The arrest of survivalist Leonard Lake for shoplifting leads police to a fortified bunker in Northern California, where he and Charles Chitat Ng allegedly imprisoned their victims

Eye of Evil (St. Martin's True Crime Library)

Politics & Social Sciences

Harrington, Joseph

Burger, Robert

Social Sciences

St Martins Pr

Things Come On: An amneoir (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

Things Come On is a broken and sutured hybrid of forms, combining poetry, prose narration, primary documents, dramatic dialogue, and pictures. The narrative is woven around the almost exact concurrence of the Watergate scandal and the dates of the poet's mother's illness and death from breast cancer, and weaves together private and public tragedies―showing how the language of illness and of political cover-up powerfully resonate with one another. The resulting "amneoir" (a blend of "memoir" and "amnesia") explores a time for which the author must rely largely on testimony and documentary evidence―not unlike the Congress and the nation did during the same period. Absences, amnesia, and silences count for at least as much as words. As the double tragedy unfolds, it refuses to become part of an overarching system, metaphor, or metanarrative, but rather raises questions of memory and evidence, gender and genre, personal and political, and expert vs. lay language. This haunting experimental biography challenges our assumptions about the distance between individual experience and history. A reader's companion is available at http://thingscomeonreader.site.wesleyan.edu/ Hardcover is un-jacketed.

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Wesleyan University Press

Death of an Angel On January 26, 2001, Diane Whipple was mauled to death by two huge dogs. The case fractured into other agendas. Instead of remorse or sympathy by the dog owners, there was arrogance, confrontation, even accusations. Instead of the simple idea of recompense to the life-partner of the victim, there was monolithic silence of civil laws that ignored same-sex relationships. Media around the world latched onto the story, calling it: "the dog mauling case" The seriousness of the case was soon apparent. For innumerable talk shows, it posed issues of public safety and the responsibilities of animal lovers. Network television brought the issue of the rights of same-sex partners into national prominence. The ultimate irony of this case-from-hell is perhaps that, because two attorneys hardened their hearts against the victim of their carelessness, several much larger issues now can be debated with informed intensity. Now, in a concrete instance, the public can see why commitment between two people of the same gender is deserving of many of the same legal protections as those afforded heterosexual couples. By exploring the personalities and motivations of the participants in this drama, the author shows how widely the fractures from this case have spread. Such issues as animal rights, human responsibility for pet6s, the purpose of adoption, and the rights of same-gender partners will never be quite the same again. As a result of the events related in this book, California Law itself has changed. The investigation of this horrific case was led by the senior officer of the San Francisco General Work Detail, Lieutenant Henry Hunter. This book is a tribute to his leadership and the careful prosecution by the District Attorney's Office, under the guidance of DA Terence Hallinan and the handling of the jury trial by prosecutors ADA James Hammer and ADA Kimberly Guilfoyle Newsom. This book is about those men and women of law and order who saw that justice ultimately prevailed in the monstrous and preventable death of a wonderful human being.

Death of an Angel: The Inside Story of How Justice Prevailed in the San Francisco Dog-Mauling Case

Quantum Entertainment

Sermons

History

Nabu Press

Disapparitions

BlazeVOX Books

Living A Second Life: A Sober Life

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Addiction & Recovery

Independently published

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