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The Portable Obituary

Author : Michael Largo
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061231665
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (612 download)

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Download or read book The Portable Obituary written by Michael Largo and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2007-09-04 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No matter what your station in society, everybody has to go sometime. Even the wealthy, powerful, and world-renowned must ultimately meet their Maker—though some have departed this life more ignobly than they might have wished. From Mozart to rock and roll, which performers ended their lives on the wrong note? What famous U.S. bridge is named after an explorer who was eaten by cannibals? Everyone wants to hit the lottery, but does Lady Luck visit winners with deadly fangs? Plus: Learn the real fate of Gilligan's Island castaways and all your favorite TV actors as well as famous writers, senators, saints, dictators, and philosophers, among many others. Michael Largo, the man who illuminated readers on the myriad ways of death in Final Exits, has compiled a fascinating, off-beat, and darkly humorous necrology that provides the grim, often outrageous details about the passing of influential persons. Meticulously researched—employing archaeological records, published obituaries, official documents, and forensic evidence—this authoritative, one-of-a-kind reference presents the unabashed truth about a multitude of celebrity deaths, while examining the various deeds, misdeeds, and lifestyle quirks that hastened the demise and determined the departed's role in history and popular myth. The Portable Obituary has the skinny on what made our late icons—whether through overindulgence or neglect: on the john, in the sack, or in some spectacular accident—what they are today: dead!

Final Exits

Author : Michael Largo
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060817410
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book Final Exits written by Michael Largo and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2006-10-03 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To die, kick the bucket, to meet your Maker, dead as a doornail, get whacked, smoked, bite the dust, sleep with the fishes, go six feet under—whatever death is called, it's going to happen. In 1789 Ben Franklin wrote, "In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes." Death remains a certainty. But how do we die? It's the enormous variety of how that enlivens final exits. According to death certificates, in 1700 there were less than 100 causes of death. Today there are 3,000. With each advance of technology, people find new ways to become deceased, often causing trends that peak in the first year. People are now killed by everything, from cell phones, washing machines, lawn mowers and toothpicks, to the boundless catalog of man—made medicines. In Final Exits the causes of death—bizarre or common—are alphabetically arranged and include actual accounts of people, both famous and ordinary, who unfortunately died that way. (Ants, bad words, Bingo, bean bag chairs, flying cows, frozen toilets, hiccups, lipstick, moray eels, road kill, starfish, and toupees are only some of the more unusual causes.)

Obituary Record ...

Author : Franklin and Marshall College. Alumni Association
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Obituary Record ... written by Franklin and Marshall College. Alumni Association and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Big, Bad Book of Beasts

Author : Michael Largo
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062087460
Total Pages : 611 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book The Big, Bad Book of Beasts written by Michael Largo and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 611 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world's wildest collection of animal knowledge and lore! Lions, and tigers, and bears . . . and dinosaurs, dragons, and monsters. Oh my! For hundreds of years, the most popular books in the Western world next to the Bible were "bestiaries," fanciful encyclopedias collecting all of human knowledge and mythology about the animal kingdom. In these pages, eagles and elephants lived next to griffins and sea monsters. Now, in The Big, Bad Book of Beasts, award-winning author Michael Largo has updated the medieval bestsellers for the twenty-first century, illuminating little-known facts, astonishing secrets, and bizarre superstitions about the beasts that inhabit our world—and haunt our imaginations. You'll learn about the biggest bug ever, the smallest animal in the world, and the real creatures that inspired the fabled unicorns. You'll discover how birds learned to fly, why cats rub against your legs, and a thousand other facts that will make you look at nature in a wonderfully new way. Did you know? The fastest animal in the world is the peregrine falcon, which reaches speeds of over 200 miles per hours. Circus ringmaster P.T. Barnum fooled many when he displayed a "mermaid" carcass that was later proved to be monkey bones sewed together with the body of a fish. Discovered in a remote volcanic crater in New Guinea, the Bosavi wolly rat grows to the size of a cat. President Andrew Jackson bought an African gray parrot to keep his wife company. The bird outlived them both and was removed from Jackson's funeral for cussing in both English and Spanish. A to Z: From Aardvark to Zooplankton! For all ages! Includes 289 illustrations!

The Portable Bunyan

Author : Isabel Hofmeyr
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691188440
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book The Portable Bunyan written by Isabel Hofmeyr and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does a book become an international bestseller? What happens to it as it is translated into different languages, contexts, and societies? How is it changed by the intellectual environments it encounters? What does the transnational circulation mean for its reception back home? Exploring the international life of a particularly long-lived and widely traveled book, Isabel Hofmeyr follows The Pilgrim's Progress as it circulates through multiple contexts--and into some 200 languages--focusing on Africa, where 80 of the translations occurred. This feat of literary history is based on intensive research that criss-crossed among London, Georgia, Kingston, Bedford (John Bunyan's hometown), and much of sub-Saharan Africa. Finely written and unusually wide-ranging, it accounts for how The Pilgrim's Progress traveled abroad with the Protestant mission movement, was adapted and reworked by the societies into which it traveled, and, finally, how its circulation throughout the empire affected Bunyan's standing back in England. The result is a new intellectual approach to Bunyan--one that weaves together British, African, and Caribbean history with literary and translation studies and debates over African Christianity and mission. Even more important, this book is a rare example of a truly worldly study of "world literature"--and of the critical importance of translation, both linguistic and cultural.

Faulkner at 100

Author : Donald M. Kartiganer
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1604730293
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Faulkner at 100 written by Donald M. Kartiganer and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2009-09-18 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays in centennial celebration of William Faulkner and his achievement With essays and commentaries by André Bleikasten, Joseph Blotner, Larry Brown, Thadious M. Davis, Susan V. Donaldson, Doreen Fowler, The Reverend Duncan M. Gray, Jr., Minrose C. Gwin, Robert W. Hamblin, W. Kenneth Holditch, Lothar Hönnighausen, Richard Howorth, John T. Irwin, Donald M. Kartiganer, Robert C. Khayat, Arthur F. Kinney, Thomas L. McHaney, John T. Matthews, Michael Millgate, David Minter, Richard C. Moreland, Gail Mortimer, Albert Murray, Noel Polk, Carolyn Porter, Hans H. Skei, Judith L. Sensibar, Warwick Wadlington, Philip M. Weinstein, Judith Bryant Wittenberg, and Karl F. Zender William Faulkner was born September 25, 1897. In honor of his centenary the Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference of 1997 brought together twenty-five of the most important Faulkner scholars to examine the achievement of this writer generally regarded as the finest American novelist of the twentieth century. The panel discussions and essays that make up Faulkner at 100: Retrospect and Prospect provide a comprehensive account of the man and his work, including discussions of his life, the shape of his career, and his place in American literature, as well as fresh readings of such novels as The Sound and the Fury, Sanctuary, Absalom, Absalom!, If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem, and Go Down, Moses. Spanning the full range of critical approaches, the essays address such issues as Faulkner's use of African American dialect as a form of both appropriation and repudiation, his frequent emphasis on the strength of heterosexual desire over actual possession, the significance of his incessant role-playing, and the surprising scope of his reading. Of special interest are the views of Albert Murray, the African American novelist and cultural critic. He tells of reading Faulkner in the 1930s while a student at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. What emerges from this commemorative volume is a plural Faulkner, a writer of different value and meaning to different readers, a writer still challenging readers to accommodate their highly varied approaches to what André Bleikasten calls Faulkner's abiding "singularity." At the University of Mississippi Donald M. Kartiganer fills the William Howry Chair in Faulkner Studies in the department of English and Ann J. Abadie is associate director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture.

Obituary Notices of Astronomers, Fellows and Associates of the Royal Astronomical Society Written Chiefly for the Annual Reports of the Council

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Author : Edwin Dunkin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Obituary Notices of Astronomers, Fellows and Associates of the Royal Astronomical Society Written Chiefly for the Annual Reports of the Council written by Edwin Dunkin and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Star Struck

Author : Sam Riley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book Star Struck written by Sam Riley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-12-09 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This balanced examination looks at America's pervasive celebrity culture, concentrating on the period from 1950 to the present day. Star Struck: An Encyclopedia of Celebrity Culture is neither a stern critic nor an apologist for celebrity infatuation, a phenomenon that sometimes supplants more weighty matters yet constitutes one of our nation's biggest exports. This encyclopedia covers American celebrity culture from 1950 to 2008, examining its various aspects—and its impact—through 86 entries by 30 expert contributors. Demonstrating that all celebrities are famous, but not all famous people are celebrities, the book cuts across the various entertainment medias and their legions of individual "stars." It looks at sports celebrities and examines the role of celebrity in more serious pursuits and institutions such as the news media, corporations, politics, the arts, medicine, and the law. Also included are entries devoted to such topics as paranoia and celebrity, one-name celebrities, celebrity nicknames, family unit celebrity, sidekick celebrities, and even criminal celebrities.

Annual Obituary, 1991

Author : Deborah Andrews
Publisher : Saint James Press
ISBN 13 : 9781558621756
Total Pages : 890 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (217 download)

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Download or read book Annual Obituary, 1991 written by Deborah Andrews and published by Saint James Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annual Obituary documents the passing of men and women of achievement from all walks of life. By providing current, in-depth biographies of notable international individuals, Annual Obituary offers researchers, biographers, journalists and librarians complete biographical essays often within months of a person's death. Each successive volume builds on this unique permanent biographical collection.

A Portable Chaos

Author : E.M. Schorb
Publisher : Author House
ISBN 13 : 149183272X
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (918 download)

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Download or read book A Portable Chaos written by E.M. Schorb and published by Author House. This book was released on 2013-11-18 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than half a century ago, trying to find his way out of the chaos of a dysfunctional family that suffers from a dark secret, eighteen-year-old Jimmy Whistler joins the Marines and is sent to Hawaii, not yet a state, where he meets a fifteen-year-old girl, Leilani Kona, who turns out to be the love of his life, his own Sweet Leilani; but, due to her age and his sense of honor, their love remains unconsummated. Later, shipped back to the mainland and discharged from the Marine Corps, Jimmy makes a false start in New York City as an actor, falling in with a show business crowd, and, still later, with a band of hippies, all the while trying to perfect his true calling as a writer who is attempting to discover order in a chaos that now appears to be not merely personal but public. How Jimmy and Leilani find each other again in the midst of this private and public chaos is a story both comic and tragic. A Portable Chaos is an historical novel that brings to life the transformation of the United States from the conforming Fifties to the volcanic social eruptions of the swinging Sixtiesfrom the private chaos of Jimmy Whistlers childhood to the public chaos of his youth, the former shaping himself, the latter shaping all Americans.

The Portable Anna Julia Cooper

Author : Shirley Moody-Turner
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525506713
Total Pages : 593 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book The Portable Anna Julia Cooper written by Shirley Moody-Turner and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-08-09 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essential writings from the iconic foremother of Black women's intellectual history, feminism, and activism, who helped pave the way for modern social justice movements like Black Lives Matter and Say Her Name A Penguin Classic The Portable Anna Julia Cooper brings together, for the first time, Anna Julia Cooper's major collection of essays, A Voice from the South, along with several previously unpublished poems, plays, journalism and selected correspondences, including over thirty previously unpublished letters between Anna Julia Cooper and W. E. B. Du Bois. The Portable Anna Julia Cooper will introduce a new generation of readers to an educator, public intellectual, and community activist whose prescient insights and eloquent prose underlie some of the most important developments in modern American intellectual thought and African American social and political activism. Recognized as the iconic foremother of Black women's intellectual history and activism, Cooper (1858-1964) penned one of the most forceful and enduring statements of Black feminist thought to come of out of the nineteenth century. Attention to her work has grown exponentially over the years--her words have been memorialized in the US passport and, in 2009, she was commemorated with a US postal stamp. Cooper's writings on the centrality of Black girls and women to our larger national discourse has proved especially prescient in this moment of Black Lives Matter, Say Her Name, and the recent protests that have shaken the nation.

Death Notice

Author : Todd Ritter
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1429941480
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Death Notice written by Todd Ritter and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-10-12 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perry Hollow, Pennsylvania, has never had a murder. At least not as long as Kat Campbell has been police chief. And the first is brutal. George Winnick, a farmer in his sixties, is found in a homemade coffin on the side of the highway with his lips sewn shut and his veins and arteries drained of blood and filled with embalming fluid. Chilling as that is, it becomes even more so when Kat finds that the Perry Hollow Gazette obituary writer, Henry Goll, received a death notice for Winnick before he was killed. Soon after, the task force from the Pennsylvania Bureau of Investigation shows up and everything takes an irreversible turn for the worse. Nick Donnelly, head of the task force, has been chasing the "Betsy Ross Killer," so named because he's handy with a needle and thread, for more than a year. Winnick seems to be his fourth victim. Or is he? Kat has never handled a murder case before, but she's not about to sit by while someone terrorizes her sleepy little town or her own son. But will her efforts be enough to stop a killer and bring calm to Perry Hollow? A portrait of a small town in turmoil, where residents fear for their lives, Todd Ritter's Death Notice is a gripping debut from a terrific new talent in crime fiction.

The Obituary Book

Author : Alden Whitman
Publisher : London : M. Joseph
ISBN 13 : 9780718109349
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The Obituary Book written by Alden Whitman and published by London : M. Joseph. This book was released on 1971 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Portable Radio in American Life

Author : Michael Brian Schiffer
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816547688
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book The Portable Radio in American Life written by Michael Brian Schiffer and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fascinating history of the portable radio, Michael Schiffer shows how this invention is as American as apple pie. Along the way, he tells how technology has responded to consumer preference, how corporate "cryptohistory" has made us believe the Japanese invented the radio, and how the spread of the portable radio mirrors that of other technologies. More than 400 photographs make this book both a definitive resource and a delightful browse.

More Tales behind the Tombstones

Author : Chris Enss
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493017888
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book More Tales behind the Tombstones written by Chris Enss and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More Tales Behind the Tombstones tells the stories behind the deaths (or supposed deaths) and burials of even more of the Old West's most nefarious outlaws, notorious women, and celebrated lawmen. Readers will learn the stories behind these legendary characters and visit the sites of tombs long forgotten while legends have lived on. Read about the lives (and deaths) of fearless, famous lawmen such as Bass Reeves, Chalk Beeson, Bill Tilghman, and Pat Garrett; learn about the dauntless women who blazed new paths for their sex in medicine, journalism, entertainment, and voting rights; and discover the intriguing facts and myths that continue to circulate about these and other infamous characters long after their grave markers have become worn down or simply lost to time.

The Portable Atheist

Author : Christopher Hitchens
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0306816083
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book The Portable Atheist written by Christopher Hitchens and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2007-11-06 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents excerpts on the subject of religion from the writings of such notable non-believers as John Stuart Mill, Karl Marx, Charles Darwin, Mark Twain, H. L. Mencken, Albert Einstein, Richard Dawkins, and Salman Rushdie.

The Art of the Obit

Author : Sandra Martin
Publisher : House of Anansi
ISBN 13 : 1770898441
Total Pages : 101 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The Art of the Obit written by Sandra Martin and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Art of the Obit, award-winning journalist Sandra Martin reveals the cult and craft of obituary writing from the ancient Greeks to a wired-up 24/7 world. In this witty exploration of our oldest biographical form, Martin punctures five long-held myths about the dead beat, chronicles the social, political, cultural, and historical impact of obituaries and explores the future of writing about the dead on the Internet and social media sites. This fascinating and provocative work proves that there’s no such thing as an uninteresting life.