rankin by Erin E. MacDonald

• Title : Ian Rankin
• Author : Erin E. MacDonald
• Publisher : McFarland
• ISBN Code : 1476638632
• Pages : 455
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Ian Rankin is considered by many to be Scotland's greatest living crime fiction author. Most well known for his Inspector Rebus series--which has earned critical acclaim as well as scores of fans worldwide--Rankin is a prolific author whose other works include spy thrillers, nonfiction books and articles, short stories, novels, graphic novels, audio recordings, television/film, and plays. This companion--the first to provide a complete look at all of his writings--includes alphabetized entries on Rankin's works, characters, and themes; a biography; a chronology; maps of Rebus' Edinburgh; and an annotated bibliography. A champion of both Edinburgh and Scotland, Rankin continues to combine engaging entertainment with socio-political commentary showing Edinburgh as a microcosm of Scotland, and Scotland as a microcosm of the world. His writing investigates questions of Scottish identity, British history, masculinity, and contemporary culture while providing mystery readers with complex, suspenseful plots, realistic character development, and a unique mix of American hard-boiled and procedural styles with Scottish dialects and sensibilities.

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Gardeners Chronicle & New Horticulturist by N.A

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Leslie's by John Albert Sleicher

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The Engineer by N.A

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¬The Illustrated sporting & dramatic news by N.A

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The Dry by Jane Harper

• Title : The Dry
• Author : Jane Harper
• Publisher : Flatiron Books
• ISBN Code : 1250105617
• Pages : 320
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• Language : English
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “A breathless page-turner, driven by the many revelations Ms. Harper dreams up...You’ll love [her] sleight of hand...A secret on every page.” —The New York Times “One of the most stunning debuts I've ever read... Every word is near perfect.” —David Baldacci A small town hides big secrets in The Dry, an atmospheric, page-turning debut mystery by award-winning author Jane Harper. After getting a note demanding his presence, Federal Agent Aaron Falk arrives in his hometown for the first time in decades to attend the funeral of his best friend, Luke. Twenty years ago when Falk was accused of murder, Luke was his alibi. Falk and his father fled under a cloud of suspicion, saved from prosecution only because of Luke’s steadfast claim that the boys had been together at the time of the crime. But now more than one person knows they didn’t tell the truth back then, and Luke is dead. Amid the worst drought in a century, Falk and the local detective question what really happened to Luke. As Falk reluctantly investigates to see if there’s more to Luke’s death than there seems to be, long-buried mysteries resurface, as do the lies that have haunted them. And Falk will find that small towns have always hidden big secrets.

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The Eye of the Crocodile by Val Plumwood

• Title : The Eye of the Crocodile
• Author : Val Plumwood
• Publisher : ANU E Press
• ISBN Code : 1922144177
• Pages : 99
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• Language : English
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Val Plumwood was an eminent environmental philosopher and activist who was prominent in the development of radical ecophilosophy from the early 1970s until her death in 2008. Her book Feminism and the Mastery of Nature (1992) has become a classic. In 1985 she was attacked by a crocodile while kayaking alone in the Kakadu national park in the Northern Territory. She was death rolled three times before being released from the crocodile’s jaws. She crawled for hours through swamp with appalling injuries before being rescued. The experience made her well placed to write about cultural responses to death and predation. The first section of The Eye of the Crocodile consists of chapters intended for a book on crocodiles that remained unfinished at the time of Val’s death. The remaining chapters are previously published papers brought together to form an overview of Val’s ideas on death, predation and nature.

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Poetry Wales by N.A

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• Author : N.A
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The History of Scotland by Sir James Mackenzie

• Title : The History of Scotland
• Author : Sir James Mackenzie
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• Pages : 664
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• Language : English
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The Reader's Encyclopedia by William Rose Benet,William Rose Benét

• Title : The Reader's Encyclopedia
• Author : William Rose Benet,William Rose Benét
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• Pages : 1118
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Thousands of authoritative articles on: Poets, playwrights, novelists, mythology, folklore, the Bible, artists, musicians, historical personages, etc.

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Anaesthesia and the Practice of Medicine: Historical Perspectives by Keith Sykes,John P Bunker

• Title : Anaesthesia and the Practice of Medicine: Historical Perspectives
• Author : Keith Sykes,John P Bunker
• Publisher : CRC Press
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• Pages : 303
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• Language : English
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From the laughing gas parties and 'ether frolics' of the 1830s, to the scientific specialty of today, this book explains how advances in anaesthesia contributed to the development of safe and successful medical practice. Throughout this narrative, the authors provide fascinating insights into the personalities involved: from Wells, Morton and Jackson, originators of general anesthesia, to Freud and Koller's legacy of cocaine addiction and Queen Victoria's insistence during childbirth, "we are going to have this baby and we are going to have chloroform!"

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Christian Work by N.A

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Transport World by N.A

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Made to Matter by Fiona Probyn-Rapsey

• Title : Made to Matter
• Author : Fiona Probyn-Rapsey
• Publisher : Sydney University Press
• ISBN Code : 1920899979
• Pages : 200
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• Language : English
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Most members of the Stolen Generations had white fathers or grandfathers. Who were these white men? This book analyses the stories of white fathers, men who were positioned as key players in the plans to assimilate Aboriginal people by 'breeding out the colour'. The plan to 'breed out the colour' ascribed enormous power to white sperm and white paternity; to 'elevate', 'uplift' and disperse Aboriginality in whiteness, to blank out, to aid cultural forgetting. The policy was a cruel failure, not least because it conflated skin colour with culture and assumed that Aboriginal women and their children would acquiesce to produce 'future whites'. It also assumed that white men would comply as ready appendages, administering 'whiteness' through marriage or white sperm. This book attempts to put textual flesh on the bodies of these white fathers, and in doing so, builds on and complicates the view of white fathers in this history, and the histories of whiteness to which they are biopolitically related.

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Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger by Christopher Moseley

• Title : Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger
• Author : Christopher Moseley
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• ISBN Code : 9789231040955
• Pages : 216
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• Language : English
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"Languages are not only tools of communication, they also reflect a view of the world. Languages are vehicles of value systems and cultural expressions and are an essential component of the living heritage of humanity. Yet, many of them are in danger of disappearing. UNESCO's Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger tries to raise awareness on language endangerment. This third edition has been completely revies and expanded to include [a] new series of maps and new points of view."--cover, p.4.

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Encyclopædia Britannica by Walter Yust

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Criminology of Homicidal Poisoning by Michael Farrell

• Title : Criminology of Homicidal Poisoning
• Author : Michael Farrell
• Publisher : Springer
• ISBN Code : 3319591177
• Pages : 209
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• Language : English
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This book provides an overview of historical and contemporary cases of homicidal poisoning. While homicidal poisoning is sometimes thought of as a thing of the past, it continues to be a contemporary problem, and in fact the unknown offender rate for poisoning cases is 20-30 times that of other homicide types in contemporary research, and many poisoners commit serial homicides while going undetected. The author of this important and timely work explores the theoretical bases for understanding homicidal poisoning, the nature of poisons used in homicidal cases, the characteristics of poisoners and their victims, and techniques for detection and prevention. This unique book will be of particular interest to: students of criminology (classes dealing with criminal psychology, and murder investigation); students of the history of crime; criminal justice professionals: attorneys, homicide detectives, forensic pathologists, forensic and clinical toxicologists, and other forensic investigators; and all interested in poisons, poisoners and the detection of poisoning. It has relevance to criminology, law and policing, toxicology and forensic science, the history of crime and detection, and criminal psychology.

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