Cynthia Lee

It is the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century and Belle Fortune is a 16 year old orphan living on the charity of her social-climbing aunt. One night, Belle meets Horace Glass, an industrialist renowned for his steam-powered inventions, and he sees something troubling in the girl. There is something in her eyes, something that hints at a capacity for “independent thought.” He convinces Aunt Agatha to send Belle to his school in nearby Glass Town where she will learn to keep her "expectations in line with her prospects." At the Glass Town Establishment for Girls, bodies hunger and imaginations starve. Mr. Glass believes that the "less promising" girls of the world should never imagine a future full of choices. Belle begins to secretly write stories for her two new and equally unpromising friends at the school, stories about a fierce and often blood-splattered heroine named Penny Dreadful. Penny encounters many mythological monsters, a minotaur, a siren, and a gorgon, who resemble some of the people in Belle's dark world. When one of Belle's stories quite literally invades Mr. Glass' home, he marks Belle for rehabilitation and the specter of his cruel factory looms. But Mr. Glass isn't the only thing to fear in Glass Town. You see, there is a place in Glass Town, a ruinous house that squats darkly on its own island. No one is ever seen entering or leaving, some have reported things flying from its roof, others hear the groan and throb of machinery. Belle will have only Penny Dreadful to guide her as she tries to free herself and those she cares about from Mr. Glass.

Penny Dreadful

Lizzie Velasquez

Rita Velásquez

Lizzie Velasquez was born with a rare condition that does not allow her to gain weight. She not only looks unnaturally thin but her features seem distorted. Also, due to her condition, she has lost sight in one of her eyes. Despite these handicaps, Lizzie is pursuing a college education and has become a motivational speaker, telling her inspiring story to others.

The Lizzie Velásquez Story

Lizzie Beautiful

L. Song Richardson

Tamara Lawson

This student-friendly text, the only criminal procedure casebook authored by three female law professors of color (who also bring diverse criminal justice system experiences as a former prosecutor, private criminal defense attorney and public defender), highlights social justice issues intertwined with the law of criminal procedure, integrating issues of race, class, gender, and sexual orientation where relevant.

Criminal Procedure, Cases and Materials

This book contributes to the literature of interlanguage pragmatics by building an interface between researching and teaching speech acts in the Chinese context. It is written for researchers, language educators, classroom teachers and readers who are interested in interlanguage pragmatics research, acquisition and teaching, with particular reference to speech acts performed by Chinese learners of English, and their relationships with the learners’ first language and cultural concepts. It provides a more advanced understanding of the production and development of speech acts of Chinese learners of English from the cross-linguistic, cross-cultural, L1 and L2 developmental perspectives, drawing on relevant second language acquisition theoretical frameworks. It also recommends research-informed pedagogies that are applicable to other learners of English.

Researching and Teaching Second Language Speech Acts in the Chinese Context

Angela P. Harris

This text, the only criminal law casebook authored by two progressive female law professors of color, provides the reader with both critical race and critical feminist theory perspectives on criminal law while following a traditional format. All of the usual subject areas are covered, but the book is unique in highlighting the cultural context of substantive criminal law. The book seamlessly integrates issues of race, gender, class, and sexual orientation so the teacher who wishes to address such issues does not have to assign supplemental reading assignments in order to do so. The book is also very student-friendly, providing a brief doctrinal overview of the subject matter at the beginning of each chapter. The book does away with the tradition of long lists of notes and questions following the cases, a trademark feature of many older casebooks, putting this material in the Teachers Manual for the teacher to use at his or her discretion. The forthcoming third edition is fresh and innovative, referencing several ripped from the headlines controversies, including the shooting of Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman and Florida's stand your ground law, the arrest of African American Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. for disorderly conduct, the shooting of Larry King, a gender nonconforming teenager, by classmate Brandon McInerney and the gay panic defense, and the repeal of North Carolina's Racial Justice Act.

Cases and Materials

Criminal Law

This edited collection addresses the link between second language pragmatics (including interlanguage and intercultural) research and English language education. The chapters use different contemporary research methods and theoretical frameworks such as conversation analysis, language-learners-as-ethnographers, discourse and interactional approaches and data in contexts (either in the region or overseas). The content explores and discusses the significance of learning and teaching of second language (L2) pragmatics in language education for learners who use English as a lingua franca for academic and intercultural communication purposes with native and non-native speakers of English, focusing on pragmatic actions, social behaviours, perceptions and awareness levels in three regions in East Asia – China, Japan and South Korea. It is an important contribution to the area of second language pragmatics in language education for East Asian learners. It recommends research-informed pedagogies for the learning and teaching of interlanguage or intercultural pragmatics in regions and places where similar cultural beliefs or practices are found. This is an essential read for researchers, language educators, classroom teachers, readers who are interested in second language pragmatics research and those interested in second language acquisition and English language education in the East Asian context.

Second Language Pragmatics and English Language Education in East Asia

Demonstrates how social norms and beliefs influence the outcomes in certain criminal cases.

Passion and Fear in the Criminal Courtroom

Murder and the Reasonable Man

Cami Martin is offered a dream job as a nanny to young Quentin Blanchette. Her employer owns an infamous plantation home called Verity. Verity is famous for the cruelties of its antebellum past and, some say, for the strangeness of its current inhabitants, be they alive or dead. The old antebellum home is full of secrets, some of them deadly. Still there is the promise of love at Verity, love for her pupil and a powerful attraction to Christopher Blanchette, a friend of the family, who has secrets of his own. Cami begins to suspect that someone or something in the house wants something from her, something she's not prepared to give.

Verity

A man murders his wife after she has admitted her infidelity; another man kills an openly gay teammate after receiving a massage; a third man, white, goes for a jog in a “bad” neighborhood, carrying a pistol, and shoots an African American teenager who had his hands in his pockets. When brought before the criminal justice system, all three men argue that they should be found “not guilty”; the first two use the defense of provocation, while the third argues he used his gun in self-defense. Drawing upon these and similar cases, Cynthia Lee shows how two well-established, traditional criminal law defenses—the doctrines of provocation and self-defense—enable majority-culture defendants to justify their acts of violence. While the reasonableness requirement, inherent in both defenses, is designed to allow community input and provide greater flexibility in legal decision-making, the requirement also allows majority-culture defendants to rely on dominant social norms, such as masculinity, heterosexuality, and race (i.e., racial stereotypes), to bolster their claims of reasonableness. At the same time, Lee examines other cases that demonstrate that the reasonableness requirement tends to exclude the perspectives of minorities, such as heterosexual women, gays and lesbians, and persons of color. Murder and the Reasonable Man not only shows how largely invisible social norms and beliefs influence the outcomes of certain criminal cases, but goes further, suggesting three tentative legal reforms to address problems of bias and undue leniency. Ultimately, Lee cautions that the true solution lies in a change in social attitudes.

Here are ten creepy and bewitching tales that will assault sleep and invade waking moments. Strange black birds descend upon a village and bring with them a plague that kills only young marriageable girls. A 19th century city in which bloody and public displays of revenge are sanctioned. In this city, a grieving mother stages a pitiless act of revenge for the boy who corrupted her daughter. A strange nameless man in a gypsy wagon serves up illusions for those who require them. A successful writer of horror novels is haunted by the death of an imaginary friend from childhood.And more . . .

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