The Last Face You Ll Ever See
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The Last Gasp
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Author : Scott Christianson
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2010-07-12
The Last Gasp written by Scott Christianson and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-12 with History categories.
The Last Gasp takes us to the dark side of human history in the first full chronicle of the gas chamber in the United States. In page-turning detail, award-winning writer Scott Christianson tells a dreadful story that is full of surprising and provocative new findings. First constructed in Nevada in 1924, the gas chamber, a method of killing sealed off and removed from the sight and hearing of witnesses, was originally touted as a "humane" method of execution. Delving into science, war, industry, medicine, law, and politics, Christianson overturns this mythology for good. He exposes the sinister links between corporations looking for profit, the military, and the first uses of the gas chamber after World War I. He explores little-known connections between the gas chamber and the eugenics movement. Perhaps most controversially, he has unearthed new evidence about American and German collaboration in the production and lethal use of hydrogen cyanide and about Hitler’s adoption of gas chamber technology developed in the United States. More than a book about the death penalty, this compelling history ultimately reveals much about America’s values and power structures in the twentieth century.
Gruesome Spectacles
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Author : Austin Sarat
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2014-04-30
Gruesome Spectacles written by Austin Sarat and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-30 with Law categories.
Gruesome Spectacles tells the sobering history of botched, mismanaged, and painful executions in the U.S. from 1890 to the present. Since the book's initial publication in 2014, the cruel and unusual executions of a number of people on death row, including Clayton Lockett in Oklahoma and Joseph Wood in Arizona, have made headlines and renewed vigorous debate surrounding the death penalty in America. Austin Sarat's book instantly became an essential resource for citizens, scholars, and lawmakers interested in capital punishment—even the Supreme Court, which cited the book in its recent opinion, Glossip v. Gross. Now in paperback, the book includes a new preface outlining the latest twists and turns in the death penalty debate, including the recent galvanization of citizens and leaders alike as recent botched executions have unfolded in the press. Sarat argues that unlike in the past, today's botched executions seem less like inexplicable mishaps and more like the latest symptoms of a death penalty machinery in disarray. Gruesome Spectacles traces the historical evolution of methods of execution, from hanging or firing squad to electrocution to gas and lethal injection. Even though each of these technologies was developed to "perfect" state killing by decreasing the chance of a cruel death, an estimated three percent of all American executions went awry in one way or another. Sarat recounts the gripping and truly gruesome stories of some of these deaths—stories obscured by history and to some extent, the popular press.
Evolving Standards Of Decency
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Author : Mary Welek Atwell
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang
Release Date : 2004
Evolving Standards Of Decency written by Mary Welek Atwell and has been published by Peter Lang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Law categories.
The Supreme Court has looked to «evolving standards of decency» in determining whether the death penalty violates the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution, which prohibits cruel and unusual punishment. Evolving Standards of Decency examines the ways in which popular culture portrays the death penalty. By analyzing literature and film, Atwell argues that capital punishment becomes much more complex when both offenders and victims are presented as fully developed individuals. Numerous books and films from the last several decades expose flaws in the criminal justice system and provide audiences with stories that raise questions about race, class, and actual innocence in the administration of the ultimate punishment. Although most people will not read legal briefs supporting or challenging the death penalty, many will see films or read novels that raise issues about its fairness. Themes and images gathered through popular culture may ultimately influence whether Americans continue to believe that capital punishment conforms to their evolving standards of decency and justice. Those studying justice issues, corrections, or capital punishment will find this an accessible and provocative work that places the stories read in novels or seen in movies in the context of the legal system that has the power of life and death.
Gone Tomorrow
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Author : P.F. Kluge
language : en
Publisher: ABRAMS
Release Date : 2009-09-29
Gone Tomorrow written by P.F. Kluge and has been published by ABRAMS this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-29 with Fiction categories.
“A sharply observed yet tender novel of academic life and its many sand traps” from the acclaimed author of Eddie and the Cruisers (The New York Times). One of NPR’s Best Books of 2008 Kluge’s brilliant novel tells of George Canaris, a writing professor who is on the verge of forced retirement at a small college in Ohio when he is killed by a hit-and-run driver. Kluge’s creation of Canaris as the first faculty member in half a century whose death merits an obituary in the New York Times is right on the money. A writer, a critic, a professor, a campus legend and a national figure, the very embodiment of the liberal arts, the fictional Times obituary said. And a mystery. Canaris, hero and anti-hero, was the author of two well-received novels and a book of essays, all published more than thirty years ago. Taken together, they were the beginnings of an impressive shelf to which, in all his years in Ohio, he added nothing. With a book listed among the 100 greatest novels of all time, decades separating Canaris from the hefty advance taken on his next book The Beast, which was to be his masterpiece and not a page to show of it, Canaris is a great fictional creation—an enigma. Inevitably, speculation grows that the book was a myth, a lie, a joke. Upon his death, Mark May, a young English professor who barely knew him finds himself named as Canaris’s literary executor—executor of what is unclear. Thus begins a search through lives and letters that is at once gripping, hilarious and affirming. “A sparkling new novel, witty and astute.” —Entertainment Weekly
Rise Of The Lesser Prince
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Author : Christopher Joyce
language : en
Publisher: Christopher Joyce
Release Date : 2024-06-19
Rise Of The Lesser Prince written by Christopher Joyce and has been published by Christopher Joyce this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-06-19 with Fiction categories.
Power in Gibrion is held in a delicate balance. Prince Vinadan, the lesser son of a benevolent king, holds the Soul of Aether, an ancient and powerful artefact, deep within the mountains of Aclevion. Its sister, the Soul of Hemera, is kept safe in the tranquil elven forests of Eonis. When this tenuous peace is threatened, a traitor to Vinadan's cause must unite the insular and distrusting races of Gibrion under a single banner if they are to stop the ruthless prince’s deadly plans. Though Vinadan believes himself all-powerful, there remain older, darker powers in the world which even he does not understand, and his greatest trials may yet lay before him in this epic tale of high fantasy and dark magic.
The Complete Cyberforce Vol 1
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Author : Chris Claremont
language : en
Publisher: Image Comics
Release Date : 2022-08-17
The Complete Cyberforce Vol 1 written by Chris Claremont and has been published by Image Comics this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-17 with Comics & Graphic Novels categories.
GO BACK TO THE BEGINNING! To coincide with the groundbreaking 30th anniversary of Top Cow and Image Comics, Top Cow proudly presents the original stories that launched CYBERFORCE, including the very first story, “Tin Men of War.” Through the brilliant art of MARC SILVESTRI, new and old fans alike can revisit the introduction of classic characters like Velocity, Ripclaw, Heatwave, Cyblade, Stryker, Impact, and Ballistic to the world of comics. All this and more, gorgeously rendered and assembled in this first volume of absolute collected editions. First time back in print since 1992! Collects CYBERFORCE #0, CYBERFORCE: TIN MEN OF WAR #1-4, WILDCATS: KILLER INSTINCT #5-7, CYBERFORCE VOL. 2 #1-13, CYBERFORCE ORIGINS: CYBLADE #1, CYBERFORCE ORIGINS: STRYKER #2 & CYBERFORCE ANNUAL #1
Revenge Of The Gloobas The Third Book Of The Thousand Years War
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Author : Angel Ramon
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2016-11-15
Revenge Of The Gloobas The Third Book Of The Thousand Years War written by Angel Ramon and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-15 with categories.
It is August 2016, one year after the events of Framed.He is promoted to a captain of the NYPD and gets a disturbance call in the Kings Plaza Mall in Brooklyn, N.Y. of what seems to be a hostage situation taking place. When the four arrive at the mall they find that there is indeed a hostage situation, but the hostage takers aren't human. They are glooba aliens that have somehow found a way to enter Earth via the virtual world using black holes. Eventually, the four find out the gloobas are out for revenge. The gloobas vow to get revenge by using the gravitational pull of Earth and attempt to align the planets perfectly to charge their death ray which will wipe Earth off the map! Angel and his friends have to get to the glooba's home planet of Goo before the 10 days are up in order to stop the planets from aligning themselves. Can the four stop the latest revenge plot by the glooba's or will the aliens have their revenge?
Siege Prelude
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Author : Brian Michael Bendis
language : en
Publisher: Marvel Entertainment
Release Date : 2018-12-27
Siege Prelude written by Brian Michael Bendis and has been published by Marvel Entertainment this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-27 with Comics & Graphic Novels categories.
Collects Dark Avengers #1, Dark Reign: The Cabal, Thor #600, Dark Reign: The List - Avengers, New Avengers Annual #3, Dark Reign: The Goblin Legacy and Marvel Spotlight (1971) #30. One collection packed with stories leading into Marvel's major event SIEGE! Remember when you were first introduced to the Cabal, the gathering of the most sinister members of the Marvel Universe, and you said to yourself: Well, that's going to blow up in everyone's face! Well, you were right!! Norman Osborn faces off with Doctor Doom and his mysterious threat to Doom is revealed.
Marvel Visionaries
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Author : Stan Lee
language : en
Publisher: Marvel Entertainment
Release Date : 2019-05-29
Marvel Visionaries written by Stan Lee and has been published by Marvel Entertainment this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-29 with Comics & Graphic Novels categories.
Collects Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #39-40, #42, #50 And #108-109; Captain America (1968) #138; Daredevil (1964) #16-17; Fantastic Four (1961) #105-106; Untold Tales Of Spider-Man #-1; And Material From Vampire Tales #2, Strange Tales (1951) #4, Menace #6 And #11, Young Men #24 And #26, Western Kid (1954) #12, Tales To Astonish (1959) #77 And Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #365. Celebrate the career of a true Marvel Visionary! From the fabulous fifties to the Femizons future, Jazzy John Romita brought his distinctive and definitive style to all corners of the Marvel Universe! Witness the coming of the Communist-hunting Captain America! A furious face-off between Spider-Man and the Green Goblin! The debut of the Devils Daughter! Peter Parkers parents in perilous predicaments! And classic stories featuring the Fantastic Four, Daredevil, Nick Fury, Wolverine, the Kingpin and more including rarely seen Atlas Era tales!
Amazing Spider Man Epic Collection
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Author : Stan Lee
language : en
Publisher: Marvel Entertainment
Release Date : 2018-05-16
Amazing Spider Man Epic Collection written by Stan Lee and has been published by Marvel Entertainment this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-16 with Comics & Graphic Novels categories.
Collects Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #39-52 and Annual #3-4, and material from Not Brand Echh #2. John Romita Sr. joins Stan Lee, elevating Spideys adventures to new heights beginning with a Green Goblin epic that establishes him as Spider-Mans most dangerous enemy! And then the Rhino, a bulldozer on two legs, threatens to make Spidey an endangered species. The action keeps pumping with Spideys first meeting with the Avengers, the Shocker, the return of the Lizard, Kraven the Hunter, an all-new Vulture and the first appearance of the Kingpin! But the true heart of the story is young Peter Parker finding his way in the world. He gains new independence as he gets his own pad with Harry Osborn, courts Gwen Stacy and, in comics most unforgettable entrance, meets Miss Mary Jane Watson!