Author: Leon Henry Vincent
Publisher: Cambridge Mass. : Printed at the Riverside Press
ISBN:
Category : Book collectors
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Dewitt Miller
Author: Leon Henry Vincent
Publisher: Cambridge Mass. : Printed at the Riverside Press
ISBN:
Category : Book collectors
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Publisher: Cambridge Mass. : Printed at the Riverside Press
ISBN:
Category : Book collectors
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Genealogy of Descendants of Claude Le Maitre (Delamater); Who Came From France Via Holland and Settled at New Netherlands, Now New York, in 1653
Author: La Fayette De La Mater
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385108314
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385108314
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
The Luyceumite and Talent
Author:
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Category : Lectures and lecturing
Languages : en
Pages : 996
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Lectures and lecturing
Languages : en
Pages : 996
Book Description
Think to New Worlds
Author: Joshua Blu Buhs
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226831485
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
"This book is about Charles Fort, his followers, and the surprising influence they have had on science fiction, the avant-garde, UFOlogy, and more broadly on the role of spirituality and conspiracy in the modern world. Fort was an author and maverick philosopher who wrote four non-fiction books about anomalies-rains of frogs, mysterious disappearances, unexplained lights in the sky-for which he offered hypotheses that even he did not (always) accept as true. His books developed into a monistic philosophy that denounced science as a machine for generating truth. In his view, science was a small part of a larger system in which truth and falsity were constantly transforming one into the other. This was not a rejection of the modern world but, instead, its fulfillment: Fort prophesied the next stage in intellectual evolution after the scientific era. He inspired four overlapping groups: members of the Fortean Society; science fiction fans and writers; avant-garde artists; and flying saucer enthusiasts. First We Must Think to New Worlds takes up each of these groups in turn to ask: How can the human imagination be expanded? What is the fundamental structure of the universe? And, how does power move? As they developed their responses, Fort's followers mixed Forteanism with Fundamentalism, New Agery, and conspiracy, as well as a host of other forms of modern enchantments, such as the ironic imagination, scientific wonder, and Theosophical syncretism. Each chapter is interrupted by and concludes with shorter sections that focus on particular Forteans or Fortean events as a way to deepen themes"--
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226831485
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
"This book is about Charles Fort, his followers, and the surprising influence they have had on science fiction, the avant-garde, UFOlogy, and more broadly on the role of spirituality and conspiracy in the modern world. Fort was an author and maverick philosopher who wrote four non-fiction books about anomalies-rains of frogs, mysterious disappearances, unexplained lights in the sky-for which he offered hypotheses that even he did not (always) accept as true. His books developed into a monistic philosophy that denounced science as a machine for generating truth. In his view, science was a small part of a larger system in which truth and falsity were constantly transforming one into the other. This was not a rejection of the modern world but, instead, its fulfillment: Fort prophesied the next stage in intellectual evolution after the scientific era. He inspired four overlapping groups: members of the Fortean Society; science fiction fans and writers; avant-garde artists; and flying saucer enthusiasts. First We Must Think to New Worlds takes up each of these groups in turn to ask: How can the human imagination be expanded? What is the fundamental structure of the universe? And, how does power move? As they developed their responses, Fort's followers mixed Forteanism with Fundamentalism, New Agery, and conspiracy, as well as a host of other forms of modern enchantments, such as the ironic imagination, scientific wonder, and Theosophical syncretism. Each chapter is interrupted by and concludes with shorter sections that focus on particular Forteans or Fortean events as a way to deepen themes"--
From Death Row to Freedom
Author: Phillip A. Hubbart
Publisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 0813072832
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
An insider’s account of a wrongful conviction and the fight to overturn it during the civil rights era This book is an insider’s account of the case of Freddie Pitts and Wilbert Lee, two Black men who were wrongfully charged and convicted of the murder of two white gas station attendants in Port St. Joe, Florida, in 1963, and sentenced to death. Phillip Hubbart, a defense lawyer for Pitts and Lee for more than 10 years, examines the crime, the trial, and the appeals with both a keen legal perspective and an awareness of the endemic racism that pervaded the case and obstructed justice. Hubbart discusses how the case against Pitts and Lee was based entirely on confessions obtained from the defendants and an alleged “eyewitness” through prolonged, violent interrogations and how local authorities repeatedly rejected later evidence pointing to the real killer, a white man well known to the Port St. Joe police. The book follows the case’s tortuous route through the Florida courts to the defendants’ eventual exoneration in 1975 by the Florida governor and cabinet. From Death Row to Freedom is a thorough chronicle of deep prejudice in the courts and brutality at the hands of police during the civil rights era of the 1960s. Hubbart argues that the Pitts-Lee case is a piece of American history that must be remembered, along with other similar incidents, in order for the country to make any progress toward racial reconciliation today. Publication of this work made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Publisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 0813072832
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
An insider’s account of a wrongful conviction and the fight to overturn it during the civil rights era This book is an insider’s account of the case of Freddie Pitts and Wilbert Lee, two Black men who were wrongfully charged and convicted of the murder of two white gas station attendants in Port St. Joe, Florida, in 1963, and sentenced to death. Phillip Hubbart, a defense lawyer for Pitts and Lee for more than 10 years, examines the crime, the trial, and the appeals with both a keen legal perspective and an awareness of the endemic racism that pervaded the case and obstructed justice. Hubbart discusses how the case against Pitts and Lee was based entirely on confessions obtained from the defendants and an alleged “eyewitness” through prolonged, violent interrogations and how local authorities repeatedly rejected later evidence pointing to the real killer, a white man well known to the Port St. Joe police. The book follows the case’s tortuous route through the Florida courts to the defendants’ eventual exoneration in 1975 by the Florida governor and cabinet. From Death Row to Freedom is a thorough chronicle of deep prejudice in the courts and brutality at the hands of police during the civil rights era of the 1960s. Hubbart argues that the Pitts-Lee case is a piece of American history that must be remembered, along with other similar incidents, in order for the country to make any progress toward racial reconciliation today. Publication of this work made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
The General and the Jaguar
Author: Eileen Welsome
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 9780316069588
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Pulitzer Prize winner Welsome's gripping, panoramic story reveals a vicious surprise attack on the United States and America's hunt for the perpetrator, Pancho Villa.
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 9780316069588
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Pulitzer Prize winner Welsome's gripping, panoramic story reveals a vicious surprise attack on the United States and America's hunt for the perpetrator, Pancho Villa.
Who's who in America
Author: John William Leonard
Publisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 3490
Book Description
Vols. 28-30 accompanied by separately published parts with title: Indices and necrology.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 3490
Book Description
Vols. 28-30 accompanied by separately published parts with title: Indices and necrology.
Some Addresses
Author: William Lee Woodcock
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
The Chautauquan
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 666
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 666
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The Chautauquan
Author: Theodore L. Flood
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 796
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 796
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