Very Bad Deaths

Author : Spider Robinson
Publisher : Baen Publishing Enterprises
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2002-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781618243621

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Very Bad Deaths by Spider Robinson Pdf

A MAN CAN'T EVEN DIE IN PEACE Blind to the beauty of his island home in Canada, shattered by the death of his wife of 32 years, American expatriate Russell Walker is ready to join her. But Smelly won't let him! Smelly¾notorious for his refusal to bathe¾was Russell's college roommate back in 1967. He's lived a hermit's life ever since, and only Russell knows why: Smelly reads minds, can't help it¾and it hurts. After all these years, Russell is still the only person Smelly can stand to be near. And now Smelly urgently needs an intermediary with the police¾suicidal or not. He's learned that a serial sadist who would terrify Ted Bundy is at play in the Vancouver area. Unfortunately, he's got only scraps of information that aren't enough to ID either the killer or his next victims. And he can't even come close enough to a cop to tell his story. Against his better judgment, Russell brings this unlikely tale to Constable Nika Mandic, a tough but unlucky Vancouver policewoman¾and soon the mild-mannered Sixties survivor finds himself conspiring with a telepathic hermit and an uptight cop to track a monster to his lair. But are the three together smart enough to stalk a creature who thinks of himself as the first true scientist of cruelty If not, Russell's suicidal urges may be fulfilled sooner¾and much less painlessly¾than he planned. . . . At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

Author : Pierce Brown
Publisher : Del Rey
Page : 907 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780425285954

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Dark Age by Pierce Brown Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The bestselling author of Morning Star returns to the Red Rising universe with the thrilling sequel to Iron Gold. “Brown’s plots are like a depth charge of nitromethane dropped in a bucket of gasoline. His pacing is 100% him standing over it all with a lit match and a smile, waiting for us to dare him to drop it.”—NPR (Best Books of the Year) He broke the chains. Then he broke the world…. A decade ago Darrow led a revolution, and laid the foundations for a new world. Now he’s an outlaw. Cast out of the very Republic he founded, with half his fleet destroyed, he wages a rogue war on Mercury. Outnumbered and outgunned, is he still the hero who broke the chains? Or will he become the very evil he fought to destroy? In his darkening shadow, a new hero rises. Lysander au Lune, the displaced heir to the old empire, has returned to bridge the divide between the Golds of the Rim and Core. If united, their combined might may prove fatal to the fledgling Republic. On Luna, the embattled Sovereign of the Republic, Virginia au Augustus, fights to preserve her precious demokracy and her exiled husband. But one may cost her the other, and her son is not yet returned. Abducted by enemy agents, Pax au Augustus must trust in a Gray thief, Ephraim, for his salvation. Far across the void, Lyria, a Red refugee accused of treason, makes a desperate bid for freedom with the help of two unlikely new allies. Fear dims the hopes of the Rising, and as power is seized, lost, and reclaimed, the worlds spin on and on toward a new Dark Age. Don’t miss any of Pierce Brown’s Red Rising Saga: RED RISING • GOLDEN SON • MORNING STAR • IRON GOLD • DARK AGE • LIGHT BRINGER

Author : Ohio. Secretary of State
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 900 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Ohio
ISBN : CORNELL:31924092250988

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Annual Report of the Secretary of State by Ohio. Secretary of State Pdf

1868- include the Statistical report of the Secretary of State.

Author : Ohio. Secretary of State
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 914 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Ohio
ISBN : STANFORD:36105126606610

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Statistical Report of the Secretary of State to the Governor and General Assembly of the State of Ohio for the Period Commencing ... and Ending ... by Ohio. Secretary of State Pdf

Author : Ohio. Secretary of State
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 902 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Ohio
ISBN : OSU:32437010542575

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Annual Report of the Secretary of State, to the Governor of the State of Ohio for the Year ... by Ohio. Secretary of State Pdf

Vols. for 1868- include the Statistical report of the Secretary of State in continuation of the Annual report of the Commissioner of Statistics.

Author : Stuart Turton
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781443457477

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The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton Pdf

A brilliantly original high concept murder mystery from a fantastic new talent: Gosford Park meets Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express 'Somebody's going to be murdered at the ball tonight. It won't appear to be a murder and so the murderer won't be caught. Rectify that injustice and I'll show you the way out.' It is meant to be a celebration but it ends in tragedy. As fireworks explode overhead, Evelyn Hardcastle, the young and beautiful daughter of the house, is killed. But Evelyn will not die just once. Until Aiden – one of the guests summoned to Blackheath for the party – can solve her murder, the day will repeat itself, over and over again. Every time ending with the fateful pistol shot. The only way to break this cycle is to identify the killer. But each time the day begins again, Aiden wakes in the body of a different guest. And someone is determined to prevent him ever escaping Blackheath...

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555031881

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QUARTERLY RETURN OF THE MARRIAGES, BIRTHS, AND DEATHS by Anonim Pdf

Author : George Alec Effinger
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781497605527

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A Thousand Deaths by George Alec Effinger Pdf

Science fiction stories that offer “a poignant glimpse into the author’s psyche . . . this bittersweet collection [is] one to be cherished” (Publishers Weekly). When we first meet Courane, he must face down TECT, the self-aware computer that has come to control Earth and its colonial planets. Exiled to Planet D, Courane races to cure the debilitating disease that attacks each of the planet’s residents, even as his own memory begins to fade. Unfortunately, his only source of information about the illness is TECT itself, and the computer’s agenda doesn’t seem to line up with Courane’s. In the seven other stories contained in A Thousand Deaths, Courane begins to blur reality and fiction as Effinger expertly plays with narrative conventions. However, these are not simply the whims of a science fiction writer; they are the frameworks the Nebula and Hugo Award–nominated author uses to answer questions about existence no one else even thought to ask. While George Alec Effinger’s Budayeen novel When Gravity Fails is perhaps his most famous work, his lesser-known novel The Wolves of Memory remained his favorite. In it, he introduced readers to Sandor Courane, an everyman and Effinger stand-in who struggles as he swims against the currents of fate. In life and in his multiple deaths, Sandor Courane serves as the unifying force in this collection of Effinger’s stories, starting with The Wolves of Memory and getting ever more clever and off the wall from there.

Author : Parjanya Sen,Anup Shekhar Chakraborty
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000904666

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Death and Dying in Northeast India by Parjanya Sen,Anup Shekhar Chakraborty Pdf

This book formulates a new pedagogy of death with regard to Northeast India and shows how this pedagogy offers an understanding of alternative knowledge systems and epistemes. In documenting a range of customs and practices pertaining to death, dying and the afterlife among the diverse ethnic communities of Northeast India, the book offers new soteriological, epistemological, sociological and phenomenological perspectives on death. Through an examination of these eschatological practices and their anthropological, theological and cultural moorings, the book aims to reach an understanding of notions of indigeneity with regard to Northeast India. The contributors to this book draw upon a range of subjects— from songs, literary texts, monuments, relics and funerary objects to biographies to folktales to stories of spirit possessions and supernatural encounters. It collates the research of scholars primarily from Northeast India, but also from Eastern India and offers an interdisciplinary analysis of these various belief systems and practices. This book will of interest to those researchers and scholars interested in South Asia in general and Northeast India in particular, and also to those interested in the social anthropology of religion, cultural studies, indigenous studies, folklore studies and Himalayan studies.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Medicine
ISBN : UOM:39015023912275

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Medical News and Abstract by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Medicine
ISBN : HARVARD:HC312L

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Medical News by Anonim Pdf

Author : Christopher M Moreman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 693 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317528876

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The Routledge Companion to Death and Dying by Christopher M Moreman Pdf

Few issues apply universally to people as poignantly as death and dying. All religions address concerns with death from the handling of human remains, to defining death, to suggesting what happens after life. The Routledge Companion to Death and Dying provides readers with an overview of the study of death and dying. Questions of death, mortality, and more recently of end-of-life care, have long been important ones and scholars from a range of fields have approached the topic in a number of ways. Comprising over fifty-two chapters from a team of international contributors, the companion covers: funerary and mourning practices; concepts of the afterlife; psychical issues associated with death and dying; clinical and ethical issues; philosophical issues; death and dying as represented in popular culture. This comprehensive collection of essays will bring together perspectives from fields as diverse as history, philosophy, literature, psychology, archaeology and religious studies, while including various religious traditions, including established religions like Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism as well as new or less widely known traditions such as the Spiritualist Movement, the Church of Latter Day Saints, and Raëlianism. The Routledge Companion to Death and Dying is essential reading for students and researchers in religious studies, philosophy and literature.

Author : Hikaru Suzuki
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2002-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 080477983X

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The Price of Death by Hikaru Suzuki Pdf

Funerary practices have long been a classic topic of anthropological inquiry, which has tended to focus on death rituals as expressions and reinforcers of community ties and values. In this book, the author looks at funerals as an urban business, based on her fieldwork at a large Japanese funeral company. Her central theme is the progressive commercialization of what once were primarily religious rituals. The book depicts the process of contemporary Japanese funerals, the practices of those who provide commercial funeral services, and the motivations and behavior of the mourners who purchase those services. In so doing, it examines the role of funeral companies in shaping Japanese cultural practices and changing an important aspect of Japanese society. The author addresses several related questions: What cultural changes accompanied the shift from traditional community funeral rituals to commercial funeral services? How did the mass consumption of commercial funerals produce cultural homogeneity while allowing for differences in individual services? How does the marketing of professional funeral services mediate changing cultural values? How have commercial services served to objectify changing concepts of dying, death, and the deceased in contemporary Japan? The author demonstrates that the funeral industry, the purchasers of funeral services, and Japanese values surrounding death are mutually dependent and are responsible for supporting, representing, and transforming cultural practices. Throughout, the author relates vivid and often moving details and anecdotes to lend a personal element to her study of the commodification of death in Japan.

Author : Michael Cholbi
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781783483853

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Immortality and the Philosophy of Death by Michael Cholbi Pdf

A collection of seminal articles investigating whether death is bad for us – and if so, whether immortality would be good for us.

Author : Carlton Muson,Joan K Perry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781135414054

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Negotiating a Good Death by Carlton Muson,Joan K Perry Pdf

Should human beings be allowed to decide when to die? Should doctors be allowed to assist them? During the last ten years there has been much international interest in euthanasia in the Netherlands. In the discussion of euthanasia in the US and the UK, both sides in the debate continually refer to the “Dutch Experience”. Negotiating a Good Death: Euthanasia in the Netherlands presents firsthand descriptions of euthanasia in practice in the Netherlands--something that has never been done before. This will provide a deeper understanding of the issues involved for all those interested in end-of-life decisions. It will also help clinicians and other medical professionals better understand end-of-life decision making. Negotiating a Good Death is the first inside account of how decisions about euthanasia are made in real-life situations. Documenting two years of observations at a Dutch hospital, this valuable book describes why patients request euthanasia, the social factors that influence doctors’decisions about granting patients’requests, and how patients and doctors confer over peaceful deaths. Some aspects of this delicate, often hidden, and socially taboo subject that Negotiating a Good Death frankly discusses are: the emotions that lead to a wish for death the ideology of easy death the anthropology of death the role of the researcher the line between symptom alleviation and euthanasia where the responsibility lies conservative options for medical personnel how to speak to relatives of someone who has requested euthanasia euthanasia as a cultural construct Through case studies and examples, Negotiating a Good Death: Euthanasia in the Netherlands will help you understand the issues surrounding euthanasia and how life-ending decisions are made by both doctors and patients.