An Eye For An Eye

Author : Mitchel P. Roth
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780233819

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An Eye for an Eye by Mitchel P. Roth Pdf

From “an eye for an eye” to debates over capital punishment, humanity has a long and controversial relationship with doling out justice for criminal acts. Today, crime and punishment remain significant parts of our culture, but societies vary greatly on what is considered criminal and how it should be punished. In this global survey of crime and punishment throughout history, Mitchel P. Roth examines how and why we penalize certain activities, and he scrutinizes the effectiveness of such efforts in both punishing wrongdoers and bringing a sense of justice to victims. Drawing on anthropology, archaeology, folklore, and literature, Roth chronicles the global history of crime and punishment—from early civilizations to the outlawing of sex crimes and serial homicide to the development of organized crime and the threat today of global piracy. He explores the birth of the penitentiary and the practice of incarceration as well as the modern philosophy of rehabilitation, arguing that these are perhaps the most important advances in the effort to safeguard citizens from harm. Looking closely at the retributions societies have condoned, Roth also look at execution and its many forms, showing how stoning, hemlock, the firing squad, and lethal injection are considered either barbaric or justified across different cultures. Ultimately, he illustrates that despite advances in every level of human experience, there is remarkable continuity in what is considered a crime and the sanctions administered. Perfect for students, academics, and general readers alike, this interdisciplinary book provides a fascinating look at criminality and its consequences.

Author : Mark C. Jackson
Publisher : Speaking Volumes
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781645409120

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An Eye for an Eye, Book One in The Tales of Zebadiah Creed: Lower Missouri River, late summer 1835. Two brothers, fur trappers Zebadiah and Jonathan Creed, are bushwhacked. Jonathan is murdered and Zebadiah left dead. Zeb is found by a Quaker doctor and his daughter, who nurse him back to health and insist he stay with them. But the appeal of a peaceful life cannot quell Zeb’s burning desire for revenge and he sets out to find the two men who killed his brother. In recounting his search, Zebadiah Creed spins an exciting tale that leads readers by steamboat down the Great Mississippi to St. Louis and on to New Orleans, where Zeb finds revenge is never as simple as killing a man, and retribution and redemption are not the same.

Author : Julia Finley Mosca
Publisher : Amazing Scientists
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1943147310

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The Doctor with an Eye for Eyes by Julia Finley Mosca Pdf

As a girl coming of age during the era of civil rights, Patricia Bath made it her mission to become a doctor. When obstacles like racism, poverty, and sexism threatened this goal, she persevered--brightening the world with a game-changing treatment for blindness. Illustrations.x 10.

Author : William Ian Miller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2005-12-19
Category : Law
ISBN : 113944882X

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Eye for an Eye by William Ian Miller Pdf

This book is a historical and philosophical meditation on paying back and buying back, that is, it is about retaliation and redemption. It takes the law of the talion - eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth - seriously. In its biblical formulation that law states the value of my eye in terms of your eye, the value of your teeth in terms of my teeth. Eyes and teeth become units of valuation. But the talion doesn't stop there. It seems to demand that eyes, teeth, and lives are also to provide the means of payment. Bodies and body parts, it seems, have a just claim to being not just money, but the first and precisest of money substances. In its highly original way, the book offers a theory of justice, not an airy theory though. It is about getting even in a toughminded, unsentimental, but respectful way. And finds that much of what we take to be justice, honor, and respect for persons requires, at its core, measuring and measuring up.

Author : David Lagercrantz
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780451494337

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The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye by David Lagercrantz Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series continues with this “engrossing” novel (USA Today) as brilliant hacker Lisbeth Salander teams up with journalist Mikael Blomkvist to uncover the secrets of her childhood and take revenge. • Also known as the Millennium series Lisbeth Salander—obstinate outsider, volatile seeker of justice for herself and others—seizes on a chance to unearth her mysterious past once and for all. And she will let nothing stop her—not the Islamists she enrages by rescuing a young woman from their brutality; not the prison gang leader who passes a death sentence on her; not the deadly reach of her long-lost twin sister, Camilla; and not the people who will do anything to keep buried knowledge of a sinister pseudoscientific experiment known only as The Registry. Once again, Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist are the fierce heart of a thrilling full-tilt novel that takes on some of the world's most insidious problems. Look for the latest book in the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series, The Girl in the Eagle's Talons, coming soon!

Author : John Sack
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1993-12-20
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015032946272

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An Eye For An Eye by John Sack Pdf

The Book They Can't Suppress Not for sixty years has a book been so brutally (and, in the end, unsuccessfully) suppressed as An Eye for an Eye. One major newspaper, one major magazine, and three major publishers paid $40,000 for it but were scared off. One printed 6,000 books, then pulped them. Two dozen publishers read An Eye for an Eye and praised it. "Shocking, "Startling," "Astonishing," "Mesmerizing," "Extraordinary," they wrote to Author John Sack. "I was rivited," "I was bowled over," "I love it," they wrote, but all two dozen rejected it. Finally, BasicBooks published An Eye for an Eye. It "sparked a furious controversy," said Newsweek. It became a best-seller in Europe but was so shunned in America that it also became, in the words of New York Magazine, "The Book They Dare Not Review." Since then, both 60 Minutes and The New York Times have corroborated what Sack wrote: that at the end of World War II, thousands of Jews sought revenge for the Holocaust. They set up 1,255 concentration camps for German civilians -- German men, women, children and babies. There they beat, whipped, tortured and murdered the Germans.

Author : Anthony Trollope
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Domestic fiction
ISBN : OXFORD:600057590

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Author : Peter Roop,Connie Roop
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781504010108

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An Eye for an Eye by Peter Roop,Connie Roop Pdf

A teenage girl questions her principles after her brother is captured during the Revolutionary War Fourteen-year-old Samantha Byrd is an excellent shot—she’s even better than her brother at providing food for her family. Although the winds of war are blowing in Virginia, she knows that she could only ever use her skill for hunting—not for hurting another person. When the Revolutionary War finally begins, her brother is captured, and Samantha sets off to rescue him. But when she comes face to face with the enemy, will she still stand by her principles, or will she pull the trigger?

Author : Krista A. Thompson
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2007-03-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780822388562

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An Eye for the Tropics by Krista A. Thompson Pdf

Images of Jamaica and the Bahamas as tropical paradises full of palm trees, white sandy beaches, and inviting warm water seem timeless. Surprisingly, the origins of those images can be traced back to the roots of the islands’ tourism industry in the 1880s. As Krista A. Thompson explains, in the late nineteenth century, tourism promoters, backed by British colonial administrators, began to market Jamaica and the Bahamas as picturesque “tropical” paradises. They hired photographers and artists to create carefully crafted representations, which then circulated internationally via postcards and illustrated guides and lectures. Illustrated with more than one hundred images, including many in color, An Eye for the Tropics is a nuanced evaluation of the aesthetics of the “tropicalizing images” and their effects on Jamaica and the Bahamas. Thompson describes how representations created to project an image to the outside world altered everyday life on the islands. Hoteliers imported tropical plants to make the islands look more like the images. Many prominent tourist-oriented spaces, including hotels and famous beaches, became off-limits to the islands’ black populations, who were encouraged to act like the disciplined, loyal colonial subjects depicted in the pictures. Analyzing the work of specific photographers and artists who created tropical representations of Jamaica and the Bahamas between the 1880s and the 1930s, Thompson shows how their images differ from the English picturesque landscape tradition. Turning to the present, she examines how tropicalizing images are deconstructed in works by contemporary artists—including Christopher Cozier, David Bailey, and Irénée Shaw—at the same time that they remain a staple of postcolonial governments’ vigorous efforts to attract tourists.

Author : Clarence Darrow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1905
Category : Capital punishment
ISBN : MINN:31951001632201P

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Author : National Gallery of Art
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781613748978

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An Eye for Art by National Gallery of Art Pdf

Lavishly illustrated with hundreds of full-color images, this family-oriented art resource introduces children to more than 50 great artists and their work, with corresponding activities and explorations that inspire artistic development, focused looking, and creative writing. This treasure trove of artwork from the National Gallery of Art includes, among others, works by Raphael, Rembrandt, Georgia O’Keeffe, Henri Matisse, Chuck Close, Jacob Lawrence, Pablo Picasso, and Alexander Calder, representing a wide range of artistic styles and techniques. Written by museum educators with decades of hands-on experience in both art-making activities and making art relatable to children, the activities include sculpting a clay figure inspired by Edgar Degas; drawing an object from touch alone, inspired by Joan Miro’s experience as an art student; painting a double-sided portrait with one side reflecting physical traits and the other side personality traits, inspired by Leonardo da Vinci’s Ginevra de' Benci; and creating a story based on a Mary Cassatt painting. Educators, homeschoolers, and families alike will find their creativity sparked by this art extravaganza.

Author : Eleanor Berry
Publisher : Book Guild Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781910878392

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An Eye for a Tooth and a Limb for an Eye by Eleanor Berry Pdf

How far would you go to wreak revenge on the person who has ruined your life? When Rhoda Buckleshott, stylish young English teacher at Sir Winston's girls' school, is unceremoniously sacked, she swears that she will not rest until she has destroyed her nemesis, the head teacher, Mrs Beddington. Perceiving her dismissal as an act of reverse snobbery against her privileged upbringing and upper-class accent, Rhoda embarks on a campaign against Mrs Beddington that becomes more severe and outlandish at every step. And as Rhoda's obsession spins out of control, the strain of her reign of terror takes a terrible toll on her mental state.

Author : John Richardson
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-26
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780195367362

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An Eye for Music by John Richardson Pdf

In An Eye for Music, John Richardson navigates key areas of current thought - from music theory to film theory to cultural theory - to explore what it means that the experience of music is now cinematic, spatial, and visual as much as it is auditory.

Author : Malorie Blackman
Publisher : Puffin
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-06
Category : Dystopias
ISBN : 0141378670

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Double Cross by Malorie Blackman Pdf

Just this once . . . Please let me get away with it just this once . . . Tobey wants a better life - for him and his girlfriend Callie Rose. He wants nothing to do with the gangs that rule the world he lives in. But when he's offered the chance to earn some money just for making a few 'deliveries', just this once, would it hurt to say 'yes'? One small decision can change everything . . . The fourth novel in Malorie Blackman's powerful Noughts & Crosses sequence.

Author : Ben Coes
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781743530016

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Eye for an Eye: A Dewey Andreas Novel 4 by Ben Coes Pdf

Ex-Delta Force operative, Dewey Andreas, has overcome deadly terrorist attacks around the world but now the powers he's defeated are set on hunting him down. But when a cruel and tragic accident occurs, Andreas is driven to seek revenge on his nemesis. Even though it will probably kill him, he has nothing left to lose. Keeping one step ahead of the CIA who are trying to reign him in, Andreas leads a storm of violence and reprisal across Europe and into the heart of China. Where true evil in the form of his enemy is plotting his downfall.