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Author : Harry Harrison
Publisher : Berkley
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1982-05-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0425058395
Author : Steve Lyons
Publisher : Games Workshop(uk)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Science fiction
ISBN : 1844163989
Science fiction-roman.
Author : Tom Clancy,Diane Duane,Steve R. Pieczenik,Steve Pieczenik
Publisher : Berkley
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0425177386
Net Force Explorer Charlie Davis is worried about his friend Rick, who has been hanging out at a punk rock/morbo site called Deathworld, a place rumored to be responsible for a couple of suicides. Charlie decides to visit the place undercover. What he finds may kill him.
Author : Erica Buist
Publisher : Unbound Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781783529551
What if we responded to death... by throwing a party? By the time Erica Buist’s father-in-law Chris was discovered, upstairs in his bed, his book resting on his chest, he had been dead for over a week. She searched for answers (the artery-clogging cheeses in his fridge?) and tried to reason with herself (does daughter-in-law even feature in the grief hierarchy?) and eventually landed on an inevitable, uncomfortable truth: everybody dies. While her husband maintained a semblance of grace and poise, Erica found herself consumed by her grief, descending into a bout of pyjama-clad agoraphobia, stalking friends online to ascertain whether any of them had also dropped dead without warning, unable to extract herself from the spiral of death anxiety... until one day she decided to reclaim control. With Mexico’s Day of the Dead festivities as a starting point, Erica decided to confront death head-on by visiting seven death festivals around the world – one for every day they didn’t find Chris. From Mexico to Nepal, Sicily, Thailand, Madagascar, Japan and finally Indonesia – with a stopover in New Orleans, where the dead outnumber the living ten to one – Erica searched for the answers to both fundamental and unexpected questions around death anxiety. This Party’s Deadis the account of her journey to understand how other cultures deal with mortal terror, how they move past the knowledge that they’re going to die in order to live happily day-to-day, how they celebrate rather than shy away from the topic of death – and how when this openness and acceptance are passed down through the generations, death suddenly doesn’t seem so scary after all.
Author : J. M. C. Toynbee
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1996-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0801855071
The most comprehensive book on Roman burial practices—now available in paperback Never before available in paperback, J. M. C. Toynbee's study is the most comprehensive book on Roman burial practices. Ranging throughout the Roman world from Rome to Pompeii, Britain to Jerusalem—Toynbee's book examines funeral practices from a wide variety of perspectives. First, Toynbee examines Roman beliefs about death and the afterlife, revealing that few Romans believed in the Elysian Fields of poetic invention. She then describes the rituals associated with burial and mourning: commemorative meals at the gravesite were common, with some tombs having built-in kitchens and rooms where family could stay overnight. Toynbee also includes descriptions of the layout and finances of cemeteries, the tomb types of both the rich and poor, and the types of grave markers and monuments as well as tomb furnishings.
Author : Harry Harrison
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547004097
Deathworld centers on Jason dinAlt, a professional gambler who uses his erratic psionic abilities to tip the odds in his favor. While visiting the planet Cassylia, he is challenged by a man named Kerk Pyrrus (an ambassador of the planet Pyrrus) to turn a large amount of money into an immense sum by gambling at a government-run casino. He succeeds and survives the planetary government's desperate efforts to take back the money. Bothered that he may finally have met someone superior to him, he decides to accompany Kerk to Pyrrus, despite being warned that it is the deadliest world ever colonized by humans.
Author : Harry Harrison
Publisher : Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.
Page : 921 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
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Author : Harry Harrison
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547719113
Deathworld centers on Jason dinAlt, a professional gambler who uses his erratic psionic abilities to tip the odds in his favor. While visiting the planet Cassylia, he is challenged by a man named Kerk Pyrrus (an ambassador of the planet Pyrrus) to turn a large amount of money into an immense sum by gambling at a government-run casino. He succeeds and survives the planetary government's desperate efforts to take back the money. Bothered that he may finally have met someone superior to him, he decides to accompany Kerk to Pyrrus, despite being warned that it is the deadliest world ever colonized by humans.
Author : Harry Harrison
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466822764
“Harrison's conclusion to his alternate prehistory of Earth excels in its detailed depiction of an alien civilization that might have been.” —Library Journal Harry Harrison's Return to Eden, the third book in the West of Eden trilogy, is an adventerous sci-fi tale set in an alternative prehistoric universe, from the bestselling and award-winning author of innumerable novels and stories. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author : Norman F. Cantor
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476797748
The Black Death was the fourteenth century's equivalent of a nuclear war. It wiped out one-third of Europe's population, taking millions of lives. The author draws together the most recent scientific discoveries and historical research to pierce the mist and tell the story of the Black Death as a gripping, intimate narrative.
Author : Harry Harrison
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780575115934
The planet was unknown¿ a savagely primitive place where every man had to kill every other man - or live as a slave. The inhabitants lived in the early Bronze Age one minute, and in the early Machine Age the next. Technology had degenerated into a number of mysteries jealously guarded by separate brotherhoods. But Jason dinAlt was a gambler. He realised that if he was ever going to get a winning hand in this game, the brotherhoods would need a shuffle¿
Author : Steve Starger,J. David Spurlock
Publisher : Vanguard Productions (NJ)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Cartoonists
ISBN : 1887591818
Best of 2006: Vanguard published two major books, one focusing on Basil Gogos, and the other, a biography, on the career and sad life of the great Wallace Wood, WALLY's WORLD...a welcome addition to my bookcase. -- Innocent Bystander, January, 2007 WALLY'S WORLD (Vanguard), is a serious and sensitive look at an important artist. Recommended. -- Library Journal, January, 2007 WALLY'S WORLD is a fascinating book. I am stunned by the quality of Wood's fine art. -- Faith Middleton, WNPR, National Public Radio 11/17/06
Author : Tony Walter
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781526480088
Death comes to all humans, but how death is managed, symbolised and experienced varies widely, not only between individuals but also between groups. What then shapes how a society manages death, dying and bereavement today? Are all modern countries similar? How important are culture, the physical environment, national histories, national laws and institutions, and globalization? This is the first book to look at how all these different factors shape death and dying in the modern world. Written by an internationally renowned scholar in death studies, and drawing on examples from around the world, including the UK, USA, China and Japan, The Netherlands, Scandinavia and Eastern Europe. This book investigates how key factors such as money, communication technologies, economic in/security, risk, the family, religion, and war, interact in complex ways to shape people’s experiences of dying and grief. Essential reading for students, researchers and professionals across sociology, anthropology, social work and healthcare, and for anyone who wants to understand how countries around the world manage death and dying.
Author : Caitlin Doughty
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393249903
A New York Times and Los Angeles Times Bestseller “Doughty chronicles [death] practices with tenderheartedness, a technician’s fascination, and an unsentimental respect for grief.” —Jill Lepore, The New Yorker Fascinated by our pervasive fear of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty embarks on a global expedition to discover how other cultures care for the dead. From Zoroastrian sky burials to wish-granting Bolivian skulls, she investigates the world’s funerary customs and expands our sense of what it means to treat the dead with dignity. Her account questions the rituals of the American funeral industry—especially chemical embalming—and suggests that the most effective traditions are those that allow mourners to personally attend to the body of the deceased. Exquisitely illustrated by artist Landis Blair, From Here to Eternity is an adventure into the morbid unknown, a fascinating tour through the unique ways people everywhere confront mortality.
Author : Pearl James
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0813934095
Adopting the term "new death," which was used to describe the unprecedented and horrific scale of death caused by the First World War, Pearl James uncovers several touchstones of American modernism that refer to and narrate traumatic death. The sense of paradox was pervasive: death was both sanctified and denied; notions of heroism were both essential and far-fetched; and civilians had opportunities to hear about the ugliness of death at the front but often preferred not to. By historicizing and analyzing the work of such writers as Willa Cather, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and William Faulkner, the author shows how their novels reveal, conceal, refigure, and aestheticize the violent death of young men in the aftermath of the war. These writers, James argues, have much to say about how the First World War changed death's cultural meaning.