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The Death Penalty: An American History
Stuart Banner
$16.49

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Stuart Banner's The Death Penalty is a richly detailed overview of American attitudes toward and implementation of capital punishment throughout its past. Banner decries what he sees as today's prevailing "smug condescension" to history, and states that executing a fellow human in the 17th and 18th centuries, though exponentially more common than today, was "just as momentous" an act. He traces changing technology and venues as well as the relatively constant arguments--legal, philosophical, and religious--of proponents and opponents. The book is rich with fascinating sidelights, among them the chilling practice of "symbolic" executions, the idea that dissections, viewed as a sort of punishment beyond death, were thought to act as deterrents to capital crime, and how the rise of newspapers as a mass medium hastened, in part, the demise of public hangings. The Death Penaltyis free of polemic and cant, admirably disinterested, and at once rigorous yet thoroughly accessible. --H. O'Billovich

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Under the Banner of Heaven 1ST Edition
Jon Krakauer
$48.80

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Banner Days 2-2 (Trophies)
Marcia Brechtel
$5.47

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton: A Radical for Women's Rights (Library of American Biography Series)
Lois W. Banner
$16.69

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Focusing on Stanton's role as a reformer in the women's rights and suffrage movements, Banner also examines Stanton's relationships with her husband, with Susan B. Anthony, and with other leading feminists of the nineteenth century.

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A Banner Is Unfurled, Volume 1
$22.47

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An historical Novel that gives a feeling of being a part of a large family with 16 children on the frontier with the early movement of population from Massachusets to New York and to Ohio in the early 1800s. The authors have done a wonderful job of weaving many individual's personalities into events without their becoming confusing.

The research is impressive with most of the activities being taken from the actual family member's journals as well as newspapers of the day. Although it may not be completely typical due to a religious theme, it certainly held my interest thru good times and bad. I look forward to reading the next volume to see how these lives and events progress as soon as the next one is published.

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The Constitution: A Heavenly Banner
Ezra Taft Benson
$7.90

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The late Ezra Taft Benson, President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, gave this message at a Brigham Young University devotional assembly (the only one he gave as their "Prophet") and urged all members of the LDS Church to obtain a copy and read it.

I was in attendance when he gave the talk. When he stated that it is not the government's role to redistribute the wealth, I remember asking myself at the time, "Did he say that was good, or did he say it was bad?" I was confused. What would we do without Social Security, Welfare, Pell Grants, etc, etc. I was raised thinking these were an acceptible part of our society -- no problem. Frankly, I didn't even know what Socialism was and that the democratic party (as well as many republicans) embodies many of the same tyranical principles.

As soon as President Beson was done with his address, I made a beeline for the BYU bookstore and immediately purchased the talk he had just given: "The Constitution: A Heavenly Banner."

My life has not been the same since. I was fired up with a spirit of freedom and patriotism that has not left me. Since that time I have writen books, ran for office, authored many studies on principles of government and freedom as they are found in the scriptures.

Our nation is in a time of great danger, having embraced many doctrines which are not in keeping with those principles of freedom set forth by the Founding Fathers. We are at war with the forces of evil that would seek to establish a world socialist government -- the New World Order.

Just this evening (11/4/98) when I went shopping, I saw a young adult wearing a T-shirt with the letters "NWO" for New World Order splashed across the front of it, giving me the chills.

The warnings of Ezra Taft Benson (among other great soldiers of freedom) are going unheeded. I would urge all men and women who value freedom to read this excellent pamphlet by Ezra Taft Benson, awake to a sense of our awful situation, and put on strength in the Lord to bring the final victory for freedom as we pass through dark and troublesome times.

"Truth will prevail," Ezra Taft Benson often said, "if pains are taken to bring it to light." May we do so; and may his pains not be in vain.

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Banners, Ribbons and Scrolls (Dover Pictorial Archive Series)
Carol Belanger Grafton
$4.98

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Artist Carol Belanger Grafton presents 503 beautifully drawn banners, ribbons and scrolls from authentic 19th-century sources. Sumptuous Victorian designs reflect the glorious styles of the past--Egyptian, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque--and prefigure the styles of the future--Art Nouveau and Art Deco. Each and every design is handsome, affordable, and copyright-free.

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Under The Banner Of Heaven - A Story Of Violent Faith
Jon Krakauer
$25.00

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The Eyes of a King: The Last Descendants #1
Catherine Banner
$7.00

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FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD LEO NORTH’S prospects in life are limited. He attends military school, lives with his fearful grandmother, and looks after his brother Stirling. He resists his innate powers, because those who demonstrate any sort of magical ability are considered enemies of the state. But when he finds a blank book in the snow, his typical indifference melts away. From the first moment he touches the book, he senses its strange power. Passages start to appear on the pages—revealing family secrets, telling the history of Malonia, and uncovering the story of Ryan and Anna, two teens from a parallel universe. When Leo’s seemingly narrow path takes an unexpected tragic turn, he finds himself on a journey from which he can never really return. And, as he slowly begins to lose touch with reality, Ryan and Anna’s story comes to the forefront. Their idyllic summer romance—seemingly worlds away from Leo—has everything to do with Malonia.

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Banner Days (Harcourt Trophies)
Marcia Brechtel
$26.95

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Did you ever want to visit a cowboy? Have you ever thought about traveling on the high seas? Have you ever had to solve a mystery? In Banner Days, all days are great days for reading. You will read about people and story characters who use their imaginations, travel to faraway places, and work with their neighbors to solve problems. There are so many things to discover. SSincerely, The Authors