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I am from here but my family is not portrays the fears a culturally-diverse child faces due to his parents' illegal status living in the U.S. It also depicts a very strong family ties.
Author : Jose Miguel Plata-Ramírez
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 45,60 MB
Release : 2020-08-26
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 166412666X
I am from here but my family is not portrays the fears a culturally-diverse child faces due to his parents' illegal status living in the U.S. It also depicts a very strong family ties.
Author : Tara Westover
Publisher : Random House
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 31,74 MB
Release : 2018-02-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 039959051X
#1 NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, AND BOSTON GLOBE BESTSELLER • One of the most acclaimed books of our time: an unforgettable memoir about a young woman who, kept out of school, leaves her survivalist family and goes on to earn a PhD from Cambridge University “Extraordinary . . . an act of courage and self-invention.”—The New York Times NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW • ONE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR • BILL GATES’S HOLIDAY READING LIST • FINALIST: National Book Critics Circle’s Award In Autobiography and John Leonard Prize For Best First Book • PEN/Jean Stein Book Award • Los Angeles Times Book Prize Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Her family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education, and no one to intervene when one of Tara’s older brothers became violent. When another brother got himself into college, Tara decided to try a new kind of life. Her quest for knowledge transformed her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge University. Only then would she wonder if she’d traveled too far, if there was still a way home. “Beautiful and propulsive . . . Despite the singularity of [Westover’s] childhood, the questions her book poses are universal: How much of ourselves should we give to those we love? And how much must we betray them to grow up?”—Vogue NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • O: The Oprah Magazine • Time • NPR • Good Morning America • San Francisco Chronicle • The Guardian • The Economist • Financial Times • Newsday • New York Post • theSkimm • Refinery29 • Bloomberg • Self • Real Simple • Town & Country • Bustle • Paste • Publishers Weekly • Library Journal • LibraryReads • Book Riot • Pamela Paul, KQED • New York Public Library
Author : Gerald Durrell
Publisher : Penguin Books Limited
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 13,24 MB
Release : 2011-04-07
Category : Corfu Island (Greece)
ISBN : 9780241951460
'What we all need,' said Larry, 'is sunshine . . . a country where we can grow.' 'Yes, dear, that would be nice,' agreed Mother, not really listening. 'I had a letter from George this morning - he says Corfu's wonderful. Why don't we pack up and go to Greece?' 'Very well, dear, if you like,' said Mother unguardedly. Escaping the ills of the British climate, the Durrell family - acne-ridden Margo, gun-toting Leslie, bookworm Lawrence and budding naturalist Gerry, along with their long-suffering mother and Roger the dog - take off for the island of Corfu. But the Durrells find that, reluctantly, they must share their various villas with a menagerie of local fauna - among them scorpions, geckos, toads, bats and butterflies. Recounted with immense humour and charm My Family and Other Animals is a wonderful account of a rare, magical childhood. 'Durrell has an uncanny knack of discovering human as well as animal eccentricities' Sunday Telegraph
Author : Jose Miguel Plata-Ramírez
Publisher :
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 37,63 MB
Release : 2020-08-26
Category :
ISBN : 9781664126688
I am from here but my family is not portrays the fears a culturally-diverse child faces due to his parents' illegal status living in the U.S. It also depicts a very strong family ties.
Author : United States. War Dept
Publisher :
Page : 1042 pages
File Size : 18,91 MB
Release : 1899
Category : Confederate States of America
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher :
Page : 1448 pages
File Size : 47,41 MB
Release : 1956
Category : Communism
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Author : R. A. Duff
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,10 MB
Release : 2003-05-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 0190290390
The question "What can justify criminal punishment ?" becomes especially insistent at times, like our own, of penal crisis, when serious doubts are raised not only about the justice or efficacy of particular modes of punishment, but about the very legitimacy of the whole penal system. Recent theorizing about punishment offers a variety of answers to that question-answers that try to make plausible sense of the idea that punishment is justified as being deserved for past crimes; answers that try to identify some beneficial consequences in terms of which punishment might be justified; as well as abolitionist answers telling us that we should seek to abolish, rather than to justify, criminal punishment. This book begins with a critical survey of recent trends in penal theory, but goes on to develop an original account (based on Duff's earlier Trials and Punishments) of criminal punishment as a mode of moral communication, aimed at inducing repentance, reform, and reconciliation through reparation-an account that undercuts the traditional controversies between consequentialist and retributivist penal theories, and that shows how abolitionist concerns can properly be met by a system of communicative punishments. In developing this account, Duff articulates the "liberal communitarian" conception of political society (and of the role of the criminal law) on which it depends; he discusses the meaning and role of different modes of punishment, showing how they can constitute appropriate modes of moral communication between political community and its citizens; and he identifies the essential preconditions for the justice of punishment as thus conceived-preconditions whose non-satisfaction makes our own system of criminal punishment morally problematic. Punishment, Communication, and Community offers no easy answers, but provides a rich and ambitious ideal of what criminal punishment could be-an ideal of what criminal punishment cold be-and ideal that challenges existing penal theories as well as our existing penal theories as well as our existing penal practices.
Author : Robert Dale Owen
Publisher :
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 11,50 MB
Release : 1860
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Page : 700 pages
File Size : 26,40 MB
Release : 1903
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Page : 826 pages
File Size : 10,92 MB
Release : 1917
Category : Jews
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