Download or read book Severed written by Frances Larson and published by Granta Books. This book was released on 2014-11-06 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our history is littered with heads. Over the centuries, they have decorated our churches, festooned our city walls and filled our museums; they have been props for artists and specimens for laboratory scientists, trophies for soldiers and items of barter. Today, as videos of decapitations circulate online and cryonicists promise that our heads may one day live on without our bodies, the severed head is as contentious and compelling as ever. From shrunken heads to trophies of war; from memento mori to Damien Hirst's With Dead Head; from grave-robbing phrenologists to enterprising scientists, Larson explores the bizarre, often gruesome and confounding history of the severed head. Its story is our story.

Download or read book Severed written by Scott Snyder and published by Image Comics. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in single magazine form as Severed #1-7.

Download or read book Severed written by John Gilmore and published by Amok Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of the L.A. noir classic is released just in time to accompany the Brian De Palma film.

Download or read book Severed written by Cameron Cooper and published by Stories Rule Press. This book was released on 2020-10-08 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now Danny is the most wanted criminal in the Empire… Danny has just barely averted the array’s plans to dominate the Empire, and now must face the wrath of the Imperial Shield, and dodge a galaxy full of Imperial Rangers who want her dead. Until now, she has had the help of her crew and the fabulous ship, The Supreme Lythion, to get her through any challenges, but the array quickly sends her crew and the ship to the four corners of the known worlds, and isolates Danny in the worst circumstances. She is severed from all she knows, with nothing to her name and must fight back one painful step at a time… Severed is the fourth book in the Imperial Hammer space opera science fiction series by award-winning SF author Cameron Cooper. The Imperial Hammer series: 1.0: Hammer and Crucible 1.1: An Average Night on Androkles 2.0: Star Forge 3.0: Long Live the Emperor 4.0: Severed 5.0: Destroyer of Worlds Space Opera Science Fiction Novel __ Praise for Severed: This sci-fi thriller just gets better and better. There is a reason this is one of my favorites. An intense read... fast moving, action filled read with some interesting character twists and a couple political twists that were very well done. Intense Installment!!! Cooper does it again, creating a story that sucks you right in and won't let you go until you finish in the wee hours of the morning! Cameron just keeps writing better and better! I could not put this book down! I had to read it in one long, satisfying session. made for a reading in one sitting. Who could stop an do anything else? Even pee... Original, interesting and well written. Highly recommend. Compulsive reading and full of surprises! Severed is rife with tense suspense and thrills, as lives and loves hang in the balance with seemingly hopeless odds. Another winner for Cameron Cooper. Thrilling and Suspenseful story that is an amazing continuation of this series. a fantastic well written read __ Cameron Cooper is the author of the Imperial Hammer series, an Amazon best-selling space opera series, among others. Cameron tends to write space opera short stories and novels, but also roams across the science fiction landscape. Cameron was raised on a steady diet of Asimov, Heinlein, Herbert, McCaffrey, and others. Peter F. Hamilton and John Scalzi are contemporary heroes. An Australian Canadian, Cam lives near the Canadian Rockies.

Download or read book Severed written by S.J. Sawyer and published by S.J. Sawyer. This book was released on 2001 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Severed Head written by Julia Kristeva and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renowned philosopher and cultural theorist Kristeva (Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection) offers an extended consideration of artistic figurations of the severed head, the organizing theme to an exhibition she coordinated at the Louvre in 1998. Though she follows a single historical trajectory, moving from Paleolithic skull cults to antique Greek sculpture to the Surrealist drawings, Kristeva eschews the disciplinary constraints of art history, instead employing psychoanalysis to explore the intertwined problems of representation and mortality posed by the severed head. For Kristeva, the capacity to figure the life of the mind first requires a confrontation with this horrific object that stands at the boundary between life and death, registering not only the loss of corporeal form but also subjective interiority. Though this book does not engage with recent images of decapitation, it is not without contemporary political-cultural import; for Kristeva, these cruel artistic figurations offer us the capacity to contemplate the sacred within a technology-driven contemporary visual culture. Verdict While a challenging text, this beautifully written and richly layered meditation on mortality and representation will undoubtedly appeal to those readers interested in semiotic and psychoanalytically informed readings of art.-Jonathan Patkowski, CUNY Graduate Ctr.(c) Copyright 2012. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Download or read book Severed written by Simon Kernick and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-07-31 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unputdownable, edge-of-your-seat thriller full of twists and turns from Sunday Times bestselling author Simon Kernick - the UK's answer to Harlan Coben. Guaranteed to keep you gripped. Perfect for fans of David Baldacci, Stuart MacBride and Peter James. 'Simon Kernick writes great plots, great characters, great action' -- Lee Child 'Simon Kernick writes with his foot pressed hard on the pedal. Hang on tight!' -- Harlan Coben 'Simon Kernick uses every trick in the book to keep the action breakneck' -- Time Out 'Highly recommend this book. I couldn't put it down' -- ***** Reader review 'What an amazing read, it had me hooked!' -- ***** Reader review 'From the first page to the last this story keeps you on the edge' -- ***** Reader review 'Thriller writing at its best' -- ***** Reader review 'Kept me engrossed all the way through' -- ***** Reader review ******************************************************************************************* ONE NIGHT STAND. ONE DEAD GIRL. You wake up in a strange room on a bed covered in blood. You have no idea how you got there. Beside you is a dead girl. Your girlfriend. The phone rings, and a voice tells you to press play on the room's DVD machine. The film shows you killing your girlfriend. Then you're told to go to an address in East London where you're to deliver a briefcase and await further instructions. There's no way out. If you're to survive the next 24 hours, you must find out who killed your girlfriend, and why. Before they come for you too...

Download or read book Party Backstory Generator written by Justin Sirois and published by . This book was released on 2019-01-03 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Party Backstory Generator is a collaborative storytelling supplement that's a helluva a lot of fun for you and your players. It's sort of like a workbook from your college lab class in that you get to draw out the starting region for your campaign, but everyone gets to collaborate and add their own touch so your whole group is invested in the setting. This book is a fun improv exercise that will get your group off to a great new start." -- LUKE GYGAX. How did everyone in your party meet? What alliances or tensions exist? Who screwed over who and what will you do about it?For D&D, Pathfinder, and other systems, the Party Backstory Generator solves this problem quickly and easily. This is a simple, straightforward guide of limitless customization.Build meaningful alliances and tensions between multiple party members with this map making, backstory and one-shot off-night story builder. "Choose two characters..." - it's the prompt in this unique book that will bond your party in fun and meaningful ways. This book doesn't create individual characters. It solely focuses on unifying your players with randomized background, conflicts, skills, and tragedies.

Download or read book A Severed Head written by Iris Murdoch and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1976-11-18 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel about the frightfulness and ruthlessness of being in love, from the author of the Booker Prize-winning novel The Sea, The Sea Martin Lynch-Gibson believes he can possess both a beautiful wife and a delightful lover. But when his wife, Antonia, suddenly leaves him for her psychoanalyst, Martin is plunged into an intensive emotional reeducation. He attempts to behave beautifully and sensibly. Then he meets a woman whose demonic splendor at first repels him and later arouses a consuming and monstrous passion. As his Medusa informs him, “this is nothing to do with happiness.” A Severed Head was adapted for a successful stage production in 1963 and was later made into a film starring Claire Bloom, Lee Remick, Richard Attenborough, and Ian Holm.

Download or read book The Jar of Severed Hands written by Mark Santiago and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2014-10-22 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than two centuries after the Coronado Expedition first set foot in the region, the northern frontier of New Spain in the late 1770s was still under attack by Apache raiders. Mark Santiago’s gripping account of Spanish efforts to subdue the Apaches illuminates larger cultural and political issues in the colonial period of the Southwest and northern Mexico. To persuade the Apaches to abandon their homelands and accept Christian “civilization,” Spanish officials employed both the mailed fist of continuous war and the velvet glove of the reservation system. “Hostiles” captured by the Spanish would be deported, while Apaches who agreed to live in peace near the Spanish presidios would receive support. Santiago’s history of the deportation policy includes vivid descriptions of colleras, the chain gangs of Apache prisoners of war bound together for the two-month journey by mule and on foot from the northern frontier to Mexico City. The book’s arresting title, The Jar of Severed Hands, comes from a 1792 report documenting a desperate break for freedom made by a group of Apache prisoners. After subduing the prisoners and killing twelve Apache men, the Spanish soldiers verified the attempted breakout by amputating the left hands of the dead and preserving them in a jar for display to their superiors. Santiago’s nuanced analysis of deportation policy credits both the Apaches’ ability to exploit the Spanish government’s dual approach and the growing awareness on the Spaniards’ part that the peoples they referred to as Apaches were a disparate and complex assortment of tribes that could not easily be subjugated. The Jar of Severed Hands deepens our understanding of the dynamics of the relationship between Indian tribes and colonial powers in the Southwest borderlands.

Download or read book The Severed Head and the Grafted Tongue written by Patricia Palmer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores actual and literary depictions of beheadings in sixteenth-century Ireland and addresses how violence is transcribed into art.

Download or read book Conqueror of the Sun Severed Galaxy written by Jason Marcus Torraunt and published by Jason Marcus Torraunt. This book was released on 2021-01-31 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conqueror of the Sun – Severed Galaxy is the story of IRF Emperor Keron Astutry, and how he leads the attack that would destroy the Earth in the year 2456. The catastrophic event not only brings about the breakdown of the Union of Human Confederation but starts an all-out war across the entire Milky Way Galaxy. The Gold Claw Desakar had trained, groomed, and taught Keron Astutry about Shawn Arc’s ideals. But with the successful destruction of Earth, the Gold Claw Desakar reveal that Keron is the pure blood descendant of Shawn Arc. Thus, the infamous family name of Arc is restored to Keron. The IRF Empire’s elite guard also instruct Keron Arc to marry his sister Tera and continue the Arc bloodline. Upon the revelation of the Arc lineage still being alive and well, the Atlonian Confederation, with name and homeworld changed, mercilessly seek to wipe out the Arc line that their forefathers failed to do. However, in the AC’s bloodthirsty and reckless attempt to stomp out the Arc family, they end up creating one of the most destructive Arcs ever. Severed Galaxy is part of the Conqueror of the Sun series and specifically categorized under the W.A.R. Chronicles set of side storybooks. It is recommended to first read the main seven-book saga of the Conqueror of the Sun series before exploring this story.

Download or read book The Gorgon s Severed Head written by Cecelia Eaton Luschnig and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gorgon's Severed Head looks at three plays of Euripides, one early, one middle and one late in his career. Innovations in genre, in the use of the traditional stories, in the representation of women and of gender issues are present at every period. In all three plays characters are depicted creating themselves and each other. Chapter One on Alcestis looks at the artistry of the two main characters and is especially concerned with finding a role for Admetus, the play's most serious problem. The second chapter treats the physical displacement of the myth in Euripides' version of the Electra-Orestes story. A last section approaches the layers of time and space in Phoenissae.

Download or read book Severed at the Root written by J.F. Carr and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-05-31 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost every female, in Jerry's life, represents pain and failure while almost all the males are mischievous and deceitful. With those types of influences, there's no wonder his life is a wreck. In fact, his own actions repulse him so much; he is forced to veer a life of shame to one of benevolence.

Download or read book Morrissey Marr The Severed Alliance written by Johnny Rogan and published by Omnibus Press. This book was released on 2012-06-26 with total page 863 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Morrissey & Marr: The Severed Alliance is among the most successful – and controversial – rock biographies ever published. Having denounced the book and called for the death of its author Johnny Rogan, Morrissey later did a U-turn and cited it as evidence in the royalty-related court case brought by Smiths drummer Mike Joyce.Now, 20 years after it was first published, Rogan has returned to his definitive Smiths biography to produce a completely revised edition based on new information and new interviews to add to the almost 100 initially conducted over a four-year period. Widely acclaimed as one rock’s leading writers, Johnny Rogan now brings yet more insight and analysis to his best-selling book that revealed, for the first time, the true and unsanitised story of The Smiths – the most important group of their generation.

Download or read book A Nation Severed War of Brothers written by T.A. Manchester and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-02-11 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amidst the hellish backdrop of the year 1861, a family enjoys the comfort of life in Virginia. When the homecoming of Jedediah's eldest son, William, draws the whispers of war into the home, the ethereal balance of lies and discrepancy tilt, threatening to shake the foundations of innocence thriving inside the hearts of the children. As tense rivalries surface from within the children soon find themselves staring face down at one of the bloodiest chapters in a nation's history. NOTE: The cover looks fuzzy, but will print perfectly clear

Download or read book The Triad Gang and the Severed Head written by Leslie Ann Brown and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2024-03-25 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "As an adult reader I haven’t had this much fun reading since The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew Mysteries” P. Montgomery “This book is key to family values and the good ole saying You can’t have it if it was never yours” S. Hamilton “The sketch artist truly captured the mystery of the story. I was on the edge of my seat with every turn of the page” O. Ruby