id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crln-22316 Eberhart, George M. New Publications 2001-07-01 3 .pdf application/pdf 2176 117 60 Mardi Gras Treasures: Invitations of the Golden Age, by Henri Schindler (l60 pages, September 2000), offers some 200 elegant ex­ amples of Mardi Gras ball invitations, admis­ sion cards, and dance cards from private balls and pageants that took place in New Orleans from the 1850s to World War I. Largely the 742 / C&RL News ■ July/August 2001 work of anonym ous artists and designers b e­ longing to various krewes, these minor mas­ terpieces are infused with the opulent and exotic spirit of Carnival. The book contains entries for ev­ ery capital-punishment opinion issued by the U.S. Supreme Court through 1999, the status and structure of death-penalty laws in every U.S. jurisdiction, the status of capital punish­ ment in other countries, famous or otherwise significant capital prosecutions, the effect of capital punishment on minorities and other special populations, execution methods, and legal term inology related to capital trials. cache/crln-22316.pdf txt/crln-22316.txt