Field Of Blood

Author : Joanne B. Freeman
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780374717612

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The Field of Blood by Joanne B. Freeman Pdf

The previously untold story of the violence in Congress that helped spark the Civil War In The Field of Blood, Joanne B. Freeman recovers the long-lost story of physical violence on the floor of the U.S. Congress. Drawing on an extraordinary range of sources, she shows that the Capitol was rife with conflict in the decades before the Civil War. Legislative sessions were often punctuated by mortal threats, canings, flipped desks, and all-out slugfests. When debate broke down, congressmen drew pistols and waved Bowie knives. One representative even killed another in a duel. Many were beaten and bullied in an attempt to intimidate them into compliance, particularly on the issue of slavery. These fights didn’t happen in a vacuum. Freeman’s dramatic accounts of brawls and thrashings tell a larger story of how fisticuffs and journalism, and the powerful emotions they elicited, raised tensions between North and South and led toward war. In the process, she brings the antebellum Congress to life, revealing its rough realities—the feel, sense, and sound of it—as well as its nation-shaping import. Funny, tragic, and rivetingly told, The Field of Blood offers a front-row view of congressional mayhem and sheds new light on the careers of John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, and other luminaries, as well as introducing a host of lesser-known but no less fascinating men. The result is a fresh understanding of the workings of American democracy and the bonds of Union on the eve of their greatest peril.

Author : Eric Wilson
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2008-10-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781418571085

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Field of Blood by Eric Wilson Pdf

Judas hung himself in a place known as the Akeldama or Field of Blood. But what if his death didn't end his betrayal? What if his tainted blood seeped deep into the earth, into burial caves, causing a counterfeit resurrection of the dead? Gina Lazarescu, a Romanian girl with a scarred past, has no idea she is being sought by the undead. The Collectors, those released from the Akeldama, feed on souls and human blood. But there are also the Nistarim, those who rose from their graves in the shadow of the Nazarene's crucifixion--and they still walk among us, immortal, left to protect mankind. Gina realizes her future will depend on her understanding of the past, yet how can she protect herself from Collectors who have already died once but still live? The Jerusalem's Undead Trilogy takes readers on a riveting journey, as imaginative fiction melds with biblical and archaeological history.

Author : Denise Mina
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2007-10-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316031615

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Field of Blood by Denise Mina Pdf

Set in Glasgow in 1981, a time of hunger strikes, riots and unemployment that decimated the old industrial heartlands, The Field of Blood is the first in the tense Paddy Meehan series from Scotland's princess of crime, Denise Mina. The vicious murder of a young child provides rookie journalist Paddy Meehan with her first big break when the suspect turns out to be her fiance's 11-year old cousin. Launching her own investigation into the horrific crime, Paddy uncovers lines of deception deep in Glasgow's past, with more horrific crimes in the future if she fails to solve the mystery. Infused with Mina's unique blend of dark humor, personal insights and social injustice, the story grips the reader while challenging our perceptions of childhood innocence, crime and punishment, and right or wrong.

Author : Gerald Seymour
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781444760163

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Field of Blood by Gerald Seymour Pdf

Sean McNally swore his oath to the IRA. But then he turned his back on the violence and the hatred and went south to the Republic. Life was good until they came for him to do one last job. But in its aftermath McNally is captured and is facing a lifetime's imprisonment. Unless he dares think the unthinkable . . . and becomes a tout. Lieutenant David Ferris never wanted to join the army but found himself there anyway. In a cruel twist of fate his path crosses that of Sean McNally's and he quickly becomes a pawn on the frontline of a brutally tense war of nerves. As McNally prepares to gives evidence Ferris must confront his own destiny. Not only is his life at stake but also that of the future of the entire command structure of the IRA . . .

Author : Karen Armstrong
Publisher : Knopf Canada
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780307401984

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Fields of Blood by Karen Armstrong Pdf

From the renowned and bestselling author of A History of God, a sweeping exploration of religion's connection to violence. For the first time in American history, religious self-identification is on the decline. Some have cited a perception that began to grow after September 11: that faith in general is a source of aggression, intolerance and divisiveness--something bad for society. But how accurate is that view? And does it apply equally to all faiths? In these troubled times, we risk basing decisions of real and dangerous consequence on mistaken understandings of the faiths subscribed around us, in our immediate community as well as globally. And so, with her deep learning and sympathetic understanding, Karen Armstrong examines the impulse toward violence in each of the world's great religions. The comparative approach is new: while there have been plenty of books on jihad or the Crusades, this book lays the Christian and the Islamic way of war side by side, along with those of Buddhism, Hinduism, Confucianism, Daoism and Judaism. Each of these faiths arose in agrarian societies with plenty of motivation for violence: landowners had to lord it over peasants and warfare was essential to increase one's landholdings, the only real source of wealth before the great age of trade and commerce. In each context, it fell to the priestly class to legitimize the actions of the state. And so the martial ethos became bound up with the sacred. At the same time, however, their ideologies developed that ran counter to the warrior code: around sages, prophets and mystics. Within each tradition there grew up communities that represented a protest against the injustice and violence endemic to agrarian society. This book explores the symbiosis of these 2 impulses and its development as these confessional faiths came of age. The aggression of secularism has often damaged religion and pushed it into a violent mode. But modernity has also been spectacularly violent, and so Armstrong goes on to show how and in what measure religions, in their relative maturity, came to absorb modern belligerence--and what hope there might be for peace among believers in our time.

Author : Nicholas Morton
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780465096701

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The Field of Blood by Nicholas Morton Pdf

A history of the 1119 Battle of the Field of Blood, which decisively halted the momentum gained during the First Crusade and decided the fate of the Crusader states During the First Crusade, Frankish armies swept across the Middle East, capturing major cities and setting up the Crusader States in the Levant. A sustained Western conquest of the region appeared utterly inevitable. Why, then, did the crusades ultimately fail? To answer this question, historian Nicholas Morton focuses on a period of bitter conflict between the Franks and their Turkish enemies, when both factions were locked in a struggle for supremacy over the city of Aleppo. For the Franks, Aleppo was key to securing dominance over the entire region. For the Turks, this was nothing less than a battle for survival -- without Aleppo they would have little hope of ever repelling the European invaders. This conflict came to a head at the Battle of the Field of Blood in 1199, and the face of the Middle East was forever changed.

Author : Joanne B. Freeman
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300097557

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Affairs of Honor by Joanne B. Freeman Pdf

Offering a reassessment of the tumultuous culture of politics on the national stage during America's early years, when Jefferson, Burr, and Hamilton were among the national leaders, Freeman shows how the rituals and rhetoric of honor provides ground rules for political combat. Illustrations.

Author : Ana Mar’a Alonso
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1995-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0816515743

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Thread of Blood by Ana Mar’a Alonso Pdf

"This outstanding volume links the analysis of community and social organization with macro-level processes and history. Examines how gender, ethnicity, and local concepts of power relate to national identity, economy, and power. A fascinating discussionof Mexican society and the revolutionary change occurring along Mexico's northern border"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.

Author : Anita Y. Wonder
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Bloodstains
ISBN : 0127624570

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Blood Dynamics by Anita Y. Wonder Pdf

Today's resources on bloodstain analysis are still based on methods that were derived in the 1920s. Although medical and clinical research have provided a growing body of information on blood composition and behavior, this information has been ignored in favor of historical bloodstain analysis methods-until now. With 25 years of experience in the field, author Anita Wonder shows how to use these new methods for interpreting bloodstains, including non-Newtonian fluid behavior (a process that does not conform to Sir Isaac Newton's laws of motion) and three-dimensional dispersion modeling. Blood Dynamics focuses on how to accurately identify eight bloodstain pattern types and their permutations. It covers every aspect of bloodstain analysis, and shows how some standard practices of reconstruction are not only unnecessary for identification of blood dynamics, but can even be misleading. This book presents completely new scientific evaluations of blood dynamics and will fundamentally change the way in which bloodstains are interpreted. As such, it will be required reading for anyone who deals with blood evidence at the crime scene, in the lab, or in the courtroom.

Author : D.A. Field
Publisher : Giro Di Mondo
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-06
Category : Conspiracies
ISBN : 0999051415

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Blood Memory Society by D.A. Field Pdf

Inherited memory is the unique premise of this fast-paced thriller with some elements of Sci-Fi. Dr. Will Dunbar, an expert in reproductive medicine, is pulled into a national security crisis, with international conspiracy implications. He becomes responsible for protecting a brilliant young woman who possesses her ancestors' memories.

Author : Judi Rever
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780345812100

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In Praise of Blood by Judi Rever Pdf

A FINALIST FOR THE HILARY WESTON WRITERS' TRUST PRIZE: A stunning work of investigative reporting by a Canadian journalist who has risked her own life to bring us a deeply disturbing history of the Rwandan genocide that takes the true measure of Rwandan head of state Paul Kagame. Through unparalleled interviews with RPF defectors, former soldiers and atrocity survivors, supported by documents leaked from a UN court, Judi Rever brings us the complete history of the Rwandan genocide. Considered by the international community to be the saviours who ended the Hutu slaughter of innocent Tutsis, Kagame and his rebel forces were also killing, in quiet and in the dark, as ruthlessly as the Hutu genocidaire were killing in daylight. The reason why the larger world community hasn't recognized this truth? Kagame and his top commanders effectively covered their tracks and, post-genocide, rallied world guilt and played the heroes in order to attract funds to rebuild Rwanda and to maintain and extend the Tutsi sphere of influence in the region. Judi Rever, who has followed the story since 1997, has marshalled irrefutable evidence to show that Kagame's own troops shot down the presidential plane on April 6, 1994--the act that put the match to the genocidal flame. And she proves, without a shadow of doubt, that as Kagame and his forces slowly advanced on the capital of Kigali, they were ethnically cleansing the country of Hutu men, women and children in order that returning Tutsi settlers, displaced since the early '60s, would have homes and land. This book is heartbreaking, chilling and necessary.

Author : Frances J. Latchford
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-15
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780773558007

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Steeped in Blood by Frances J. Latchford Pdf

What personal truths reside in biological ties that are absent in adoptive ties? And why do we think adoptive and biological ties are essentially different when it comes to understanding who we are? At a time when interest in DNA and ancestry is exploding, Frances Latchford questions the idea that knowing one's bio-genealogy is integral to personal identity or a sense of family and belonging. Upending our established values and beliefs about what makes a family, Steeped in Blood examines the social and political devaluation of adoptive ties. It takes readers on an intellectual journey through accepted wisdom about adoption, twins, kinship, and incest, and challenges our naturalistic and individualistic assumptions about identity and the biological ties that bind us, sometimes violently, to our families. Latchford exposes how our desire for bio-genealogical knowledge, understood as it is by family and adoption experts, pathologizes adoptees by posing the biological tie as a necessary condition for normal identity formation. Rejecting the idea that a love of the self-same is fundamental to family bonds, her book is a reaction to the wounds families suffer whenever they dare to revel in their difference. A rejoinder to rhetoric that defines adoptees, adoptive kin, and their family intimacies as inferior and inauthentic, Steeped in Blood's view through the lens of critical adoption studies decentres our cultural obsession with the biological family imaginary and makes real the possibility of being family in the absence of blood.

Author : Gideon Avni,Zvi Greenhut
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015038130095

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The Akeldama Tombs by Gideon Avni,Zvi Greenhut Pdf

Author : Paul Stewart,Chris Riddell
Publisher : Barrington Stoke
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1781127158

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Free Lance and the Field of Blood by Paul Stewart,Chris Riddell Pdf

Free Lance is competing in his first major tournament for a long time. But he needs all his wits as well as his strength to stay on the field. Not only does the duke want him out of the way, but a lady's future is at stake.

Author : Reed Arvin
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061739439

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Blood of Angels by Reed Arvin Pdf

“...another winner that thriller, mystery and general fiction readers alike will relish.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Arvin weaves together disparate elements into a coherent and often thought-provoking tale.” — Pittsburgh Tribune “Intriguing...clever. A-” — Entertainment Weekly “A suspenseful story line that takes hold of the reader from the very beginning to the book’s close.” — New York Law Journal “(BLOOD OF ANGELS is) the kind of book that makes ‘unputdownable’ and ‘page-turner’more than just cliches.” — Chicago Tribune Books “Fast-paced action, unexpected twists...keeps the pages turning until the end.” — Denver Post “Tense, evocative prose...fiendishly clever and eloquently penned. — Providence Journal “Arvin weaves his plot and his chacters together with remarkable empathy...A legal thriller with soul.” — Wichita Eagle “An old-fashioned thriller with modern-technology smarts.” — Chicago Tribune Books “...the first summer-movie blockbuster of the year.” — Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review) “Absorbing...briskly paced (with) realistic characters whose fervent beliefs shape their actions.” — The Record (Bergen County, NJ) “Arvin piles on the action in this nail-biting Tennessee tale of misplaced revenge.” — New Orleans Times-Picayune “The pace is fast and...Arvin saves a satisfying surprise for the finale.” — Boston Globe “Briskly-paced...a fresh approach to the thriller.” — Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel “This nail-biter is Arvin’s third thriller...and each has been better than the last.” — Booklist (starred review) “Arvin keeps the action swift and the tension high.” — Calgary Sun