Small Bites by Jennifer Joyce
Detectives work the streets--an arena of action, vice, lust, greed, aggression, and violence--to gather shards of information about who did what to whom. They also work the cumbersome machinery of the justice system--semi-military police hierarchies with their endless jockeying for prestige, procedure-driven district attorney offices, and backlogged courts--transforming hard-won street knowledge into public narratives of responsibility for crime. Street Stories, based on years of fieldwork with the New York City Police Department and the District Attorney of New York, examines the moral ambiguities of the detectives' world as they shuttle between the streets and a bureaucratic behemoth.
In piecing together street stories to solve intriguing puzzles of agency and motive, detectives crisscross the checkerboard of urban life. Their interactions in social strata high and low foster cosmopolitan habits of mind and easy conversational skills. And they become incomparable storytellers. This book brims with the truth-is-stranger-than-fiction violence of the underworld and tells about a justice apparatus that splinters knowledge, reduces life-and-death issues to arcane hair-splitting, and makes rationality a bedfellow of absurdity. Detectives' stories lay bare their occupational consciousness--the cunning and trickery of their investigative craft, their self-images, moral rules-in-use, and judgments about the players in their world--as well as their personal ambitions, sensibilities, resentments, hopes, and fears. When detectives do make cases, they take satisfaction in removing predators from the streets and helping to ensure public safety. But their stories also illuminate dark corners of a troubled social order.Jennifer Joyce is a successful food writer, author and stylist based in London. American-born but a resident in the UK for more than 20 years, Jennifer initially honed her skills in catering and cooking in a Notting Hill cafe before moving into magazine writing. She has worked for leading UK magazines such as BBC Good Food, Olive and Waitrose Kitchen, as well as the Telegraph newspaper, drawing on her unique dual talent for writing mouth-watering recipes and then creating and styling them for photography. Leiths School of Food and Wine in London hosts her popular cookery classes, and she has appeared on numerous radio and TV shows in the USA and the UK, including NBC's Today Show, BBC news and radio and Good Food Live. My Street Food Kitchen is Jennifer's tenth book. Her previous Murdoch Books publications are Meals in Heels, chosen by London's Daily Mail newspaper as one of their top 10 books for 2010, and Skinny Meals in Heels, published in 2011.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780756613471 |
| ISBN 10 | 0756613477 |
| Titel | Small Bites |
| Autor | Jennifer Joyce |
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| Bindungsart | Hardback |
| Verlag | DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2005-10-01 |
| Seitenanzahl | 224 |
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