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Book River Bodies

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  • Author : Karen Katchur
  • Publisher : Thomas & Mercer
  • Release : 2018
  • ISBN : 9781503902398
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book River Bodies written by Karen Katchur and published by Thomas & Mercer. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Returning home to Portland, Pennsylvania care for her ailing father, the former police chief, Becca Kingsley is drawn into a murder investigation that is linked to a twenty-year-old cold case and that causes her to start questioning all her past relationships as dark secrets come to light.

Book To Your Scattered Bodies Go

Download or read book To Your Scattered Bodies Go written by Philip Jose Farmer and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-01-24 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All those who ever lived on Earth have found themselves resurrected - healthy, young, and naked as newborns - on the grassy banks of a mighty river, in a world unknown. Miraculously provided with food, but with no clues to the meaning of their strange new afterlife, billions of people from every period of Earth's history - and prehistory - must start again. Sir Richard Francis Burton would be the first to glimpse the incredible way-station, a link between worlds. This forbidden sight would spur the renowned 19th-century explorer to uncover the truth. Along with a remarkable group of compatriots, including Alice Liddell Hargreaves (the Victorian girl who was the inspiration for Alice in Wonderland), an English-speaking Neanderthal, a WWII Holocaust survivor, and a wise extraterrestrial, Burton sets sail on the magnificent river. His mission: to confront humankind's mysterious benefactors, and learn the true purpose - innocent or evil - of the Riverworld . . . Winner of the Hugo Award for best novel, 1972

Book Heavily Modified Water Bodies

Download or read book Heavily Modified Water Bodies written by Eleftheria Kampa and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the results of thirty-four case studies in an EU-sponsored project on heavily modified water bodies. The account emphasizes the methods used in the process of identification and designation, and identifies further research needs. The contents are the basis for the agreed European Guidance on artificial and heavily modified water bodies to be used by practitioners in the implementation of the Water Framework Directive.

Book Black Bodies in the River

Download or read book Black Bodies in the River written by Davis W. Houck and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2022-07-15 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly sixty years after Freedom Summer, its events—especially the lynching of Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, and Mickey Schwerner—stand out as a critical episode of the civil rights movement. The infamous deaths of these activists dominate not just the history but also the public memory of the Mississippi Summer Project. Beginning in the late 1970s, however, movement veterans challenged this central narrative with the shocking claim that during the search for Goodman, Chaney, and Schwerner, the FBI and other law enforcement personnel discovered many unidentified Black bodies in Mississippi’s swamps, rivers, and bayous. This claim has evolved in subsequent years as activists, journalists, filmmakers, and scholars have continued to repeat it, and the number of supposed Black bodies—never identified—has grown from five to more than two dozen. In Black Bodies in the River: Searching for Freedom Summer, author Davis W. Houck sets out to answer two questions: Were Black bodies discovered that summer? And why has the shocking claim only grown in the past several decades—despite evidence to the contrary? In other words, what rhetorical work does the Black bodies claim do, and with what audiences? Houck’s story begins in the murky backwaters of the Mississippi River and the discovery of the bodies of Henry Dee and Charles Moore, murdered on May 2, 1964, by the Ku Klux Klan. He pivots next to the Council of Federated Organization’s voter registration efforts in Mississippi leading up to Freedom Summer. He considers the extent to which violence generally and expectations about interracial violence, in particular, serves as a critical context for the strategy and rhetoric of the Summer Project. Houck then interrogates the unnamed-Black-bodies claim from a historical and rhetorical perspective, illustrating that the historicity of the bodies in question is perhaps less the point than the critique of who we remember from that summer and how we remember them. Houck examines how different memory texts—filmic, landscape, presidential speech, and museums—function both to bolster and question the centrality of murdered white men in the legacy of Freedom Summer.

Book Bodies  Boundaries and Vulnerabilities

Download or read book Bodies Boundaries and Vulnerabilities written by Lisa Folkmarson Käll and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-10-30 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the interrelations between bodily boundaries and vulnerabilities. It calls attention to the vulnerability of bodies as an essential aspect of having boundaries and being bound to other bodies. The volume advances an understanding of embodiment as the central aspect of subjectivity, its identity formation and its relations to others and the world. The essence of embodiment is what connects us with others and in equal measure what distinguishes us from others. The collection also addresses the centrality of the body to political and cultural activity, targeting the role and constitution of norms in the regulation of bodies, and the construction of spaces that bodies inhabit, in constructing national and cultural identities. It raises questions of how bodies and boundaries materialize in co-constitutive relation to one another; how bodies are situated and come to embody various bodies and intersections between different categories of identity and systems of value, meaning and knowledge; how the regulation and policing of bodies and the boundaries between them come to constitute bodies as being weak, strong, vulnerable or resilient and as having more or less fixed or fluid boundaries. The chapters in the volume all demonstrate how individual human bodies are formed in relation to each other as they are regulated and distinguished from one another by larger collective bodies of nature, culture, science, nation and state, as well as by other human or non-human animal bodies.

Book Bodies of Water

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  • Author : Astrida Neimanis
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2017-01-26
  • ISBN : 1474275397
  • Pages : 240 pages

Download or read book Bodies of Water written by Astrida Neimanis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Water is the element that, more than any other, ties human beings in to the world around them – from the oceans that surround us to the water that makes up most of our bodies. Exploring the cultural and philosophical implications of this fact, Bodies of Water develops an innovative new mode of posthuman feminist phenomenology that understands our bodies as being fundamentally part of the natural world and not separate from or privileged to it. Building on the works by Luce Irigaray, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Gilles Deleuze, Astrida Neimanis's book is a landmark study that brings a new feminist perspective to bear on ideas of embodiment and ecological ethics in the posthuman critical moment.

Book Earth s Landforms and Bodies of Water

Download or read book Earth s Landforms and Bodies of Water written by Natalie Hyde and published by Crabtree Classics. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn about Earth's different types of landforms and bodies of water.

Book Small Bodies of Water

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  • Author : Nina Mingya Powles
  • Publisher : Canongate Books
  • Release : 2021-08-05
  • ISBN : 1838852166
  • Pages : 200 pages

Download or read book Small Bodies of Water written by Nina Mingya Powles and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2021-08-05 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Remarkable' Robert Macfarlane 'Gorgeous' Amy Liptrot 'Urgent and nourishing' Jessica J. Lee Nina Mingya Powles first learned to swim in Borneo – where her mother was born and her grandfather studied freshwater fish. There, the local swimming pool became her first body of water. Through her life there have been others that have meant different things, but have still been, in their own way, home: from the wild coastline of New Zealand to a pond in northwest London. In lyrical, powerful prose, Small Bodies of Water weaves together memories, dreams and nature writing. Exploring everything from migration, food, family, earthquakes and the ancient lunisolar calendar, Nina reflects on a girlhood spent growing up between two cultures, and what it means to belong.

Book Bodies of Water

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  • Author : T. Greenwood
  • Publisher : Atlantic Books
  • Release : 2017-12-07
  • ISBN : 1786490919
  • Pages : 358 pages

Download or read book Bodies of Water written by T. Greenwood and published by Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2017-12-07 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1960, Billie Valentine is a young housewife living in a sleepy suburb, treading water in a dull marriage and caring for two adopted daughters. Summers spent with the girls at their lakeside camp in Vermont are her one escape - from her husband's demands, from days consumed by household drudgery, and from the nagging suspicion that life was supposed to hold something different. Then a new family moves in across the street. Ted and Eva Wilson have three children and a fourth on the way, and their arrival reignites long-buried feelings in Billie. The affair that follows offers a solace Billie has never known, until her secret is revealed and both families are wrenched apart in the tragic aftermath. In this deeply tender novel, T. Greenwood weaves deftly between the past and present to create a poignant and wonderfully moving story of friendship, the resonance of memories, and the love that keeps us afloat.

Book Religious Bodies

Download or read book Religious Bodies written by United States. Bureau of the Census and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Religious Bodies  1936  pt  1  Denominations  A to J   statistics  history  doctrine  organization  and work

Download or read book Religious Bodies 1936 pt 1 Denominations A to J statistics history doctrine organization and work written by United States. Bureau of the Census and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Religious Bodies  1926

Download or read book Religious Bodies 1926 written by United States. Bureau of the Census and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 1430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Religious Bodies  1936

Download or read book Religious Bodies 1936 written by United States. Bureau of the Census and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Monstrous Bodies

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  • Author :
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Release : 2020-05-11
  • ISBN : 1684175577
  • Pages : 204 pages

Download or read book Monstrous Bodies written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-05-11 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monstrous Bodies is a cultural and literary history of ambiguous bodies in imperial Japan. It focuses on what the book calls modern monsters—doppelgangers, robots, twins, hybrid creations—bodily metaphors that became ubiquitous in the literary landscape from the Meiji era (1868–1912) up until the outbreak of the Second Sino–Japanese War in 1937. Such monsters have often been understood as representations of the premodern past or of “stigmatized others”—figures subversive to national ideologies. Miri Nakamura contends instead that these monsters were products of modernity, informed by the newly imported scientific discourses on the body, and that they can be read as being complicit in the ideologies of the empire, for they are uncanny bodies that ignite a sense of terror by blurring the binary of “normal” and “abnormal” that modern sciences like eugenics and psychology created. Reading these literary bodies against the historical rise of the Japanese empire and its colonial wars in Asia, Nakamura argues that they must be understood in relation to the most “monstrous” body of all in modern Japan: the carefully constructed image of the empire itself.

Book The Resurrection of the Bodies

Download or read book The Resurrection of the Bodies written by D. S. Carroll and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-06-15 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Resurrection of the Bodies An apparent double homicide is blended with theology in this fast-paced mystery. Wes Rinearson is a witty but implacable detective searching for a pair of women who have vanished after facing infidelity and furious quarrels that involve a pastor and an Imam. One apparent victim, judging from her notes and photos, is a woman that Rinearson would have loved to meeta pastors daughter studying for her doctorate in divinity by testing male fidelity and faith with grim results. Rinearson (French for son of a fox) explodes a minefield of deceptions and predicts the resurrection of the bodies while exploring questions central to the story. What has happened in a setting zoned for Yahweh, God, and Allah featuring a synagogue, church, mosque, and Mormon ward? What can explain an also missing multi-millionaire whose Garden-of-Eden-like estate is right between the Imams mosque and pastors rectory, where the pastors wife and daughter may have died? Rinearson realizes that the animosity exceeds the bitterest emotions in his previous hundred cases. He foresees that it will turn some simulated murders into actual corpses, but his warnings cant avert an ever-deadlier duel between the multi-millionaire, the Imam at the mosque, and the divinity student. By the time the story ends, Rinearson and the divinity student understand that they have grappled not with garden-variety suspects but with lethal kinds of faith involving God and Allah.

Book Rivers

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  • Author : Erika L. Shores
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2019-02-07
  • ISBN : 1474758398
  • Pages : 25 pages

Download or read book Rivers written by Erika L. Shores and published by . This book was released on 2019-02-07 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Religious Bodies  1936  Summary and detailed tables

Download or read book Religious Bodies 1936 Summary and detailed tables written by United States. Bureau of the Census and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: