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The Thirteenth Turn

Author : Jack Shuler
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 1610391373
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Thirteenth Turn written by Jack Shuler and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a rope, a symbol, and rough justice in America. The hangman's knot is a simple thing to tie, just a rope carefully coiled around itself up to thirteen times. But in those thirteen turns lie a powerful symbol, one that is all too deeply connected to America's past—and present. The last man to be hanged in the United States was Billy Bailey, who was executed in Delaware in 1996 for committing a double murder. Even today, hanging is still legal, in certain situations, in New Hampshire and Washington. And the noose remains a potent cultural symbol. An incident in Jena, Louisiana, in 2006, in which nooses were used to menace black students, made national news. Yet little has changed: according to author Jack Shuler, there have been nearly 100 “noose incidents” just in the last two years. The Thirteenth Turn unravels these stories, from Judas Iscariot, perhaps the most infamous hanged man, to the killing of Perry Smith and Richard Hickock, the murderers at the heart of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, and beyond. In his travels across America, Shuler traces the evolution of this dark practice. As he investigates the death of John Brown, or the 1930 lynching that inspired the song “Strange Fruit,” he finds that the very places that perpetrated these acts now seek to forget them. Shuler's account is a kind of shadow history of America: a reminder that vigilantes and hangmen play a crucial role in our national story. The Thirteenth Turn is a courageous and searching book that reminds us where we come from, and what is lost if we forget.

The Thirteenth-Century Animal Turn

Author : Nigel Harris
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030506614
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book The Thirteenth-Century Animal Turn written by Nigel Harris and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-08-28 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Thirteenth-Century Animal Turn: Medieval and Twenty-First-Century Perspectives examines a wide range of texts to argue in favour of a thirteenth-century animal turn which not only generated a heightened scholarly awareness of animals but also had major implications for society more generally. Using diverse primary sources, the book considers the role of Aristotle in shaping thirteenth-century perspectives on natural history; Pope Innocent III’s encouraging the use of animals in the theological and moral instruction of the laity; the increasing relevance of animals to the promotion and assertion of lay aristocratic identity; and the tension between violence and affection towards animals that pervaded the thirteenth century as it does the twenty-first. Analysing these many considerations, Nigel Harris also argues that the thirteenth century was an era in which traditional conceptions of the fundamental ‘anthropological difference’ between humans and animals was subjected to increasingly urgent questioning and challenge.

The Thirteenth Tale

Author : Diane Setterfield
Publisher : Anchor Canada
ISBN 13 : 030737193X
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book The Thirteenth Tale written by Diane Setterfield and published by Anchor Canada. This book was released on 2009-03-16 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A #1 New York Times bestseller, The Thirteenth Tale is part contemporary, part historical with mysterious threads about family secrets and the magic of books and storytelling weaving the two together. All children mythologize their birth . . . So begins the prologue of reclusive author Vida Winter's collection of stories, which are as famous for the mystery of the missing thirteenth tale as they are for the delight and enchantment of the twelve that do exist. The enigmatic Winter has spent six decades creating various outlandish histories for herself. Now old and ailing, she at last wants to tell the truth about her extraordinary past. She summons biographer Margaret Lea, a young woman who is struck by a very curious parallel between Winter's life and her own. As Vida exposes the history she meant to bury for good, Margaret is mesmerized. It is a tale of gothic strangeness, of a remote estate, feral children, a governess, a ghost, and a devastating fire. In this love letter to reading, Diane Setterfield will keep you guessing, make you wonder, move you to tears and laughter and, in the end, deposit you breathless yet satisfied back upon the shore of your everyday world.

Thirteen Loops

Author : B. J. Hollars
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817317538
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Thirteen Loops written by B. J. Hollars and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2011-09-06 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid and troubling portrait of violence, lynching, and race relations over a fifty-year period in the state of Alabama.

All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys' Soccer Team

Author : Christina Soontornvat
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 1536216089
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys' Soccer Team written by Christina Soontornvat and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique account of the amazing Thai cave rescue told in a heart-racing, you-are-there style that blends suspense, science, and cultural insight. On June 23, 2018, twelve young players of the Wild Boars soccer team and their coach enter a cave in northern Thailand seeking an afternoon’s adventure. But when they turn to leave, rising floodwaters block their path out. The boys are trapped! Before long, news of the missing team spreads, launching a seventeen-day rescue operation involving thousands of rescuers from around the globe. As the world sits vigil, people begin to wonder: how long can a group of ordinary kids survive in complete darkness, with no food or clean water? Luckily, the Wild Boars are a very extraordinary "ordinary" group. Combining firsthand interviews of rescue workers with in-depth science and details of the region's culture and religion, author Christina Soontornvat—who was visiting family in Northern Thailand when the Wild Boars went missing—masterfully shows how both the complex engineering operation above ground and the mental struggles of the thirteen young people below proved critical in the life-or-death mission. Meticulously researched and generously illustrated with photographs, this page-turner includes an author’s note describing her experience meeting the team, detailed source notes, and a bibliography to fully immerse readers in the most ambitious cave rescue in history.

Thirteen Chairs

Author : Dave Shelton
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545823110
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (458 download)

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Download or read book Thirteen Chairs written by Dave Shelton and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A spine-tingling collection of ghost stories When a boy finds himself drawn into an empty house one cold night, he enters a room in which twelve unusual-looking people sit around a table. And the thirteenth chair is pulled out for him.One by one, each of those assembled tells their ownghost story: tales of doom and death; of ghostly creatures and malevolent spirits; of revenge and reward. It is only at the end of the night that the boy starts to understand what story he must tell . . .

Turning Thirteen

Author : Susan Beth Pfeffer
Publisher : Scholastic
ISBN 13 : 9780590407649
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book Turning Thirteen written by Susan Beth Pfeffer and published by Scholastic. This book was released on 1988 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although initially afraid that she'll lose her best friend unless they prepare for their bat mitzvahs together, Becky undergoes a change in her thinking that puts much more than her friendship in jeopardy.

The Crochet Book. Thirteenth Series

Author : Eléonore RIEGO DE LA BRANCHARDIÈRE
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book The Crochet Book. Thirteenth Series written by Eléonore RIEGO DE LA BRANCHARDIÈRE and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Thirteen Turns

Author : Larry Donell Covin
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725266830
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book Thirteen Turns written by Larry Donell Covin and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-06-01 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is remarkable that African Americans, the descendants of slaves, embrace Christianity at all. The imagination that is necessary to parse biblical text and find within it a theology that speaks to their context is a testimony to their will to survive in a hostile land. Black religion embraces the cross and the narrative of Jesus as savior, both theologically and culturally. But this does not suggest that African Americans have not historically, and do not now, struggle with the reconciliation of the cross, black life, suffering. African Americans are well aware of the shared relationship of Christianity with the white oppressors of history. The religion that helped African Americans to survive is the religion that was instrumental in their near genocide.

Thirteen

Author : Remy Charlip
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681372304
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book Thirteen written by Remy Charlip and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2018-05-22 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book of creative metamorphosis and stunning visuals that will bend children's imaginations and appeal to all ages. "One of my own personal childhood favorites..." --Brian Selznick Thirteen is no ordinary picture book. It is book of visual and conceptual revolutions, metamorphoses, and narratives that swallow their own tails. In thirteen illustrated stories, plus "a preview of coming attractions," nothing less than the birth of the world, its duration, death, and rebirth occurs, in thirteen arresting and evolving tableaus, involving a sinking ship, a play, a leaf and caterpillar, a card trick, swans, a worm, Cinderella, the alphabet, paper magic, pyramids, a getting-thin-and-getting-fat-again dance, the fall and rise of civilization, and a countdown. This is not a book you read from beginning to end, so much as one you enter into, are absorbed by and transformed, like the thirteen tableaus themselves.

To be Thirteen

Author : Rebecca A. Senf
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781942185260
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (852 download)

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Download or read book To be Thirteen written by Rebecca A. Senf and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traveling around the United States, the Guggenheim grant recipient spent 2012 chronicling 250 13 year olds, creating still portraits and video documentation of each. The resulting body of work creates a rich collective portrait of a group of Americans whose lives began at the turn of the millennium and who are coming of age now. To Be Thirteen depicts all 250 portraits with brief quotations from the extended video interviews and an interview by Center for Creative Photography Chief Curator Rebecca Senf with Schneider, unpacking details about the artist's process, insights about the project and how it changed her, as well as longer excerpts from the subjects. This publication captures and conveys the experience of meeting with the artist and looking through a stack of prints with her, and will complement an exhibition of the project debuting at the Phoenix Art Museum in the spring of 2018. -- Publisher's website.

Evaluation of Sugar Fortification with Vitamin A at the National Level

Author : Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1470 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (952 download)

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Download or read book Evaluation of Sugar Fortification with Vitamin A at the National Level written by Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 1470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Thirteen Moons

Author : Charles Frazier
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 030736643X
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Thirteen Moons written by Charles Frazier and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2010-12-17 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This magnificent novel by one of America’s finest writers is the epic of one man’s remarkable journey, set in nineteenth-century America against the background of a vanishing people and a rich way of life. At the age of twelve, under the Wind moon, Will is given a horse, a key, and a map, and sent alone into the Indian Nation to run a trading post as a bound boy. It is during this time that he grows into a man, learning, as he does, of the raw power it takes to create a life, to find a home. In a card game with a white Indian named Featherstone, Will wins – for a brief moment – a mysterious girl named Claire, and his passion and desire for her spans this novel. As Will’s destiny intertwines with the fate of the Cherokee Indians – including a Cherokee Chief named Bear – he learns how to fight and survive in the face of both nature and men, and eventually, under the Corn Tassel Moon, Will begins the fight against Washington City to preserve the Cherokee’s homeland and culture. And he will come to know the truth behind his belief that “only desire trumps time.” Brilliantly imagined, written with great power and beauty by a master of American fiction, Thirteen Moons is a stunning novel about a man’s passion for a woman, and how loss, longing and love can shape a man’s destiny over the many moons of a life.

A Glossarial Index to the Printed English Literature of the Thirteenth Century

Author : Herbert Coleridge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Glossarial Index to the Printed English Literature of the Thirteenth Century written by Herbert Coleridge and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Murder on the Thirteenth

Author : A.E. Eddenden
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 0897333802
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (973 download)

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Download or read book Murder on the Thirteenth written by A.E. Eddenden and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2005-08-01 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once again murder and other dark doings strike the small city of Fort York, Canada, during World War II and Inspector Albert V. Trethewaynow Regional Officer, Air Raid Precautionis the one man who can solve the mystery. It all begins on January 13th, 1943 when Fort York is in the midst of its most complete wartime blackout. Suddenly there are reports of an eerie flumelike light in the marsh outside the town. Tretheway finds evidence of weird practices that his friend Cynthia Moon identifies as the work of a coven of witches. This is a fitting sequelat once hilarious and bloodchillingto the first Tretheway mystery, A Good Year for Murder.

Thirteen Reasons Why

Author : Jay Asher
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101539925
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Thirteen Reasons Why written by Jay Asher and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-06-14 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER **THE BOOK THAT STARTED IT ALL, NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES** “Eerie, beautiful, and devastating.” —Chicago Tribune “A stealthy hit with staying power. . . . thriller-like pacing.” —The New York Times “Thirteen Reasons Why will leave you with chills long after you have finished reading.” —Amber Gibson, NPR’s “All Things Considered” You can’t stop the future. You can’t rewind the past. The only way to learn the secret . . . is to press play. Clay Jensen returns home from school to find a strange package with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers several cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker—his classmate and crush—who committed suicide two weeks earlier. Hannah's voice tells him that there are thirteen reasons why she decided to end her life. Clay is one of them. If he listens, he'll find out why. Clay spends the night crisscrossing his town with Hannah as his guide. He becomes a firsthand witness to Hannah's pain, and as he follows Hannah’s recorded words throughout his town, what he discovers changes his life forever. Need to talk? Call 1-800-273-TALK (8255) anytime if you are in the United States. It’s free and confidential. Find more resources at 13reasonswhy.info. Find out how you can help someone in crisis at bethe1to.com.

The Thirteenth Unicorn

Author : Newman
Publisher : W. D. Newman
ISBN 13 : 1460966201
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book The Thirteenth Unicorn written by Newman and published by W. D. Newman. This book was released on 2011 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While spending the summer with their grandparents, on a remote farm in South Carolina, Ben Alderman and his sister Casey uncover a hidden world of magic; a world their grandmother is secretly visiting. It is a world where elves and dwarves are locked in mortal combat against a witch who is trying to free the last surviving wizard from exile. The witch has been defeated once before, but with the combined power of the wizard, no one will be able to stand against them. Much to Ben's dismay, he learns that he is the one foretold in the ancient elfin prophecies to bring about the downfall of the witch and save this exciting new world from destruction.