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Book Private Eyes and the Public Gaze

Download or read book Private Eyes and the Public Gaze written by Sonja Kmec and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Evil Spirit Out of the West  Akhenaten Trilogy  Book 1

Download or read book An Evil Spirit Out of the West Akhenaten Trilogy Book 1 written by Paul Doherty and published by Headline. This book was released on 2012-09-25 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sinister king. A scheming queen. A deadly plot. An Evil Spirit Out of the West is the first novel in a trilogy set in one of the most turbulent and exciting periods of Ancient Egyptian history, from acclaimed author Paul Doherty. Perfect for fans of Brad Geagley and Wilbur Smith. 'Doherty has typically woven a delightfully dark tale around what must have been the most remarkable period of Egyptian history... So stoke up the fire, draw the curtains and put your feet up in order to enjoy this delightfully spooky and robust tale of demons, death and disease in old Egypt. Great stuff!' - Historical Novels Review Known as the Veiled One, the ugly and deformed Akenhaten is a shadowy figure. As a child he is overlooked and despised by his own father. As an adult he is thrust into the political limelight when his elder brother dies. Mahu, ambitious and ruthless, watches the young prince carve his own path to power. He becomes Akenhaten's alter ego, his protector and confidant, standing by as Akenhaten proclaims that there is only one God, the Aten, and that he, Akenhaten, is that God's only son. Revolution and chaos follow in this dramatic reign filled with fraud, abduction, assassination, betrayal and treachery. But when Mahu becomes suspicious of Akenhaten's majestic and glorious wife Nefertiti, and the political skill of her brother, Ay, it seems that a hidden and malign influence may also be at work. And then Akenhaten disappears... What readers are saying about Paul Doherty: '5 stars are not enough for this book!' 'Beautifully written, exciting and interesting' 'The sounds and smells of the period seem to waft from the pages of [Paul Doherty's] books'

Book Acts and Resolves as Passed by the Legislature

Download or read book Acts and Resolves as Passed by the Legislature written by Maine and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Acts and Resolves as Passed by the     Legislature

Download or read book Acts and Resolves as Passed by the Legislature written by and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Jeremiah

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert Davidson
  • Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
  • Release : 1983-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780664245818
  • Pages : 228 pages

Download or read book Jeremiah written by Robert Davidson and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume Robert Davidson examines Jeremiah's uncomfortable relationship with the political and religious establishments of his day. He guides us through the prophecies given in the last years of Jerusalem, the account of the fall of Jerusalem, the oracles against foreign nations, and a final historical appendix. In discussing Lamentations, Davidson states that in this biblical book are found "not only moving and passionate expressions of grief and sorrow, but also of faith.. Such faith was only possible for those who took seriously what Jeremiah had all along said about the inevitable working out of God's judgment upon Jerusalem." Carrying forward brilliantly the pattern established by Barclay's New Testament series, the Daily Study Bible has been extended to cover the entire Old Testament as well. Invaluable for individual devotional study, for group discussion, and for classroom use, the Daily Study Bible provides a useful, reliable, and eminently readable way to discover what the Scriptures were saying then and what God is saying today.

Book Marxist Shakespeares

Download or read book Marxist Shakespeares written by Jean E. Howard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marxist Shakespeares uses the rich analytic resources of the Marxist tradition to look at Shakespeare's plays afresh. The book offers new insights into the historical conditions within which Shakespeare's representations of class and gender emerged, and into Shakespeare's role in the global culture industry stretching from Hollywood to the Globe Theatre. A vital resource for students of Shakespeare which includes Marx's own readings of Shakespeare, Derrida on Marx, and also Bourdieu, Bataillle, Negri and Alice Clark.

Book The Lutheran Quarterly

Download or read book The Lutheran Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Monthly Law Reporter

Download or read book The Monthly Law Reporter written by and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Public Gaze and the Prying Eye

Download or read book The Public Gaze and the Prying Eye written by Jerome Nadelhaft and published by . This book was released on 2019-03-11 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It is difficult to define with precision what is and what is not extreme and repeated cruelty," an Illinois judge noted in 1882. Throughout the century, some courts acted in accordance with the words of an anonymous author of an 1831 piece in the Carolina Law Journal: "The indurance of partial suffering, from incompatibility of tempers, or vicious habits, among married people is an evil vastly less... than that which arises" from easy divorce. Judicially, for some courts the tone had been set by an often cited late eighteenth-century English case, Evans v. Evans. In a long drawn out judgment, Sir William Scott had declared: "the happiness of some individuals must be sacrificed to the greater and more general good." In New York in 1863 Hannah Solomon accused her husband of attempting to break her arm, of pulling a chair out from under her while she was holding her child, and of kicking her several times. The judge was not convinced she was telling the truth, but in the end he decided it really did not matter. If true, this "single instance" of cruelty "should receive the reprobation of every just person," but still, it ought to be forgiven. Husbands and wives "should bear long and patiently with each other." As Iowa Chief Justice Day put it in 1871, "married couples, for the good of their common offspring, the conservation of social order, and the maintenance of general morality, must bear with patience and composure the occasional disquietudes growing out of inharmonious tempers and dispositions." Ruling in an 1890 case which involved at least one act of violence, "outbursts of temper," an undescribed incident with a poker,"It is difficult to define with precision what is and what is not extreme and repeated cruelty," an Illinois judge noted in 1882, although for some judges it hardly mattered. Throughout the century, some courts, fortunately only a minority, acted in accordance with the words of an anonymous author of an 1831 piece in the Carolina Law Journal: "The indurance of partial suffering, from incompatibility of tempers, or vicious habits, among married people is an evil vastly less... than that which arises" from easy divorce. Judicially, for some courts the tone had been set by an often cited late eighteenth-century English case, Evans v. Evans. In a long drawn out judgment, Sir William Scott had declared: "the happiness of some individuals must be sacrificed to the greater and more general good." In New York in 1863 Hannah Solomon accused her husband of attempting to break her arm, of pulling a chair out from under her while she was holding her child, and of kicking her several times. The judge was not convinced she was telling the truth, but in the end he decided it really did not matter. If true, this "single instance" of cruelty "should receive the reprobation of every just person," but still, it ought to be forgiven. Husbands and wives "should bear long and patiently with each other." As Iowa Chief Justice Day put it in 1871, "married couples, for the good of their common offspring, the conservation of social order, and the maintenance of general morality, must bear with patience and composure the occasional disquietudes growing out of inharmonious tempers and dispositions." Ruling in an 1890 case which involved at least one act of violence, "outbursts of temper," an undescribed incident with a poker, the display of a pistol, and a broken promise not to drink, a New York Supreme Court overturned a lower court's grant of separation. It might well be disagreeable for a woman to continue an association with such a man, but "the necessity to endure... is one of the evils attending the marriage state."1 Or, as Sir William Scott had put it one hundred years earlier, marriage was "for better, for worse," to be "submitted to with patience" even when it "exhibit[s] a great deal of the misery that clouds human life."

Book Shall We Legislate

Download or read book Shall We Legislate written by William Barrows and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Creed and Conduct and Other Discourses

Download or read book Creed and Conduct and Other Discourses written by Octavius Brooks Frothingham and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Companion to Feminist Geography

Download or read book A Companion to Feminist Geography written by Lise Nelson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Feminist Geography captures the breadth anddiversity of this vibrant and substantive field. Shows how feminist geography has changed the landscape ofgeographical inquiry and knowledge since the 1970s. Explores the diverse literatures that comprise feministgeography today. Showcases cutting-edge research by feminist geographers. Charts emerging areas of scholarship, such as the body and thenation. Contributions from 50 leading international scholars in thefield. Each chapter can be read for its own distinctivecontribution.

Book Regionalism

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bertus De Villiers
  • Publisher : HSRC Press
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN : 9780796915481
  • Pages : 230 pages

Download or read book Regionalism written by Bertus De Villiers and published by HSRC Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1992 the South African debate on regional government has shifted its focus to the content of regional government and the way that it could contribute to democratisation, improved government, the prevention of conflict and the accommodation of ethnic and other diversities. The Centre for Constitutional Analysis at the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) has been actively involved in the stimulation and development of the debate on regional government in South Africa. Some of the initiatives taken by the Centre have included comparative research, the running of workshops, the involvement of international scholars and various publications. This latest book attempts to make a practical contribution to the debate and is therefore intended to provide practitioners with a framework that could be used for the solving of problems that are faced in and outside of the negotiation process.

Book Country Life in America

Download or read book Country Life in America written by Liberty Hyde Bailey and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 936 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Country Life

Download or read book Country Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 1072 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Heartsick and Astonished

    Book Details:
  • Author : Allison Dorothy Fredette
  • Publisher : University of Georgia Press
  • Release : 2023-05-15
  • ISBN : 0820364290
  • Pages : 399 pages

Download or read book Heartsick and Astonished written by Allison Dorothy Fredette and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2023-05-15 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heartsick and Astonished features twenty-seven divorce cases from mid-nineteenth century America. More than dry legal documents, these cases provide a captivating window into marital life—and strife—in the border South during the tumultuous years before, during, and after the Civil War. Allison Dorothy Fredette has brought these primary documents to light, revealing the inner thoughts, legal hardships, and day-to-day struggles of these average citizens. In Wheeling, West Virginia, the seat of Ohio County, courtrooms bore witness to men and women from various ethnic, racial, and class backgrounds who shared shockingly intimate details of their lives and relationships. Some tried desperately to defend their masculinity or femininity; others hoped to restore their reputations to the legal system and to their community. In an era of uncertainty—when the country was torn in two, when the Wheeling community became the capital of a new state, and when activists across the country began to push for women’s rights in the household and family—the divorce cases of ordinary couples reveal changing attitudes toward marriage, gender, and legal separation in a booming border city perched on the edge of the South.

Book Awfully Devoted Women

Download or read book Awfully Devoted Women written by Cameron Duder and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lives of many lesbians prior to 1965 remain cloaked in mystery. Historians have turned the spotlight on upper-middle-class “romantic friends” and on working-class butch and femme women, but the lives of the lower-middle-class majority remain in the shadows. Awfully Devoted Women offers a portrait of middle-class lesbianism in the decades before the gay rights movement in English Canada. This intimate study of the lives of women who were forced to love in secret not only challenges the idea that lesbian relationships in the past were asexual, it also reveals the courage it took to explore desire in an era when women were supposed to know little about sexuality.