(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Apr-2023, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: The University of Alabama Press, ISBN-13: 9781573669023)
A love song in three movementsAs If Fire Could Hide Us explores the expansiveness of consciousness and compassion through and beyond the human body.A twelve-year-old girl slips out a basement window, steals a bike, and sets off on a perilous adventur...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-Nov-2022, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Union Square & Co., ISBN-13: 9781435171497)
When millions suffer under iron-fisted oppression, when anger and resentment boil into bloody insurrection, when triumph leads to savage vengeancedoes one individual life matter? In A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens interweaves the intensely pers...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Sep-2022, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: McFarland & Co Inc, ISBN-13: 9781476646015)
In the 1890s, Amos Lunt served as the San Quentin hangman, tying the nooses that brought the most dangerous criminals in the Wild West to their deaths. A former police chief who became the hangman of San Quentin due to an unfortunate turn of event...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Sep-2022, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: McFarland & Co Inc, ISBN-13: 9781476646015)
In the 1890s, Amos Lunt served as the San Quentin hangman, tying the nooses that brought the most dangerous criminals in the Wild West to their deaths. A former police chief who became the hangman of San Quentin due to an unfortunate turn of event...Loe edasi...
Sari: Strode Studies in Early Modern Literature and Culture
(Ilmumisaeg: 27-Jul-2022, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: The University of Alabama Press, ISBN-13: 9780817394127)
A study of the depictions of womens executions in Renaissance England A Weak Woman in a Strong Battle: Women and Public Execution in Early Modern England provides critical insights on representations of women on the scaffold, focusing on how female...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jun-2022, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: The History Press Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781803991627)
Tyburn Fields is the best known site of execution in London, but London may be aptly named the executioner's city, so many were the places where executions could and did occur. This book reveals the capital as a place where the bodies of crimina...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 06-Jun-2022, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: McFarland & Co Inc, ISBN-13: 9781476646084)
During the two decades following entry into World War II, nearly 30 million men and women served in or worked for the United States military. Tens of thousands faced a general court-martial under the Articles of War, which prescribed either life i...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 06-Jun-2022, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: McFarland & Co Inc, ISBN-13: 9781476646084)
During the two decades following entry into World War II, nearly 30 million men and women served in or worked for the United States military. Tens of thousands faced a general court-martial under the Articles of War, which prescribed either life i...Loe edasi...
"e;Dark History of Penns Woods is the perfect book to keep you up all night... Its ghostly, its ghastly, and we guarantee some of the included photos will stay with you!"e; - Philly MagWhen ships under the command of white Europeans first...Loe edasi...
"e;Dark History of Penns Woods is the perfect book to keep you up all night... Its ghostly, its ghastly, and we guarantee some of the included photos will stay with you!"e; - Philly MagWhen ships under the command of white Europeans first...Loe edasi...
A heart-piercingly brilliant book about a woman whose personal life put her in the cross-hairs of history HADLEY FREEMANTotally riveting. I couldnt put it down VICTORIA HISLOPEthel sings out for all women who have been misunderstood and wronged...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-Apr-2021, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781000381177)
According to Voltaires Candide, Admiral John Byngs 1757 execution went forward to encourage the others. Of course, the story is more complicated. This microhistorical account upon a macro-event presents an updated, revisionist, and detailed accou...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-Apr-2021, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781000381184)
According to Voltaires Candide, Admiral John Byngs 1757 execution went forward to encourage the others. Of course, the story is more complicated. This microhistorical account upon a macro-event presents an updated, revisionist, and detailed accou...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 24-Oct-2020, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: University of Regina Press, ISBN-13: 9780889777743)
Burden is the story of a seventeen-year-old British soldier, Private Herbert Burden, who was shot for desertion during World War I. He was one of hundreds so executed. It is now understood that many had committed no crime, but were suffering from PTS...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 24-Oct-2020, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: University of Regina Press, ISBN-13: 9780889777767)
Burden is the story of a seventeen-year-old British soldier, Private Herbert Burden, who was shot for desertion during World War I. He was one of hundreds so executed. It is now understood that many had committed no crime, but were suffering from PTS...Loe edasi...
On 1 November 1920, eighteen-year-old UCD medical student Kevin Barry was hanged in Dublins Mountjoy Jail for his role in a bungled IRA operation in which three British soldiers were killed. To this day, he remains a vibrant and celebrated icon of p...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Sep-2020, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: The Mercier Press, ISBN-13: 9781781177464)
On a dark November morning in 1920, Kevin Barry, head held high, marched to his death in Mountjoy Prison. He was the first and youngest person hanged during the Irish War of Independence. Born the fourth of seven children, the family was split betwee...Loe edasi...
