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  • The Incorruptibles

    A True Story of Kingpins, Crime Busters, and the Birth of the American Underworld

    by Dan Slater ...
    This harrowing tale of early twentieth century New York reveals the true stories of an immigrant underworld, a secret vice squad, and the rise of organized crime.In the early 1900s, prior to World War I, New York City was a vortex of vice and corruption. On the Lower East Side, then the most crowded ghetto on earth, Eastern European Jews formed a dense web of crime syndicates. Gangs of horse ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Wolf Boys

    Two American Teenagers and Mexico's Most Dangerous Drug Cartel

    by Dan Slater ...
    The true story of two American teenagers turned cartel assassins—and the Mexican American detective who fought to stop them. Wolf Boys is “a hell of a story…undeniably gripping” (The New York Times), a harrowing nonfiction thriller that reads like a crime novel but is rooted in extraordinary investigative reporting.Journalist Dan Slater tells the unforgettable tale of Gabriel Cardona, a bright and ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Love in the Time of Algorithms

    What Technology Does to Meeting and Mating

    by Dan Slater ...
    “If online dating can blunt the emotional pain of separation, if adults can afford to be increasingly demanding about what they want from a relationship, the effect of online dating seems positive. But what if it’s also the case that the prospect of finding an ever more compatible mate with the click of a mouse means a future of relationship instability, a paradox of choice that keeps us chasing ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Ordering Power

    Contentious Politics and Authoritarian Leviathans in Southeast Asia

    by Dan Slater ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
    Like the postcolonial world more generally, Southeast Asia exhibits tremendous variation in state capacity and authoritarian durability. Ordering Power draws on theoretical insights dating back to Thomas Hobbes to develop a unified framework for explaining both of these political outcomes. States are especially strong and dictatorships especially durable when they have their origins in 'protection ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • A Million First Dates

    Solving the Puzzle of Online Dating

    by Dan Slater ...
    ** Previously published in hardcover as Love in the Time of Algorithms **Once considered the realm of the lonely and desperate, sites like eHarmony, Match, OkCupid, and Plenty of Fish have been embraced by pretty much every demographic. Dating has been transformed from a daunting transaction based on scarcity to one in which the possibilities are almost endless. Now anyone can search for exactly ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • From Development to Democracy

    The Transformations of Modern Asia

    by Dan Slater, Joseph Wong ...
    Why some of Asia’s authoritarian regimes have democratized as they have grown richer—and why others haven’tOver the past century, Asia has been transformed by rapid economic growth, industrialization, and urbanization—a spectacular record of development that has turned one of the world’s poorest regions into one of its richest. Yet Asia’s record of democratization has been much more uneven, ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Coercive Distribution

    by Michael Albertus, Sofia Fenner, Dan Slater ...
    Series series Elements in the Politics of Development
    Canonical theories of political economy struggle to explain patterns of distribution in authoritarian regimes. In this Element, Albertus, Fenner, and Slater challenge existing models and introduce an alternative, supply-side, and state-centered theory of 'coercive distribution'. Authoritarian regimes proactively deploy distributive policies as advantageous strategies to consolidate their monopoly ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

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    Wolf Boys

    Two American Teenagers and Mexico's Most Dangerous Drug Cartel

    by Dan Slater ...
    Narrated by Pete Simonelli ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 24 min

    The true story of two American teenagers turned cartel assassins—and the Mexican American detective who fought to stop them. Wolf Boys is “a hell of a story…undeniably gripping” (The New York Times), a harrowing nonfiction thriller that reads like a crime novel but is rooted in extraordinary investigative reporting.Journalist Dan Slater tells the unforgettable tale of Gabriel Cardona, a bright and ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    The Incorruptibles

    A True Story of Kingpins, Crime Busters, and the Birth of the American Underworld

    by Dan Slater ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Todd Ross ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 13 min

    This harrowing tale of early twentieth century New York reveals the true stories of an immigrant underworld, a secret vice squad, and the rise of organized crime.In the early 1900s, prior to World War I, New York City was a vortex of vice and corruption. On the Lower East Side, then the most crowded ghetto on earth, Eastern European Jews formed a dense web of crime syndicates. Gangs of horse ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    Love in the Time Algorithms

    What TechnologyDoes to Meeting and Mating

    by Dan Slater ...
    Narrated by Walter Dixon ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 28 min

    “If online dating can blunt the emotional pain of separation, if adults can afford to be increasingly demanding about what they want from a relationship, the effect of online dating seems positive. But what if it’s also the case that the prospect of finding an ever more compatible mate with the click of a mouse means a future of relationship instability, a paradox of choice that keeps us chasing ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

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    The Invisible Spy

    Churchill's Rockefeller Center Spy Ring and America’s First Secret Agent of World War II

    by Thomas Maier ...
    Narrated by Stephen Graybill ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 49 min

    The untold WWII story of a former NFL player turned White House insider who worked with Churchill’s undercover agents in New York City to conduct the biggest foreign spy operation ever within the US, and inspired Ian Fleming's James Bond, for fans of Ben Macintyre and Erik Larson.As a tough but smart Italian American kid, Ernest Cuneo played Ivy League football at Columbia University and was in ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    The Invention of Power

    Popes, Kings, and the Birth of the West

    by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita ...
    Narrated by Michael Beck ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 22 min

    In the tradition of Why Nations Fail, this book solves one of the great puzzles of history: Why did the West become the most powerful civilization in the world?Western exceptionalism—the idea that European civilizations are freer, wealthier, and less violent—is a widespread and powerful political idea. It has been a source of peace and prosperity in some societies, and of ethnic cleansing and ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook