See What You Made Me Do
Power, Control and Domestic Abuse
ISBN: PB: 9781787388260,
ISBN: HB: 9781787383685,
Hurst Publishers,
May 2023
448 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
448 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
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Winner of the 2020 Stella Prize
Every year in England and Wales alone, one in twenty adults suffer domestic abuse, two thirds of them women. Every week, two men kill a woman they were intimate with. And still we ask the wrong...
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£12.99
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£25.00
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Plotters
The UK Terrorists Who Failed
ISBN: HB: 9781787389298,
Hurst Publishers,
March 2023
272 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
272 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
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An eye-opening account of the British terror attacks you've never heard of – because the perpetrators were caught in time.
Since 2017, the UK has seen fifteen terrible terrorist attacks. But the atrocities on our evening news...
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£25.00
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Insecure Guardians
Enforcement, Encounters and Everyday Policing in Postcolonial Karachi
ISBN: HB: 9781787386884,
Hurst Publishers,
October 2022
328 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
328 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
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An in-depth study of the policing practices of an insecure state, foregrounding the experiences of officers on the frontline of Pakistan's armed conflicts.
The police force is one of the most distrusted institutions in Pakista...
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£40.00
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Nightmarch
Among India's Revolutionary Guerrillas
ISBN: PB: 9781787385993,
ISBN: HB: 9781849049900,
Hurst Publishers,
November 2021
342 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
342 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
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Winner of the 2020 Association for Political and Legal anthropology Book Prize
Shortlisted for the 2019 Orwell Prize for Political Writing and the 2019 New India Foundation Book Prize
A first-hand account of India's widespread...
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Transforming the War on Drugs
Warriors, Victims and Vulnerable Regions
ISBN: PB: 9781787381988,
Hurst Publishers,
September 2021
320 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
320 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
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A stark reassessment of the merits of conventional anti-drugs policies for dealing with narcotics.
The war on drugs has failed, but consensus in the international drug policy debate on the way forward is missing. Amidst this m...
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£25.00
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Criminal Contagion
How Mafias, Gangsters and Scammers Profit from a Pandemic
ISBN: HB: 9781787384460,
Hurst Publishers,
April 2021
304 pp., 19,0x12,6 cm
304 pp., 19,0x12,6 cm
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Amid the chaos of the pandemic, mafias and scammers have been profiting from the misfortune of others.
Covid-19 is reshaping and challenging governments, societies and economies in previously unimaginable ways – but gangsters...
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£18.99
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Bugsy Siegel
The Dark Side of the American Dream
ISBN: HB: 9780300226195,
Yale University Press,
March 2021
248 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
248 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
In a brief life that led to a violent end, Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel (1906-1947) rose from desperate poverty to ill-gotten riches, from an early-twentieth-century family of Ukrainian Jewish immigrants on the Lower East Side to a kingdom of his own maki...
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Vagrant Figures
Law, Literature, and the Origins of the Police
ISBN: HB: 9780300241310,
Yale University Press,
February 2021
320 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 3 black&white illus.
320 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 3 black&white illus.
In this innovative book examining eighteenth-century literary treatments of policing and vagrancy, Nicolazzo reveals the narrative, textual, and rhetorical practices that shaped the purview and scope of policing long before the establishment of the m...
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£55.00
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Woman on the Windowsill
A Tale of Mystery in Several Parts
ISBN: HB: 9780300234282,
Yale University Press,
April 2020
296 pp., 20,9x13,9 cm, 32 black&white illus.
296 pp., 20,9x13,9 cm, 32 black&white illus.
On the morning of July 1, 1800, a surveyor and mapmaker named Cayetano Diaz opened the window of his study in Guatemala City to find a horrific sight: a pair of severed breasts. Offering a meticulously researched and evocative account of the quest to...
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£27.50
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Secret Poisoner
A Century of Murder
ISBN: PB: 9780300250053,
Yale University Press,
August 2019
344 pp., 19,7x12,7 cm, 32 black&white illus.
344 pp., 19,7x12,7 cm, 32 black&white illus.
Murder by poison alarmed, enthralled, and in many ways encapsulated the Victorian age. Linda Stratmann's dark and splendid social history reveals the nineteenth century as a gruesome battleground where poisoners went head-to-head with authorities who...
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