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| Author | : John W Kingdon |
| Publisher | : John W. Kingdon (copyright holder) |
| Total Pages | : 134 |
| Release | : 1999-01-01 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 0312189710 |
A book about why the United States is different from other industrialized countries.
| Author | : Anne-Marie Cusac |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 333 |
| Release | : 2009-03-17 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0300155492 |
The statistics are startling. Since 1973, America’s imprisonment rate has multiplied over five times to become the highest in the world. More than two million inmates reside in state and federal prisons. What does this say about our attitudes toward criminals and punishment? What does it say about us? This book explores the cultural evolution of punishment practices in the United States. Anne-Marie Cusac first looks at punishment in the nation’s early days, when Americans repudiated Old World cruelty toward criminals and emphasized rehabilitation over retribution. This attitude persisted for some 200 years, but in recent decades we have abandoned it, Cusac shows. She discusses the dramatic rise in the use of torture and restraint, corporal and capital punishment, and punitive physical pain. And she links this new climate of punishment to shifts in other aspects of American culture, including changes in dominant religious beliefs, child-rearing practices, politics, television shows, movies, and more. America now punishes harder and longer and with methods we would have rejected as cruel and unusual not long ago. These changes are profound, their impact affects all our lives, and we have yet to understand the full consequences.
| Author | : Jeff Bahr |
| Publisher | : Publications International |
| Total Pages | : 320 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Curiosities and wonders |
| ISBN | : 9781412716833 |
Discover some of the most unusual sights in the United States in this beautiful hardcover coffee table book. Full-color photography highlights weird roadside attractions, strange natural wonders, and positively mysterious phenomena. From the world's largest bug and the world's largest globe to historic castles and a floating bridge, you'll find a treasure trove of sites to explore.
| Author | : John D. Bessler |
| Publisher | : UPNE |
| Total Pages | : 474 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1555537170 |
This indispensable history of the Eighth Amendment and the founders' views of capital punishment is also a passionate call for the abolition of the death penalty based on the notion of cruel and unusual punishment
| Author | : Steve N. G. Howell |
| Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
| Total Pages | : 448 |
| Release | : 2014-02-16 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0691117969 |
The first comprehensive illustrated guide to North America's vagrant birds Rare Birds of North America is the first comprehensive illustrated guide to the vagrant birds that occur throughout the United States and Canada. Featuring 275 stunning color plates, this book covers 262 species originating from three very different regions—the Old World, the New World tropics, and the world's oceans. It explains the causes of avian vagrancy and breaks down patterns of occurrence by region and season, enabling readers to see where, when, and why each species occurs in North America. Detailed species accounts describe key identification features, taxonomy, age, sex, distribution, and status. Rare Birds of North America provides unparalleled insights into vagrancy and avian migration, and will enrich the birding experience of anyone interested in finding and observing rare birds. Covers 262 species of vagrant birds found in the United States and Canada Features 275 stunning color plates that depict every species Explains patterns of occurrence by region and season Provides an invaluable overview of vagrancy patterns and migration Includes detailed species accounts and cutting-edge identification tips
| Author | : Frank K. Gallant |
| Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
| Total Pages | : 258 |
| Release | : 2012-12-27 |
| Genre | : Travel |
| ISBN | : 0486310817 |
From Smut Eye, Alabama, to Tie Siding, Wyoming, this pop-culture history offers a well-written and highly entertaining survey of America's most unusual place-names and their often-humorous origins.
| Author | : Andrew Och |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 428 |
| Release | : 2017-11-24 |
| Genre | : Presidents' spouses |
| ISBN | : 9781943226283 |
In this second volume, author Andrew Och continues his travels to "to nearly every city, town, village, home, school, church, birthplace, cemetery, train station, farm, plantation, library, museum, general store, town center and cottage" that relates to America's first ladies from Edith Roosevelt, wife of Theodore, to Melania Trump.
| Author | : Heather Alexander |
| Publisher | : 50 States |
| Total Pages | : 114 |
| Release | : 2021-11-09 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 0711262845 |
In Only In America, discover unique, strange, funny, record-breaking and downright unbelievable facts about every state in the USA.
| Author | : James Fallows |
| Publisher | : Vintage |
| Total Pages | : 432 |
| Release | : 2018-05-08 |
| Genre | : Travel |
| ISBN | : 1101871857 |
NATIONAL BEST SELLER • The basis for the HBO documentary now streaming on HBO Max For five years, James and Deborah Fallows have travelled across America in a single-engine prop airplane. Visiting dozens of towns, the America they saw is acutely conscious of its problems—from economic dislocation to the opioid scourge—but it is also crafting solutions, with a practical-minded determination at dramatic odds with the bitter paralysis of national politics. At times of dysfunction on a national level, reform possibilities have often arisen from the local level. The Fallowses describe America in the middle of one of these creative waves. Their view of the country is as complex and contradictory as America itself, but it also reflects the energy, the generosity and compassion, the dreams, and the determination of many who are in the midst of making things better. Our Towns is the story of their journey—and an account of a country busy remaking itself.
| Author | : Karen Stollznow |
| Publisher | : Pitchstone Publishing (US&CA) |
| Total Pages | : 189 |
| Release | : 2014-07-01 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1939578086 |
God Bless America lifts the veil on strange and unusual religious beliefs and practices in the modern-day United States. Do Satanists really sacrifice babies? Do exorcisms involve swearing and spinning heads? Are the Amish allowed to drive cars and use computers? Taking a close look at snake handling, new age spirituality, Santeria spells, and satanic rituals, this book offers more than mere armchair research, taking you to an exorcism and a polygamist compound—and allowing you to sit among the beards and bonnets in a Mennonite church and to hear L. Ron Hubbard's stories told as sermons during a Scientology service. From the Amish to Voodoo, the beliefs and practices explored in this book may be unorthodox—and often dangerous—but they are always fascinating. While some of them are dying out, and others are gaining popularity with a modern audience, all offer insight into the future of religion in the United States—and remind that fact is often stranger than fiction.
