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Book The King s Trial

Download or read book The King s Trial written by M. L. Farb and published by M.L. Farb. This book was released on 2019-06-26 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mute radical. A brutal queen. A quest through a deadly maze. Yosyph fences his heart and keeps his mouth shut. Posing as a mute tavern-hand, he gathers information on his bigoted queen and silently seeks to raise a rebellion. But when he discovers the monarch’s scheme to enslave thousands, he fears leading a revolt now would only end in a massacre. Desperate for allies in the coming war, Yosyph travels through a deadly desert in search of his kin. But he’s shocked to discover his only option to defeat the queen’s vast military is an ancient magic that will consume him–unless he opens himself to the voice of his god. Will Yosyph’s unexpected answers to his prayers stop his realm from descending into bloody darkness? 2019 Whitney Awards Nominee

Book The King Trials

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  • Author : D. L. Sims
  • Publisher : Chronicles of Wehlmir
  • Release : 2020-01-07
  • ISBN : 9781087850153
  • Pages : 292 pages

Download or read book The King Trials written by D. L. Sims and published by Chronicles of Wehlmir. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the King of Elthare dies, nobles are entered in to a deadly competition that will decide which of them will be king, but the event is cut short when their small kingdom is invaded by another country.

Book The Trials of the King of Hampshire

Download or read book The Trials of the King of Hampshire written by Elizabeth Foyster and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-09-08 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Guardian best history book of 2016 Eccentric, shy aristocrat … or mad, bad and dangerous to know? Neighbour Jane Austen found the 3rd earl of Portsmouth a model gentleman and Lord Byron maintained that, while the man was a fool, he was certainly no madman. Behind closed doors, though, Portsmouth delighted in pinching his servants so that they screamed, asked dairy-maids to bleed him with lancets and was obsessed with attending funerals. After he’d lived this way for years, in 1823 his own family set out to have him declared insane. Still reeling from the madness of King George, society could not tear itself away from what would become the longest, costliest and most controversial insanity trial in British history.

Book The King s Shadow

Download or read book The King s Shadow written by M. L. Farb and published by M.L. Farb. This book was released on 2019-12-21 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two princes lead a war-broken people. One rules while the other serves in the shadows, haunted by encroaching death. Halavant overthrew his queen mother to save his people from slavery, and now she seeks his life. Yosyph acts as the new king's eyes and ears, but being invisible comes at great cost and his life is slipping away. To save his closest friend, Halavant travels to the land of the skin-carving Carani, leaving Yosyph to rule a troubled people despite his ill health and the nobles on the verge of rebellion. Unless Halavant can survive in the land of his enemies to find a cure and Yosyph can unite the frightened and starving people against a second war, both will die and their budding democracy will crumble under a new tyrant.

Book Law and Love

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  • Author : Paul W. Kahn
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2000-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780300078282
  • Pages : 232 pages

Download or read book Law and Love written by Paul W. Kahn and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Law and Love shows what the best interdisciplinary work can achieve. In addition to providing surprising new readings of all of the major characters in the play, this book expands the horizons of literary studies by introducing the concerns of the legal imagination, and it introduces law into the heart of cultural studies."--BOOK JACKET.

Book Great American Trials

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  • Author : Edward W. Knappman
  • Publisher : Great American Trials
  • Release : 2001-11
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 810 pages

Download or read book Great American Trials written by Edward W. Knappman and published by Great American Trials. This book was released on 2001-11 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great American Trials covers 378 historically and legally significant or notorious courtroom battles.

Book A History of Political Trials

Download or read book A History of Political Trials written by John Laughland and published by Peter Lang Limited, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The modern use of international tribunals to try heads of state for genocide and crimes against humanity is often considered a positive development. In A History of Political Trials, John Laughland shows that trials of heads of state are in fact not new, and that previous trials throughout history have themselves violated the law and due process.

Book A Perversion of Justice

Download or read book A Perversion of Justice written by Kathryn Medico and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2004-05-25 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A startling look inside one of the most fascinating cases of last year––the murder of Terry King, the conviction of his 12 and 13–year old sons, and the pedophile who was accused of being an accessory. On November 26, 2001, Terry King was found dead in his recliner in his home in Pensacola, Florida. Though a fire had been set in an attempt to cover up the scene, the evidence was indisputable––he had been beaten to death with a baseball bat. Days later, King's two young sons, 12 and 13 and not even five feet tall each, were found hiding out in the mobile home of their close friend, Rick Chavis, a convicted pedophile who had recently become very close to 12–year old Alex. In parallel statements, Alex and Derek confessed to murdering their father, and soon, they became the two youngest people ever to stand on trial for murder in the state of Florida. But in a startling twist, the prosecution decided to do the unprecedented––try the boys for murder in one trial and Rick Chavis for murder in another, despite the boys' confessions. And in a case that gripped the state of Florida and hit headlines across the nation, convictions came down and were soon overturned. But in the end, the case became a series of missed opportunities, stunning reversals, and one of the most riveting true crime stories of the last decade.

Book The Trials

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  • Author : Linda Nagata
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2015-08-18
  • ISBN : 1481440969
  • Pages : 480 pages

Download or read book The Trials written by Linda Nagata and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wake of nuclear terrorism, a squad of elite soldiers must combat artificial intelligence and seek justice in this military political thriller, a sequel to The Red. Lieutenant James Shelley and his squad of US Army soldiers were on a quest for justice when they carried out the unauthorized mission known as First Light. They returned home to America to face a court-martial, determined to expose the corruption in the chain of command that compelled their actions. But in a country still reeling from the nuclear terrorism of Coma Day, the courtroom is just one battlefield of many. A new cycle of violence ignites when rumors of the elusive, rogue AI known as the Red go public—and Shelley is, once again, pulled into the fray. Challenged by his enemies, driven by ideals, Shelley feels compelled to act. But are the harrowing choices he makes really his own, or are they made for him, by the Red? And with millions of lives at stake in a game of nuclear cat-and-mouse, does the answer even matter?

Book The Trials of Frances Howard

Download or read book The Trials of Frances Howard written by David Lindley and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Lindley re-examines the murder trials of Frances Howard and the historical representations of her as `wife, a witch, a murderess and a whore', challenging the assumptions that have constructed her as a model of female villainy.

Book The Trial of Adolf Hitler  The Beer Hall Putsch and the Rise of Nazi Germany

Download or read book The Trial of Adolf Hitler The Beer Hall Putsch and the Rise of Nazi Germany written by David King and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Gripping… a disturbing portrait of how an advanced country can descend into chaos.” —Frederick Taylor, Wall Street Journal The Trial of Adolf Hitler tells the true story of the monumental criminal proceeding that thrust Hitler into the limelight after the failed beer hall putsch, provided him with an unprecedented stage for his demagoguery, and set him on his improbable path to power. Reporters from as far away as Argentina and Australia flocked to Munich for the sensational, four-week spectacle. By the end, Hitler would transform a fiasco into a stunning victory for the fledgling Nazi Party. The first book in English on the subject, The Trial of Adolf Hitler draws on never-before-published sources to re-create in riveting detail a haunting failure of justice with catastrophic consequences.

Book Trials of the Whistle King

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  • Author : Howard Wright
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-05-05
  • ISBN : 9780960054763
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Trials of the Whistle King written by Howard Wright and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine what goes through a stuttering 14 year old ADHD child's mind when his teacher tells him that she thought he should repeat seventh grade and then, three months later, invents the loudest whistle in the world. Consider what this bewildered boy was thinking when, after graduating from high school with a 1.9 GPA, excels in college through techniques he develops to correct his speech, his memorization and his focus, is rejected from every medical school in the US only to be accepted to a dental school purely by accident? But is anything an accident when one places their faith in God?Unearthing the weird whistle he invented as a kid, it is sold to over a thousand stores, he is embezzled to near bankruptcy by a crooked dental partner and his new color changing toothpaste invention and its multimillion dollar contract are hijacked by an unscrupulous examiner in the patent and trademark office? He trusts in Christ and then holds on.In Trials of the Whistle King, feel the passion, frustration and excitement as Dr. Howard Wright undergoes a metamorphosis of mind, body and spirit as he moves from fear to strength, from selfishness to Christ filled. Experience the thrill as he battles a patent stealing mega-corporation, incompetent and unscrupulous lawyers and the sudden death of his beloved mentor. Share the excitement as he changes from a shy and confused young person into a street smart and savvy business leader.

Book City of Thorns

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  • Author : C. N. Crawford
  • Publisher : Corey Press
  • Release : 2021-08-11
  • ISBN : 9781956290028
  • Pages : 306 pages

Download or read book City of Thorns written by C. N. Crawford and published by Corey Press. This book was released on 2021-08-11 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paperback

Book The Trials of Nina McCall

Download or read book The Trials of Nina McCall written by Scott W. Stern and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nearly forgotten story of the fight against the American Plan, a government program designed to regulate women’s bodies and sexuality “A consistently surprising page-turner . . . a brilliant study of the way social anxieties have historically congealed in state control over women’s bodies and behavior.” —New York Times Book Review Nina McCall was one of many women unfairly imprisoned by the United States government throughout the twentieth century. Tens, probably hundreds, of thousands of women and girls were locked up—usually without due process—simply because officials suspected these women were prostitutes, carrying STIs, or just “promiscuous.” This discriminatory program, dubbed the “American Plan,” lasted from the 1910s into the 1950s, implicating a number of luminaries, including Eleanor Roosevelt, John D. Rockefeller Jr., Earl Warren, and even Eliot Ness, while laying the foundation for the modern system of women’s prisons. In some places, vestiges of the Plan lingered into the 1960s and 1970s, and the laws that undergirded it remain on the books to this day. Nina McCall’s story provides crucial insight into the lives of countless other women incarcerated under the American Plan. Stern demonstrates the pain and shame felt by these women and details the multitude of mortifications they endured, both during and after their internment. Yet thousands of incarcerated women rioted, fought back against their oppressors, or burned their detention facilities to the ground; they jumped out of windows or leapt from moving trains or scaled barbed-wire fences in order to escape. And, as Nina McCall did, they sued their captors. In an age of renewed activism surrounding harassment, health care, prisons, women’s rights, and the power of the state, this virtually lost chapter of our history is vital reading.

Book Trials of Passion

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  • Author : Lisa Appignanesi
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2015-07-15
  • ISBN : 1605988154
  • Pages : 265 pages

Download or read book Trials of Passion written by Lisa Appignanesi and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A journey into the heart of dark passions and the crimes they impel. When passion is in the picture, what is criminal, what is sane, what is mad or simply bad? Through court and asylum records, letters and newspaper accounts, this book brings to life some sensational trials between 1870 and 1914, a period when the psychiatric professions were consolidating their hold on our understanding of what is human. Outside fiction, individual emotions and the inner life had rarely been publicly discussed: now, in an increasingly popular press and its courtroom reports, people avidly consumed accounts of transgressive sexuality, savage jealousy and forbidden desires. These stood revealed as aspects not only of those labelled mad, but potentially, of everyone. With great story-telling flair and a wealth of historical detail, Lisa Appignanesi teases out the vagaries of passion and the clashes between the law and the clinic as they stumble towards a (sometimes reviled) collaboration. Sexual etiquette and class roles, attitudes to love, madness and gender, notions of respectability and honor, insanity and lunacy, all are at play in that vital forum in which public opinion is shaped—the theater of the courtroom.

Book The Princess Trials

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  • Author : Cordelia K. Castel
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-05-02
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 504 pages

Download or read book The Princess Trials written by Cordelia K. Castel and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-02 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty young women. A handsome prince. A battle to the death Water is scarce. Deserts have taken over the land. Nuclear war has devastated humanity. Humans live in walled super cities to keep out the irradiated. The land that was formerly known as America is divided into kingdoms ruled by royal elites.Born into the lowest Echelon of the Kingdom of Phangloria, sixteen-year-old Zea Calico faces a life of hunger, thirst, and toil. The only way out of this drudgery is revolution, and Zea is desperate to help the cause. When the palace calls for candidates to compete to marry Prince Kevon, Zea joins the Princess Trials to search the palace for weaknesses. The trials should be a fairytale of sumptuous meals, ballgowns, and romance, but one misplaced word causes Zea to attract the Prince's attention. When Zea uncovers the man beneath Prince Kevon's public facade, she is at risk of falling in love and losing sight of her mission. But the televised beauty pageant turns deadly, and Zea must fight for survival.Perfect for fans of The Hunger Games and The Selection, this exciting tale of courage, intrigue, and betrayal will have you turning pages.