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1000 tulosta hakusanalla Anne E. Booth
The shocking true story of the Jeffrey Dahmer's murders, as told by the Milwaukee Journal reporter who broke the story, Anne E. Schwartz-from the dramatic scene when police first entered Dahmer's apartment to the lasting, present-day repercussions of the case. This updated edition of the book includes a new preface and final chapter, including how the case continues to affect the principals involved more than three decades later. One night in July 1991, two policemen saw a man running handcuffed from the apartment of Jeffrey Dahmer. Investigating, they made a gruesome discovery: three human skulls in Dahmer's refrigerator and the body parts of at least 11 more people scattered throughout the apartment. Shortly thereafter, Milwaukee Journal reporter Anne E. Schwartz received a tip that would change her life. Schwartz, who broke the story and had exclusive access to the principals involved, details the complete, inside story of Dahmer's dark life, the case, and its aftermath: the horrific crime scene and the shocking story that unfolded; Dahmer's confessions; the forensics; the riveting trial; and Dahmer's murder in prison. The book also features 32 black-and-white photographs throughout. Author Anne Schwartz's access to exclusive and confidential information makes Monster the most thorough accounting of the Jeffrey Dahmer case, and a comprehensive narrative on one of the most notorious serial killers of the twentieth century. It is essential reading for viewers or Ryan Murphy's Neflix series Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story and other true crime docudramas.
Amazing, Beguiling, Curious: 26 Fascinating Creatures
Anne E. G. Nydam
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2010
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Song Against Shadow: The Song of Svarnil
Anne E. G. Nydam
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2011
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This is the story of Svarnil, an apprentice bard chosen by the immortal Cumar n to travel to the land of the Deerfolk and rescue them from a shadowy warrior king and the mysterious Death that follows him. There is just one difficulty. Svarnil is no warrior hero. She has never learned sword fighting, cannot perform magic, and seems to have no special heroic powers. But what other ways can there be of meeting the dangers and conflicts she faces? As her adventures among mages, monsters, and spirits unfold, Svarnil learns what it means to be a true bard. She must also discover whether the gifts she has will be enough to bring her through the challenges before her. This is a story about doing right even when the effect seems small, and following your leadings even when you don't know where they will take you.
Sleeping Legends Lie: The Legend of Jiriya
Anne E. G. Nydam
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2011
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When a song is interrupted in the middle, where does the music go? Where does the flame go when the candle is extinguished? Jiriya has always loved the tale of wise, kind-hearted Prince Oru, who ruled Yuwara Ul Sahd two hundred years ago. Then one evening she learns another part of the legend: that upon his coronation as emperor her beloved Prince Oru turned suddenly and inexplicably evil. Jiriya is determined to discover the truth about this legendary mystery - until the legend begins to bring menace into the present. The bard Svarnil joins Jiriya in the quest, but they soon realize that the story of Prince Oru is more than ancient history. Someone will stop at nothing to keep them from learning the truth, and now Jiriya and Svarnil must survive an adventure more perilous than any Jiriya could have imagined. This is a story about the value of truth and the importance of friendship. This is a story about relighting the candle.
Return to Tchrkkusk: The Tale of Chlukash
Anne E. G. Nydam
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2011
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Vision Revealed: Further Adventures of Svarnil
Anne E. G. Nydam
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2011
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My Latent Self, Recovering My Soul After Brain Injury: A View From the Inside of Brain Injury
Anne E. Ricketts
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2011
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A Threatening of Dragons: Travels of Nulif and Svarnil
Anne E. G. Nydam
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2011
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Ruin of Ancient Powers: A Song for Many Voices
Anne E. G. Nydam
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2011
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To many, asylums are a relic of a bygone era. State governments took steps between 1950 and 1990 to minimize the involuntary confinement of people in psychiatric hospitals, and many mental health facilities closed down. Yet, as Anne Parsons reveals, the asylum did not die during deinstitutionalization. Instead, it returned in the modern prison industrial complex as the government shifted to a more punitive, institutional approach to social deviance. Focusing on Pennsylvania, the state that ran one of the largest mental health systems in the country, Parsons tracks how the lack of community-based services, a fear-based politics around mental illness, and the economics of institutions meant that closing mental hospitals fed a cycle of incarceration that became an epidemic.This groundbreaking book recasts the political narrative of the late twentieth century, as Parsons charts how the politics of mass incarceration shaped the deinstitutionalization of psychiatric hospitals and mental health policy making. In doing so, she offers critical insight into how the prison took the place of the asylum in crucial ways, shaping the rise of the prison industrial complex.
The nineteenth-century Kentucky antislavery reformer Cassius Marcellus Clay is generally remembered as a knife-wielding rabble-rouser who both inspired and enraged his contemporaries. Clay brawled with opponents while stumping for state constitutional changes to curtail the slave trade. He famously deployed cannons to protect the office of the antislavery newspaper he founded in Lexington. Despite attempts on his life, he helped found the national Republican party and positioned himself as a staunch border state ally of Abraham Lincoln. During the Civil War, he served as US minister to Russia, working to ensure that European allies would not recognize the Confederacy. And yet he was a slave owner until the end of the Civil War. Though often misremembered as an abolitionist, Clay was like many Americans of his time: interested in a gradual end to the institution of slavery but largely on grounds that it limited whites' ability to profit from free labor and the South’s opportunity for economic advancement. In the end, Clay’s political positions were far more about protecting members of his own class than advancing the cause of Black freedom. This vivid and insightful biography reveals Cassius Clay as he was: colorful, yes, but in many ways typical of white Americans who disliked slavery in principle but remained comfortable accommodating it. Reconsidering Clay as emblematic rather than exceptional, Anne E. Marshall shows today’s readers why it took a violent war to finally abolish slavery and why African Americans' demands for equality struggled to gain white support after the Civil War.
The Dream, the Plan and the Bluewater Debut: From Vancouver to the Panama Canal
Anne E. Brevig
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2013
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At the peak of their careers, Anne Brevig and Martin Vennesland made the decision of their lives: they chose freedom and a highly uncertain future on the high seas instead of secure jobs and the safety and comfort of life ashore. In order to finance their dream, they sold their house and most of their belongings and moved onboard their 40-foot sailboat, "Nor Siglar". She became their one and only home for 15 years. Neither imagined that they were going to spend 9 years on the 7 seas and sail more than 56,000 nautical miles around the world, visiting 76 countries and island nations Anne and Martin's bluewater adventure was not about breaking any records. Its main focus was meeting people from different backgrounds and cultures - encounters that take on entirely different dimensions when sailing off the beaten track far away from the traditional tourist routes. Their 9-years on the 7 Seas circumnavigation onboard "Nor Siglar", which is truly a once-in-a-lifetime adventure packed with drama and excitement, has been documented in books and magazine articles and is now available in the "Seven Seas Adventures Series". In the first book of the Series, the career couple describe the planning, the panic and the last minute preparations before cutting the ties with jobs, home, friends and family and setting out to fulfill their dreams. They share their very first ocean passage, the exhilaration of making land fall, the many chores and routines onboard a small sailboat at sea, how they deal with seasickness, lonely night watches and nature's unforgiving elements so close by. The book is also about guns and patrol boats, "bandidos" and "friendly inspections", a close call with a freighter, chilling distress calls, rough weather, accidental jibes and injured crew, helpful natives, rickety docks and squalls in the night, enchanting encounters and trading with natives in remote villages deep in the Panamanian jungle. "Why are you rushing through Paradise?" squatters on a paradisiacal island asked, a question which became a motto for Anne and Martin during the rest of their voyage. Slowing down to smell the roses, they were able to establish personal contact with locals and gain experiences they would otherwise never have had. The books in the Seven Seas Adventures Series are not just any old travelogues for adventurers. Rather, it is a collection of highlights from encounters with "ordinary" people from different cultures and backgrounds who live a life much different from what most of us are used to. Anne and Martin certainly learned that what we take for granted is an elusive dream for others. The books "answer" a multitude of questions posed by travellers in general as well as prospective offshore sailors. Read how they had survived serious dangers, break-ins and a dramatic grounding, escaped close encounters with pirates, witnessed life-saving bravery and enjoyed heart-warming personal meetings on all five continents.
The Extraordinary Book of Doors
Anne E. G. Nydam
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2014
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When worrywart Chen Connelly finds a mysterious antique book beneath a park bench, his safe but lonely summer suddenly becomes exciting. Perhaps a little too exciting.A book of renaissance architectural designs may not seem particularly exciting, until Chen finds himself traveling through the pages of the magical book with Polly Goggin, the weirdest girl he's ever met, as they race to solve the clues to a treasure hunt left by Benjamin Franklin, struggle to find their way through a maze of mysterious doors, and dodge far too many angry security guards. It doesn't help that a murderous, strangely nondescript magician-thief is on their trail with a magic book of his own, willing to do whatever it takes to get his hands on Benjamin Franklin's treasure and all three extraordinary books. Turn the page... Open the door... Enter the adventure...
9 Years on the 7 Seas with S/Y Nor Siglar
Anne E. Brevig
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2014
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At the peak of their careers, Anne Brevig and Martin Vennesland made the decision of their lives: they chose freedom and a highly uncertain future on the high seas instead of secure jobs and the safety and comfort of life ashore. In order to finance their dream, they sold their house and most of their belongings and moved onboard their 40-foot sailboat. It became their one and only home for 15 years. Neither imagined that they were going to spend 9 years on the 7 seas and journey more than 56,000 nautical miles. Back on terra firma, their once-in-a-lifetime adventure, which was packed with drama and excitement, was immortalized in a beautiful coffee table book, "9 Years on the 7 Seas". It quickly became a bestseller, and when it sold out in paper format, the adventurous couple decided to share their experiences with the world in the equally exciting "Seven Seas Adventures" Series, which is now available both in print and several eBook formats. Anne and Martin's blue water adventure is not about breaking any records. Its main focus is meeting people from different backgrounds and cultures - encounters that take on entirely different dimensions when sailing off the beaten track far away from the traditional tourist routes. Anne and Martin crossed the big oceans and visited 76 countries and island nations. They realized their dreams. Now, they hope that their books in the "Seven Seas Adventures" Series, which are saturated with enchanting encounters, danger and unique experiences, will inspire others to pursue their own dreams - whatever they may be. At least, to "dare to take the leap". The Series certainly gives a rare opportunity to live vicariously in theirs, and their beloved sailboat, "NOR SIGLAR'S" wake.