Download or read book The Thirteenth Turn written by Jack Shuler and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a rope, a symbol, and rough justice in America. The hangman's knot is a simple thing to tie, just a rope carefully coiled around itself up to thirteen times. But in those thirteen turns lie a powerful symbol, one that is all too deeply connected to America's past -- and present. The last man to be hanged in the United States was Billy Bailey, who was executed in Delaware in 1996 for committing a double murder. Even today, hanging is still legal, in certain situations, in New Hampshire and Washington. And the noose remains a potent cultural symbol. An incident in Jena, Louisiana, in 2006, in which nooses were used to menace black students, made national news. Yet little has changed: according to author Jack Shuler, there have been nearly 100 "noose incidents" just in the last two years. The Thirteenth Turn unravels these stories, from Judas Iscariot, perhaps the most infamous hanged man, to the killing of Perry Smith and Richard Hickock, the murderers at the heart of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, and beyond. In his travels across America, Shuler traces the evolution of this dark practice. As he investigates the death of John Brown, or the 1930 lynching that inspired the song "Strange Fruit," he finds that the very places that perpetrated these acts now seek to forget them. Shuler's account is a kind of shadow history of America: a reminder that vigilantes and hangmen play a crucial role in our national story. The Thirteenth Turn is a courageous and searching book that reminds us where we come from, and what is lost if we forget.

Download or read book Slipping the Noose written by Meg Caddy and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This rollicking historical novel from Australian writer Meg Caddy takes us into the world of real-life pirate Anne Bonny, picking up her story where history left off.

Download or read book 1307 Days Under the Noose written by Rafail Kosovsky and published by Rafail Kosovsky. This book was released on 2008 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true and amazing story of a Jew surviving in German captivity during World War II.

Download or read book N is for Noose written by Sue Grafton and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-12-10 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: N is for Noose is the fourteenth in the Kinsey Millhone mystery series by Sue Grafton. Sometimes I think about how odd it would be to catch a glimpse of the future, a quick view of events lying in store for us. Some moments we saw would make no sense at all and some, I suspect, would frighten us beyond our endurance . . . Early spring in the Sierra Nevada, bringing the usual driving sleet and snow. Private investigator Kinsey Millhone is on her way west when she detours into Nota Lake (pop. 2356) to check out a new client. And encounters a chill she can scarcely believe. Only six weeks have passed since sheriff’s detective Tom Newquist died of a heart attack. His widow is sure he was keeping secrets from her just before he died – and she hires Kinsey to find out exactly what. But all Kinsey can uncover is that Newquist led an exemplary life, so what could he possibly have to conceal? And why has the town, to the last threatening redneck, closed ranks on her? Kinsey’s on the point of giving up. Until she discovers a chilling new clue: a childish drawing of a thick length of rope – fashioned into a hangman’s noose . . .

Download or read book The Noose Of A New Moon written by Helen Harper and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-04 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Devereau Webb is in uncharted territory. He thought he knew what he was doing when he chose to enter London's supernatural society but he's quickly discovering that his new status isn't welcome to everyone. He's lived through hard times before and he's no stranger to the murky underworld of city life. But when he comes across a young werewolf girl who's not only been illegally turned but who has also committed two brutal murders, he will discover just how difficult life can be for supernaturals - and also how far his own predatory powers extend. The Noose Of A New Moon follows on from the events in Midnight Smoke, the third book in the the Firebrand series although it can be read separately. 

Download or read book The Money Noose Jon Corzine and the Collapse of MF Global written by Scott E.D. Skyrm and published by ibooks. This book was released on 2014-10-29 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Skyrm makes complex financial scenarios accessible to all interested readers in an informative and entertaining manner. We can all learn something from this book.” —Thomas Peterffy, Chairman, CEO, and President of Interactive Brokers “Skyrm put together the story of MF Global like no one else could in providing the ultimate autopsy covering destructive financial engineering that’s played such a big role in our capital markets.” —Lawrence G. McDonald, New York Times best selling author of A COLOSSAL FAILURE OF COMMON SENSE “God is in the details...first come the reporters, then the lawyers. Skyrm’s book is the necessary antidote. Only someone who has ‘done’ it can explain it. Perhaps the best ‘counterfactual’ rationale for reading The Money Noose: If John Corzine had been able to before, there would likely have been no after.” —Stan Jonas, Managing Partner, Axiom Management Partners In 2010, President Barack Obama signed into law the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. MF Global was bankrupt less than a year after the law’s passage. THE MONEY NOOSE is a general accounting of the facts that led to MF Global’s collapse, as well as the story of the major players involved. It is a chaotic story, one in which individual actions taken in and of themselves are relatively minor. But the sum of those individual actions equal the same end result. This book is designed to tell the story of MF Global, what went wrong and how things came to an abrupt end. In those regards, it’s an incredible story.

Download or read book Noose Jumpers written by Trevor H. Cooley and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Noose Jumper Era - A chaotic time of lawlessness in the Old West when a growing tide of outlaws engaged in a race to become famous. Three young men emerge from a small town in the territory of New Mexico. They are bound by a pact and guided by mysterious powerful beings that no one else can see. Together they must face off against the Sheriff of Puerta de la Muerte, a wicked man who cannot be struck by bullets. Are they destined to become legends, or are they just mere Noose Jumpers? Noose Jumpers is written by Trevor H, Cooley, author of the highly acclaimed Bowl of Souls series.

Download or read book A Noose of Light written by Seamus Cullen and published by Sphere. This book was released on 1986 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Noose and Hook written by Lynn Emanuel and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2010-03-14 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I have long believed that Lynn Emanuel is one of the most innovative and subversive poets now writing in America. Her aesthetic and artistic choices consistently invoke a complex hybrid poetics that radically reimagines the shape of our poetic discourse. The brilliant, shattering, and disturbing poems of Noose and Hook are not only wry critiques of recent poetic and cultural activity in this country but also compelling signposts to what yet might be possible in our future. This is Lynn Emanuel's most exquisite and powerful book yet.”—David St. John

Download or read book Devil s Ballast written by Meg Caddy and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cutthroat and daring new YA release, featuring one of history’s greatest anti-heroines.

Download or read book Ebony written by and published by . This book was released on 2008-01 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EBONY is the flagship magazine of Johnson Publishing. Founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson, it still maintains the highest global circulation of any African American-focused magazine.

Download or read book The Hymns of the Atharvaveda written by Ralph Thomas Hotchkin Griffith and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Jungle Fugitives written by Edward S. Ellis and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Jungle Fugitives by Edward S. Ellis is about Dr. Hugh Marlowe's adventurous life in India, the patients he healed, and the family he raised. Excerpt: "All through India, with its fanatical population five times as great as that of England, the rumblings of the coming uprising had been heard for months. The disaffection had been spreading and taking root. The emissaries of the arch-plotters had passed back and forth almost from end to end of the vast empire, with their messages of hatred and appeal. The people were assured that the "Inglese loge" were perfecting their insidious schemes for overthrowing their religion, and the faithful everywhere were called upon to crush the infidels in the dust. The evil seed fell upon the rankest of soil, and grew with vigor and exuberance that threatened to strangle every other growth."

Download or read book Essence written by Sarah Waggoner and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2019-09-23 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essence is a collection of poems reflecting on the influences and obstacles that leave us with an option to rise from the ashes of personal tragedy, or be blown away in the wind. Through the author’s abstract observations humanity is linked to the inhuman, painting nature in a way that demonstrates the connection between the spirits of humanity and the Earth. The book portrays how the forces of life and death affect the human soul, bridging the gap between the realms, and building the foundation of who we are along the way. The book speaks to Nature’s spiritual inspirations that allows us to push forward and grow. Essence is a true odyssey of the elements that shape our character; building or breaking our hearts, weakening or strengthening our spirit, and forever shaping our soul.

Download or read book Earth Alien written by Mark Caldwell Walker and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2002-07 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Passion and The Glory The Greatest Love Story Ever Lived There have been numerous accounts of the life of Jesus, but throughout the whole century there has never been a single one written from the point of view of a woman. The Passion and the Glory The Greatest Love Story Ever Lived is the first Gospel written from the point of view of a woman, furthermore, it is the only one written from the perspective of the woman who loved Jesus passionately as a God and as a Man, Mary of Magdala. It is the Gospel of Mary of Magdala. A Gospel for the new Century. The Passion and the Glory The Greatest Love Story Ever Lived offers to the reader the most complete account of the life of Jesus the Christ that has ever been written in the history of Christianity. That is, it includes in it witnesses accounts of His birth, miracles and stories of His Infancy, the occult, or lost years, His mission, passion and death, and the rarely found mystery teachings of the Christ Jesus to His apostles after His Resurrection, these, although known to Theologians, have only been disclosed in some rare and hard to find Apocryphal Gospels. The Gospel of Mary Magdala is illuminating, human, intriguing and interesting because it gives us dimensions unknown to most of us of the humanity and divinity of Jesus the Christ, dimensions that only the woman who loved Him experienced and can help us to know Him better. At the same time, it also gives to us dimensions of our humanity and our unconscious quest to recuperate our forgotten divine status. Mary of Magdala is an integral part of us, the fallen humanity. Her fall and her redemption are both irrevocably tied to our fallen human nature and to our hopes for redemption, when we read her story we are able to understand our human selves, our relationship with Jesus the Christ and our divine potentials subjectively. It is as if her love affair with the Christ is our own love affair with His Spirit and her rise from sin into sainthood, the hope for our own future divinization. As we penetrate it, The Passion and The Glory The Greatest Story Ever Lived becomes our own story. We learn more about Jesus, His Love for us and are exposed to His Mystery teachings, a priceless treasure of wisdom which is not only liberating, but helps to fuel in us the innate desire to discover and recuperate our true, divine nature. The Gospel of Mary Magdalene is indeed a revolutionary Gospel of Love for the new minds and spirits of the Twenty-first Century. The Passion and The Glory - The Greatest Love Story Ever Lived is a Gospel that was rejected in the past, mainly because it came from a woman. Things have changed, what makes it most valuable in the new century is precisely that it comes from a woman. A woman who was not only one of Jesus closest disciples and His most intimate companion, but the one He chose to make an apostle to His apostles by making her the sole harbinger of His resurrection. In an age when women don t have to bend anymore under the dark cloud of male chauvinism, the Gospel of Mary Magdalene, the woman who loved Jesus is more than welcome. The fact that her vision of Jesus is that of a woman, makes her Gospel a great love story, passionate, deeper and more human, very different indeed from that of the male apostles. Mary of Magdala lived with Jesus Christ by and through His Grace, The Greatest Story of Love Ever Lived. Thus, it is her Gospel.

Download or read book Smellie s Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Midwifery written by Alfred H. McClintock and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-06-07 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.