18 books like Car crime

What to read after Car crime — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Masculinity, sexuality and illegal migration Ali Nobil Ahmad · 2011 · 230p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Shares Aspect social, Social aspects, True Crime, General with this book.

Outlaws

Outlaws Adam Shand · 2011 Shares True Crime with this book.

Nice Girl

Nice Girl Rachael Jane Chin · 2011 Shares True Crime with this book.

The Black Swan Nassim Nicholas Taleb · 2005 · ★ 4.0 · 462p · ≈ 15h · Moderate From the critically acclaimed author of Fooled by Randomness, a book about the impact of improbable events on every aspect of life. Shares Aspect social, Social aspects

No way of knowing Pamela Donovan · 2003 · 246p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Shares True Crime, General with this book.

Last Yakuza Jake Adelstein · 2017 · ★ 4.4 · 408p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Shares True Crime with this book.

Death's Shadow Jon Wells · 2013 · 248p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Shares True Crime, General with this book.

Love Junkie

Love Junkie Robert Plunket · 1992 · ★ 4.0 · 263p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Shares Social aspects with this book.

Tress of the Emerald Sea

Tress of the Emerald Sea Brandon Sanderson · 2023 · ★ 4.4 · 551p · ≈ 18h · Moderate \#1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson expands his Cosmere universe shared by The Stormlight Archive and Mistborn with a new standalone novel for everyone who loved The Princess Bride. Narrated by Michael Kramer. The only life Tress has known on her island home in an emerald-green ocean has been a simple one, with the simple pleasures of collecting cups brought by sailors from… Shares General

Invisible Darkness Stephen Williams · 1996 · ★ 4.0 Invisible Darkness is the story of one of the more bizarre cases in recent memory--killings so sensational that they prompted the Canadian government, in the interests of justice, to silence its national press and to lock foreign journalists out of the courts.To all appearances, Paul and Karla Bernardo had a fairytale marriage--beautiful working-class girl weds bright upper-middle-class guy and… Shares True Crime

The Alphabet Versus the Goddess Leonard Shlain · 1998 · ★ 4.2 · 480p · ≈ 16h · Moderate Making remarkable connections across a wide range of subjects including brain anatomy and function, anthropology, history, and religion, Shlain argues that, with the advent of literacy, the very act of reading an alphabet reinforced the brain's left hemisphere - linear, abstract, predominantly masculine at the expense of the right holistic, concrete, visual, feminine. This shift upset the… Shares Aspect social, Social aspects

Democracy and Education John Dewey · 1916 · ★ 4.0 · 218p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Publisher description: John Dewey (1859-1952) believed that learning was active and schooling unnecessarily long and restrictive. His idea was that children came to school to do things and live in a community which gave them real, guided experiences which fostered their capacity to contribute to society. For example, Dewey believed that students should be involved in real-life tasks and… Shares Social aspects, General

Chaos James Gleick · 1987 · ★ 4.0 · 364p · ≈ 12h · Moderate The author describes how scientists studying the growth of complexity in nature are discovering order and pattern in chaos. He explains concepts such as nonlinearity, the Butterfly Effect, universal constants, fractals, and strange attractors, and examines the work of scientists such as Mitchell J. Feigenbaum, Edward Lorenz, and Benoit Mandelbrot. Shares Aspect social, Social aspects

Positive Youth Development Through Sport Nicholas L. Holt · 2007 · 160p · ≈ 5h · Moderate "Cutting through the political rhetoric about the power of sport as a tool for social change and personal improvement, this book offers insight into how and why participating in sport can be good for children and young people. As the first text to focus on the role of sport in positive youth development (PYD), it brings together high-profile contributors from diverse disciplines to examine… Shares Aspect social, Social aspects

Murder in America Stephen T. Holmes · 1994 · 200p · ≈ 6h · Moderate "A major revision of the best-selling Murder in America, this Second Edition examines both common and unusual acts of homicide in light of society's changing norms, values, attitudes, and customs. The authors, Ronald and Stephen Holmes, have worked with numerous police departments on more than 300 murder and rape cases. They have authored a variety of books and written many articles addressing… Shares True Crime, General

Cybercrime and Society Majid Yar · 2006 · 216p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Shares Social aspects, True Crime with this book.

Bringing Adam home Les Standiford · 2011 · ★ 4.5 · 305p · ≈ 10h · Moderate This is the story of an unfathomable crime that would forever embed itself into the collective American psyche and lead to sweeping legislative changes in the way that missing person cases are handled. In 1981, Adam Walsh was a healthy and bright 6 1/2 year old boy with his entire life ahead of him. On the afternoon of July 27th, Adam accompanied his mom, Revé, to the local Sears department store… Shares True Crime, General

Seven Bones

Seven Bones Peter Seymour · 2011 · 284p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Shares True Crime with this book.

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