Download or read book Digging Up the Dead written by Druin Burch and published by Random House. This book was released on 2008 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historical narrative, where surgeons and body-snatchers colluded and conspired because this was the only way the surgeons could get anatomical experience. This book tells the story of Astley Cooper (1768-1841), a tearaway young man from Norfolk who became a fiery radical and a brilliantly successful surgeon.
Download or read book Dead Man Coming written by Charles Postell and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pickets and Dead Men written by Bree Loewen and published by The Mountaineers Books. This book was released on 2009-03-05 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * A women's perspective on the macho world of climbing rangers * Rescues, egos, and breakfast burritos on Mt. Rainier Being a climbing ranger on Mount Rainier proved to be a life-altering experience for Bree Loewen. As one of only a handful of women on staff, Bree fought to prove herself among men in the field, while confronting the often unrealistic expectations of the public on a mountain that shows little mercy. With honesty, self-deprecation, and wry humor, she reflects on her experiences on Rainier: assisting injured climbers, rescuing lost children, battling inscrutable bureaucracy, lugging heavy equipment, and trying to make sense of it all. Whether it's her account of a solo climb in dicey conditions or trying to protect her good jacket while cleaning the outhouses at Camp Muir, Loewen's writing is engagingly human and humane.
Download or read book Dead People written by Ewart Hutton and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published: London: Blue Door, an imprint of HarperCollins, 2013.
Download or read book Curse Breaker Dig of the Dead written by Rachel Redhead and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-09-06 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third installment of the Curse-Breaker series and the largest volume so far too. Libby and Charity have left university and are in the wide world of work. However their lives begin to take new directions. Libby is now a teacher, educating the next generation of students up north in Dunelm, while Charity is given an offer she can't refuse to give her access to previously hidden knowledge and the chance to help others. Both must find a way t control and hide their darker natures, Libby finds her werewolf nature much easier to control than she first worried about, while Charity hides her vampiric nature in plain sight. Elsewhere Fiona Connors must learn to use her powers if she's going to be able to use them to help others. Sam Hazleton's life takes a turn sideways when she discovers just what her girlfriend has been hiding from her. And Raff is on a mission to Egypt with Ragnhildr at his side, to get answers from Alkir about the death of his sister...
Download or read book Buried Secrets written by Victoria Sanford and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-04-19 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between the late 1970s and the late-1980s, Guatemala was torn by mass terror and extreme violence in a genocidal campaign against the Maya, which becameknown as "La Violencia." More than 600 massacres occurred, one and a half million people were displaced, and more than 200,000 civilians were murdered, most of them Maya. Buried Secrets brings these chilling statistics to life as it chronicles the journey of Maya survivors seeking truth, justice, and community healing, and demonstrates that the Guatemalan army carried out a systematic and intentional genocide against the Maya. The book is based on exhaustive research, including more than 400 testimonies from massacre survivors, interviews with members of the forensic team, human rights leaders, high-ranking military officers, guerrilla combatants, and government officials. Buried Secrets traces truth-telling and political change from isolated Maya villages to national political events, and provides a unique look into the experiences of Maya survivors as they struggle to rebuild their communities and lives.
Download or read book Dig Dig Deep written by Richard Arnold and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The determination of youth, tempered in the fires of experience, gives life to wisdom, and makes us capable of altering the course of human history. Dig & Dig Deep is the compelling narrative of one embattled teenager whom destiny protected, and the path he walked to keep a battlefield pledge alive. From a small town in upstate NY to the fields of Bastogne and back again, Private Richard "Dick" Arnold reconstructs his gruelling journey as a front line combat infantry foot soldier and radio operator on his tour of duty in the European theatre. From basic training to the liberation of Buchenwald, he shares his observations on human nature and our capacity for unimaginable cruelty...and great compassion.
Download or read book Dead Man s Float written by Jim Harrison and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2016-08-22 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Harrison's poems succeed on the basis of an open heart and a still-ravenous appetite for life."—The Texas Observer The title Dead Man's Float is inspired by a technique used by swimmers to conserve energy when exhausted, to rest up for the long swim to shore. In his fourteenth volume of poetry, Jim Harrison presents keen awareness of physical pains, delights in the natural world, and reflects on humanity's tentative place in a universe filled with ninety billion galaxies. By turns mournful and celebratory, these fearless and exuberant poems accomplish what Harrison's poems always do: wake us up to the possibilities of being fully alive. "Forthright and unaffected, even brash, Harrison always scoops us straight into the world whether writing fiction or nonfiction. This new collection [Dead Man's Float] takes its cue from a technique swimmers use to conserve energy in deep water, and Harrison goes in deep, acknowledging our frailness even as he seamlessly connects with a world that moves from water to air to the sky beyond."—Library Journal “Harrison pours himself into everything he writes… in poems, you do meet Harrison head-on. As he navigates his seventies, he continues to marvel with succinct awe and earthy lyricism over the wonders of birds, dogs, and stars as he pays haunting homage to his dead and contends with age’s assaults. The sagely mischievous poet of the North Woods and the Arizona desert laughs at himself as he tries to relax by imagining that he’s doing the dead man’s float only to sink into troubling memories…Bracingly candid, gracefully elegiac, tough, and passionate, Harrison travels the deep river of the spirit, from the wailing precincts of a hospital to a “green glade of soft marsh grass near a pool in a creek” to the moon-bright sea.”—Donna Seaman, Booklist "Harrison doesn't write like anyone else, relying entirely on the toughness of his vision and intensity of feeling."—Publishers Weekly Warbler This year we have two gorgeous yellow warblers nesting in the honeysuckle bush. The other day I stuck my head in the bush. The nestlings weigh one twentieth of an ounce, about the size of a honeybee. We stared at each other, startled by our existence. In a month or so, when they reach the size of bumblebees they'll fly to Costa Rica without a map. Jim Harrison, one of America's most versatile and celebrated writers, is the author of over thirty books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction—including Legends of the Fall, the acclaimed trilogy of novellas. With a fondness for open space and anonymous thickets, he divides his time between Montana and southern Arizona.
Download or read book Digging Up the Dead written by Druin Burch and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-10-31 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tearaway young man from Norfolk, Astley Cooper (1768-1841) became the world's richest and most famous surgeon. Admired from afar by the Brontës and up close by his student Keats, his success was born of an appetite for bloody revolutions. He set up an international network of bodysnatchers, won the Royal Society's highest prize and boasted to Parliament that there was no one whose body he could not steal. Experimenting on his neighbours' corpses and the living bodies of their stolen pets, his discoveries were as great as his infamy. Caught up in the French Revolution, and in attempts to bring radical democracy to Britain, Cooper nevertheless rose to become surgeon to royals from the Prince Regent to Queen Victoria. Setting the past against his own reactions to autopsies and operations, hospitals and poetry, Burch's Digging Up the Dead is a riveting account of a world of gothic horror as well as fertile idealism.
Download or read book Archives of Memory written by Alice M. Hoffman and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-11-21 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Tell me about the war"—these words launched a ten-year project in oral history by a husband-and-wife team. Howard Hoffman fought in World War II from Cassino to the Elbe as a mortar crewman and a forward observer. His war experiences are of intrinsic interest to readers who seek a foot soldier's view of those historic events. But the principal purpose of this study was to explore the bounds of memory, to gauge its accuracy and its stability over time, and to determine the effects of various efforts to enhance it. Alice Hoffman, a historian, initiated the study because she recognized the critical role of memory in gathering oral history; Howard Hoffman, the subject, is an experimental psychologist. Alice's tape-recorded interviews with her husband over a period of ten years are the basic material of the study, which compares the events as recounted in the first phase of the interviews with later accounts of the same experiences and with the written records of his company as well as the memories of fellow soldiers and the evidence of photographs and other documents. This engrossing story of World War II breaks new ground for practitioners of oral history. The Hoffmans' findings indicate that a subset of human memory exists that is so permanent and resistant to change that it can properly be labeled "archival". In addition to describing some of the circumstances under which archival memories are formed, the Hoffmans describe the conditions that were found to influence their storage and retrieval.
Download or read book Pepper the Highlander the Dead Guy written by Donna Fletcher and published by Donna Fletcher. This book was released on 2023-10-18 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dead guy, a Highlander, a murder, and a long-kept secret! Pepper feels every bump and poke as she rolls down the hill in the woods. You think being a prepper with the logo—Prepped & Prepared—she would have been wise enough to wear boots for a walk in the woods. That’s what she gets for being curious and thinking she would take a quick peek at her new neighbor who bought the sixty-acre Willow Lake Lodge property that just happens to surround her three acres. It’s only natural she wants to know who moved in next door. Where does her nosiness get her? Smack dab next to a dead guy whose throat has been cut. And what else does she see when she lands—boots. They’re attached to none other than G.I. Joe himself all decked out in camouflage and a knife gripped in his hand. Is he the killer or has the lodge been sold to a paramilitary training group as rumored? Her father, the sheriff of Willow Lake, orders her to stay away from the place and particularly the new owner, Ian Macgregor. Josh, youngest of her three brothers and a police officer on the Willow Lake force, warns her as well to avoid the… hot hunk. Growing up with three older brothers wasn’t exactly conducive with getting boyfriends, but at twenty-eight those days are gone—at least she intends to make sure they are. And as far as the hot hunk? He’s too handsome and handsome equals trouble. Curiosity has Pepper, once again, sneaking around the lodge with her best friend since grade school, Amy. She takes another fall, but this time Pepper lands at the feet of a Highlander. Amy, a lover of romance novels, is gushing like a fool, repeating the name Ian Macgregor over and over again. It takes a few moments for Pepper to realize what her friend is trying to tell her. Her new neighbor is none other than Ian Macgregor, the gorgeous and immensely popular cover model. Oh, and possibly a murderer as well. With Pepper’s propensity to solve mysteries, her father warns her to mind her business when it comes to the murder and once again warns her away from the suspect, Ian Macgregor. But how can she keep away when clues begin to surface that point to Ian being involved? Not to mention that sparks are flying between them. Welcome to Willow Lake, PA. Come join in the fun and meet a cast of loveable and funny characters, especially Mo, an exceptionally bright Alaskan Malamute who is afraid of Roxie, an exceptionally entitled calico. Pepper, The Highlander & The Dead Guy is the first book in the Pepper The Prepper Mystery Series.
Download or read book Dead Man s Gold written by Cameron Judd and published by St. Martin's Paperbacks. This book was released on 1999-08-15 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a remote mining camp in California's rugged Sierra Mountains, a small group of men, women, and children are weathering a slow winter—until a band of trigger-happy, whiskey-slugging thieves comes in search of stolen gold. But what these ruffians didn't count on is having to reckon with the Underhills in a fiery battle that will leave some six feet under...and others rich beyond their wildest dreams.
Download or read book Dead Man s Rock written by Arthur Quiller-Couch and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "And my soul shall lie for ever under the curse, engulfed and hidden as deeply as the Great Ruby beneath the shadow of Dead Man's Rock."--Goodreads
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Download or read book Dead Man s Land written by George Manville Fenn and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-01-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Dead Man's Land" by way of George Manville Fenn is a thrilling journey novel that immerses readers in a tale of mystery and suspense. Set towards the backdrop of unexplored territories and untamed landscapes, Fenn's narrative unfolds with gripping intensity. The tale follows a set of characters navigating the demanding situations of a surprising and perilous land, revealing secrets and techniques, treachery, and the battle for survival. Fenn, acknowledged for his vibrant storytelling and ability to seize the essence of exploration, weaves a story full of surprising twists and turns. As the characters delve deeper into the mysteries of the titular "Dead Man's Land," they stumble upon perilous situations, mysterious adversaries, and the ever-present specter of the unknown. Fenn's writing transports readers to a world where each step is fraught with anxiety and in which the road among buddy and foe becomes blurred. "Dead Man's Land" stands as a testomony to George Manville Fenn's mastery in crafting gripping adventure tales.
Download or read book Dead Man s Hand written by Eddie Jones and published by Dry Bones Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-28 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Deadwood, Nick Caden discovers the body of Billy the Kid. Is there a "ghost killer" running loose in this Old West ghost town? ★ 2013 Selah Award Finalist for Middle Grade Fiction ★ It's all for show...right? Nothing more than Hollywood theatrics? "This is an authentic Old West ghost town," the sheriff tells Nick. "Around these parts the dead don't stay dead." But Nick Caden's vacation becomes a nightmare when this "living" ghost town takes a deadly turn toward trouble. Soon Nick finds himself trapped in a stable with the infamous outlaw Jesse James. The shooter whirls, aims and... vanishes. Great theatrics, Nick thinks. Only then does he discover the body of a real dead cowboy. Soon Nick is caught in a deadly chase—from an abandoned gold mine, through forbidden buffalo hunting grounds, and across Rattlesnake Gulch—around every turn he finds another suspect. Will Nick solve the murder before his family leaves Deadwood? Or will the town's desperate need for tourists' income bury the haunting truth that a "ghost killer" stalks the living in Deadwood? In this middle-grade murder mystery series, award-winning author Eddie Jones takes readers on a Wild, Wild, West ride. Features: * The Monster Mysteries are Award Winning Middle Grade Novels * Each story involves a "monster" from the Bible: ghost, vampire origins, walking dead, man turned to beast, phantom * Short, fun, fast read, spiced with humor and illustrations * No profanity, sexual overtones or glorification of evil * Book report / criminal report questions for each case Benefits: * Encourages readers to list suspects, follow clues, question motives, and look for half-truths and lies in alibis * Reinforces the Golden Rule * Honors family * Middle Grade audiobooks series * A good boy book for boys who like to read ★ Help teen sleuth Nick Caden solve an Old West Ghost Town murder in Deadwood. ★ Complete the Dead Man’s Hand: Official Criminal Inquiry: Write a Book Report - Catch a Crook to see if you have the makings of a homicide detective. With this easy-to-follow "homicide detective" worksheet, you can fill in the answers to the questions while you read. When finished, your book report should be thorough enough to convict a killer! Check out the book report questions on this page: amazon.com/dp/B088P8K41H/. Awards for the Monster Mysteries series: Winner of the Selah award for tween / teen mysteries INSPY Award nominee Moonbeam Children's Book Award nominee Praise for the Monster Mysteries series "This series has the same longevity and wholesome quality as "The Hardy Boys" and "Nancy Drew" but the author writes for today's youth." ~ Amazon review "I enjoyed reading this fun, suspense adventure. Great book for middle school. Teen boys and girls will enjoy it, too!" ~ Amazon review "I would think it would be for ages nine and up. A good Christian book for boys." ~ Amazon review "I was guessing until the end of the book. I did not know who it was. Even adults will enjoy this book." ~ Amazon review Parents can trust the Monster Mystery Series. There is no sexual dialogue or situations, violence, or strong language, only positive moral values.
