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  • 我的劊子手生涯

    My Experiences as an Executioner

    de James Berry, 詹姆斯・貝里 ...
    一八九二年，英國公家絞刑吏詹姆斯・貝里出版了這本第一人稱回憶錄。他從自己如何走上這一行寫起：一名警察出身的鞋類銷售員，因家計所迫而在一千四百名申請者中爭取劊子手的職缺，最後在愛丁堡完成了第一次行刑。 接下來他毫不迴避地交代自己的技術：絞索的材質與粗細、縛臂帶與活門的構造、刑台的設計圖，以及他最看重的落差計算——把受刑人的體重與頸部狀況換算成落下距離與衝擊力，只求死亡瞬間而無痛。書中收錄了他親手製作的數表、往來信件、驗屍證明與官方文件，也記下了約翰・李活門三度不落、羅伯特・古德爾身首異處這兩場他終身難忘的意外。 全書最沉重的部分，是他逐一記下的死囚群像：有人到最後一刻仍在等那個永遠不會來的暫緩執行令；有人在刑台上與同伴握手道別；有人因恐懼而必須由四名獄警架住。貝里以近乎克制的筆調寫下這些人的最後時刻，並在末幾章直言他對死刑制度的看法——他主張保留死刑，卻也主張大幅修改謀殺罪的分級 ... Leer más

    $5.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • My Experiences as an Executioner

    de James Berry ...
    “My Experiences as an Executioner” is a 1892 memoir by English executioner James Berry (1852–1913). Berry was most notable for his contribution to the science of hanging, refining the long drop method developed by William Marwood so as to reduce the mental and physical suffering of those hanged. In this volume, Berry offers insights into the various methods he employed as an executioner and what ... Leer más

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  • My Experiences as an Executioner

    de James Berry ...
    "My Experiences as an Executioner" by James Berry offers a haunting glimpse into the life of a man tasked with carrying out the ultimate punishment. Berry, who served as an executioner, shares his personal reflections and the emotional toll that such a role exacted on him. Through vivid storytelling, he explores the moral complexities and psychological burdens associated with his profession, ... Leer más

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  • Four Insightful Books on Execution and the Death Penalty

    Victorian and Edwardian Perspectives on Capital Punishment, Justice, and Penal Reform

    de Gaston Leroux, Horace Bleackley, James Berry, Albert Hartshorne ...
    Four Insightful Books on Execution and the Death Penalty gathers historical inquiry, criminological observation, memoir-like testimony, and sensational yet probing narrative around the state's gravest punishment. Its range moves from the public spectacle of the scaffold to the administrative routines, moral anxieties, and social myths surrounding capital punishment. Accounts of notable executions ... Leer más

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  • My Experiences as an Executioner

    Enriched edition. A Chilling Account of Justice and Death

    de James Berry, Crispin Hargrove ...
    In 'My Experiences as an Executioner', James Berry presents a harrowing yet thought-provoking memoir that delves into the psychological and moral complexities of capital punishment. Through a vivid narrative style marked by stark realism and poignant introspection, Berry recounts his firsthand experiences in the grim role of an executioner, exploring the emotional turmoil and ethical dilemmas ... Leer más

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  • My Experiences as an Executioner (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. Inside Capital Punishment: Moral Dilemmas, Public Execution History, and the Psychological Toll of Dark Justice

    de James Berry, Crispin Hargrove, Harper Hughes ...
    My Experiences as an Executioner offers a meticulous tour of the Victorian scaffold, narrated with plainspoken precision and a forensic eye. Berry interleaves case sketches with technical exposition—the measuring of drops, knot placement, the choreography of a condemned morning—while setting his craft against late‑nineteenth‑century debates on criminology and penal reform. He recounts notorious ... Leer más

    $1.99 USD

  • A Story About Afiya

    de James Berry ...
    Ilustraciones de Anna Cunha ...
    Series series
    Every day, Afiya wakes to a brand new day and a clean white dress, ready for her adventures to begin…Some people have dresses for every occasion but Afiya needs only one. Her dress records the memories of her childhood, from roses in bloom to pigeons in flight, from tigers at the zoo to October leaves falling. A joyful celebration of a young girl’s childhood, written by the late Coretta Scott King ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Cities in the Pacific Rim

    Edición de James Berry, Stanley McGreal ...
    The cities of the Pacific Rim are in one of the most dynamic spheres of the global economy. In the twenty first century the focus of global affairs is destined to shift from the West to the East. These cities offer a wide range of different responses to the demands that rapid growth puts on planning and infrastructure : from the laxity that has lead to the urban sprawl of Bangkok to the regulation ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

  • Audiolibro

    Dowsing: A Tool to Diagnose and Heal Up-to Single Cell Level (Unveiling the Mysteries of Health, Healing, Divination, and Wisdom)

    de James Berry ...
    Narrado por Digital Voice Mason G ...

    Completo

    4 hora

    This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.For millions of years the use of dowsing and crystals has influence history and helped forged humanity’s path. Your very ancestors have used the techniques of dowsing when searching for lost items and medical diagnosis. Even today in this modern age of technology, the use of the ancient art of dowsing is applied when science fails when searching for ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

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    The True Christmas (Unabridged)

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    de Henry Vaughan ...
    Narrado por JAMES BERRY, Peggy Cotton, Jackie Geimer, Mariana Chaffin ...

    Completo

    27 minutos

    Henry Vaughan was a Welsh metaphysical poet, author and translator writing in English, and a medical physician. ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • Audiolibro

    MY EXPERIENCES AS AN EXECUTIONER (UNABRIDGED)

    de JAMES BERRY ...
    Narrado por SHANTA SHEA ...

    Completo

    4 hora 1 minutos

    From 1884 until 1891, James Berry was an executioner. In this time he carried out 131 hangings. In this memoir he writes about the methods he used, and the final moments of some of those he executed. - Summary by ashleighjane ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

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  • The Well-Tempered City

    What Modern Science, Ancient Civilizations, and Human Nature Teach Us About the Future of Urban Life

    de Jonathan F. P. Rose ...
    "A thorough education in how to move from simply maximizing the economic output of cities to improving the well-being of all urban residents." —Daniel L. Doctoroff, CEO, Sidewalk Labs2017 PROSE Award Winner: Outstanding Scholarly Work by a Trade PublisherCities are birthplaces of civilization; centers of culture, trade, and progress; cauldrons of opportunity—and the home of eighty percent of the ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

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