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Book Habeas Corpses

    Book Details:
  • Author : William Mark Simmons
  • Publisher : Baen Publishing Enterprises
  • Release : 2005-11-01
  • ISBN : 1618245031
  • Pages : 606 pages

Download or read book Habeas Corpses written by William Mark Simmons and published by Baen Publishing Enterprises. This book was released on 2005-11-01 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two years ago Christopher Cs_jthe survived a blood transfusion with a vampire only to discover that he was infected with one of the two viruses that transform the living into the undead. Since then he has survived by his wits as men, monsters, and government agencies have hunted him for the secrets his mutated blood may hold. His personal life is almost as troublesome as the assassins that turning up in ever increasing numbers: his bodyguard is a sexy vampire, his jealous werewolf lover can't abide his touch after a silver bullet poisons his blood, and the ghost of his dead wife is still hanging around, offering odd bits of advice. The "neighbors" from the cemetery next door tend to drop by every night and someone is sending him grotesque messages in the form of dismembered body parts that are still alive! Being almost undead has provided a coffin-load of challenges, blending humor and horror in his two previous outings, One Foot in the Grave and Dead On My Feet. This time around an assassin's bullet knocks Cs_jthe out of his body and into the afterlife as he journeys through the realm of the truly dead before a final showdown with an evil spawned in Nazi Germany. An evil kept alive through genetic manipulation and nanotechnology and waiting only for Cs_jthe's blood to overcome the last hurdle to immortality! At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

Book The Power of Habeas Corpus in America

Download or read book The Power of Habeas Corpus in America written by Anthony Gregory and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the story of habeas corpus from medieval England to modern America, crediting the rocky history to the writ's very nature as a government power. The book weighs in on habeas's historical controversies - addressing the writ's role in the power struggle between the federal government and the states, and the proper scope of federal habeas for state prisoners and for wartime detainees from the Civil War and World War II to the War on Terror.

Book Joss Whedon vs  the Horror Tradition

Download or read book Joss Whedon vs the Horror Tradition written by Kristopher Karl Woofter and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-29 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although ostensibly presented as “light entertainment,” the work of writer-director-producer Joss Whedon takes much dark inspiration from the horror genre to create a unique aesthetic and perform a cultural critique. Featuring monsters, the undead, as well as drawing upon folklore and fairy tales, his many productions both celebrate and masterfully repurpose the traditions of horror for their own means. Woofter and Jowett's collection looks at how Whedon revisits existing feminist tropes in the '70s and '80s “slasher” craze via Buffy the Vampire Slayer to create a feminist saga; the innovative use of silent cinema tropes to produce a new fear-laden, film-television intertext; postmodernist reflexivity in Cabin in the Woods; as well as exploring new concepts on “cosmic dread” and the sublime for a richer understanding of programmes Dollhouse and Firefly. Chapters provide the historical context of horror as well as the particular production backgrounds that by turns support, constrain or transform this mode of filmmaking. Informed by a wide range of theory from within philosophy, film studies, queer studies, psychoanalysis, feminism and other fields, the expert contributions to this volume prove the enduring relevance of Whedon's genre-based universe to the study of film, television, popular culture and beyond.

Book Crime and Punishment in America

Download or read book Crime and Punishment in America written by David B. Wolcott and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the first incident of petty theft to modern media piracy, crime and punishment have been a part of every society. However, the structure and values of a particular society shape both the incidences of crime and the punishment of criminals. When the United States became an independent nation, politicians and civilians began the process of deciding which systems of punishment were appropriate for dealing with crimea process that continues to this day. Crime and Punishment in America examines the development of crime and punishment in the United Statesfrom the criminal justice practices of American Indians and the influence of colonists to the mistreatment of slaves, as well as such current criminal issues as the response to international terrorism.

Book The American State Reports

Download or read book The American State Reports written by Abraham Clark Freeman and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 1054 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Taking a Stand

Download or read book Taking a Stand written by Juan E. Méndez and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-09-27 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In association with Amnesty International"--Dust jacket back.

Book Un Dead TV

    Book Details:
  • Author : Brad Middleton
  • Publisher : By Light Unseen Media
  • Release : 2015-02-05
  • ISBN : 1935303481
  • Pages : 788 pages

Download or read book Un Dead TV written by Brad Middleton and published by By Light Unseen Media. This book was released on 2015-02-05 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vampires are ubiquitous in our popular culture--from movies to television, in fiction and art, and even within the hallowed halls of academia. But in the not-so-distant past, these undead creatures held more fear than fascination; they lived in the shadows and were the stuff of nightmares. In 1897, Bram Stoker introduced Dracula to the Western world--and our concept of vampires was changed forever. For over sixty years, the undead have bled the television airwaves, appearing in every type of programming imaginable. Un-Dead TV catalogues over one thousand unique vampire appearances—and is the first book of its kind to explore this phenomenon to the extent that it truly deserves.

Book Parliamentary Debates

Download or read book Parliamentary Debates written by and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 1168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Human Rights Watch  RUSSIA

Download or read book Human Rights Watch RUSSIA written by and published by Human Rights Watch. This book was released on with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Immanent Critiques

    Book Details:
  • Author : Martin Jay
  • Publisher : Verso Books
  • Release : 2023-10-17
  • ISBN : 1804292540
  • Pages : 305 pages

Download or read book Immanent Critiques written by Martin Jay and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2023-10-17 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty years after the appearance of The Dialectical Imagination, his pioneering history of the Frankfurt School, Martin Jay reflects on what may be living and dead in its legacy. Rather than treating it with filial piety as a fortress to be defended, he takes seriously its anti-systematic impulse and sensitivity to changing historical circumstances. Honouring the Frankfurt School's practice of immanent critique, he puts critical pressure on a number of its own ideas by probing their contradictory impulses. Among them are the pathologization of political deviance through stigmatizing "authoritarian personalities," the undefended theological premises of Walter Benjamin's work, and the ambivalence of its members' analyses of anti-Semitism and Zionism. Additional questions are asked about other time-honored Marxist themes: the meaning of alienation, the alleged damages of abstraction, and the advocacy of a politics based on a singular notion of the truth. Rather, however, than allowing these questions to snowball into an unwarranted repudiation of the Frankfurt School legacy as a whole, the essays also acknowledge a number of its still potent arguments. They explore its neglected, but now timely analysis of "racket society," Adorno's dialectical reading of aesthetic sublimation, and the unexpected implications of Benjamin's focus on the corpse for political theory. Jay shows that it is a still evolving theoretical tradition which offers resources for the understanding of - and perhaps even practical betterment - of our increasingly troubled world.

Book Harper s New Monthly Magazine

Download or read book Harper s New Monthly Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Exorcising History

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jean Graham-Jones
  • Publisher : Bucknell University Press
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 9780838754245
  • Pages : 276 pages

Download or read book Exorcising History written by Jean Graham-Jones and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Exorcising History, Jean Graham-Jones documents, contextualizes, and analyzes theater produced in Buenos Aires during Argentina's military dictatorship of 1976-83 and the nation's subsequent return to democracy. The plays discussed, while not necessarily constituting "political theater," are indeed political in that each is conditioned by sociopolitical structures present at the moment of creation. It is in this way that the plays lend themselves to Graham-Jones's examination of how personal and collective histories enter into theater production, in the creation of dramatic worlds that re-create and revise the "outside" world."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Book Bioequity     Property and the Human Body

Download or read book Bioequity Property and the Human Body written by Mr Nils Hoppe and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-02-28 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent scandals involving the use of human body parts have highlighted the need for legal clarification surrounding property law and the use of human tissue. This book advances the notion that the legal basis for dealing with this is already available in the law but has thus far neither been used nor discussed. Proposing an alternative approach to constructing entitlements in human tissue and resolving resulting property conflicts, a new methodology is also advanced for abstracting different concepts within the debate which enables comparison and distinction between different cases of entitlement and retention.

Book Harper s New Monthly Magazine

Download or read book Harper s New Monthly Magazine written by Henry Mills Alden and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 914 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Important American periodical dating back to 1850.

Book English Ruling Cases

Download or read book English Ruling Cases written by Robert Campbell and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: