Editora: Jeff Miller
Carla MacDonald has become weary with the way things are with her husband James. She wants things to return to their early years but somehow how experience seems to have faded. In a bid to learn she turns to Annie Desmond, the nanny for answers she needs.
When Valena Beety first became a federal prosecutor, her goal was to protect victims, especially women, from cycles of violence. What she discovered was that not only did prosecutions often fail to help victims, they frequently relied on false information, forensic fraud, and police and prosecutor misconduct. Seeking change, Beety began working in the Innocence Movement, helping to free factually innocent people through DNA testing and criminal justice reform. Manifesting Justice focuses on the shocking story of Beety's client Leigh Stubbs—a young, queer woman in Mississippi, convicted of a horrific crime she did not commit because of her sexual orientation. Beety weaves Stubbs's harrowing narrative through the broader story of a broken criminal justice system. Drawing on interviews with both innocence advocates and wrongfully convicted women, along with Beety's own experiences as an expert litigator and a queer woman, Manifesting Justice provides a unique outsider/insider perspective. Beety expands our notion of justice to include not just people who are factually innocent, but those who are over-charged, pressured into bad plea deals, and over-sentenced. The result is a riveting and timely book that will transform our very ideas of crime and punishment, what innocence is, and who should be free.Ver livro
The Vedas are among the oldest collections of text in India. Even today, they are taught orally from instructor to student. The teacher painstakingly corrects the pronunciation and intonation of the Vedic texts. Technology has seen virtual classrooms where females also learn and recite the Vedas the way they were changed. Of the three later Vedas, the Samaveda is much the most intricately connected with the Rigveda. Historically, it is of vast importance, for it contains lost technology and scientific matter, all its verses except seventy-five being taken directly from the Rigveda. Its contents are derived chiefly from the eighth and especially the ninth, the Soma book. The Samaveda resembles the Yajurveda in having been compiled only for ritual application, for the verses of which it consists are all meant to be chanted at the ceremonies of the offerings. Removed from their context in the Rigveda, they are strung together without internal connection, their significance depending solely on their relation to particular rites. In form, these stanzas appear in the text of the Sama-Veda as if they were to be spoken or recited, differing from those of the Rigveda only in the way of marking the accent.Ver livro
No Longer a Russian Beginner? Welcome to Lower Intermediate Russian, Volume 2 Master Russian conversation the fun, fast and easy way! Speak with anyone, anywhere. Start speaking Russian in minutes, and learn key vocabulary, phrases, and grammar in just minutes more with Lower Intermediate Russian. Our native Russian hosts break down all the sentences, grammar and more in a simple, easily understandable way! This isn't stale textbook material - it's fun, effective, and practical! You learn Intermediate Russian conversation that you can use immediately! What you get in Lower Intermediate Russian: • 270+ pages of Russian learning material • 25 Russian lessons: dialog transcripts with translation, vocabulary, sample sentences and a grammar section • 25 Audio Lesson Tracks • 25 Audio Review Tracks (practice new words and phrases) • 25 Audio Dialog Tracks (read along while you listen) Interactive. Effective. And FUN! Discover or rediscover how fun learning a language can be with the future of language learning. Download the PDF and read alongVer livro
"Think of Singapore instead as the Air-Conditioned Nation—a society with a unique blend of comfort and central control, where people have mastered their environment, but at the cost of individual autonomy, and at the risk of unsustainability." Air-Conditioned Nation Revisited is an anthology of essays on Singapore politics by Cherian George. It draws upon his influential collection Singapore: The Air-Conditioned Nation (2000), on the country's politics of comfort and control, and from Singapore, Incomplete (2017), on its underdeveloped democracy. Updated for the impending transition to a new generation of leaders, this 20th anniversary edition of Air-Conditioned Nation offers critical reflections on continuity and change in Singapore’s unique political culture.Ver livro
Friedrich Schiller, Germany's great poet and dramatist: Life and work in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best!Ver livro
