|
Title: Vital Record of Rehoboth, 1642-1896 : Marriages, Int
... Read more
Title: Vital Record of Rehoboth, 1642-1896 : Marriages, Intentions, Births, Deaths : With Supplement Containing the Record of 1896, Colonial Returns, Lists of the Early Settlers, Purchasers, Freemen, Inhabitants, the Soldiers Serving in Philip's War and the Revolution Publisher: Providence, R.I. : Narragansett Historical Pub. Co. Publication date: 1897 Subjects: Registers of births, etc. -- Massachusetts Rehoboth (Town) Rehoboth (Mass. : Town) -- Genealogy Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.
Minimize
Fantastic prices with ease & comfort of Amazon.com!
In stock
|
|
Go To Store
|
|
ENRICO CARUSO - HIS LIFE AND DEATH by DOROTHY CUROSO. Conte
... Read more
ENRICO CARUSO - HIS LIFE AND DEATH by DOROTHY CUROSO. Contents include: Authors Foreword ix HOW HE LOOKED A series of photographs i Off Stage 2 On Stage 19 ENRICO CARUSO, His Life and Death 35 APPENDIX 285 High Points in Carusos Life 287 Operatic Repertoire 288 Caruso Recordings, A Discography by Jack L. Caidin 289 PHOTOGRAPHS Carusos first published photograph 3 Caruso when he left Italy to come to America in 1904 4 Entrance to the park of the Villa Bellosguardo at Signa, Italy 5 Caruso arriving in New York from his last season in Austria and Germany 6 Gloria at the time of her christening 7 Caruso with the Italian comedian, Gravina 8 Singing at Sheepshead Bay, September, 1918 9 From the train window at Monterey en route to Mexico City ..... 10 Caruso and his valet, Mario. Mexico City, 1919 n At Eastiiampton, July, 1920 12 Caruso drawing caricatures at the Southampton Fair 13 vii Convalescing after his first illness, Vanderbilt Hotel, New York City 14 Aboard the S. S. President Wilson, May, 1921 15 Carusos last photograph, taken in Sorrento 16 Facsimile of Carusos handwriting 17 Dorothy Caruso. New York City, 1943 18 Caruso at the age of 22 as Turiddu in Cavalleria Rusticana 21 In the title role of Charpentiers Julien 22 As Nemorino in I EIisir damore 23 As Samson 24 As Rodolfo in La Boherae 25 As Canio in Pagliacci 26 As Dick Johnson in The Girl of the Golden West 27 As Cavaradossi in Tosca 28 As Eleazar in La Juive 29 As the Chevalier des Grieux in Manon 30 As Radames in Aida 31 The Julien costume Caruso wore the first time he dined at his future wifes home 32 CARICATURES Antonio Scotti 59 Caruso as Don Alvaro in La Forza del destino drawn by Dorothy Caruso 72 Woodrow. Wilson 74 Caruso as Eleazar in La Juive 77 Kaiser Wilhelm II 80 Giulio Gatti-Casazza 83 Caruso as Riccardo in Un Ballo in raaschera 103 Caruso as Don Jos6 in Carmen 106 Caruso as Samson in Samson et Dalila . 113 Caruso as Canio in Pagliacci 130 Caruso Making a Record courtesy Gramophone Co...
Minimize
Get free shipping on orders over $25!
In stock
|
|
FREE Shipping
Go To Store
|
|
An Oscar-winning Best Actress for her tour-de-force role in
... Read more
An Oscar-winning Best Actress for her tour-de-force role in Come Back, Little Sheba, Shirley Booth would ultimately win every major acting award that could be bestowed on an actress. Awarded three Tony Awards, two Emmys, and a Golden Globe, Booth was described by the judges at the Cannes Film Festival as "The World's Best Actress." Yet today fans know her best as the warm-hearted, busybody maid of television's Hazel. This first biography of the beloved star provides complete coverage of a career that encompassed theater, film, radio, and television, and co-stars such as Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn. It begins with Shirley's childhood in Brooklyn, and her rebellious decision to become an actress against the wishes of her strict father. Included is complete coverage of her tumultuous marriage to radio comedian Ed Gardner (of "Duffy's Tavern" fame), and a second, happier union that ended abruptly with her husband's death of a heart attack. Readers of this exhaustively researched biography will come to know a versatile and gifted star whose career spanned almost 60 years.
Minimize
Get free shipping on orders over $25!
In stock
|
|
FREE Shipping
Go To Store
|
|
ENRICO CARUSO - HIS LIFE AND DEATH by DOROTHY CUROSO. Conte
... Read more
ENRICO CARUSO - HIS LIFE AND DEATH by DOROTHY CUROSO. Contents include: Authors Foreword ix HOW HE LOOKED A series of photographs i Off Stage 2 On Stage 19 ENRICO CARUSO, His Life and Death 35 APPENDIX 285 High Points in Carusos Life 287 Operatic Repertoire 288 Caruso Recordings, A Discography by Jack L. Caidin 289 PHOTOGRAPHS Carusos first published photograph 3 Caruso when he left Italy to come to America in 1904 4 Entrance to the park of the Villa Bellosguardo at Signa, Italy 5 Caruso arriving in New York from his last season in Austria and Germany 6 Gloria at the time of her christening 7 Caruso with the Italian comedian, Gravina 8 Singing at Sheepshead Bay, September, 1918 9 From the train window at Monterey en route to Mexico City ..... 10 Caruso and his valet, Mario. Mexico City, 1919 n At Eastiiampton, July, 1920 12 Caruso drawing caricatures at the Southampton Fair 13 vii Convalescing after his first illness, Vanderbilt Hotel, New York City 14 Aboard the S. S. President Wilson, May, 1921 15 Carusos last photograph, taken in Sorrento 16 Facsimile of Carusos handwriting 17 Dorothy Caruso. New York City, 1943 18 Caruso at the age of 22 as Turiddu in Cavalleria Rusticana 21 In the title role of Charpentiers Julien 22 As Nemorino in I EIisir damore 23 As Samson 24 As Rodolfo in La Boherae 25 As Canio in Pagliacci 26 As Dick Johnson in The Girl of the Golden West 27 As Cavaradossi in Tosca 28 As Eleazar in La Juive 29 As the Chevalier des Grieux in Manon 30 As Radames in Aida 31 The Julien costume Caruso wore the first time he dined at his future wifes home 32 CARICATURES Antonio Scotti 59 Caruso as Don Alvaro in La Forza del destino drawn by Dorothy Caruso 72 Woodrow. Wilson 74 Caruso as Eleazar in La Juive 77 Kaiser Wilhelm II 80 Giulio Gatti-Casazza 83 Caruso as Riccardo in Un Ballo in raaschera 103 Caruso as Don Jos6 in Carmen 106 Caruso as Samson in Samson et Dalila . 113 Caruso as Canio in Pagliacci 130 Caruso Making a Record courtesy Gramophone Co...
Minimize
Fantastic prices with ease & comfort of Amazon.com!
In stock
|
|
Go To Store
|
|
The NRA steadfastly maintains that the 30,000 gun-related d
... Read more
The NRA steadfastly maintains that the 30,000 gun-related deaths and 300,000 assaults with firearms in the United States every year are a small price to pay to guarantee freedom. As former NRA President Charlton Heston put it, "freedom isn't free."And when gun enthusiasts talk about Constitutional liberties guaranteed by the Second Amendment, they are referring to freedom in a general sense, but they also have something more specific in mind---freedom from government oppression. They argue that the only way to keep federal authority in check is to arm individual citizens who can, if necessary, defend themselves from an aggressive government.In the past decade, this view of the proper relationship between government and individual rights and the insistence on a role for private violence in a democracy has been co-opted by the conservative movement. As a result, it has spread beyond extreme "militia" groups to influence state and national policy.In Guns, Democracy, and the Insurrectionist Idea, Josh Horwitz and Casey Anderson reveal that the proponents of this view base their argument on a deliberate misreading of history. The Insurrectionist myth has been forged by twisting the facts of the American Revolution and the founding of the United States, the denial of civil rights to African-Americans after the Civil War, and the rise of the Third Reich under Adolf Hitler. Here, Horwitz and Anderson set the record straight. Then, challenging the proposition that more guns equal more freedom, they expose Insurrectionism---not government oppression---as the true threat to freedom in the U.S. today.Joshua Horwitz received a law degree from George Washington University and is currently a visiting scholar at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is Executive Director of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence and the Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence. He has spent nearly two decades working on gun violence prevention issues. He lives in Arlington, Virginia.Casey Anderson holds a law degree from Georgetown University and is currently a lawyer in private practice in Washington, D.C. He has served in senior staff positions with the U.S. Congress, the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, and Americans for Gun Safety. He lives in Arlington, Virginia.
Minimize
Get free shipping on orders over $25!
In stock
|
|
FREE Shipping
Go To Store
|
|
Following a brief history of Overwharton Parish, which was
... Read more
Following a brief history of Overwharton Parish, which was co-extensive with Stafford County, the entries in the parish register, consisting of births, marriages, and deaths, are arranged in one continuous alphabetical sequence. The marriage records give the names of the bride and groom and the date of the marriage; the birth records furnish the name of the newborn, the date of birth, and the names of his parents; and the death records indicate the decedent by name and date of death.
Minimize
Fantastic prices with ease & comfort of Amazon.com!
In stock
|
|
Go To Store
|
|
Ona lazy Sunday in 1954, twelve-year old Jerry Schilling wa
... Read more
Ona lazy Sunday in 1954, twelve-year old Jerry Schilling wandered into a Memphis touch football game, only to discover that his team was quarterbacked by a nineteen-year old Elvis Presley, the local teenage whose first record, "That's All Right," had just debuted on Memphis radio. The two became fast friends, even as Elvis turned into the world's biggest star. In 1964, Elvis invited Jerry to work for him as part of his "Memphis Mafia," and Jerry soon found himself living with Elvis full-time in a Bel Air mansion and, later in his own room at Graceland. Over the next thirteen years Jerry would work for Elvis in various capacities-from bodyguard to photo double to co-executive producer on a karate film. But more than anything else he was Elvis's close friend and confidant: Elvis trusted Jerry with protecting his life when he received death threats, he asked Jerry to drive him and Pricilla to the hospital the day Lisa Marie was born and to accompany him during the famous "lost weekend" when he traveled to meet President Nixon at the White House.Me and a Guy Named Elvis looks at Presley from a friend's perspective, offering readers the man rather than the icon-including insights into the creative frustrations that lead to Elvis's abuse of prescription medicine and his tragic death. Jerry offers never-before-told stories about life inside Elvis's inner circle and an emotional recounting of the great times, hard times, and unique times he and Elvis shared. These vivid memories will be priceless to Elvis's millions of fans, and the compelling story will fascinate an even wider audience.
Minimize
Get free shipping on orders over $25!
In stock
|
|
FREE Shipping
Go To Store
|
|
1L Jl L V T T, iT 7 J 0 i t Tt r - - - x THE PLAINS ADVENTU
... Read more
1L Jl L V T T, iT 7 J 0 i t Tt r - - - x THE PLAINS ADVENTURES AND ROMANCE WITH THE NORTH-WEST MOUNTED POLICE 1873-1910 BY A. L. HAYDON ILLUSTRATED WITH PHOTOGRAPHS, MAPS, AND DIAGRAMS CHICAGO A. C. McCLURG CO. LONDON ANDREW MELROSE 1910 TO THE COMPTROLLER THE COMMISSIONER THE ASSISTANT-COMMISSIONERS AND TO ALL THE OIHEB OFFICERS AND MEN OF THE ROYAL NORTH-WEST MOUNTED POLICE IN WHOLE-HEARTED ADMIRATION PREFACE TO have had the opportunity of writing the record of the Royal North-West Mounted Police is a great satisfaction and pleasure to me. This fine force, which has maintained the best tradition of the British race in doing its work silently, unostentatiously, and efficiently, has not received its full measure of recognition at the hands of the public. It is a characteristic of the Rider of the Plains that he does not waste words upon his deeds to this is due the general ignorance of his solid achievements. He has a manly aversion to the sentimentality that marks most of the descriptive magazine articles through which he has been introduced to the world at large, and apart from these I know of only two volumes that purport to give any serious and reliable account of his activities. It is time that an authoritative history of the Royal North-West Mounted Police should be added to the regi mental records of the British Empire. To do this has been my object in the preparation of this book. I have endeavoured to give a faithfully exact presentment of the wearer of the scarlet tunic, of the man and his work, without any more embellishment than he himself indulges in when telling his story unofficially. In addition to seeing the Mounted Policeman in all the varied phases of his life, in barracks and on the open prairie, it has been my good fortune and privilege to be admitted into the confidence of the corps, and thus to acquire exclusive and accurate vii PREFACE information and by personal and intimate contact with officers and men I have come to realise that the glamour and romance of the far north-west is not a thing of the past, but is still to be read between the lines that separate I have the honour to report from I have the honour to remain in regimental dispatches. All official records have been placed generously at my disposal, and so far as I am aware my errors are only errors of omission. Should any misstatements of fact, however, be detected, I shall be very grateful for correction. My dedication is my formal expression of thanks for the hospitality extended to me during my stay at headquarters and other R. N. W. M. P. posts. But in this preface I take the opportunity to acknowledge my particular indebted ness to the Comptroller, Colonel Fred. White, C. M. G V to Commissioner A. Bowen Perry, C. M. G., Assistant-Commissioner J. H. Mlllree, Superintendent G. E. Sanders, D. S. O., Superintendent R. Burton Deane, Inspector J. H. Heffernan, Inspector B. S. Knight, Inspector W Parker, Inspector A. Allard, Inspector E. A. Pelletier, Assistant-Surgeon S. M. Fraser, and, last but not least, the late Inspector Frank Church, whose sudden and untimely death, which occurred while this book was in the press, I deplore with all his comrades. I desire to add a separate word of thanks to Major-General Sir George A. French, K. C. M. G., the first Com missioner of the Mounted Police, for placing at my service invaluable material respecting the earliest years of the Force, and for courteously revising the chapters dealing with the history of the corps during his tenure of office. A. L. HAYDON. LONDON, March 1910. CONTENTS CHAPTER I. THE NORTH-WEST OP THE PAST. PA B An historical survey The early explorers the fur companies A new administration The half-breeds rebellion Extinction of the bison Disaffection among the Indians Illicit traders Colonel Robertson-Bosss reconnaissance, . . .1 CHAPTER H. THE COMING OF THE POLICE. Sir John Macdonalds scheme First steps towards organisation Lieut-Colonel G. A...
Minimize
Fantastic prices with ease & comfort of Amazon.com!
In stock
|
|
Go To Store
|
|
In this book, J.H. Plumb investigates the way that humankin
... Read more
In this book, J.H. Plumb investigates the way that humankind has, since the beginning of recorded time, molded the past to give sanction to their institutions of government, their social structure and morality. The past has also been called upon to explain the nature of our destiny in order both to strengthen the objectives of society and to reconcile us to our lot. J.H. Plumb questions this sanction of the past, the force that it has on our sense of destiny and its relevance to our own times. This classic text is now reissued with a new introduction by Niall Ferguson, placing it within a contemporary context, and with a new foreword by the eminent historian Simon Schama, a former student of J.H.Plumb himself.
Minimize
Get free shipping on orders over $25!
In stock
|
|
FREE Shipping
Go To Store
|
|
'Sammy' Sampson, in co-operation with aviation historian No
... Read more
'Sammy' Sampson, in co-operation with aviation historian Norman Franks, has written a graphic account of his three years flying Spitfires on offensive ops over France. He has covered in detail his period commanding the Free French Wing, of which little has been recorded in Britain. His story is told with pace, spice and honesty, and his recollections of people and events provide a refreshing insight into the life of a wartime fighter pilot who previously played rugby for Scotland. He now lives in Benenden, Kent. REVIEWS 'From kilt to cockpit, this is a thoroughly entertaining fighter pilot's memoir, a story told in most readable style, and another excellent reason for buying the book is that all of Sammy Sampson's royalties go to The RAF Benevolent Fund.' Legion 'A graphic account of Spitfire operations over France an interesting insight into the air war that turned the tide in the Allies' favour.' Flypast 'This memoir has much to recommend it and set it apart from the mass of flying stories.Most fascinating of all, it presents a vivid portrait of life and death in the RAF's Free French Fighter Wing.' Eastern Daily Press 'Making no concessions to maiden aunts - Wing Commander Ralph William Frazer Sampson uses choice language to re-live the combats, passions and everyday ups and downs of a Spitfire pilot' Edward Bishop in The Field 'Yet another Grub Street success. Well worth reading, told with verve and an intensity that portrays the subject's character to the full.' Aviation News.
Minimize
Fantastic prices with ease & comfort of Amazon.com!
In stock
|
|
Go To Store
|
|
Thousands of men and women were executed for incompatible r
... Read more
Thousands of men and women were executed for incompatible religious views in sixteenth-century Europe. The meaning and significance of those deaths are studied here comparatively for the first time, providing a compelling argument for the importance of martyrdom as both a window onto religious sensibilities and a crucial component in the formation of divergent Christian traditions and identities. Gregory explores Protestant, Catholic, and Anabaptist martyrs in a sustained fashion, addressing the similarities and differences in their self-understanding. He traces the processes and impact of their memorialization by co-believers, and he reconstructs the arguments of the ecclesiastical and civil authorities responsible for their deaths. In addition, he assesses the controversy over the meaning of executions for competing views of Christian truth, and the intractable dispute over the distinction between true and false martyrs. He employs a wide range of sources, including pamphlets, martyrologies, theological and devotional treatises, sermons, songs, woodcuts and engravings, correspondence, and legal records. Reconstructing religious motivation, conviction, and behavior in early modern Europe, Gregory shows us the shifting perspectives of authorities willing to kill, martyrs willing to die, martyrologists eager to memorialize, and controversialists keen to dispute. (20020308)
Minimize
Get free shipping on orders over $25!
In stock
|
|
FREE Shipping
Go To Store
|
|
In Lincoln County, New Mexico, the slaying of a deputy sher
... Read more
In Lincoln County, New Mexico, the slaying of a deputy sheriff and his wife reunites Police Chief Kerney and his son, Sergeant Clayton Istee....
Minimize
$7.49 with membership learn more
In stock
|
This store is not yet rated
|
FREE Shipping
Go To Store
|
|
Earliest available records from the following churches: New
... Read more
Earliest available records from the following churches: New Jerusalem Lutheran, birth, baptism, marriage & burial; Reformed Church of Loudoun Co., births & baptisms; Quaker Monthly Meetings of Fairfax and Goose Creek, births, marriages, deaths, minutes, a
Minimize
Get free shipping on orders over $25!
In stock
|
|
FREE Shipping
Go To Store
|
|
Banking Who controls the death, controls the world The
... Read more
Banking Who controls the death, controls the world The Banker International Banking Banks and Governments The Clients Costumers Offshore Business Weapons and Co. War Finance Arm Dealers Billion Dollar Brokers Hezbollah Oliver North CIA Iran-Contra Affair Abu Dhabi Bank of England Abu Nidal Money Laundering Prostitution Bribery Iran Arms Sales 500 British Informants US Justice Department headquarters secret cabal of intelligence agencies Ghulam Ishaq Khan Heroin Trade Drug Traffickers Zia ul-Haq Sen. John Kerry President Bush Senator Paula Hawkins (R-FL) Drug and Terrorist Links CIA weapons shipments to the Talibans CIA and Saudi government French intelligence Nidal’s money Nidal murdered in Iraq in August 2002 Bin Laden at London Estate of Saudi Billionaire Gulbuddin Hekmatyar Khalid bin Mahfouz Agha Hasan Abedi Ghaith Pharon Saudi King Abdullah Bank of Credit and Commerce International International Credit and Investment Company (Overseas) Ltd. Trading losses Bernie Madoff Leonard Ingrams Bankers Trust, Barclays, Chase, Credit Suisse First Boston, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, J.P.Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Salomon Smith Barney, UBS, Société Générale, Lehman Brothers, Paribas and much more...
Minimize
Get free shipping on orders over $25!
In stock
|
|
FREE Shipping
Go To Store
|
|

(1)
Release Date: April 18, 2008
|
from $84
(2 stores)
See Details
|
|
In the spirit of justice Blas Valera broke all the rules-an
... Read more
In the spirit of justice Blas Valera broke all the rules-and paid with his life. Hundreds of years later, his ghost has returned to haunt the official story. But is it the truth, and will it set the record straight?This is the tale of Father Blas Valera, the child of a native Incan woman and Spanish father, caught between the ancient world of the Incas and the conquistadors of Spain. Valera, a Jesuit in sixteenth-century Peru, believed in what to his superiors was pure heresy: that the Incan culture, religion, and language were equal to their Christian counterparts.As punishment for his beliefs he was imprisoned, beaten, and, finally, exiled to Spain, where he died at the hands of English pirates in 1597.Four centuries later, this Incan chronicler had been all but forgotten, until an Italian anthropologist discovered some startling documents in a private Neapolitan collection. The documents claimed, among other things, that Valera's death had been faked by the Jesuits; that he had returned to Peru; and, intriguingly, while there had taught his followers that the Incas used a secret phonetic quipu-a record-keeping device of the Inca empire-to record history.Far from settling anything, the documents created an international sensation among scholars and led to bitter disputes over how they should be assessed. Are they forgeries, authentic documents, or something in between? If genuine, they will radically reform our view of Inca culture and Valera. The author insightfully examines the evidence, showing how fact and fiction intertwine, and brings the dimly understood history of this author-priest to light.Sabine Hyland is Co-director of a multidisciplinary project studying the Chanka people of Peru. She holds a doctoral degree in anthropology from Yale, and is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at St. Norbert College.
Minimize
Fantastic prices with ease & comfort of Amazon.com!
In stock
|
|
Go To Store
|
|
Murder strikes thrice in these three baffling mysteries of
... Read more
Murder strikes thrice in these three baffling mysteries of crime and detection featuring Stout's great detective, Nero Wolfe....
Minimize
$7.49 with membership learn more
In stock
|
This store is not yet rated
|
FREE Shipping
Go To Store
|
|
Japan's most famous photographer, and one of photography's
... Read more
Japan's most famous photographer, and one of photography's most prolific bookmakers, Nobuyoshi Araki is notorious for his erotic photographs of women in bondage. Japanese bondage, which differs from western bondage in its orchestration of knots and binding to arouse specific points upon the body, offers visual as well as erotic rewards that Araki has scrutinized with great zeal. Araki is able to bestow eroticism upon all manner of natural imagery, but is also celebrated for series such as Sentimental Journey and Winter Journey, which record his marriage and the death of his wife. Driven by an attraction to the uncensored facts of Eros and Thanatos, Araki has always made humanity the center of his concerns; but at several junctures in his career, the authorities have evinced indifference to such motives, removing his work from sale and arresting curators for exhibiting his work. Nonetheless, the craft of Araki's photography is not in doubt, and in recent years, his work has expanded to accommodate broader aspirations, inflected by age: "When I photograph unhappiness I only capture unhappiness," he told Nan Goldin in an interview, "but when I photograph happiness, life, death and everything else comes through." With over 300 photographs, this monumental survey provides a careful selection from his most important photographic cycles, from Satchin and Sentimental Journey to Winter Journey, Cityscapes Polart, Sensual Flowers, Bondage and others, to his most recent works.Born in Tokyo in 1940, Nobuyoshi Araki worked at an advertising agency in the 1960s, where he met his future wife, Yoko Araki, the subject of his now classic volume Sentimental Journey. Her last days were recorded in a 1990 volume called Winter Journey. At the age of 70 his prolificness remains undimmed: "It is my past and the lust for life that is pushing me to take pictures now."
Minimize
Get free shipping on orders over $25!
In stock
|
|
FREE Shipping
Go To Store
|
|
Thousands of men and women were executed for incompatible r
... Read more
Thousands of men and women were executed for incompatible religious views in sixteenth-century Europe. The meaning and significance of those deaths are studied here comparatively for the first time, providing a compelling argument for the importance of martyrdom as both a window onto religious sensibilities and a crucial component in the formation of divergent Christian traditions and identities. Gregory explores Protestant, Catholic, and Anabaptist martyrs in a sustained fashion, addressing the similarities and differences in their self-understanding. He traces the processes and impact of their memorialization by co-believers, and he reconstructs the arguments of the ecclesiastical and civil authorities responsible for their deaths. In addition, he assesses the controversy over the meaning of executions for competing views of Christian truth, and the intractable dispute over the distinction between true and false martyrs. He employs a wide range of sources, including pamphlets, martyrologies, theological and devotional treatises, sermons, songs, woodcuts and engravings, correspondence, and legal records. Reconstructing religious motivation, conviction, and behavior in early modern Europe, Gregory shows us the shifting perspectives of authorities willing to kill, martyrs willing to die, martyrologists eager to memorialize, and controversialists keen to dispute. (20020308)
Minimize
Fantastic prices with ease & comfort of Amazon.com!
In stock
|
|
Go To Store
|
|
For undergraduate courses in Death and Dying in departments
... Read more
For undergraduate courses in Death and Dying in departments of Religious Studies, Philosophy, Sociology, and Psychology departments.Applying a multi-disciplinary approach to the study of death and dying, this text is a collection of originally written introductions, primary readings, study questions, small group exercises, relevant website links and suggestions for further research. It gathers together current and classical statements on death and dying from religious, philosophical, psychological, ethical, and practical perspectives.
Minimize
|
|
FREE Shipping
Go To Store
|
|
A necessity for defense counsel. A casino bus traveling
... Read more
A necessity for defense counsel. A casino bus traveling from New York City to Atlantic City has just crashed killing everyone including the driver. A witness reported that she saw the bus swerving from lane to lane. Another witness states that the bus passed him at approximately 20 mph over the speed limit. Worse yet, the driver's record indicates a previous suspension for reckless driving. The file has just landed on your desk. Now what? In the face of clear liability on the part of your client, how do you defend your case? Where do you start? What is the statute of limitations? What choice of law pertains? New York or New Jersey? First, you need to determine what type of case it is. This book is the ideal step-by-step guide for defense attorneys involved in a catastrophic death suit. For defense attorneys litigating a wrongful death suit, Evaluating and Reserving Wrongful Death and Personal Injury Cases is a "must have" reference. Features: Determining the type of case to be evaluated Identify types of injuries and plead and potential causes of action Identify named or potential co-defendants Identify the settlement demand Choice of law considerations Identify existence of any choice of law issues Identify likely jurisdictions Determination of initial potential liability Pre-litigation procedures Determine whether any identified potential or filed cause of action requires the use of a pre-litigation procedure Estimate affects and costs of pre-litigation procedure Evaluating wrongful death, survival and related claims under state wrongful death actions Identify underlying causes of action Identify the decedent Identify beneficiaries and allowable recovery Calculating lost income, support, inheritance, savings, and/or loss earning capacity Calculate lost services Projecting jury verdicts and determining settlement values for intangible damages Calculate survival action damages Determine other possible awards Determine availability and likelihood of factors increasing or decreasing awards Determine total verdict range and settlement value Evaluating personal injury and derivative claims and under common law personal injury actions Identify underlying causes of action Identify the claimants Identify allowable recovery List past and estimate future medical expenses Calculating lost income and/or loss of earning capacity Calculate lost services Projecting jury verdicts and determining settlement values for intangible damages Calculate derivative action damages Spousal derivative actions Derivative actions by parent of injured child Determine other possible awards Determine availability and likelihood of factors increasing or decreasing awards Determine total verdict range and settlement value Setting initial reserves Determining advisability of early settlement Scheduling further activity if an early settlement cannot be achieved
Minimize
Get free shipping on orders over $25!
In stock
|
|
Go To Store
|
|
In the Chihuahuan desert near the Texas-Mexico border, Texa
... Read more
In the Chihuahuan desert near the Texas-Mexico border, Texana Jones runs an isolated trading post....
Minimize
$7.49 with membership learn more
In stock
|
This store is not yet rated
|
FREE Shipping
Go To Store
|
|
This book only has one page, but it might be the most impor
... Read more
This book only has one page, but it might be the most important page you will read this year. Jess Bachman, a 31-year-old graphic genius has boiled down the largest government budget ever into a single poster, a poster that will show you (and your students and your boss and everyone you know) exactly how we're spending all that money. Every year for the last several years, Bachman has spent two months researching and creating a visual record of how the United States government spends our tax dollars. The end result is a 24”x 36” glossy poster—a visual story of how money moves in and out of the government. In visual detail Death and Taxes exposes and highlights our national priorities for 2012. The numbers are public knowledge but always hidden in thousands of pages of text. Thanks to Bachman’s skill as an artist and thoughtful determination that our nation’s spending should be for public consumption, we can become more knowledgeable citizens. For anyone who has ever paid taxes, you deserve to know how your money is being spent. Thanks to Bachman we can. This is urgent, and you can do something critical right now: you can educate yourself and every taxpayer you know about what's really happening. A Detailed Look at Death & Taxes Click on images for a closer look at this stunning visual guide. Death & Taxes is a visual guide to where federal tax dollars go. Learn how your own taxes are spent. Total government collections and expenses for 2012. A uniquely revealing look at our national priorities. See how each department of government spends its money.
Minimize
Get free shipping on orders over $25!
In stock
|
|
FREE Shipping
Go To Store
|
|
|
from $28
(1 store)
See Details
|
|
Tunnel Vision is written from death row by Robert Marshall,
... Read more
Tunnel Vision is written from death row by Robert Marshall, a New Jersey inmate whose case was chronicled in the book Blind Faith, and in the mini-series starring Robert Ulrich and Joanna Kerns. Back in 1989, Blind Faith was a bestseller but nobody heard from Robert Marshall; this book is his side of the story. Marshall contends that that account is highly inaccurate and so do many people who send him letters of support. Algora Publishing is not in a position to make a judgment on the judicial aspects of his case but is happy to be in a position to enable a man to deliver a message.Here is the inside story of a headline-making murder-for-hire case that has been at the heart of the debate over the death penalty and mandatory sentencing laws in New jersey for over 25 years.Convicted in New Jersey in 1986 in what came to be known as the Parkway Murder, Robert Marshall says he was subjected to a seriously flawed trial. In Tunnel Vision, he refutes the allegations made by Joe McGinnis, author of Blind Faith, and seeks to set the record straight. This is a story that raises serious questions about his case in particular and the death penalty in general. It makes one wonder about the justice system when one co-conspirator in a murder, who admits his guilt, can walk away virtually scot free, and another, who has denied guilt from the beginning, receives a death sentence. Readers will come to their own conclusions.According to New Jersey Policy Reports ("moneyfornothing"), "In April 2004, a federal court set aside Robert Marshall's 1986 death sentence and ordered a new penalty phase trial on grounds that enough questions were raised by the way Marshall's private attorney handled the penalty phase of his trial that the lower court should review it. Marshall has since been represented in his appeals process by public defenders. The decision to reverse Marshall's death sentence was upheld by the Third Circuit Court of Appeals on November 2, 2005." "In the stark language of the court," writes Seamus McGraw in JUSTICE DELAYED: THE ROBERT MARSHALL STORY (Crime Library), [Judge] Irenas declared that Marshall's lawyer had failed to meet the standards expected of 'competent counsel.'NJN (NJ public television) received the Philadelphia Press Association's Television Feature Award on June 25, 2004, for its documentary "Due Process: The Strange Case of Bobby Cumber", produced by Sandra King, which explores Bobby Cumber's conviction for his role in this case and the judge's statement that 'he would have applied a drastically shorter sentence were it not for the demands of the mandatory minimum sentence for conspiracy to murder.'
Minimize
Get free shipping on orders over $25!
In stock
|
|
Go To Store
|
|
This volume reproduces, for the first time, the complete de
... Read more
This volume reproduces, for the first time, the complete death records of Highland County, Virginia from the beginning in 1853 until the end of 1898-two years after Virginia counties were relieved of that obligation! This volume also incorporates twenty-seven years (1871-1898) of death records hidden from public view and use for about forty years. A complete reproduction of the entire death record entries can be found on these pages; this is not a book of abstracts. These records generally include: full name of the deceased; sex and race (white or colored); date and place of death, cause of death; age; names of parents, spouse, and informant; place of birth (generally county); marital status; and occupation. Readers will appreciate the list of archaic and obscure medical terms that were recorded as the cause of death. This list provides the modern definitions of these old medical terms. A full name index adds to the value of this work.
Minimize
Fantastic prices with ease & comfort of Amazon.com!
In stock
|
|
Go To Store
|
|
The Jazz Itineraries series, a new format based on Ken Vail
... Read more
The Jazz Itineraries series, a new format based on Ken Vail's successful Jazz Diaries, charts the careers of famous jazz musicians, listing club and concert appearances with details of recording sessions and movie appearances. Copiously illustrated with contemporary photographs, newspaper extracts, record and performance reviews, ads and posters, the series provides fascinating insight into the lives of the greatest jazz musicians of our times.No.2 in the series, co-authored by Ron Fritts, Ella Fitzgerald: The Chick Webb Years & Beyond 1935?1948, chronicles Ella's life from her discovery and development by Chick Webb, the shock of Webb's early death, her years as a bandleader, her success as a solo singer, marriage to Ray Brown and her first tour of England.
Minimize
Fantastic prices with ease & comfort of Amazon.com!
In stock
|
|
Go To Store
|
|
PREFACE I have no hesitation in commending this small volum
... Read more
PREFACE I have no hesitation in commending this small volume as containing so far as its space pennits, a good picture of my beloved Father and a record of much that made his life of interest and importance to the world. It does not, of course, profess to cover anything like the whole story of his many years of world-wide service. It could not do so. For any such complete history we must wait for that later production which may, I hope, be possible before very long when there has been time to go fully through the masses of diaries, letters and other papers he has left behind him. It must not he supposed that I can make myself responsible for every phrase Commissioner Railton has used. I know, however, that perhaps no one except myself had anything like his opportunities, during the last forty years, of knowing and studying my Father's life, both in public and private, and of understanding his thoughts and purposes. N ow we 'lvish this book to accomplish something. Table of Contents CQXTEN'l'S; CHAPTER I; Childhood and Poverty; CH/PTER II; Salvation in Youth; CHAPTER III; Lay ~'finistry; CHArTER IV; Early Ministry; CHAPTER V; Fight Against Formality ; CHAI'TER VI; Revivalism ; CHAPTER VII; East London Beginning; CH APTER VIn; Army-making; CHAPTER IX; Army Leading ; CHAPTER X; Desperate Fighting; CHAPTER XI; Reproducing the Army in America ; CMAPTER XII; In Australasia ; CHAPTER XIII; Vomen and Scandinavia; CHAPTER XIV; Children Conquerors in Holland and Elsewhere; PAGE; I; 8; 16; 39; 5S; 94; • 107; IIS; 126 India and Devotees; CHAPTER XVI; South A {rica and Colonisation; CHAPTER XVII; Japanese Heroism ; CHAPTER XVIII; Co-operating Vith Governments; CHAPTER XIX; Conquering Death; CHAPTER XX; His Social Vork ; CHAPTER XXI; Motoring Triumphs; CHAPTER XXII; Our Financial System; CHAPTER XXIII; In Germany In Old Age ; CIIAPTER XXIV; The End; CHAPTER XXV; Tributes; CHAPTER XXVI; Organ isation; CIIAPTER XXVII; The S
Minimize
Fantastic prices with ease & comfort of Amazon.com!
In stock
|
|
Go To Store
|
|
Practical and inspiring, this respected book helps readers
... Read more
Practical and inspiring, this respected book helps readers navigate encounters with death, dying, and bereavement. The authors integrate classical and contemporary material, present task-based approaches for individual and family coping, and include four substantial chapters devoted to death-related issues faced by children, adolescents, adults, and the elderly. The text discusses a variety of cultural and religious perspectives that affect people's understanding and practices associated with such encounters, and offers practical guidelines for constructive communication designed to encourage productive living in the face of death.
Minimize
|
|
FREE Shipping
Go To Store
|
|
.cs7CED571B{text-align:left;text-indent:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt
... Read more
.cs7CED571B{text-align:left;text-indent:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 0pt 0pt;margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0pt} .cs5EFED22F{color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-weight:normal; font-style:normal; } .csA62DFD6A{color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-weight:normal; font-style:italic; } Despite a recent resurgence in studies of death and disease in native peoples of the Western Hemisphere, little work has been done on death and disease in Native Americans during the reservation period of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Forgotten Voices: Death Records of the Yakama, 1888-1964 begins a discussion of the health of the people on the Yakama Reservation in Washington using statistical data. This is the first detailed work that focuses on the causes of death on American Indian reservations. It contains an extensive introduction to Yakama history and lifestyle, and tables that present statistical information on the major causes of death. Each chapter highlights a different cause of death on the Yakama Reservation, including• Tuberculosis• Pneumonia• Heart Disease• Gastrointestinal Problems• Influenza• Cancer• Birth Complications• Old Age• StrokeForgotten Voices is an invaluable resource for students and scholars that encourages further research in the field of Native American history.
Minimize
Get free shipping on orders over $25!
In stock
|
|
FREE Shipping
Go To Store
|