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Author: Julia Finley Mosca
Publisher: Amazing Scientists
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781943147311
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →As a girl coming of age during the era of civil rights, Patricia Bath made it her mission to become a doctor. When obstacles like racism, poverty, and sexism threatened this goal, she persevered--brightening the world with a game-changing treatment for blindness. Illustrations.x 10.
Author: Mitchel P. Roth
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 2014-10-15
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 1780233817
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From “an eye for an eye” to debates over capital punishment, humanity has a long and controversial relationship with doling out justice for criminal acts. Today, crime and punishment remain significant parts of our culture, but societies vary greatly on what is considered criminal and how it should be punished. In this global survey of crime and punishment throughout history, Mitchel P. Roth examines how and why we penalize certain activities, and he scrutinizes the effectiveness of such efforts in both punishing wrongdoers and bringing a sense of justice to victims. Drawing on anthropology, archaeology, folklore, and literature, Roth chronicles the global history of crime and punishment—from early civilizations to the outlawing of sex crimes and serial homicide to the development of organized crime and the threat today of global piracy. He explores the birth of the penitentiary and the practice of incarceration as well as the modern philosophy of rehabilitation, arguing that these are perhaps the most important advances in the effort to safeguard citizens from harm. Looking closely at the retributions societies have condoned, Roth also look at execution and its many forms, showing how stoning, hemlock, the firing squad, and lethal injection are considered either barbaric or justified across different cultures. Ultimately, he illustrates that despite advances in every level of human experience, there is remarkable continuity in what is considered a crime and the sanctions administered. Perfect for students, academics, and general readers alike, this interdisciplinary book provides a fascinating look at criminality and its consequences.
Author: David Lagercrantz
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Published: 2017-09-12
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 0451494334
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series continues with this “engrossing” novel (USA Today) as brilliant hacker Lisbeth Salander teams up with journalist Mikael Blomkvist to uncover the secrets of her childhood and take revenge. • Also known as the Millennium series Lisbeth Salander—obstinate outsider, volatile seeker of justice for herself and others—seizes on a chance to unearth her mysterious past once and for all. And she will let nothing stop her—not the Islamists she enrages by rescuing a young woman from their brutality; not the prison gang leader who passes a death sentence on her; not the deadly reach of her long-lost twin sister, Camilla; and not the people who will do anything to keep buried knowledge of a sinister pseudoscientific experiment known only as The Registry. Once again, Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist are the fierce heart of a thrilling full-tilt novel that takes on some of the world's most insidious problems. Look for the latest book in the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series, The Girl in the Eagle's Talons, coming soon!
Author: John Sack
Publisher:
Published: 1993-12-20
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Book They Can't Suppress Not for sixty years has a book been so brutally (and, in the end, unsuccessfully) suppressed as An Eye for an Eye. One major newspaper, one major magazine, and three major publishers paid $40,000 for it but were scared off. One printed 6,000 books, then pulped them. Two dozen publishers read An Eye for an Eye and praised it. "Shocking, "Startling," "Astonishing," "Mesmerizing," "Extraordinary," they wrote to Author John Sack. "I was rivited," "I was bowled over," "I love it," they wrote, but all two dozen rejected it. Finally, BasicBooks published An Eye for an Eye. It "sparked a furious controversy," said Newsweek. It became a best-seller in Europe but was so shunned in America that it also became, in the words of New York Magazine, "The Book They Dare Not Review." Since then, both 60 Minutes and The New York Times have corroborated what Sack wrote: that at the end of World War II, thousands of Jews sought revenge for the Holocaust. They set up 1,255 concentration camps for German civilians -- German men, women, children and babies. There they beat, whipped, tortured and murdered the Germans.
Author: Mark C. Jackson
Publisher: Speaking Volumes
Published:
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 1645409120
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An Eye for an Eye, Book One in The Tales of Zebadiah Creed: Lower Missouri River, late summer 1835. Two brothers, fur trappers Zebadiah and Jonathan Creed, are bushwhacked. Jonathan is murdered and Zebadiah left dead. Zeb is found by a Quaker doctor and his daughter, who nurse him back to health and insist he stay with them. But the appeal of a peaceful life cannot quell Zeb’s burning desire for revenge and he sets out to find the two men who killed his brother. In recounting his search, Zebadiah Creed spins an exciting tale that leads readers by steamboat down the Great Mississippi to St. Louis and on to New Orleans, where Zeb finds revenge is never as simple as killing a man, and retribution and redemption are not the same.
Author: Walter Murch
Publisher:
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781879505629
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Mark Baldacci
Publisher:
Published: 2020-01-05
Total Pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9781695131125
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Duke Dasher is a God-fearing, Christian dad who was cast out of his former Special Forces unit after his methods for eliminating terrorists proved as careless and ruthless as the Lord Almighty in the Old Testament. Life in his suburban home seems satisfying, but something still stirs within. Meanwhile, four mysterious and seemingly unstoppable mercenaries descend on the greatest country in the world, wreaking havoc and destruction on innocent citizens. What is their goal? Were these purveyors of death sent from the Devil himself? Will Dasher risk it all...one...last...time? Forget what you know about New York Times Best Selling, vaguely Christian, psychological crime thrillers. An Eye for an Eye and Your Other Eye and the Rest of Your Family will have you questioning virtually everything about your own life. "Baldacci has penned a scathing commentary on today's America and masked it as a pseudo-religious, mind-destorying crime thriller replete with horrifying descriptions of things that only appear in a psychopath's darkest nightmares" -Anonymous Amazon Reviewer
