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Excerpt from Life Imprisonment Vs the Death Penalty: To the Honorable Members of the Senate and Lower House of the Fifty-Eight General Assembly and to the Chairman and Members of the Judiciary Committees Thereof Draco, the first compiler of the Penal Code of Greece, made death the penalty for all offenses. When asked why he did so, replied: The least offenses deserve death, and I can impose no worse for the higher crimes. About the Publisher...

Excerpt from Clinical Studies in the Relationship of Insanity to Crime Much has been written in a very general way about the relationship of insanity to crime, but little has been published concerning the definite connection of disordered states of mind to the commission of criminal acts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reprodu...

Organic crop acres in the United States more than doubled between 2002 and 2011 as acreage increased from 1.3 to over 3 million acres. While acreage for some major field crops increased substantially during this period, growth was more modest or had stalled for others. This book examines the profitability of corn, wheat, and soybean production using national survey data and finds that significant economic returns are possible from organic prod...

Excerpt from Bureau of Fisheries: Report of the Commissioners of Fisheries for the Fiscal Year 1908 and Special Papaers The fish-cultural efforts of the Bureau in 1008 were directed chiefly to increasing the collection of eggs and the output of young fish. The possibilities of expansion and development in nearly every line arc almost unlimited-depending largely on the funds and trained men available for opening up new fields - but the public ...

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Excerpt from Alcohol: Its Influence on Mind and Body Second, because the enemy, his friends, insist on his being a good fellow, and he hasn't the gumption to realize that good fellowship begins at home: and. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art techn...

Excerpt from The Irish Orators: A History of Ireland's Fight for Freedom Flood, Grattan, Plunkett, O'connell, Meagher, Butt, Parnell - the careers of these men, in the ensemble, constitute the history of Ireland from the vice-royalty of the insufferable Townsend to the beginning of the present century. Two splendid and inspiring men of genius who never aspired to political leadership but whose work for Ireland constitutes an essential part of...

Excerpt from The Kansas Court of Industrial Relations the Philosophy and History of the Court The Kansas Industrial Court has been the subject of praise and vituperation. On one side it is declared to be the solution of strike difficulties, on the other it is regarded as a system of slavery. It does, however, take into consideration the rights of the public and it is high time. Professor Bowers is frankly a protagonist of the Court and in his...

It was not until the fifth death in Long Greeting that Miss Tidy made up her mind to go to the police. And then from no sense of civic duty but because she knew her own security imperilled." So opens the fifth and final book by Bowers, first published in 1947, one year before her untimely death from TB at the age of 46. Scotland Yard is once again involved but Dan Pardoe, the investigating officer in the four previous books, has been replaced ...

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Excerpt from Report of the Commissioner of Fisheries: For the Fiscal Year 1912 and Special Papers Among recent noteworthy changes in methods or apparatus that may have a far-reaching effect are the increasing use of gill nets in the shore fisheries of New England, the augmenting of the ¿eet of trawl-net vessels operating out of Boston, and the Wholesale capture of salmon by means of purse seines on the grounds off Cape Flattery. About the Pu...

Excerpt from Side-Stepping Ill Health The first dinner party, the origin of all social life, was given by a gentleman named Pithecanthropus Erectus, an ancestor of ours, with a beetling brow, protruding lower jaw, and long arms reaching below his knees. He was covered with a nice thick coat of reddish brown hair, which was very useful as well as ornamental in those old days before they understood the utility of clothes. About the Publisher ...

A ballet-based fitness and well-being program--from the personal trainer to Natalie Portman for her Academy Award-winning performance in "Black Swan.

Excerpt from The Party Battles of the Jackson Period This is the hundredth anniversary of the memorable campaign which marked the rising of the people and the election of Andrew Jackson to the presidency, and it has been thought appropriate to issue an Anniversary edition of "Party Battles of the Jackson Period" uniform with "Jefferson and Hamilton." It has not been thought necessary to change the text of the first edition materially. The pa...

British Columbia is an insightful and entertaining introduction to its people, culture, geography, history, and economy. The easy-to-read text - by British Columbia resident Vivien Bowers - is complimented with beautiful color photography, taking readers on a fascinating tour of Canada's Pacific Province.

A couple of US educators decided they would like to teach abroad following retirement, since they had a similar interesting experience in the UK in the 1980s. They saw an ad in a local paper and traveled to Warsaw, Poland to teach in an American International School. English was supposed to be spoken in the school, but actually very little was understood. Their situation was further complicated when they realized that unlike other European cou...

This unique collection spans over 400 years (1488-1902) of haiku history by the greatest masters, in translations by top-flight scholars of the field. Haiku (distilled poems featuring 17 syllables) command enormous respect in Japan. Now readers of poetry in the West can savor these expressive masterpieces in this treasury.

As unique as it is valuable, [8 Patterns of Highly Effective Entrepreneurs] achieves where so many business books fail. It provides practical advice for individuals . . . [I]t delivers what few business books ever aspire to achieve—wisdom regarding business and decision making, within a special context: start-up firms.” —From the Foreword by Carl Schramm, president and CEO, Ewing Marion Kauffman FoundationAt age seven, Cameron Johnson sold tom...

Excerpt from Report of the Commissioner of Fisheries for the Fiscal Year 1909 and Special Papers The artificial propagation of the Atlantic salmon at the station near the Penobscot River in Maine was much less successful than formerly. The conditions in this stream are most unfavorable for fish and fish culture, and it is not improbable that the long-continued efforts of the Bureau to maintain the run of salmon in the only remaining salmon st...

Revised and updated to include the 2015 season and the 2016 Australian Open. Looks at Federer's rise from Swiss sportsman to sporting legend.