Laura Melvin (19 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. Through the lens of her private thoughts and feelings, the author, a retired Circuit Judge from Florida, describes her view from the Bench. Many of the cases she depicts involve children - children who were believed and then protected by the adults they trusted, and those who were not. Other court cases involve ordinary and extraordinary people who came seeking justice. Witnesses are often required to tell in public their darkest secrets, and this is particularly true of child victims. Laura's stories include secrets - a few of her own as well as some she was privileged to hear from the Bench -to share the lessons of the immeasurable value of listening and believing. Laura candidly describes her professional struggles to do justice, including her decision to impose the death penalty twice. There are many interpretations of justice, and in the book she hopes to challenge the certainty of your own definition. To provide a framework for these stories, Laura tells her own story as a female in the Deep South, raised in a conservative culture with strict expectations. Laura describes the turmoil and uncertainty that led to her decision to leave the Bench after ten years, and she takes the reader on her extended solo RV trip around the country.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. Through the lens of her private thoughts and feelings, the author, a retired Circuit Judge from Florida, describes her view from the Bench. Many of the cases she depicts involve children - children who were believed and then protected by the adults they trusted, and those who were not. Other court cases involve ordinary and extraordinary people who came seeking justice. Witnesses are often required to tell in public their darkest secrets, and this is particularly true of child victims. Laura's stories include secrets - a few of her own as well as some she was privileged to hear from the Bench -to share the lessons of the immeasurable value of listening and believing. Laura candidly describes her professional struggles to do justice, including her decision to impose the death penalty twice. There are many interpretations of justice, and in the book she hopes to challenge the certainty of your own definition. To provide a framework for these stories, Laura tells her own story as a female in the Deep South, raised in a conservative culture with strict expectations. Laura describes the turmoil and uncertainty that led to her decision to leave the Bench after ten years, and she takes the reader on her extended solo RV trip around the country.…

Trade paperback. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 196 p. Audience: General/trade. No previous owner's name. Clean, tight pages. No bent corners. SC 275 Good. Highlighting/underlining.

Paperback. Condition: As New. No Jacket. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

paperback. Condition: Very Good.

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paperback. Condition: New. May have light shelf wear due to storage and handling.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st Ed. 534pp, octavo paperback. minor cover wear yet wraps clean, binding solid and strong, light soiling to side page edges, mild soiling to last fep, interior text clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Nice condition, blue felt-like cover with silver printing. color and b/w plates and descriptions along with familiar and scientific names-hundreds of shells to see. Great resource. Laura S. Melvin(Photos) (illustrator).

Soft cover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. This AS NEW soft cover assumed first edition is inscribed on the half title page. Tight, bright, and clean, the book is free of names and markings. Inscribed by Author(s).

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 286 pages. 8.50x5.50x0.72 inches. In Stock.

Ex-public library copy. xvi, 328 pages. Hardcover: H 23.5cm x L 15.5cm. Green dust jacket, color fading to spine with dark impression from removed shelf sticker near heel. Green cloth with vibrant gilt stamping to spine, slight scuffing at spine ends, slender impressions from removed tape strips at top and bottoms of boards with associated light impressions also on front and rear free endpapers. Library stamps upon top edge; stamp on front pastedown; paper remnants from removed pocket on front free endpaper; stamp and pencil markings on title page with swath of obtrusive black marker partially obscuring bar code sticker at top, associated color run from marker on opposing half-title verso and onto copyright page; no other library markings readily apparent upon a quick perusal and interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. With Acknowledgements, Explanatory Note, Introduction, Contributors, and Index. Text comprised of various essays divided into three parts as follows. [PART 1] - MISSISSIPPI TERRITORY TO STATEHOOD: "The Disposal of Lands in the Mississippi Territory" by Robert V. Haynes; "Indian Missions and Missionaries" by Percy L. Rainwater; "Mississippi 1817: A Sociological and Economic Analysis" by William B. Hamilton; "The Great Migration to the Mississippi Territory, 1798-1819" by Charles D. Lowery; "The Division of the Mississippi Territory" by Richard A. McLemore. [PART 2] - MISSISSIPPI STATEHOOD TO THE CONSTITUTION OF 1890: The Development of the Lyceum Movement in Mississippi" by Laura D. S. Sturdivant; "John A. Quitman, Fire-Eating Governor" by James H. McLendon; "The Vicksburg Campaign" by Archer Jones; "William L. Sharkey and Reconstruction, 1886-1873" by L. Marshall Hall; "Reminiscences of a Mississippian: Henry Stuart Foote" by John E. Gonzales; "Blanche K. Bruce: United States Senator, 1875-1881" by Melvin I. Urofsky; "Democratic Dissentions in Mississippi, 1878-1882" by Willie D. Halsell; "Senator James Zachariah George of Mississippi: Bourbon or Liberal?" by May Spencer Ringold. [PART 3] - TWENTIETH CENTURY MISSISSIPPI: The Woman Suffrage Movement in Mississippi, 1890-1920" by A. Elizabeth Taylor; "Writers of Greenville, Mississippi, 1915-1950" by Holmes Adams; "Theodore Gilmore Bilbo and the Mississippi Delta" by William D. McCain; "Fred Sullens and Prohibition" by John R. Skates, Jr.; "Fact and Tradition in Southern History" by Alfred H. Stone; and "Appendix: The Archives and History Building" by Charlotte Capers.…

Paperback. Condition: New. 1° edizione. Melvin (illustrator).

Paperback. Condition: New. 2°. Melvin (illustrator).

paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Paperback. Condition: New. 1° edizione. Melvin (illustrator).

Paperback. Condition: New. 2°. Melvin (illustrator).