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31 produkter
31 produkter
Häftad, Engelska, 2006
182 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2026
179 kr
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Engelska, 202684 kr
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On cold courthouse steps, in dusty jail cells, and inside forgotten trial transcripts, America quietly reinvented its justice system—again and again—after tragedy forced its hand. The Hangman's Mistake uncovers fifteen true crimes and court battles that changed modern law, not through grand reform movements, but through shocking failures, wrongful convictions, racial violence, coerced confessions, and legal blind spots no one noticed until it was too late.
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Engelska, 202582 kr
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Across the centuries, entire armies, ships, and civilizations have slipped into the shadows—never to be seen again. From the Persian army swallowed by the Egyptian desert to the explorers who vanished chasing the edges of the known world, The Army That Vanished uncovers the most chilling disappearances in human history. These are not ghost stories but true accounts drawn from archives, eyewitness records, and modern investigations that still can't explain what went wrong.This book explores the eerie line between fact and legend, revealing how each disappearance reshaped politics, faith, and imagination. You'll journey from the lost Roman Ninth Legion in Scotland to Amelia Earhart's fateful flight, from ghost fleets drifting in silent seas to whole cities swallowed by time. Each story lingers because it refuses to close—proof that history's mysteries can outlast empires.Perfect for fans of historical thrillers, real-life enigmas, and the darker corners of world history, The Army That Vanished is a journey into humanity's most haunting absences—and what they still tell us about power, fear, and fate.
E-bok
Engelska, 202575 kr
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For decades, pharmaceutical giants positioned themselves as guardians of public health. Behind the glossy ads and polished congressional testimonies, a very different reality simmered — one shaped by greed, political maneuvering, and catastrophic decisions that changed millions of lives. The Deal That Broke America uncovers the real stories behind the opioid epidemic and the corporate empires that fueled it, tracing the crisis from quiet boardrooms to devastated hometowns.Every chapter pulls back the curtain on a different moment when profits outweighed people: secret memos, falsified data, aggressive marketing campaigns, and back-door negotiations with regulators. Readers meet whistleblowers who risked everything, doctors caught in the crossfire, communities forced to navigate devastation, and executives who walked away with bonuses while the country burned.This is not a story of villains in lab coats — it's a chronicle of the decisions, pressures, and cultural forces that collided to create one of the most devastating public health disasters in American history. Gritty, fast-paced, and deeply researched, The Deal That Broke America reveals how a system meant to save lives instead pushed an entire nation to the brink.
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Engelska41 kr
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E-bok
Engelska, 2025106 kr
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From Cleopatra's gilded barge to the age of Instagram, Mythologies of Fame unravels how humanity has built, worshiped, and destroyed its idols for more than two thousand years. Historian Matthew Nichols takes readers on a journey through royal courts, film studios, and algorithmic feeds to reveal the hidden machinery that turns charisma into control — and desire into profit.Across fifteen vivid chapters, real figures step out of myth and back into history:Cleopatra staging her first act of political theater on the Nile.Napoleon painting himself into immortality.Marilyn Monroe battling the studio machine that made her.Diana, Princess of Wales, redefining empathy in a world ruled by lenses.The influencers and algorithms that inherited their thrones. Part history, part cultural x-ray, this book explores how performance became identity — and how every era has confused visibility with power. It's a story of beauty, manipulation, and the universal hunger to be seen.Whether you read for history, psychology, or modern culture, Mythologies of Fame will leave you asking one uneasy question:In a world where everyone can be famous, who's really watching whom?
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
215 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2025
265 kr
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Blood-Stained Slippers : True Stories of Famine, Murder, and Folklore That Inspired Childhood Fables
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Engelska, 202583 kr
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The fairy tales we grew up with didn't float down from some dreamy kingdom. They were born out of hunger, desperation, political violence, and the very real people who had to survive those worlds. Blood-Stained Slippers pulls apart the polished versions and walks straight into the shadows behind Cinderella, Snow White, Hansel and Gretel, and more—revealing the messy, human truth that shaped them.Travel into famine-scarred forests where abandoned children were a grim reality. Step into court corridors where poisoning was a quiet language of power. Meet miners, stepdaughters, soldiers, widows, and outcasts whose stories fused into the tales we think we know. Each chapter blends cinematic storytelling with historically verified research, showing how superstition, fear, and social pressure carved these legends into the cultural bedrock.This isn't a retelling. It's an unmasking.Perfect for fans of dark folklore, conspiracy-curious learners, and readers who want history with teeth—not textbook dust.
74 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2025
251 kr
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75 kr
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The American frontier wasn't just built by pioneers and preachers—it was shaped by gunfighters, gamblers, and outlaws who believed the law was theirs to interpret. Six-Gun Saints dives deep into the strange, true histories of men and women who defied authority and, in doing so, became the soul of a nation still obsessed with freedom. These are not sanitized cowboy tales. They are gritty accounts of loyalty and betrayal, of vengeance that turned to justice and justice that turned to myth
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
275 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2025
257 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2025
258 kr
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74 kr
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E-bok
Engelska91 kr
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E-bok
Engelska, 202575 kr
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They built the digital age. Then they were written out of it.Hidden Figures, Erased Codes uncovers the true history of women in computing—the architects of the modern world who vanished from the official record. Drawing on overlooked archival documents, declassified Cold War intelligence, and forgotten programmer logs, this book reclaims the legacy of the first female coders.It follows the women photographed beside room-sized mainframes but mislabeled as mere "e;clerks"e; or human computers. It tracks the unsung heroes of science whose calculations launched rockets during the Space Race while others claimed the credit, and the WWII cryptanalysts whose code-breaking shortened wars but whose identities remained classified for decades.These are not just anecdotes; they are the missing chapters of the history of technology. Their stories reveal how gender, bureaucracy, and secrecy conspired to bury their achievements, even as the world quietly ran on their brilliance.
Camps of Rot
Disease, Neglect, and the Bureaucratic Collapse Behind the Union Army's Deadliest Enemy.
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
179 kr
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E-bok
Engelska, 202583 kr
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There are moments in American history when silence was more dangerous than speech — when the truth became an inconvenience, a threat, or a liability for those in power. Ashes of Silence uncovers the stories that were buried in those moments: the suppressed investigations, the vanishing documents, the political pressure campaigns, and the people whose voices were pushed out of view long before the public ever heard their names.Through declassified files, forgotten reporting, sealed testimony, and firsthand accounts, this book traces the hidden battles over speech that shaped modern America. It follows journalists who exposed too much, officials who silenced too quickly, citizens caught in the crossfire, and the quiet machinery that filtered what the public was allowed to know. These stories reveal not just censorship itself, but the motivations behind it — fear, image control, political survival, and the fragile balance between public trust and institutional power.For readers who crave investigative nonfiction, hidden history, and truth-is-stranger-than-fiction turning points, Ashes of Silence is a gripping journey into the gray zones of public record. It exposes how easily narratives can be shaped, muffled, or erased — and why understanding that history matters now more than ever.
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
250 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2026
258 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2026
243 kr
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E-bok
Engelska, 202682 kr
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They were told the glow was harmless. They were taught to trust the process. And when their bodies began to fail, they were told the fault was theirs.This is not a sentimental retelling of the Radium Girls story. It is a documented investigation into how a modern lie was engineered. Inside factory walls and boardrooms, reports were softened, medical authority was rented, complaints were dismissed, and time itself was turned into a legal weapon. As young women sickened from radium exposure, executives rewrote conclusions, lawyers delayed hearings until plaintiffs weakened or died, and stigma did the work of silence. What unfolded was not an accident of progress, but a procedural cover-up built to survive scrutiny.
66 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2025
243 kr
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E-bok
Engelska, 202675 kr
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London, 1849: The Smell Before the Coffins. Forget the flickering gaslight and the "e;lovable rogues"e; of Charles Dickens. In ROOKERY: The Filth, the Fear, and the Lie of Victorian London, the fog is stripped away to reveal a brutal forensic reality. Using parliamentary papers, sanitary commission reports, and sworn testimony, this investigative history performs a "e;post-mortem"e; on the Victorian slum. From the ankle-deep sewage of Jacob's Island to the lethal overcrowding of St. Giles, discover the systemic greed that balanced landlord profit against human breath. Inside this "e;Forensic Dissection"e;:The Environmental Assessment: How contaminated wells and overflowing cesspools primed the city for cholera. Internal Economics: The subletting chains and absentee landlords who made squalor a profitable industry. Trauma Analysis: The reality of living "e;one wall away from the knife"e; in London's most dangerous mazes. This isn't a story of villains in top hats—it is the story of a system allowed to fester.
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
201 kr
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Bottle That Conquered Paris : True Stories of How American Culture Rewired Europe After World War II
E-bok
Engelska, 202683 kr
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In the ruins of postwar Europe, something unexpected arrived alongside food aid and rebuilding funds: soda bottles, movie reels, denim jackets, pop records, neon signs, and a new idea of what "e;modern life"e; should look like…The Bottle That Conquered Paris follows the strange, dramatic, and often bitter battles that unfolded as American culture flooded into France, Germany, Italy, and beyond after 1945—reshaping daily life in ways no army ever could…