Download or read book The Undead written by Dick Teresi and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is death, and how do people in the medical profession determine it? In this fascinating examination of the increasingly blurred line between life and death, consciousness and unconsciousness, science journalist Dick Teresi introduces us to the coma specialists, organ transplant surgeons, ICU doctors, and many others who are faced with this issue daily. The Undead describes how death has been determined through the ages, beginning with the ancient Egyptians and leading to the 1968 Harvard Medical School paper that indirectly stated that death was not cardiopulmonary failure, but a “loss of personhood”—i.e., brain death. Teresi explores the consequences of new technologies that extend people’s lives but which conflict with society’s desire to see them declared dead before their time.
Download or read book The Book of the Undead A Zombie Film Guide written by Terry Rowan and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-08-16 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 'The Night of the Living Dead, ' screen Zombies have become increasingly bizarre, bloodthirsty, yes even cannibalistic. A complete film guide to all your favorite undead, zombie, and the living dead films. Interesting stories behind the scenes and a list of my favorite zombie films. One thing is for sure - Zombies in various forms remain very much alive, in the movies and in audiences' imagination - like yours and mine! I want to eat your brains!
Download or read book A Kiss Before Doomsday written by Laurence MacNaughton and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2017-07-11 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: -Light on angst and heavy on banter in a world where the four horsemen of the apocalypse drive muscle cars, this fresh urban fantasy plays with some of the tropes of the genre, with a heroine more likely to consult a book than swing a sword---
Download or read book Contemporary North American Film Directors written by Yoram Allon and published by Wallflower Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Encompassing the careers of up to 600 directors - over 60 new to this edition - working in the US and Canada today, this volume is an invaluable reference for students, researchers and enthusiasts of film and popular culture. Each entry provides biographical information as well as insightful textual and thematic analysis of the director's work. In comprehensively covering a wide range of film-makers - from more established mainstream luminaries such as Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Ridley Scott and Kathryn Bigelow, through independent mavericks like Hal Hartley, Atom Egoyan, Jim Jarmusch and the Coen brothers, to innovative emerging talents including Marc Forster (Monster's Ball), Todd Field (In the Bedroom) and David Gordon Green (George Washington) - the shifting landscape of contemporary film-making is brought into sharp focus." Sur la 4e de couv.
Download or read book Council of Consorts Book 1 written by Jade Lewis and published by Crimson Night Publishing. This book was released on 2020-06-24 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I’m a fighter, not a puppet warming a fancy chair. The great Council of Unnaturals has been around since the beginning of time, each member replaced by their eldest child when the time comes. And my mother is the head of the Oasis. Her eldest? Well, that would be me. But I’m not interested. I’d rather live above ground. Besides, there are much better things to do with my time, like saving a family of shifters, keeping humans from causing mass extinctions, and fighting back demon hordes. Magic is my weapon of choice, and I wield it with precision. But my people are relentless and send a small group of handsome men to capture me. An angel, a vampire, and a wolf. Someone should have sent some luck along with them. Before long, I’ve pulled them into cause—rescuing a family of shifters who’ve been attacked in their home. We work to get the teenage kids who’d been kidnapped back, but a dream pulls at me. My people in the Oasis are under attack. Surely not. If I leave, the kids will die, but if I stay, all I’ve ever known could be destroyed. There is no right answer, and yet, I’ve gotta make my move. My mother would be so proud. This is book 1 of 4. There will be a cliffhanger and you will need to read the other books to finish the story.
Download or read book The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia Volume 2 2000 2010 written by Peter Dendle and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2012-09-18 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive overview of zombie movies in the first 11 years of the new millennium, the most dynamic and vital period yet in the history of the zombie genre. It serves not only as a follow-up to its predecessor (The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia, McFarland 2001), which covered movies from 1932 up until the late 1990s, but also as a fresh exploration of what uniquely defines the genre in the 2000s. In-depth entries provide critical analysis of the zombie as creature in more than 280 feature-length movies, from 28 countries and filmed on six continents. An appendix offers shorter entries for more than 100 shorts and serials.
Download or read book Faith and the Zombie written by Simon Bacon and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-04-05 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Themes of faith and religion have been threaded through popular representations of the zombie so often that they now seem inextricably linked. Whether as mindless servants to a Vodou Bokor or as evidence of the impending apocalypse, the ravenous undead have long captured something of society's relationships with spirituality, religion and belief. By the start of the 21st century, religious beliefs are as varied as the many manifestations of the zombie itself, and both themes intersect with various ideological, environmental and even post-human concerns.This book surveys the various modern religious associations in zombie media. Some characters believe that the undead are part of God's plan, others theorize that the environment might be saving itself or that zombies might be predicting life and hybridity beyond human existence. Timely and important, this work is a meditation on how faith might not just be a forerunner to the apocalypse, but the catalyst to new kinds of life beyond it.
Download or read book Never DEAD written by Ann Greyson and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2012 the Mayas calendar ends with a world changing viral disease that brings the dead back to life. Hannah Winter is the head of Information technology at Biogenetics & Disease Control, a medical research company located deep beneath the city of Dulce, New Mexico. Julie Mehta, a staff virologist, works diligently to develop a vaccine to prevent the living from contracting the virus, in a race against time for human survival. While Hannah is hopeful to reunite with her sister Jenna, who is struggling against all odds to travel from San Antonio, Texas to New Mexico to be with her.
Download or read book The Transcendent Zombie System written by A Hundred Battles In Green Armor and published by Singapore New Reading Technology Pte Ltd. This book was released on with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After transmigrating into the apocalypse, he acquired a Super Fusion System.Two Level 1 Zombies can be combined into a single Level 2 Zombie, the combined zombie would also be completely loyal.The higher the zombie’s level, the better it looked.The zombies also possessed unique skills and techniques. Some are heaven shattering and groundbreaking, with the ability to take the life of any adversary.In fact, the zombies will even continue to spawn new zombies every day.
Download or read book Chaos written by Kit Bladegrave and published by . This book was released on with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mysterious dragons. Hot demons. Fierce witches. Powerful shifters. Enigmatic elves. Secret councils. Forbidden alliances. The Dragon Reign Saga is just starting. Dragon shifter Kate has some tough decisions to make, and so does her heart. She and her dragon are torn between Forrest, a dragon shifter prince and Craig, a half-demon bastard. And they’re constantly avoiding enemies and fighting rogue family members. To think, not so long ago, Kate’s biggest concern was homework. Join Kate, Craig, and Forrest on their journey of adventures. Beware: Cliffhangers, violence can be found in this serial series of swicked action-packed fantasy, hot dragons, and fierce witches.
Download or read book A Witch Is Born written by Phillip Martin and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2022-05-18 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Orphaned at birth, Cassandra Rho struggles to find her identity in the strange and magical world she lives in. Along the way, she discovers that she possesses mystical arcane powers. Her struggles to control her abilities as well as her temper soon make her an outcast. Few understand the young woman she becomes, and fewer still grow close enough to see the emotional pain that drives her. Her dedication to her family, her few genuine friends, and her potential lovers only add to her erratic behavior. Will Cassandra find the answers to who she is and from where she came? Can she harness her powers to save herself and her family? Find out in the adventures of Cassandra Rho.
Download or read book Greyson Undead written by Jennifer Martucci and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-03-29 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vampire Extinction: Greyson Undead is an exciting new paranormal series that will take fans of Twilight, The Mortal Instruments, The Vampire Diaries and A Shade of Vampire on a thrill ride unlike any other... Greyson Black hated what he was: a monster. Forced to feed on the blood of humans, he'd been condemned to a life of darkness and murder to survive. Though others like him celebrated their fate, Greyson cursed it. Unlike them, he had a conscience, one that prohibited him from feeding on innocents. Instead, he chose to kill only those he deemed deserving. Those the world would be better off without. Despising the vicious nature of his kind, Greyson lived a life of complete solitude. An empty life without anyone or anything to live for. But of that all changed the day he met Alex Lockhart. The only human he'd ever encountered who didn't fall victim to the trap of his allure, Alex made him feel alive again for the first time in decades. She caused him to feel a dangerous emotion: hope. A violent encounter threatened to tear at the thread of happiness Greyson clung to, and forced him to choose between letting Alex die and enslaving her to a life like his. A life spent in shadows. A life of bloodlust. But would changing Alex even save her? Dark forces lurked, stalking and conspiring against all vampires. Killing them systematically and intent upon exterminating every last one of them. Will Greyson and Alex survive the hunt or will they fall to the vampire extinction? Find out in this riveting first installment of The Vampire Extinction series, Greyson Undead...
Download or read book After written by Bruce Greyson, M.D. and published by St. Martin's Essentials. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world's leading expert on near-death experiences reveals his journey toward rethinking the nature of death, life, and the continuity of consciousness. Cases of remarkable experiences on the threshold of death have been reported since ancient times, and are described today by 10% of people whose hearts stop. The medical world has generally ignored these “near-death experiences,” dismissing them as “tricks of the brain” or wishful thinking. But after his patients started describing events that he could not just sweep under the rug, Dr. Bruce Greyson began to investigate. As a physician without a religious belief system, he approached near-death experiences from a scientific perspective. In After, he shares the transformative lessons he has learned over four decades of research. Our culture has tended to view dying as the end of our consciousness, the end of our existence—a dreaded prospect that for many people evokes fear and anxiety. But Dr. Greyson shows how scientific revelations about the dying process can support an alternative theory. Dying could be the threshold between one form of consciousness and another, not an ending but a transition. This new perspective on the nature of death can transform the fear of dying that pervades our culture into a healthy view of it as one more milestone in the course of our lives. After challenges us to open our minds to these experiences and to what they can teach us, and in so doing, expand our understanding of consciousness and of what it means to be human.
Download or read book Heroes of the Realm written by Larry Boyer and published by Larry Boyer. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world far away from everything Katlyn knows. She finds herself a prisoner and in need of Ms. Lucy. Katlyn now realizes what she is and what she needs to do, but she also realizes she needs to find out who she is deep within herself. She finds herself stuck between Forrest, the dragon shifting prince, and Craig, a half-demon bastard. But they have a world to save and a mystery to solve. So, her affairs and affections will have to wait.
Download or read book Magic on the Hunt written by Devon Monk and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-04-05 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the secret lockup of the Authority, the council that decides what can and can't be done with magic, an undead magic user has possessed one of the prisoners. He wants his freedom-and then some. Now Allie Beckstrom and her lover, Zayvion, are the first line of defense against the chaos he's about to unleash on the city of Portland...
Download or read book Demons and Dragons written by Kit Bladegrave and published by . This book was released on with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mysterious dragons. Hot demons. Fierce witches. Powerful shifters. Enigmatic elves. Secret councils. Forbidden alliances. The Dragon Reign Saga is just starting. Rivals Mysterious demons. Fierce dragon shifters. Secret councils. New alliances. The Dragon Reign Saga is just starting. Kate’s whole world just turned upside down. She’s hearing weird things, and seeing weird things. And Mama Lucy is a witch. No, really. Not like a capital B witch, but a capital W witch. And the guys Kate’s just saved from imminent death is part demon. And the guy that’s after her is a dragon. Her life redefines teen drama. Craig’s a bastard son of a demon king. And he’s a thief. He’s just found the item he’s supposed to appropriate when his cousin stabs him with a poisoned dagger. Forrest is out to collect the bounty for capturing the bastard son of a demon king. He doesn’t plan to save the girl, or the half-breed demon. He also doesn’t plan to be the one who needs saving. This unlikely trio find themselves chased by enemies, known and unknown as they slip into a different dimension called Burnt World. Shards Kate wants answers. She wants to know about the family she’s never known. She and Craig are convinced they have to return to the cursed lands to find the answers. She finds herself with more questions that she thought she’d have as she’s torn between half-demon Craig and son of the dragon shifter clan Forrest. Craig’s got feelings for Kate, but he also has secrets of his own. He didn’t count on her seeing his secrets in the flesh. Forrest’s torn between his own feelings for Kate and his allegiance to the clan. Kate—she’s just torn. Legends Kate now knows what she is. She knows what she has to do. But she’s stuck between a Forrest, a dragon shifter prince and Craig, a half-demon bastard. And they’ve got a mystery to solve and a world to save. The problem is: emotions. There are too many of them and they are conflicting! Join Kate, Craig, and Forrest on their journey of adventures. Chaos Dragon shifter Kate has some tough decisions to make, and so does her heart. She and her dragon are torn between Forrest, a dragon shifter prince and Craig, a half-demon bastard. And they’re constantly avoiding enemies and fighting rogue family members. To think, not so long ago, Kate’s biggest concern was homework. Join Kate, Craig, and Forrest on their journey of adventures. Ravages Dragon shifter Kate and her allies, a demon and another dragon shifter are torn between the past and the present, their lives and the former lives of those who battled mortal enemies before them. Continually battling enemies and fighting rogue family members, they find themselves in a battle for more than just their lives. They fight for their own kind as well as humankind. Join Kate, Craig, and Forrest on their journey of adventures. Beware: Cliffhangers, violence can be found in this serial series of swicked action-packed fantasy, hot dragons, and fierce witches.
Download or read book Lexi s Savage Mates written by A E Randell and published by StarNovel (HK) Co., Limited. This book was released on 2024-07-09 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I thought I told you to never visit her again, Eromaug. You are not welcome here." Lord Brarthroroz growled dangerously as his brother turned to face him with a mocking grin. "When have I ever listened to you, dear brother? I'm not here for your benefit, or your wife's..." Eromaug laughed. "You cannot keep us apart, brother, Lexi will always find her way back to me." Eromaug hissed, "I will have her to myself if it's the last thing that I do." *** When Lexi, the best friend of the current Alpha Queen and daughter of the Daemon Lord Brarthroroz, is asked to return the newborn son of the Alpha of the Crystal Pack with her mate's help, they unwittingly anger a member who herself had designs on the Alpha and his pack. In the midst of one of her mates being forced to face his family once more, thanks to a chance encounter with his families delegation, they are led headlong into a trap that forces Lexi and her mates headlong into a former enemy's realm, where they are placed entirely at the mercy of their captors. Forced to confront the secrets of her past, hidden from her since childhood, and a life-changing revelation, Lexi will have to make the decision between the future that was written at the dawn of time, or the one that Moon Goddess had gifted her with her mates. What will happen when Lexi is forced to choose between love, and the lives of those she holds dear?
