Crow Court

Author : Andy Charman
Publisher : Unbound Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1783529113
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crow Court written by Andy Charman and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-21 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LONGLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE 2021 'Clever, elegantly constructed, utterly convincing' Daily Mail 'As gripping as Hilary Mantel and as convincing as Sarah Perry ... debut novels shouldn't be this perfectly formed' Ben Myers 'Clever, page-turning, original ... beautifully written' Jane Harris 'Exactly observed, densely textured and richly flavoured ... Crow Court is throbbing with life' Rick Gekoski Spring, 1840. In the Dorset market town of Wimborne Minster, a young choirboy drowns himself. Soon after, the choirmaster—a belligerent man with a vicious reputation—is found murdered, in a discovery tainted as much by relief as it is by suspicion. The gaze of the magistrates falls on four local men, whose decisions will reverberate through the community for years to come. So begins the chronicle of Crow Court, unravelling over fourteen delicately interwoven episodes, the town of Wimborne their backdrop: a young gentleman and his groom run off to join the army; a sleepwalking cordwainer wakes on his wife’s grave; desperate farmhands emigrate. We meet the composer with writer’s block; the smuggler; a troupe of actors down from London; and old Art Pugh, whose impoverished life has made him hard to amuse. Meanwhile, justice waits...

Author : Sherwood Smith
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780152016081
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crown Duel written by Sherwood Smith and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1997 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Author : Michelle Alexander
Publisher : The New Press
ISBN 13 : 1620971941
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Jim Crow written by Michelle Alexander and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named one of the most important nonfiction books of the 21st century by Entertainment Weekly‚ Slate‚ Chronicle of Higher Education‚ Literary Hub, Book Riot‚ and Zora A tenth-anniversary edition of the iconic bestseller—"one of the most influential books of the past 20 years," according to the Chronicle of Higher Education—with a new preface by the author "It is in no small part thanks to Alexander's account that civil rights organizations such as Black Lives Matter have focused so much of their energy on the criminal justice system." —Adam Shatz, London Review of Books Seldom does a book have the impact of Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow. Since it was first published in 2010, it has been cited in judicial decisions and has been adopted in campus-wide and community-wide reads; it helped inspire the creation of the Marshall Project and the new $100 million Art for Justice Fund; it has been the winner of numerous prizes, including the prestigious NAACP Image Award; and it has spent nearly 250 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Most important of all, it has spawned a whole generation of criminal justice reform activists and organizations motivated by Michelle Alexander's unforgettable argument that "we have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it." As the Birmingham News proclaimed, it is "undoubtedly the most important book published in this century about the U.S." Now, ten years after it was first published, The New Press is proud to issue a tenth-anniversary edition with a new preface by Michelle Alexander that discusses the impact the book has had and the state of the criminal justice reform movement today.

Author : Michael J. Klarman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195351673
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Jim Crow to Civil Rights written by Michael J. Klarman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-02-05 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A monumental investigation of the Supreme Court's rulings on race, From Jim Crow To Civil Rights spells out in compelling detail the political and social context within which the Supreme Court Justices operate and the consequences of their decisions for American race relations. In a highly provocative interpretation of the decision's connection to the civil rights movement, Klarman argues that Brown was more important for mobilizing southern white opposition to racial change than for encouraging direct-action protest. Brown unquestioningly had a significant impact--it brought race issues to public attention and it mobilized supporters of the ruling. It also, however, energized the opposition. In this authoritative account of constitutional law concerning race, Michael Klarman details, in the richest and most thorough discussion to date, how and whether Supreme Court decisions do, in fact, matter.

Author : John Michell
Publisher : Rough Guides
ISBN 13 : 9781858285894
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unexplained Phenomena written by John Michell and published by Rough Guides. This book was released on 2000 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rough Guide to Unexplained Phenomena is an exploration of the zone that lies between the known and the unknown, a shadowy territory that's home to lake monsters, combusting people, teleporting frogs and man-eating trees. Taking a Fortean path between dogmatic scientists and credulous believers, the authors trace tales of wonder back to their sources, drawing from a huge archive of observations, opinions and discussions. As the third millennium begins, many things are not yet known or understood about our world -- as this Rough Guide shows, there are still many riddles to solve and wonders to experience.

Author : John Lockie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Topography of London written by John Lockie and published by . This book was released on 1816 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : California (State).
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 38 pages
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Author : John LOCKIE (Inspector to the Phoenix Fire Office, London.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lockie's Topography of London, Giving a Concise Local Description of ... Every Square, Street, Lane, ... Dock, ... Wharf, ... Public Office, in the Metropolis and Its Environs. ... The Whole Alphabetically Arranged, Etc written by John LOCKIE (Inspector to the Phoenix Fire Office, London.) and published by . This book was released on 1816 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : F. Michael Higginbotham
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479845019
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ghosts of Jim Crow written by F. Michael Higginbotham and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2015-05-08 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the political, economic, educational, and social reasons the United States is not a "post-racial" society and argues that legal reform can successfully create a "post-racial" America.

Author : Peter H. Irons
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781565843370
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book May It Please the Court written by Peter H. Irons and published by . This book was released on 1996-10-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling, unprecedented live recordings and transcripts of twenty-three landmark Supreme Court cases.