Jeremy Mercer: 3 books
Time Was Soft There
A Paris Sojourn at Shakespeare & Co.
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2006
"Some bookstores are filled with stories both inside and outside the bindings. These are places of sanctuary, even redemption---and Jeremy Mercer has found both amid the stacks of Shakespeare & Co."
---Paul Collins, author of Sixpence House: Lost in a Town of Books
In a small...
When the Guillotine Fell
The Bloody Beginning and Horrifying End to France's River of Blood, 1791--1977
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2008
How long did the guillotine's blade hang over the heads of French criminals? Was it abandoned in the late 1800s? Did French citizens of the early days of the twentieth century decry its brutality? No. The blade was allowed to do its work well into our own time. In 1974, Hamida Djandoubi brutally tortured...
Thinking Critically About Child Development
Examining Myths and Misunderstandings
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019
With a unique focus on inquiry, Thinking Critically About Child Development presents 74 claims related to child development for readers to examine and think through critically. Author Jean Mercer and new co-authors Stephen Hupp and Jeremy Jewell use anecdotes to illustrate common errors of critical...