Witness to the Young Republic
Title | Witness to the Young Republic PDF eBook |
Author | Benjamin Brown French |
Publisher | |
Pages | 716 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
Benjamin Brown French was a Washington insider who lived in the shadow of the Capitol from 1833 to 1870. Personally acquainted with 12 presidents, he was on the scene observing great men and great events of his day, while also taking note of gossip, drunkenness, and duels. These selections (culled from his 4,000 page journal), provide historical details at their most entertaining.
Children Who See Too Much
Title | Children Who See Too Much PDF eBook |
Author | Betsy Mcalister Groves |
Publisher | Beacon Press |
Pages | 188 |
Release | 2003-01-20 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 9780807031391 |
For the last ten years Betsy Groves has been working with children traumatized by witnessing violence. In this book she shows how children understand, respond to, and are affected by violence, especially domestic violence. Groves makes the powerful case that traumatic events carried out by family members carry the most severe psychological risks for very young children. She uses clinical case studies to show that being young does not protect against the lasting effects of witnessing violence, and she offers ways adults can help.
Witness (Scholastic Gold)
Title | Witness (Scholastic Gold) PDF eBook |
Author | Karen Hesse |
Publisher | Scholastic Inc. |
Pages | 188 |
Release | 2013-03-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0545345944 |
Newbery Medalist Karen Hesse emerses readers in a small Vermont town in 1924 with this haunting and harrowing tale. Leanora Sutter. Esther Hirsh. Merlin Van Tornhout. Johnny Reeves . . .These characters are among the unforgettable cast inhabiting a small Vermont town in 1924. A town that turns against its own when the Ku Klux Klan moves in. No one is safe, especially the two youngest, twelve-year-old Leanora, an African-American girl, and six-year-old Esther, who is Jewish.In this story of a community on the brink of disaster, told through the haunting and impassioned voices of its inhabitants, Newbery Award winner Karen Hesse takes readers into the hearts and minds of those who bear witness.
Young Witnesses in Criminal Proceedings
Title | Young Witnesses in Criminal Proceedings PDF eBook |
Author | Joyce Plotnikoff |
Publisher | |
Pages | 16 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Child witnesses |
ISBN | 9780904956825 |
Last meal at Moor Inn, Death was presumed, The young witnesses
Title | Last meal at Moor Inn, Death was presumed, The young witnesses PDF eBook |
Author | Nigel Miller |
Publisher | Wally Miller |
Pages | 28 |
Release | |
Genre | |
ISBN | 1257995553 |
Bearing Witness Against Sin
Title | Bearing Witness Against Sin PDF eBook |
Author | Michael P. Young |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 269 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0226960862 |
During the 1830s the United States experienced a wave of movements for social change over temperance, the abolition of slavery, anti-vice activism, and a host of other moral reforms. Michael Young argues for the first time in Bearing Witness against Sin that together they represented a distinctive new style of mobilization—one that prefigured contemporary forms of social protest by underscoring the role of national religious structures and cultural schemas. In this book, Young identifies a new strain of protest that challenged antebellum Americans to take personal responsibility for reforming social problems.In this period activists demanded that social problems like drinking and slaveholding be recognized as national sins unsurpassed in their evil and immorality. This newly awakened consciousness undergirded by a confessional style of protest, seized the American imagination and galvanized thousands of people. Such a phenomenon, Young argues, helps explain the lives of charismatic reformers such as William Lloyd Garrison and the Grimké sisters, among others. Marshalling lively historical materials, including letters and life histories of reformers, Bearing Witness against Sin is a revelatory account of how religion lay at the heart of social reform.
The Midnight Witness
Title | The Midnight Witness PDF eBook |
Author | Sara Blaedel |
Publisher | Grand Central Publishing |
Pages | 258 |
Release | 2018-10-23 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1538759780 |
Rookie homicide detective Louise Rick makes her debut in this thrilling #1 international bestseller that launched 3 million copy bestselling writer Sara Blaedel's incredible career. A young woman is found strangled in a park, and a male journalist has been killed in the backyard of the Royal Hotel in Copenhagen. Detective Louise Rick is put on the case of the young girl, but very soon becomes entangled in solving the other homicide too when it turns out her best friend, journalist Camilla Lind, knew the murdered man. Louise tries to keep her friend from getting too involved, but Camilla's never been one to miss out on an interesting story. And this time, Camilla may have gone too far... Emotionally riveting and filled with unexpected twists, The Midnight Witness is a tour-de-force from international phenomenon Sara Blaedel.