Unusual for Their Time - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Unusual for Their Time write by Andrew Och. This book was released on 2017-11-24. Unusual for Their Time available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this second volume, author Andrew Och continues his travels to "to nearly every city, town, village, home, school, church, birthplace, cemetery, train station, farm, plantation, library, museum, general store, town center and cottage" that relates to America's first ladies from Edith Roosevelt, wife of Theodore, to Melania Trump.
Space-time Transients and Unusual Events
Space-time Transients and Unusual Events - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Space-time Transients and Unusual Events write by Michael A. Persinger. This book was released on 1977. Space-time Transients and Unusual Events available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Unusual Time: How to Reshape the World with Conservative Values
Unusual Time: How to Reshape the World with Conservative Values - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Unusual Time: How to Reshape the World with Conservative Values write by Chidi T. Olujie. This book was released on 2021-02-02. Unusual Time: How to Reshape the World with Conservative Values available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As an educator, the level of curiosity I have about the world around me is boundless. I am usually invigorated by the events that happen around the world be it bad or good. I have, for long believed that there’s nothing ordinary about the events that happen to man, but also a fact is that the issues that face the world today aren’t technical problems that require sophisticated means of resolution. Society is built by values and attitudes. I am convinced that a change in attitude and beliefs can fundamentally tilt the arc of history toward a better end. When I came close to completing my doctoral studies—during the Coronavirus pandemic that brought all of the world to its knees the lockdown let me have an opportunity to pause and reflect on a lot of things. Most importantly, how do we fit in the large scheme as mankind. I asked, ‘What’s the purpose of life?” I believe I might have found the answer: We are here to witness. To partake in the co-creation of the Universe. We are here to make the world better, more unified, and more ordered for the benefit of everything and everyone that exists and ever will. That is the purpose of life.
Hubert's Freaks
Hubert's Freaks - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hubert's Freaks write by Gregory Gibson. This book was released on 2009. Hubert's Freaks available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the moment Bob Langmuir, a down-and-out rare book dealer, spies some intriguing photographs in the archive of a midcentury Times Square freak show, he knows he's on to something. It turns out he's made the find of a lifetime--never-before-seen prints by the legendary Diane Arbus. Furthermore, he begins to suspect that what he's found may add a pivotal chapter to what is now known about Arbus as well as about the "old weird America," in Greil Marcus's phrase, that Hubert's inhabited. Bob's ensuing adventure--a roller-coaster ride filled with bizarre characters and coincidences--takes him from the fringes of the rare book business to Sotheby's, and from the exhibits of a run-down Times Square freak show to the curator's office of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Will the photos be authenticated? How will Arbus's notoriously protective daughter react? Most importantly, can Bob, who always manages to screw up his most promising deals, finally make just one big score?
The Story of Cruel and Unusual
The Story of Cruel and Unusual - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Story of Cruel and Unusual write by Colin Dayan. This book was released on 2007-03-16. The Story of Cruel and Unusual available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A searing indictment of the American penal system that finds the roots of the recent prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo in the steady dismantling of the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of "cruel and unusual" punishment. The revelations of prisoner abuse and torture at Abu Ghraib and more recently at Guantánamo were shocking to most Americans. And those who condemned the treatment of prisoners abroad have focused on U.S. military procedures and abuses of executive powers in the war on terror, or, more specifically, on the now-famous White House legal counsel memos on the acceptable limits of torture. But in The Story of Cruel and Unusual, Colin Dayan argues that anyone who has followed U.S. Supreme Court decisions regarding the Eighth Amendment prohibition of "cruel and unusual" punishment would recognize the prisoners' treatment at Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo as a natural extension of the language of our courts and practices in U.S. prisons. In fact, it was no coincidence that White House legal counsel referred to a series of Supreme Court decisions in the 1980s and 1990s in making its case for torture.Dayan traces the roots of "acceptable" torture to slave codes of the nineteenth century that deeply embedded the dehumanization of the incarcerated in our legal system. Although the Eighth Amendment was interpreted generously during the prisoners' rights movement of the late 1960s and 1970s, this period of judicial concern was an anomaly. Over the last thirty years, Supreme Court decisions have once again dismantled Eighth Amendment protections and rendered such words as "cruel" and "inhuman" meaningless when applied to conditions of confinement and treatment during detention. Prisoners' actual pain and suffering have been explained away in a rhetorical haze—with rationalizations, for example, that measure cruelty not by the pain or suffering inflicted, but by the intent of the person who inflicted it. The Story of Cruel and Unusual is a stunningly original work of legal scholarship, and a searing indictment of the U.S. penal system.
