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Dead Peasants

Author : Larry D. Thompson
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250018005
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Dead Peasants written by Larry D. Thompson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Just terrific... As real as a heart attack, and every bit as suspenseful." --John Lescroart, New York Times bestselling author of A Plague of Secrets, on The Trial Veteran trial lawyer Larry D. Thompson has decades of courtroom experience in his home state of Texas on controversial and important trials. Now, in Dead Peasants, Thompson has delivered a fast-moving and suspenseful legal thriller featuring a retired lawyer whose life gets turned upside down when a stranger asks for help. Jack Bryant, exhausted after a high-profile career as a lawyer, takes an early retirement in Fort Worth, Texas, where he plans to kick back, relax, and watch his son play football at TCU. But then an elderly widow shows up with a check for life insurance benefits and that is suspiciously made payable to her dead husband's employer, Jack can't turn down her pleas for help and files a civil suit to collect the benefits rightfully due the widow. A chain of events that can't be stopped thrusts Jack into a vortex of killings, and he and his new love interest find themselves targets of a murderer. Gripping, engaging, and written with the authority that only a seasoned lawyer could possess, Dead Peasants is a legal thriller that will stun and surprise you.

Dead Peasants

Author : Dustin Stevens
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781482582642
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (826 download)

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Download or read book Dead Peasants written by Dustin Stevens and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2013-02-19 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bargain Mart, long a fixture in the Missoula economic structure has fallen on hard times. Things are dire, and if a financial windfall doesn't arrive soon, their doors will close.Across town, a woman grieves her recently deceased husband. Sitting alone at her kitchen table trying to put her life back in order, a call arrives asking where his quarter million dollar life insurance policy should be sent. A quarter million dollar life insurance policy she never knew existed. Answering the phone on the other end of her call for help is Drake Bell, third year law student at the University of Montana. Joined by his partner Ava, and his loyal friends the Zoo Crew, Drake must attempt to make sense of the case Alice presents him. A case that only grows more complex as people continue to pass in Missoula, all with ties to Bargain Mart, all with large life insurance policies attached to them. Policies known in the corporate world as Dead Peasants...

The Dead Peasant's Handbook

Author : Brian Turner
Publisher : Alice James Books
ISBN 13 : 1949944298
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (499 download)

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Download or read book The Dead Peasant's Handbook written by Brian Turner and published by Alice James Books. This book was released on 2023-11-07 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the loose series of Turner’s other recent 2023 publications, The Wild Delight of Wild Things and The Goodbye World Poem, this third book in this “collection” serves as a poetic guide to help us navigate the world we live in. The Dead Peasant’s Handbook begins with the difficulty and hardship of living in the world after losing a loved one before allowing oneself to gravitate again towards delight and wonder. With deep dives into history, the poems traverse the wild terrain of our lives, and it remains ever-constant to the theme at the core of all three recent books—that of love and loss. The poems take their structure from guidebooks, featuring subject areas connected to the general experience of being human: war and conflict, dreams, love and loss, and survival. The book itself takes its title from an insurance industry policy (“Dead Peasants”) in which companies can take out insurance on their workforce in case of loss or death—sometimes without employees knowing. And so, this book is also a commentary on the people and moments that are too often elided over and given the vault of silence, and maybe lost to time.

Dead Peasants

Author : Leif Oleson-Cormack
Publisher : Samuel French Trade
ISBN 13 : 9780573701559
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Dead Peasants written by Leif Oleson-Cormack and published by Samuel French Trade. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A worker dies in a suspicious accident while cleaning augers in an animal food pellet factory on the outskirts of a small rural community. Moving back and forth in time, we learn that his passing was actually murder on the part of the factory's owners, two brothers who are motivated both by insurance money and one of the brother's affections for the victim's widow.

Stalin's Genocides

Author : Norman M. Naimark
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400836069
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Stalin's Genocides written by Norman M. Naimark and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-07-19 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The chilling story of Stalin’s crimes against humanity Between the early 1930s and his death in 1953, Joseph Stalin had more than a million of his own citizens executed. Millions more fell victim to forced labor, deportation, famine, bloody massacres, and detention and interrogation by Stalin's henchmen. Stalin's Genocides is the chilling story of these crimes. The book puts forward the important argument that brutal mass killings under Stalin in the 1930s were indeed acts of genocide and that the Soviet dictator himself was behind them. Norman Naimark, one of our most respected authorities on the Soviet era, challenges the widely held notion that Stalin's crimes do not constitute genocide, which the United Nations defines as the premeditated killing of a group of people because of their race, religion, or inherent national qualities. In this gripping book, Naimark explains how Stalin became a pitiless mass killer. He looks at the most consequential and harrowing episodes of Stalin's systematic destruction of his own populace—the liquidation and repression of the so-called kulaks, the Ukrainian famine, the purge of nationalities, and the Great Terror—and examines them in light of other genocides in history. In addition, Naimark compares Stalin's crimes with those of the most notorious genocidal killer of them all, Adolf Hitler.

Dead Peasants

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ISBN 13 : 9781602647091
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (47 download)

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What Money Can't Buy

Author : Michael J. Sandel
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1429942584
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book What Money Can't Buy written by Michael J. Sandel and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Should we pay children to read books or to get good grades? Should we allow corporations to pay for the right to pollute the atmosphere? Is it ethical to pay people to test risky new drugs or to donate their organs? What about hiring mercenaries to fight our wars? Auctioning admission to elite universities? Selling citizenship to immigrants willing to pay? In What Money Can't Buy, Michael J. Sandel takes on one of the biggest ethical questions of our time: Is there something wrong with a world in which everything is for sale? If so, how can we prevent market values from reaching into spheres of life where they don't belong? What are the moral limits of markets? In recent decades, market values have crowded out nonmarket norms in almost every aspect of life—medicine, education, government, law, art, sports, even family life and personal relations. Without quite realizing it, Sandel argues, we have drifted from having a market economy to being a market society. Is this where we want to be?In his New York Times bestseller Justice, Sandel showed himself to be a master at illuminating, with clarity and verve, the hard moral questions we confront in our everyday lives. Now, in What Money Can't Buy, he provokes an essential discussion that we, in our market-driven age, need to have: What is the proper role of markets in a democratic society—and how can we protect the moral and civic goods that markets don't honor and that money can't buy?

The Potent Dead

Author : Henri Chambert-Loir
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824825553
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book The Potent Dead written by Henri Chambert-Loir and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2002-03-31 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dead are potent and omnipresent in modern Indonesia. Presidents and peasants alike meditate before sacred graves to exploit the power they confer, and mediums do good business curing the sick by interpreting the wishes of deceased forebears. Among non-Muslims there are ritual reburials of the bones of the dead in monuments both magnificent and modest. This is the first book to assess the indigenous systems of belief in the spirits of ancestors. A unique team of anthropologists, historians, and literary scholars from Europe, Australia, and North America demonstrate the continuing importance of the potent dead for understanding contemporary Indonesia. At the same time, they help us understand historic processes of conversion to Islam and Christianity by examining the continuing interactions of the spirit world with formal religion. The Potent Dead is a collection of studies by leading scholars of Indonesian culture, history, and anthropology that examines the death practices and rituals of tribal groups in Indonesia. It covers an important area of cultural and social history in Indonesia, with pieces linking the death practices of so-called tribal groups with historical changes in the country, from on-going changes in Islam to the roles of forms of modernity. Contributors: Henri Chambert-Loir, Elizabeth Coville, James Fox, Danielle Geirnaert, Rodolfo Giambelli, Claude Guillot, Christian Pelras, George Quinn, Anthony Reid, Minako Sakai, Anne Schiller, Bernard Sellato, Klaus Shreiner.For sale in Asia, Australia, and New Zealand by NUS Press (Singapore)

Dead Peasants

Author : Larry D. Thompson
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250009499
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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The Dead Peasants' Contract

Author : L. Craig Harris
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781537789941
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (899 download)

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Download or read book The Dead Peasants' Contract written by L. Craig Harris and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dead Peasants File adventure continues for Dillon, Christopher and Travis. Charles Morgan is furious that they nearly ruined his company, and he strikes back with a vengeance. How far will he go to destroy their lives? How far will they go to escape his wrath and defend themselves? Meanwhile, Morgan Retail continues to pay well, but at what expense? The Dead Peasants' Contract will take you back to the mountains and to tropical paradise as its heroes fight against a giant company and its power-hungry owner. This mystery-adventure novel is written from a Christian world-view and is appropriate for all ages.

Dead Souls

Author : Gogol, Nikolai
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dead Souls written by Gogol, Nikolai and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in the year 1842, Russian writer-activist Nikolai Gogol's book 'Dead Souls' was one of the most appreciated satirical works of the 19th century Russian literature. The purpose of the novel was to demonstrate the flaws and faults of the Russian mentality and character.

The Dead Peasants File

Author : L. Craig Harris
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781483972732
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (727 download)

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Download or read book The Dead Peasants File written by L. Craig Harris and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2013-04-05 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A group of people who work for a retail giant discover a dark, murderous secret about the company. But finding out has made them the next targets. Now they are in for the fight of their lives as they try to stop the murders before the company gets to them first.Dead peasant's insurance is real. Companies routinely purchase corporate-owned life insurance policies on their workers. If the worker dies, the company, not the family, receives the benefit.The Dead Peasants File is fast-paced and exciting, building to a breath-taking climax that is hauntingly frightening, heart-breaking and realistic, but ultimately satisfying.

The German Peasants' War

Author : Tom Scott
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 1616140240
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book The German Peasants' War written by Tom Scott and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 1994-06-01 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The German Peasants' War of 1524-26 was the greatest popular uprising in European history before the French Revolution. Its significance is heightened by the contemporary struggle for religious renewal in the Reformation, which had a decisive influence on its course. Yet very little writing in English has discussed the Peasants' War in detail. This volume traces the war through contemporary documents, both published and original, for the English-speaking reader in translation. It gives generous coverage to the causes and course of the revolt, and to its ideological mainsprings and forms of organization. At the same time it illustrates the authorities' response, the role of towns in the revolt, and the sociological variety of the participants. The main political theories inspired by the revolt receive full treatment, and the volume concludes with detailed coverage of the attempts to suppress the insurrection and its political and social aftermath. Accompanying the selection of 162 documents is an extended introduction, which traces the main issues facing historians in seeking to understand the revolt: it also provides thumbnail sketches of the course of the Peasants' War in the five main areas of rebellion. The volume includes eight maps for convenient reference and a select bibliography for further reading. This study will be of particular interest to undergraduate and graduate students of history, politics, religion, sociology, and anthropology taking courses on early modern Europe, revolutions and social movements, peasant studies, the transition from feudalism to capitalism, and the Reformation.

Counting the Dead

Author : Winifred Tate
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520941179
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Counting the Dead written by Winifred Tate and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2007-10-09 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time when a global consensus on human rights standards seems to be emerging, this rich study steps back to explore how the idea of human rights is actually employed by activists and human rights professionals. Winifred Tate, an anthropologist and activist with extensive experience in Colombia, finds that radically different ideas about human rights have shaped three groups of human rights professionals working there--nongovernmental activists, state representatives, and military officers. Drawing from the life stories of high-profile activists, pioneering interviews with military officials, and research at the United Nations Human Rights Commission in Geneva, Counting the Dead underscores the importance of analyzing and understanding human rights discourses, methodologies, and institutions within the context of broader cultural and political debates.

Here, Bullet

Author : Brian Turner
Publisher : Alice James Books
ISBN 13 : 1938584147
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (385 download)

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Download or read book Here, Bullet written by Brian Turner and published by Alice James Books. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A first-person account of the Iraq War by a solider-poet, winner of the 2005 Beatrice Hawley Award. Adding his voice to the current debate about the US occupation of Iraq, in poems written in the tradition of such poets as Wilfred Owen, Yusef Komunyakaa (Dien Cai Dau), Bruce Weigl (Song of Napalm) and Alice James’ own Doug Anderson (The Moon Reflected Fire), Iraqi war veteran Brian Turner writes power-fully affecting poetry of witness, exceptional for its beauty, honesty, and skill. Based on Turner’s yearlong tour in Iraq as an infantry team leader, the poems offer gracefully rendered, unflinching description but, remarkably, leave the reader to draw conclusions or moral lessons. Here, Bullet is a must-read for anyone who cares about the war, regardless of political affiliation.

Only the Dead

Author : Bear F. Braumoeller
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190849533
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Only the Dead written by Bear F. Braumoeller and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea that war is going out of style has become the conventional wisdom in recent years. But in Only the Dead, award-winning author Bear Braumoeller demonstrates that it shouldn't have. With a rare combination of historical expertise, statistical acumen, and accessible prose, Braumoeller shows that the evidence simply doesn't support the decline-of-war thesis propounded by scholars like Steven Pinker. He argues that the key to understanding trends in warfare lies, not in the spread of humanitarian values, but rather in the formation of international orders--sets of expectations about behavior that allow countries to work in concert, as they did in the Concert of Europe and have done in the postwar Western liberal order. With a nod toward the American sociologist Charles Tilly, who argued that "war made the state and the state made war," Braumoeller shows argues that the same is true of international orders: while they reduce conflict within their borders, they can also clash violently with one another, as the Western and communist orders did throughout the Cold War. Both highly readable and rigorous, Only the Dead offers a realistic assessment of humanity's quest to abolish warfare. While pessimists have been too quick to discount the successes of our attempts to reduce international conflict, optimists are prone to put too much faith in human nature. Reality lies somewhere in between: While the aspirations of humankind to govern its behavior with reason and justice have had shocking success in moderating the harsh dictates of realpolitik, the institutions that we have created to prevent war are unlikely to achieve anything like total success--as evidenced by the multitude of conflicts in recent decades. As the old adage advises us, only the dead have seen the end of war.

How to Do Things with Dead People

Author : Alice Dailey
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501763679
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book How to Do Things with Dead People written by Alice Dailey and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-15 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to Do Things with Dead People studies human contrivances for representing and relating to the dead. Alice Dailey takes as her principal objects of inquiry Shakespeare's English history plays, describing them as reproductive mechanisms by which living replicas of dead historical figures are regenerated in the present and re-killed. Considering the plays in these terms exposes their affinity with a transhistorical array of technologies for producing, reproducing, and interacting with dead things—technologies such as literary doppelgängers, photography, ventriloquist puppetry, X-ray imaging, glitch art, capital punishment machines, and cloning. By situating Shakespeare's historical drama in this intermedial conversation, Dailey challenges conventional assumptions about what constitutes the context of a work of art and contests foundational models of linear temporality that inform long-standing conceptions of historical periodization and teleological order. Working from an eclectic body of theories, pictures, and machines that transcend time and media, Dailey composes a searching exploration of how the living use the dead to think back and look forward, to rule, to love, to wish and create.