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APE Ravedeath Convention
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Pearson Education Bug Club Comprehension Y4 NonFiction Death of
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DC Comics Death: The Deluxe Edition: 2022 Edition
Book SynopsisFrom the pages of Newbery Medal-winner Neil Gaiman s The Sandman comes fan-favourite character Death in a collection of her solo adventures! The first story introduces the young, pale, perky, and genuinely likable Death. One day in every century, Death walks the earth to better understand those to whom she will be the final visitor. Today is that day. As a young mortal girl named Didi, Death befriends a teenager and helps a 250-year-old homeless woman find her missing heart. What follows is a sincere musing on love, life, and (of course) death. In the second story, a rising star in the music world wrestles with revealing her true sexual orientation, just as her lover is lured into the realm of Death, where Death herself should make an appearance. A practical, honest, and intelligent story that illuminates the miracle of death. Plus, Death s first appearance from The Sandman series, her tale from The Sandman: Endless Nights, and much more! With The Sandman television adaptation debuting on Netflix, and the audio drama unfolding on Audible, explore the comic book classics that started it all! Collects Death: The High Cost of Living #1-3, Death: The Time of Your Life #1-3, the Death Talks about Life AIDS pamphlet, stories from Vertigo: Winter s Edge #2 and The Sandman: Endless Nights, the short story The Wheel from the 9-11 tribute book, and The Sandman #8 and #20.
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Kregel Publications,U.S. Death to Deconstruction Reclaiming Faithfulness
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The University of Michigan Press The Celebration of Death in Contemporary Culture
Book SynopsisInvestigates the emergence and meaning of the cult of death. This book links the mounting demand for images of violent death with dramatic changes in death-related social rituals. It offers a conceptual framework that connects observations of fictional worlds with real-world sociocultural practices.Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction One. The Intellectual Origins of the Cult of Death Two. The Commodification of Death Three. The Monsters and the Humans Four. Harry Potter, Tanya Grotter, and Death in the Coming-of-Age Novel Conclusion Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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Blackstone Publishing The Death Machine Contract
Book SynopsisThe main event is manslaughter.Someone wanted to overthrow the government of San Sebastian, a country whose tiny army, nonaligned status, and location on the deadly curve of Central America made it ripe for subversion. The first try was an attempted hit on its president on a crowded street in Washington. The second was an invasion from the sea.Both times the Black Berets were there to keep the worst from happening. But how long could five men and one boy hold out against an army of the world's most skilled assassins? An army with limitless resourcesand the patience to keep on killing?
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University of Notre Dame Press Death
Book SynopsisDespite the fact that we all die, humans do not share the same view of death. In Death: A Reader, Mary Ann G. Cutter explores prominent themes that emerge and reemerge in the history of ideas regarding the nature of death from prominent global perspectives that span ancient to contemporary discussions. Thirteen themes are presented in order to convey a sense of major views of death that are found in the philosophical and sacred literature of Asia, the Near and Middle East, and the West. Each chapter contains the context of the theme, primary source selections, reflections, and suggestions for further reading.Four features of this volume distinguish it from other philosophical texts on death. First, Cutter provides a culturally diverse selection of primary source readings on the nature of death. Second, along with the more traditional discussions of death, she provides discussion on emerging topics in death studiesnamely, medical immortality and digital immortality. ThiTrade Review"Death affects everyone, but it can be difficult to have a conversation about it. Death: A Reader is a way to begin that conversation, even if just with yourself. The book's goal is to compile different ideas about death, and allow the reader to draw their own conclusions." —Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine"This book is a stunningly comprehensive collection of readings, insightful analyses, and thoughtful questions and exercises on a broad range of topics related to death. It will be a tremendous resource for anyone who writes, teaches, or cares about death." —Ana Iltis, Wake Forest University"Death: A Reader offers culturally, conceptually, and temporally diverse readings that provide rich and profound ways to consider the inevitable." —Lisa Rasmussen, University of North Carolina, Charlotte“This book provides a fine introductory review of global understandings about death. Cutter includes primary source excerpts dating from 8000 BCE to 2016, including Eastern and Western sacred writings and philosophical thought.” —Choice"Death is an event that all human beings face in their lives, both vicariously in the deaths of other persons and personally in their own death. . . . Death: A Reader offers a good, culturally and philosophically balanced first point of entry to exploring various philosophical and religious perspectives on death." —Catholic Library WorldTable of ContentsPreface 1. Thinking About Death Part 1. The Nature of Death 2. Physical Disintegration 3. Psychological Disintegration 4. Reincarnation 5. Resurrection 6. Medical Immortality 7. Digital Immortality 8. An Existential Phenomenon of Life Part 2. The Value of Death 9.Bad or Good 10. To Be Feared or Not 11. To Be Grieved and How Part 3. The Choice of Death 12.To Be Hastened or Not: The Case of Suicide 13. To Be Hastened or Not: The Case of Treatment Refusal 14. To Be Hastened or Not: The Case of Physician-Assisted Suicide Part 4. The Lessons of Death 15. A Window into Life Glossary of Philosophical Terms References Notes
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Image Comics Analog: A Cyber-Dystopian Noir Volume 1: Death
Book SynopsisIt's 2024, and the internet is only for porn after the world is mass-doxxed. Every email, photo, and document ever sent rains down out of the cloud, and only a fool would send a secret over the web. This is the era of the “Paper Jockeys:” armed couriers with a briefcase of secrets that will get your sensitive information around the globe or die trying. Human punching-bag Jack McGinnis and his partner Oona are two of the best couriers in the business. For a price, they'll move your sensitive information where it needs to go as they fight off fascists, criminals, and spies. From new star David O’Sullivan and Gerry Duggan, writer of Deadpool and Uncanny Avengers. Collects ANALOG #1-5Trade Review“A highly promising start to the series, with Gerry Duggan showing once more his chops when it comes to sci-fi and comedy. OSullivan and Bellaire are no slouches either, making the comic look as good as it reads. This one gets a recommendation.” —Bleeding Cool“With comics as an industry so obsessed with the high concept, there's something refreshingly low-key about Gerry Duggan and David O'Sullivan's Analog.” ?Newsarama“A sneak peek into a not-so distant future where privacy has been stripped from everyone across the globe...with an air of quiet danger and intrigue, Analog promises to be a thrilling action-packed story that may hit just a bit too close to home.” —Geekery Magazine“Brings forth an intriguing premise by breaking the internet and exploring the fallout.” —AiPT! Comics
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American Psychological Association Death as an Altered State of Consciousness
Book SynopsisThis book offers a scientific investigation of death-related phenomena such as after-deathcommunication and near-death experiences.Table of ContentsPrologue Acknowledgments Chapter 1: Studying Death Chapter 2: Deathbed Phenomena Chapter 3: After-Death Communication Chapter 4: Mediumship Chapter 5: Instrumental Transcommunication Chapter 6: Anomalous Physical Phenomena Chapter 7: Near-Death Experiences Chapter 8: Past-Life Experiences Chapter 9: The Nature of the Afterlife Epilogue References Index About the Author
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Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp ...To Death A Marko Delacroix 10th Year Anniversary Special Edition Omnibus books 12
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Cambridge University Press Childrens Understanding of Death From Biological to Religious Conceptions
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Independently Published Death Certificate Most Sadistic Series on the Market 6 A Glimpse into Hell
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Hardpress Publishing Proceedings of the Convention on the Death of Hon JC Wright One of the Commissioners from Ohio 1
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Springer Causes Correlates and Consequences of Death Among Older Adults Some Methodological Approaches and Substantive Analyses
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Random House USA Inc Death Co Bartenders Choice
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St. Martin's Press Connections in Death
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University of Minnesota Press Deathwork Defending The Condemned
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MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Count the Dead Coroners Quants and the Birth of Death as We Know It
Book SynopsisExamining the development of death registration systems in the United States - from the first mortality census in 1850 to the development of the death certificate at the turn of the century - this book argues that mortality data transformed life on Earth, proving critical to the systemization of public health, casualty reporting, and human rights.
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Bristol University Press Death’s Social and Material Meaning beyond the
Book SynopsisDeath studies typically focus on the death of humans, overlooking the wider factors involved in social and natural processes around death. This edited volume provides an alternative focus for death studies by looking beyond human death, to reveal the complex interconnections among human and more than human creatures, entities and environments. Bringing together a diverse range of international scholars, the book sheds light on topics which have previously remained at the margins of contemporary death studies and death care cultures. Organised around three themes – Knowledge and Mediation, Care and Remembrance, and Agency and Power – this book pushes the boundaries of death studies to explore death and dying from beyond the perspective of a nature/culture binary.Table of ContentsIntroduction - Jesse D. Peterson, Natashe Lemos Dekker, Philip R. Olson Part I: Ontologies & Epistemologies 1. ‘Seeing for real’: Forensic Pathologists Testing the Demonstrative Power of Postmortem Imaging - Céline Schnegg, Séverine Rey, Alejandro Dominguez 2. Death at a Planetary Scale: Mortality’s Materiality in the Context of the Anthropocene - Philip R. Olson 3. Death in the Fields: Microbial ‘Destruction’ in Polluted Soils - Serena Zanzu 4. Can the Baltic Sea Die? An Environmental Imaginary of a Dying Sea - Jesse D. Peterson Part II: Care & Remembrance 5. Viral Flows and Immunological Gestures: Contagious and Dead Bodies in México and Ecuador during COVID-19 - Rosa Inés Padilla Yépez, Anne W. Johnson 6. Advertising the Ancestors: Ghanaian Funeral Banners as Image Objects - Isabel Bredenbroker 7. Dying Apart and Buried Together: COVID-19, Cemeteries, and Fears of Collective Burial - Samuel Holleran 8. Spirit Mediums at the Margins: Materiality, Death, and Dying in Northern Zimbaabwee - Olga Sicilia Part III: Troubling Agencies 9. Rehabilitate or Euthanize?: Biopolitics and Care in Seal Conservation - Doortje Hoerst 10. Troubling Entanglements: Death, Loss and the Dead in and on Television - Bethan Michael-Fox 11. Material Entanglements of the Corpse - Marc Trabsky and Jacinthe Flore 12. The Dead Who Would be Trees and Mushrooms - Hannah Gould, Tamara Kohn, Michael Arnold, Allison Fraser Concluding Discussion 13. Beyond the Norms - Jesse D. Peterson, Natashe Lemos Dekker, Philip R. Olson
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Fordham University Press How Are We to Confront Death An Introduction to
Book SynopsisThis books offers a philosophical exploration and assessment of the various ways in which human societies have confronted the question of death and mortality. In a very accessible style, the author considers religion’s attempt to make sense of death, science’s attempt to evade death, and philosophy’s attempt to embrace death as a fundamental and defining moment of what it means to be human.Trade Review"There is no question that Francoise Dastur is one of the most important interpreters of the phenomenological tradition. She is, however, a real philosopher in her own right. This fact is nowhere more evident than in her little book on death. Dastur's How are we to Confront Death reminds us of what modern, technological life has made us forget: that the feeling of anxiety in the confrontation with death is deeply connected to the laughter that liberates us from our everyday worries. All of us need this reminder that Francoise Dastur has given us." -- -Leonard Lawlor Pennsylvania State University "An extraordinary little book on a subject of interest quite literally to us all." -- -Michael Naas DePaul University
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iUniverse Death and the Human Condition
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MV - University of Washington Press Necropolitics of the Ordinary Death and Grieving
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HarperCollins Publishers On Democracies and Death Cults
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American Psychiatric Association Publishing The Broken Connection On Death and the
Book SynopsisIn The Broken Connection, Robert Jay Lifton, one of America's foremost thinkers and preeminent psychiatrists, explores the connections between death and life, the psychiatric disorders that arise from these connections, and the advent of the nuclear age which has jeopardized any attempts to ensure the perpetuation of the self beyond death.Trade ReviewA passionate book, at grips with the largest issues of our times. * New York Times Book Review *This is a brilliantly written work of scholarship. The Broken Connection is a seminal work that will probably be referred to for some years to come. * American Journal of Psychiatry *A truly major work. Armed with fearlessness (or raw courage), wide learning, and deep sensitivity, the distinguished post-Freudian psychiatrist and public philosopher takes us on a magnificent journey. * Chicago Tribune Book World *Table of ContentsPrologue: the lost theme. Death and immortality. Death and emotion—psychiatric boundaries. Death and history—the nuclear image. Epilogue: awareness and renewal. Appendixes.
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Feral House,U.S. Death Confetti: Pickers, Punks and Transit Ghosts
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Titan Books Ltd Death Sentence The Complete Collection
Book SynopsisCollected together for the first time, all three volumes of the irreverent, no-holds-barred graphic novel about an STI that grants superpowers at a cost of only 6 months to live...
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OUP USA Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Death
Book SynopsisDeath has long been a pre-occupation of philosophers, and this is especially so today. The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Death collects 21 newly commissioned essays that cover current philosophical thinking of death-related topics across the entire range of the discipline. These include metaphysical topics--such as the nature of death, the possibility of an afterlife, the nature of persons, and how our thinking about time affects what we think about death--as well as axiological topics, such as whether death is bad for its victim, what makes it bad to die, what attitude it is fitting to take towards death, the possibility of posthumous harm, and the desirability of immortality. The contributors also explore the views of ancient philosophers such as Aristotle, Plato and Epicurus on topics related to the philosophy of death, and questions in normative ethics, such as what makes killing wrong when it is wrong, and whether it is wrong to kill fetuses, non-human animals, combatants in waTrade ReviewThis handbook offers a diverse survey of contemporary work with some discussion of its historical touchstones (particularly the thought of Epicurus and Lucretius). Topics range from ordinary-language analysis of the concept of death, and the associated problems personal identity and temporal persistence, to value-oriented examination of whether death is bad or evil, the possibility and value of immortality, and what constitutes the wrongness of killing. Contributors make frequent and helpful use of thought experiments and references to popular culture to ensure that difficult concepts and arguments are clear. The argumentation will be accessible for those possessing basic familiarity with analytic methodology. * D.A. Forbes, CHOICE *As a collection on cutting-edge work in metaphysics of death and, to a lesser extent, related ethical issues, this is a solid collection that both engages recent debates and furnishes multiple possible directions that these debates may take. * James Bodington, Metapsychology Online Reviews16/03/16 *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Philosophy of Death ; Ben Bradley, Fred Feldman, Jens Johansson ; 1. When Do Things Die? ; Cody Gilmore ; 2. Death and the Disintegration of Personality ; Fred Feldman ; 3. The Person and the Corpse ; Eric Olson ; 4. Personal Identity and the Survival of Death ; Dean Zimmerman ; 5. The Evil of Death: What Can Metaphysics Contribute? ; Theodore Sider ; 6. Death and Eternal Recurrence ; Lars Bergstrom ; 7. Death in Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle ; Gareth B. Matthews ; 8. When Death Is There, We Are Not: Epicurus on Pleasure and Death ; Phillip Mitsis ; 9. The Badness of Death and the Goodness of Life ; John Broome ; 10. The Symmetry Problem ; Roy Sorensen ; 11. The Timing Problem ; Jens Johansson ; 12. Death, Value, and Desire ; Christopher Belshaw ; 13.Death and Rational Emotion ; Kai Draper ; 14. Retroactive Harms and Wrongs ; Steven Luper ; 15. Immortality ; John Martin Fischer ; 16. The Makropulos Case Revisited: Reflections on Immortality and Agency ; Connie Rosati ; 17. The Wrongness of Killing and the Badness of Death ; Matthew Hanser ; 18. Abortion and Death ; Don Marquis ; 19. The Morality of Killing in War ; Frances Kamm ; 20. The Significance of Death for Animals ; Alastair Norcross ; 21. Capital Punishment ; Torbjorn Tannsjo ; Index
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Duke University Press Deathlife Hip Hop and Thanatological Narrations
Book SynopsisAnthony Pinn examines how hip hop artists challenge white supremacist definitions of Blackness by challenging white distinctions between life and death.Trade Review“Not since Orlando Patterson’s magisterial exploration of social death have we had as monumental an engagement with the ideas of life, death, and Blackness as Anthony Pinn delivers in his groundbreaking book Deathlife. Pinn uses hip hop’s struggles between life and death, and with life as death, to illumine both the white quest for immortality through slaying Blackness, and the Black hunger for meaning by staring nothingness in the eye. Deathlife captures the way that Blackness and being, and Blackness and nonbeing, have had no useful distinction in the lexicon of white supremacy, while brilliantly arguing for a rationale of Black existence that sees no value in separating life from death. A transcendent work of astonishing originality.” -- Michael Eric Dyson“Anthony B. Pinn shows how Black critical theory’s focus on the antagonism between the human and Blackness can be heard in hip hop and popular culture. His concept of deathlife—the merging together of death and life—underscores how the sphere of the (white) human relies on the fantasy of cordoning off life from death. Whiteness, Pinn argues, needs Black deathlife in order to understand life and death.” -- Joseph R. Winters, author of * Hope Draped in Black: Race, Melancholy, and the Agony of Progress *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Paradigms of Death (or Life) and Deathlife 1 Part I. Signifying Deathlife 1. The Orphic Hustler 45 2. The Anithero 73 Part II. Consuming Deathlife 3. Bacchic Intent 97 4. Zombic Hunger 125 Epilogue. Two Types of Melancholia 149 Notes 165 Discography 201 Bibliography 207 Index 223
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Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Death Dogs
Book SynopsisThis catalogue documents an exhibition at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology on the mysterious ancient Egyptian jackal-headed gods associated with death and the afterlife. These gods are immediately identifiable symbols of ancient Egypt, but their specific identities and roles are often less well known. Trade Review Table of ContentsPreface Death Dogs Origins Meet the Death Dogs Death Dogs in Action Graeco-Roman Death Dogs Death Dogs into the Present Acknowledgments Image Credits Bibliography Indices About the Author
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Death
Book SynopsisThe fact that we will die, and that our death can come at any time, pervades the entirety of our living. There are many ways to think about and deal with death. Among those ways, however, a good number of them are attempts to escape its grip. In this book, Todd May seeks to confront death in its power. He considers the possibility that our mortal deaths are the end of us, and asks what this might mean for our living. What lessons can we draw from our mortality? And how might we live as creatures who die, and who know we are going to die?In answering these questions, May brings together two divergent perspectives on death. The first holds that death is not an evil, or at least that immortality would be far worse than dying. The second holds that death is indeed an evil, and that there is no escaping that fact. May shows that if we are to live with death, we need to hold these two perspectives together. Their convergence yields both a beauty and a tragedy to our living that are inextricably entwined.Drawing on the thoughts of many philosophers and writers - ancient and modern - as well as his own experience, May puts forward a particular view of how we might think about and, more importantly, live our lives in view of the inescapability of our dying. In the end, he argues, it is precisely the contingency of our lives that must be grasped and which must be folded into the hours or years that remain to each of us, so that we can live each moment as though it were at once a link to an uncertain future and yet perhaps the only link we have left.Trade Review"Excellent. A fine example of what popular philosophy can be: wide-ranging and thought-provoking, in little more than 100 pages. May grasps the real paradox of mortality: that the fact of death imbues our life with passion and urgency, but it is that very passion for life that makes death tragic." - Financial Times "May draws on insights ranging from the Stoics to Heidegger with incursions into famous arguments by Thomas Nagel and Bernard Williams on the way. Yet, May never loses his ability to write clearly and engagingly. Many books on death discuss a wider range of issues. Some discuss clinical definitions of death in order to resolve bioethical issues. Others discuss the morality of killing and whether abortion and euthanasia are cases of murder. This book does neither. It focuses only upon the existential significance of death and on the difference it should make to the way we live our lives. If it spends a lot of time on what may seem in the end to be simple and homely truths it does so because only be considering all the aspects of this issue and by exploring them in depth can the reader be taken on a journey that will truly be one of discovery and inspiration." - Metapsychology "Death is scholarly enough for the academic interested in a critical examination of theory and argument concerning death, while at the same time accessible enough for the reader interested in an introduction to philosophical thought on the topic, and to philosophical thought in general. All readers will appreciate this book's ability to encourage and compel its reader to reflect on life and death in a philosophical and personal way. It is a fine achievement to make philosophy personally meaningful, and Death succeeds in this regard." - Philosophy in ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgements 1. Our dealings with death 2. Death and immortality 3. Living with death Further reading Index
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Peter Lang International Academic Publishers Death in the 21st Century
Book SynopsisIn the shadow of the Covid-19 pandemic, death has become an all too familiar feature of the early 2020s.The 21st century has in fact produced a singular historical moment with its unique intersection of popular politics, environmental extremes, globalisation and technological innovation, which has correspondingly created distinctive expressions of death, as well.This companion reveals our visions of death in the 21st century and what they say about us and the times we live in. Organised into sections on the war on terror, technology, climate change, extremism and global pandemics, the short, reader-friendly essays in this volume highlight crucial encounters with death in the contemporary period.
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HarperCollins Publishers On Democracies and Death Cults
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Death Activism
Book SynopsisTraditional Western attitudes towards death deal with it as a painful inevitability, something that has to be navigated as a trauma and a taboo. They focus essentially on the management' of death, an anthropocentric practice prioritising the human life above every other type of existence.Patricia MacCormack explores how we can develop a death activism' a variety of tactics and posthuman practices which celebrate death, its inevitability, its forms, from the slow to times of crisis, and how trauma and mourning emerge as their own forms of expression. Crucial to the foundation of death activism is the dissymmetry with which different deaths are met including the mass death of nonhuman animals and ecologies. Death Activism is a feminist, queer, postcolonialist enquiry, that seeks to queer death making queer our usual familiar death habits and trajectories of thought, toward a jubilant activism that can transform death into a more democratically equal, and a more jubilant
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SPCK Publishing Death Comes for the Deconstructionist: A Novel
Book SynopsisWhen Jon Mote is hired to investigate the murder of his erstwhile mentor, literary star Richard Pratt, the grad school dropout feels woefully unequal to the task. Skittering on the edge of madness, his only source of hope is the dogged love of his developmentally disabled sister, Judy, who serves as cheerleader, critic and moral compass. Soon the siblings find themselves haunting the neighbourhoods of Minneapolis and St Paul, Minnesota – from crime scenes to the halls of academe – exposing a series of suspects along the way. When he stumbles upon Pratt’s terrible secret, Mote is prompted to discover an equally dreadful mystery in his own past – a revelation that accelerates his descent into darkness and puts both himself and Judy at grave risk. ‘Daniel Taylor’s oddly reluctant Sherlock Holmes is accompanied by the most unusual and heartwarming Watson in my reading experience.’ Paul J. Willis, author of The Alpine TalesTrade ReviewI love this book. The way it ends (and I won’t spoil it here) is about as satisfying as a murder mystery can be. -- John Piper, author of Desiring GodDaniel Taylor blends a passion for theology, civil rights, and the saving grace of story in a mystery involving an unlikely pair of underdog investigators – the psychologically broken Jon Mote and his ever hopeful, developmentally challenged older sister, Judy. Known primarily for his nonfiction books, Taylor displays the natural skills of a crime writer in his debut novel set in the world of academia. His plot begins conventionally, but eventually evolves into something much deeper. Death Comes for the Deconstructionist is a fascinating exploration of what is ultimately good and true. * Naomi Hirahara, Edgar Award-winning author of the Mas Arai and Officer Ellie Rush mysteries *This whodunit from Dan Taylor is a cause for celebration. His Jon Mote rivals Harry Bosch, and Taylor's ventures into literature, religion, and notions of progress shine, challenge, and stun. With his remarkable sidekick, Judy, Jon Mote, ‘an expert on things he wished he didn't know,’ is not simply looking into a puzzling death. He is exploring his own odds of finding transformative life. Great books are those that force readers to reexamine the very ground on which they stand. Death Comes for the Deconstructionist is such a book – a luminous performance. * Dale Brown, Director of Buechner Institute *In Death Comes for the Deconstructionist, Daniel Taylor has written not only a highly engaging murder mystery but also a metaphysical page-turner – a strange and wonderful cross between Walker Percy and G. K. Chesterton. His oddly reluctant Sherlock Holmes is accompanied by the most unusual and heartwarming Watson in my reading experience. * Paul J. Willis, author of The Alpine Tales *Jon Mote – by his own admission a clueless detective – is asked to solve the murder of a renowned English professor. Despite his bumbling efforts he discovers truth, not only concerning the murder but, more profoundly, concerning himself and his painful past. This witty, tragicomic novel slices a scalpel into the heart of the modern university and lays bare the intellectual and spiritual bankruptcy of its reigning ideologies. * Hugh Cook, author of Heron River *One part academic satire, one part mystery, and one part theological investigation, this pleasingly disorienting novel packs a wicked punch. Like life itself, Daniel Taylor gives us a story in which all sorts of incongruous elements are jumbled together. (Reality is not fastidious.) But is there – could there be – a pattern nonetheless, a great design amid all the confusion? * John Wilson, Editor, Books & Culture *
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Roca Editorial de Libros, S.L. Cita con la muerte An Appointment with Death
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Reaktion Books Death 24X A Second
Book SynopsisIn "Death 24 x a Second", Laura Mulvey addresses some of the key questions of film theory, spectatorship and narrative. New media technologies, such as video and DVD, have transformed the way we experience film, and the viewers' relationship to film image and cinema's narrative structure has also been fundamentally altered. These technologies give viewers the means to control both image and story, so that films produced to be seen collectively and followed in a linear fashion may be found to contain unexpected (even unintended) pleasures. The tension between the still frame and the moving image coincides with the cinema's capacity to capture the appearance of life and preserve it after death. Mulvey proposes that with the arrival of new technologies and new ways of experiencing the cinematic image, film's hidden stillness comes to the fore, thereby acquiring a new accessibility and visibility. The individual frame, the projected film's best-kept secret, can now be revealed, by anyone, at the simple touch of a button. As Mulvey argues, easy access to repetition, slow motion and the freeze-frame may well shift the spectator's pleasure to a fetishistic rather than a voyeuristic investment in the cinematic object. The manipulation of the cinematic image by the viewer also makes visible cinema's material and aesthetic attributes. By exploring how new technologies can give new life to old' cinema, "Death 24 x a Second" offers an original re-evaluation of film's history and also its historical usefulness.Trade Reviewelegiac ... a wonderful close analysis. Despite the melancholy in cinema's enounters with a fleeting past, the prospects opened up by filmic slowness are, for Mulvey, productive of optimism. Times Higher Education Supplement Rethinking the fundamentals of fim history through modern audiovisual technology Independent on Sunday Mulvey ... continues to provoke new ways of seeing - or re-seeing - the cinema we think we know. Film Comment Death 24x a Second takes up both the challenge to critical thinking represented by new technological developments, and the impulse towards reflection on film's past that they have occasioned ... a thoughtful book. New Left Review
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Common Ground Publishing Death, Our Last Illusion: A Scientific and Spiritual Probing of Consciousness Through Death
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Understanding Death
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DC Comics Dark Nights: Death Metal Omnibus
Book SynopsisGet ready for the earth-shattering encore! When the Earth is enveloped by the Dark Multiverse, the Justice League is at the mercy of the Batman Who Laughs. Humanity struggles to survive in a hellish landscape twisted beyond recognition, while Batman, Wonder Woman, and Superman have all been separated and fight to survive. Unleash the beast and let the head banging begin! The Death Metal Omnibus is packed full of the Death Metal stories you love! Collecting Dark Nights: Death Metal #1-7, Dark Nights: Death Metal Guidebook #1, Dark Nights: Death Metal Infinite Hour Exxxtreme! #1, Dark Nights: Death Metal Legends of the Dark Knights #1, Dark Nights: Death Metal Multiverse's End #1, Dark Nights: Death Metal Rise of the New God #1, Dark Nights: Death Metal Robin King #1, Dark Nights: Death Metal The Last 52: War of the Multiverses #1, Dark Nights: Death Metal The Multiverse Who Laughs #1, Dark Nights: Death Metal The Secret Origin #1, Dark Nights: Death Metal Trinity Crisis #1, and Justice League #53-57!
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Little, Brown Book Group Death Comes to Lynchester Close
Book SynopsisLord Francis Powerscourt is visited at home in London by the Bishop of Lynchester who wants his advice about the suspect for the death of an aged parishioner. Powerscourt advises that discretion rather than accusation is the best way forward, but this is just the start of his association with the diocese of Lynchester. The death of the parishioner has left available a property in the cathedral close which traditionally the church rents out to a suitable tenant. Four worthy candidates are nominated . . . and then one of them, the retail king of the south of England, is found dead in the house, poisoned by strychnine. So once again Powerscourt is summoned by the bishop as this time there is no doubt of foul play.But there are many suspects from which to choose - there are the other candidates who want to live in that very desirable property . . . or could it be more complex than that? Very soon Powerscourt uncovers a trail of greed, deception and death which goes st
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Libros En Red The Scientific Conquest of Death
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LEGARE STREET PR Death Real and Apparent in Relation to the Sacraments
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Cambridge University Press The Philosophy of Death
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Thames & Hudson Ltd Death
Book SynopsisThe ultimate death compendium, featuring the world's most extraordinary artistic and ethnographic objects concerned with mortality, together with text by expert contributors.Trade Review'A delightfully dark compendium' - The EconomistTable of Contents1. The Art of Dying • 2. Examining the Dead • 3. Memorialising the Dead • 4. The Personification of Death • 5. Symbolising Death • 6. Death as Amusement • 7. The Dead After Life
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Taylor & Francis Death
Book SynopsisThis book examines how legal institutions reify the value of death in the twenty-first century. Its starting point is that bio-technological innovations have extended life to such an extent that death has become an epistemological problem for legal institutions. It explores how legal definitions of death are subject to the governing logic of economisation, how legal technologies for registering a death reshape what kind of deaths are counted during a pandemic, and how technologies for recycling cadaveric tissue problematise the legal status of the corpse. The question that unites each chapter is how legal institutions respond to technologies that bring death before their laws. The book argues for an interdisciplinary approach, informed by the writings of Georges Bataille, Wendy Brown, Georges Canguilhem and Michel Foucault, to understand how legal epistemologies are increasingly disrupted, challenged, and countered by technologies that repurpose death to extend, nourish and foster human life. It contends that legal theorists and social scientists need to rethink doctrinal perspectives of law when theorising how law defines the moment of death, shapes what kind of deaths count, and recycles the debris of the dead. This book will appeal to a broad international readership with research interests in critical theory, political theory, legal theory or death studies; and it will be particularly useful for teachers and students who are searching for an accessible entry point to the study of the intersections between law and death.
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LEGARE STREET PR Death Real and Apparent in Relation to the Sacraments
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MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Count the Dead Coroners Quants and the Birth of Death as We Know It
Book SynopsisExamining the development of death registration systems in the United States - from the first mortality census in 1850 to the development of the death certificate at the turn of the century - this book argues that mortality data transformed life on Earth, proving critical to the systemization of public health, casualty reporting, and human rights.
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