"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, providing readers with an intimate understanding of the human experience behind the act of executio...

“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 it was like witnessing people's final moments. Contents include: “The Executioner at Home by H....

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 multi-award-winning Jamaican poet James Berry OBE.

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 water wells and gasoline. Carrying around crystals may sound a little s...

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 celebrated Jamaican poet James Berry OBE.

Only One of Me is a stunning collection of the best-loved children's poems from award-winning poet James Berry, filled with warm and colourful memories of a Caribbean childhood, and featuring a new introduction by much-loved children's poet, John Agard.This new edition of James' definitive collection showcases the very best work from a poet who was instrumental in the British Caribbean poetry movement and who's words are just as relevant n...

This is dub poetry: bold and musical, funny and furious.This collection brings together the work of nine inventive and brilliant poets who defined and drove the dub poetry genre. From the Caribbean, Canada and the UK, the poetry in this collection spans forty years, as dub became a powerful cultural and creative force.With roots in the reggae culture of 1970s Kingston, dub poetry uses the vivid expressions of everyday spoken language to describe and challen...

Brought to you by Penguin.This is dub poetry: bold and musical, funny and furious.This collection brings together the work of nine inventive and brilliant poets who defined and drove the dub poetry genre. From the Caribbean, Canada and the UK, the poetry in this collection spans forty years, as dub became a powerful cultural and creative force.With roots in the reggae culture of 1970s Kingston, dub poetry uses the vivid expressions ...

Spain is an immemorial land like no other, one that James A. Michener, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author and celebrated citizen of the world, came to love as his own. Iberia is Michener’s enduring nonfiction tribute to his cherished second home. In the fresh and vivid prose that is his trademark, he not only reveals the celebrated history of bullfighters and warrior kings, painters and processions, cathedrals and olive orchards, he also shares the intimate, often hidden country he...

Pulitzer Prize–winning author James A. Michener, whose novels hurtle from the far reaches of history to the dark corners of the world, paints an intoxicating portrait of a land whose past and present are as turbulent, fascinating, and colorful as any other on Earth. When an American journalist travels to report on the upcoming duel between two great matadors, he is ultimately swept up in the dramatic story of his own Mexican ancestry—from the brilliance and brutality of the ancients, to th...

How the everyday habits and attitudes of ordinary liberals and conservatives shape the health of American democracy.In Everyday Democracy, Jeffrey M. Berry, James M. Glaser, and Deborah J. Schildkraut study Americans' views of several manifestations of "everyday democracy," which they define as the attitudes, behaviors, and processes that people experience in daily life and their routine considerations of politics and community. Examples include engaging i...

In this classic novel, James A. Michener brings his grand epic tradition to bear on the four-hundred-year saga of America’s Eastern Shore, from its Native American roots to the modern age. In the early 1600s, young Edmund Steed is desperate to escape religious persecution in England. After joining Captain John Smith on a harrowing journey across the Atlantic, Steed makes a life for himself in the New World, establishing a remarkable dynasty that parallels the emergence of America. Through ...