Penguin Books Australia

In the summer of 1933 an amazing group of chancers, misfits and psychopaths took to the American road. Fuelled by the Depression, fast cars and cheap guns, these freelance gangsters terrorized a vast swathe of banks and drugstores across the Midwest. Bonnie and Clyde, Dillinger, Machine Gun Kelly, Baby Face Nelson, the Barker gang, Pretty Boy Floyd and others went on a crime spree that turned them...

'Incredibly involving and well-written. If you love mysteries of any sort, and learning about how crimes are solved and the people dedicated to solving them, you will want this book' 
Wired

Too many murders go unsolved. So a trio of detectives - a renowned former FBI agent, a forensic sculptor and a brilliant profiler - decided to do something about it. They created the Vidocq Society, an exclusive...

Discover the theories and facts surrounding the Whitechapel murders in David Rumbelow's The Complete Jack the Ripper . . . It is 1888 in London's Whitechapel district, where one by one a group of prostitutes are brutally murdered. Opium smoking Inspector Fred Abberline is called upon to investigate these horrific murders and through his visions track down and trap Jack the Ripper.

An objective, easy-to-read introduction to Islam by Bernard Lewis, one of the West's leading experts on Islam

Dying for a deal: inside the shadowy, sinister, $38 billion world of terrorists and 'organized retail crime.'

The indispensable 'due diligence' guide to investigating potential investment partners, financial advisors, hedge funds, and M+A targets.

Consuming Pleasures traces the international and Australian history of licit and illicit drug use.

It examines why we consume and what we consume, as well as the way in which consumption is regulated in the era of global free trade.

Change a child's life!

Reap the rewards of becoming a foster parent.

Over 600,000 American children are in the foster care system each year - and the number is growing. So is the number of good-hearted people willing to become foster parents. But what does it take to become a foster parent? How does one begin? What about your own family? What does it cost?

An enthralling anthology of 18th-century writings that gives a fascinating insight into the dreadful misdeeds of - and the horrible punishments meeted out to - an array of rogues and criminals, from murderers and swindlers to prostitutes and pirates.  Captured in memoirs, letters, ballads and court transcripts are some of the most colourful villains ever to take their last gasp at the hangman's...

Would you go to the gates of Hell for your job?

American Federal Agent Jay 'Bird' Dobyns did.

For nearly two years, Dobyn's infiltrated the world's most notorious biker gang—the Hells Angels.

An undercover agent for the US government, Bird left his family behind and immersed himself in the Angels' seductive web of organised crime, violence and brotherhood. But all along, whether on the open road...

' Whatever it takes to get those bastards. The true nature of our Faustian bargain would not become clear until later, and maybe it needed a journalist as steely and tenacious as Jane Mayer to give us the full picture. 'The Dark Side' is about how the war on terror became 'a war on American ideals,' and Mayer gives this story all the weight and sorrow it deserves. Many books get tagged with the word...

In 1988, James Orbinski, then a medical student in his twenties, embarked on a year-long research trip to Rwanda. Investigating the conditions of paediatric AIDS in Rwanda, James confronted widespread pain and suffering. Fuelled by the injustice of what he had seen in Rwanda, Orbinski helped establish...

Whether you are struggling with fresh grief at a loved one's death by suicide or your loss happened years ago, you should know that you are not alone. 5 million Americans are affected-directly or indirectly-by this tragedy each year. And it sends...