Download or read book Journal of the American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Superstition A Very Short Introduction written by Stuart Vyse and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-23 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you touch wood for luck, or avoid hotel rooms on floor thirteen? Would you cross the path of a black cat, or step under a ladder? Is breaking a mirror just an expensive waste of glass, or something rather more sinister? Despite the dominance of science in today's world, superstitious beliefs - both traditional and new - remain surprisingly popular. A recent survey of adults in the United States found that 33 percent believed that finding a penny was good luck, and 23 percent believed that the number seven was lucky. Where did these superstitions come from, and why do they persist today? This Very Short Introduction explores the nature and surprising history of superstition from antiquity to the present. For two millennia, superstition was a label derisively applied to foreign religions and unacceptable religious practices, and its primary purpose was used to separate groups and assert religious and social authority. After the Enlightenment, the superstition label was still used to define groups, but the new dividing line was between reason and unreason. Today, despite our apparent sophistication and technological advances, superstitious belief and behaviour remain widespread, and highly educated people are not immune. Stuart Vyse takes an exciting look at the varieties of popular superstitious beliefs today and the psychological reasons behind their continued existence, as well as the likely future course of superstition in our increasingly connected world. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Download or read book Crime And Its Repression written by Gustav Aschaffenburg and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Superstition written by Karen Robards and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-05-30 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A killer has come out of hiding in this haunting novel by New York Times bestselling author Karen Robards. Pawleys Island hides a dark history of a shocking cold case: the murder of a local girl and the strange disappearance of her two friends. This unsolved crime could be journalist Nicole Sullivan’s big break, so she works intimately with Police Chief Joe Franconi to get the story straight. But their investigation takes a shocking turn when another young woman is murdered. As the body count rises, so does Nicole’s fear that the killer has returned to bury a terrifying secret—and to resurrect the ghost of a crime long thought dead.
Download or read book Unlucky Charms written by Linda O. Johnston and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2016-10-08 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rory Chasen, manager of the Lucky Dog Boutique in Destiny, California, hopes her new line of good-luck doggy toys will be a hit, especially the stuffed rabbits with extra-large feet. The timing of the line's debut proves ill-fated, though, as several local shops—including Rory's—are ransacked and vandalized with spilled salt and other unlucky charms. The most likely culprit is disgruntled real estate agent Flora Curtival, whose issues with the town give her a motive. But after Flora is murdered and one of Rory's toy rabbits is found with the body, Rory needs all the luck she can get while trying to determine just who killed the superstitious vandal. Praise: "This is one author who has a great gift for telling a great tale that both humans and animals can enjoy."—Suspense Magazine
Download or read book A Biblical Response to Superstition Will Worship and the Christmas Holiday written by Daniel Cawdrey and published by Puritan Publications. This book was released on 2012-06-25 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this work, Cawdrey exegetically and biblically demonstrates that worship to God is accomplished through God’s prescription alone. Anything less is man’s invention which leads to superstition and will-worship. He ably defends the regulative principle of worship (that God alone determines the manner in which sinners are to approach him) and demonstrates that even the holiday of Christmas, in the manner that people use it as a “holy day,” is in fact filled with superstition, and must be considered will-worship. This is a powerful and scholarly treatise on holding steadfastly to God’s prescribed manner of worship, and an exhortation to throw out all man-made inventions that hinder communion with God. This work is not a scan or facsimile and has been made easy to read with an active table of contents for electronic versions.
Download or read book Crime Cultural Conflict and Justice in Rural Russia 1856 1914 written by Stephen P. Frank and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first to explore the largely unknown world of rural crime and justice in post-emancipation Imperial Russia. Drawing upon previously untapped provincial archives and a wealth of other neglected primary material, Stephen P. Frank offers a major reassessment of the interactions between peasantry and the state in the decades leading up to World War I. Viewing crime and punishment as contested metaphors about social order, his revisionist study documents the varied understandings of criminality and justice that underlay deep conflicts in Russian society, and it contrasts official and elite representations of rural criminality—and of peasants—with the realities of everyday crime at the village level.
Download or read book Criminal Investigation written by Hans Gross and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 1014 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Criminal Investigation A Practical Handbook written by Hans Gross and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 1010 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Journal of Criminal Law Criminology and Police Science written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mysteries of Police and Crime written by Arthur Griffiths and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Superstition Over Reason written by Shawn Jones and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2021-12-06 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The small community of Amos, Idaho, had long enjoyed a state of serenity and reason. Within the simple yet complacent lives of the people in the town, there is no reason to suppose that there could be anything amiss within their own consciousness until people’s superstitions begin to get the best of them, which would lead to uncertainties concerning the role that their lives play in the rational world outside of their own minds.
Download or read book Superstition and Force written by Henry Charles Lea and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on 1878 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Staging the Superstitions of Early Modern Europe written by Asst Prof Verena Theile and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-03-28 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engaging with fiction and history-and reading both genres as texts permeated with early modern anxieties, desires, and apprehensions-this collection scrutinizes the historical intersection of early modern European superstitions and English stage literature. Contributors analyze the cultural mechanisms that shape, preserve, and transmit beliefs. They investigate where superstitions come from and how they are sustained and communicated within early modern European society. It has been proposed by scholars that once enacted on stage and thus brought into contact with the literary-dramatic perspective, belief systems that had been preserved and reinforced by historical-literary texts underwent a drastic change. By highlighting the connection between historical-literary and literary-dramatic culture, this volume tests and explores the theory that performance of superstitions opened the way to disbelief.
Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 1328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Tribunal where Superstition is Condemned and the Providence of God Justified to Men written by James Boully and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Superstition and Force written by Henry Charles Lea and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
