White As The Shroud

Author : Myra MacDonald
Publisher : Hurst Publishers
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781787387515

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White as the Shroud by Myra MacDonald Pdf

Between South and Central Asia, in the high mountains and cold deserts, India, Pakistan and China have fought brutal wars over barren, uninhabited territory in a bid for control over their national peripheries, including Xinjiang and Tibet in China, and Jammu and Kashmir on the Indian subcontinent. White as the Shroud explores this broader story through the most surreal of such conflicts: the Siachen war, fought between India and Pakistan for control of the eponymous glacier. The tale of Siachen highlights the absurdity of seeking hard borders in such desolate mountains, as well as the brutality of high-altitude warfare—more soldiers were killed by the weather and terrain than by the fighting. As one of the few people to have visited both sides of the glacier, Indian and Pakistani, Myra MacDonald provides a first-hand view of the battlefield and a wealth of eyewitness testimony from combatants. She sets this account in the overarching narrative of the Kashmir conflict, India’s defeat by China in 1962, and the 1999 India-Pakistan Kargil war. White as the Shroudbrings a fresh perspective to one of the most volatile corners of the world, raising questions about borders and the wars fought to defend them.

Author : Antanas Škėma
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Immigrants
ISBN : 1908251840

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White Shroud by Antanas Škėma Pdf

Considered by many to be Lithuania's most important work of modernist fiction, this novel tells the story of Antanas Garsva, an emigre poet working as an elevator operator in a large New York hotel in the 1950s.

Author : Allen Ginsberg
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1987-11-11
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780060914295

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White Shroud by Allen Ginsberg Pdf

Poems by a modern master. "[Ginsberg's] powerful mixture of Blake, Whitman, Pound, and Williams, to which he added his own volatile, grotesque, and tender humor, has assured him a memorable place in modern poetry."-- Helen Vendler

Author : Harry E Gove
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0750303980

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Relic, Icon or Hoax? by Harry E Gove Pdf

Interest in the Turin Shroud continues to the present day even though it was finally carbon dated in 1988 and shown not to be of an age consistent with Christ's burial. Scientifically, the age of the shroud cloth is of little consequence, but to the general public, it is of considerable significance. The author Harry E. Gove is a co-inventor of accelerator mass spectrometry and was responsible for its use in establishing whether the Turin Shroud could have been Christ's burial cloth. Relic, Icon or Hoax?: Carbon Dating the Turin Shroud presents an eyewitness account of the events that culminated in the final determination of the age of the linen cloth of the Turin Shroud and some of the subsequent reactions to the results. The book discusses the application of accelerator mass spectrometry to the carbon dating of the Turin Shroud using samples only a few square centimeters in area and weighing only a few tens of milligrams.

Author : Pamela Binnings Ewen
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Christian fiction
ISBN : 9781433671159

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Secret of the Shroud by Pamela Binnings Ewen Pdf

Ewen's powerful suspense novel uses the Shroud of Turin and the extensive investigations into its authenticity to explore and illuminate God's truth.

Author : Mark Antonacci
Publisher : M. Evans
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2001-08-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781461732402

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Resurrection of the Shroud by Mark Antonacci Pdf

This book scientifically challenges earlier radiocarbon testing and presents new evidence in determining the Shroud of Turin's true age.

Author : John Banville
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781447207368

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Shroud by John Banville Pdf

‘Shroud will not be easily surpassed for its combination of wit, moral complexity and compassion. It is hard to see what more a novel could do’ Irish Times Dark secrets and reality unravel in Shroud, the second of John Banville's three novels to feature Cass Cleave, alongside Eclipse and Ancient Light. Axel Vander, distinguished intellectual and elderly academic, is not the man he seems. When a letter arrives out of the blue, threatening to unveil his secrets – and carefully concealed identity – Vander travels to Turin to meet its author. There, muddled by age and alcohol, unable always to distinguish fact from fiction, Vander comes face to face with the woman who has the knowledge to unmask him, Cass Cleave. However, her sense of reality is as unreliable as his, and the two are quickly drawn together, their relationship dark, disturbed and doomed to disaster from its very start.

Author : Donald Clough Cameron
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1153417147

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Author : ElizaBeth Gilligan
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2004-04-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101665725

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The Silken Shroud by ElizaBeth Gilligan Pdf

The second book of the dazzling Silken Magic series, set in the mythical kingdom of Tyrrhia, where courtly politics, magic, and the silk trade intersect. Romani magic had gifted the princess Alessandra with the blessing of the Fairy folk. So when death claimed her at the White King’s Court in Tyrrhia, not only her own clan and the man she loved, Maggiore Mandero di Montago, but the Fairy folk, too, cried out for justice and revenge. For Alessandra’s corpse had been stolen—bound by spells to entrap her soul—so her energy could be used to work dark magic. If her body wasn’t found and her soul wasn’t set free within a year, she would be transformed into a creature of evil, the goodness within her completely consumed. Alessa is held by a master of the dark arts, a man who has a high position in the Church and who might yet call upon powerful allies for support. And even with the magic of the Rom and the Fairy folk to aid him, Mandero would be in terrible jeopardy as he sought to find and free Alessa from her earthly prison. Yet he must try at all costs, for the stakes are far higher than the loss of one soul, no matter how beloved. If the enemy’s plans cannot be overturned, all Tyrrhia might be plunged into a religious war that could see an end to the last stronghold of peace, tolerance, and true magic....

Author : Thomas W. Case
Publisher : White Horse Press (OH)
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0964831015

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The Shroud of Turin and the C-14 Dating Fiasco by Thomas W. Case Pdf

Author : P.D. James
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781451697797

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Shroud for a Nightingale by P.D. James Pdf

Hailed as “mystery at its best” by The New York Times, Shroud for a Nightingale is the fourth book in bestselling author P.D. James’s Adam Dalgliesh mystery series. The young women of Nightingale House are there to learn to nurse and comfort the suffering. But when one of the students plays patient in a demonstration of nursing skills, she is horribly, brutally killed. Another student dies equally mysteriously, and it is up to Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard to unmask a killer who has decided to prescribe murder as the cure for all ills.

Author : Bram Stoker
Publisher : Xist Publishing
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781681956527

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The Lady of the Shroud by Bram Stoker Pdf

A Gothic Adventure from the Author of Dracula “She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.” -Bram Stoker, The Lady of the Shroud The Lady of the Shroud is a story by Bram Stoker about young man who helps the people of a small country in the Balkans in their struggle against their more powerful neighbors. This Xist Classics edition has been professionally formatted for e-readers with a linked table of contents. This eBook also contains a bonus book club leadership guide and discussion questions. We hope you’ll share this book with your friends, neighbors and colleagues and can’t wait to hear what you have to say about it. Xist Publishing is a digital-first publisher. Xist Publishing creates books for the touchscreen generation and is dedicated to helping everyone develop a lifetime love of reading, no matter what form it takes

Author : Bram Stoker
Publisher : Tales of Mystery & the Superna
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1840226455

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The Lair of the White Worm and the Lady of the Shroud by Bram Stoker Pdf

Here are two great, neglected horror novels by Bram Stoker, author of "Dracula," together in one volume for the first time

Author : Jerome R. Corsi
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781439190456

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The Shroud Codex by Jerome R. Corsi Pdf

After a New Jersey priest has a near-death experience he begins to resemble the image depicted on the Shroud of Turin, prompting a skeptical Vatican representative to investigate the claim and subsequently question the assumptions he has held for so long. THE PRIEST… Brought back to life on an operating room table, Father Paul Bartholomew is haunted by visions of Christ as Golgotha. Then, as he celebrates Mass, blood starts running down his arms. The horrified congregation watches him collapse, his vestments soaked in the blood pouring from wounds on his wrists. Mysteriously, he now resembles in almost every physical aspect the Christ-like figure represented on the Shroud of Turin. THE SKEPTICS… Worried lest Bartholomew’s case be proved a hoax, the Vatican employs two prominent scientists to investigate. Dr. Stephen Castle, an American psychiatrist, is renowned for his book arguing that religion is a figment of human imagination. Professor Marco Gabrielli, an Italian religious researcher and chemist, has made a career of debunking supposed miracles, of explaining the unexplainable. THE MIRACLE… For centuries, the Shroud of Turin has defied science. Is this ancient remnant truly Christ’s burial cloth, or the biggest fraud ever perpetrated? When the priest’s uncanny resemblance to the picture on the Shroud prompts Castle and Gabrielli to investigate the artifact itself, each is finally forced to face mysteries reason alone cannot explain—in a journey of discovery that plumbs the farthest reaches of science and the human spirit.

Author : Myra MacDonald
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781787387515

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White as the Shroud by Myra MacDonald Pdf

Between South and Central Asia, in the high mountains and cold deserts, India, Pakistan and China have fought brutal wars over barren, uninhabited territory in a bid for control over their national peripheries, including Xinjiang and Tibet in China, and Jammu and Kashmir on the Indian subcontinent. White as the Shroud explores this broader story through the most surreal of such conflicts: the Siachen war, fought between India and Pakistan for control of the eponymous glacier. The tale of Siachen highlights the absurdity of seeking hard borders in such desolate mountains, as well as the brutality of high-altitude warfare--more soldiers were killed by the weather and terrain than by the fighting. As one of the few people to have visited both sides of the glacier, Indian and Pakistani, Myra MacDonald provides a first-hand view of the battlefield and a wealth of eyewitness testimony from combatants. She sets this account in the overarching narrative of the Kashmir conflict, India's defeat by China in 1962, and the 1999 India-Pakistan Kargil war. White as the Shroud brings a fresh perspective to one of the most volatile corners of the world, raising questions about borders and the wars fought to defend them.