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Book Death Orders

    Book Details:
  • Author : Anna Geifman
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 2010-05-20
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 346 pages

Download or read book Death Orders written by Anna Geifman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-05-20 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating study shows how terrorism as developed and practiced in Romanov Russia has, over the past century, manifested itself as the template for modern and postmodern terrorism as a universal sociocultural, psychological, and existential experience, irrespective of particular political causes, ethnic distinctions, and ideological boundaries. Arguing that Russia is the birthplace of modern terrorism, Death Orders: The Vanguard of Modern Terrorism in Revolutionary Russia uses the nation as a case study of psycho-historical patterns of worldwide terrorist activity during the past century. Key features of early-20th century Russian political extremism serve as models for terrorist experiences in other periods and regions as author Anna Geifman builds a typology of a universal phenomenon. The book shows how, in Russia and elsewhere, terrorists' objectives have degenerated from punishment of individual adversaries and attempts to intimidate political elites to indiscriminate acts of political violence. It shifts attention from ideology to practices that had been previously hidden, ignored, or rationalized, demonstrating that what terrorists say about their motives may not be what actually drives them to brutality. By looking closely at Russian precedents for the general experience of modern political violence, the book helps illuminate many obscure aspects of terrorism today.

Book Death in Holy Orders

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  • Author : P. D. James
  • Publisher : Ballantine Books
  • Release : 2007-01-09
  • ISBN : 0812977238
  • Pages : 450 pages

Download or read book Death in Holy Orders written by P. D. James and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2007-01-09 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the award-winning master of literary crime fiction, a classic work rich in tense drama and psychological insight. On the East Anglian seacoast, a small theological college hangs precariously on an eroding shoreline and an equally precarious future. When the body of a student is found buried in the sand, the boy’s influential father demands that Scotland Yard investigate. Enter Adam Dalgliesh, a detective who loves poetry, a man who has known loss and discovery. The son of a parson, and having spent many happy boyhood summers at the school, Dalgliesh is the perfect candidate to look for the truth in this remote, rarified community of the faithful–and the frightened. And when one death leads to another, Dalgliesh finds himself steeped in a world of good and evil, of stifled passions and hidden pasts, where someone has cause not just to commit one crime but to begin an unholy order of murder. . . . Praise for Death in Holy Orders “Gracefully sculpted prose and [a] superbly executed mystery . . . Death in Holy Orders is among [James’s] most remarkable and accomplished Dalgliesh novels.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer “An elegant work about hope, death, and the alternately redemptive and destructive nature of love.”—The Miami Herald “Absorbing . . . [James’s] plotting and characterization [are] impeccable.”—Orlando Sentinel “P. D. James is in top form.”—The Boston Globe Open the exclusive dossier at the back of this book, featuring P. D. James’ essay on penning the perfect detective novel.

Book Death Orders A Double

    Book Details:
  • Author : C. Thomas Lafollette
  • Publisher : Broken World Publishing
  • Release : 2024-07-23
  • ISBN : 1960766147
  • Pages : 325 pages

Download or read book Death Orders A Double written by C. Thomas Lafollette and published by Broken World Publishing. This book was released on 2024-07-23 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The spirits of the murdered dead are pissed off. And they’re coming for Dax. Dax used to reap the dead and usher them to the afterlife. Now he slings cheap beer and whiskey in his dive bar. The psychopomps who exiled him to Red City wanted the souls of the dead. But they’ve clearly been slacking on the job. At the morgue, he finds a hive of angry, trapped spirits. They attack Dax, seeking release. But if he interferes, he might bring down the wrath of the death gods. It doesn’t help that the werewolf outlaw biker gang he destroyed still wants to add his body to the morgue’s collection. If Dax wants to help the dead, he’ll have to figure out why they aren’t passing on. Assuming he doesn’t get killed first. He must rally his new friends to watch his back, or he’ll end his immortal existence trapped in a human body he never wanted…

Book Death Rituals and Social Order in the Ancient World

Download or read book Death Rituals and Social Order in the Ancient World written by Colin Renfrew and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, with essays by leading archaeologists and prehistorians, considers how prehistoric humans attempted to recognise, understand and conceptualise death.

Book Lawyers  Reports Annotated

Download or read book Lawyers Reports Annotated written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 1054 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A History of Greece from the Earliest Times to the Death of Alexander the Great

Download or read book A History of Greece from the Earliest Times to the Death of Alexander the Great written by Charles Oman and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An apology for observing the Church s  Order for Morning Prayer  daily  throughout the year   A sermon  on Acts vi  4

Download or read book An apology for observing the Church s Order for Morning Prayer daily throughout the year A sermon on Acts vi 4 written by Rev. John EDWARDS (M.A., of Todmorden.) and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Death of an Englishman

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  • Author : Magdalen Nabb
  • Publisher : Soho Press
  • Release : 2003-07-01
  • ISBN : 1569478201
  • Pages : 194 pages

Download or read book Death of an Englishman written by Magdalen Nabb and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2003-07-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is just before Christmas and the marshal wants to go South to spend the holiday with his wife and family, but first he must recover from the flu (which has left the Florentine caribinieri short-handed) and also solve a murder. A seemingly respectable retired Englishman, living in a flat on the Via Maggio near the Santa Trinita bridge, was shot in the back during the night. He was well-connected and Scotland Yard has despatched two officers to "assist" the Italians in solving the crime. But it is the marshal, a quiet observer, not an intellectual, who manages to figure out what happened, and why.

Book The War of the Rebellion

Download or read book The War of the Rebellion written by United States. War Department and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 1288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Official records produced by the armies of the United States and the Confederacy, and the executive branches of their respective governments, concerning the military operations of the Civil War, and prisoners of war or prisoners of state. Also annual reports of military departments, calls for troops, correspondence between national and state governments, correspondence between Union and Confederate officials. The final volume includes a synopsis, general index, special index for various military divisions, and background information on how these documents were collected and published. Accompanied by an atlas.

Book The Refugees of 1776 from Long Island to Connecticut

Download or read book The Refugees of 1776 from Long Island to Connecticut written by Frederic Gregory Mather and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 1256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history, accompanied by documentary material and biographical sketches, of the American sympathizers who emigrated to Connecticut after the battle of Long island.

Book Morning and Evening

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  • Author : C. H. Spurgeon
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2013-03-25
  • ISBN : 1625588968
  • Pages : 988 pages

Download or read book Morning and Evening written by C. H. Spurgeon and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-03-25 with total page 988 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tens of thousands of Christians have gotten up and gone to bed with Charles Spurgeon's devotional Morning and Evening. Seven hundred and thirty two devotions. One for each morning and each evening. These devotions will guide you in a closer walk with God, helping you find a focus for each day.

Book The Australian Law Times

Download or read book The Australian Law Times written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Papers on Appeal from Order

Download or read book Papers on Appeal from Order written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 1152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Death  Gender and Ethnicity

Download or read book Death Gender and Ethnicity written by David Field and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-04 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death, Gender and Ethnicity examines the ways in which gender and ethnicity shape the experiences of dying and bereavement, taking as its focus the diversity of ways through which the universal event of death is encountered. It brings together accounts of how these experiences are actually managed with analyses of a range of representations of dying and grieving in order to provide a more theoretical approach to the relationship between death, gender and ethnicity. Though death and dying have been an increasingly important focus for academics and clinicians over the last thirty years, much of this work provides little insight into the impact of gender and ethnicity on the experience. The result is often a universalising representation which fails to take account of the personally unique and culturally specific experiences associated with a death. Drawing on a range of detailed case studies, Death, Gender and Ethnicity develops a more sensitive theoretical approach which will be invaluable reading for students and practitioners in health studies, sociology, social work and medical anthropology.