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A Mortuary of Books

Author : Elisabeth Gallas
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479833959
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book A Mortuary of Books written by Elisabeth Gallas and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, 2020 JDC-Herbert Katzki Award for Writing Based on Archival Material, given by the Jewish Book Council The astonishing story of the efforts of scholars and activists to rescue Jewish cultural treasures after the Holocaust In March 1946 the American Military Government for Germany established the Offenbach Archival Depot near Frankfurt to store, identify, and restore the huge quantities of Nazi-looted books, archival material, and ritual objects that Army members had found hidden in German caches. These items bore testimony to the cultural genocide that accompanied the Nazis’ systematic acts of mass murder. The depot built a short-lived lieu de memoire—a “mortuary of books,” as the later renowned historian Lucy Dawidowicz called it—with over three million books of Jewish origin coming from nineteen different European countries awaiting restitution. A Mortuary of Books tells the miraculous story of the many Jewish organizations and individuals who, after the war, sought to recover this looted cultural property and return the millions of treasured objects to their rightful owners. Some of the most outstanding Jewish intellectuals of the twentieth century, including Dawidowicz, Hannah Arendt, Salo W. Baron, and Gershom Scholem, were involved in this herculean effort. This led to the creation of Jewish Cultural Reconstruction Inc., an international body that acted as the Jewish trustee for heirless property in the American Zone and transferred hundreds of thousands of objects from the Depot to the new centers of Jewish life after the Holocaust. The commitment of these individuals to the restitution of cultural property revealed the importance of cultural objects as symbols of the enduring legacy of those who could not be saved. It also fostered Jewish culture and scholarly life in the postwar world.

Mortuary Confidential

Author : Kenneth McKenzie
Publisher : Kensington Books
ISBN 13 : 0806531797
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Mortuary Confidential written by Kenneth McKenzie and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From rookie mistakes and runaway corpses to screaming dead men and unusual requests, a collection of stories by funeral directors.

Mortuary Science

Author : John Szabo
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0810845873
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Mortuary Science written by John Szabo and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2002 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Szabo presents a thorough bibliographical examination of the funeral industry and related subjects. Most citations are annotated, with special notes on editions and reprints.

Mortuary Law

Author : Thomas F. H. Stueve
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781883031145
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Mortuary Law written by Thomas F. H. Stueve and published by . This book was released on 2011-12 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 11th revised edition of Mortuary Law, published by The Cincinnati Foundation for Mortuary Education. Copyright 2011.

Past Mortems

Author : Carla Valentine
Publisher : Sphere
ISBN 13 : 9780751565348
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (653 download)

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Download or read book Past Mortems written by Carla Valentine and published by Sphere. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A day in the life of Carla Valentine - curator, pathology technician and 'death professional' - is not your average day. She spent ten years training and working as an Anatomical Pathology Technologist: where the mortuary slab was her desk, and that day's corpses her task list. Past Mortems tells Carla's stories of those years, as well as investigating the body alongside our attitudes towards death - shedding light on what the living can learn from dead and the toll the work can take on the living souls who carry it out. Fascinating and insightful, Past Mortems reveals the truth about what happens when the mortuary doors swing shut or the lid of the coffin closes.

Choosing a Career in Mortuary Science and the Funeral Industry

Author : Nancy L. Stair
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780823935680
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (356 download)

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Book Synopsis Choosing a Career in Mortuary Science and the Funeral Industry by : Nancy L. Stair

Download or read book Choosing a Career in Mortuary Science and the Funeral Industry written by Nancy L. Stair and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2001-12-15 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores career opportunities for those interested in becoming a funeral director, embalmer, coroner, medical examiner, or pathologist.

Transformation by Fire

Author : Gabriel Cooney
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816531145
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Transformation by Fire written by Gabriel Cooney and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2014-11-27 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transformation by Fire offers a current assessment of the archaeological research on the widespread social practice of cremation. Editors Ian Kuijt, Colin P. Quinn, and Gabriel Cooney chart a path for the development of interpretive archaeology surrounding this complex social process.

Breaking and Making the Ancestors

Author : Arjan Louwen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789464280012
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Breaking and Making the Ancestors written by Arjan Louwen and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-28 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book delves into the richness of funerary practices reflected in some 3000 urnfield graves excavated throughout the Netherlands in order to reconstruct the mortuary process associated with this fascinating funerary legacy from the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age.

Down Among the Dead Men

Author : Michelle Williams
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1849014639
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Down Among the Dead Men written by Michelle Williams and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2010-06-24 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michelle Williams is young and attractive, she has close family ties as well as a busy social life - but she is far from usual. She is a mortuary technician and her job involves dealing with those things in life that many people do not wish to experience directly. Yet life in the mortuary is neither gruesome nor sad. Told with good humour and common sense, we are introduced to a host of characters - the pathologists, many of them eccentric, some downright mad; the undertakers, the hospital porters and the man from the coroner's office who sings to Michelle every morning. The incidents too ensure that no two days are ever the same. From the tragic to the hilarious they include: The fitness fanatic who was run over as he did pressups in the road on a dark night The decapitated motorcyclist The guide dog who led his owner on to the railway tracks - and left him there The forty stone man for whom an entire refrigerated lorry had to be hired because he wouldn't fit in the mortuary cooler Over the course of her first year Michelle has to deal with situations and emotions that few of us will ever experience, and does so while retaining a sense of humour and a sense of perspective.

From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death

Author : Caitlin Doughty
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393249905
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death written by Caitlin Doughty and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times and Los Angeles Times Bestseller “Doughty chronicles [death] practices with tenderheartedness, a technician’s fascination, and an unsentimental respect for grief.” —Jill Lepore, The New Yorker Fascinated by our pervasive fear of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty embarks on a global expedition to discover how other cultures care for the dead. From Zoroastrian sky burials to wish-granting Bolivian skulls, she investigates the world’s funerary customs and expands our sense of what it means to treat the dead with dignity. Her account questions the rituals of the American funeral industry—especially chemical embalming—and suggests that the most effective traditions are those that allow mourners to personally attend to the body of the deceased. Exquisitely illustrated by artist Landis Blair, From Here to Eternity is an adventure into the morbid unknown, a fascinating tour through the unique ways people everywhere confront mortality.

Port Mortuary

Author : Patricia Cornwell
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0425243605
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book Port Mortuary written by Patricia Cornwell and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-08-30 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • More than twenty years into her career, Kay Scarpetta is confronted with a case that could ruin her professionally—and personally . . . “Cornwell remains the master of incorporating real-life science into pulse-pounding fiction.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer IN DEVELOPMENT AS THE ORIGINAL SERIES SCARPETTA STARRING NICOLE KIDMAN AND JAMIE LEE CURTIS Kay Scarpetta’s secret military ties have drawn her to Dover Air Force Base and Port Mortuary, where she’s performing autopsies on fallen soldiers. But her new headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts—the Cambridge Forensic Center—is the first civilian facility in the U.S. to do virtual autopsies, and it is there that she encounters a devastating event. A young man has died, apparently from a cardiac arrhythmia, eerily close to Scarpetta’s new Cambridge home. But when his body is examined the next morning, there are stunning indications that he may have been alive when he was zipped inside a pouch and locked inside the Center’s cooler. Various 3-D radiology scans reveal more shocking details about internal injuries unlike any Scarpetta has ever seen—details that suggest the possibility of a conspiracy to cause mass casualties. With Benton, Marino, and Lucy at her side, Scarpetta must fight a cunning, cruel—and invisible—enemy in a race against time. . . .

The Chick and the Dead

Author : Carla Valentine
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250120683
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book The Chick and the Dead written by Carla Valentine and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2017-06-13 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Using the most common post-mortem process as the backbone of the narrative, [this book] takes the reader through the process of an autopsy while also describing the history and changing cultures of our relationship with the dead. The book [examines] what happens to our bodies in the end. Each chapter considers an aspect of an autopsy alongside an aspect of Carla's own life and work and touches on some of the more controversial aspects of our feelings towards death, including the relationship between sex and death and our attitudes toward human tissue collection"--

Putting Makeup on Dead People

Author : Jen Violi
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 1423153138
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (231 download)

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Download or read book Putting Makeup on Dead People written by Jen Violi and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2011-05-24 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since her father's death four years ago, Donna has gone through the motions of living: her friendships are empty, she's clueless about what to do after high school graduation, and her grief keeps her isolated, cut off even from the one parent she has left. That is until she's standing in front of the dead body of a classmate at Brighton Brothers' Funeral Home. At that moment, Donna realizes what might just give her life purpose is comforting others in death.

Over Our Dead Bodies:

Author : Kenneth McKenzie
Publisher : Citadel
ISBN 13 : 0806536659
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Over Our Dead Bodies: written by Kenneth McKenzie and published by Citadel. This book was released on 2014-06-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover a more lighthearted side of the funeral industry in this collection of real-life stories from the authors of Mortuary Confidential. Not knowing what to do, I sat on the church steps and waited. As the gravity of my failure began to well up in me, I began to cry . . . I Had Lost The Hearse! Funerals and the all the things that accompany them are traditionally somber, contemplative events in which the bereaved look to their undertaker to guide them through that most difficult of times. Of course, sometimes tradition gets thrown under the bus. From a dysfunctional family who turn their mother’s wake into a full-blown riot, to funeral crashers looking for free meals, to a horse-drawn hearse taking the dearly departed for the ride of their afterlife, these accounts from actual undertakers will have you laughing, thinking, and gasping in disbelief. A literal graveyard of wild coincidences, slapstick humor, and touching moments, Over Our Dead Bodies explores the lighter side of the dead, the living, and the lone undertaker who must make it all go as planned—even if it doesn’t. Praise for Mortuary Confidential “Outrageous funeral stories, dipped in beauty and morbid humor.” —Caleb Wilde, author of Confessions of a Funeral Director “Curious, wildly honest stories that need to be told, but just not at the dinner table.” —Dana Kollmann, author of Never Suck a Dead Man’s Hand “As unpredictable and lively as a bunch of drunks at a New Orleans funeral.” —Joe R. Lansdale, author of Moon Lake “Sick, funny, and brilliant! I love this book.” —Jonathan Maberry, Bram Stoker Award–winning author of They Bite! And Rot & Ruin “These true mortuary tales are poignant—and suddenly, gaspi

Corrupt Bodies

Author : Kris Hollington
Publisher : Icon Books
ISBN 13 : 1785785532
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (857 download)

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Download or read book Corrupt Bodies written by Kris Hollington and published by Icon Books. This book was released on 2019-09-26 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ** SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA'S ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION ** In 1985, Peter Everett landed the job as Superintendent of Southwark Mortuary. In just six years he'd gone from lowly assistant to running the UK's busiest murder morgue. He couldn't believe his luck. What he didn't know was that Southwark, operating in near-Victorian conditions, was a hotbed of corruption. Attendants stole from the dead, funeral homes paid bribes, and there was a lively trade in stolen body parts and recycled coffins. Set in the fascinating pre-DNA and psychological profiling years of 1985-87, this memoir tells a gripping and gruesome tale, with a unique insight into a world of death most of us don't ever see. Peter managed pathologists, oversaw post mortems and worked alongside Scotland Yard's Murder Squad - including on the case of the serial killer, the Stockwell Strangler. This is a thrilling tale of murder and corruption in the mid-1980s, told with insight and compassion.

The Mortuary Monster

Author : Andrew Stone
Publisher : StrangeHouse Books
ISBN 13 : 9781946335005
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book The Mortuary Monster written by Andrew Stone and published by StrangeHouse Books. This book was released on 2016-10-29 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's Corpse Bride meets Eraserhead despite Gonzalo's best efforts to live a life like Leave It to Beaver's.Gonzalo grew up in the cemetery under the care of his monstrous parents and in the company of decaying corpses. As a result, he only desired one thing throughout his childhood: To be normal enough to join society. But despite his attempts at running away from his family, he has never been able to leave the mortuary. Now, as an adult, Gonzalo manages the cemetery. His family has died yet he is still unable to leave. Then, on the night of the annual Cadaver Tea party, something impossible happens--he impregnates the corpse Fiona. In an attempt to normalize the cemetery before his child's birth, Gonzalo begins to close all the coffins, forever locking the dead inside. Without the intercession of corpses like Henry, the voluntary babysitter of abused children, Lionel, the life-long explorer, Victoria, the world's first professional deep-sea water ski champion, and Vincent, Victoria's long-time lover and trainer, Gonzalo believes he and Fiona will be able to raise their child to join the rest of the world. But in the throes of terminal calcium deficiency, Fiona's bones deteriorate to dust immediately after she gives birth. Can Gonzalo make the young Frank, his now motherless, half-corpse son, normal enough for society? Can he raise his son without becoming like his own parents? Will Gonzalo become the Mortuary Monster he has spent his whole life trying to escape?

And Then I Cried

Author : Justin Jordan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780985558253
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (582 download)

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Download or read book And Then I Cried written by Justin Jordan and published by . This book was released on 2012-07 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A personal look at honor, duty and absolute horror of serving in our Armed Forces. A nonfiction account of Justin Jordan's experiences while serving on active duty for the United States Air Force as a mortuary affairs non-commissioned officer ...