Death In The Rainy Season

Author : Anna Jaquiery
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781447244462

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Death in the Rainy Season by Anna Jaquiery Pdf

Phnom Penh, Cambodia; the rainy season. When a French man, Hugo Quercy, is found brutally murdered, Commandant Serge Morel finds his holiday drawn to an abrupt halt. Quercy - dynamic, well-connected - was the magnetic head of a humanitarian organisation which looked after the area's neglected youth. Opening his investigation, the Parisian detective soon finds himself buried in one of his most challenging cases yet. Morel must navigate this complex and politically sensitive crime in a country with few forensic resources, and armed with little more than a series of perplexing questions: what was Quercy doing in a hotel room under a false name? What is the significance of his recent investigations into land grabs in the area? And who could have broken into his home the night of the murder? Becoming increasingly drawn into Quercy's circle of family and friends - his adoring widow, his devoted friends and bereft colleagues - Commandant Morel will soon discover that in this lush land of great beauty and immense darkness, nothing is quite as it seems . . . A deeply atmospheric crime novel that bristles with truth and deception, secrets and lies: Death in the Rainy Season is a compelling mystery that unravels an exquisitely wrought human tragedy.

Author : Anna Jaquiery
Publisher : Mantle
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1447244478

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Death in the Rainy Season by Anna Jaquiery Pdf

Phnom Penh, Cambodia; the rainy season. When a French man, Hugo Quercy, is found brutally murdered, Commandant Serge Morel finds his holiday drawn to an abrupt halt. Quercy--dynamic, well-connected--was the magnetic head of a humanitarian organization which looked after the area's neglected youth. Opening his investigation, the Parisian detective soon finds himself buried in one of his most challenging cases yet. Morel must navigate this complex and politically sensitive crime in a country with few forensic resources, and armed with little more than a series of perplexing questions: what was Quercy doing in a hotel room under a false name? What is the significance of his recent investigations into land grabs in the area? And who could have broken into his home the night of the murder? Becoming increasingly drawn into Quercy's circle of family and friends--his adoring widow, his devoted friends and bereft colleagues--Commandant Morel will soon discover that in this lush land of great beauty and immense darkness, nothing is quite as it seems.

Author : Margaret Gouin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136959172

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Tibetan Rituals of Death by Margaret Gouin Pdf

This book describes and analyses the structure and performance of Tibetan Buddhist death rituals, and situates that performance within the wider context of Buddhist death practices generally. Drawing on a detailed and systematic comparative survey of existing records of Tibetan funerary practices, including historical travel accounts, anthropological and ethnographic literature, Tibetan texts and academic studies, it demonstrates that there is no standard form of funeral in Tibetan Buddhism, although certain elements are common. The structure of the book follows the twin trajectories of benefiting the deceased and protecting survivors; in the process, it reveals a rich and complex panoply of activities, some handled by religious professionals and others by lay persons. This information is examined to identify similarities and differences in practices, and the degree to which Tibetan Buddhist funeral practices are consistent with the mortuary rituals of other forms of Buddhism. A number of elements in these death rites which at first appear to be unique to Tibetan Buddhism may only be ‘Tibetan’ in their surface characteristics, while having roots in practices which pre-date the transmission of Buddhism to Tibet. Filling a gap in the existing literature on Tibetan Buddhism, this book poses research challenges that will engage future scholars in the field of Buddhism, Tibetan Buddhism and Anthropology.

Author : Mary Martin Devlin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1944453040

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Death in the Rainy Season by Mary Martin Devlin Pdf

Death in the Rainy Season follows the experiences of a young American woman assigned to a post at the U.S. Embassy in 1984 Zaire and her passionate love affair with a Belgian businessman, born and brought up in Zaire and deeply committed to the country. A sensuously rendered sense of place firmly roots the novel in the complexities of Africa and brings to life the dissolute community of Westerners in Third World countries where easy living and dangerous intrigue blend together in a deceptive haze. The expatriates live in a privileged world where they drink, flirt, and gossip about who is sleeping with whom, but throughout all of this petty activity important business is getting done. Information is being gathered. Big power plays are being made. As a plot to overthrow the dictator Mobutu gains momentum, power, corruption, and sexual jealousy shatter the idyllic love affair between the two idealistic protagonists.

Author : Martina Will de Chaparro,Miruna Achim
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780816521081

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Death and Dying in Colonial Spanish America by Martina Will de Chaparro,Miruna Achim Pdf

When the Spanish colonized the Americas, they brought many cultural beliefs and practices with them, not the least of which involved death and dying. The essays in this volume explore the resulting intersections of cultures through recent scholarship related to death and dying in colonial Spanish America between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. The authors address such important questions as: What were the relationships between the worlds of the living and the dead? How were these relationships sustained not just through religious dogma and rituals but also through everyday practices? How was unnatural death defined within different population strata? How did demographic and cultural changes affect mourning? The variety of sources uncovered in the authors’ original archival research suggests the wide diversity of topics and approaches they employ: Nahua annals, Spanish chronicles, Inquisition case records, documents on land disputes, sermons, images, and death registers. Geographically, the range of research focuses on the viceroyalties of New Spain, Peru, and New Granada. The resulting records—both documentary and archaeological—offer us a variety of vantage points from which to view each of these cultural groups as they came into contact with others. Much less tied to modern national boundaries or old imperial ones, the many facets of the new historical research exploring the topic of death demonstrate that no attitudes or practices can be considered either “Western” or universal.

Author : Adrienne E. Strong
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520310704

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Documenting Death by Adrienne E. Strong Pdf

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Documenting Death is a gripping ethnographic account of the deaths of pregnant women in a hospital in a low-resource setting in Tanzania. Through an exploration of everyday ethics and care practices on a local maternity ward, anthropologist Adrienne E. Strong untangles the reasons Tanzania has achieved so little sustainable success in reducing maternal mortality rates, despite global development support. Growing administrative pressures to document good care serve to preclude good care in practice while placing frontline healthcare workers in moral and ethical peril. Maternal health emergencies expose the precarity of hospital social relations and accountability systems, which, together, continue to lead to the deaths of pregnant women.

Author : Edwin M. Yamauchi,Marvin R. Wilson
Publisher : Hendrickson Publishers
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781619707771

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Dictionary of Daily Life in Biblical & Post-Biblical Antiquity: Death & the Afterlife by Edwin M. Yamauchi,Marvin R. Wilson Pdf

This unique reference article, excerpted from the larger work (Dictionary of Daily Life in Biblical and Post-Biblical Antiquity), provides background cultural and technical information on the world of the Hebrew Bible and New Testament from 2000 BC to approximately AD 600. Written and edited by a world-class historian and a highly respected biblical scholar, each article addresses cultural, technical, and/or sociological issues of interest to the study of the Scriptures. Contains a high level of scholarship. Information and concepts are explained in detail and are accompanied by bibliographic material for further exploration. Useful for scholars, pastors, teachers, and students—for biblical study, exegesis, or sermon preparation. Possible areas covered include details of domestic life, technology, culture, laws, or religious practices. Each article ranges from 5 to 20 pages in length. For the complete contents of Dictionary of Daily Life in Biblical and Post-Biblical Antiquity, see ISBN 9781619708617 (4-volume set) or ISBN 9781619701458 (complete in one volume).

Author : Commonwealth Shipping Committee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 928 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1915
Category : Shipping
ISBN : UOM:39015087749043

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Report by Commonwealth Shipping Committee Pdf

Author : Great Britain. India Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Public health
ISBN : OXFORD:555059560

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Report on Sanitary Measures in India by Great Britain. India Office Pdf

Author : James P. Blaylock
Publisher : Ace
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : California, Southern
ISBN : 0441006183

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The Rainy Season by James P. Blaylock Pdf

"It's a gray, wet winter in southern California, and Phil Ainsworth is alone. The sudden death of his young wife has left him shaken, and he gets eerie sensations as he roams around the big, old house he inherited from his mother. He's sure he's seen people snooping around his property, by the old well that, in this wet weather, always seems ready to overflow. How much is real and how much is in his head? That's the question." "A late night phone call brings more bad news: Phil's sister has died, leaving her ten-year-old daughter Betsy an orphan and naming Phil as guardian. It seems like a bad time to bring a child into this unhappy house, but Phil had always promised he'd take care of Betsy - and now she's all the family he has left." "What he can't know is that Betsy is a very special child. She has the ability to sense the powerful emotions of the past, to hear the voices of the dead, and to see the uncanny powers that are closing in around this house."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Abba Gony Mustafa
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-27
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781642982664

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iVillager by Abba Gony Mustafa Pdf

It has taken me a thirty year journey from my dusty village, Kokoland, to reach America, the land of Uncle Sam. Both Kokoland and America belong to planet Earth, but they are two different worlds and neither one knows about the existence of the other. Few people in my village have the slightest clue about life in America. To them the village might as well be the center of the universe. I'm one of few lucky or unlucky ones (depending on how you look at it) who happened to, miraculously, have had the opportunity to live in both worlds. It goes without saying that I can also speak with confidence that my level of confusion is unparalleled, as you will find in this book. Once, I had confused Elvis Presley (the King) for Yuri Gagarin (the Russian Astronaut). In fact, there are people in Kokoland who still believe so. What difference will that make anyway when folks still believe that the Earth is flat?

Author : Dr. Vijay Prakash Kale
Publisher : Ashok Yakkaldevi
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781387496969

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Medical Geography : A Study of Marathwada Region by Dr. Vijay Prakash Kale Pdf

Today Health is an important aspect of human being. Health of the individual is closely related to the various geographical factors. Geographical factors are more influencing and they determine the health of individual and the community. Health is considered as a major determinant of happiness. The link between health and development is very close. Health can be considered as a factor of development. In the two decades preceding, the start of the new millennium, geography as a discipline witnessed an innovative revolution that completely reorganized the traditional boundaries of this field. Building upon its established strengths and embracing the novel ideas and perspectives brought about by the technological boom of the late 1980, geography has expanded into a more robust, recognized, marketable, unified and diversified scientific discipline (Gaile & willmott, 2003).

Author : Bombay (India : State)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 850 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:C2624005

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Bombay by Bombay (India : State) Pdf

Author : Joan Kruckewitt
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781609802042

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The Death of Ben Linder by Joan Kruckewitt Pdf

In 1987, the death of Ben Linder, the first American killed by President Reagan's "freedom fighters" -- the U.S.-backed Nicaraguan Contras -- ignited a firestorm of protest and debate. In this landmark first biography of Linder, investigative journalist Joan Kruckewitt tells his story. In the summer of 1983, a 23-year-old American named Ben Linder arrived in Managua with a unicycle and a newly earned degree in engineering. In 1986, Linder moved from Managua to El Cuá, a village in the Nicaraguan war zone, where he helped form a team to build a hydroplant to bring electricity to the town. He was ambushed and killed by the Contras the following year while surveying a stream for a possible hydroplant. In 1993, Kruckewitt traveled to the Nicaraguan mountains to investigate Linder's death. In July 1995. she finally located and interviewed one of the men who killed Ben Linder, a story that became the basis for a New Yorker feature on Linder's death. Linder's story is a portrait of one idealist who died for his beliefs, as well as a picture of a failed foreign policy, vividly exposing the true dimensions of a war that forever marked the lives of both Nicaraguans and Americans.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:24504178078

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Annual report of the registrar-general of births, deaths, and marriages in England. v. 29 suppl., 1866 by Anonim Pdf