Author: Richard Smiraldi
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780615597645
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Money, crime, death, unrequited love with a little voodoo in the mix - best characterize this book. When Montgomery Clark wakes up, two weeks after his wife's disappearance, he finds a bump on the back of his head, a painting (done by his wife) missing, a note in his own handwriting which reads, "You killed my sister, now I'll murder you," and a dead sparrow in his dresser drawer. He realizes he must solve the mystery of the disappearance of his wife or face charges for her disappearance.
Death and Disappearances
Author: Richard Smiraldi
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780615597645
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Money, crime, death, unrequited love with a little voodoo in the mix - best characterize this book. When Montgomery Clark wakes up, two weeks after his wife's disappearance, he finds a bump on the back of his head, a painting (done by his wife) missing, a note in his own handwriting which reads, "You killed my sister, now I'll murder you," and a dead sparrow in his dresser drawer. He realizes he must solve the mystery of the disappearance of his wife or face charges for her disappearance.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780615597645
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Money, crime, death, unrequited love with a little voodoo in the mix - best characterize this book. When Montgomery Clark wakes up, two weeks after his wife's disappearance, he finds a bump on the back of his head, a painting (done by his wife) missing, a note in his own handwriting which reads, "You killed my sister, now I'll murder you," and a dead sparrow in his dresser drawer. He realizes he must solve the mystery of the disappearance of his wife or face charges for her disappearance.
Disappearance, a Map
Author: Sheila B. Nickerson
Publisher: New York ; Toronto : Doubleday
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
His vanishing leads her back to earlier searches - for the lost Franklin expedition and for the elusive glory of the North Pole.
Publisher: New York ; Toronto : Doubleday
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
His vanishing leads her back to earlier searches - for the lost Franklin expedition and for the elusive glory of the North Pole.
Disappearances and Police Killings in Contemporary Brazil
Author: Sabrina Villenave
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780367469832
Category : Brazil
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
"The book offers an interdisciplinary qualitative study of the history of policing in Brazil and its colonial underpinnings, providing theoretical accounts of the relationship between biopolitics, space, and race, and post-colonial/decolonial work on the state, violence, and the production of disposable political subjects. Focused empirically on contemporary (1985-2015) police killings and disappearances in favelas, particularly in Rio de Janeiro, the books argues that the invisibility of this phenomenon is the product of a colonial mindset - one that has persisted throughout Brazil's experience of both dictatorship and re-democratisation and is traceable to the legacies of the Portuguese empire and the plantation system implemented. Analysing the development of the police as a colonial mechanism of social control, Villenave shows how the "war on drugs" reproduces this same colonial logic and renders some, overwhelmingly black, lives disposable and thus vulnerable to unchecked police brutality and death. It will be of interest to students and scholars of international politics and also contributes to critical security studies, postcolonial and de-colonial thought, global politics, the politics of Latin America and political geography"--
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780367469832
Category : Brazil
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
"The book offers an interdisciplinary qualitative study of the history of policing in Brazil and its colonial underpinnings, providing theoretical accounts of the relationship between biopolitics, space, and race, and post-colonial/decolonial work on the state, violence, and the production of disposable political subjects. Focused empirically on contemporary (1985-2015) police killings and disappearances in favelas, particularly in Rio de Janeiro, the books argues that the invisibility of this phenomenon is the product of a colonial mindset - one that has persisted throughout Brazil's experience of both dictatorship and re-democratisation and is traceable to the legacies of the Portuguese empire and the plantation system implemented. Analysing the development of the police as a colonial mechanism of social control, Villenave shows how the "war on drugs" reproduces this same colonial logic and renders some, overwhelmingly black, lives disposable and thus vulnerable to unchecked police brutality and death. It will be of interest to students and scholars of international politics and also contributes to critical security studies, postcolonial and de-colonial thought, global politics, the politics of Latin America and political geography"--
Migrant Deaths in the Arizona Desert
Author: Celestino Fernández
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816532524
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
Migrant Deaths in the Arizona Desert addresses the tragic results of government policies on immigration. The book's central question is why are migrants dying on our border? The authors constitute a multidisciplinary group reflecting on the issues of death, migration, and policy.
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816532524
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
Migrant Deaths in the Arizona Desert addresses the tragic results of government policies on immigration. The book's central question is why are migrants dying on our border? The authors constitute a multidisciplinary group reflecting on the issues of death, migration, and policy.
Deceit, Disappearance and Death
Author: Pamela Martin Ovens
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780997329070
Category : Conspiracies
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
The story of the disappearance of Elizabeth and John Calvert on Hilton Head Island in 2008. The suspect, Dennis Gerwing committed suicide that complicated the unsolved case. Murder and mystery surround this high profile case.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780997329070
Category : Conspiracies
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
The story of the disappearance of Elizabeth and John Calvert on Hilton Head Island in 2008. The suspect, Dennis Gerwing committed suicide that complicated the unsolved case. Murder and mystery surround this high profile case.
Circle of Love Over Death
Author: Matilde Mellibovsky
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
In Circle of Love Over Death, Matilde Mellibovsky documents the testimonies of mothers whose children were stripped from them in Argentina during the turbulent 1970s. She not only describes the personal anguish of families over the torture, death or "disappearance" of their children, but also shows how the women gave emotional support to each other and the way in which, since 1976, they slowly but surely organized and built an international movement.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
In Circle of Love Over Death, Matilde Mellibovsky documents the testimonies of mothers whose children were stripped from them in Argentina during the turbulent 1970s. She not only describes the personal anguish of families over the torture, death or "disappearance" of their children, but also shows how the women gave emotional support to each other and the way in which, since 1976, they slowly but surely organized and built an international movement.
Histories of Violence
Author: Brad Evans
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1783602406
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
While there is a tacit appreciation that freedom from violence will lead to more prosperous relations among peoples, violence continues to be deployed for various political and social ends. Yet the problem of violence still defies neat description, subject to many competing interpretations. Histories of Violence offers an accessible yet compelling examination of the problem of violence as it appears in the corpus of canonical figures – from Hannah Arendt to Frantz Fanon, Michel Foucault to Slavoj Žižek – who continue to influence and inform contemporary political, philosophical, sociological, cultural, and anthropological study. Written by a team of internationally renowned experts, this is an essential interrogation of post-war critical thought as it relates to violence.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1783602406
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
While there is a tacit appreciation that freedom from violence will lead to more prosperous relations among peoples, violence continues to be deployed for various political and social ends. Yet the problem of violence still defies neat description, subject to many competing interpretations. Histories of Violence offers an accessible yet compelling examination of the problem of violence as it appears in the corpus of canonical figures – from Hannah Arendt to Frantz Fanon, Michel Foucault to Slavoj Žižek – who continue to influence and inform contemporary political, philosophical, sociological, cultural, and anthropological study. Written by a team of internationally renowned experts, this is an essential interrogation of post-war critical thought as it relates to violence.
Off the Wall
Author: Michael Patrick Ghiglieri
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Accounts of all known fatal mishaps in Yosemite National Park.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Accounts of all known fatal mishaps in Yosemite National Park.
Death and Nonexistence
Author: Palle Yourgrau
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190053968
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
The dead are gone. They count for nothing. Yet, if we count the dead, their number is staggering. And they account for most of what is great about civilization. Compared to the greatness of the dead, the accomplishments of the living are paltry. Which is it then: are the dead still there to be counted or not? And if they are still there, where exactly is "there"? We are confronted with the ancient paradox of nonexistence bequeathed us by Parmenides. The mystery of death is the mystery of nonexistence. A successful attempt to provide a metaphysics of death, then, must resolve the paradox of nonexistence. That is the aim of this study. At the same time, the metaphysics of death, of ceasing to exist, must serve as an account of birth, of coming to exist; the primary thesis of this book is that this demands going beyond existence and nonexistence to include what underlies both, which one can call, following tradition, "being." The dead and the unborn are therefore objects that lack existence but not being. Nonexistent objects - not corpses, or skeletons, or memories, all of which are existent objects - are what are "there" to be counted when we count the dead.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190053968
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
The dead are gone. They count for nothing. Yet, if we count the dead, their number is staggering. And they account for most of what is great about civilization. Compared to the greatness of the dead, the accomplishments of the living are paltry. Which is it then: are the dead still there to be counted or not? And if they are still there, where exactly is "there"? We are confronted with the ancient paradox of nonexistence bequeathed us by Parmenides. The mystery of death is the mystery of nonexistence. A successful attempt to provide a metaphysics of death, then, must resolve the paradox of nonexistence. That is the aim of this study. At the same time, the metaphysics of death, of ceasing to exist, must serve as an account of birth, of coming to exist; the primary thesis of this book is that this demands going beyond existence and nonexistence to include what underlies both, which one can call, following tradition, "being." The dead and the unborn are therefore objects that lack existence but not being. Nonexistent objects - not corpses, or skeletons, or memories, all of which are existent objects - are what are "there" to be counted when we count the dead.
Digging for the Disappeared
Author: Adam Rosenblatt
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 080479488X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
The mass graves from our long human history of genocide, massacres, and violent conflict form an underground map of atrocity that stretches across the planet's surface. In the past few decades, due to rapidly developing technologies and a powerful global human rights movement, the scientific study of those graves has become a standard facet of post-conflict international assistance. Digging for the Disappeared provides readers with a window into this growing but little-understood form of human rights work, including the dangers and sometimes unexpected complications that arise as evidence is gathered and the dead are named. Adam Rosenblatt examines the ethical, political, and historical foundations of the rapidly growing field of forensic investigation, from the graves of the "disappeared" in Latin America to genocides in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia to post–Saddam Hussein Iraq. In the process, he illustrates how forensic teams strive to balance the needs of war crimes tribunals, transitional governments, and the families of the missing in post-conflict nations. Digging for the Disappeared draws on interviews with key players in the field to present a new way to analyze and value the work forensic experts do at mass graves, shifting the discussion from an exclusive focus on the rights of the living to a rigorous analysis of the care of the dead. Rosenblatt tackles these heady, hard topics in order to extend human rights scholarship into the realm of the dead and the limited but powerful forms of repair available for victims of atrocity.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 080479488X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
The mass graves from our long human history of genocide, massacres, and violent conflict form an underground map of atrocity that stretches across the planet's surface. In the past few decades, due to rapidly developing technologies and a powerful global human rights movement, the scientific study of those graves has become a standard facet of post-conflict international assistance. Digging for the Disappeared provides readers with a window into this growing but little-understood form of human rights work, including the dangers and sometimes unexpected complications that arise as evidence is gathered and the dead are named. Adam Rosenblatt examines the ethical, political, and historical foundations of the rapidly growing field of forensic investigation, from the graves of the "disappeared" in Latin America to genocides in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia to post–Saddam Hussein Iraq. In the process, he illustrates how forensic teams strive to balance the needs of war crimes tribunals, transitional governments, and the families of the missing in post-conflict nations. Digging for the Disappeared draws on interviews with key players in the field to present a new way to analyze and value the work forensic experts do at mass graves, shifting the discussion from an exclusive focus on the rights of the living to a rigorous analysis of the care of the dead. Rosenblatt tackles these heady, hard topics in order to extend human rights scholarship into the realm of the dead and the limited but powerful forms of repair available for victims of atrocity.