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Book Circles of Innocence

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  • Author : Francine Marie Pisi
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1994
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 138 pages

Download or read book Circles of Innocence written by Francine Marie Pisi and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Circle of Innocence

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  • Author : Lynda Drews
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2014-03-01
  • ISBN : 1611606926
  • Pages : 322 pages

Download or read book Circle of Innocence written by Lynda Drews and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-03-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Door County--the "Cape Cod" of Wisconsin--evil is lurking... Detective Sydney Bernhardt hates to admit no male, other than her dog, has crossed her bedroom threshold in nearly two years. As Syd jogs along Lake Michigan's shoreline, she discovers the child-like body of Carli Lacount--the stepdaughter of a local Café owner. This suspicious death sparks Syd into action to uncover the truth behind Carli's sexually confused past--and to reclaim Syd's own life. Is she ready to forgive her spurned lover, attorney Eli Gaudet? Or should she accept the advances of the victim's uncle, who shares a common pain. Then a pre-teen girl matching Carli's physical description is abducted. Syd now struggles to find a connection, probing the murky secrets hidden inside the peninsula and surrounding islands. But as Syd follows this complex trail, she unknowingly becomes both a confidante and prey for that evil.

Book Circle of Innocence

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  • Author : Lynda Drews
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2014-03-01
  • ISBN : 9781611608564
  • Pages : 378 pages

Download or read book Circle of Innocence written by Lynda Drews and published by . This book was released on 2014-03-01 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As detective Sydney Bernhardt jogs along the limestone cliff, high above the waters of Lake Michigan, she discovers a child-like body floating face down-arms spread-dark hair haloing the head-the power of each wave rhythmically butting it against the deadly wall. This suspicious death sparks Syd into action to uncover the truth behind the victim's sexually confused past-and to reclaim Syd's own life. But as she follows this complex trail through nature's beauty, Syd unknowingly becomes both a confidante and prey for that evil.

Book Labors of Innocence in Early Modern England

Download or read book Labors of Innocence in Early Modern England written by Joanna Picciotto and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Joanna Picciotto's Labors of Innocence in Early Modern England is a splendid study of the origins, devlopment, and eventual decline of the Experimentalist tradition in seventeenth-and early eighteenth-century English letters. In tracing out the arc of this intellectual and professional trajectory, Picciotto engages productively with the crucial religious, socio-economic, philosophical, and literary movements associated with the ongoing labors of the `innocent eye'".---Eileen Reeves, Princetion University --

Book The Nine Circles  Or  The Torture of the Innocent

Download or read book The Nine Circles Or The Torture of the Innocent written by Frances Power Cobbe and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Rage of Innocence

Download or read book The Rage of Innocence written by Kristin Henning and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant analysis of the foundations of racist policing in America: the day-to-day brutalities, largely hidden from public view, endured by Black youth growing up under constant police surveillance and the persistent threat of physical and psychological abuse "Storytelling that can make people understand the racial inequities of the legal system, and...restore the humanity this system has cruelly stripped from its victims.” —New York Times Book Review Drawing upon twenty-five years of experience rep­resenting Black youth in Washington, D.C.’s juve­nile courts, Kristin Henning confronts America’s irrational, manufactured fears of these young peo­ple and makes a powerfully compelling case that the crisis in racist American policing begins with its relationship to Black children. Henning explains how discriminatory and aggressive policing has socialized a generation of Black teenagers to fear, resent, and resist the police, and she details the long-term consequences of rac­ism that they experience at the hands of the police and their vigilante surrogates. She makes clear that unlike White youth, who are afforded the freedom to test boundaries, experiment with sex and drugs, and figure out who they are and who they want to be, Black youth are seen as a threat to White Amer­ica and are denied healthy adolescent development. She examines the criminalization of Black adoles­cent play and sexuality, and of Black fashion, hair, and music. She limns the effects of police presence in schools and the depth of police-induced trauma in Black adolescents. Especially in the wake of the recent unprece­dented, worldwide outrage at racial injustice and inequality, The Rage of Innocence is an essential book for our moment.

Book The Innocence of the Devil

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  • Author : Nawal El Saadawi
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 1998-11-04
  • ISBN : 9780520216525
  • Pages : 284 pages

Download or read book The Innocence of the Devil written by Nawal El Saadawi and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1998-11-04 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nawal El Saadawi's books are known for their powerful denunciation of patriarchy in its many forms: social, political, and religious. Set in an insane asylum, The Innocence of the Devil is a complex and chilling novel that recasts the relationships of God and Satan, of good and evil. Intertwining the lives of two young women as they discover their sexual and emotional powers, Saadawi weaves a dreamlike narrative that reveals how the patriarchal structures of Christianity and Islam are strikingly similar: physical violation of women is not simply a social or political phenomenon, it is a religious one as well. While more measured in tone than Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses, Saadawi's novel is similar in its linguistic, literary, and philosophical richness. Evoking a world of pain and survival that may be unfamiliar to many readers, it speaks in a universal voice that reaches across cultures and is the author's most potent weapon.

Book Squaring the Circle

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  • Author : Wilder Bentley
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Squaring the Circle written by Wilder Bentley and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Idiot

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  • Author : Elif Batuman
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2018-02-13
  • ISBN : 014311106X
  • Pages : 465 pages

Download or read book The Idiot written by Elif Batuman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Book Review Notable Book • Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction • Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction “Easily the funniest book I’ve read this year.” —GQ “Masterly funny debut novel . . . Erudite but never pretentious, The Idiot will make you crave more books by Batuman.” —Sloane Crosley, Vanity Fair A portrait of the artist as a young woman. A novel about not just discovering but inventing oneself. The year is 1995, and email is new. Selin, the daughter of Turkish immigrants, arrives for her freshman year at Harvard. She signs up for classes in subjects she has never heard of, befriends her charismatic and worldly Serbian classmate, Svetlana, and, almost by accident, begins corresponding with Ivan, an older mathematics student from Hungary. Selin may have barely spoken to Ivan, but with each email they exchange, the act of writing seems to take on new and increasingly mysterious meanings. At the end of the school year, Ivan goes to Budapest for the summer, and Selin heads to the Hungarian countryside, to teach English in a program run by one of Ivan's friends. On the way, she spends two weeks visiting Paris with Svetlana. Selin's summer in Europe does not resonate with anything she has previously heard about the typical experiences of American college students, or indeed of any other kinds of people. For Selin, this is a journey further inside herself: a coming to grips with the ineffable and exhilarating confusion of first love, and with the growing consciousness that she is doomed to become a writer. With superlative emotional and intellectual sensitivity, mordant wit, and pitch-perfect style, Batuman dramatizes the uncertainty of life on the cusp of adulthood. Her prose is a rare and inimitable combination of tenderness and wisdom; its logic as natural and inscrutable as that of memory itself. The Idiot is a heroic yet self-effacing reckoning with the terror and joy of becoming a person in a world that is as intoxicating as it is disquieting. Batuman's fiction is unguarded against both life's affronts and its beauty--and has at its command the complete range of thinking and feeling which they entail. Named one the best books of the year by Refinery29 • Mashable One • Elle Magazine • The New York Times • Bookpage • Vogue • NPR • Buzzfeed •The Millions

Book The Bone House

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  • Author : Brian Freeman
  • Publisher : Minotaur Books
  • Release : 2011-03-29
  • ISBN : 1429967692
  • Pages : 352 pages

Download or read book The Bone House written by Brian Freeman and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2011-03-29 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hilary and Mark Bradley are trapped in a web of suspicion. Last year, accusations of a torrid affair with a student cost Mark his teaching job and made the young couple into outcasts in their remote island town off the Lake Michigan coast. Now another teenage girl is found dead on a deserted beach. . . and once again, Mark faces a hostile town convinced of his guilt. Hilary Bradley is determined to prove that Mark is innocent, but she's on a lonely, dangerous quest. Even when she discovers that the murdered girl was witness to a horrific crime years earlier, the police are certain she's throwing up a smoke screen to protect her husband. Only a quirky detective named Cab Bolton seems willing to believe Hilary's story. Hilary and Cab soon find that people in this community are willing to kill to keep their secrets hidden—and to make sure Mark doesn't get away with murder. And with each shocking revelation, even Hilary begins to wonder whether her husband is truly innocent. Freeman's The Bone House, his first stand-alone thriller since his Stride novels, is a knockout.

Book Proof of Innocence  Innocence Trilogy mystery series  Book 1

Download or read book Proof of Innocence Innocence Trilogy mystery series Book 1 written by Patricia McLinn and published by Craig Place Books. This book was released on 2018-05-22 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Innocent Eye

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  • Author : Nico Orlandi
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2014
  • ISBN : 0199375038
  • Pages : 260 pages

Download or read book The Innocent Eye written by Nico Orlandi and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why does the world look to us as it does? Generally speaking, this question has received two types of answers in the cognitive sciences in the past fifty or so years. According to the first, the world looks to us the way it does because we construct it to look as it does. According to the second, the world looks as it does primarily because of how the world is. In The Innocent Eye, Nico Orlandi defends a position that aligns with this second, world-centered tradition, but that also respects some of the insights of constructivism. Orlandi develops an embedded understanding of visual processing according to which, while visual percepts are representational states, the states and structures that precede the production of percepts are not representations. If we study the environmental contingencies in which vision occurs, and we properly distinguish functional states and features of the visual apparatus from representational states and features, we obtain an empirically more plausible, world-centered account. Orlandi shows that this account accords well with models of vision in perceptual psychology -- such as Natural Scene Statistics and Bayesian approaches to perception -- and outlines some of the ways in which it differs from recent 'enactive' approaches to vision. The main difference is that, although the embedded account recognizes the importance of movement for perception, it does not appeal to action to uncover the richness of visual stimulation. The upshot is that constructive models of vision ascribe mental representations too liberally, ultimately misunderstanding the notion. Orlandi offers a proposal for what mental representations are that, following insights from Brentano, James and a number of contemporary cognitive scientists, appeals to the notions of de-coupleability and absence to distinguish representations from mere tracking states.

Book The Scottish Review

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1891
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 516 pages

Download or read book The Scottish Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Age of Innocence

Download or read book The Age of Innocence written by Edith Wharton and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Age of Innocence centers on an upper-class couple's impending marriage, and the introduction of the bride's cousin, plagued by scandal, whose presence threatens their happiness. The novel is noted for attention to detail and its accurate portrayal of how the 19th-century East Coast American upper class lived, as well as for the social tragedy of its plot.

Book Tangled Innocence

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  • Author : Carrie Ann Ryan
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-11-06
  • ISBN : 9781636950778
  • Pages : 290 pages

Download or read book Tangled Innocence written by Carrie Ann Ryan and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-06 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As one of the seven lightning-struck women, Nadie Morgan knew that her fate would be forever changed and revolve around a certain dragon. From the first time Dante Bell saw Nadie, he knew that she was the one for him. There's just one problem: there's another in his life Dante's waiting on, as well. When Jace Goodwin, a bear shifter and Mediator, finally comes back to the human realm after years away, his first stop is Dante's Circle, where he not only finds his dragon but also the woman they've both been waiting for. Once secrets are told, and the sparks fly, Nadie's new life becomes something she never thought possible. However, there's another realm at play, and Jace and Nadie's dragon will have to fight against the realms themselves to keep the two mates he's wanted and waited eons for.

Book Innocence

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  • Author : Penelope Fitzgerald
  • Publisher : HMH
  • Release : 2013-03-18
  • ISBN : 0544227654
  • Pages : 227 pages

Download or read book Innocence written by Penelope Fitzgerald and published by HMH. This book was released on 2013-03-18 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A delectable comedy of manners” set in 1950s Florence, by the Man Booker Prize–winning author of The Bookshop (The Boston Globe). It’s 1955, and Italy is still struggling a decade after the end of World War II. So are the Ridolfis, a Florentine family of long and fading noble lineage. Like their decrepit villa, they’ve seen better days. Only eighteen-year-old Chiara shows anything like vitality—however impulsive and perilously naïve. Chiara has set her heart and her future on Salvatore Rossi, a brilliant, penniless young doctor and bull-headed son of a Communist, who has erased both politics and romance from his list of priorities. With her plans stymied, Chiara calls on her resourceful and meddlesome British girlfriend, Barney, to help make an impossible match. Now, out of good intentions and the most innocent of instincts, two guileless friends are going to make a series of astonishingly wrong moves in the name of love. From a winner of multiple major literary awards who was called “the best English novelist of her time” by Julian Barnes, Innocence is a novel “not just about Italians in love but of living and loving for all humans” (The Times). “As intoxicating as a shot of aged brandy.” —The Washington Post

Book Taming the Presumption of Innocence

Download or read book Taming the Presumption of Innocence written by Richard L. Lippke and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taming the Presumption of Innocence provides a comprehensive account of the presumption of innocence in criminal law and procedure. It maintains that the presumption is a vital component of the proof structure of criminal trials.