Dying By The Sword

Author : Monica Duffy Toft,Sidita Kushi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Conflict management
ISBN : 9780197581438

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Dying by the Sword by Monica Duffy Toft,Sidita Kushi Pdf

"Through a historical and data-driven review of the US's dominant foreign policy trends from 1776 until today, America the Bully argues that since the end of the Cold War and especially post-9/11, the US has become addicted to military intervention. Lacking clear national strategic goals, the US now pursues a security whack-a-mole policy, more reactionary than deliberate. America the Bully dedicates a chapter to each defining era of US foreign policy, applying selected historical narratives, anecdotes of US foreign policy officials, case study examples, and compelling patterns derived from the data in the Military Intervention Project (MIP). Each chapter highlights the ways in which the US used and balanced primary tools of statecraft - War, Trade, and Diplomacy - to achieve its objectives. It showcases, however, that in recent decades, the US has heavily favored force over the other pillars of statecraft. The book concludes with a warning that if the US does not stem increasing trends of kinetic diplomacy, it may do irrevocable damage its diplomatic corps, dooming it to costly and often useless wars of choice. It may be doomed to the path of reactionary aggression, increasing its military footprint internationally to the detriment of its diplomatic and economic influence. If this trend continues, it could spell disaster for the US's image, credibility, and ultimately, its international and domestic stability"--

Author : Sarah D'Almeida
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0425224619

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Dying by the Sword by Sarah D'Almeida Pdf

When his servant Mousqueton is accused of murdering the local armorer, Porthos turns to his fellow musketeers to help him save his loyal retainer from the gallows, a mission that leads them to Cardinal Richelieu and to a plot against the king himself. Original.

Author : David Sherbino
Publisher : Castle Quay Books
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781927355558

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Living, Dying, Living Forever by David Sherbino Pdf

Living in a culture that is fascinated with the topic of death and dying, there are many who desire to explore the issues from a Christian perspective. Living, Dying, Living Forever is designed as a workbook to help you explore the issues of living and dying as they relate to your relationship with God and with others. This material can be used by those who are near the end of life and by those who want to consider how they can live more fully in the present moment. At the end of each chapter there are practical exercises you can follow to help you explore the issues on a personal level. As you live out each day of the journey, these pages are designed to give you courage, hope and a perspective that embraces eternity.

Author : Daniel Boyarin
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780804737043

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Dying for God by Daniel Boyarin Pdf

Scholars have come to realize that we can and need to speak of a twin birth of Christianity and Judaism, not a genealogy in which one is parent to the other. In this book, the author develops a revised understanding of the interactions between nascent Christianity and nascent Judaism in late antiquity.

Author : Lucy Bregman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 813 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2009-11-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780313351747

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Religion, Death, and Dying by Lucy Bregman Pdf

A wide-ranging anthology for general readers covering many religious, ethical, and spiritual aspects of death, dying, and bereavement in American society. What do various spiritual and ethical belief systems have to say about modern medicine's approach to the end of life? Do all major religions characterize the afterlife in similar ways? How do funeral rites and rituals vary across different faiths? Now there is one resource that gathers leading scholars to address these questions and more about the many religious, ethical, and spiritual aspects of death, dying, and bereavement in America. Religion, Death, and Dying compares and contrasts the ways different faiths and ethical schools contemplate the end of life. The work is organized into three thematic volumes: first, an examination of the contemporary medicalized death from the perspective of different religious traditions and the professions involved; second, an exploration of complex, often controversial issues, including the death of children, AIDS, capital punishment, and war; and finally, a survey of the funeral and bereavement rituals that have evolved under various religions.

Author : Austin Sarat,Jürgen Martschukat
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781139496520

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Is the Death Penalty Dying? by Austin Sarat,Jürgen Martschukat Pdf

Is the Death Penalty Dying? provides a careful analysis of the historical and political conditions that shaped death penalty practice on both sides of the Atlantic from the end of World War II to the twenty-first century. This book examines and assesses what the United States can learn from the European experience with capital punishment, especially the trajectory of abolition in different European nations. As a comparative sociology and history of the present, the book seeks to illuminate the way death penalty systems and their dissolution work, by means of eleven chapters written by an interdisciplinary group of authors from the United States and Europe. This work will help readers see how close the United States is to ending capital punishment and some of the cultural and institutional barriers that stand in the way of abolition.

Author : Glennys Howarth,Oliver Leaman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2003-12-16
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781136913600

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Encyclopedia of Death and Dying by Glennys Howarth,Oliver Leaman Pdf

In recent years there has been a massive upsurge in academic, professional and lay interest in mortality. This is reflected in academic and professional literature, in the popular media and in the proliferation of professional roles and training courses associated with aspects of death and dying. Until now the majority of reference material on death and dying has been designed for particular disciplinary audiences and has addressed only specific academic or professional concerns. There has been an urgent need for an authoritative but accessible reference work reflecting the multidisciplinary nature of the field. This Encyclopedia answers that need. The Encyclopedia of Death and Dying consolidates and contextualizes the disparate research that has been carried out to date. The phenomena of death and dying and its related concepts are explored and explained in depth, from the approaches of varied disciplines and related professions in the arts, social sciences, humanities, medicine and the sciences. In addition to scholars and students in the field-from anthropologists and sociologists to art and social historians - the Encyclopedia will be of interest to other professionals and practitioners whose work brings them into contact with dying, dead and bereaved people. It will be welcomed as the definitive death and dying reference source, and an essential tool for teaching, research and independent study.

Author : Timothy Kender.
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781435740334

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Three Worlds... The Living World, The Dying World, and The Dead World by Timothy Kender. Pdf

Author : Candi K. Cann
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813174716

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Dying to Eat by Candi K. Cann Pdf

Food has played a major role in funerary and memorial practices since the dawn of the human race. In the ancient Roman world, for example, it was common practice to build channels from the tops of graves into the crypts themselves, and mourners would regularly pour offerings of food and drink into these conduits to nourish the dead while they waited for the afterlife. Funeral cookies wrapped with printed prayers and poems meant to comfort mourners became popular in Victorian England; while in China, Japan, and Korea, it is customary to offer food not only to the bereaved, but to the deceased, with ritual dishes prepared and served to the dead. Dying to Eat is the first interdisciplinary book to examine the role of food in death, bereavement, and the afterlife. The contributors explore the phenomenon across cultures and religions, investigating topics including tombstone rituals in Buddhism, Catholicism, and Shamanism; the role of death in the Moroccan approach to food; and the role of funeral casseroles and church cookbooks in the Southern United States. This innovative collection not only offers food for thought regarding the theories and methods behind these practices but also provides recipes that allow the reader to connect to the argument through material experience. Illuminating how cooking and corpses both transform and construct social rituals, Dying to Eat serves as a fascinating exploration of the foodways of death and bereavement.

Author : Dave Duncan
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781497609280

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The Death of Nnanji by Dave Duncan Pdf

In this masterful sword-and-sorcery epic, “Duncan has created strong and moving characters . . . and a world as rich and layered as our own” (Iceberg Ink). For fifteen years, the truce has held. Swordsmen of the Tryst of Casr have kept the peace and extended the rule of law over half the world, but now sorcerers have started killing swordsmen again, and swordsmen traitors are aiding them. Shonsu—who was Wallie Smith before he became a swordsman of the seventh rank and liege lord of the Tryst—must once more gird on the seventh sword of Chioxin, and this time he rides out to fight the war that he hoped would never come. As he leads his army forth, its two most junior members are Vixini, son of Shonsu, and Addis, son of Nnanji, who has an oath of vengeance to fulfill. Their failure or success will determine the fate of the world for the next thousand years.

Author : Melvin Karew
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781479784165

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Iron City & the Sword of Death by Melvin Karew Pdf

The final chapter. Ariadne, refugee princess, has completed the quests to gain knowledge, power and protection. She can now face Grimlindus, the general, necromancer and suave lord of evil, who wields the all-powerful Sword of Death. But Grimlindus has raised his armies and is preparing to invade the west. Their first mission is to conquer the Esengater, the Iron City, held by the female knights of the Order of the Dragon Slayer. Ariadnes companions travel to the corners of the Westland to raise the forces to stop him. They are in a race against Grimlinduss demons, sorcerers and assassins, who are trying to stop the west from mobilising. Meanwhile, Ariadne travels to the Mystic Isles to forge the weapon that she will use in the final battle: Sword of Life. Because, in the end, it will be a duel between the Sword of Life and the Sword of Death.

Author : Mercedes Lackey
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1991-02-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101127261

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By the Sword by Mercedes Lackey Pdf

Granddaughter of the sorceress Kethry, daughter of a noble house, Kerowyn had been forced to run the family keep since her mother's untimely death. Yet now at last her brother was preparing to wed, and when his bride became the lady of the keep, Kerowyn could return to her true enjoyments - training horses and hunting. But all Kerowyn's hopes and plans were shattered when her anscestral home was attacked, her father slain, her brother wounded, and his fiancee kidnapped. Drive by desperation and the knowledge that a scorcerer had led the journey which would prove but he first step on the road to the fulfillment of her destiny.

Author : James Morison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1861
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V000647762

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Biblical help toward holiness in living and happiness in dying by James Morison Pdf

Author : Ian Germani
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780228016366

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Dying for France by Ian Germani Pdf

In the past century Western attitudes toward the soldier’s death have undergone a remarkable transformation. Widely accepted at the time of the First World War – when nearly ten million soldiers died in uniform – as a redemptive sacrifice on behalf of the nation, the soldier’s death is increasingly regarded as an unacceptable tragedy. In Dying for France Ian Germani considers this transformation in the context of the history of France over the expanse of five centuries, from the Renaissance to the present. Blending military history with the history of culture and mentalities, Germani explores key episodes in the history of France’s wars to show how patriotic models of the soldier’s death eclipsed those inspired by the aristocratic code of honour, before themselves giving way to disillusioned representations. First-hand testimony of soldiers, surgeons, and others provides the basis for vivid descriptions of how a soldier encountered death, on and away from the battlefield. Works of art and print culture are used to analyze how soldiers’ deaths were represented to the public and to discern how popular attitudes evolved over time. Encompassing France’s major external conflicts and its civil wars, this study also considers the experiences of soldiers recruited from the French colonial empire. Relating changes in the perception of military mortality to broader changes in society’s relationship with death, Dying for France highlights essential turning points in the rise and fall of the patriotic ideal of the soldier’s death.

Author : Kalman Dubov
Publisher : Kalman Dubov
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-26
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Death & Dying; Legal and Ethical Reviews by Kalman Dubov Pdf

Death and dying, especially in the midst of a global pandemic, is a timely subject. As medical science advances, technology can continue the physiologic life of the patient with profound questions regarding the patient's dignity and value-driven life. A patient in a persistent vegetative state must have completed legal documents to permit caregivers to terminate life. This review covers the United States Supreme Court case concerning Nancy Beth Cruzan and the legal entanglements associated with end of life care. I review the case, the majority, concurring and dissenting opinions. I then review the legal documents necessary for end-of-life care together with a Jewish view relevant to such care. I also include a personal view of this important topic. In addition, I include sample documents that may be of use to a person considering an advance directive, the disposition of remains and related documents. These documents are only valid when the person has prepared, signed, and notarized them before death. Health care professionals and courts will not create these documents after death. It was this scenario that was faced with Nancy Beth Cruzan, and a person considering the legal ramifications of dying without such documents can review and make use of the review and decide how to proceed.