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Author: Pat
Publisher: WestBow Press
Published: 2012-10
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 1449765378
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book will catapult and heighten your hope and belief in yourself, your future as well as in your relationship with God. You will see that it is possible to release the pain of the past replacing it with love. The light of truth will shine brighter through your relationships giving you a richer and more fulfilling life.
Author: Matthias Roick
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2017-02-23
Total Pages: 333
ISBN-13: 1474281869
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst secretary to the Aragonese kings of Naples, Giovanni Pontano (1429-1503) was a key figure of the Italian Renaissance. A poet and a philosopher of high repute, Pontano's works offer a reflection on the achievements of fifteenth-century humanism and address major themes of early modern moral and political thought. Taking his defining inspiration from Aristotle, Pontano wrote on topics such as prudence, fortune, magnificence, and the art of pleasant conversation, rewriting Aristotle's Ethics in the guise of a new Latin philosophy, inscribed with the patterns of Renaissance culture. This book shows how Pontano's rewriting of Aristotelian ethics affected not only his philosophical views, but also his political life and his place in the humanist movement. Drawing on Pontano's treatises, dialogues, letters, poems and political writings, Matthias Roick presents us with the first comprehensive study of Pontano's moral and political thought, offering novel insights into the workings of Aristotelian virtue ethics in the early modern period.
Author: Brandon L. Garrett
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2012-09-03
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 0674066111
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn January 20, 1984, Earl WashingtonÑdefended for all of forty minutes by a lawyer who had never tried a death penalty caseÑwas found guilty of rape and murder in the state of Virginia and sentenced to death. After nine years on death row, DNA testing cast doubt on his conviction and saved his life. However, he spent another eight years in prison before more sophisticated DNA technology proved his innocence and convicted the guilty man. DNA exonerations have shattered confidence in the criminal justice system by exposing how often we have convicted the innocent and let the guilty walk free. In this unsettling in-depth analysis, Brandon Garrett examines what went wrong in the cases of the first 250 wrongfully convicted people to be exonerated by DNA testing. Based on trial transcripts, Garrett's investigation into the causes of wrongful convictions reveals larger patterns of incompetence, abuse, and error. Evidence corrupted by suggestive eyewitness procedures, coercive interrogations, unsound and unreliable forensics, shoddy investigative practices, cognitive bias, and poor lawyering illustrates the weaknesses built into our current criminal justice system. Garrett proposes practical reforms that rely more on documented, recorded, and audited evidence, and less on fallible human memory. Very few crimes committed in the United States involve biological evidence that can be tested using DNA. How many unjust convictions are there that we will never discover? Convicting the Innocent makes a powerful case for systemic reforms to improve the accuracy of all criminal cases.
Author: Vivian Gilbert Zabel
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2005-06-01
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 141163103X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVivian Gilbert Zabel and Holly Jahangiri offer a collection of 21 original short stories spanning a variety of themes and genre, many crime or mystery based.
Author: Jan A. Krancher
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2003-08-21
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780786417070
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFollowing their invasion of Java on March 1, 1942, the Japanese began a process of Japanization of the archipelago, banning every remnant of Dutch rule. Over the next three years, more than 100,000 Dutch citizens were shipped to Japanese internment camps and more than four million romushas, forced Indonesian laborers, were enlisted in the Japanese war effort. The Japanese occupation stimulated the development of Indonesian independence movements. Headed by Sukarno, a longtime admirer of Japan, nationalist forces declared their independence on August 17, 1945. For Dutch citizens, Dutch-Indonesians or "Indos," and pro-Dutch Indonesians, Sukarno's declaration marked the beginning of a new wave of terror. These powerful and often poignant stories from survivors of the Japanese occupation and subsequent turmoil surrounding Indonesian independence provide one with a vivid portrait of the hardships faced during the period.
Author: Simon Unger-Alvi
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2024-08-01
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 1805396102
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 2020, the Vatican opened its archives for the pontificate of Pius XII (1939-1958), the pope that led the Catholic Church during WWII, the Holocaust, and the beginning of the Cold War. The Global Pontificate of Pius XII brings together historians who were among the first to consult the previously unseen Vatican materials. These long-awaited records allow for an expansion of the current historiography beyond the pope’s biography. Methodologically, the volume works to transcend the rigidity of religious history and engage with new approaches in global, transnational, and postcolonial history to re-introduce questions surrounding religion into modern post-war historiography.
Author: Richard T. Hughes
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2018-09-05
Total Pages: 374
ISBN-13: 0252050800
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSix myths lie at the heart of the American experience. Taken as aspirational, four of those myths remind us of our noblest ideals, challenging us to realize our nation's promise while galvanizing the sense of hope and unity we need to reach our goals. Misused, these myths allow for illusions of innocence that fly in the face of white supremacy, the primal American myth that stands at the heart of all the others.
Author: W. B. Alexander
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2013-02-06
Total Pages: 526
ISBN-13: 9781482374612
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1992, a young man named Bryan Wing left the confines of a small and closed-minded town for what he hoped would be an open and free society of college. Naive and lonely, he let his caution and skepticism give way to take on a relationship with a married woman who took complete control over his life. Though obvious to everyone else, Bryan chose not to see the blatant signs of betrayal that she was putting him through. Jerri had begun the biggest setup that Bryan would ever experience. Having gained his trust and infatuation, Jerri would try to not only destroy Bryan's education, but also his life. She would play the part of the helpless victim in a school that would not give an inch to someone accused of the atrocity Jerri was now claiming happened. Betrayed and pained, Bryan has to swallow his pain and fears and come out ahead of the cruelty he would learn that existed everywhere. Unsure as to how to defend himself, Bryan would find a way...
Author: Nevada Barr
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2016-05-17
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 1250064694
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDealing with cyber-bullying and stalking is new to Anna Pigeon. The target is Elizabeth, the adopted teenage daughter of her friend Heath Jarrod. Driven to despair by the disgusting rumors, Elizabeth attempts suicide. Heath calls in her aunt Gwen and her friend Anna Pigeon. While trying to find the person behind the harassment, the three adults to remove Elizabeth from the situation. Since Anna is about to start her new post as Acting Chief Ranger at Acadia National Park in Maine, the three will join her and stay at a house on the cliff of a small island near the park, Boar Island. But the stalker follows them east....
Author: Paula M. Potter
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 443
ISBN-13: 1930327366
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