Horne: 311 books

A searing anatomy of a New Orleans murder trial and a system of justice gone wrong. In a New Orleans supermarket parking lot in the fall of 1984 ,two disparate lives become inextricably bound for the next fourteen years. The first, the life of Delores Dye, a white housewife and grandmother....

In this stirring book, William H. Barnwell tells the stories of prison inmates and the Kairos Prison Ministry volunteers who work with them. Set mostly at the huge Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, Barnwell's narrative illustrates how offenders who have done the worst can and do change, becoming...

The Rewards of Punishment describes a new social theory of norms to provide a compelling explanation why people punish. Identifying mechanisms that link interdependence with norm enforcement, it reveals how social relationships lead individuals to enforce norms, even when doing so makes little sense....

In 1971 President Richard Nixon declared a War On Drugs. Following Nixon’s disgrace the idea languished until 1980 under President Ronald Reagan. Under President Reagan a renewed War On Drugs was established with the “Just Say No” campaign of Nancy Reagan. Armed with all the tools of a professional...

The first title in the new, exciting, and completely original Sports by the Numbers series! The University of Oklahoma Sooners Football program has produced seven national championship teams, four Heisman Trophy winners, and countless legendary coaches, players, and characters. This inaugural...

Do you like watching or reading about people making fools out of themselves? If there was a car wreck on the road, would you slow down to watch? If you are the type of person who enjoys a good laugh at the expense of someone else, then this is the book for you.I decided to see what it would...

This book is the outcome of an idea, and the idea is very simple. It is that the best way to understand the dramatic transformation any idea can bring and to successfully bring ideas across, is to think of them as profound insights and moments of clarity often disguised as wit, captured in one single...

Artists' Impressions in Architectural Design analyses the ways in which architects have presented their designs for clients and the public, both historically and contemporarily. It spans a period from the fifteenth to the twenty-first century. Architects have become familiar with change. The passage...

This book, first published in 1987, tells the intriguing and culturally complex story of the art school influence on postwar British popular music. Following Romantic attitudes from life class to recording studio, it focuses on two key moments – the early 1960s, when art students like John Lennon...

Ostracod crustaceans, common microfossils in marine and freshwater sedimentary records, supply evidence of past climatic conditions via indicator species, transfer function and mutual climatic range approaches as well as the trace element and stable isotope geochemistry of their shells. As methods...

On April 9, 1909, Commander Robert Peary became the first person to reach the North Pole. As immense as his achievement was, it can only be appreciated by studying it as the climax of an enormous struggle, extending over centuries, for the mastery of the Arctic. Here, edited and condensed with modern readers in mind, is Professor Charles F. Hornes classic account of the quest for the North.

This publication will teach you the basics of how to become a Sealer. With step by step guides and instructions, you will not only have a better understanding, but gain valuable knowledge of how to become a Sealer

Recording sessions once meant coordinating a number of elements. Musicians, equipment and schedules were only the tip of the iceberg. There was also the task of finding and booking an available room that met your production needs. On top all this, there was considerable cost to making recordings, most...