by Jon Krakauer (2003)
Jon Krakauer explores the extreme fringes of religious fundamentalism through the chilling 1984 murder of Brenda Lafferty and her infant daughter by her fundamentalist Mormon brothers-in-law, who claimed to receive direct revelations from God commanded them to kill.
Patrick Radden Keefe
The Sackler name adorned the walls of the world's most storied institutions: Harvard, the Met, the Louvre. But their immense fortune was made by Valium and later OxyContin, a blockbuster painkiller that catalyzed the American opioid epidemic. Patrick Radden Keefe chronicles the private history of three generations.
Ronan Farrow
In a dramatic, fast-paced piece of forensic reporting, Ronan Farrow exposes the serial sexual assaults of Harvey Weinstein and the shadowy network of private investigators, tabloid executives, and corporate lawyers mobilized to silence victims and threaten journalists.
Terry Ganey
Charles Hatcher, who murdered at least 16 people, not only killed, maimed and ruined the lives of his victims and their families, but was also responsible for the imprisonment of an innocent man. In his 37 years of crime, Hatcher became adept at manipulating the justice system, outwitting officials in several states.
Layla Skinns, Michael Scott, Tony Cox
"Recent events from the economic downturn to climate change mean that there has never been a better time to be thinking about and trying to better understand the concept of risk. In this book, prominent and eminent speakers from fields as diverse as statistics to classics, neuroscience to criminology, politics to astronomy, as well as speakers embedded in the media and in government have put their ideas down on paper in a series of essays that broaden our understanding of the meaning of risk. After twenty-five years, the prestigious Darwin College Lectures are one of the most popular public lecture series at the University of Cambridge. The risk lectures in 2010 were amongst the most popular yet and, in essay form, they make for a lively and engaging read for specialists and non-specialists alike"--