Jr. - Social & Cultural Studies 64

Two highly publicized sports scandals developed in New York City in the years 1945-1946. Occurring almost two years apart one of the incidents involved pro sports and the other was amateur related. ……続きを見る

How did agriculture come about in the American Southwest? What environmental and social factors led to the cultivation of plants? How, in turn, did the use of these new agricultural products affect ……続きを見る

Albert Tannanbaum was a member of the notorious kill for hire organization in Brooklyn known as Murder, Inc. He assassinated people for money and fingered others to be killed. One of the men he was ……続きを見る

Meyer Luckman was convicted of beating and strangling his brother-in-law, Samuel Druckman, to death. Two other men were involved in the murder, including Meyer's brother Harry. The scene of the crim……続きを見る

Emerging disabilities are disabling conditions that are new to medical science, often medically debated, and lacking in known etiology; or those increasing in prevalence in recent years. This master……続きを見る

Four young women were brutally murdered in the Washington D.C. area between 1929 and 1935. Two of the women were strangled, one was strangled and beaten and another was shot with a .25 caliber pisto……続きを見る

The Potomac River, near where Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland come together, was where the bodies of two young women, ages 16 and 18, were recovered in mid June 1956. The girls disappeared in e……続きを見る

The securities business on Wall Street was considered relatively safe to invest in until the late 1950s. It was in 1959 that New York State Attorney General Louis Lefkowitz began investigating mob c……続きを見る

In 1952 Leonard Mocderi was "accidentally" apprehended by police working for a telephone company in Los Angeles. The gangster was placing a phone call to Las Vegas and using slugs to make the calls ……続きを見る

Few provisions of the American Constitution have had such a tumultuous history as the contract clause. Prompted by efforts in a number of states to interfere with debtor-creditor relationships after……続きを見る

In November 1953 American Federation of Labor boss William DeKoning Sr. and eight other union officials were indicted for extortion of money from building contractors in Hempstead, Mineola and other……続きを見る

The Thames Gateway plan is the largest and most complex project of urban regeneration ever undertaken in the United Kingdom. This book provides a comprehensive overview and critique of the Thames Ga……続きを見る

Focusing on narratives with supernatural components, Karen J. Renner argues that the recent proliferation of stories about evil children demonstrates not a declining faith in the innocence of childh……続きを見る

This book examines a group-based adaptation of the Early Start Denver Model (ESDM) designed for use with preschoolers with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). It describes the principles and procedures ……続きを見る

Al Capone moved into union racketeering in 1920s, one of many Mafia bosses who did so. Three Capone surrogates were murdered in cold blood in the Blue Hour Saloon on April 20, 1930. A single assassi……続きを見る

Orson Welles Sunday evening broadcast of October 30, 1938 sparked a nationwide panic. Mercury Theater scriptwriters adapted the War of the Worlds novel written by H.G. Wells. Listeners who tuned in ……続きを見る

Communication and the Work-Life Balancing Act: Intersections across Identities, Genders, and Cultures offers scholarly research related to work-life balance in today’s environment, with a particular……続きを見る

Hiding in a lake under lily pads after fleeing U.S. soldiers, a Dakota woman was given a vision over the course of four days instructing her to build a large drum and teaching her the songs that wou……続きを見る

Albert Anastasia met with Louis Capone, Pittsburgh Phil Strauss and others before calling out a hit on Joseph "Tough Joe" Amberg on September 30, 1935. One of four brothers Amberg was perhaps the mo……続きを見る

This comprehensive yet accessible textbook is an ideal resource for undergraduate and graduate students taking their first course in demography. Clearly explaining technical demographic issues witho……続きを見る

Max Sasanoff was caught up in a counterfeiting ring that operated from New York City's Putnam Building in 1922. After being arrested with multiple co-defendants he was confined to Atlanta Federal Pr……続きを見る

Are you applying for graduate school and feeling overwhelmed by the choices available to you and the complexity of the application process? This informative and humorous guide for life and earth sci……続きを見る

Around 1903 the Italian Mafia in New Orleans experienced a rash of dissension involving grocery merchants. Rivals attacked the family of Antonio Luciano, resulting in the murder of his brother Salva……続きを見る

Nurse Robina Lyttle was murdered and dismembered by her lover, Patrick McClafferty, in the basement of an apartment they shared in Flushing, Queens, New York City. The Irish Catholic woman met the S……続きを見る

Little William "Billy" Ranieri was abducted one day in September 1928, while he was on his way from school to his Northwest Chicago home. The youth was later able to provide eyewitness testimony aga……続きを見る

A once-in-a-generation event held every twenty years, the Minnowbrook conference brings together the top scholars in public administration and public management to reflect on the state of the field ……続きを見る

Im November 1917 lernt Tucholsky in der Kassenverwaltung des Stabes von Alt-Autz Mary Gerold kennen, eine knapp 19-jährige Baltin, die nach der Eroberung Rigas durch die deutsche Armee dorthin diens……続きを見る

The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire happened on a Saturday inside the Asch Building in what is now Greenwich Village. Multiple tenants occupied the twelve floors of the building adjacent to Washing……続きを見る

Unsettled History examines South African society and the construction and presentation of its public pasts, from Nelson Mandela’s release from prison in 1990 to South Africa’s hosting of the 2010 FI……続きを見る

Roger Touhy was a Prohibtion era gangster, a rival of Al Capone in Chicago. It was said that Scarface feared Touhy more than any of his enemies. In 1934 Touhy was sentenced to a long term for the ki……続きを見る