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Book The Lachrymose Report

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  • Author : Sierra Nelson
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2018-09-21
  • ISBN : 9781949166002
  • Pages : 96 pages

Download or read book The Lachrymose Report written by Sierra Nelson and published by . This book was released on 2018-09-21 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sierra Nelson's poems are hypotheses of the evanescent world - its evaporations and evasions, its silences and speeches. "All ears, all eyes, all senses at attention," Nelson examines the tenuous tentacles that connect humans, plants, and animals, that tether us to the past - detailing the surreptitiousness of joy, the necessity of loss, how a body is changed by everything it encounters. Line by line The Lachrymose Report reveals how language, like feeling, originates deep in every cell, even as the wonder of these poems unfolds on an evolutionary scale.

Book Proceedings

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  • Author : Wisconsin Bar Association
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1906
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 540 pages

Download or read book Proceedings written by Wisconsin Bar Association and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book School Violence in Context

Download or read book School Violence in Context written by Rami Benbenishty and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-02-10 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on one of the most comprehensive and representative studies of school violence ever conducted, Benbenishty and Astor explore and differentiate the many manifestations of victimization in schools, providing a new model for understanding school violence in context. The authors make striking use of the geopolitical climate of the Middle East to model school violence in terms of its context within as well as outside of the school site. This pioneering new work is unique in that it uses empirical data to show which variables and factors are similar across different cultures and which variables appear unique to different cultures. This empirical contrast of universal with culturally specific patterns is sorely needed in the school violence literature. The authors' innovative research maps the contours of verbal, social, physical, and sexual victimization and weapons possession, as well as staff-initiated violence against students, presenting some startling findings along the way. When comparing schools in Israel with schools in California, the authors demonstrate for the first time that for most violent events the patterns of violent behaviors have the same relationship for different age groups, genders, and nations. Conversely, they highlight specific kinds of violence that are strongly influenced by culture. They reveal, for example, how Arab boys encounter much more boy-to-boy sexual harassment than their Jewish peers, and that teacher-initiated victimization of students constitutes a significant and often overlooked type of school violence, especially among certain cultural groups. Crucially, the authors expand the paradigm of understanding school violence to encompass the intersection of cultural, ethnic, neighborhood, and family characteristics with intra-school factors such as teacher-student dynamics, anti-violence policies, student participation, grade level, and religious and gender divisions. It is only by understanding the multiple contexts of school violence, they argue, that truly effective prevention programs, interventions, research agendas, and policies can be implemented. In an age of heightened concern over school security, this study has enormous implications for school violence theory, research, and policy throughout the world. The patterns that emerge from the authors' analysis form a blueprint for the research agenda needed to address new and exciting theoretical and practical questions regarding the intersections of context and school victimization. The unique perspective on school violence will undoubtedly strike a chord with all readers, informing scholars and students across the fields of social work, psychology, education, sociology, public health, and peace/conflict studies. Its clearly written and accessible style will appeal to teachers, principals, policy makers and parents interested in the authors' practical discussion of policy and intervention implications, making this an invaluable tool for understanding, preventing, and handling violence in schools throughout the world.

Book The Road Taken

Download or read book The Road Taken written by Michael Buerk and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-11-23 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Dawn, and as the sun breaks through the piercing chill of night on the plain outside Korem it lights up a biblical famine, now, in the Twentieth Century.' Those words opened Michael Buerk's first report on the Ethiopian famine for the 6 o'clock news on October 24th 1984. His reports sent shock waves round the world. The Live Aid concert, a direct consequence of Bob Geldof watching that broadcast, was watched by half the planet. Michael Buerk has reported on some of the biggest stories in our lifetime: the Flixborough chemical plant fire, the Birmingham pub bombing, Lockerbie. He was in Buenos Aires at the start of the Falklands War; he reported the death throes of apartheid in South Africa. He was the face of the BBC flagship evening news for many years and has fronted everything from the popular BBC1 series 999 to the erudite Radio 4 programme The Moral Maze. He has won every major award and is universally admired and respected for his intelligent and honest journalism. Here, he also reveals the private Michael Buerk, his bigamist father, his long and happy marriage to Christine and his delight at fatherhood.

Book Quarterly Review

Download or read book Quarterly Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 1154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Covenanters

Download or read book The Covenanters written by James King Hewison and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Quarterly Review

Download or read book The Quarterly Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Reports and Minutes of Evidence

Download or read book Reports and Minutes of Evidence written by Great Britain. Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Proceedings of the State Bar Association of Wisconsin

Download or read book Proceedings of the State Bar Association of Wisconsin written by State Bar Association of Wisconsin and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The London Quarterly Review

Download or read book The London Quarterly Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Official Reports of the Debates of the House of Commons of the Dominion of Canada

Download or read book Official Reports of the Debates of the House of Commons of the Dominion of Canada written by Canada. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Zapruder Film

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  • Author : David R. Wrone
  • Publisher : University Press of Kansas
  • Release : 2003-11-22
  • ISBN : 0700619437
  • Pages : 400 pages

Download or read book The Zapruder Film written by David R. Wrone and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2003-11-22 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is the most famous home movie of all time, the most closely analyzed 26 seconds of film ever shot, the most disturbing visual record of what many have called “the crime of the century.” In 486 frames—a mere six feet of celluloid—Abraham Zapruder’s iconic film captures from beginning to end the murder of President John F. Kennedy in broad daylight. An essential piece of evidence, the film has become nearly synonymous with the assassination itself and has generated decades of debate among conspiracy theorists and defenders of the Warren Commission’s official report. Until now, however, no scholar has produced a comprehensive book-length study of the film and its relation to the tragic events of November 22, 1963. David Wrone, one of our nation’s foremost authorities on the assassination, re-examines Zapruder’s film with a fresh eye and a deep knowledge of the forensic evidence. He traces the film’s history from its creation on the “grassy knoll” by Dallas dressmaker Zapruder through its initial sale to Life magazine and early reproductions and its analysis by the Warren Commission and countless assassination researchers, licensing by the Zapruder family, legal battles over bootleg copies, and sale to the federal government for sixteen million dollars. Wrone’s major contribution, however, is to demonstrate how a close examination of the film itself necessarily refutes the Warren Commission’s lone-gunman and single-bullet theories. The film, as he reminds us, provides a scientifically precise timeline of events, as well as crucial clues regarding the timing, number, origins, and impact of the shots fired that day. Analyzing the film frame-by-frame in relation to other evidence—including two key photos by Phil Willis and Ike Altgens—he builds a convincing case against the official findings. Without fanfare, he concludes that more than three gunshots were fired from more than one direction and that most likely none were fired by alleged assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. If true, then JFK’s death was the result of a conspiracy, for the Commission’s nonconspiracy conclusion requires a maximum of three shots and one gunman. Wrone, however, does not speculate as to who actually shot JFK or why—or even if Oswald was a part of the conspiracy. In fact, he is no fan of conspiracy-think and is just as critical of the legion of conspiracy theorists as he is of the Warren Commission (which, he reveals, crushed dissent within its own ranks). Doggedly pursuing the evidence wherever it leads, Wrone has produced a meticulous, clear-eyed, and provocative new reading of this remarkable cinematic Rosetta Stone.

Book Fieldstaff Reports

Download or read book Fieldstaff Reports written by American Universities Field Staff and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sacred Trash

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  • Author : Adina Hoffman
  • Publisher : Schocken
  • Release : 2016-06-21
  • ISBN : 080521223X
  • Pages : 306 pages

Download or read book Sacred Trash written by Adina Hoffman and published by Schocken. This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD FINALIST WINNER OF THE 2012 AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION’S SOPHIE BRODY AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN JEWISH LITERATURE Sacred Trash tells the remarkable story of the Cairo Geniza—a synagogue repository for worn-out texts that turned out to contain the most vital cache of Jewish manuscripts ever discovered. This tale of buried communal treasure weaves together unforgettable portraits of Solomon Schechter and the other modern heroes responsible for the collection’s rescue with explorations of the medieval documents themselves—letters and poems, wills and marriage contracts, Bibles, money orders, fiery dissenting religious tracts, fashion-conscious trousseaux lists, prescriptions, petitions, and mysterious magical charms. Presenting a pan­oramic view of almost a thousand years of vibrant Mediterranean Judaism, Adina Hoffman and Peter Cole bring contemporary readers into the heart of this little-known trove, whose contents have rightly been dubbed “the Living Sea Scrolls.” Part biography, part meditation on the supreme value the Jewish people has long placed in the written word, Sacred Trash is above all a gripping tale of adventure and redemption. (With black-and-white illustrations throughout.)

Book The Scottish Law Review and Sheriff Court Reports

Download or read book The Scottish Law Review and Sheriff Court Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. 29-47, 1913-1931 and v. 72-79, 1956-1963 include Scottish Land Court reports, v. 1-19 and v. 44-51.