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A Hanging Offense

Author : Buckner Melton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416595929
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book A Hanging Offense written by Buckner Melton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mutiny on the Bounty is one of history's greatest naval stories—yet few know the similar tale from America's own fledgling navy in the dying days of the Age of Sail, a tale of mutiny and death at sea on an American warship. In 1842, the brig-of-war Somers set out on a training cruise for apprentice seamen, commanded by rising star Alexander Mackenzie. Somers was crammed with teenagers. Among them was Acting Midshipman Philip Spencer, a disturbed youth and a son of the U.S. Secretary of War. Buying other crew members' loyalty with pilfered tobacco and alcohol, Spencer dreamed up a scheme to kill the officers and turn Somers into a pirate ship. In the isolated world of a warship, a single man can threaten the crew's discipline and the captain's authority. But one of Spencer's followers warned Mackenzie, who arrested the midshipman and chained him and other ringleaders to the quarterdeck. Fearing efforts to rescue the prisoners, officers had to stay awake in round-the-clock watches. Steering desperately for land, sleep-deprived and armed to the teeth, battling efforts to liberate Spencer, Somers's captain and officers finally faced a fateful choice: somehow keep control of the vessel until reaching port—still hundreds of miles away—or hang the midshipman and his two leading henchmen before the boys could take over the ship. The results shook the nation. A naval investigation of the affair turned into a court-martial and a state trial and led to the founding of the Naval Academy to provide better officers for the still-young republic. Mackenzie's controversial decision may have inspired Herman Melville's great work Billy Budd. The story of Somers raises timeless questions still disturbing in twenty-first-century America: the relationship between civil and military law, the hazy line between peace and war, the battle between individual rights and national security, and the ultimate challenge of command at sea.

A Hanging Offence

Author : Don Cummer
Publisher : Scholastic Canada
ISBN 13 : 1443139084
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book A Hanging Offence written by Don Cummer and published by Scholastic Canada. This book was released on 2015-02 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sequel to Brothers at War finds best friends Jacob and Eli on opposite sides of the battlefield as the War of 1812 erupts. Jacob and Eli may be blood brothers, but they are on opposite sides in the battle of Queenston Heights during the War of 1812. While Jacob joins John Norton's Mohawk band fighting with the British-Canadian side, Eli fights with the Americans. The Canadians win the day, but the victory comes at a great cost: the death of General Brock. Eli is captured and jailed. Because he swore the oath of allegiance to the Crown before he left Canada, his return with the invaders makes him a traitor. He is charged with high treason -- a hanging offence. Can Jacob save his friend from the gallows?

The Long Road to Annapolis

Author : William P. Leeman
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807833835
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The Long Road to Annapolis written by William P. Leeman and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Long Road to Annapolis examines the origins of the United States Naval Academy and the national debate that led to its founding. --from publisher description

Brothers at War

Author : Don Cummer
Publisher : Scholastic Canada
ISBN 13 : 1443113824
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Brothers at War written by Don Cummer and published by Scholastic Canada. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Friend or villain? Brother or traitor? This compelling story of wartime friendship brings the looming War of 1812 to dramatic life. Jacob is a steadfast Loyalist. Eli is a newcomer to Upper Canada, whose family has just moved from the American South. The two boys become fast friends, but their friendship is tested when Eli's father refuses to pledge allegiance to the Crown. As Loyalists in Upper Canada become more and more suspicious of those with American leanings, the looming war threatens to pull the boys -- and their town -- apart. Peopled with key figures from the War of 1812, such as General Isaac Brock and newspaperman-turned-traitor Joseph Willcocks, Brothers at War portrays the tense era just before the War of 1812, which pitted neighbour against neighbour as Upper Canada prepared to fend off invading American forces.

Cases Argued and Decided in the Supreme Court of the United States

Author : United States. Supreme Court
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1622 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Cases Argued and Decided in the Supreme Court of the United States written by United States. Supreme Court and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 1622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First series, books 1-43, includes "Notes on U.S. reports" by Walter Malins Rose.

Crime, Gender and Consumer Culture in Nineteenth-Century England

Author : Tammy C. Whitlock
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351947567
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Crime, Gender and Consumer Culture in Nineteenth-Century England written by Tammy C. Whitlock and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whilst the actual origins of English consumer culture are a source of much debate, it is clear that the nineteenth century witnessed a revolution in retailing and consumption. Mass production of goods, improved transport facilities and more sophisticated sales techniques brought consumerism to the masses on a scale previously unimaginable. Yet with this new consumerism came new problems and challenges. Focusing on retailing in nineteenth-century Britain, this book traces the expansion of commodity culture and a mass consumer orientated market, and explores the wider social and cultural implications this had for society. Using trial records, advertisements, newspaper reports, literature, and popular ballads, it analyses the rise, criticism, and entrenchment of consumerism by looking at retail changes around the period 1800-1880 and society's responses to them. By viewing this in the context of what had gone before Professor Whitlock emphasizes the key role women played in this evolution, and argues that the dazzling new world of consumption had beginnings that predate the later English, French and American department store cultures. It also challenges the view that women were helpless consumers manipulated by merchants' use of colour, light and display into excessive purchases, or even driven by their desires into acts of theft. With its interdisciplinary approach drawing on social and economic history, gender studies, cultural studies and the history of crime, this study asks fascinating questions regarding the nature of consumer culture and how society reacts to the challenges this creates.

United States Supreme Court Reports

Author : United States. Supreme Court
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1086 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book United States Supreme Court Reports written by United States. Supreme Court and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 1086 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First series, books 1-43, includes "Notes on U.S. reports" by Walter Malins Rose.

Hanging Captain Gordon

Author : Ron Soodalter
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9781416522928
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Hanging Captain Gordon written by Ron Soodalter and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a frosty day in February 1862, hundreds gathered to watch the execution of Nathaniel Gordon. Two years earlier, Gordon had taken Africans in chains from the Congo -- a hanging offense for more than forty years that no one had ever enforced. But with the country embroiled in a civil war and Abraham Lincoln at the helm, a sea change was taking place. Gordon, in the wrong place at the wrong time, got caught up in the wave. For the first time, Hanging Captain Gordon chronicles the trial and execution of the only man in history to face conviction for slave trading -- exploring the many compelling issues and circumstances that led to one man paying the price for a crime committed by many. Filled with sharply drawn characters, Soodalter's vivid account sheds light on one of the more shameful aspects of our history and provides a link to similar crimes against humanity still practiced today.

Operative Witchcraft

Author : Nigel Pennick
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1620558459
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book Operative Witchcraft written by Nigel Pennick and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive look at the history and practices of rural English witchcraft • Explores witch’s familiars and fetches, animal magic, and the forms of witchcraft practiced by rural tradespeople, such as blacksmiths, herbalists, and artisans • Offers practical insight into spells, charms, folk incantations, herbal medicine practices, amulets, sigils, and tools of the craft • Details the evolution of public perception of witchcraft throughout England’s history, including the laws against witchcraft in place until the 1950s and witchcraft’s contentious relationship with the Christian church In this practical guide, Nigel Pennick takes the reader on a journey through the practice of operative witchcraft in the British Isles from the Middle Ages and the Elizabethan era to the decriminalization of witchcraft in the 1950s and its practice today. Highlighting uniquely English traditions, Pennick explores fetches and witch’s familiars, animal magic, and the forms of witchcraft practiced by rural tradespeople, such as blacksmiths, herbalists, and artisans, to enhance their professional work and compel others to do their bidding, both man and beast. He provides actual spells, charms, and folk incantations, along with details about the magical use of a variety of herbs, including nightshades, the creation of amulets and sigils, protection against the Evil Eye, and the use of aromatic oils. Pennick explains the best times of day for different types of magic, how to identify places of power, and the use of the paraphernalia of operative witchcraft, such as the broom, the witches’ dial, and pins, nails and thorns. He explores the belief in three different types of witches: white witches, who offer help and healing for a fee; black witches, who harm others; and gray witches, who practice both white and black magic. Examining witchcraft’s contentious relationship with the Christian church, he investigates the persecution of witches throughout the UK and the British West Indies up until the mid-20th century. He offers a look into the changing public perceptions of witchcraft and the treatment of its followers as well as revealing how English churchmen would offer magical solutions to the perceived threat of black witchcraft. Painting an in-depth picture of English witchcraft, including how it relates to and differs from modern Wicca, Pennick reveals the foundation from which modern witchcraft arose. He shows how this context is necessary to effectively use these ancient skills and techniques and how the evolution of witchcraft will continue harmonizing the old ways with the new.

Reports of Cases Argued and Decided in the Supreme Court of the United States

Author : United States. Supreme Court
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1142 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Reports of Cases Argued and Decided in the Supreme Court of the United States written by United States. Supreme Court and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 1142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Libels and Theater in Shakespeare's England

Author : Joseph Mansky
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 100936278X
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Libels and Theater in Shakespeare's England written by Joseph Mansky and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-09-30 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive history of libels in Elizabethan England, this interdisciplinary study traces the crime across law, literature, and culture, focusing especially on the theater. Ranging from Shakespeare to provincial pageantry, it provides a fresh account of early modern drama and the viral media ecosystem springing up around it.

London

Author : Robert O. Bucholz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139510452
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (395 download)

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Download or read book London written by Robert O. Bucholz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-09 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1550 and 1750 London became the greatest city in Europe and one of the most vibrant economic and cultural centres in the world. This book is a history of London during this crucial period of its rise to world-wide prominence, during which it dominated the economic, political, social and cultural life of the British Isles, as never before nor since. London incorporates the best recent work in urban history, contemporary accounts from Londoners and tourists, and fictional works featuring the city in order to trace London's rise and explore its role as a harbinger of modernity, while examining how its citizens coped with those achievements. London covers the full range of life in London, from the splendid galleries of Whitehall to the damp and sooty alleyways of the East End. Readers will brave the dangers of plague and fire, witness the spectacles of the Lord Mayor's Pageant and the hangings at Tyburn, and take refreshment in the city's pleasure-gardens, coffee-houses and taverns.

Daily Use English Sentences: Popular Topics

Author : Manik Joshi
Publisher : Manik Joshi
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Daily Use English Sentences: Popular Topics written by Manik Joshi and published by Manik Joshi. This book was released on 2014-10-25 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Book Covers The Following Topics: 01 -- ACTIONS 02 -- BUSINESS & ECONOMY 03 -- COURT 04 -- CRIMES 05 -- FIRE 06 -- HEALTH 07 -- KITCHEN 08 -- LOVE 09 -- NATURAL DISASTERS 10 -- PASSING AWAY 11 -- PHONE 12 -- POLITE EXPRESSIONS 13 -- POLITICS 14 -- TIME 15 -- DRIVING 16 -- WEATHER 17 -- MISCELLANEOUS TOPICS Sample This: Daily Use English Sentences -- ACTIONS BEND Bend down a bit. Bend down to feel your ankle. Sit on your heels with your knees bent up close to your body. He bent down to touch her feet. He bent down to pick up his pen. BRING Bring both your palms near your chest. Bring your eyebrows closer together. CLASP Clasp your hand over your head. She clasped the handle of the cooker. She clasped her daughter in her arms. CLENCH His fists clenched into a ball. He clenched his teeth. She clenched her jaws. FALL He fell flat at the feet of her. Her hair fell over her shoulders. FACE She soon stood up facing him. She was buried face down. He turned and faced them. Stand with your hand facing upwards. Lie on the ground facing downwards. Lie on your front with your face looking downwards. FOLD Fold your hands and look heavenwards. His arms were folded across his chest. They pleaded with folded hands. KEEP Keep your right palm on your cheeks. Keep both your palms apart. Keep the elbow joint straight. Keep your eyes wide open. Keep your elbows close to your body. Keep your eyes shut. KNEEL Kneel down to take pictures of children and pets. He knelt down on the ground. He knelt down and kissed the turf and then stood up. LIFT Walk on, without lifting your head. She lifted her arms above her head. She lifted her eyebrows. Lift your right hand to your right shoulder. She lifted his hand to stroke her face. LOOK He was looking at me up and down. Don’t look at her. LOWER Lower your head to get through the door. She demurely lowered her eyes to the ground. I lowered my head and didn’t look up till the bell rang. MOVE Move your fingers. Don’t move around in the class. Move your right palm right to left. Move your head in the right direction. He moved his head up and down. Move your hand up and down my back. Move your arm from side to side. NOD He nodded his head sagely. I nodded in agreement. She quietly nodded her assent. She nodded knowingly upon mention. PAT Don’t pat your stomach. She gave a pat on his head. She pats his back to help him breathe. PEEP The man peeped from behind a wall. They peeped inside the house through an open window. PINCH Don’t pinch me. He pinched her fingers lightly into her eyes. She gave her son a pinch on his face to wake him up. Pinch the nostrils together. PLACE Place your fingers under your nose to stimulate a mustache. He placed his hand on his son’s head. POINT He pointed his finger in her direction. They pointed at my photo in the album. Point out at him in front of you with your right index finger. PULL He pulled her around to face him. He started pulling strange faces. He pulled his foot out of the shoe. They pulled him into the car and drove off. He took her arm and pulled her along. She pulled me closer. PUSH They pushed away a watchman. He was pushed around. They pushed their face towards him. PUT Put both your palms near your face. Put your arm around your waist. Put your hand on your lips. He put his arm on the seat behind her shoulder. He put his arms around her.

Lone Wolf

Author : Loree Lough
Publisher : Whitaker House
ISBN 13 : 1603747249
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Lone Wolf written by Loree Lough and published by Whitaker House. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Released from prison in 1840 for a crime he didn’t commit, Kent McCoy finds himself without friends, family, or a single reason to believe in a merciful God. Like a lone wolf, he leaves Dodge City, Kansas, and heads east in search of a place where his past won’t darken his future. His wandering path collides with that of Abby Nelson, who, through a series of tragic events, has come to believe that love and happiness are beyond her reach. Life is a matter of existing from day to day on her last thread of strength—her faith in God’s power. Despite their tendencies to live on the fringes of life, Abby and Kent are strangely drawn to one another. But will suspicion, self-righteousness, and lack of faith cost them this chance at happiness in one another’s arms? Or will they surrender to the love born from forgiveness?

Hanging Bridge

Author : Jason Morgan Ward
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199376565
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book Hanging Bridge written by Jason Morgan Ward and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Even at the height of the civil rights movement in the 1960s, when the clarion call for equality and justice echoed around the country, few volunteers ventured into Clarke County, Mississippi. Fewer still remained. Located just south of Neshoba County, where three civil rights workers had been murdered during 1964's Freedom Summer, Clarke lay squarely in what many considered Mississippi's, and thus America's, meanest corner ... Ward ... traces a legacy of violence that reflects the American experience of race, from the depths of Jim Crow through to the growing power of the NAACP and national awareness of what was taking places even in the country's bleakest racial landscapes"--

The Edwin Fox

Author : Boyd Cothran
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book The Edwin Fox written by Boyd Cothran and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2023-10-24 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It began as a small, slow, and unadorned sailing vessel—in a word, ordinary. Later, it was a weary workhorse in the age of steam. But the story of the Edwin Fox reveals how an everyday merchant ship drew together a changing world and its people in an extraordinary age of rising empires, sweeping economic transformation, and social change. This fascinating work of global history offers a vividly detailed and engaging narrative of globalization writ small, viewed from the decks and holds of a single vessel. The Edwin Fox connected the lives and histories of millions, though most never even saw it. Built in Calcutta in 1853, the Edwin Fox was chartered by the British navy as a troop transport during the Crimean War. In the following decades, it was sold, recommissioned, and refitted by an increasingly far-flung constellation of militaries and merchants. It sailed to exotic ports carrying luxury goods, mundane wares, and all kinds of people: not just soldiers and officials but indentured laborers brought from China to Cuba, convicts and settlers being transported from the British Empire to western Australia and New Zealand—with dire consequences for local Indigenous peoples—and others. But the power of this story rests in the everyday ways people, nations, economies, and ideas were knitted together in this foundational era of our modern world.

Hogfather

Author : Terry Pratchett
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061807702
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book Hogfather written by Terry Pratchett and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Exceptionally amusing and enjoyable." —Michael Moorcock 'Twas the night before Hogswatch and all through the house . . . something was missing. Don't miss this hilarious and irreverent installment in the beloved Discworld series from New York Times bestselling author Sir Terry Pratchett. It’s the most wonderful time of the year, Hogswatchnight, when the Hogfather himself dons his red suit and climbs in his sleigh pulled by—of course—eight hogs, to shower gifts across Discworld. But when the fat man goes missing, someone has to sit in. It’s up to Death to take up the reigns—otherwise the sun won’t shine tomorrow . . . or ever again. Who would want to harm Discworld's most beloved icon? Very few things are held sacred in this twisted, corrupt, heartless—and oddly familiar—universe, but the Hogfather is one of them. Yet here it is, Hogswatchnight, that most joyous and acquisitive of times, and the jolly, old, red-suited gift-giver has vanished without a trace. And there's something shady going on involving an uncommonly psychotic member of the Assassins' Guild and certain representatives of Ankh-Morpork's rather extensive criminal element. Suddenly Discworld's entire myth system is unraveling at an alarming rate. Drastic measures must be taken, which is why Death himself is taking up the reins of the fat man's vacated sleigh . . . which, in turn, has Death's level-headed granddaughter, Susan, racing to unravel the nasty, humbuggian mess before the holiday season goes straight to hell and takes everyone along with it. The Discworld novels can be read in any order, but Hogfather is the fourth book in the Death series. The other books in the series include: Mort The Reaper Man Soul Music Thief of Time