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A Myth of Innocence

Author : Burton L. Mack
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 9781451404661
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book A Myth of Innocence written by Burton L. Mack and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This imaginative book is not just a study of the Gospel of Mark, but of primitive Christianity in all its variegated forms, for which it represents a new paradigm ... It deserves serious reflection and discussion at several levels, in a variety of contexts, by quite diversified discussion partners."? James M. Robinson, Professor Emeritus, Claremont Graduate University"This is an epic-making work because it turns scholarship on its head. Mack asks questions not about origins but about social meaning. The entire conception of what we want to know, why we want to know it, and how we shall find it out is new and compelling."? Jacob Neusner, Bard College"A Myth of Innocence is the most penetrating historical work on the origins of Christianity written by an American scholar in this century. Its strikingly innovative feature is the recombination of literary and social histories, and the placement of diverse Jesus movements into their respective social contexts."? Werner H. Kelber, The Catholic Biblical Quarterly

When She was Bad

Author : Patricia Pearson
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book When She was Bad written by Patricia Pearson and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 1998 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While national crime rates have recently fallen, crimes committed by women have risen 200 percent, yet we continue to transform female violence into victimhood by citing PMS, battered wife syndrome, and postpartum depression as sources of women?s actions. When She Was Bad convincingly overturns these perceptions by telling the stories of such women as Karla Faye Tucker, who was recently executed for having killed two people with a pickax; Dorothea Puente, who murdered several elderly tenants in her boarding house; and Aileen Wuornos, a Florida woman who shot seven men. Patricia Pearson marshals a vast amount of research and statistical support from criminologists, anthropologists, psychiatrists, and sociologists, and includes many revealing interviews with dozens of men and women in the criminal justice system who have firsthand experience with violent women. When She Was Bad is a fearless and superbly written call to reframe our ideas about female violence and, by extension, female power.

Averno

Author : Louise Glück
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466875593
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Averno written by Louise Glück and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Averno is a small crater lake in southern , regarded by the ancient Romans as the entrance to the underworld. That place gives its name to Louise Glück's eleventh collection: in a landscape turned irretrievably to winter, it is the only source of heat and light, a gate or passageway that invites traffic between worlds while at the same time opposing their reconciliation. Averno is an extended lamentation, its long, restless poems no less spellbinding for being without plot or hope, no less ravishing for being savage, grief-stricken. What Averno provides is not a map to a point of arrival or departure, but a diagram of where we are, the harrowing, enduring presence. Averno is a 2006 National Book Award Finalist for Poetry.

Myths America Lives By

Author : Richard T. Hughes
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252050800
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Myths America Lives By written by Richard T. Hughes and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2018-09-05 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six 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.

Madness at the Gates of the City

Author : Barry Spector
Publisher : Regent Press Printers & Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781587901737
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Madness at the Gates of the City written by Barry Spector and published by Regent Press Printers & Publishers. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By looking at American history, politics, and popular culture through the lenses of Greek mythology, indigenous wisdom, and archetypal psychology, the author discovers new hope in very old ways of thinking.

October

Author : Louise Glück
Publisher : Sarabande Books
ISBN 13 : 9781932511000
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book October written by Louise Glück and published by Sarabande Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains six poems written by Louise Glück that explore the season of autumn.

The Children's Culture Reader

Author : Henry Jenkins
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814742310
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (423 download)

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Download or read book The Children's Culture Reader written by Henry Jenkins and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1998-10 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reader on children's culture

Notes on a Foreign Country

Author : Suzy Hansen
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374712441
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book Notes on a Foreign Country written by Suzy Hansen and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Overseas Press Club of America's Cornelius Ryan Award • Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction A New York Times Book Review Notable Book • Named a Best Book of the Year by New York Magazine and The Progressive "A deeply honest and brave portrait of of an individual sensibility reckoning with her country's violent role in the world." —Hisham Matar, The New York Times Book Review In the wake of the September 11 attacks and the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, Suzy Hansen, who grew up in an insular conservative town in New Jersey, was enjoying early success as a journalist for a high-profile New York newspaper. Increasingly, though, the disconnect between the chaos of world events and the response at home took on pressing urgency for her. Seeking to understand the Muslim world that had been reduced to scaremongering headlines, she moved to Istanbul. Hansen arrived in Istanbul with romantic ideas about a mythical city perched between East and West, and with a naïve sense of the Islamic world beyond. Over the course of her many years of living in Turkey and traveling in Greece, Egypt, Afghanistan, and Iran, she learned a great deal about these countries and their cultures and histories and politics. But the greatest, most unsettling surprise would be what she learned about her own country—and herself, an American abroad in the era of American decline. It would take leaving her home to discover what she came to think of as the two Americas: the country and its people, and the experience of American power around the world. She came to understand that anti-Americanism is not a violent pathology. It is, Hansen writes, “a broken heart . . . A one-hundred-year-old relationship.” Blending memoir, journalism, and history, and deeply attuned to the voices of those she met on her travels, Notes on a Foreign Country is a moving reflection on America’s place in the world. It is a powerful journey of self-discovery and revelation—a profound reckoning with what it means to be American in a moment of grave national and global turmoil.

False Justice

Author : Jim Petro
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317667727
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book False Justice written by Jim Petro and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compelling and engagingly written, this book by former Attorney General of Ohio Jim Petro and his wife, writer Nancy Petro, takes the reader inside actual cases, summarizes extensive research on the causes and consequences of wrongful conviction, and exposes eight common myths that inspire false confidence in the justice system and undermine reform. Now published in paperback with an extensive list of web links to wrongful conviction sources internationally, False Justice is ideal for use in a wide array of criminal justice and criminology courses. Myth 1: Everyone in prison claims innocence. Myth 2: Our system almost never convicts an innocent person. Myth 3: Only the guilty confess. Myth 4: Wrongful conviction is the result of innocent human error. Myth 5: An eyewitness is the best testimony. Myth 6: Conviction errors get corrected on appeal. Myth 7: It dishonors the victim to question a conviction. Myth 8: If the justice system has problems, the pros will fix them.

The Acts of Jesus

Author : Robert Walter Funk
Publisher : Harper San Francisco
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 614 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Acts of Jesus written by Robert Walter Funk and published by Harper San Francisco. This book was released on 1998 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For over a decade, the Jesus Seminar, a group of more than seventy-five internationally recognized biblical scholars - experts in such diverse fields as Greco-Roman history, archaeology, and linguistics - has met twice yearly to conduct a painstaking search for the authentic Jesus. Through rigorous research and debate, they have combed the gospels for evidence of the man behind the myths. The figure they have discovered is very different from the icon of traditional Christianity." "The Acts of Jesus presents and illuminates the historical and literary evidence that led to the Seminar's often controversial conclusions. It provides the reader with immediate access to the latest scholarship in historical Jesus research today."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Racial Innocence

Author : Tanya Katerí Hernández
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807020133
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Racial Innocence written by Tanya Katerí Hernández and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2022-08-23 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Profound and revelatory, Racial Innocence tackles head-on the insidious grip of white supremacy on our communities and how we all might free ourselves from its predation. Tanya Katerí Hernández is fearless and brilliant . . . What fire!”—Junot Díaz The first comprehensive book about anti-Black bias in the Latino community that unpacks the misconception that Latinos are “exempt” from racism due to their ethnicity and multicultural background Racial Innocence will challenge what you thought about racism and bias and demonstrate that it’s possible for a historically marginalized group to experience discrimination and also be discriminatory. Racism is deeply complex, and law professor and comparative race relations expert Tanya Katerí Hernández exposes “the Latino racial innocence cloak” that often veils Latino complicity in racism. As Latinos are the second-largest ethnic group in the US, this revelation is critical to dismantling systemic racism. Basing her work on interviews, discrimination case files, and civil rights law, Hernández reveals Latino anti-Black bias in the workplace, the housing market, schools, places of recreation, the criminal justice system, and Latino families. By focusing on racism perpetrated by communities outside those of White non-Latino people, Racial Innocence brings to light the many Afro-Latino and African American victims of anti-Blackness at the hands of other people of color. Through exploring the interwoven fabric of discrimination and examining the cause of these issues, we can begin to move toward a more egalitarian society.

Erotic Innocence

Author : James Russell Kincaid
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822321934
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (219 download)

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Download or read book Erotic Innocence written by James Russell Kincaid and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the current preoccupation with child molesting and children's sexuality and the ways that this degree of fascination is itself suspect.

An Ethic of Innocence

Author : Kristen L. Renzi
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438475977
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book An Ethic of Innocence written by Kristen L. Renzi and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2019-09-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a feminist theory of ignorance that sheds light on the misunderstood or overlooked epistemic practices of women in literature. An Ethic of Innocence examines representations of women in American and British fin-de-siècle and modern literature who seem “not to know” things. These naïve fools, Pollyannaish dupes, obedient traditionalists, or regressive anti-feminists have been dismissed by critics as conservative, backward, and out of sync with, even threatening to, modern feminist goals. Grounded in the late nineteenth century’s changing political and generic representations of women, this book provides a novel interpretative framework for reconsidering the epistemic claims of these women. Kristen L. Renzi analyzes characters from works by Henry James, Frank Norris, Ann Petry, Rebecca West, Edith Wharton, Virginia Woolf, and others, to argue that these feminine figures who choose not to know actually represent and model crucial pragmatic strategies by which modern and contemporary subjects navigate, survive, and even oppose gender oppression. “An Ethic of Innocence recalibrates the critical landscape, revealing blind spots in contemporary models for thinking about knowledge and agency within a feminine context. The author builds a persuasive case from powerful close readings of texts, which invite readers to question their assumptions. I cannot now imagine the field of feminist modernist studies without the interventions of this project.” — Barbara Green, author of Feminist Periodicals and Daily Life: Women and Modernity in British Culture “This is a fascinating and very interesting intervention about the construction of knowledge/innocence within the field of literary studies. Anyone teaching or studying this period will find it of great use.” — Stephanie A. Smith, author of Conceived by Liberty: Maternal Figures and Nineteenth-Century American Literature

White Innocence

Author : Gloria Wekker
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822374560
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book White Innocence written by Gloria Wekker and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In White Innocence Gloria Wekker explores a central paradox of Dutch culture: the passionate denial of racial discrimination and colonial violence coexisting alongside aggressive racism and xenophobia. Accessing a cultural archive built over 400 years of Dutch colonial rule, Wekker fundamentally challenges Dutch racial exceptionalism by undermining the dominant narrative of the Netherlands as a "gentle" and "ethical" nation. Wekker analyzes the Dutch media's portrayal of black women and men, the failure to grasp race in the Dutch academy, contemporary conservative politics (including gay politicians espousing anti-immigrant rhetoric), and the controversy surrounding the folkloric character Black Pete, showing how the denial of racism and the expression of innocence safeguards white privilege. Wekker uncovers the postcolonial legacy of race and its role in shaping the white Dutch self, presenting the contested, persistent legacy of racism in the country.

John the Baptist in the Gospel Tradition

Author : Walter Wink
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521031301
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (313 download)

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Download or read book John the Baptist in the Gospel Tradition written by Walter Wink and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-02 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr Wink examines the treatment of John in the Gospels, Acts and the Q source.

Stealing Innocence

Author : NA NA
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137109165
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (371 download)

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Download or read book Stealing Innocence written by NA NA and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continuing his ongoing social critique, Henry Giroux now looks at the way corporate culture is encroaching on the lives of children by exploring three myths prevalent in our society: that the triumph of democracy is related to the triumph of the market; that children are unaffected by power and politics; that teaching and learning are no longer linked to improving the world. Looking at childhood beauty pageants, school shootings and the omnipresent nihilistic chic of advertising, Giroux paints a disturbing picture of the world surrounding our children. Ultimately, he turns to the work of Antonio Gramsci, Paulo Freire and Stuart Hall for lessons about how we can reinstitute a realistic childhood for our children.

The Armenian File

Author : Kâmuran Gürün
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789759703042
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book The Armenian File written by Kâmuran Gürün and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The myth that the ottoman empire's Armenian subjects were the innocent victims of wanton massacre has had a powerful hold. It is a myth that has served the interests of those countries who wanted to carve up the 'sick man of Europe' especially after the end of the first world war. Now, in this book, the distinguished Turkish diplomat and political scientist Kamuran Gürün presents the first objective account of this subject available in English. Mr Gürün has had full access to foreign and ottoman national archives and has sifted through the relevant documents from every available source. In this important historical work, he provides the evidence which gives the English-speaking world its first opportunity to see Armenian terrorism in perspective, from the time of the first world war up to the present day. At the same time, the author examines the links between today's Armenian terrorists and other international terrorist organisations.