City Of The Dead
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Cities Of The Dead
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Author : Joseph Roach
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2021-11-30
Cities Of The Dead written by Joseph Roach and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
In the early eighteenth century, a delegation of Iroquois visited Britain, exciting the imagination of the London crowds with images of the “feathered people” and warlike “Mohocks.” Today, performing in a popular Afrodiasporic tradition, “Mardi Gras Indians” or “Black Masking Indians” take to the streets of New Orleans at carnival time and for weeks thereafter, parading in handmade “suits” resplendent with beadwork and feathers. What do these seemingly disparate strands of culture share over three centuries and several thousand miles of ocean? Interweaving theatrical, musical, and ritual performance along the Atlantic rim from the eighteenth century to the present, Cities of the Dead explores a rich continuum of cultural exchange that imaginatively reinvents, recreates, and restores history. Joseph Roach reveals how performance can revise the unwritten past, comparing patterns of remembrance and forgetting in how communities forge their identities and imagine their futures. He examines the syncretic performance traditions of Europe, Africa, and the Americas in the urban sites of London and New Orleans, through social events ranging from burials to sacrifices, auctions to parades, encompassing traditions as diverse as Haitian Voudon and British funerals. Considering processes of substitution, or surrogation, as enacted in performance, Roach demonstrates the ways in which people and cultures fill the voids left by death and departure. The twenty-fifth anniversary edition of this classic work features a new preface reflecting on the relevance of its arguments to the politics of performance and performance in contemporary politics.
City Of The Dead
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Author : Jonathan Kellerman
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2022-02-17
City Of The Dead written by Jonathan Kellerman and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-17 with Fiction categories.
'His exploration of warped minds is as gripping as the kinks in the complex plot' The Times 'An intelligent and dark ride' Peterborough Telegraph 'A book that will delight [...] with its familiar mix of detection and psychological insight' Shots Magazine _________________________ The electrifying new Alex Delaware thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense. At 5am in the upscale neighbourhood of Westwood Village, two removal men are making a routine pick-up when they make a fatal hit. It's a man - who appeared from nowhere - naked and with no means of identification. Not long after, a woman is found dead in a house nearby, which neighbours suspect to be a brothel. Could the man have come from there? When LAPD homicide lieutenant Milo Sturgis calls brilliant psychologist Alex Delaware is called to the scene, the case gets even more complicated. Delaware has met the woman before. She's a psychologist too. Are the two deaths linked? Or is there a darker force at work?
Symphony For The City Of The Dead
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Author : M. T. Anderson
language : en
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Release Date : 2015-09-22
Symphony For The City Of The Dead written by M. T. Anderson and has been published by Candlewick Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-22 with Young Adult Nonfiction categories.
A 2016 YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Finalist National Book Award winner M. T. Anderson delivers a brilliant and riveting account of the Siege of Leningrad and the role played by Russian composer Shostakovich and his Leningrad Symphony. In September 1941, Adolf Hitler’s Wehrmacht surrounded Leningrad in what was to become one of the longest and most destructive sieges in Western history—almost three years of bombardment and starvation that culminated in the harsh winter of 1943–1944. More than a million citizens perished. Survivors recall corpses littering the frozen streets, their relatives having neither the means nor the strength to bury them. Residents burned books, furniture, and floorboards to keep warm; they ate family pets and—eventually—one another to stay alive. Trapped between the Nazi invading force and the Soviet government itself was composer Dmitri Shostakovich, who would write a symphony that roused, rallied, eulogized, and commemorated his fellow citizens—the Leningrad Symphony, which came to occupy a surprising place of prominence in the eventual Allied victory. This is the true story of a city under siege: the triumph of bravery and defiance in the face of terrifying odds. It is also a look at the power—and layered meaning—of music in beleaguered lives. Symphony for the City of the Dead is a masterwork thrillingly told and impeccably researched by National Book Award–winning author M. T. Anderson.
City Of The Dead
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Author : G. M. Martin
language : en
Publisher: eStar Books
Release Date : 2010-12-19
City Of The Dead written by G. M. Martin and has been published by eStar Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-19 with Fiction categories.
They called Launn a elty of the dead. Its Martian peoples lay frozen in their tracks. But were they really dead--or only asleep?
Cities Of The Dead
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Author : Michael Paine
language : en
Publisher: Diamond Books
Release Date : 1988-10-01
Cities Of The Dead written by Michael Paine and has been published by Diamond Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988-10-01 with Fiction categories.
Upon his arrival in Egypt to study its culture and tombs, Howard Carter discovers a demonic priest who is sacrificing innocent children in a heinous ritual tied tothe burial of the boy king, Tutankhamen
Beautiful City Of The Dead
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Author : Leander Watts
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 2007-09-10
Beautiful City Of The Dead written by Leander Watts and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-09-10 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
The author of "Stonecutter" presents the story of a teen girl who joins a rock band, only to find she is in fact the last piece of a tetrad that gives each member of the group a supernatural power.
City Of The Dead
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Author : Herbert Lieberman
language : en
Publisher: Open Road Media
Release Date : 2013-07-30
City Of The Dead written by Herbert Lieberman and has been published by Open Road Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-30 with Fiction categories.
In 1970s New York, a forensic pathologist must use his professional skills to save his own daughter in this “harrowing” award-winning crime novel (The New York Times). In the gritty seventies, Manhattan is a dark, dangerous, and threatening place. One of the bright spots in this decaying metropolis is Paul Konig. As the city’s chief medical examiner, he has developed an impressive reputation for his skills in forensic pathology—skills that will be put to the ultimate test when a dangerous psychopath kidnaps Konig’s daughter. Awakened by phone calls featuring his daughter’s desperate screams each night, Konig finds his life unraveling, not only personally but professionally. Between the case of a serial killer who leaves a trail of severed body parts in his wake, an investigation into the forensic work on an alleged prison suicide, and a nakedly ambitious deputy medical examiner, he is at the end of his rope, and it will take every ounce of his strength to save his own life—as well as his family’s. Perfect for fans of Patricia Cornwell or Kathy Reichs, City of the Dead is a chilling thriller by the author of Crawlspace and a winner of the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière, featuring “a massive amount of authoritative detail” about the life of a coroner (Kirkus Reviews).
City Of The Dead
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Author : S. D. Perry
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 1999
City Of The Dead written by S. D. Perry and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Epidemics categories.
A rookie cop and a resourceful young woman in search of her brother venture into Raccoon City on the very night that a horrifying viral outbreak has transformed every man, woman, and child into one of the living dead.
Necropolis City Of The Dead
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Author : Mark Davis
language : en
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Release Date : 2015-03-15
Necropolis City Of The Dead written by Mark Davis and has been published by Amberley Publishing Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-15 with Photography categories.
A fascinating history of Undercliffe Victorian Cemetery - 'works of art', created as much for the living as they were for the dead.
City Of The Dead
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Author : John Whitman
language : en
Publisher: Skylark
Release Date : 1997
City Of The Dead written by John Whitman and has been published by Skylark this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Fiction categories.
Hoole, Zak, and Tash have come to the planet Necropolos, hoping to buy a new ship to replace the Lightrunner. Necropolos is kind of creepy--it has the biggest cemetery in the galaxy, which doesn't exactly make it much of a tourist spot. When nefarious bounty hunter Boba Fett comes into town, claiming that people he has killed in Necropolos have come back to life, Zak and Tash know something very weird is going on. Zak accepts a dare to go into the Necropolos cemetery at midnight. But maybe he should have thought twice. Just because the bodies are buried, that doesn't mean they're dead.