A Death Most Monumental
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A Death Most Monumental
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Author : J.D. Kirk
language : en
Publisher: Zertex Crime
Release Date : 2020-09-29
A Death Most Monumental written by J.D. Kirk and has been published by Zertex Crime this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-29 with categories.
Let The Lord Sort Them
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Author : Maurice Chammah
language : en
Publisher: Crown
Release Date : 2022-01-18
Let The Lord Sort Them written by Maurice Chammah and has been published by Crown this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-18 with Law categories.
NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A deeply reported, searingly honest portrait of the death penalty in Texas—and what it tells us about crime and punishment in America “If you’re one of those people who despair that nothing changes, and dream that something can, this is a story of how it does.”—Anand Giridharadas, The New York Times Book Review WINNER OF THE J. ANTHONY LUKAS AWARD In 1972, the United States Supreme Court made a surprising ruling: the country’s death penalty system violated the Constitution. The backlash was swift, especially in Texas, where executions were considered part of the cultural fabric, and a dark history of lynching was masked by gauzy visions of a tough-on-crime frontier. When executions resumed, Texas quickly became the nationwide leader in carrying out the punishment. Then, amid a larger wave of criminal justice reform, came the death penalty’s decline, a trend so durable that even in Texas the punishment appears again close to extinction. In Let the Lord Sort Them, Maurice Chammah charts the rise and fall of capital punishment through the eyes of those it touched. We meet Elsa Alcala, the orphaned daughter of a Mexican American family who found her calling as a prosecutor in the nation’s death penalty capital, before becoming a judge on the state’s highest court. We meet Danalynn Recer, a lawyer who became obsessively devoted to unearthing the life stories of men who committed terrible crimes, and fought for mercy in courtrooms across the state. We meet death row prisoners—many of them once-famous figures like Henry Lee Lucas, Gary Graham, and Karla Faye Tucker—along with their families and the families of their victims. And we meet the executioners, who struggle openly with what society has asked them to do. In tracing these interconnected lives against the rise of mass incarceration in Texas and the country as a whole, Chammah explores what the persistence of the death penalty tells us about forgiveness and retribution, fairness and justice, history and myth. Written with intimacy and grace, Let the Lord Sort Them is the definitive portrait of a particularly American institution.
Monumental Propaganda
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Author : Vladimir Voinovich
language : en
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date : 2007-12-18
Monumental Propaganda written by Vladimir Voinovich and has been published by Knopf this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-18 with Fiction categories.
From Vladimir Voinovich, one of the great satirists of contemporary Russian literature, comes a new comic novel about the absurdity of politics and the place of the individual in the sweep of human events. Monumental Propaganda, Voinovich’s first novel in twelve years, centers on Aglaya Stepanovna Revkina, a true believer in Stalin, who finds herself bewildered and beleaguered in the relative openness of the Khrushchev era. She believes her greatest achievement was to have browbeaten her community into building an iron statue of the supreme leader, which she moves into her apartment after his death. And despite the ebb and flow of political ideology in her provincial town, she stubbornly, and at all costs, centers her life on her private icon. Voinovich’s humanely comic vision has never been sharper than it is in this hilarious but deeply moving tale–equally all-seeing about Stalinism, the era of Khrushchev, and glasnost in the final years of Soviet rule. The New York Times Book Review called his classic work, The Life & Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin, “a masterpiece of a new form–socialist surrealism . . . the Soviet Catch-22 written by a latter-day Gogol." In Monumental Propaganda we have the welcome return of a truly singular voice in world literature.
Not Fade Away
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Author : Laurence Shames
language : en
Publisher: Rodale
Release Date : 2003-09-20
Not Fade Away written by Laurence Shames and has been published by Rodale this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-09-20 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Chronicles the life of the founder of Liberty Media, from his protests against the Vietnam War and his jam sessions with Sha Na Na through his work as a political consultant and businessman and his battle against cancer.
Come Hell Or High Water
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Author : J.D. Kirk
language : en
Publisher: Zertex Crime
Release Date : 2021-12-14
Come Hell Or High Water written by J.D. Kirk and has been published by Zertex Crime this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-14 with categories.
The Death And Life Of Great American Cities
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Author : Jane Jacobs
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
The Death And Life Of Great American Cities written by Jane Jacobs and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with City planning categories.
A Whisper Of Sorrows
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Author : J. D. Kirk
language : en
Publisher: Zertex Crime
Release Date : 2020-06
A Whisper Of Sorrows written by J. D. Kirk and has been published by Zertex Crime this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06 with categories.
The hunter has become the hunted.Ten years ago, DCI Jack Logan caught the twisted child killer known as Mister Whisper.Two days ago, Mister Whisper escaped.Now, Jack must track down the most ruthless enemy he has ever faced before he can strike again. But, after ten years behind bars, it isn't just murder that Mister Whisper has in mind.It's revenge.A Whisper of Sorrows is the sixth book in the DCI Jack Logan crime thriller series, all based in the Highlands of Scotland, and perfect for fans of Tartan Noir crime fiction.
The Big Man Upstairs
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Author : J. D. Kirk
language : en
Publisher: Zertex Crime
Release Date : 2020-08-05
The Big Man Upstairs written by J. D. Kirk and has been published by Zertex Crime this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-05 with Detective and mystery stories categories.
"A double murder, a man of God, a community torn apart. DCI Jack Logan should have stuck to early retirement"--Cover p. [4].
Architecture Death And Nationhood
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Author : Hannah Malone
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2017-04-28
Architecture Death And Nationhood written by Hannah Malone and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-28 with Architecture categories.
In the nineteenth century, new cemeteries were built in many Italian cities that were unique in scale and grandeur, and which became destinations on the Grand Tour. From the Middle Ages, the dead had been buried in churches and urban graveyards but, in the 1740s, a radical reform across Europe prohibited burial inside cities and led to the creation of suburban burial grounds. Italy’s nineteenth-century cemeteries were distinctive as monumental or architectural structures, rather than landscaped gardens. They represented a new building type that emerged in response to momentous changes in Italian politics, tied to the fight for independence and the creation of the nation-state. As the first survey of Italy’s monumental cemeteries, the book explores the relationship between architecture and politics, or how architecture is formed by political forces. As cities of the dead, cemeteries mirrored the spaces of the living. Against the backdrop of Italy’s unification, they conveyed the power of the new nation, efforts to construct an Italian identity, and conflicts between Church and state. Monumental cemeteries helped to foster the narratives and mentalities that shaped Italy as a new nation.
The Killing Code
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Author : J.D. Kirk
language : en
Publisher: DCI Logan Thrillers
Release Date : 2019-09-30
The Killing Code written by J.D. Kirk and has been published by DCI Logan Thrillers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-30 with categories.