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 Free Download Ransom Kidnapping in Italy: Crime, Memory, and Violence by Alessandra Montalbano English | 2024 | ISBN: 1487546831 | 301 Pages | PDF/ePUB (True) | 13/1.6 MB  Free Download The Picasso Ransom: and other stories about art and crime in Australia by Mark S. Holsworth English | March 1st, 2023 | ISBN: 0646873075 | 314 pages | True EPUB | 2.74 MB A collection of forty-five true-crime stories about the visual arts in Australia: art theft, art forgery, art censorship, art vandalism, and protest art. The title comes from the famous artnapping of Picasso's Weeping Woman from the National Gallery of Victoria. One of the artnapper's demands was an art prize called 'The Picasso Ransom'.  Christoph Witzenrath, "Eurasian Slavery, Ransom and Abolition in World History, 1200-1860" English | ISBN: 1472410580 | 2015 | 390 pages | EPUB | 1446 KB Recent research has demonstrated that early modern slavery was much more widespread than the traditional concentration on plantation slavery in the context of European colonial expansion would suggest. Slavery and slave trading, though little researched, were common across wide stretches of Eurasia, and a slave economy played a vital part in the political and cultural contacts between Russia and its Eurasian neighbours. This volume concentrates on captivity, slavery, ransom and abolition in the vicinity of the Eurasian steppe from the early modern period to recent developments and explores their legacy and relevance down to the modern times. The contributions centre on the Russian Empire, while bringing together scholars from various historical traditions of the leading states in this region, including Poland-Lithuania and the Ottoman Empire, and their various successor states. At the centre of attention are transfers, transnational fertilizations and the institutions, rituals and representations facilitating enslavement, exchanges and ransoming. The essays in this collection define and quantify slavery, covering various regions in the steppe and its vicinity and looking at trans-cultural issues and the implications of slavery and ransom for social, economic and political connections across the steppe. In so doing the volume provides both a broad overview of the subject, and a snapshot of the latest research from leading scholars working in this area.  The Ransom of Red Chief by O.Henry English | MP3@192 kbps | 24 min | 33.6 MB O. Henry was the pen name of William Sydney Porter (1862 - 1910), an American writer. O. Henry's short stories are loved for their wit, wordplay, warm characterization, and surprise endings."The Ransom of Red Chief" is a tale of a kidnapping. A couple of desparadoes abduct the ten year old son of the richest man in a village in the deep south. But the pair soon discover that they have taken on far more than they had bargained for. The boy's energy, curiosity, creativity, sense of mischief and total lack of respect for his kidnappers soon has him running rings around them. And it turns out, the boy is a chip off the old block. His father is by no means a soft touch for a ransom and offers them a deal which they cannot refuse....  Douglas Wilson, N. D. Wilson, Forrest Dickison, "The Amazing Dr. Ransom's Bestiary of Adorable Fallacies" English | 2017 | ISBN: 1591281873 | ASIN: B078YF1XLQ | EPUB | pages: 336 | 2.4 mb Stymied and stumped by arguments that wrap around you like web of mystification? The Amazing Dr. Ransom's Bestiary of Adorable Fallacies is here to help! This "Field Guide for Clear Thinkers" is filled with illustrations, descriptions, exercises, and analysis to help you identify and avoid fallacies you might encounter in everyday life. Describing fifty informal fallacies organized by context-fallacies of distraction, ambiguity, form, and "millennial fallacies"-each is described as a (adorable yet venomous) creature one might encounter in the wild, complete with illustration and fantastical description. This book is perfect for supplementing any high school or college logic curriculum or as an independent read for adults who want to learn more about logic! Each fallacy is followed by discussion questions and exercises; a line-listed answer key and both one and two-semester schedules are included in the back of the book.
 The Ransom of the Jews: The Story of the Extraordinary Secret Bargain Between Romania and Israel by Radu Ioanid 2021 | ISBN: 153814073X, 1538140748 | English | 432 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1 + 2 MB After 1948, the 370,000 Jews of Romania who survived the Holocaust became one of the main sources of immigration for the new state of Israel as almost all left their homeland to settle in Palestine and Israel. Romania's decision to allow its Jews to leave was baldly practical: Israel paid for them, and Romania wanted influence in the Middle East. For its part, Israel was rescuing a community threatened by economic and cultural extinction and at the same time strengthening itself with a massive infusion of new immigrants. |
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