Gary Tippet:Lives of Crime
- First edition 2008, ISBN: 9780732286095
Paperback, Hardcover
Newsouth Books. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 2002. Paperback. 1588380556 . 0.56 x 9 x 6.06 Inches; 214 pages; Horace Patterson’s story reveals his metamorphosis from a baseba… More...
Newsouth Books. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 2002. Paperback. 1588380556 . 0.56 x 9 x 6.06 Inches; 214 pages; Horace Patterson’s story reveals his metamorphosis from a baseball-playing youth to the politically active and socially aware black minister that he is today. Patterson’s forward-looking and hopeful book chronicles his escape from the cycle of poverty and violence through the power of God, and it explores the social, political, and theological underpinnings that have shaped an activist minister’s life. Detailing his journey from his original calling when God began "dancing on his toes," Unbroken is Patterson’s account of five decades as an activist involved in the politics of fairness and racial justice in the small-town arena and on the national stage. Documenting the South’s passage from the conflict-ridden fifties and sixties to the sometimes still-turbulent present, Patterson recounts locking horns with the mayor of Talladega, coming into conflict with the local old-time money, and how he overcame years of bribery, death threats, and other forms of physical and mental intimidation. Undaunted, Patterson continues to strive for freedom and equality. ., Newsouth Books, 2002, 3, UK,8vo wraps,no dw/dj - as issued, p/back original,p/b 1st edn. [Softback/paperback original denotes the first format and its first appearance in print of the book/title.Paperbacks usually follow on from the HB edn,but can be published at the same time as the HB edn,but p/back originals are published prior to any other format.] VG+.No owner inscrptn,no dw/dj,card wraps - as issued.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,b/w photographic illustrated upper wrap; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top edge slightly dust-soiled and minimally marked+spotted; fore-edge slightly brighter and cleaner and less marked; contents bright,tight and clean.UK,8vo wraps,s/back original,1st edn,1-246pp [paginated] includes 13 chapters,16pp comprising 32 contemporary b/w photographs between pp136/7,subject b/w portrait photographic frntis,an index; plus [unpaginated] title page,frntis,contents list/table and co-author introduction. 'It was the story of the decade' - MAIL ON SUNDAY. 'Doctor a mass-murderer,ex-detective says' - THE TIMES. 'Bodkin Adams: mass killer or innocent?' - DAILY EXPRESS. 'Evil doctor beat the noose. . .' - DAILY STAR. "I opened the door and was horrified at what I saw.This was a bitterly cold winter's night,the bedclothes on her bed had been pulled back and thrown over the bedrail at the base.Her nightdress had been folded back across her body up to her neck. All the bedroom windows had been flung open.A cold gust of wind was sweeping the bedroom.That was how the Doctor had left her." The deaths of the Neil-Miller sisters,Hilda and Clara, thirteen months apart - Hilda on January 15,1953,to be followed by Clara,on February 22nd,a year later,caused no ripple on the placid sea of life in Eastbourne.Yet it was in their passing,particularly of Clara,that the two sisters came to the attention of others,including Detective Superintendent Herbert William Walter Hannam and Detective-Sergeant Charles Hewitt of New Scotland Yard's Murder Squad.And the reason for their department's particular interest? A bequest to the Neil-Miller's doctor,John Bodkin Adams of £5,000 - not exactly the norm.Yet this same Doctor Adams had,it seemed,benefited from many other one-time patients of like will and intent. Over a period of years the good Doctor had enjoyed cash bequests alone,totalling £45,000,together with gifts of cars (including two Rolls-Royce),jewellery,silver and antiques.John Bodkin Adams had been named as a beneficiary in many will more than 132,in fact: sometimes in wills of long-standing date but more often of recent compilation.He acted as an executor in other estates.Thus began the investigation which led to Dr John Bodkin Adams,being put up for trial at Court No.1 of the Criminal Courts of the Old Bailey in March of 1957,charged with the murder of Mrs Edith Alice Morrell,six years previously.Adams's defence team,led by Sir Geoffrey Lawrence gained a sensational acquittal.A short while before he died Dr Adams saw Rodney Hallworth,and the last few lines of that interview are worth repeating.Said the Doctor: ". . . .I believe you should wait until Almighty God ends your life.All I ever did was to make my patients as comfortable as possible towards the end." Hallworth did not believe him.In the opinion of many experts Adams died an unconvicted mass-murderer. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,because of the lighter weight of this item,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!, UK.EXETER,DEVON.THE CAPSTAN PRESS LTD.,1983., 3, Viking, 2007. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. No illustrations. CONDITION: NEW 2007 Viking hardcover (blue boards) & dust jacket, first edition, first printing. No illustrations. CONTENT: When the Gospel of Judas was published by the National Geographic Society in April 2006, it received extraordinary media attention and was immediately heralded as a major biblical discovery that rocked the world of scholars and laypeople alike. Elaine Pagels and Karen King are the first to reflect on this newfound text and its ramifications for telling the story of early Christianity. In Reading Judas, the two celebrated scholars illustrate how the newly discovered text provides a window onto understanding how Jesus followers understood his death, why Judas betrayed Jesus, and why God allowed it. This accessible, engaging book has Princeton religion professor Pagels in a dream team pairing with King, who teaches ecclesiastical history at Harvard Divinity School. Together they take on the controversial Gospel of Judas, published in April 2006 after some years of languishing in a safety deposit box after its initial discovery in the 1970s. In their hundred-page introductory essay, Pagels and King date the gospel to the middle of the second century and situate it amidst the deadly persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire. Such persecution, they say, drove the author of the Gospel of Judas, who "could not reconcile his belief in a deeply loving, good God with a particular idea other Christians held at the time: that God desired the bloody sacrificial death of Jesus and his followers." The key to understanding this gospel, they argue, is its relentless unmasking of the triumphant rhetoric of martyrdom. Though the gospel text appears angry and polarizing, Pagels and King have come to realize that they "cannot easily dismiss this author as either a madman or a lunatic." Instead, they delve deeply into his theological view that a pure, spiritual realm exists beyond the physical world that we see a Gnostic chestnut that recurs in other second-century texts. Alive to irony and historical nuance, this remarkably concise primer opens readers to a plausible and often persuasive interpretation of the disquieting Gospel of Judas., Viking, 2007, 6, New York: Villard Books; Random House, 2001 300 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Top edge lightly soiled. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket with light edgewear. "What if the protagonist in that age-old tale--boy goes to war, comes back a man--were a female? Shutterbabe, Deborah Copaken Kogan's remarkable debut, is just that: the story of a twenty-two-year-old girl from Potomac, Maryland, who goes off to photograph wars and comes back, four years and one too many adventures later, a woman. In 1988, fresh out of Harvard, Kogan moved to Paris with a small backpack, a couple of cameras, the hubris of a superhero, and a strong thirst for danger. She wanted to see what a war would look like when seen from up close, to immerse herself in a world where the gun is God. Naïvely, she figured it would be easy to filter death through the prism of her wide-angle lens. She was dead wrong. Within weeks of arriving in Paris, after knocking on countless photo agency doors and begging to be sent where the action was, Kogan found herself on the back of a truck in Afghanistan, her tiny frame veiled from head to toe, the only woman--and the only journalis--in a convoy of rebel freedom fighters. Kogan had not actually planned on shooting the Afghan war alone. However, the beguiling French photographer she'd entrusted with both her itinerary and her heart turned out to be as dangerously unpredictable as, well, a war. It is the saga of both her relationship with this French-man and her assignment in Afghanistan that fuels the first of Shutterbabe's six page-turning chapters, each covering a different corner of the globe and each ultimately linked to the man Kogan was involved with at the time. From Zim-babwe to Romania, from Russia to Haiti, Kogan takes her readers on a heartbreaking yet surprisingly hilarious journey through a mine-strewn decade, her personal battles against sexism, battery, and even rape blending seamlessly with the historical struggles of war, revolution, and unfathomable abuse it was her job to record. In the end, what was once adventurous to the girl began to weigh heavily on the woman. Though her photographs were often splashed across the front pages of international newspapers and magazines, though she was finally accepted into photojournalism's macho fraternity, with each new assignment, with each new affair, Kogan began to feel there was something more she was after. Ultimately, what she discovered in herself was a person -- a woman--for whom life, not death, is the one true adventure to be cherished above all. / Deborah Copaken Kogan worked as a photojournalist from 1988 to 1992, and her photographs appeared in Time, Newsweek, The New York Times, L'Express, Liberation, and Géo, among many other international newspapers and magazines. She spent the next six years in TV journalism, most recently as a producer for Dateline NBC. She lives in New York with her husband and two children." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., Villard Books; Random House, 2001, 3, The inside scoop on the Gangland murders... and other Australian true crime stories.Here is the criminal underground at work: gangland warriors, serial killers, drug dealers and thieves. Melbourne gangland figures Mick Gatto and Andrew 'Benji' Veniamin and their final, fatal encounter; Peter Dupas, the nerdish-looking serial killer who makes your skin crawl; as well as other, lesser-known names - sex-killer Derek Percy who haunted a lost little boy to his death; the man of God who broke the eighth commandment; the murders behind the infamous Arnott's poisoned biscuit extortion. there are also those whose lives straddle each side of the law: murder barristers; backstreet burglars and back-block magistrates; homicide detectives and community police who go where the worst happens; pensioners who thrive on the theatre of the courtroom; the psychologist who looks into the minds of mass murderers; and sex workers, from streetwalkers, student strippers and fetish models to whip-wielding dominatrixes. Award-winning crime journalists Gary tippet and Ian Munro, authors of Writing on Gravestones, bring you a collection of classic true crime stories, told with insight, sensitivity and empathy - and a dash of humour., HarperCollins Publishers Australia, 2008, 0<