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Author : William Wantling
Publisher : Dunedin, N.Z : Caveman Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)
Download or read book San Quentin's Stranger written by William Wantling and published by Dunedin, N.Z : Caveman Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : K. Mullen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1403980624
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Dangerous Strangers written by K. Mullen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-08-19 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have newcomers to American cities been responsible for a disproportionate amount of violent crime? Dangerous Strangers takes up this question by examining the incidence of criminal violence among several waves of immigrant/ethnic groups in San Francisco over 150 years. By looking at a variety of groups - Irish, German, Italian, and Chinese immigrants, primarily - and their different experiences at varying times in the city's history, this study addresses the issue of how much violence can be attributed to new groups' treatment by the host society and how much can be traced to traits found in their community of origin. Dangerous Strangers fills an acknowledged gap in the literature of homicide studies and broadens our understanding of newcomer violence.
Author : Nayan Shah
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520950402
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Stranger Intimacy written by Nayan Shah and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-01-09 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In exploring an array of intimacies between global migrants Nayan Shah illuminates a stunning, transient world of heterogeneous social relations—dignified, collaborative, and illicit. At the same time he demonstrates how the United States and Canada, in collusion with each other, actively sought to exclude and dispossess nonwhite races. Stranger Intimacy reveals the intersections between capitalism, the state's treatment of immigrants, sexual citizenship, and racism in the first half of the twentieth century.
Author : Ed Morrell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Twenty-fifth Man written by Ed Morrell and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A scarce book about the terrible experiences of the last survivor of the Evans-Sontag band of train robbers. The author helped Sontag escape jail and became a hunted man with him." The foreword by Arizona Governor George W.P. Hunt and the introduction by Dr. Raymond S. Ward, Montclair, New Jersey are quite revealing about the torture and sufferings of the author while imprisoned at San Quentin, California. Jack London held the author in high regard as he credited Morrell with helping him develop his masterpiece THE STAR ROVER--
Author : William C. Disturnell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Strangers' Guide to San Francisco and Vicinity written by William C. Disturnell and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wesley F. Stevens
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1621897966
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (218 download)
Download or read book Learning to Sing in a Strange Land written by Wesley F. Stevens and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2009-01-08 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prison is a strange land, a land of deep heartache and sadness. Over two million people are serving prison time in America. Millions more are carrying the mark of prison as those who were formerly incarcerated, including large numbers of men and women who have been released on parole. In the midst of such human misery, when "loosened tongues" are freed to sing of God's redemptive love, grief is diminished and the prison loses its power.
Author : Skip Calhoun
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595490859
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (954 download)
Download or read book You Can't Lose If You Don't Quit written by Skip Calhoun and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-10 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A lighthearted glimpse into the life of the man who rose from abject poverty to become designer of the world's finest veneer tools and gauges"--Cover.
Author : James Jeffrey Paul
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781462803590
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Nothing Is Strange with You written by James Jeffrey Paul and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2008-09-11 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young man kidnaps his own nephew and makes him his servant and sex slave. He abducts young boys, has his way with them, and, if they know too much, kills them. He forces his nephew to participate in his crimes and to consign these little victims, sometimes still living, to their graves. His father is afraid of his own son. His son mocks and abuses him, falsely accuses him of incest and child abuseand still he supports his son. His mother loves her boy and will do anything to help himeven commit murder. The Gordon Stewart Northcott casea part of which is fictionalized in the major new Clint Eastwood film CHANGELING, starring Angelina Jolieis still, eight decades later, one of the most nightmarish in American criminal annals. This booknearly two decades in the research and writingtells the whole story for the first time. Disclaimer: It should be noted that the film CHANGELING is not based upon this book, nor this book upon it. Both are entirely separate works, and one had no influence upon the others creation.
Author : Edward Planta
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 732 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book A New Picture of Paris, Or, The Stranger's Guide to the French Metropolis written by Edward Planta and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward PLANTA
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)
Download or read book A New Picture of Paris; Or, the Stranger's Guide to the French Metropolis ... To which is Added a Description of the Environs of Paris, with ... Maps, Plans, and Views written by Edward PLANTA and published by . This book was released on 1817 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Daniel Ehrhart
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813526393
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (263 download)
Download or read book Retrieving Bones written by William Daniel Ehrhart and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the twelve stories and fifty poems assembled in Retrieving Bones have long been out of print and are almost impossible to find in any other source. The editors have enhanced this collection by providing maps, a chronology of the Korean War, and annotated lists of novels, works of nonfiction, and films. In a detailed introduction, Ehrhart and Jason discuss the milestones of the Korean War and place each fiction writer and poet represented into historical and literary contexts.
Author : Cynthia Jean Hahn
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271050780
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Strange Beauty written by Cynthia Jean Hahn and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A study of reliquaries as a form of representation in medieval art. Explores how reliquaries stage the importance and meaning of relics using a wide range of artistic means from material and ornament to metaphor and symbolism"--Provided by publisher.
Author : William J. Quinn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (113 download)
Download or read book The Strange Case of the San Franciso Lawyer who Turned Killer! written by William J. Quinn and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frank Egan (former public defender of the city and county of San Francisco), connived with Albert Tinnin and Verne Doran to murder Jessie Scott Hughes in April 1932. He was convicted and sent to the State Prison at San Quentin.
Author : Terri Jentz
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 142998807X
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Strange Piece of Paradise written by Terri Jentz and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2007-03-20 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 1977, Terri Jentz and her Yale roommate, Shayna Weiss, make a cross-country bike trip. They pitch a tent in the desert of central Oregon. As they are sleeping, a man in a pickup truck deliberately runs over the tent. He then attacks them with an ax. The horrific crime is reported in newspapers across the country. No one is ever arrested. Both women survive, but Shayna suffers from amnesia, while Terri is left alone with memories of the attack. Their friendship is shattered. Fifteen years later, Terri returns to the small town where she was nearly murdered, on the first of many visits she will make "to solve the crime that would solve me." And she makes an extraordinary discovery: the violence of that night is as present for the community as it is for her. Slowly, her extensive interviews with the townspeople yield a terrifying revelation: many say they know who did it, and he is living freely in their midst. Terri then sets out to discover the truth about the crime and its aftermath, and to come to terms with the wounds that broke her life into a before and an after. Ultimately she finds herself face-to-face with the alleged axman. Powerful, eloquent, and paced like the most riveting of thrillers, Strange Piece of Paradise is the electrifying account of Terri's investigation into the mystery of her near murder. A startling profile of a psychopath, a sweeping reflection on violence and the myth of American individualism, and a moving record of a brave inner journey from violence to hope, this searing, unforgettable work is certain to be one of the most talked about books of the year.
Author : Bernard T. Adeney-Riskotta
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 9780830877041
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Strange Virtues written by Bernard T. Adeney-Riskotta and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2009-09-20 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theologian and veteran missionary Bernard Adeney addresses in-depth what may be the stickiest crosscultural communication problem of our day: differing approaches to morality. In this comprehensive treatment, he considers ethics across cultures, addresses the ethical import of other religions and gender relations, explores how the Bible and culture interact to produce ethical stances, and includes particular case studies. Strange Virtues will benefit not only missionaries, ethicists and students, but all Christians who want to better understand their neighbors here at home.
Author : George Pendle
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0547545363
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)
Download or read book Strange Angel written by George Pendle and published by HMH. This book was released on 2006-02-06 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now a CBS All Access series: “A riveting tale of rocketry, the occult, and boom-and-bust 1920s and 1930s Los Angeles” (Booklist). The Los Angeles Times headline screamed: ROCKET SCIENTIST KILLED IN PASADENA EXPLOSION. The man known as Jack Parsons, a maverick rocketeer who helped transform a derided sci-fi plotline into actuality, was at first mourned as a scientific prodigy. But reporters soon uncovered a more shocking story: Parsons had been a devotee of the city’s occult scene. Fueled by childhood dreams of space flight, Parsons was a leader of the motley band of enthusiastic young men who founded the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a cornerstone of the American space program. But Parsons’s wild imagination also led him into a world of incantations and orgiastic rituals—if he could make rocketry a reality, why not black magic? George Pendle re-creates the world of John Parsons in this dazzling portrait of prewar superstition, cold war paranoia, and futuristic possibility. Peopled with such formidable real-life figures as Howard Hughes, Aleister Crowley, L. Ron Hubbard, and Robert Heinlein, Strange Angel explores the unruly consequences of genius. The basis for a new miniseries created by Mark Heyman and produced by Ridley Scott, this biography “vividly tells the story of a mysterious and forgotten man who embodied the contradictions of his time . . . when science fiction crashed into science fact. . . . [It] would make a compelling work of fiction if it weren’t so astonishingly true” (Publishers Weekly).
Author : Larissa MacFarquhar
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143109782
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)
Download or read book Strangers Drowning written by Larissa MacFarquhar and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to devote yourself wholly to helping others? In Strangers Drowning, Larissa MacFarquhar seeks out people living lives of extreme ethical commitment and tells their deeply intimate stories; their stubborn integrity and their compromises; their bravery and their recklessness; their joys and defeats and wrenching dilemmas. A couple adopts two children in distress. But then they think: If they can change two lives, why not four? Or ten? They adopt twenty. But how do they weigh the needs of unknown children in distress against the needs of the children they already have? Another couple founds a leprosy colony in the wilderness in India, living in huts with no walls, knowing that their two small children may contract leprosy or be eaten by panthers. The children survive. But what if they hadn’t? How would their parents’ risk have been judged? A woman believes that if she spends money on herself, rather than donate it to buy life-saving medicine, then she’s responsible for the deaths that result. She lives on a fraction of her income, but wonders: when is compromise self-indulgence and when is it essential? We honor such generosity and high ideals; but when we call people do-gooders there is skepticism in it, even hostility. Why do moral people make us uneasy? Between her stories, MacFarquhar threads a lively history of the literature, philosophy, social science, and self-help that have contributed to a deep suspicion of do-gooders in Western culture. Through its sympathetic and beautifully vivid storytelling, Strangers Drowning confronts us with fundamental questions about what it means to be human. In a world of strangers drowning in need, how much should we help, and how much can we help? Is it right to care for strangers even at the expense of those we are closest to? Moving and provocative, Strangers Drowning challenges us to think about what we value most, and why.
