Stanley Cohen: 14 books
by Stanley Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
'Richly documented and convincingly presented' -- New Society
Mods and Rockers, skinheads, video nasties, designer drugs, bogus asylum seeks and hoodies. Every era has its own moral panics. It was Stanley Cohen’s classic account, first published in the early 1970s and regularly revised, that...
by Stanley Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
During the 1960s, traditional thinking about crime and its punishment, deviance and its control, came under radical attack. The discipline of criminology split into feuding factions, and various schools of thought emerged, each with quite different ideas about the nature of the crime problem and its...
Man in the Crowd
A Fan's Notes on Four Generations of New York Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
For Stanley Cohen, baseball is the prism through which he views the events of the last seventy years. In The Man in the Crowd, Cohen chronicles America’s changing mood and lifestyle from the years of World War II through the silent generation of the fifties, the revolutionary turmoil of the sixties...
Convicting the Innocent
Death Row and the Ineqaulity of Justice
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
“A landmark in the fight against the death penalty. Extensively researched and brilliantly written” (Martin Garbus, criminal defense attorney).
This investigation into wrongful convictions illustrates the tragic consequences that ensue when the American legal system goes awry. Whether it’s...
Willie's Game
An Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
A “fascinating” memoir by America’s greatest professional billiards player, a child prodigy in the pool halls of the 1930s who became a world champion (Library Journal).
Willie Mosconi’s father never wanted him to play billiards. At night, the boy would lie awake listening to the clatter...
Women's Wiles
Mystery Writers of America Presents: Classics, #2
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2017
NOTHING'S WHAT IT SEEMS IN THIS SLYLY SINISTER COLLECTION OF DAMES DONE WRONG...AND DOING THE SAME!
Shocking surprises, chilling comeuppances, and mercies that are anything but tender are just part of what to expect from these memorable stories of women's wills...and wiles. Choosing them with...
A Chip and a Chair
The 2013 World Series of Poker
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2005
I would like to introduce you to a novel about the World Series of Poker main event in the year 2013 and beyond.
The reader will play in this coveted tournament through the eyes of an aging professional poker player, who learns to never give up, when it no longer seems possible to continue,...
The Greatest Risk of All
A Personal Testament of a Spiritual Quest to Seek the Truth
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
You will be exposed to an aging Jewish man, raised in New York who now finds himself living in Russellville, Arkansas and coping with gut wrenching decisions he feels compelled to make concerning his faith. He is not alone in this spiritual quest as he is now in the company of a Christian Arkansas...
Yankees 1936–39, Baseball's Greatest Dynasty
Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio and the Birth of a New Era
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
The Story of the Greatest Yankees Team—and Baseball Team—of All Time
New York, 1936. Red Ruffing, Lefty Gomez, Bill Dickey, Lou Gehrig, Tony Lazzeri, and rookie Joe DiMaggio—with these six future Hall of Fame players, the Yankees embarked on a four-year run that would go down in the history...
The Game They Played
The True Story of the Point-Shaving Scandal That Destroyed One of College Basketball's Greatest Teams
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
One of Sports Illustrated’s Top 100 Sports Books of All Time: The riveting story of the point-shaving scandal that shook college basketball to its core
It was the ultimate Cinderella sports story. Unranked heading into the 1949–50 season, the City College basketball team delighted their...
A Magic Summer
The Amazin' Story of the 1969 New York Mets
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
A Magic Summer tells of that remarkable season by chronicling the major events as viewed twenty years later. Interviews conducted twenty years after with members of the team-Seaver, Ryan, McGraw, and others-provide immediacy and, with that, fascinating updates and insights. This is a unique record and celebration of a season that Mets fans-and all baseball fans-will not soon forget.
by Stanley Cohen, MD
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Alcohol abuse remains a significant problem world-wide. The most commonly affected organ remains the liver with a risk of alcoholic liver disease (ALD) which can range from asymptomatic to alcoholic hepatitis to alcoholic cirrhosis. In 2010, alcohol-attributable cirrhosis was responsible for 0.9%...
The Dark Issue 41
The Dark, #41
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2018
Each month The Dark brings you the best in dark fantasy and horror! Selected by award-winning editors Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Sean Wallace and published by Prime Books, this issue includes two all-new stories and two reprints:
"Dukkering" by Nelson Stanley
"The Fold in the Heart"...
by Stanley R. Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
Would you like to know the truth about Albert Einstein from a friend who really knew him? Much of what is reported by some historians about his life is consistent with his personal writings, but much is conjecture based on people who never knew him, and they simply made up whatever the writers thought...