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Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781726836395
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (363 download)
Download or read book The House of the Dead Hand written by Edith Wharton and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-10-07 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complete and unabridged paperback edition.
Author : David Hoffman
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307387844
Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)
Download or read book The Dead Hand written by David Hoffman and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2010-08-03 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE The first full account of how the Cold War arms race finally came to a close, this riveting narrative history sheds new light on the people who struggled to end this era of massive overkill, and examines the legacy of the nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons that remain a threat today. Drawing on memoirs, interviews in both Russia and the US, and classified documents from deep inside the Kremlin, David E. Hoffman examines the inner motives and secret decisions of each side and details the deadly stockpiles that remained unsecured as the Soviet Union collapsed. This is the fascinating story of how Reagan, Gorbachev, and a previously unheralded collection of scientists, soldiers, diplomats, and spies changed the course of history.
Author : Sara Richard
Publisher : Source Point Press
ISBN 13 : 9781954412286
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (122 download)
Download or read book The Dead Hand Book written by Sara Richard and published by Source Point Press. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dead Hand Book is a memorial to mortality and the ancestral liaison with death through quiet and sweetly-macabre short stories. The Dead Hand Book is a memorial to mortality and the ancestral liaison with death through quiet and sweetly-macabre short stories. The collection of fables is inspired by the manner those long gone have had their memories engraved onto slate and marble stones with the cadence of an old Folk song or Murder Ballad. Tales of warning, the deepest loves honored by surviving paramours and the indifferent cruelty of life in the 17th-20th century are all recorded in the Stories From Gravesend Cemetery. The purpose of this book is to educate the casual cemetery wanderer about how to read the old stones they pass by and to excite the #deathpositivity movement enthusiast or morbidly curious. This book aims help honor those who have come before us by opening the door of understanding the strange records inscribed in old cemeteries; many of those interred below having only that record of their life existing on a crumbling stone. The stories are short and often open-ended to allow the reader to contemplate their interpretation of the endings, maybe even their own mortality. (Much like the way Edward Gorey crafted his short stories.) Modern attitudes towards death have become sodden with superstition, misinformation and fear; this book’s goal is to illuminate how those of the near past embraced, cared for, and honored death as an obvious part of life. Not long ago art was very much an integral part of funerary celebrations such as elaborate Memento Mori carvings on ancient gravestones and the hair jewelry of the Victorians. Those relics are celebrated in The Dead Hand Book.
Author : Harold Coyle
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780765363879
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (638 download)
Download or read book Dead Hand written by Harold Coyle and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-04-28 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful doomsday weapon originally designed by the Soviets falls into the hands of nationalist fanatic General Likatchev, who threatens to unleash a global holocaust in order to topple the current Russian regime.
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Author : Sally Spencer
Publisher : Severn House Publishers Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1780100329
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (81 download)
Download or read book Dead Hand of History written by Sally Spencer and published by Severn House Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Woodend series has always been one of the best British police procedurals around. Now Spencer has taken up a new series with Paniatowski in the lead, and she proves again that she is in the league with Peter Turnbull and Lynda La Plante" - Library Journal The first book in the page-turning DCI Monika Paniatowski British police procedural series, set in the 1970s. It will be no easy task to fill the shoes of a local legend like DCI Charlie Woodend, the newly-promoted Monika Paniatowski tells herself, but given a little time, she thinks she can grow into them. Yet time is the one thing she does not have. On her first day in the new job, a severed female hand is discovered on the riverbank. The obvious suspect is Stan Szymborska, the victim’s war-hero husband, though Paniatowski refuses to arrest him. But is it the lack of evidence which is holding her back . . . or is it the fact that he is not only the most attractive man she has met in a long time, but also a fellow Pole? Woodend is preparing to leave for a new life in Spain, and Paniatowski is determined not to ask for his help. But when her colleagues prove untrustworthy, the urge to call him becomes almost irresistible . . .
Author : Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192838681
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (386 download)
Download or read book Memoirs from the House of the Dead written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this almost documentary account of his own experiences of penal servitude in Serbia, Dostoevsky describes the physical and mental suffering of the convicts, the squalor and the degradation, in relentless detail. The inticate procedure whereby the men strip for the bath without removing their ten-pound leg-fetters is an extraordinary tour de force, compared by Turgenev to passages from Dante's Inferno. Terror and resignation - the rampages of a pyschopath, the brief serence interlude of Christmas Day - are evoked by Dostoevsky, writing several years after his release, with a strikingly uncharacteristic detachment. For this reason, House of the Dead is certainly the least Dostoevskian of his works, yet, paradoxically, it ranks among his great masterpieces.
Author : Judith Cutler
Publisher : Severn House Publishers Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1448311330
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (483 download)
Download or read book The Dead Hand written by Judith Cutler and published by Severn House Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2023-11-07 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While hosting a group of academics at Thorncroft House, Harriet and Matthew Rowsley find themselves confronted with bigger - and bloodier! - issues than unruly guests . . . The fifth instalment of the Harriet and Matthew Rowsley Victorian mystery series sets in England during the great Victorian era. June 1861, Victorian England. A house full of academics should imply calm and quiet, but much to housekeeper Harriet Rowsley's dismay some of the guests seem to have problems with the estate's unconventional practices and aren't afraid of voicing their concerns. Having Harriet and her husband and interim estate manager Matthew as the hosts of Thorncroft House, while his lordship is ill and the trustees are seeking for his heir, is obviously not to everyone's taste! But Harriet won't let their patronising opinions get in the way of running the household as it was entrusted to her. She and her husband seem to have things under control until a series of unusual accidents occur around them. To make matters worse and more pressing, one of these accidents proves fatal . . . With a house now full of suspects, Harriet and Matthew have to find out who is causing chaos and why. While everyone is focused on drawing out the culprit and searching for a motive, Harriet has her own theory as to why these incidents happen and decides to follow her hunch - after all, every aspect should be considered, just in case! For fans of Downton Abbey who love a thrilling murder mystery twist and authentic depictions of the Victorian period. This is a compelling upstairs-downstairs mystery featuring a husband and wife detective duo.
Author : Lawrence M. Friedman
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804771081
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Dead Hands written by Lawrence M. Friedman and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-09 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The law of succession rests on a single brute fact: you can't take it with you. The stock of wealth that turns over as people die is staggeringly large. In the United States alone, some $41 trillion will pass from the dead to the living in the first half of the 21st century. But the social impact of inheritance is more than a matter of money; it is also a matter of what money buys and brings about. Law and custom allow people many ways to pass on their property. As Friedman's enlightening social history reveals, a decline in formal rules, the ascendancy of will substitutes over classic wills, social changes like the rise of the family of affection, changing ideas of acceptable heirs, and the potential disappearance of the estate tax all play a large role in the balance of wealth. Dead Hands uncovers the tremendous social and legal importance of this rite of passage, and how it reflects changing values and priorities in American families and society.
Author : James J. Butcher
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 059354708X
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (935 download)
Download or read book Dead Man's Hand written by James J. Butcher and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-09-05 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of his renowned father, James J. Butcher’s debut novel is a brilliant urban fantasy about a young man who must throw out the magical rule book to solve the murder of his former mentor. On the streets of Boston, the world is divided into the ordinary Usuals, and the paranormal Unorthodox. And in the Department of Unorthodox Affairs, the Auditors are the magical elite, government-sanctioned witches with spells at their command and all the power and prestige that comes with it. Grimshaw Griswald Grimsby is…not one of those witches. After flunking out of the Auditor training program and being dismissed as “not Department material,” Grimsby tried to resign himself to life as a mediocre witch. But he can’t help hoping he’ll somehow, someway, get another chance to prove his skill. That opportunity comes with a price when his former mentor, aka the most dangerous witch alive, is murdered down the street from where he works, and Grimsby is the Auditors’ number one suspect. Proving his innocence will require more than a little legwork, and after forming a strange alliance with the retired legend known as the Huntsman and a mysterious being from Elsewhere, Grimsby is abruptly thrown into a life of adventure, whether he wants it or not. Now all he has to do is find the real killer, avoid the Auditors on his trail, and most importantly, stay alive.
Author : Kyle Higgins
Publisher : Image Comics
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Dead Hand #1 written by Kyle Higgins and published by Image Comics. This book was released on 2018-04-11 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "COLD WAR RELICS," Part One Carter Carlson was a highly decorated operative during the Cold War. But in the fall of 1991, as the Soviet Union collapsed, Carter discovered a secret that not only changed his life but also altered the course of history. Now, as the mysterious "Dead Hand" threatens to end the world once again, the only thing standing in its way is the relationship between an old spy and a little boy.
Author : Clare B. Dunkle
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN 13 : 1429951222
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book The House of Dead Maids written by Clare B. Dunkle and published by Henry Holt and Company (BYR). This book was released on 2010-09-14 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young Tabby Aykroyd has been brought to the dusty mansion of Seldom House to be nursemaid to a foundling boy. He is a savage little creature, but the Yorkshire moors harbor far worse, as Tabby soon discovers. Why do scores of dead maids and masters haunt Seldom House with a jealous devotion that extends beyond the grave? As Tabby struggles to escape the evil forces rising out of the land, she watches her young charge choose a different path. Long before he reaches the old farmhouse of Wuthering Heights, the boy who will become Heathcliff has doomed himself and any who try to befriend him.
Author : Daniel Beer
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307958914
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)
Download or read book The House of the Dead written by Daniel Beer and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Cundill History Prize The House of the Dead tells the incredible hundred-year-long story of “the vast prison without a roof” that was Russia’s Siberian penal colony. From the beginning of the nineteenth century until the Russian Revolution, the tsars exiled more than a million prisoners and their families east. Here Daniel Beer illuminates both the brutal realities of this inhuman system and the tragic and inspiring fates of those who endured it. Siberia was intended to serve not only as a dumping ground for criminals and political dissidents, but also as new settlements. The system failed on both fronts: it peopled Siberia with an army of destitute and desperate vagabonds who visited a plague of crime on the indigenous population, and transformed the region into a virtual laboratory of revolution. A masterly and original work of nonfiction, The House of the Dead is the history of a failed social experiment and an examination of Siberia’s decisive influence on the political forces of the modern world.
Author : Alvin Schwartz
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062682881
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (626 download)
Download or read book Scary Stories 3 written by Alvin Schwartz and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The iconic anthology series of horror tales that's now a feature film! Scary Stories 3 is a timeless collection of chillingly scary tales and legends, in which folklorist Alvin Schwartz offers up some of the most alarming tales of horror, dark revenge, and supernatural events of all time. Available for the first time as an ebook, Stephen Gammell’s artwork from the original Scary Stories 3 appears in all its spooky glory. Read if you dare! And don't miss Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark and More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark!
Author : Fred M. White
Publisher : Jovian Press
ISBN 13 : 1537808591
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (378 download)
Download or read book The Shadow of the Dead Hand written by Fred M. White and published by Jovian Press. This book was released on 2018-01-25 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roy Kindermere pocketed Mrs. Leverson's cheque with a smile and that easy grace of his and with a few well-chosen words, put on his hat and overcoat and left the great florid house, thankful that his uncongenial task was finished. If there was one thing more than another he hated, it was this 'Man from Blankney's' business, by which he was forced to get a living. Still, what was a man to do, when he had been brought up to nothing, and had, moreover, quarrelled with the one relative in the world who could and should have made his life at least worth living...
Author : Paul Theroux
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
ISBN 13 : 1551993198
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (519 download)
Download or read book A Dead Hand written by Paul Theroux and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2009-11-03 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Theroux returns to India with a stylish and gripping novel of crime and obsession in Calcutta. In A Dead Hand, Paul Theroux brings to dramatic life a dark and twisted narrative of obsession and need. When Jerry Delfont, a travel writer with writer’s block, receives a letter from a captivating and seductive American philanthropist with news of a scandal involving an Indian friend of her son’s, he is sufficiently intrigued to pursue the story. Who is the boy found on the floor of a cheap hotel room, how and why did he die — what is it that pulls Delfont into this story, and will he ever find the truth about what happened?
Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher : Serenity Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781604506631
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (66 download)
Download or read book The House of the Dead Hand and the Reckoning and Xingu written by Edith Wharton and published by Serenity Publishers. This book was released on 2009-03-01 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
