A Synonym for Murder
Author : Robert Clarke
Publisher :
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 14,93 MB
Release : 1972-01-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780709124023
Author : Robert Clarke
Publisher :
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 14,93 MB
Release : 1972-01-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780709124023
Author : Piers Beirne
Publisher : Springer
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,63 MB
Release : 2018-03-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1137574682
Murdering Animals confronts the speciesism underlying the disparate social censures of homicide and “theriocide” (the killing of animals by humans), and as such, is a plea to take animal rights seriously. Its substantive topics include the criminal prosecution and execution of justiciable animals in early modern Europe; images of hunters put on trial by their prey in the upside-down world of the Dutch Golden Age; the artist William Hogarth’s patriotic depictions of animals in 18th Century London; and the playwright J.M. Synge’s representation of parricide in fin de siècle Ireland. Combining insights from intellectual history, the history of the fine and performing arts, and what is known about today’s invisibilised sites of animal killing, Murdering Animals inevitably asks: should theriocide be considered murder? With its strong multi- and interdisciplinary approach, this work of collaboration will appeal to scholars of social and species justice in animal studies, criminology, sociology and law.
Author : Jerome Irving Rodale
Publisher : Rodale
Page : 1376 pages
File Size : 37,14 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780878572366
Contains more than one million alphabetically-arranged synonyms grouped in related clusters.
Author : Bakri H. S. Al-Azzam
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 37,55 MB
Release : 2008-05-16
Category :
ISBN : 1599426684
This study aims to discuss a number of terms dealing with ibadat, 'religious observances' in Islam as represented in the Five Pillars of Islam, and other related deeds, from a translational perspective. The study will also include some terms denoting the
Author : David Lehman
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,26 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780472085859
Drawing on a selection of the best British and American detective fiction past and present, Lehman takes readers on a probing investigation of why men and women of all educational and social backgrounds are continually fascinated by the murder mystery.
Author : Philip Jenkins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 11,86 MB
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1351328425
First published in 1994, this book investigates the social construction of serial homicide and assesses the concern that popular fears and stereotypes have exaggerated: the actual scale of multiple homcide. Jenkins has produced an innovative synthesis of approaches to social problem construction that includes an historical and social-scientific estimate of the objective scale of serial murder; a rhetorical analysis of the contruction of the phenomenom in public debate; a cultural studies-oriented analysis of the portrayal of serial murder in contemorary media. Chapters include: "The Construction of Problems and Panic," which covers areas such as comprehending murder, dangerous outsiders, and the rhetoric of perscution; "The Reality of Serial Murder," which discusses statistics, stereotype examination, and media patterns;"Popular Culture: Images of the Serial Killer"; "The Racial Dimension: Serial Murder as Bias Crime"; and "Darker than We Imagine"; "Cults and Conspiracies."
Author : Norman M. Naimark
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 45,92 MB
Release : 2010-07-19
Category : History
ISBN : 1400836069
The chilling story of Stalin’s crimes against humanity Between the early 1930s and his death in 1953, Joseph Stalin had more than a million of his own citizens executed. Millions more fell victim to forced labor, deportation, famine, bloody massacres, and detention and interrogation by Stalin's henchmen. Stalin's Genocides is the chilling story of these crimes. The book puts forward the important argument that brutal mass killings under Stalin in the 1930s were indeed acts of genocide and that the Soviet dictator himself was behind them. Norman Naimark, one of our most respected authorities on the Soviet era, challenges the widely held notion that Stalin's crimes do not constitute genocide, which the United Nations defines as the premeditated killing of a group of people because of their race, religion, or inherent national qualities. In this gripping book, Naimark explains how Stalin became a pitiless mass killer. He looks at the most consequential and harrowing episodes of Stalin's systematic destruction of his own populace—the liquidation and repression of the so-called kulaks, the Ukrainian famine, the purge of nationalities, and the Great Terror—and examines them in light of other genocides in history. In addition, Naimark compares Stalin's crimes with those of the most notorious genocidal killer of them all, Adolf Hitler.
Author : Paul Kaplan
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 39,12 MB
Release : 2012-01-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0739171712
Murder Stories engages with the current theoretical debate in death penalty research on the role of cultural commitments to ‘American’ ideologies in the retention of capital punishment. The central aim of the study is to illuminate the elusive yet powerful role of ideology in legal discourses. Through analyzing the content and processes of death penalty narratives, this research illuminates the covert life of ‘the American Creed,’ (a nexus of ideologies—liberty, egalitarianism, individualism, populism, and laissez faire—said to be unique to the United States) in the law. Murder Stories draws on the entire record of California death sentence resulting trials from three large and diverse California counties for the years 1996 – 2004, as well as interviews with 26 capital caseworkers (attorneys, judges, and investigators) from the same counties. Employing the theoretical framework proposed by Ewick and Silbey (1995) to study hegemonic and subversive narratives, and also the ethnographic approach advocated by Amsterdam and Hertz (1992) to study the producers and processes of constructing legal narratives, this book traces the ideological content carried within the stories told by everyday practitioners of capital punishment by investigating the content, process, and ideological implications of these narratives. The central theoretical finding is that the narratives constructed by both prosecutors and defenders tend to instantiate rather than subvert the ideological tenets of the American Creed.
Author : Carolyn Wells
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 33,23 MB
Release : 2016-11-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8026869990
This carefully crafted ebook: "THE MAN WHO FELL THROUGH THE EARTH (Murder Mystery Classic)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Excerpt: It was to the effect that Amos Gately had been shot before he entered the elevator or immediately upon his entrance. That he had died instantly, and, therefore it would seem that the body must have been placed in the car and sent down by the assailant. But this was only conjecture; all the doctor could assert was that Mr. Gately had been dead for perhaps an hour, and that the position of the body on the floor indicated an instantaneous death from a shot through the heart. Carolyn Wells (1862-1942) was an American writer and poet. Among the most famous of her mystery novels were the Fleming Stone Detective Stories, and Pennington Wise series. She also wrote several Sherlock Holmes stories.
Author : Merriam-Webster, Inc
Publisher : Merriam-Webster
Page : 950 pages
File Size : 42,1 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Antonyms
ISBN : 9780877793410
The ideal guide to choosing the right word. Entries go beyond the word lists of a thesaurus, explaining important differences between synonyms. Provides over 17,000 usage examples. Lists antonyms and related words.