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  Literary Executions - Capital...

  John Cyril Barton

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  “Rich with historical detail . . . examines the figure and theme of the death penalty in imaginative literature from Cooper to Dreiser.” —Gregg Crane, Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Michigan 
   
  Drawing from legal and extralegal discourse but focusing on imaginative literature, Literary Executions examines representations of, responses to, and arguments for and against the death penalty in the United States over the long nineteenth century. John Cyril Barton creates a generative dialogue between artistic relics and legal history. He looks to novels, short stories, poems, and creative nonfiction as well as legislative reports, trial transcripts, legal documents, newspaper and journal articles, treatises, and popular books (like The Record of Crimes, A Defence of Capital Punishment, and The Gallows, the Prison, and the Poor House), all of which were part of the debate over the death penalty. 
   
  Barton focuses on several canonical figures—James Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Lydia Maria Child, Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, and Theodore Dreiser—and offers new readings of their work in light of the death penalty controversy. Barton also gives close attention to a host of then-popular-but-now-forgotten writers—particularly John Neal, Slidell MacKenzie, William Gilmore Simms, Sylvester Judd, and George Lippard—whose work helped shape or was shaped by the influential anti-gallows movement. 
   
  By engaging the politics and poetics of capital punishment, Literary Executions contends that the movement to abolish the death penalty in the United States should be seen as an important part of the context that brought about the flowering of the American Renaissance during the antebellum period and that influenced literature later in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

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  The Undercover Economist Strikes...

  Tim Harford

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  Thanks to the worldwide financial upheaval, economics is no longer a topic we can ignore. From politicians to hedge-fund managers to middle-class IRA holders, everyone must pay attention to how and why the global economy works the way it does. Enter Financial Times columnist and bestselling author Tim Harford. In this new book that demystifies macroeconomics, Harford strips away the spin, the hype, and the jargon to reveal the truth about how the world's economy actually works. With the wit of a raconteur and the clear grasp of an expert, Harford explains what's really happening beyond today's headlines, why all of us should care, and what we can do about it to understand it better.

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  I'm a Flight Nurse

  Lauren Kukla

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  What does a flight nurse do every day? What character traits are essential for a flight nurse to have? Follow flight nurses as as they work to keep people healthy. These health heroes do the important work of flying injured or sick patients to a hospital that can help. Discover the tools they use as they work with the flight crew and hospital staff to keep patients healthy. Like all health heroes, they make sure the needs of the patient come first. Meet a real flight nurse from Mayo Clinic, and find out how these health heroes save the day, every day!

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  The Little Lamb

  Andrea Janzen

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  Little Sprout Readers is based on the best Nersery rhyme. Easy English nursery rhyme storybook for children who are new to English.

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  How to start out as a stylist! -...

  Camilla Kristiansen

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  You want to be a stylist. You know that you have a passion for fashion, but you just don't see how that can happen, how you can go after your dreams. You can do it. No matter where you live in the world you can become a stylist. If I can do it living in a city with only 50.000 people in a small town in Norway, so can you. In this book you will learn my secrets and how you can make money from being a stylist and go after you dreams and be your own boss. Start today. Life is happening now!

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  Sterling's Gold - Wit and Wisdom...

  Roger Sterling

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  Quips and quotes from one of Mad Men’s sharpest wits. 
   
  Multiple Emmy winner Mad Men continues to captivate viewers around the world with its brilliant portrayal of the 1960s and its stylish characters, including the dashing advertising mogul Roger Sterling, who’s acquired a reputation for his quips, barbs, and witticisms over the show’s many season. This book, presented as Roger’s memoir during the fourth season of Mad Men, is an entertaining collection of our favorite ad man’s best one-liners. 
   
  Roger Sterling’s pithy comments and observations amount to a unique window into the advertising world—a world that few among us are privileged to witness firsthand—as well as a commentary on life in New York City in the middle of the twentieth century.

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