The Thirteenth Turn

The Thirteenth Turn
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Publisher : PublicAffairs
Total Pages : 369
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ISBN-10 : 9781610391375
ISBN-13 : 1610391373
Rating : 4/5 (75 Downloads)

Synopsis The Thirteenth Turn by : Jack Shuler

The story of a rope, a symbol, and rough justice in America. The hangman's knot is a simple thing to tie, just a rope carefully coiled around itself up to thirteen times. But in those thirteen turns lie a powerful symbol, one that is all too deeply connected to America's past -- and present. The last man to be hanged in the United States was Billy Bailey, who was executed in Delaware in 1996 for committing a double murder. Even today, hanging is still legal, in certain situations, in New Hampshire and Washington. And the noose remains a potent cultural symbol. An incident in Jena, Louisiana, in 2006, in which nooses were used to menace black students, made national news. Yet little has changed: according to author Jack Shuler, there have been nearly 100 "noose incidents" just in the last two years. The Thirteenth Turn unravels these stories, from Judas Iscariot, perhaps the most infamous hanged man, to the killing of Perry Smith and Richard Hickock, the murderers at the heart of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, and beyond. In his travels across America, Shuler traces the evolution of this dark practice. As he investigates the death of John Brown, or the 1930 lynching that inspired the song "Strange Fruit," he finds that the very places that perpetrated these acts now seek to forget them. Shuler's account is a kind of shadow history of America: a reminder that vigilantes and hangmen play a crucial role in our national story. The Thirteenth Turn is a courageous and searching book that reminds us where we come from, and what is lost if we forget.

N is for Noose

N is for Noose
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Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Total Pages : 324
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ISBN-10 : 9780330524414
ISBN-13 : 0330524410
Rating : 4/5 (14 Downloads)

Synopsis N is for Noose by : Sue Grafton

N is for Noose is the fourteenth in the Kinsey Millhone mystery series by Sue Grafton. Sometimes I think about how odd it would be to catch a glimpse of the future, a quick view of events lying in store for us. Some moments we saw would make no sense at all and some, I suspect, would frighten us beyond our endurance . . . Early spring in the Sierra Nevada, bringing the usual driving sleet and snow. Private investigator Kinsey Millhone is on her way west when she detours into Nota Lake (pop. 2356) to check out a new client. And encounters a chill she can scarcely believe. Only six weeks have passed since sheriff’s detective Tom Newquist died of a heart attack. His widow is sure he was keeping secrets from her just before he died – and she hires Kinsey to find out exactly what. But all Kinsey can uncover is that Newquist led an exemplary life, so what could he possibly have to conceal? And why has the town, to the last threatening redneck, closed ranks on her? Kinsey’s on the point of giving up. Until she discovers a chilling new clue: a childish drawing of a thick length of rope – fashioned into a hangman’s noose . . .

Slipping the Noose

Slipping the Noose
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Publisher : Text Publishing
Total Pages : 335
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ISBN-10 : 9781922459848
ISBN-13 : 1922459844
Rating : 4/5 (48 Downloads)

Synopsis Slipping the Noose by : Meg Caddy

This rollicking historical novel from Australian writer Meg Caddy takes us into the world of real-life pirate Anne Bonny, picking up her story where history left off.

The Handbook of Tibetan Buddhist Symbols

The Handbook of Tibetan Buddhist Symbols
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Publisher : Serindia Publications, Inc.
Total Pages : 284
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ISBN-10 : 1932476032
ISBN-13 : 9781932476033
Rating : 4/5 (32 Downloads)

Synopsis The Handbook of Tibetan Buddhist Symbols by :

Based on the author's previous publication The Encyclopedia of Tibetan Symbols and Motifs, this handbook contains an array of symbols and motifs, accompanied by succinct explanations. It provides treatment of the essential Tibetan religious figures, themes and motifs, both secular and religious.

38 Nooses

38 Nooses
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 386
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ISBN-10 : 9780307389138
ISBN-13 : 0307389138
Rating : 4/5 (38 Downloads)

Synopsis 38 Nooses by : Scott W. Berg

A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year In August 1862, after suffering decades of hardship, broken treaties, and relentless encroachment on their land, the Dakota leader Little Crow reluctantly agreed that his people must go to war. After six weeks of fighting, the uprising was smashed, thousands of Indians were taken prisoner by the US army, and 303 Dakotas were sentenced to death. President Lincoln, embroiled in the most devastating period of the Civil War, personally intervened to save the lives of 265 of the condemned men, but in the end, 38 Dakota men would be hanged in the largest government-sanctioned execution in U.S. history. Writing with uncommon immediacy and insight, Scott W. Berg details these events within the larger context of the Civil War, the history of the Dakota people and the subsequent United States–Indian wars, and brings to life this overlooked but seminal moment in American history.

1307 Days Under the Noose

1307 Days Under the Noose
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Publisher : Rafail Kosovsky
Total Pages : 229
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ISBN-10 : 9780615241135
ISBN-13 : 0615241131
Rating : 4/5 (35 Downloads)

Synopsis 1307 Days Under the Noose by : Rafail Kosovsky

The true and amazing story of a Jew surviving in German captivity during World War II.

THE ASHLEY BOOK OF KNOTS

THE ASHLEY BOOK OF KNOTS
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Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages : 630
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ISBN-10 : 9783963320002
ISBN-13 : 3963320001
Rating : 4/5 (02 Downloads)

Synopsis THE ASHLEY BOOK OF KNOTS by : Clifford W. Ashley

What else needs to be said about knots? Almost 650 pages of incredible knowledge, presented in a truzly unique manner. This is not a book of knots, it is the BOOK OF KNOTS. Was muss noch über Knoten gesagt werden? Fast 650 Seiten unglaubliches Wissen, präsentiert in einer wahrhaft einzigartigen Weise. Dies ist kein Buch über Knoten, es ist das BUCH DER KNOTEN.

Noose and Hook

Noose and Hook
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Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Total Pages : 73
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ISBN-10 : 9780822990659
ISBN-13 : 0822990652
Rating : 4/5 (59 Downloads)

Synopsis Noose and Hook by : Lynn Emanuel

“I have long believed that Lynn Emanuel is one of the most innovative and subversive poets now writing in America. Her aesthetic and artistic choices consistently invoke a complex hybrid poetics that radically reimagines the shape of our poetic discourse. The brilliant, shattering, and disturbing poems of Noose and Hook are not only wry critiques of recent poetic and cultural activity in this country but also compelling signposts to what yet might be possible in our future. This is Lynn Emanuel's most exquisite and powerful book yet.”—David St. John

The Noose Of A New Moon

The Noose Of A New Moon
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 210
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ISBN-10 : 1913116344
ISBN-13 : 9781913116347
Rating : 4/5 (44 Downloads)

Synopsis The Noose Of A New Moon by : Helen Harper

Devereau Webb is in uncharted territory. He thought he knew what he was doing when he chose to enter London's supernatural society but he's quickly discovering that his new status isn't welcome to everyone. He's lived through hard times before and he's no stranger to the murky underworld of city life. But when he comes across a young werewolf girl who's not only been illegally turned but who has also committed two brutal murders, he will discover just how difficult life can be for supernaturals - and also how far his own predatory powers extend. The Noose Of A New Moon follows on from the events in Midnight Smoke, the third book in the the Firebrand series although it can be read separately. 

Watermelons, Nooses, and Straight Razors

Watermelons, Nooses, and Straight Razors
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Publisher : PM Press
Total Pages : 469
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ISBN-10 : 9781629634593
ISBN-13 : 162963459X
Rating : 4/5 (93 Downloads)

Synopsis Watermelons, Nooses, and Straight Razors by : David Pilgrim

All groups tell stories, but some groups have the power to impose their stories on others, to label others, stigmatize others, paint others as undesirables—and to have these stories presented as scientific fact, God’s will, or wholesome entertainment. Watermelons, Nooses, and Straight Razors examines the origins and significance of several longstanding antiblack stories and the caricatures and stereotypes that support them. Here readers will find representations of the lazy, childlike Sambo, the watermelon-obsessed pickaninny, the buffoonish minstrel, the subhuman savage, the loyal and contented mammy and Tom, and the menacing, razor-toting coon and brute. Malcolm X and James Baldwin both refused to eat watermelon in front of white people. They were aware of the jokes and other stories about African Americans stealing watermelons, fighting over watermelons, even being transformed into watermelons. Did racial stories influence the actions of white fraternities and sororities who dressed in blackface and mocked black culture, or employees who hung nooses in their workplaces? What stories did the people who refer to Serena Williams and other dark-skinned athletes as apes or baboons hear? Is it possible that a white South Carolina police officer who shot a fleeing black man had never heard stories about scary black men with straight razors or other weapons? Antiblack stories still matter. Watermelons, Nooses, and Straight Razors uses images from the Jim Crow Museum, the nation’s largest publicly accessible collection of racist objects. These images are evidence of the social injustice that Martin Luther King Jr. referred to as “a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered up but must be exposed to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured.” Each chapter concludes with a story from the author’s journey, challenging the integrity of racial narratives.