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Yesterday's Monsters

2020-02-18 Social Science
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Book Synopsis Yesterday's Monsters by : Hadar Aviram

Download or read book Yesterday's Monsters written by Hadar Aviram. This book was released on 2020-02-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1969, the world was shocked by a series of murders committed by Charles Manson and his “family” of followers. Although the defendants were sentenced to death in 1971, their sentences were commuted to life with parole in 1972; since 1978, they have been regularly attending parole hearings. Today all of the living defendants remain behind bars. Relying on nearly fifty years of parole hearing transcripts, as well as interviews and archival materials, Hadar Aviram invites readers into the opaque world of the California parole process—a realm of almost unfettered administrative discretion, prison programming inadequacies, high-pitched emotions, and political pressures. Yesterday’s Monsters offers a fresh longitudinal perspective on extreme punishment.

Yesterday's Monsters

2020-02-18 Social Science
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Release : 2020-02-18
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis Yesterday's Monsters by : Hadar Aviram

Download or read book Yesterday's Monsters written by Hadar Aviram. This book was released on 2020-02-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1969, the world was shocked by a series of murders committed by Charles Manson and his “family” of followers. Although the defendants were sentenced to death in 1971, their sentences were commuted to life with parole in 1972; since 1978, they have been regularly attending parole hearings. Today all of the living defendants remain behind bars. Relying on nearly fifty years of parole hearing transcripts, as well as interviews and archival materials, Hadar Aviram invites readers into the opaque world of the California parole process—a realm of almost unfettered administrative discretion, prison programming inadequacies, high-pitched emotions, and political pressures. Yesterday’s Monsters offers a fresh longitudinal perspective on extreme punishment.

Yesterday's Toys

1989 Antiques & Collectibles
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Release : 1989
Genre : Antiques & Collectibles
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Book Rating : 304/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Yesterday's Toys by : Teruhisa Kitahara

Download or read book Yesterday's Toys written by Teruhisa Kitahara. This book was released on 1989. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pictorial review of hi-tech toys of yesterday, mainly of the 1940s to 1960s.

Monsters, Monstrosities, and the Monstrous in Culture and Society

2020-01-28 Social Science
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Release : 2020-01-28
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis Monsters, Monstrosities, and the Monstrous in Culture and Society by : Diego Compagna

Download or read book Monsters, Monstrosities, and the Monstrous in Culture and Society written by Diego Compagna. This book was released on 2020-01-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Existing research on monsters acknowledges the deep impact monsters have especially on Politics, Gender, Life Sciences, Aesthetics and Philosophy. From Sigmund Freud’s essay ‘The Uncanny’ to Scott Poole’s ‘Monsters in America’, previous studies offer detailed insights about uncanny and immoral monsters. However, our anthology wants to overcome these restrictions by bringing together multidisciplinary authors with very different approaches to monsters and setting up variety and increasing diversification of thought as ‘guiding patterns’. Existing research hints that monsters are embedded in social and scientific exclusionary relationships but very seldom copes with them in detail. Erving Goffman’s doesn’t explicitly talk about monsters in his book ‘Stigma’, but his study is an exceptional case which shows that monsters are stigmatized by society because of their deviations from norms, but they can form groups with fellow monsters and develop techniques for handling their stigma. Our book is to be understood as a complement and a ‘further development’ of previous studies: The essays of our anthology pay attention to mechanisms of inequality and exclusion concerning specific historical and present monsters, based on their research materials within their specific frameworks, in order to ‘create’ engaging, constructive, critical and diverse approaches to monsters, even utopian visions of a future of societies shared by monsters. Our book proposes the usual view, that humans look in a horrified way at monsters, but adds that monsters can look in a critical and even likewise frightened way at the very societies which stigmatize them.

All Our Yesterdays

2013-08-01 Young Adult Fiction
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Release : 2013-08-01
Genre : Young Adult Fiction
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Book Rating : 207/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis All Our Yesterdays by : Cristin Terrill

Download or read book All Our Yesterdays written by Cristin Terrill. This book was released on 2013-08-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliantly brain-warping thriller and a love story that leaps back and forth in time – All Our Yesterdays is an amazing first novel, perfect for fans of The Hunger Games. Em is locked in a bare, cold cell with no comforts. Finn is in the cell next door. The Doctor is keeping them there until they tell him what he wants to know. Trouble is, what he wants to know hasn't happened yet. Em and Finn have a shared past, but no future unless they can find a way out. The present is torture – being kept apart, overhearing each other's anguish as the Doctor relentlessly seeks answers. There's no way back from here, to what they used to be, the world they used to know. Then Em finds a note in her cell which changes everything. It's from her future self and contains some simple but very clear instructions. Em must travel back in time to avert a tragedy that's about to unfold. Worse, she has to pursue and kill the boy she loves to change the future . . .

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