Hatchet Men
Title | Hatchet Men PDF eBook |
Author | Richard H. Dillon |
Publisher | Silverstowe Book |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 2012-09 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9781618090515 |
Story of a handful of well organized Chinese criminals who ruled Chinatown from the 1880's until the earthquake of 1906.
Tong Wars
Title | Tong Wars PDF eBook |
Author | Scott D. Seligman |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 370 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | Chinatown (New York, N.Y.) |
ISBN | 0399562273 |
Tong Wars is historical true-crime set against the perfect landscape: Chinatown, New York City. Chinese rival tongs (secret societies) each lauded over illegal markets such as gambling and prostitution, and nothing could shut them down. Not threats or negotiations, not prison, not even executions. Pretty soon Chinese were slaughtering one another in the streets, inaugurating a succession of wars that raged for the next 30 years. This is the true account of these wars, turf wars fuelled by gangsters and drug lords, prostitutes, judges and cops.
The Chinatown War
Title | The Chinatown War PDF eBook |
Author | Scott Zesch |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 298 |
Release | 2012-06-29 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 019975876X |
A vivid account of the Chinatown race riots in 1871 Los Angeles, now counted among the worst hate crimes in American history.
Tongs, Gangs, and Triads
Title | Tongs, Gangs, and Triads PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Huston |
Publisher | iUniverse |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Chinese American criminals |
ISBN | 9780595187546 |
The Black Hole War
Title | The Black Hole War PDF eBook |
Author | Leonard Susskind |
Publisher | Little, Brown |
Pages | 352 |
Release | 2008-07-07 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0316032697 |
What happens when something is sucked into a black hole? Does it disappear? Three decades ago, a young physicist named Stephen Hawking claimed it did, and in doing so put at risk everything we know about physics and the fundamental laws of the universe. Most scientists didn't recognize the import of Hawking's claims, but Leonard Susskind and Gerard t'Hooft realized the threat, and responded with a counterattack that changed the course of physics. The Black Hole War is the thrilling story of their united effort to reconcile Hawking's revolutionary theories of black holes with their own sense of reality -- effort that would eventually result in Hawking admitting he was wrong, paying up, and Susskind and t'Hooft realizing that our world is a hologram projected from the outer boundaries of space. A brilliant book about modern physics, quantum mechanics, the fate of stars and the deep mysteries of black holes, Leonard Susskind's account of the Black Hole War is mind-bending and exhilarating reading.
Days of the Tong Wars
Title | Days of the Tong Wars PDF eBook |
Author | C. Y. Lee |
Publisher | |
Pages | 141 |
Release | 1974 |
Genre | Chinese |
ISBN | 9780345238023 |
The Land of the Golden Mountain
Title | The Land of the Golden Mountain PDF eBook |
Author | C. Y. Lee |
Publisher | |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 1967 |
Genre | California |
ISBN |
Seventeen-year-old Chinese girl disguises herself as a boy and accompanies her countrymen who ship out from Canton to the gold fields of California in 1850.