Download or read book The Catalogued Corpse written by D.S. Lang and published by D.S. Lang. This book was released on 2023-08-21 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: College librarian Doro Banyon discovers the body of her nemesis, Professor Hemet Corlon, near the card catalogues when she arrives for work. Evidence points to under a terrible accident, but the new school security officer disagrees. Because Doro and Corlon have been at odds over the status of women at the formerly all-male school, she falls under suspicion—and she isn’t alone. Most professors and students supported women’s suffrage and welcomed coeducation, so they stand steadfast against the old-fashioned ideas of Corlon and his handful of powerful cronies. More than one person wanted to see an end to the professor and his ilk. But who made his departure permanent? In seeking answers, Doro joins forces with her best friend to solve the mystery of the catalogued corpse. Go back in time to 1920s small town Ohio and join amateur sleuth Doro Banyon, along with her team of intriguing individuals, to crack cases and bring justice.
Download or read book The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books written by Edward Wilson-Lee and published by Scribner. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This impeccably researched and “adventure-packed” (The Washington Post) account of the obsessive quest by Christopher Columbus’s son to create the greatest library in the world is “the stuff of Hollywood blockbusters” (NPR) and offers a vivid picture of Europe on the verge of becoming modern. At the peak of the Age of Exploration, Hernando Colón sailed with his father Christopher Columbus on his final voyage to the New World, a journey that ended in disaster, bloody mutiny, and shipwreck. After Columbus’s death in 1506, eighteen-year-old Hernando sought to continue—and surpass—his father’s campaign to explore the boundaries of the known world by building a library that would collect everything ever printed: a vast holding organized by summaries and catalogues; really, the first ever database for the exploding diversity of written matter as the printing press proliferated across Europe. Hernando traveled extensively and obsessively amassed his collection based on the groundbreaking conviction that a library of universal knowledge should include “all books, in all languages and on all subjects,” even material often dismissed: ballads, erotica, news pamphlets, almanacs, popular images, romances, fables. The loss of part of his collection to another maritime disaster in 1522, set off the final scramble to complete this sublime project, a race against time to realize a vision of near-impossible perfection. “Magnificent…a thrill on almost every page” (The New York Times Book Review), The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books is a window into sixteenth-century Europe’s information revolution, and a reflection of the passion and intrigues that lie beneath our own insatiable desires to bring order to the world today.
Download or read book The Whole Death Catalog written by Harold Schechter and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2009-06-02 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of Mary Roach’s bestselling Stiff and Jessica Mitford’s classic exposé The American Way of Death comes this meticulously researched, refreshingly irreverent, and lavishly illustrated look at death from acclaimed author Harold Schechter. With his trademark fearlessness and bracing sense of humor, Schechter digs deep into a wealth of sources to unearth a treasure trove of surprising facts, amusing anecdotes, practical information, and timeless wisdom about that undiscovered country to which we will all one day travel. Topics include • Death anxiety–is your fear of death normal or off the scale? • You can’t take it with you . . . or can you? Wacky wills and bizarre bequests • The hospice experience–going out in comfort and style • Deathbed and funeral etiquette–how to help the dying and mourn the dead with dignity • Death on demand–why the right-to-die movement may be the next big thing • “Good-bye everybody”–famous last words • The embalmer’s art–all dressed up and nowhere to go • Behind the scenes at your local funeral home • Alternative burial choices–from coral reefs to outer space From the cold, hard facts of death to lessons in the art of dying well, from what happens in the body’s last living moments to what transpires in the ground or in the furnace, from near-death experiences to speculation on the afterlife, The Whole Death Catalog leaves no gravestone unturned.
Download or read book Abused Bodies in Roman Epic written by Andrew M. McClellan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-11 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full study of corpse mistreatment and funeral violation in Greco-Roman epic poetry, illuminating many major texts.
Download or read book A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of St John s College Cambridge written by St. John's College (University of Cambridge). Library and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Jammed Judges written by D.S. Lang and published by D.S. Lang. This book was released on 2024-04-02 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journey back to the Roaring Twenties in small-town America and join Doro Banyon, college librarian and armchair detective, as she confronts another mystery. Spring is in the air, and Doro is looking forward to her hometown’s May Days celebration. When her friend Aggie wins the baking contest, their celebration is short-lived because the two local lawmen—judges for the competition—fall ill after consuming extra portions of Aggie’s jam roll and Doro’s cookies. Rumors run rampant, especially when the town doctor pinpoints the cause as poisoning. With the constabulary down but not out, the two friends must unravel the mystery. As they study possibilities, Doro and Aggie find plenty of motives and suspects. A note threatening the young women adds to the urgency, and Doro resolves to crack the case before more trouble hits town.
Download or read book A Precarious Homecoming written by D.S. Lang and published by D.S. Lang. This book was released on 2022-02-16 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when a U.S. Army Signal Corps operator returns from serving in France during the Great War? She not only finds her hometown and family resort struggling, she comes across the dead body of a neighbor. Since the murder is the most serious in a string of crimes plaguing the area, she is eager to solve the crime. Convincing Constable Jackson Hastings to let her help proves to be difficult. Jax—her childhood buddy, her girlhood crush, and her brother’s best friend—harbors conflicting feelings about Bella's participation. With his own job on the line, he finds himself relying on her in more than one way.
Download or read book Catalogue of Books on the Masonic Institution written by Henry Gassett and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Catalogue of the Melbourne Public Library for 1861 written by Public Library, Museums, and National Gallery (Vic.) and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 1112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of books on the Masonic Institution in public libraries of twenty eight States of the Union antimasonic in arguments and conclusions by Citizens of the United States With introductory remarks and a compilation of records etc written by Freemasons and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of books on the masonic institution in public libraries of twenty eight states of the Union antimasonic in arguments and conclusions With intro remarks and a compilation of records and remarks by a member of the Suffolk committee of 1829 H Gasselt written by Henry Gassett and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities written by British Museum. Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book General Catalogue of Delta Kappa Epsilon 1918 written by Delta Kappa Epsilon and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 964 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Unwrapping Ancient Egypt written by Christina Riggs and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-04-10 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First runner-up for the British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize in Middle Eastern Studies 2015. In ancient Egypt, wrapping sacred objects, including mummified bodies, in layers of cloth was a ritual that lay at the core of Egyptian society. Yet in the modern world, attention has focused instead on unwrapping all the careful arrangements of linen textiles the Egyptians had put in place. This book breaks new ground by looking at the significance of textile wrappings in ancient Egypt, and at how their unwrapping has shaped the way we think about the Egyptian past. Wrapping mummified bodies and divine statues in linen reflected the cultural values attached to this textile, with implications for understanding gender, materiality and hierarchy in Egyptian society. Unwrapping mummies and statues similarly reflects the values attached to Egyptian antiquities in the West, where the colonial legacies of archaeology, Egyptology and racial science still influence how Egypt appears in museums and the press. From the tomb of Tutankhamun to the Arab Spring, Unwrapping Ancient Egypt raises critical questions about the deep-seated fascination with this culture – and what that fascination says about our own.
Download or read book Index to the catalogue of 1856 of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London written by Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London. Library and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Monthly Catalogue United States Public Documents written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 1470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Index to the Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London written by Benjamin Robert WHEATLEY and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
