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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Foreword to the Anniversary Edition -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Publisher's Foreword -- Contents -- Part I. History and Method -- 1. Historical Introduction -- Objectives in the Present Study -- Development of Present Study -- Difficulties encountered -- Cooperating groups -- The Taxonomie Approch -- ln biology -- In applied and social sciences -- Statistical basis -- Status of Previous Sex Studies -- 2. Interviewing -- Making Contacts -- Establishing Rapport -- The Confidence of the Record -- Technical Devices in Interviewing -- Putting the subject at ease -- Assuring privacy -- Establishing rapport -- Sequence of topics -- Recognizing the subject's mental status -- Recording at time of interview -- Systematic coverage -- Supplementary exploration -- Standardizing the point of the question -- Adapting the form of the question -- Avoiding bias -- Direct questions -- Placing the burden of denial on the subject -- Avoiding multiple questions -- Rapid-fire questioning -- Cross-checks on accuracy -- Proving the answer -- Forcing a subject -- Limits of theinterview -- Avoiding personal identifications -- Avoiding controversial issues, -- Overt activities versus attitudes -- Interviewing young children -- The Interviewer's Background of Knowledge -- 3. Statistical Problems -- Nature of the Data -- Coding -- Supplementary Data -- The Twelve-way Breakdown -- Sex -- Race-cultural group -- Marital status -- Age -- Age at Adolescence -- Educational Level -- Occupational class of subject -- Occupational class of parent -- Rural-urban background -- Religious groups -- Religious adherence -- Geographic origin -- Size of Sample -- Diversification of Sample -- Hundred Percent Samples -- Controlling Partial Samples -- Order of Sampling -- Synthesizing a U.S. Sample -- Statistical Analyses -- Individual frequencies.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Emergence of the Time Factor -- 1 The Limbo State -- Disintegration -- Coping -- The End of Involvement -- Choice -- 2 The Setting -- The Centre -- The Running of the Centre -- Boundaries -- 3 Reordering Time -- Revising the Past -- Alternative Realities -- The Ultimate Reality -- 4 Constituting the Centre Time -- The Idea of Care -- Patterns of Help -- The Care System and the Organization of Time -- 5 The Limbo Society -- Initiation -- Differentiations -- Guarding the System -- Conclusions: The Centre Time Universe - A Theoretical Perspective -- Methodological Notes -- Notes -- References -- Index.

Harry Edward Vickers, aka Flannelfoot, was possibly Britain's most successful ever burglar. Not financially - he stole cash and low-value items (even, bizarrely, false teeth!). The success was in his hundreds of burglaries spread over many years without being caught. The lives of career criminals are invariably dotted with prison sentences, but thanks to his caution and cunning, Flannelfoot operated night after night, year after year with an impunity which embarrassed the police.In the twenties and thirties, Londers were deserting the overcrowded capital for the burgeoning suburbs of 'Metroland'. Flannelfoot was equally attracted to these areas, and one of his hallmarks was to steal a bicycle at the scene of his last break-in of the night and cycle to the nearest tube station.Burglars and burglaries are never glamorous, but one reason why the Flannelfoot saga engendered fascination more than fear is that he was never confrontational, never violent, and in fact so stealthy that few ever saw him.His one-man crime epidemic led to Scotland Yard assembling a team more used to solving murders than the plundering of gas meters. After a lengthy and painstaking investigation, a carefully planned night-time surveillance operation involving several teams of officers led to the sensational capture of Flannelfoot.Flannelfoot routinely features in crime anthologies and was the subject of a feature film, but this is the first full biography of the man who became a legend in his own lifetime.

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