Beyond the Gates
Title | Beyond the Gates PDF eBook |
Author | Catherine Wells |
Publisher | Roc |
Pages | 356 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780451456960 |
The desert world of Dray's Planet is inhabited by the Children of the Second Revelation, who fear that unbelieving outsiders may contaminate their religion. But when a strange creature is discovered, only an unbeliever named Cecil Robinson has the necessary expertise that will allow him to study it. Permitted on Dray's surface, he is soon joined by his ruthless rival and suddenly the journey to discover the truth behind this mysterious creature turns deadly. And Cecil soon learns that there is more at stake for the populace of Dray's Planet than just a scientific exploration...
Beyond the Ghetto Gates
Title | Beyond the Ghetto Gates PDF eBook |
Author | Michelle Cameron |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 471 |
Release | 2020-04-07 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1631528513 |
When French troops occupy the Italian port city of Ancona, freeing the city’s Jews from their repressive ghetto, it unleashes a whirlwind of progressivism and brutal backlash as two very different cultures collide. Mirelle, a young Jewish maiden, must choose between her duty—an arranged marriage to a wealthy Jewish merchant—and her love for a dashing French Catholic soldier. Meanwhile, Francesca, a devout Catholic, must decide if she will honor her marriage vows to an abusive and murderous husband when he enmeshes their family in the theft of a miracle portrait of the Madonna. Set during the turbulent days of Napoleon Bonaparte’s Italian campaign (1796–97), Beyond the Ghetto Gates is both a cautionary tale for our present moment, with its rising tide of anti-Semitism, and a story of hope—a reminder of a time in history when men and women of conflicting faiths were able to reconcile their prejudices in the face of a rapidly changing world.
Beyond Orion's Gates
Title | Beyond Orion's Gates PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Finley |
Publisher | |
Pages | 360 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9781878046390 |
Beyond the Prison Gates
Title | Beyond the Prison Gates PDF eBook |
Author | Warren Rosenblum |
Publisher | UNC Press Books |
Pages | 341 |
Release | 2012-09-01 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1469606763 |
Germany today has one of the lowest incarceration rates in the industrialized world, and social welfare principles play an essential role at all levels of the German criminal justice system. Warren Rosenblum examines the roots of this social approach to criminal policy in the reform movements of the Wilhelmine and Weimar periods, when reformers strove to replace state institutions of control and incarceration with private institutions of protective supervision. Reformers believed that private charities and volunteers could diagnose and treat social pathologies in a way that coercive state institutions could not. The expansion of welfare for criminals set the stage for a more economical system of punishment, Rosenblum argues, but it also opened the door to new, more expansive controls over individuals marked as "asocial." With the reformers' success, the issue of who had power over welfare became increasingly controversial and dangerous. Other historians have suggested that the triumph of eugenics in the 1890s was predicated upon the abandonment of liberal and Christian assumptions about human malleability. Rosenblum demonstrates, however, that the turn to "criminal biology" was not a reaction against social reform, but rather an effort to rescue its legitimacy.
Beyond Death
Title | Beyond Death PDF eBook |
Author | Stanislav Grof |
Publisher | Thames & Hudson |
Pages | 96 |
Release | 1980 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780500810194 |
Analyzes the portrayal of death, afterlife, heaven, and hell in the art of various cultures, from ancient Egypt to the North American Indian
Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Title | Christo and Jeanne-Claude PDF eBook |
Author | Jan Greenberg |
Publisher | |
Pages | 58 |
Release | 2008-10-14 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN |
Covers the early life and career of Christo and Jeanne-Claude and then a focus on their 2005 installation in Central Park of over seven thousand saffron panels.
Beyond These Gates
Title | Beyond These Gates PDF eBook |
Author | Marilyn Nolte |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2018-05-02 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781532375958 |