Dead North

Author : Sue Henry
Publisher : Speaking Volumes
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781628152883

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Dead North by Sue Henry Pdf

Author : Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Publisher : Exile Book of
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1550963554

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Dead North by Silvia Moreno-Garcia Pdf

This Canadian collection of short stories contains a wide range of zombie fiction, from whales who return from the depths to haunt the coast of Labrador to a corpse that is turned into a flesh puppet that then takes part in a depraved sex show.

Author : Luis Alberto Urrea
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-17
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781619024823

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Tijuana Book of the Dead by Luis Alberto Urrea Pdf

From the author of Pulitzer-nominated The Devil’s Highway and national bestseller The Hummingbird’s Daughter comes an exquisitely composed collection of poetry on life at the border. Weaving English and Spanish languages as fluidly as he blends cultures of the southwest, Luis Urrea offers a tour of Tijuana, spanning from Skid Row, to the suburbs of East Los Angeles, to the stunning yet deadly Mojave Desert, to Mexico and the border fence itself. Mixing lyricism and colloquial voices, mysticism and the daily grind, Urrea explores duality and the concept of blurring borders in a melting pot society.

Author : Philadelphia. Water Bureau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Water-supply
ISBN : HARVARD:LI2SZK

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Bureau of Water; a Review of the Year's Work by Philadelphia. Water Bureau Pdf

1887-1907 consist of the mayor's annual message and the annual reports of the Public Works Department and the Water Bureau; 1908-1912, of the Department and Bureau reports.

Author : Manly Wade Wellman
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-12
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781787208674

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Dead and Gone by Manly Wade Wellman Pdf

An absorbing collection of ten famous murder stories of North Carolina, spanning the years 1808 to 1914. “An interesting job of reporting....A book that rates a place on the bedside table.”-Charlotte Observer

Author : Will Self
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781408838471

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The Quantity Theory of Insanity by Will Self Pdf

The fictional world of Will Self is unlike any other. In The Quantity Theory of Insanity, we learn, amongst other things, the dark and terrible secret of Ward 9, why you are right to think that London is full of dead people and that each and every human being is caught up in a colossal balancing act between the sane and the insane ... The Quantity Theory of Insanity is acerbic, satirical, hilarious and, most of all, utterly unique in imaginative vision.

Author : Brian Michael Murphy
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781469668307

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We the Dead by Brian Michael Murphy Pdf

Locked away in refrigerated vaults, sanitized by gas chambers, and secured within bombproof caverns deep under mountains are America's most prized materials: the ever-expanding collection of records that now accompany each of us from birth to death. This data complex backs up and protects our most vital information against decay and destruction, and yet it binds us to corporate and government institutions whose power is also preserved in its bunkers, infrastructures, and sterilized spaces. We the Dead traces the emergence of the data complex in the early twentieth century and guides readers through its expansion in a series of moments when Americans thought they were living just before the end of the world. Depression-era eugenicists feared racial contamination and the downfall of the white American family, while contemporary technologists seek ever denser and more durable materials for storing data, from microetched metal discs to cryptocurrency keys encoded in synthetic DNA. Artfully written and packed with provocative ideas, this haunting book illuminates the dark places of the data complex and the ways it increasingly blurs the lines between human and machine, biological body and data body, life and digital afterlife.

Author : Caroline E. Janney
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0807882704

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Burying the Dead but Not the Past by Caroline E. Janney Pdf

Immediately after the Civil War, white women across the South organized to retrieve the remains of Confederate soldiers. In Virginia alone, these Ladies' Memorial Associations (LMAs) relocated and reinterred the remains of more than 72,000 soldiers. Challenging the notion that southern white women were peripheral to the Lost Cause movement until the 1890s, Caroline Janney restores these women as the earliest creators and purveyors of Confederate tradition. Long before national groups such as the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and the United Daughters of the Confederacy were established, Janney shows, local LMAs were earning sympathy for defeated Confederates. Her exploration introduces new ways in which gender played a vital role in shaping the politics, culture, and society of the late nineteenth-century South.

Author : Erik R. Seeman
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801898549

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The Huron-Wendat Feast of the Dead by Erik R. Seeman Pdf

'Appreciating each other's funerary practices allowed the Wendats and French colonists to find common ground where there seemingly would be none. This title analyzes these encounters, using the Feast of the Dead as a metaphor for broader Indian-European relations in North America." -- WorldCat.

Author : William A. Blair
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807876237

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Cities of the Dead by William A. Blair Pdf

Exploring the history of Civil War commemorations from both sides of the color line, William Blair places the development of memorial holidays, Emancipation Day celebrations, and other remembrances in the context of Reconstruction politics and race relations in the South. His grassroots examination of these civic rituals demonstrates that the politics of commemoration remained far more contentious than has been previously acknowledged. Commemorations by ex-Confederates were intended at first to maintain a separate identity from the U.S. government, Blair argues, not as a vehicle for promoting sectional healing. The burial grounds of fallen heroes, known as Cities of the Dead, often became contested ground, especially for Confederate women who were opposed to Reconstruction. And until the turn of the century, African Americans used freedom celebrations to lobby for greater political power and tried to create a national holiday to recognize emancipation. Blair's analysis shows that some festive occasions that we celebrate even today have a divisive and sometimes violent past as various groups with conflicting political agendas attempted to define the meaning of the Civil War.

Author : J. Rasmus Brandt,HÎkon Ingvaldsen,Marina Prusac
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781782976424

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Death and Changing Rituals by J. Rasmus Brandt,HÎkon Ingvaldsen,Marina Prusac Pdf

The forms by which a deceased person may be brought to rest are as many as there are causes of death. In most societies the disposal of the corpse is accompanied by some form of celebration or ritual which may range from a simple act of deportment in solitude to the engagement of large masses of people in laborious and creative festivities. In a funerary context the term ritual may be taken to represent a process that incorporates all the actions performed and thoughts expressed in connection with a dying and dead person, from the preparatory pre-death stages to the final deposition of the corpse and the post-mortem stages of grief and commemoration. The contributions presented here are focused not on the examination of different funerary practices, their function and meaning, but on the changes of such rituals _ how and when they occurred and how they may be explained. Based on case studies from a range of geographical regions and from different prehistoric and historical periods, a range of key themes are examined concerning belief and ritual, body and deposition, place, performance and commemoration, exploring a complex web of practices.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 976 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : NYPL:33433000989131

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The Encyclopaedia Britannica by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Archaeology
ISBN : SRLF:A0002682797

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The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sandy Mccutcheon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1912356805

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Dead North by Sandy Mccutcheon Pdf

Weaving ancient folklore with contemporary events, Dead North is a literary thriller in the Nordic Noir genre.

Author : James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : English language
ISBN : RUTGERS:39030038932408

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A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps Pdf