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White-Collar Criminals Theoretical and Managerial Perspectives of Financial Crime


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English | ISBN: 1616687754 | 2013 | 106 pages | PDF | 2 MB
White-collar crime is defined as the use of deception for illegal gain, normally involving breach of trust, and some concealment of the true nature of the activities. White-collar crime is also often defined as crime against property, involving the unlawful conversion of property belonging to another to one’s own personal use and benefit. Financial crime is profit-driven crime to gain access to and control over property that belonged to someone else. These individuals are wealthy, highly educated, socially connected, and typically employed by, and in legitimate organisations. This book presents information regarding white-collar crime, as well as indications of individual traits which categorise these types of criminals.

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White Woman Speaks with Forked Tongue


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English | 2022 | ISBN: 1032264152, 1032264438 | PDF | pages: 227 | 10.3 mb
Originally published in 1991. The style of this startlingly original appraisal of a broad range of women’s writing suggests a new direction for feminist criticism, combining as it does challenging, intellectual debate and fresh textual analysis with fictional example and autobiographical detail to make a wholly new invention in the field.

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Falling Star Misadventures of White Star Line Ships


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Patrick Stephens | 1989 | ISBN: 1852600845 | English | 264 pages | PDF | 154.73 MB
While the Titanic story has been covered extensively from every angle, much less is known about other White Star ships. But the line suffered several accidents over the years. This book tells us about the wrecks of the Atlantic, Britanic and Republic, among others.

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Black Girl White Girl


Free Download Joyce Carol Oates, "Black Girl / White Girl"
English | 2006 | pages: 283 | ISBN: 0061125644 | PDF | 1,2 mb
Fifteen years ago, in 1975, Genna Hewett-Meade’s college roommate died a mysterious, violent, terrible death. Minette Swift had been a fiercely individualistic scholarship student, an assertive-even prickly-personality, and one of the few black girls at an exclusive women’s liberal arts college near Philadelphia. By contrast, Genna was a quiet, self-effacing teenager from a privileged upper-class home, self-consciously struggling to make amends for her own elite upbringing. When, partway through their freshman year, Minette suddenly fell victim to an increasing torrent of racist harassment and vicious slurs-from within the apparent safety of their tolerant, "enlightened" campus-Genna felt it her duty to protect her roommate at all costs.

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The Won Cause Black and White Comradeship in the Grand Army of the Republic


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English | ISBN: 0807834521 | 2011 | 296 pages | EPUB | 1248 KB
In the years after the Civil War, black and white Union soldiers who survived the horrific struggle joined the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR)-the Union army’s largest veterans’ organization. In this thoroughly researched and groundbreaking study, Barbara Gannon chronicles black and white veterans’ efforts to create and sustain the nation’s first interracial organization.

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Colonial Justice in British India White Violence and the Rule of Law


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English | 2010 | ISBN: 0521190789 | PDF | pages: 261 | 14.3 mb
Colonial justice in british india describes and examines the lesser-known history of white violence in colonial india by foregrounding crimes committed by a mostly forgotten cast of european characters – planters, paupers, soldiers and sailors – elizabet

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