Texas Tough: The Rise of America's Prison Empire 0312680473, 9780312680473

Texas Tough: The Rise of America's Prison Empire 9780312680473, 9780805080698, 0312680473

In the prison business, all roads lead to Texas. A pioneer in criminal justice severity―from assembly-line executions to

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First Available Cell: Desegregation of the Texas Prison System 9780292793354

Decades after the U.S. Supreme Court and certain governmental actions struck down racial segregation in the larger socie

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Annual report of the Texas Prison System. 1966

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Tough Luck: Sid Luckman, Murder, Inc., and the Rise of the Modern NFL 0802129447, 9780802129444

In the long annals of sports and crime, no story compares to the one that engulfed the Luckman family in 1935. As 18-yea

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Texas Jailhouse Music : A Prison Band History 9781625853509, 9781626198678

Inside the Texas State Prison is a surprising story of ingenuity, optimism and musical creativity. During the mid-twenti

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The Rise of the Ottoman Empire [reprint ed.]

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The Almohads: The Rise of an Islamic Empire 9780755694211, 9780857712073

Fromherz, drawing on medieval Arabic and Berber sources, analyses the myths and history surrounding the origins and rise

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Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire

The ultimate empire, a power that spanned continents and cultures... the story of the Roman Empire is the ultimate tale

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Internal Empire: The Rise and Fall of English Imperialism 9781787389342

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The Fall of Constantinople: The Rise of the Ottoman Empire and the End of the Byzantine Empire

*Includes pictures. *Includes a bibliography for further reading. *Includes a table of contents. In terms of geopoliti

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