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Book Dead Frenzy

    Book Details:
  • Author : Victoria Houston
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2011-07-29
  • ISBN : 1440531498
  • Pages : 296 pages

Download or read book Dead Frenzy written by Victoria Houston and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-07-29 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between a fishing tournament and a biker convention, Doc Osborne and Police Chief Ferris are spending less time catching bass and more time catching crooks... For fishing pals (or are they more than just pals?) Doc Osborne and Police Chief Lew Ferris, Loon Lake, Wisconsin, is usually a great place to seek out some mutual solitude in the trout stream. But lately, the town has been teeming with competitive bass fisherman and bikers, too many less-than-savory characters. Meanwhile, there's an old murder case Doc's bent on solving even as he himself is stalked by a mysterious visitor.

Book Friendship in Death  in Letters from the Dead to the Living  1728

Download or read book Friendship in Death in Letters from the Dead to the Living 1728 written by Elizabeth Singer Rowe and published by . This book was released on 1776 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Friendship in Death  in twenty letters from the dead to the living  etc

Download or read book Friendship in Death in twenty letters from the dead to the living etc written by Elizabeth Singer Rowe and published by . This book was released on 1790 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Culture of Death

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  • Author : Wesley J. Smith
  • Publisher : Encounter Books
  • Release : 2016-05-17
  • ISBN : 1594038562
  • Pages : 360 pages

Download or read book Culture of Death written by Wesley J. Smith and published by Encounter Books. This book was released on 2016-05-17 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When his teenage son Christopher, brain-damaged in an auto accident, developed a 105-degree fever following weeks of unconsciousness, John Campbell asked the attending physician for help. The doctor refused. Why bother? The boy’s life was effectively over. Campbell refused to accept this verdict. He demanded treatment and threatened legal action. The doctor finally relented. With treatment, Christopher’s temperature—which had eventually reached 107.6 degrees—subsided almost immediately. Soon afterward the boy regained consciousness and was learning to walk again. This story is one of many Wesley J. Smith recounts in his award-winning classic critique of the modern bioethics movement, Culture of Death. In this newly updated edition, Smith chronicles how the threats to the equality of human life have accelerated in recent years, from the proliferation of euthanasia and the Brittany Maynard assisted suicide firestorm, to the potential for “death panels” posed by Obamacare and the explosive Terri Schiavo controversy. Culture of Death reveals how more and more doctors have withdrawn from the Hippocratic Oath and how “bioethicists” influence policy by posing questions such as whether organs may be harvested from the terminally ill and disabled. This is a passionate yet coolly reasoned book about the current crisis in medical ethics by an author who has made “the new thanatology” his consuming interest.

Book Forensic Medicine and Death Investigation in Medieval England

Download or read book Forensic Medicine and Death Investigation in Medieval England written by Sara M. Butler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-08-21 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: England has traditionally been understood as a latecomer to the use of forensic medicine in death investigation, lagging nearly two-hundred years behind other European authorities. Using the coroner's inquest as a lens, this book hopes to offer a fresh perspective on the process of death investigation in medieval England. The central premise of this book is that medical practitioners did participate in death investigation – although not in every inquest, or even most, and not necessarily in those investigations where we today would deem their advice most pertinent. The medieval relationship with death and disease, in particular, shaped coroners' and their jurors' understanding of the inquest's medical needs and led them to conclusions that can only be understood in context of the medieval world's holistic approach to health and medicine. Moreover, while the English resisted Southern Europe's penchant for autopsies, at times their findings reveal a solid understanding of internal medicine. By studying cause of death in the coroners' reports, this study sheds new light on subjects such as abortion by assault, bubonic plague, cruentation, epilepsy, insanity, senescence, and unnatural death.

Book Unequal Before Death

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  • Author : Marcelline Block
  • Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • Release : 2012-03-15
  • ISBN : 144383856X
  • Pages : 295 pages

Download or read book Unequal Before Death written by Marcelline Block and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death has been deemed the “great equalizer,” but each journey towards our shared, ultimate fate is unique. The length of our lives, the quality of our last days, how our deaths are perceived by others, and the handling of our remains are governed by nature and many socio-cultural factors. Unequal Before Death is an edited collection that addresses inequalities surrounding death from the perspectives of scholars in a wide range of humanistic and social science disciplines, including art history, anthropology, Film and media studies, political science, popular culture, psychology, religion, sociology, and statistics. The majority of the chapters of this interdisciplinary anthology are revised versions of papers presented at the second Austin H. Kutscher Memorial Conference, entitled “Unequal Before Death,” organized by the Columbia University Seminar on Death in March 2010 and attended by leading experts in academia, healthcare and the not-for-profit sector. The purpose of this volume is to bring attention to the many inequalities affecting the end of life experience and to encourage collaborative research and action that can improve the experience for the dying and those around them. This volume does not question the truism of death as the ultimate equalizer but rather, seeks to explore the many ways in which the final journey is not equal.

Book A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare  The life and death of King John  1919

Download or read book A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare The life and death of King John 1919 written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [V.23] The second part of Henry the Fourth. 1940.--[v.24-25] The sonnets. 1924.--[v.26] Troilus and Cressida. 1953.--[v.27] The life and death of King Richard the Second. 1955.

Book Days of Twilight  Nights of Frenzy

Download or read book Days of Twilight Nights of Frenzy written by Werner Schroeter and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-07-18 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Werner Schroeter was a leading figure of New German Cinema. In more than forty films made between 1967 and 2008, including features, documentaries, and shorts, he ignored conventional narrative, creating instead dense, evocative collages of image and sound. For years, his work was eclipsed by contemporaries such as Wim Wenders, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Werner Herzog, and Alexander Kluge. Yet his work has become known to a wider audience through several recent retrospectives, including at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Written in the last years of his life, Days of Twilight, Nights of Frenzy sees Schroeter looking back at his life with the help of film critic and friend Claudia Lenssen. Born in 1945, Schroeter grew up near Heidelberg and spent just a few weeks in film school before leaving to create his earliest works. Over the years, he would work with acclaimed artists, including Marianne Hopps, Isabelle Huppert, Candy Darling, and Christine Kaufmann. In the 1970s, Schroeter also embarked on prolific parallel careers in theater and opera, where he worked in close collaboration with the legendary diva Maria Callas. His childhood; his travels in Italy, France, and Latin America; his coming out and subsequent life as an gay man in Europe; and his run-ins with Hollywood are but a few of the subjects Schroeter recalls with insights and characteristic understated humor. A sharp, lively, even funny memoir, Days of Twilight, Nights of Frenzy captures Schroeter’s extravagant life vividly over a vast prolific career, including many stories that might have been lost were it not for this book. It is sure to fascinate cinephiles and anyone interested in the culture around film and the arts.

Book The Sophiology of Death

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  • Author : Sergius Bulgakov
  • Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • Release : 2021-07-30
  • ISBN : 1532699654
  • Pages : 229 pages

Download or read book The Sophiology of Death written by Sergius Bulgakov and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-07-30 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What will be the final destiny of the human race at God’s eschatological judgment? Will all be saved, or only a few? How does Christian eschatology impact Christian political action in the here and now? And what is the destiny of each individual facing the prospect of earthly death? In these essays, Russian Orthodox theologian Sergius Bulgakov (1871–1944) brings the resources of Scripture and tradition to bear on these vital questions, arguing for the magnificent final restoration of all creatures to union with God in a universal salvation worthy of the infinite scope of Christ’s redemption. Bulgakov also provides insight into how Christians can strive to bring God’s kingdom to earth in anticipation of the peace and justice of the heavenly Jerusalem. The reader will also find in these pages profound theological reflections on the nature of human death and Christ’s accompaniment of all humans in their dying, based on Bulgakov’s own near-death experience. Together, these essays shed new light on eschatology in all its facets: personal, political, and universal.

Book Friendship in Death

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  • Author : Elizabeth Singer Rowe
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1784
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 314 pages

Download or read book Friendship in Death written by Elizabeth Singer Rowe and published by . This book was released on 1784 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Timely Death

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  • Author : Scooter Reaser
  • Publisher : Archway Publishing
  • Release : 2016-01-12
  • ISBN : 1480825107
  • Pages : 212 pages

Download or read book Timely Death written by Scooter Reaser and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is open season on the mega-wealthy of America as they are methodically assassinated one-by-one. Samantha “Stormy” Gail, the beautiful thirty-something widow of one of the wealthiest men in the United States, has already narrowly escaped several attempts on her life. Without a clue as to who is trying to kill her, she heads to a remote island to seek counsel from Ross Barr, a high profile lawyer turned recluse. Ross, a bachelor who is protective of his past and choices in life, divides his time between a home on Elizabeth Isle and a yacht in the Caribbean. After he reluctantly agrees to assist Stormy in her quest to determine why she is being targeted, they embark on a dangerous journey that takes them through the Caribbean on his yacht, and eventually on a plane to a clinic in the Alps where the dead still live and each answer leads to another question. But when Stormy’s past rises up to confront her, both she and Ross must pursue the truth within a mad world where insanity and revenge rule. In this legal thriller, a stunning widow and a reclusive attorney instigate an international pursuit to find those who want her dead and determine why she has become their target.

Book The Death of Tolstoy

Download or read book The Death of Tolstoy written by William S. Nickell and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the middle of the night of October 28, 1910, Leo Tolstoy, the most famous man in Russia, vanished. A secular saint revered for his literary genius, pacificism, and dedication to the earth and the poor, Tolstoy had left his home in secret to embark on a final journey. His disappearance immediately became a national sensation. Two days later he was located at a monastery, but was soon gone again. When he turned up next at Astapovo, a small, remote railway station, all of Russia was following the story. As he lay dying of pneumonia, he became the hero of a national narrative of immense significance. In The Death of Tolstoy, William Nickell describes a Russia engaged in a war of words over how this story should be told. The Orthodox Church, which had excommunicated Tolstoy in 1901, first argued that he had returned to the fold and then came out against his beliefs more vehemently than ever. Police spies sent by the state tracked his every move, fearing that his death would embolden his millions of supporters among the young, the peasantry, and the intelligentsia. Representatives of the press converged on the stationhouse at Astapovo where Tolstoy lay ill, turning his death into a feverish media event that strikingly anticipated today's no-limits coverage of celebrity lives—and deaths. Drawing on newspaper accounts, personal correspondence, police reports, secret circulars, telegrams, letters, and memoirs, Nickell shows the public spectacle of Tolstoy's last days to be a vivid reflection of a fragile, anxious empire on the eve of war and revolution. For more on Tolstoy's death, see the companion website created by the author at http://humweb.ucsc.edu/bnickell/tolstoy/.

Book Delusion in Death

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  • Author : J. D. Robb
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2012-09-11
  • ISBN : 1101600209
  • Pages : 384 pages

Download or read book Delusion in Death written by J. D. Robb and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-09-11 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lieutenant Eve Dallas must foil a terrorist plot in this explosive thriller in the #1 New York Times bestselling In Death series. It was just another after-work happy hour at a bar downtown—until the madness descended. And after twelve minutes of chaos and violence, more than eighty people lay dead. Lieutenant Eve Dallas is trying to sort out the inexplicable events. Surviving witnesses talk about seeing things—monsters and swarms of bees. They describe sudden, overwhelming feelings of fear and rage and paranoia. When forensics makes its report, the mass delusions make more sense: it appears the bar patrons were exposed to a cocktail of chemicals and illegal drugs that could drive anyone into temporary insanity—if not kill them outright. But that doesn’t explain who would unleash such horror—or why. Eve’s husband, Roarke, happens to own the bar, but he’s convinced the attack wasn’t directed at him. It’s bigger than that. And if Eve can’t figure it out fast, it could happen again, anytime, anywhere. Because it’s airborne…

Book Blood Frenzy

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert Scott
  • Publisher : Pinnacle Books
  • Release : 2012-03-01
  • ISBN : 0786031042
  • Pages : 317 pages

Download or read book Blood Frenzy written by Robert Scott and published by Pinnacle Books . This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He Used A Claw Hammer. . . Frankie Cochran knew her boyfriend, David Gerard, was possessive, controlling, and prone to violent rages. When she tried to break up with him, Gerard threatened her with a hammer. One week later, he used it to club her in the head. Again. And again. Then he stabbed her in the throat--and left her for dead. . . And A Sharp Knife. . . Miraculously, Frankie survived--but cops began to suspect Gerard of other vicious crimes. One of his previous girlfriends had died in a house fire, along with her children and her mother. A local prostitute's brutalized body was found in a pool of blood. But it was the unsolved murder of another woman--repeatedly run over on a country road--that finally exposed Gerard as a rage-driven monster out of control. . . To Unleash His Rage Justice finally caught up with Gerard. Hounded by the tireless efforts of detectives and incriminated by DNA evidence as well as up-to-date forensics that matched the tire marks at a crime scene to Gerard's car, one of the Pacific Northwest's most dangerous killers was finally locked behind bars. With 16 pages of shocking photos!

Book Pocket Dictionary of the English   German Languages

Download or read book Pocket Dictionary of the English German Languages written by F. W. Longman and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Christian Shade  Containing the Following Poems  Distress  Death  the Grave  Elegy in a Country Churchyard  Elegy on a Pile of Ruins  the Last Day  and Eternity  With Preface  and Biographical Sketches of the Authors

Download or read book The Christian Shade Containing the Following Poems Distress Death the Grave Elegy in a Country Churchyard Elegy on a Pile of Ruins the Last Day and Eternity With Preface and Biographical Sketches of the Authors written by James Brownlee and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Death s Door

    Book Details:
  • Author : Meryl Sawyer
  • Publisher : HQN Books
  • Release : 2009-05-01
  • ISBN : 1426832214
  • Pages : 412 pages

Download or read book Death s Door written by Meryl Sawyer and published by HQN Books. This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Madison Connelly is tired of lies—and betrayal. First her husband and business partner leaves her for another woman. Then Detective Paul Tanner arrives to tell her that the man she thought was her father isn't. Madison wants answers…answers about her past that someone is going to deadly lengths to keep hidden. Falling for Madison isn't in Paul's job description: find the girl, bring her to his employer, Wyatt Holbrook, the end. But as Madison bravely agrees to cross over a dangerous threshold into Holbrook's privileged, secretive world, she'll need more than Paul's growing attraction to keep her safe. Because she's about to be drawn deep into a complicated web of intrigue, deceit—and murder.