The Beheading

Author : Guy Haley
Publisher : Games Workshop
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 178496221X

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The Beheading by Guy Haley Pdf

Subterfuge and assassination bring this thrilling series to an end. Despite the odds, the Imperium has triumphed. The orks have been defeated and the Great Beast is no more. Across the length and breadth of the galaxy, humankind celebrates its salvation, and relishes the prospect of a return of peace. But the war against the orks has riven the political bedrock of the Imperium, exposing its rotten core. One man, one powerful man, decides he has the solution, and launches a campaign of destruction so terrible that thousands of years later his actions will still be viewed with horror. And all the while, the true enemy watches and waits in the starless depths of space; an eternal evil that desires only to devour the souls of every living human soul in the galaxy.

Author : Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1989-09-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780679725312

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Invitation to a Beheading by Vladimir Nabokov Pdf

Like Kafka's The Castle, Invitation to a Beheading embodies a vision of a bizarre and irrational world. In an unnamed dream country, the young man Cincinnatus C. is condemned to death by beheading for "gnostical turpitude," an imaginary crime that defies definition. Cincinnatus spends his last days in an absurd jail, where he is visited by chimerical jailers, an executioner who masquerades as a fellow prisoner, and by his in-laws, who lug their furniture with them into his cell. When Cincinnatus is led out to be executed, he simply wills his executioners out of existence: they disappear, along with the whole world they inhabit.

Author : Thomas Muschamp
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Church and state
ISBN : 0573650349

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The Beheading by Thomas Muschamp Pdf

Set in a Mediterranean country, this powerful play portrays the harm that can be done to people by spiritual corruption and the misuse of innocence. It is a study of maneuver for power between church and state and in which the frustrations of a woman, the honesty of a man and the faith of a young priest are deliberately involved until all three are destroyed by the bishop and the president who manipulate them like chess pieces.

Author : Robert Crew
Publisher : Metro Publishing
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781786069870

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The Beheading and Other True Stories by Robert Crew Pdf

'The Beheading' is the title piece of this spectacular collection of true stories and commentaries. It is an eye-witness account of a beheading in the desert kingdom of Saudi Arabia where the author witnessed savage and soul-destroying punishments. They are recounted in this book with great clarity and brutal honesty, but with the sensitivity and poignancy born of the insight of a man who has studied the culture and history of this land with meticulous care. But these stories are not for the squeamish. They are required reading for those who are concerned about the inhumane and barbaric practices carried out around the world and have the stomach to read of such chilling things. Included in this collection is a shocking account of an adulterous woman stoned to death. 'Women Are Always To Blame' achieves a particular relevance in light of recent worldwide concerns about this practice. In 'Extracts from my Diary', Bob Crew reveals how his predictions regarding what would not change in Saudi Arabia in the new Millennium have been remarkably prescient.

Author : Friedrich Wilhelm Krummacher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1837
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590572946

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The beheading of John the baptist [a sermon]. Transl by Friedrich Wilhelm Krummacher Pdf

Author : Friedrich Wilhelm KRUMMACHER
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1837
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0019771100

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The Beheading of John the Baptist. A Sermon [on Mark Vi. 21-31]. ... Translated from the German. Fourth Edition by Friedrich Wilhelm KRUMMACHER Pdf

Author : James HAMILTON (1st Duke of Hamilton.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1648
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0021364774

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The Manner of the Beheading of Duke Hambleton, the Earle of Holland, and the Lord Capell ... the 9th of March, 1648. With the Substance of Their Severall Speeches Upon the Scaffold, Etc by James HAMILTON (1st Duke of Hamilton.) Pdf

Author : Geneviève Zubrzycki
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226391687

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Beheading the Saint by Geneviève Zubrzycki Pdf

The province of Quebec used to be called the "priest-ridden province” by its Protestant neighbors in Canada. During the 1960s, Quebec became radically secular, directly leading to its evolution as a welfare state with lay social services. What happened to cause this abrupt change? Genevieve Zubrzycki gives us an elegant and penetrating history, showing that a key incident sets up the transformation. Saint John the Baptist is the patron saint of French Canadians, and, until 1969, was subject of annual celebrations with a parade in Montreal. That year, the statue of St. John was toppled by protestors, breaking off the head from the body. Here, then is the proximate cause: the beheading of a saint, a symbolic death to be sure, which caused the parades to disappear and other modes of national celebration to take their place. The beheading of the saint was part and parcel of the so-called Quiet Revolution, a period of far-reaching social, economic, political, and cultural transformations. Quebec society and the identity of its French-speaking members drastically reinvented themselves with the rejection of Catholicism. Zubrzycki is already acknowledged as a leading authority on nationalism and religion; this book will significantly enlarge her stature by showing the extent to which a core feature of the Quiet Revolution was an aesthetic revolt. A new generation rejected the symbols of French Canada, redefining national identity in the process (and as a process) and providing momentum for institutional reforms. We learn that symbols have causal force, generating "chains of significations” which can transform a Catholic-dominated conservative society into a leftist, forward-looking, secular society.

Author : Brenda S. Webster
Publisher : Wings Press (TX)
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015063268489

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The Beheading Game by Brenda S. Webster Pdf

"Flamboyant New York theatre director Ren is passionately in love with Jack, a younger man who is still under the thumb of his conservative CEO father, Malcolm. Jack's differences with his father range from the fact that Jack is still in the closet regarding his sexuality to having to endure his father's platitudes about self-improvement and his contempt for Ren. The fact that his father's oil company is dumping toxic waste into the Hudson River doesn't help since cleaning up the river is one of Jack's missions in life. Tensions mount when Jack becomes critically ill with lymphoma and has to undergo a bone marrow transplant which will either cure him or kill him. At the same time that Ren is tending to Jack in the hospital, he is busy staging his version of & quot;Gawain and the Green Knight. & quot; His struggles with Malcolm over Jack's love lead Ren to question the values of the medieval story especially the blind loyalty of the young vassal to his lord and he ends by inverting these feudal values in a wild cross-gendered sail against the currents of History. Behind this shift in dramaturgy is Ren's gradual realization that the battles that count for him as a modern (loving) man are fought by changing bedpans and bandages, not waving lances and swords. Life and theatre become intertwined as Ren increasingly lives his life as drama, enacting ever more baroque and occasionally risky fantasies of revenge and Love's riumph. Beyond the ambiguities of gender and sexual orientation, The Beheading Game finds that the issues of love and death, honesty and loyalty, are the same for all of us."--Publisher's website.

Author : Frances Larson
Publisher : Granta Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781847088017

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Severed by Frances Larson Pdf

Our history is littered with heads. Over the centuries, they have decorated our churches, festooned our city walls and filled our museums; they have been props for artists and specimens for laboratory scientists, trophies for soldiers and items of barter. Today, as videos of decapitations circulate online and cryonicists promise that our heads may one day live on without our bodies, the severed head is as contentious and compelling as ever. From shrunken heads to trophies of war; from memento mori to Damien Hirst's With Dead Head; from grave-robbing phrenologists to enterprising scientists, Larson explores the bizarre, often gruesome and confounding history of the severed head. Its story is our story.

Author : Jesper Wung-Sung
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-22
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781481429672

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The Last Execution by Jesper Wung-Sung Pdf

Called “brilliantly devastating” in a starred review from Kirkus Reviews, this award-winning, mesmerizing novel, based on the chilling true story of the last execution in Denmark’s history, asks a question that plagues a small Danish town: does a fifteen-year-old boy deserve to be put to death? On February 22, 1853, a fifteen-year-old Niels Nelson is prepared to be executed on Gallows Hill. The master carpenter comes to measure Niels for his coffin. The master baker bakes bread for the spectators. The messenger posts the notice of execution in the town square. The poet prepares his best pen to record the events as they unfold. A fly, Niels’s only companion in the cell, buzzes. A dog hovers by his young master’s window. A young girl hovers too, pitying the boy. The executioner sharpens his blade. This remarkable, wrenching story is told with the alternating perspectives of eleven different bystanders—one per hour—as the clock ticks ever closer to the moment when the boy must face his fate. Niels Nielson, a young peasant, was sentenced to death by beheading on the dubious charges of arson and murder. Does he have the right to live despite what he is accused of? That is the question the townsfolk ask as the countdown begins. With strong social conscience, piercing intellect, and masterful storytelling, Jesper Wung-Sung explores the age-old question: who determines who has the right to live or die?

Author : Roger David Aus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:49015002194760

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Water Into Wine and the Beheading of John the Baptist by Roger David Aus Pdf

Author : David Guymer,Guy Haley,David Annandale,Rob Sanders
Publisher : Games Workshop
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 178496848X

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The Beast Arises: Volume 3 by David Guymer,Guy Haley,David Annandale,Rob Sanders Pdf

In the final act of The Beast Arises saga, the Imperium is brought to its knees and the orks seek to usurp mankind and establish dominance over the galaxy in this omnibus edition that contains books nine to twelve in the series. The Imperium’s initial attempts to attack the orks and kill their leader have ended in failure and tragedy, but there can be no surrender: the fate of humanity hangs in the balance. New, more flexible fighting teams of Adeptus Astartes have been assembled and allies from the Imperium’s past have also pledged their support. With new troops, revised tactics and the full backing of the Adeptus Mechanicus, the Space Marines head to the orks’ home world one final time. This time there will be no retreat. They must succeed in their mission… or die in the attempt. "}" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: center;">‘The Beast Arises’ is an epic Warhammer 40,000 series from Black Library. Spanning twelve volumes, the story covers a galaxy-wide conflict between humanity and a massive ork invasion. The Imperium’s initial attempts to attack the orks and kill their leader have ended in failure and tragedy, but there can be no surrender: the fate of humanity hangs in the balance. New, more flexible fighting teams of Adeptus Astartes have been assembled and allies from the Imperium’s past have also pledged their support. With new troops, revised tactics and the full backing of the Adeptus Mechanicus, the Space Marines head to the orks’ home world one final time. This time there will be no retreat. They must succeed in their mission… or die in the attempt.

Author : Amalendu Misra
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030961435

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On Beheading by Amalendu Misra Pdf

​Beheading is not an uncommon undertaking. As a particularized physical violence, it has been practiced by all societies and civilizations at some point in their history. In fact, for millennia public beheadings around the world were routine. In contemporary international society some states and many non-state actors regularly engage in this undertaking. This begs the obvious question: why put a human being through this unimaginable cruelty? While the idea of execution by decapitation appears visceral and horrific, it has always been grounded in cultural, religious and political contexts. If contemporary history is any proof, the enterprise of beheading a fellow human being appears to be making a comeback in certain religious and political landscapes. A question of enormous intellectual importance, the phenomenon of beheading is understudied. There have been many explanations surrounding specific forms of beheading through the ages. However, no inclusive study has engaged with it in its entirety. Primarily a philosophical reflection, On Beheading is inter-disciplinary in nature; it freely cuts across various disciplines within the broad framework of the social sciences. It uses a vast array of empirical evidence from anthropology, literature, jurisprudence and religion to build a discourse and narrative that brings this subject under one intellectual umbrella.

Author : Fr Dwight Longenecker
Publisher : Sophia
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 164413490X

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Beheading Hydra by Fr Dwight Longenecker Pdf

Never before has humanity existed in a culture that rejects belief in a transcendent power. Previous cultures -- even when rent by bitter disagreements -- shared a common belief that a greater force stood above the material realm. But when one side acknowledges an ultimate source of truth while the other side denies it, debate is dead, and mutual understanding is impossible. So claims Fr. Dwight Longenecker in his most captivating book yet, Beheading Hydra. Longenecker shows how, like the mythical serpentine beast with myriad writhing and venomous heads, atheism manifests itself today through sixteen "isms" that cloak the actions of the antichrist, who seethes with pure hatred of God and His truth. Because any good battle plan calls for a thorough knowledge of the enemy, Fr. Longenecker boldly exposes the philosophies behind scientism, materialism, utilitarianism, sentimental humanitarianism, and more, explaining how they became the core assumptions of our culture and how they are, in turn, corrupting the politics and power structures of the world. Beheading Hydra brilliantly catalogs the alluring and seductive deceptions of each ism to help you see how they are corroding the very foundations of Western civilization and entrapping countless faithful Christians. Best of all, the book lays out a plan of action to behead the Hydra that calls for neither direct conflict nor even dialogue, but creative subversion. You'll discover what this means along with the powerful and practical actions you and your friends can take now. You'll also learn how to acquire the grace needed to see clearly the problem -- and the solutions. It is ordinary men and women who become extraordinary heroes in this battle against Satan, explains Fr. Longenecker. Only by the light of our lives will we defeat this darkness. Debate and dialogue are now pointless. Our lives are our only remaining argument.