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1.		The First Family: Terror, Extortion, Revenge, Murder, and the Birth of the American Mafia from Random House Price: $15.58 Customer Review: The Mafia is one of those organizations that Hollywood and the media have turned into a household name. Its current public face is the fictional Tony Soprano. The closing years of the nineteenth century and the dawning of the twentieth were the halcyon days of Giuseppe Morello, who was known to cop... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

2.		Satan's Circus: Murder, Vice, Police Corruption, and New York's Trial of the Century from Three Rivers Press Price: $6.75 Customer Review: I personally couldn't get over the fact that the author kept switching from people's first names to last names what seemed every other line. I would have to read and re-read several pages to see who was who. Also gave much more detail to the background of the individuals and society during that... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

3.		Batavia's Graveyard: The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny from Three Rivers Press Price: $8.99 Customer Review: I couldnt put this book down - it was great. Very detailed and the footnotes, though numerous, were helpful.	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

4.		Tulipomania : The Story of the World's Most Coveted Flower & the Extraordinary Passions It Aroused from Three Rivers Press Price: $6.89 Customer Review: Anybody who has read anything about "bubbles" in economic theory has probably come across the 17th century Dutch example of Tulipomania. However, most of what is written about this frenzy for tulips has come from a single English-language source written in the 19th century. Mike Dash has gone back... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

5.		Borderlands from Delta Price: $15.58 Customer Review: The cover screams - "[Mike] Dash...dares to record those macabre, inexplicable, and otherwise terrifying events where there is no other explanation *except*-that what people saw...is true!" The reality is far less sensational and more scholarly. Essentially, he argues for a sort of collective... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

6.		Batavia's Graveyard from Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ) Price: $10.68 Customer Review: In Australian history books, the Dutch get an early mention as the first Europeans to reach the Australian coast. Due principally to their interests in the rich spice colony of the Dutch East Indies. Naturally, several of their ships ran aground in Australia. The Batavia is mentioned in passing in... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

7.		Tulipomania: The Story of the World's Most Coveted Flower and the Extraordinary Passions it Aroused (Colour) from Orion mass market paperback Price: $56.26 Customer Review: I love tulips, so when I heard about this book I had to read it and I am glad that I did! The book focuses on the tulip craze in Holland, which took place between 1637-39. Tulips started out in China and Tibet they migrate to Turkey where they are cultivated during the "Golden Age" of the Ottoman... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

8.		Thug: The True Story of India's Murderous Cult from Granta Books Price: $9.95 Customer Review: What a false, misleading, insensitive, inappropriate, demeaning, inconsiderate, racial and prejudicial material to write on a beautiful culture like that of the Indians. I have strong pity upon the author and anyone interested in reading this junk. This work actually deserves zero stars.	Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

9.		THUG: THE TRUE STORY OF INDIA'S MURDEROUS CULT from GRANTA BOOKS	Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

10.	[no image]	Batavia's Graveyard - the True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny from Weidenfeld & Nicolson	Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

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