Tag: Innocence

Stolen Innocence


Free Download Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamous Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs by Elissa Wall, Lisa Pulitzer
English | 2009 | ISBN: 0061734969 | 464 Pages | EPUB | 1.9 MB
Stolen Innocence is the gripping New York Times bestselling memoir of Elissa Wall, the courageous former member of Utah’s infamous FLDS polygamist sect whose powerful courtroom testimony helped convict controversial sect leader Warren Jeffs in September 2007.

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Of Innocence and Autonomy Children, Sex and Human Rights


Free Download Katherine O’Donovan, "Of Innocence and Autonomy: Children, Sex and Human Rights"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1138728268, 184014484X | EPUB | pages: 224 | 0.5 mb
This title was first published in 2000: This anthology of essays focuses on the human rights of children in the area of sexuality. Looking at the theoretical aspects, essays examine the history and construction of concepts of childhood and child sexuality, while other essays take an interdisciplinary approach, examining anthropological, sociological, psychological and economic perspectives on law and childhood sexuality. Specific problems that arise in litigation and judicial practice are looked at in more detail, and in some cases, comparative and international approaches are taken to the examination of law reform and initiatives in selected countries and in international organizations.

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The Innocence of Kaiser Wilhelm II and the First World War


Free Download Christina Croft, "The Innocence of Kaiser Wilhelm II: and the First World War"
English | 2015 | pages: 304 | ISBN: 1514759977 | EPUB | 0,3 mb
Almost a century after the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, Kaiser Wilhelm II is still viewed as either a warmonger or a madman, as the hundred-year-old propaganda posters remain fixed in the general consciousness. Was he, though, truly responsible for the catastrophe of the First World War, or was he in fact a convenient scapegoat, blamed for a conflict which he desperately tried to avoid?

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The Rage of Innocence How America Criminalizes Black Youth


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English | September 28, 2021 | ISBN: 1524748900 | 396 pages | PDF | 2.86 Mb
A brilliant analysis of the foundations of racist policing in America: the day-to-day brutalities, largely hidden from public view, endured by Black youth growing up under constant police surveillance and the persistent threat of physical and psychological abuse

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