Download or read book Shocking the Conscience written by Simeon Booker and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2013-04 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unforgettable chronicle from a groundbreaking journalist who covered Emmett Till's murder, the Little Rock Nine, and ten US presidents
Download or read book Shocked written by David Casarett and published by Current. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not too long ago, there was no coming back from death. But now, with revolutionary medical advances, death has become just another serious complication as David Casarett shows in this compelling volume. The entire history of resuscitation, from ancient times to today, is here explored, thus revealing exactly how malleable the term 'dead' actually is.
Download or read book The Shocking History of Phosphorus written by John Emsley and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over 300 years, the chemical element phosphorus maimed, killed, polluted and burned - yet doctors prescribed it and whole industries were dedicated to its manufacture. This is a history of phosphorus, from its genesis through to its modern-day use in pesticides and household chemicals.
Download or read book A Cruel and Shocking Act written by Philip Shenon and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Groundbreaking new history of the Kennedy assassination, investigative reporter and bestselling author Phil Shenon writes the ultimate inside account of what has become the most controversial murder investigation of the 20th century, the aftermath of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Based on groundbreaking research, deep reporting, and unprecedented access, the book is character driven, dialogue rich, with facts and incidents that will stun and surprise."--
Download or read book Dr Science s Book of Shocking Domestic Revelations written by Dr. Science and published by William Morrow. This book was released on 1993 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 90-second pseudointellectual Q&A series heard daily on public radio stations nationwide, Ask Dr. Science has amazed, enraged, and humorously enlightened legions of listeners since its inception in 1984. Now Dr. Science focuses his nonsensical energies on the home. 10 photos.
Download or read book Horrible Science Shocking Electricity written by Nick Arnold and published by Scholastic UK. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shocking Electricity is packed with sizzling zap-fillied facts to electrify every reader. Children can find out about the scientist who gave electric shocks to his eyeballs, that lightning can strike you with heat five times hotter than the sun and much more! Redesigned in a bold, funky new look for the next generation of Horrible Science fans.
Download or read book Shocking Pink written by Erica Spindler and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2012-01-17 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three women haunted by an erotic crime they witnessed as teens are stalked by a murderer in this thriller from a New York Times–bestselling author. They were only watching The mysterious lovers the three girls spied on were engaged in a deadly sexual game no one else was supposed to know about. Especially not Andie and her friends, whose curiosity had deepened into a dangerous obsession. . . . Now, fifteen years later, someone is watching Andie. Someone who won’t let her forget the unsolved murder of “Mrs. X” or the disappearance of “Mr. X.” Suddenly Andie doesn’t know who her friends are . . . because loyalty can be murder. Andie. Julie. Raven. Three very different women bound by more than friendship. “Ingenious twists and turns in a story that features friendship, obsession . . . and murder will long be remembered by this reviewer.” —The Mystery Reader
Download or read book Electric Universe written by David Bodanis and published by Crown. This book was released on 2006-02-28 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling author of E=mc2 weaves tales of romance, divine inspiration, and fraud through an account of the invisible force that permeates our universe—electricity—and introduces us to the virtuoso scientists who plumbed its secrets. For centuries, electricity was seen as little more than a curious property of certain substances that sparked when rubbed. Then, in the 1790s, Alessandro Volta began the scientific investigation that ignited an explosion of knowledge and invention. The force that once seemed inconsequential was revealed to be responsible for everything from the structure of the atom to the functioning of our brains. In harnessing its power, we have created a world of wonders—complete with roller coasters and radar, computer networks and psychopharmaceuticals. In Electric Universe, the great discoverers come to life in all their brilliance and idiosyncrasy, including the visionary Michael Faraday, who struggled against the prejudices of the British class system, and Samuel Morse, a painter who, before inventing the telegraph, ran for mayor of New York City on a platform of persecuting Catholics. Here too is Alan Turing, whose dream of a marvelous thinking machine—what we know as the computer—was met with indifference, and who ended his life in despair after British authorities forced him to undergo experimental treatments to “cure” his homosexuality. From the frigid waters of the Atlantic to the streets of Hamburg during a World War II firestorm to the interior of the human body, Electric Universe is a mesmerizing journey of discovery.
Download or read book The Shocking History of Electric Fishes written by Stanley Finger and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-08 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautifully illustrated and scholarly book examines the importance of electric fishes in science and medicine and how three species in particular shaped neurophysiology. Anchored in the philosophy and science of past epochs, it is the story of one of Nature's greatest puzzles. Over a long and tortuous path, it focuses on how some numbing fishes helped to make physiology modern.
Download or read book Shocking Events written by John Baldwin Buckstone and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shocking Paris written by Stanley Meisler and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-04-14 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating portrait of the emigree art world of Paris between the Wars examines the short, dramatic life of one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, Russian Jewish painter Chaim Soutine, who, in constant fear of the French police and the German Gestapo, was the epitome of the tortured artist.
Download or read book Shocking Bodies written by Iwan Rhys Morus and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-04-11 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the Victorians, electricity was the science of spectacle and of wonder. It provided them with new ways of probing the nature of reality and understanding themselves. Luigi Galvani's discovery of 'animal electricity' at the end of the eighteenth century opened up a whole new world of possibilities, in which electricity could cure sickness, restore sexual potency and even raise the dead. In Shocking Bodies, Iwan Rhys Morus explores how the Victorians thought about electricity, and how they tried to use its intimate and corporeal force to answer fundamental questions about life and death. Some even believed that electricity was life, which brought into question the existence of the soul, and of God, and provided arguments in favour of political radicalism. This is the story of how electricity emerged as a powerful new tool for making sense of our bodies and the world around us.
Download or read book Shocking Representation written by Adam Lowenstein and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2005-11-09 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this imaginative new work, Adam Lowenstein explores the ways in which a group of groundbreaking horror films engaged the haunting social conflicts left in the wake of World War II, Hiroshima, and the Vietnam War. Lowenstein centers Shocking Representation around readings of films by Georges Franju, Michael Powell, Shindo Kaneto, Wes Craven, and David Cronenberg. He shows that through allegorical representations these directors' films confronted and challenged comforting historical narratives and notions of national identity intended to soothe public anxieties in the aftermath of national traumas. Borrowing elements from art cinema and the horror genre, these directors disrupted the boundaries between high and low cinema. Lowenstein contrasts their works, often dismissed by contemporary critics, with the films of acclaimed "New Wave" directors in France, England, Japan, and the United States. He argues that these "New Wave" films, which were embraced as both art and national cinema, often upheld conventional ideas of nation, history, gender, and class questioned by the horror films. By fusing film studies with the emerging field of trauma studies, and drawing on the work of Walter Benjamin, Adam Lowenstein offers a bold reassessment of the modern horror film and the idea of national cinema.
Download or read book Shocked written by Patricia Volk and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-04-22 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An NPR Best Book of the Year A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year How does a girl fashion herself into a woman? In this richly illustrated memoir, writer Patricia Volk juxtaposes her two childhood idols to find her answer. Her mother, Audrey, was an upper-middle-class New Yorker and a great beauty—meticulously groomed, proudly conventional. Elsa Schiaparelli was an avant-garde fashion designer whose creations broke every rule and elevated clothing into art. While growing up in Audrey's strict household, Patricia read Schiap's freewheeling autobiography and was transformed by it. Shocked weaves Audrey's traditional notions of domesticity with Schiap's often outrageous ideas, giving us a revelatory meditation on beauty and on being a daughter, sister, and mother—and demonstrating, meanwhile, how a single book can change a life.
Download or read book Shocking the Conscience of Humanity written by Margaret M. deGuzman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-13 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most commonly cited justification for international criminal law is that it addresses crimes of such gravity that they "shock the conscience of humanity." From decisions about how to define crimes and when to exercise jurisdiction, to limitations on defences and sentencing determinations, gravity rhetoric permeates the discourse of international criminal law. Yet the concept of gravity has thus far remained highly undertheorized. This book uncovers the consequences for the regime's legitimacy of its heavy reliance on the poorly understood idea of gravity. Margaret M. deGuzman argues that gravity's ambiguity may at times enable a thin consensus to emerge around decisions, such as the creation of an institution or the definition of a crime, but that, increasingly, it undermines efforts to build a strong and resilient global justice community. The book suggests ways to reconceptualize gravity in line with global values and goals to better support the long-term legitimacy of international criminal law.
Download or read book Shocking Revelation in Pocahontas County written by Jack O. Moore and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2003-10-14 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maggie, a young newspaper reporter, was pampered as a youth and her first major independent decision shocked her friends and family. She leaves her home and family abruptly, in the Chicago area, seeking to clear her mind and swirling emotions. She is confronted with alarming options, even en route, that test her character and judgment. She finds herself in the beautiful Snowshoe Mountain Resort in Pocahontas County, West Virginia. Maggie is attracted immediately to Bucky, a young county businessman, in the most unexpected manner, which constantly creates conflict. She is often forced to deal with raw fear, while rural characters and personalities amaze her beyond belief. She is drawn into a murder trial already in progress, and the defendant
Download or read book Shocking Cases from Dr Henry Lee s Forensic Files written by Henry C. Lee and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2010-12 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lee presents a true-crime page-turner on five notorious cases, including the Phil Spector shooting case, the brutal murder of a nun in Toledo, and genocide in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
