Angola Louisiana State Penitentiary: A Half-Century of Rage and Reform, Paperback - Anne Butler Hamilton

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Reducere. In fascinating detail, Dying to Tell gives us an in-depth look at different kinds of criminal deaths: ...the absolutely senseless slaying of a youn...

The Window in the Corner. A Half-Century of Children's Television - Ruth Inglis

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Reducere. J.W. Mitchell, N.B. Mandava and others' 1970 publication in Nature, "Brassins-A New Family of Plant Hormones from Rape Pollen" announced the discov...

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A nostalgic look back over fifty years of British life in the form of 120 cartoons from one of the UK's best-loved, award-winning editorial cartoon...

Reducere. Pink Higgins was a rugged Texan who lived a life of classic Western adventure. He was a cowboy, Indian fighter, trail driver, stock detective, ranc...

A whisper network kept Jane's story alive: a rumour of an affair with a professor that ended in tragedy when Britton threatened to expose him. Fort...

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A provocative and contrarian work-filled with great lessons from history-that challenges the pervasive notion that America is on the decline.Publis...

This book chronicles the evolution of women's participation in the labour force in Ireland over the last five decades. It will be a valuable resour...

Reducere. Thomas Jefferson developed the idea for the Virginia State Penitentiary and set the standard for the future of the American prison system. Designed...

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Reducere. DescriptionEastern State Penitentiary: A History documents the stories of the men and the method that shaped one of Philadelphia s most recognizabl...

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Reducere. DescriptionAs Tennessee grew into a modern state, it found itself increasingly beset by crime. In 1831, the legislature approved the construction o...

Reducere. On Friday, July 27, 1973, two records were set that day.The temperature climbed to 96 degrees, the hottest day recorded that year, and a riot at th...

Reducere. In the summer of 1959, A. J. Liebling, veteran writer for the New Yorker, came to Louisiana to cover a series of bizarre events that began with Gov...

Magnificent, maddening, thrilling, heartbreaking-- over the years, LSU football has been called many things; boring is not among them. But no perio...

Reducere. DescriptionIn 1900, the Mississippi legislature appropriated funds to purchase approximately 4, 000 acres of farmland in Sunflower County, the hear...

Reducere. When Jerry Clapp's father became warden of the Idaho State Penitentiary in 1945, the young boy quickly learned the rules and boundaries of roaming ...

Reducere. William Kauffman Scarborough has produced a work of incomparable scope and depth, offering the challenge to see afresh one of the most powerful gro...

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Reducere. Gregory S. Taylor's Central Prison is the first scholarly study to explore the prison's entire history, from its origins in the 1870s to its status...

DescriptionMichael Johnston argues that corruption will persist, and even be the rule rather than the exception, until those with a stake in ending...

Explores the lesser-known aspects of the emergence of capitalism in the American south: the shady and unscrupulous peddlers, preachers, slave trade...

Why do American ghettos persist? Scholars and commentators often identify some factor--such as single motherhood, joblessness, or violent street cr...

In the summer of 1965, several Ku Klux Klan members riding in a pickup truck shot two Black deputies on patrol in Washington Parish, Louisiana. Kla...

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Fifty Shades of White is Gary Edwards's fifth book; and he returns with more fabulous, rib-tickling tales that come with half a century of followin...

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Elizabeth Pepper founded The Witches' Almanac in 1971 as a means to provide a source of good information to the quickly growing magical communities...

Reducere. In this lively and insightful memoir, Jeremiah Joyce recounts a wide-ranging career that in many way tracks the history of Chicago over the last ha...

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Reducere. This study encompasses a complete history of Louisiana's isleno community from the Spanish era to the late 20th century.

This collection of columns from the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal is Texas Folklore Society Extra Book #27. The editorial columns included herein tell ...

Reducere. In this lively and insightful memoir, Jeremiah Joyce recounts a wide-ranging career that in many way tracks the history of Chicago over the last ha...

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Twentieth-Century Influences on Twenty-First-Century Policing argues that to fully understand contemporary American policing, we must first underst...

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Originally published in 1963, this powerful novel spools a rewarding, dramatic storyline while it probes the deeper philosophical search for self-d...

Reducere. Whether your garden consists of large raised beds or a few pots on the patio, Kathryn K. Fontenot's The Louisiana Urban Gardener offers easy guidel...

Jane Austen has resonated with readers across generations like no other writer. More than two hundred years after the publication of Pride and Prej...

DescriptionAlthough we remember John James Audubon's years in Louisiana primarily for the art he produced there, his writings reflect the profound ...

Reducere. How do we know what we know about chanties? Beginning with the earliest sources, this book traces the history of writing about chanties -- explorin...

Genevieve Trimble's remarkable story of Afton Villa began with a tragedy. In 1963, fire ravaged the forty-room Victorian Gothic plantation home on ...

Reducere. C. Vann Woodward's The Burden of Southern History remains one of the essential history texts of our time. In it Woodward brilliantly addresses the ...

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