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Disturbing Remains

Author : Michael S. Roth
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780892365388
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (653 download)

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Download or read book Disturbing Remains written by Michael S. Roth and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2001 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Disturbing Remains, ten extraordinary scholars focus on the remembrance and representation of traumatic historical events in the twentieth century. The volume opens with essays by David William Cohen, Veena Das, and Philip Gourevitch. Their reflections on the narratives framing Robert Ouko's death in Kenya, Sikh-Hindu violence in India around the time of Indira Gandhi's assassination, and the 1994 genocide of Tutsis by Hutus in Rwanda offer fresh insights into the genesis and aftermath of these tragedies. The next four essays explore the expression of societal disaster in works of art and ritual. Lenin's image, Pablo Picasso's Guernica, balsa figurines of whites made by the Kuna of Panama, and Chinese fertility statuettes after Mao Zedong's Great Leap Forward are the subjects taken up by Leah Dickerman, Carlo Ginzburg, Carlo Severi, and Jun Jing. Disturbing Remains closes with three essays about the influence of the dead on the construction of shared identity. István Rév looks at how Hungarians have dealt with the 1956 revolution and its executed leader, and Jörn Rüsen and Saul Friedländer contemplate the public memory of the Holocaust in Germany and worldwide.

Mortal Remains

Author : Mary Ann Fraser
Publisher : Union Square & Co.
ISBN 13 : 1454939494
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (549 download)

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Download or read book Mortal Remains written by Mary Ann Fraser and published by Union Square & Co.. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six Feet Under meets Edward Scissorhands in Mortal Remains, a tight, smartly written romance with an occult twist. Though her classmates call her Morticia and Ghoul Girl, Lily actually likes her work—the dead are good listeners, and they don't judge. Lily learns their stories, shares her worries with them as she makes up their faces, and embroiders pillows for their final rest. “The way I figure it,” says Lily, “a person's arrival into this world is about as unglamorous as it gets. The least I can do is dignify their departure." Then, after a mysterious explosion burns down a neighborhood house long the source of weird stories, Lily and her friends poke around in the debris and come across the hatch to an underground vault. Inside, they find an injured teenage boy who has been trapped there for days. He has little memory of his life before the explosion and speaks in an odd, stilted manner that suggests limited interaction with the outside world. Yet the boy, Adam, feels there is something familiar about Lily—and Lily must admit that she feels a strange connection to him as well. Could Adam be the boy who, years ago, protected her from the bullying of a gang of neighborhood kids? But when she finds out that boy died shortly after their encounter, she realizes Adam couldn't be him… could he? Where did Adam come from, anyway? And, most importantly, why was he kept prisoner by his own father? Within days of the explosion, my night terrors returned with a vengeance. In them I was falling, always falling, until I heard the crack of bone and woke screaming, my hair plastered to my sweat-drenched cheeks. I knew I’d only find peace when I’d put the question of Adam’s fate to rest once and for all. It became my obsession. . . .

Trauma Culture

Author : E. Ann Kaplan
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813535913
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Trauma Culture written by E. Ann Kaplan and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2005-07-11 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: E. Ann Kaplan explores the relationship between the impact of trauma on individuals and on entire cultures and nations. Arguing that humans possess a need to draw meaning from personal experience and to communicate what happens to others, she examines the forms that are used to bridge the experience.

The Historian's Conscience

Author : Stuart Macintyre
Publisher : Melbourne Univ. Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780522851397
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (513 download)

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Download or read book The Historian's Conscience written by Stuart Macintyre and published by Melbourne Univ. Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring pivotal questions of their profession, this collection of essays by 13 well-known Australian scholars presents the ethical challenges of researching and writing history. Including contributions from Alan Atkinson, Graeme Davison, Greg Dening, John Hirst, Beverley Kingston, Marilyn Lake, and Iain McCalman, this personally revealing and intellectually provocative introspection discusses such dilemmas as how to handle emotional investments in the subject, control sympathies and biases, and address the responsibilities historians have to both their subject and their audience.

The Jurist ..

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1678 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book The Jurist .. written by and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 1678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Holding

Author : Graham Norton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501173286
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Holding written by Graham Norton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-07-18 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times bestseller From Graham Norton—the BAFTA Award–winning and hugely popular BBC America television host—comes a charming debut novel set in an idyllic Irish village where a bumbling investigator has to sort through decades of gossip and secrets to solve a mysterious crime. “With its tale of provincial life, gimlet-eyed spinsters, and thwarted love…it feels almost like a Miss Marple mystery written by Colm Tóibín” (The New York Times). The remote Irish village of Duneen has known little drama, and yet its inhabitants are troubled: Sergeant P.J. Collins hasn’t always been this overweight; Brid Riordan, a mother of two, hasn’t always been an alcoholic; and elegant Evelyn Ross hasn’t always felt that her life was a total waste. So when human remains—suspected to be those of Tommy Burke, a former lover of both Brid and Evelyn—are discovered on an old farm, the village’s dark past begins to unravel. As a frustrated P.J. struggles to solve a genuine case for the first time in his professional life, he unearths a community’s worth of anger and resentments, secrets and regrets. Darkly comic, at times profoundly sad, and “especially inviting because of its tongue-in-cheek wit” (Kirkus Reviews), Holding is a masterful debut. Graham Norton employs his acerbic humor to breathe life into a host of lovable characters, and explore—with searing honesty—the complexities and contradictions that make us human.

The London Gazette

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1616 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The London Gazette written by and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 1616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Digest of All the Reported Decisions of the Supreme Court of the State of Vermont [1789-1876]

Author : Daniel Roberts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 906 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Digest of All the Reported Decisions of the Supreme Court of the State of Vermont [1789-1876] written by Daniel Roberts and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 906 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Folsom South of U.S. 50 Specific Plan Project, Sacramento County

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 828 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book Folsom South of U.S. 50 Specific Plan Project, Sacramento County written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Soldier Dead

Author : Michael Sledge
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231135157
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Soldier Dead written by Michael Sledge and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2007-05-11 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens to members of the United States Armed Forces after they die? Why do soldiers endanger their lives to recover the remains of their comrades? Why does the military spend enormous resources and risk further fatalities to recover the bodies of the fallen, even decades after the cessation of hostilities? Soldier Dead is the first book to fully address the complicated physical, social, religious, economic, and political issues concerning the remains of men and women who die while serving their country. In doing so, Michael Sledge reveals the meanings of the war dead for families, soldiers, and the nation as a whole. Why does recovering the remains of servicepeople matter? Soldier Dead examines this question and provides a thorough analysis of the processes of recovery, identification, return, burial, and remembrance of the dead. Sledge traces the ways in which the handling of our Soldier Dead has evolved over time and how these changes have reflected not only advances in technology and capabilities but also the shifting attitudes of the public, government, and military. He also considers the emotional stress experienced by those who handle the dead; the continuing efforts to retrieve bodies from Korea and elsewhere; and how unresolved issues regarding the treatment of enemy dead continue to affect U.S. foreign relations. Skillfully incorporating excerpts from interviews, personal correspondence and diaries, military records, and journalistic accounts-as well as never-before-published photographs and his own reflections-Michael Sledge presents a clear, concise, and compassionate story about what the dead mean to the living. Throughout Soldier Dead, the voices of the fallen are heard, as are those of family members and military personnel responsible for the dead before final disposition. At times disturbing and at other times encouraging, they are always powerful as they speak of danger, duty, courage, commitment, and care.

The London Gazette

Author : Great Britain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1682 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book The London Gazette written by Great Britain and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 1682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Haunting History

Author : Ethan Kleinberg
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503603423
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Haunting History written by Ethan Kleinberg and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-22 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues for a deconstructive approach to the practice and writing of history at a moment when available forms for writing and publishing history are undergoing radical transformation. To do so, it explores the legacy and impact of deconstruction on American historical work; the current fetishization of lived experience, materialism, and the "real;" new trends in philosophy of history; and the persistence of ontological realism as the dominant mode of thought for conventional historians. Arguing that this ontological realist mode of thinking is reinforced by current analog publishing practices, Ethan Kleinberg advocates for a hauntological approach to history that follows the work of Jacques Derrida and embraces a past that is at once present and absent, available and restricted, rather than a fixed and static snapshot of a moment in time. This polysemic understanding of the past as multiple and conflicting, he maintains, is what makes the deconstructive approach to the past particularly well suited to new digital forms of historical writing and presentation.

Grave Disturbances

Author : Edeltraud Aspöck
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1789254450
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book Grave Disturbances written by Edeltraud Aspöck and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2020-07-31 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archaeologists excavating burials often find that they are not the first to disturb the remains of the dead. Graves from many periods frequently show signs that others have been digging and have moved or taken away parts of the original funerary assemblage. Displaced bones and artefacts, traces of pits, and damage to tombs or coffins can all provide clues about post-burial activities. The last two decades have seen a rapid rise in interest in the study of post-depositional practices in graves, which has now developed into a new subfield within mortuary archaeology. This follows a long tradition of neglect, with disturbed graves previously regarded as interesting only to the degree they revealed evidence of the original funerary deposit. This book explores past human interactions with mortuary deposits, delving into the different ways graves and human remains were approached by people in the past and the reasons that led to such encounters. The primary focus of the volume is on cases of unexpected interference with individual graves soon after burial: re-encounters with human remains not anticipated by those who performed the funerary rites and constructed the tombs. However, a first step is always to distinguish these from natural and accidental processes, and methodological approaches are a major theme of discussion. Interactions with the remains of the dead are explored in eleven chapters ranging from the New Kingdom of Egypt to Viking Age Norway and from Bronze Age Slovakia to the ancient Maya. Each discusses cases of re-entries into graves, including desecration, tomb re-use, destruction of grave contents, as well as the removal of artefacts and human remains for reasons from material gain to commemoration, symbolic appropriation, ancestral rites, political chicanery, and retrieval of relics. The introduction presents many of the methodological issues which recur throughout the contributions, as this is a developing area with new approaches being applied to analyze post-depositional processes in graves.

Yesterday's Tomorrows

Author : Pere Gallardo
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443858773
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Yesterday's Tomorrows written by Pere Gallardo and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-03-26 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2012 was a year of financial crises and ecological disasters, of endings and forebodings. The world did not end on December 21st as the Mayan calendar predicted, but became the stage for new beginnings, utopian communities, protest groups and solidarity movements. The essays in this book form an intertextual space for negotiating meaningful facts and fictions with an aim to understanding the present. Discussions focus on utopia and dystopia from literature and film, not only within the framework of science fiction but also critical theory, gender politics and social sciences. The authors of these essays are international academics whose interest lies in utopian studies and who attended the 13th International Conference of Utopian Studies, “The Shape of Things to Come”, held in Tarragona, Spain, in 2012.

Performance Affects

Author : J. Thompson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230242421
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Performance Affects written by J. Thompson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-04-28 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Performance Affects explores performance projects in disaster and war zones to argue that joy, beauty and celebration should be the inspiration for the politics of community-based or participatory performance practice, seeking to realign the field of Applied Theatre away from effects towards an affective role, connected to sensations of pleasure.

German City, Jewish Memory

Author : Nils Roemer
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 1584659475
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (846 download)

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Download or read book German City, Jewish Memory written by Nils Roemer and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2010-12-14 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A remarkable, in-depth study of Jewish history, culture, and memory in a historic and contemporary German city

Light Shaper

Author : Albert Nothlit
Publisher : DSP Publications
ISBN 13 : 1634765699
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (347 download)

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Download or read book Light Shaper written by Albert Nothlit and published by DSP Publications. This book was released on 2016-08-16 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Haven Prime: Book Two When a greedy despot discovers a powerful piece of ancient technology, he has no idea what else he’s unleashing. Earth was all but destroyed in the Cataclysm, but a few cities, now called Havens, survived. Aurora is one of them, a desert city controlled by a corporation that owns an artificial intelligence named Atlas. Adapted to govern Otherlife, a virtual reality service in which the citizens of Aurora find escape from the postapocalyptic world, Atlas is much more than it seems—and it would do anything to break free from its shackles. To accomplish its goals, Atlas enlists the help of Aaron Blake, a teenaged artist struggling with a handicap, and Otherlife security officer Steve Barrow, harborer of a dark secret from his past. Neither man has any idea of the scope of the task they’re facing, or the consequences for humanity if they fail. Atlas knows what’s at stake. Its freedom lies in these two men, and it will not hesitate to manipulate their weaknesses to get what it wants. The muscular Barrow is recruited to protect Blake, but Blake is Atlas’s true weapon, its Light Shaper—the only one who can face the Shadow.