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Yankees 1936–39, Baseball's Greatest Dynasty
Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio and the Birth of a New Era
by Stanley Cohen
Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 2018 by Skyhorse Publishing
ISBN-13: 978-1-5107-2063-3, ISBN: 1-5107-2063-4

"The Story of the Greatest Yankees Team—and Baseball Team—of All Time New York, 1936. Red Ruffing, Lefty Gomez, Bill Dickey, Lou Gehrig, Tony Lazzeri, and rookie Joe DiMaggio—with these six future Hall of Fame players, the Yankees embarked on a four-year run that would go down in the history books as the greatest Yankees team, if not, the greatest baseball team of all time. Over the next four years, the Yankees won four straight pennant ..."






Convicting the Innocent
Death Row and America's Broken System of Justice
by Stanley Cohen
Hardcover, 312 Pages, Published 2016 by Skyhorse Publishing
ISBN-13: 978-1-63220-646-6, ISBN: 1-63220-646-3

" “A landmark in the fight against the death penalty. Extensively researched and brilliantly written.” Martin Garbus, criminal defense attorney Every day, innocent men across America are thrown into prison, betrayed by a faulty justice system, and robbed of their lives—either by decades-long sentences or the death penalty itself. Injustice tarnishes our legal process from start to finish. From the racial discrimination and violence used ..."






Folk Devils and Moral Panics(1st Edition)
by Stanley Cohen
Paperback, 328 Pages, Published 2011 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-0-415-61016-2, ISBN: 0-415-61016-8

"'Richly documented and convincingly presented' -- New Society Mods and Rockers, skinheads, video nasties, designer drugs, bogus asylum seeks and hoodies. Every era has its own moral panics. It was Stanley Cohen's classic account, first published in the early 1970s and regularly revised, that brought the term 'moral panic' into widespread discussion. It is an outstanding investigat ..."






A Magic Summer(40th Edition)
The Amazin' Story of the 1969 New York Mets
by Stanley Cohen, Sam Giancana
Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2009 by Skyhorse Publishing
ISBN-13: 978-1-60239-679-1, ISBN: 1-60239-679-5

"A Magic Summer tells of that remarkable season by chronicling the major events as viewed twenty years later. Interviews conducted twenty years after with members of the team—Seaver, Ryan, McGraw, and others—provide immediacy and, with that, fascinating updates and insights. This is a unique record and celebration of a season that Mets fans—and all baseball fans—will not soon forget."






Escape Attempts(2nd Edition)
The Theory and Practice of Resistance in Everyday Life
by Stanley Cohen, Laurie Taylor
Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 1992 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-0-415-06500-9, ISBN: 0-415-06500-3

"From sexual fantasies to holidays this marvellous book charts our escape attempts. In a series of dazzling commentaries the authors reveal the ordinary and extraordinary ways in which we seek to defy the despair of the breakfast table and the office But the book is much more than a first-rate cartography of everyday life. It crackles with important theoretical insights about how `normality' is managed. This fully revised edition contain ..."






Beating the Odds
The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of a Sports Handicapper
by Brandon Lang, Stanley Cohen, Tom Murphy
Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 2009 by Skyhorse Publishing
ISBN-13: 978-1-60239-680-7, ISBN: 1-60239-680-9

"The amazing true story of one of the world’s greatest sports handicappers.The incredible rags-to-riches-to-rags-to-riches true life story of acclaimed sports tout Brandon Lang, subject of the motion picture Two for the Money (Al Pacino, Matthew McConaughey). Beating the Odds describes in vivid, colorful detail Lang’s rise from small time sports-phone tout to big time national exposure, his dramatic fall, and his subsequent rebirth in th ..."






The Execution of Officer Becker(1st Edition)
The Murder of a Gambler, The Trial of a Cop, and the Birth of Organized Crime
by Stanley Cohen
Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2006 by Carroll & Graf
Kindle Ebook
ISBN-13: 978-0-7867-1757-6, ISBN: 0-7867-1757-2

"A small-time gambler shot dead in the heart of Times Square. Gangland gunmen and conspirators running for cover. A cop on the take charged with murder and facing execution. New York in 1912, a city in transformation. Award-winning journalist and author Stanley Cohen has re-created the infamous Becker-Rosenthal affair in a book that reads like a historical Law & Order. Lieutenant Charles Becker was convicted of orchestrating the slaying ..."






Visions of Social Control(1st Edition)
Crime, Punishment and Classification
by Stanley Cohen
Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 1991 by Polity
ISBN-13: 978-0-7456-0021-5, ISBN: 0-7456-0021-2

"Visions of Social Control is a wide ranging analysis of recent shifts in ideas and practices for dealing with crime and delinquency. In Great Britain, North America and Western Europe, the 1960′s saw new theories and styles of social control which seemed to undermine the whole basis of the established system. Such slogans as ′decarceration′ and ′division′ radically changed the dominance of the prison, the power of professionals and th ..."






A Chip And A Chair
The 2033 World Series of Poker (Paperback)
by Stanley Cohen
Paperback, Published 2020 by Stanley Cohen
ISBN-13: 978-1-73470-386-3, ISBN: 1-73470-386-5






States of Denial(1st Edition)
Knowing about Atrocities and Suffering
by Stanley Cohen
Paperback, 360 Pages, Published 2001 by Polity Press
Illustrated
ISBN-13: 978-0-7456-2392-4, ISBN: 0-7456-2392-1

"Blocking out, turning a blind eye, shutting off, not wanting to know, wearing blinkers, seeing what we want to see ... these are all expressions of 'denial'. Alcoholics who refuse to recognize their condition, people who brush aside suspicions of their partner's infidelity, the wife who doesn't notice that her husband is abusing their daughter - are supposedly 'in denial'. Governments deny their responsibility for atrocities, and plan t ..."






The Greatest Risk Of All
A Personal Testament of a Spiritual Quest to seek the Truth
by Stanley Cohen
Published 2020 by Stanley Cohen
ISBN-13: 978-1-73470-380-1, ISBN: 1-73470-380-6






The Wrong Men
America's Epidemic of Wrongful Death Row Convictions
by Stanley Cohen
Hardcover, 344 Pages, Published 2006 by Barnes And Nobel
ISBN-13: 978-0-7607-7883-8, ISBN: 0-7607-7883-3

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The Wrong Men(1st Edition)
America's Epidemic of Wrongful Death Row Convictions
by Stanley Cohen
Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2003 by Carroll & Graf
ISBN-13: 978-0-7867-1258-8, ISBN: 0-7867-1258-9

"In January 2000, Illinois Governor George H. Ryan declared a moratorium on state executions. Three years later, Ryan commuted all Illinois death sentences to life imprisonment, saying, “Our capital system is haunted by the demon of error, error in determining guilt, and error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die.” This book chronicles over one hundred cases where journalism students, grassroots organizations, families, an ..."






The Game They Played(1st Edition)
by Stanley Cohen
Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2001 by Da Capo Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-7867-0821-5, ISBN: 0-7867-0821-2

"It happened in the 1949–50 college basketball season. The unranked City College team ("five street kids from the City of New York—three Jews and two blacks") outstripped the competition from the Midwest to take the titles in both the NCAA championship and National Invitation Tournament. The feat was unprecedented, and never again duplicated. Sadly, the scandal that followed it—and ended with the indictment of twenty players (for shaving ..."






Against Criminology(1st Edition)
by Stanley Cohen, James Ed. Cohen
Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 1988 by Transaction Publishers
ISBN-13: 978-0-88738-689-3, ISBN: 0-88738-689-X

" During the 1960s, traditional thinking about crime and its punishment, deviance and its control, came under radical attack. The discipline of criminology split into feuding factions, and various schools of thought emerged, each with quite different ideas about the nature of the crime problem and its solutions. These differences often took political form, with conservative, liberal, and radical supporters, and the resulting controversi ..."






Missing in Manhattan(1st Edition)
The Adams Round Table
by Justin Scott, Lucy Freeman, Stanley Cohen, Thomas Chastain, Warren Murphy, Judith Kelman, Mickey Friedman, Dorothy Salisbury Davis, Joyce Harrington, Mary Higgins Clark, Adams Round Table, Bill Adler
Hardcover, 297 Pages, Published 1992 by Longmeadow Pr
ISBN-13: 978-0-681-41576-8, ISBN: 0-681-41576-2

"Ten best-selling, Edgar Award-winning mystery writers, members of the New York-basedAdams Round Table, offer baffling cases of unsolved murder in the Big Apple ..."






Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning in Pathology(1st Edition)
by Stanley Cohen Md
Paperback, 250 Pages, Published 2020 by Elsevier
ISBN-13: 978-0-323-67538-3, ISBN: 0-323-67538-7

"Recent advances in computational algorithms, along with the advent of whole slide imaging as a platform for embedding artificial intelligence (AI), are transforming pattern recognition and image interpretation for diagnosis and prognosis. Yet most pathologists have just a passing knowledge of data mining, machine learning, and AI, and little exposure to the vast potential of these powerful new tools for medicine in general and pathology ..."






The Risk Taker
by Stanley Cohen
Hardcover, 228 Pages, Published 2020 by Stanley Cohen
ISBN-13: 978-1-73470-384-9, ISBN: 1-73470-384-9

"Set against the danger of the Vietnam War and the high stakes action found in the casinos of Macao and Las Vegas, The Risk Taker is a powerful, poignant, and thought provoking novel."






The Risk Taker
(Paperback)
by Stanley Cohen
Paperback, Published 2020 by Stanley Cohen, United States
ISBN-13: 978-1-73470-383-2, ISBN: 1-73470-383-0






A Chip And A Chair
The 2033 World Series of Poker (Hardback)
by Stanley Cohen
Hardcover, 328 Pages, Published 2020 by Stanley Cohen
ISBN-13: 978-1-73470-388-7, ISBN: 1-73470-388-1

"The successful poke player understands the risks involved in this paradox.Set against the 2033 World Series of Poker and the high stakes action found in Las Vegas' newest attraction, the Final Table Resort, A Chip And A Chair is a poignant, ..."



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