From Publishers Weekly This revised edition of a 1984 study is long on assertion and short on evidence. Dr. Samenow, a clinical psychologist, is legitimately disdainful of explanations of criminal behavior that blame everyone (society, family, violent television, etc.) but the criminal for his actions, but his counter-arguments will persuade few. He makes frequent sweeping gene...(展开全部)

Packed with intriguing case histories from around the world, this fascinating book shows how criminologists use profiling to track down serial killers, rapists, bombers, and kidnappers. This behind-the-scenes study reveals how investigators use the crime scene, handwriting analysis, geographic targeting, and other tools to construct unique, detailed profiles of individual villa...(展开全部)

Today a brain scan reveals our thoughts and moods as clearly as an X-ray reveals our bones. We can actually observe a person's brain registering a joke or experiencing a painful memory. In "Mapping the Mind", award-winning journalist Rita Carter draws on the latest imaging technology and science to chart how human behavior and personality reflect the biological mechanisms behin...(展开全部)

He has hunted some of the most notorious and sadistic criminals of our time: The Trailside Killer in San Francisco, the Atlanta Child murderer. He has contronted, interviewed and researched dozens of serial killers and assassins -- including Charles Manson, Richard Speck, John Wayne Gacy, and James Earl Ray -- for a landmark study to understand their motives. To get inside ...(展开全部)

He has hunted some of the most notorious and sadistic criminals of our time: The Trailside Killer in San Francisco, the Atlanta Child murderer. He has contronted, interviewed and researched dozens of serial killers and assassins -- including Charles Manson, Richard Speck, John Wayne Gacy, and James Earl Ray -- for a landmark study to understand their motives. To get inside ...(展开全部)

Don and Mimi Galvin seemed to be living the American dream. After World War II, Don's work with the Air Force brought them to Colorado, where their twelve children perfectly spanned the baby boom: the oldest born in 1945, the youngest in 1965. In those years, there was an established script for a family like the Galvins--aspiration, hard work, upward mobility, domestic harmony-...(展开全部)

罗伯特·科尔克（Robert Kolker） 畅销书作家、调查记者，深度报道作品见于《彭博商业周刊》《连线》《纽约时报杂志》等著名媒体。他的调查报道曾获哈里·弗兰克基金会2011年度刑事司法杰出报道奖，另有作品获美国全国杂志奖提名。 由于其调查记者的背景，科尔克的作品擅长营造悬疑感并以人性化的叙事方式打动读者。2020年，他的长篇报道《坏校监》被美国精品电视电影频道HBO改编为电影《坏教育》并获得数十项奖项和提名。他的非虚构类作品《失踪的女孩：一桩仍未解开的美国迷案》在出版后获得各界一致好评，入选《时代》周刊“有史以来最出色的真实犯罪题材图书”书单和《纽约时报》“年度100本值得关注的图书”书单，并在2020年被著名流媒体网飞改编为同名电影。

The heartrending story of a midcentury American family with twelve children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science's great hope in the quest to understand the disease. Don and Mimi Galvin seemed to be living the American dream. After World War II, Don's work with the Air Force brought them to Colorado, where their twelve children perfectly spanned the ba...(展开全部)

The heartrending story of a midcentury American family with twelve children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science's great hope in the quest to understand the disease. Don and Mimi Galvin seemed to be living the American dream. After World War II, Don's work with the Air Force brought them to Colorado, where their twelve children perfectly spanned the ba...(展开全部)

罗伯特·科尔克（Robert Kolker） 畅销书作家、调查记者，深度报道作品见于《彭博商业周刊》《连线》《纽约时报杂志》等著名媒体。他的调查报道曾获哈里·弗兰克基金会2011年度刑事司法杰出报道奖，另有作品获美国全国杂志奖提名。 由于其调查记者的背景，科尔克的作品擅长营造悬疑感并以人性化的叙事方式打动读者。2020年，他的长篇报道《坏校监》被美国精品电视电影频道HBO改编为电影《坏教育》并获得数十项奖项和提名。他的非虚构类作品《失踪的女孩：一桩仍未解开的美国迷案》在出版后获得各界一致好评，入选《时代》周刊“有史以来最出色的真实犯罪题材图书”书单和《纽约时报》“年度100本值得关注的图书”书单，并在2020年被著名流媒体网飞改编为同名电影。