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Barbary Coast gundown [large print] / by White, James Gordon.(CARDINAL)536465;
Subjects: Western fiction.; Large print books.; Novels.; Kidnapping; Tongs (Secret societies);
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Organized crime : an inside guide to the world's most successful industry / by Lunde, Paul,1943-(CARDINAL)736557;
What is organized crime? -- Organized crime activities. -- Organized crime groups: The sicilian Mafia. --Other Italian groups. -- Organized crime in Britain. -- The Russian Mafiya. -- Organized crime in Albania. -- The Yakuza. -- The Triads and the Tongs. -- The American Mafia. -- Outlaw Motorcycle gangs. -- The Mexican cartels. -- Yardies and posses. -- The Medellin and Cali cartels.Provides an overview of organized crime and examines the characteristics, resources, strategies, and history of the criminal underworld from a social, political, and economic context, as well as the efforts of law enforcement.
Subjects: Organized crime.; La Cosa Nostra.; Mafia, Russian.; Mafia.; Yakuza.; Tongs (Secret societies);
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The most evil secret societies in history / by Klein, Shelley.(CARDINAL)751272;
Includes bibliographical references.The Illuminati -- Argenteum Astrum -- The Thule Society -- Muti -- The Tong -- Ku Klux Klan -- Order of the Solar Temple -- The Hasishim -- The Mau Mau -- Aum Shinrikyo -- Odessa -- The Socialists Patients Collective -- The Thugs -- The Camorra -- The Hell Fire Club.
Subjects: Ordre du temple solaire.; Ku Klux Klan (1915- ); Secret societies.; Societies; Illuminati.; Thugs (Indic criminal group); Tongs (Secret societies);
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The cameraman [videorecording] / by Bracey, Sidney,1877-1942,actor.; Bruckman, Clyde,1894-1955,screenwriter.; Day, Marceline,actor.; Goodwin, Harold,1902-1987,actor.; Gribbon, Harry,1885-1961,actor.; Keaton, Buster,1895-1966,film producer,actor.(CARDINAL)139561; Lanning, Reggie,director of photography.; Lessley, Elgin,1883-1944,director of photography.; Lipton, Lew,1893-1961,screenwriter.; Sedgwick, Edward,1892-1953,film producer,film director.; Wynn, Hugh,film editor.; Criterion Collection (Firm),film distributor.(CARDINAL)348269; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer,presenter,production company.(CARDINAL)150193;
Directors of photography, Reggie Lanning, Elgin Lessley ; film editor, Hugh Wynn.Buster Keaton, Marceline Day, Harold Goodwin, Sidney Bracey, Harry Gribbon.The final work over which he maintained creative control, this clever farce is the culmination of an extraordinary, decade-long run that produced some of the most innovative and enduring comedies of all time. Keaton plays a hapless newsreel cameraman desperate to impress both his new employer and his winsome office crush as he zigzags up and down Manhattan hustling for a scoop.Rating: Not rated.DVD; region 1, NTSC; full screen (1.37:1).
Subjects: Comedy films.; Feature films.; Fiction films.; Silent films.; Chinese Americans; Photojournalists; Secretaries; Tongs (Secret societies);
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The secret societies bible : the definitive guide to mysterious organizations / by Levy, Joel,1971-(CARDINAL)315696;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 378-384) and index.The characteristics of secret societies -- The roots of secret societies -- Templars and neo-Templars -- Rosicrucianism -- Freemasonry -- Occult secret societies -- Opus Dei -- The Priory of Sion and the mystery of Rennes -- The Assassins -- Illuminism -- Elites of the new world order -- Italian Masonry's Propaganda Due -- Dark brotherhoods and the Mafia -- The Triads and the Tong.Comprehensive guide to secret societies, from the Freemasons and the Knights Templar to the Rosicrucians and Chinese Triads, including their history, beliefs and secret rituals.
Subjects: Secret societies.; Sociétés secrètes.;
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Secret societies and clubs in American history / by Luhrssen, David,author.(CARDINAL)280690;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Freemasonry -- Skull and Bones -- The Know Nothings -- The Molly Maguires -- Triads and Tongs -- Knights of the Golden Circle -- The Ku Klux Klan -- The Knights of Labor -- Bohemian Club -- The Mafia -- Ordo Templi Orientis -- Christian Identity -- Scientology -- Manson Family -- Heaven's Gate -- Primary documents."Grounded in extensive historical research, this eye-opening survey reveals the long-undervalued role secret societies have played in American history." --Amazon.com.
Subjects: Secret societies; Clubs;
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Tong wars : the untold story of vice, money, and murder in New York's Chinatown / by Seligman, Scott D.,author.(CARDINAL)774530;
Includes bibliographical references and index.An "army of almond-eyed exiles" --The gamblers' union --"A clear case of corruption" --The Chinese Parkhursts --The war begins --"A regular highbinder, six-shooter war dance on the Bowery" --A price on Tom Lee's head --The Chinese Theatre massacre --Profit sharing --Have gun, will travel --The four brothers' war --Mock Duck's luck runs out --Chinatown: renovated, disinfected, and evacuated --The defection of Chin Jack Lem --Coexistence -"Reading like a true-crime novel, this history of the vice district and gang wars of New York's Chinatown from the 1890s through the 1930s describes the widespread fight to control the district's gambling, opium and prostitution,"--NoveList.Nothing had worked--not threats or negotiations, not shutting down the betting parlors and opium dens, not house-to-house searches or throwing Chinese offenders into prison. Not even executing them. The New York district attorney was running out of ideas, and more people were dying every day as the tong men's weapons of choice evolved from hatchets and meat cleavers to pistols, automatic weapons, and even bombs. Welcome to New York City's Chinatown in 1925. The Chinese in turn-of-the-last-century New York were mostly immigrant peasants and shopkeepers making an honest living as laundrymen, cigar makers, and domestics. They gravitated to lower Manhattan and lived as Chinese an existence as possible, their few diversions--gambling, opium, and prostitution--available but illegal, even in the moral cesspool of greed and corruption that was New York. In a city where officials from rookie cops to aldermen were on the take, it wasn't long before a few resourceful merchants saw an opportunity to feather their nests by positioning themselves squarely between the vice dens and the police charged with shutting them down. Set in the Tammany Hall era, this true tale centers on two Chinese tongs (secret brotherhoods), formed to support their countrymen in a society that offered them mainly discrimination and abuse, but quickly seduced by opportunities to corner the various markets of sin. As one of them began taxing the vice dens and paying off the easily bribable authorities, the other, eager for a piece of the action, co-opted a local reformist group to foil its competitors. Soon Chinese were slaughtering one another in the streets in a succession of ruthless gang wars that raged for the next three decades. Scott Seligman paints an intricate portrait of early twentieth-century New York City, with characters ranging from gangsters and drug lords to do-gooders, judges, prosecutors, cops, and pols of every stripe. --Adapted from dust jacket.
Subjects: True crime stories.; Chinese American gangs; Chinese American criminals; Crime;
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Action classics unleashed : the 4-movie collection [videorecording]. by Seagal, Stevenactor.; Toussaint, Steveactor.; Goh, Michelleactor.; Johnson, Coreyactor.; Hagon, Garrickactor.; Bennett, Skyeactor.; Pope, Eveactor.; Griffin, Eddieactor.; FauntLeroy, Donactor.;
Flight of fury: Steven Seagal, Steve Toussaint. Out for a kill: Steven Seagal, Michelle Goh, Corey Johnson. Shadow man: Steven Seagal, Garrick Hagon, Skye Bennett, Eva Pope. Urban justice: Steven Seagal, Eddie Griffin, Don FauntLeroy.Flight of fury: Steven Seagal stars in this high-octane thriller as John Sands, a secret operative used by the United States Air Force for those covert operations deemed too sensitive for the regular intelligence services. When his own Agency feels threatened by the knowledge he gained from past exploits -- they quickly imprison him and schedule a chemical wipe of his memories. Feeling betrayed by his Agency, John escapes the hi-tech detention center and plans to assimilate into society. Unfortunately, the Air Force has other plans for him. A top secret Stealth Bomber that uses the latest in stealth cloaking technology has been hijacked and it's their belief that John's the only man capable of getting it back before it falls into the hands of a terrorist group that could prove to be an unstoppable force. -- Out for a kill: Superstar Steven Seagal is up against ruthless international drug smugglers and out for vengeance in this action-packed thriller. Renowned archeologist Robert Burns (Seagal) has unearthed precious artifacts in the ancient ruins of eastern China, with plans to ship them off for restoration. But the Chinese Mafia, the Tong, have plans of their own. When Burns accidentallydiscovers the Tong are using the artifacts as containers for smuggling drugs overseas, he becomes marked for death. Framed for the murder of his assistant, Burns is thrown in a Chinese prison, but isreleased and used in an American/Chinese government plot as bait to attract the Tong. The trap is set and Burns takes on the Tong one man at a time in a blistering martial arts assault, leading up toa final confrontation with the Emperor of the Tong, who must face the wrath of a man out for a kill. -- Shadow man: A hard-hitting, action-packed film about an Intelligence Operative who discovers that no one is what they seem in the shadowy world of espionage. On a trip to Bucharest five years after the death of his wife and son, former covert agent Jack Foster's (Seagal) 8-year-old daughter is kidnapped. He searches Bucharest for her while the Romanian police, the American Embassy, and Russian agents all pursue him, believing he has a microchip containing the formula for a virus that could kill millions if it falls into the wrong hands. Urban justice: Steven Seagal (Attack Force, Flight of Fury) and Eddie Griffin (Deuce Bigalow, Norbit) star this no holds barred action, crime-thriller about a man with a dark and violent past who is out for revenge against the murderer of his son. Max Ballester is a street cop working in the heart of the poverty stricken city who made the mistake of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Gunned down in the street in a senseless act of violence his murder goes unsolved and the killer unidentified. When Simon Ballester (Seagal), a former government specials ops agent, learns of his son's murder, he soon moves into the very neighborhood where Max was killed in order to spend his days asking questions and cracking heads as he searches for the killer of his son. He quickly makes enemies with the local gang members and soon finds himself a target of their hostility. Simon's ability with weapons and his flawless fighting skills prove useful as he uncovers a tangled web of deceit and murderMPAA rating: R (for all four movies)DVD
Subjects: Action and adventure films.; DVDs.;
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Wicked good barbecue : fearless recipes from two damn yankees who won the biggest, baddest bbq competitions in the world / by Husbands, Andy,author.; Hart, Chris,1969-author.; Pyenson, Andrea,author.; Goodman, Kenneth S.,author.;
[Webliography]: page 218."Live fire cooking at its wicked BEST! The IQUE team will raise your BBQ IQ." - Carolyn Wells, Ph.B., Executive Director and co-founder, Kansas City Barbeque Society "A lot of serious barbecue champions have been waiting to see what secrets would be revealed in Chris and Andy's book, and they are not going to be disappointed! These guys are both finely tuned chefs and hardcore pitmasters, a rare combination, and they've shared it all. I now understand how they won the world championship. The barbecue cookbook bar has just been raised." - Ray Lampe, Dr. BBQ, author of Ribs, Chops, Steaks, and Wings "If there were ever a book that personified the ethos of the chef and brings it right into your kitchen, it is Wicked Good Barbecue. The audacious and tasty recipes showcase everything from the modern classics to serious in-your face-barbeque. Wicked Good Barbecue is a must for every grill aficionado." - Chris Schlesinger, coauthor of Thrill of the Grill and owner of East Coast Grill & Raw Bar in Cambridge, MA How did two guys from Boston win hundreds of barbecue ribbons, thirty Kansas City Barbecue Society championships, and the biggest prize of them all, the Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitational Barbecue? By standing over glowing coals and smoking barrels for days on end to develop barbecue recipes not just good, but "wicked good" as they say in New England. Award-winning chefs Andy Husbands and Chris Hart reveal their secrets to competition-winning barbecue - from the actual recipe that won the Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitational, to the 25-Step Championship Chicken that melts in your mouth and the American Royal First Place Beef Brisket, king of them all, hardest to master and unforgettable to eat when it's done right. Wicked Good Barbecue ain't your daddy's barbecue. It's just the best you've ever tasted. So if you want to cook competition-worthy chow, and you think you've got what it takes or want inspiration from the best; crack this book, pick up your tongs, and fire away. Wicked Good Barbecue is your guide to fun, fearless, and fantastic barbecue no matter where you're from.
Subjects: Barbecuing.;
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