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    Mobsters, Unions, and Feds: The Mafia and the American Labor Movement

    James B. Jacobs

    Telling the story of the relationship between organized crime and organized labor, as well as federal efforts to clean up unions, this book sheds light on the influence of the…

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    Mobsters, Unions, and Feds: The Mafia and the American Labor Movement

    James B. Jacobs

    Documents organized crime’s exploitation of organized labor and the massive federal clean-up effort. This book explains how Cosa Nostra families gained a foothold in the labor movement, and used this…

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    The Eternal Criminal Record

    James B. Jacobs

    For 60 million Americans a criminal record overshadows everything else about their identity. Citizens have a right to know when someone around them represents a threat. But convicted persons have…

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    Stateville: Penitentiary in Mass Society

    James B. Jacobs

    Stateville penitentiary in Illinois has housed some of Chicago’s most infamous criminals and was proclaimed to be the world’s toughest prison by Joseph Ragen, Stateville’s powerful warden from 1936 to…

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    Drunk Driving: An American Dilemma

    James B. Jacobs

    In this ambitious interdisciplinary study, James B. Jacobs provides the first comprehensive review and analysis of America’s drunk driving problem and of America’s anti-drunk driving policies and jurisprudence. In a…

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    The Toughest Gun Control Law in the Nation: The Unfulfilled Promise of New York’s SAFE Act

    James B. Jacobs,Zoe Fuhr

    A comprehensive assessment of real gun reform legislation with recommendations for better design, implementation and enforcement

    A month after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, New York State passed, with…

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    The Toughest Gun Control Law in the Nation

    James B. Jacobs, Zoe Fuhr

    "A month after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, New York State passed, with record speed, the first and most comprehensive state post-Sandy Hook gun control law."--

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    The Pursuit of Absolute Integrity

    Frank Anechiarico,James B. Jacobs

    This text seeks to show how the proliferating regulations and oversight mechanisms designed to prevent or root out corruption seriously undermine the ability to govern.

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    Breaking the Devil’s Pact: The Battle to Free the Teamsters from the Mob

    James B. Jacobs,Kerry T. Cooperman

    An in-depth study of the U.S. v. IBT, beginning with Giuliani’s lawsuit and the politics surrounding it, and continuing with an incisive analysis of the controversial nature of the ongoing…

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    The Mob and the City: The Hidden History of How the Mafia Captured New York

    C. Alexander Hortis

    Informative, authoritative, and eye-opening, this is the first full-length book devoted exclusively to uncovering the hidden history of how the Mafia came to dominate organized crime in New York City…

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    The Mob and the City: The Hidden History of How the Mafia Captured New York

    C. Alexander Hortis

    Informative, authoritative, and eye-opening, this is the first full-length book devoted exclusively to uncovering the hidden history of how the Mafia came to dominate organized crime in New York City…

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    Breaking the Devil’s Pact: The Battle to Free the Teamsters from the Mob

    James Jacobs,Kerry T. Cooperman

    Illuminates the extraordinary power of organized crime at the center of legitimate society

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    Busting the Mob: The United States v. Cosa Nostra

    James B. Jacobs,Christopher Panarella

    Since Prohibition, the Mafia has captivated the media and, indeed, the American imagination. From Al Capone to John Gotti, organized crime bosses have achieved notoriety as anti- heroes in popular…

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    Hate Crimes

    James B. Jacobs,Kimberley Potter

    An in-depth critique of the USA’s dominant political and legal response to hate crime in the STUDIES IN CRIME AND PUBLIC POLICY series. The fallacious construction of hate crime epidemics…

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    Hate Crimes: Criminal Law and Identity Politics

    James B. Jacobs,Kimberley Potter

    In the early-1980s, the US Congress and many state legislatures passed a wave of hate crime laws requiring the collection of statistics on, and enhancing punishments for, crimes motivated by…

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    Can Gun Control Work?

    James B. Jacobs (Warren E. Burger Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Research in Crime and Justice, New York University)

    Examines the on-the-ground practicalities of gun control, from mandatory safety locks to outright prohibition and disarmament. This book cautions against the belief that there exists some gun control solution which…

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    James Bond and Philosophy: Questions Are Forever

    Fifteen witty, thought-provoking essays discuss hidden issues in James Bond’s world, from his carnal pleasures to his license to kill. Among the lively topics explored are Bond’s relation to existentialism…

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    The Pursuit of Absolute Integrity: How Corruption Control Makes Government Ineffective

    Frank Anechiarico,James B. Jacobs,Anechiarico, Frank Professor and Chair of the Department of Government, Hamilton College, USA)

    This text seeks to show how the proliferating regulations and oversight mechanisms designed to prevent or root out corruption seriously undermine the ability to govern.

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    A Genealogical Record of the Descendants of Jacob Beidler of Lower Milford Township, Bucks Co., Pa.: Together with Historical and Biographical Sketches Illustrated with Portraits and Other Illstrations

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…

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    A Discourse in Commemoration of James P. Bell, Andrew B. Van Burnes, Jacob Schlemer ..

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    A Discourse in Commemoration of James P. Bell, Andrew B. Van Burnes, Jacob Schlemer ..

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    Busting the Mob: The United States v. Cosa Nostra

    James B. Jacobs,Jay Worthington (Fellow, Center for Research in Crime and Justice, New York University, USA)

    This text documents the US government’s attack on organised crime. It presents an overview of the forces and events that led in the 1980s to the most successful organised control…

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    Samuel G. Ogden, Administrator, &C., of Nicholas G. Ogden, Deceased, vs. William B. Astor, and William B. Astor, John Jacob Astor, James Gallatin and Washington Irving, Executors, &C., of John Jacob Astor, Deceased

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    Full Title: Samuel G. Ogden, Administrator, &c., of Nicholas G. Ogden, Deceased, Vs. William B. Astor, and William B. Astor, John Jacob Astor, James Gallatin and Washington Irving, Executors, &c…

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    History of the American Nation; 5

    Jacob Harris Patton

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    History of the American Nation; 1

    Jacob Harris Patton

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    History of the American Nation; 5

    Jacob Harris Patton

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    History of the American Nation; 1

    Jacob Harris Patton

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    History of the American Nation; 6

    Jacob Harris Patton

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    Inequality in Education: Comparative and International Perspectives

    Inequality in Education: Comparative and International Perspectives is a compilation of conceptual chapters and national case studies that includes a series of methods for measuring education inequalities.

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    Samuel G. Ogden, Administrator, &C., of Nicholas G. Ogden, Deceased, vs. William B. Astor, and William B. Astor, John Jacob Astor, James Gallatin and Washington Irving, Executors, &C., of John Jacob Astor, Deceased.

    Daniel D Lord

    Full Title: Samuel G. Ogden, Administrator, &c., of Nicholas G. Ogden, deceased, vs. William B. Astor, and William B. Astor, John Jacob Astor, James Gallatin and Washington Irving, Executors, &c…

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    Gotham Unbound: How New York City Was Liberated From the Grip of Organized Crime

    James B. Jacobs,Coleen Friel,Robert Raddick,Robert Raddick (formerly Glass Fellow in Crime and Justice, School of Law, University of New York, USA)

    No other crime group has infiltrated labour unions and manipulated legitimate industries like Italian organised crime families. One cannot understand the history and political economy of New York City in…

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    Gotham Unbound: How New York City Was Liberated From the Grip of Organized Crime

    James B. Jacobs,Coleen Friel,Robert Raddick,Robert Raddick (formerly Glass Fellow in Crime and Justice, School of Law, University of New York, USA)

    A comprehensive account of the Cosa Nostra’s infiltration into New York City politics, economy, and social life.

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    The Complete Poems

    James Thomson (B V )

    James Thomson (1834-1882), who often signed his work with the pseudonym B. V., ranks among the greatest of the Victorian poets, and his magnum opus The City of Dreadful Night…

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    The Raja of Sarawak

    Gertrude Grand Le Jacob

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    The Raja of Sarawak

    Gertrude Grand Le Jacob

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    The Lively Experiment: Religious Toleration in America from Roger Williams to the Present

    The Lively Experiment chronicles how Americans have continually demolished traditional prejudices while at the same time erecting new walls between belief systems. Nearly four hundred years after Roger Williams’ 1633…

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    The Lively Experiment: Religious Toleration in America from Roger Williams to the Present

    The Lively Experiment chronicles how Americans have continually demolished traditional prejudices while at the same time erecting new walls between belief systems. Nearly four hundred years after Roger Williams’ 1633…

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