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Over Our Dead Bodies
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Author : Kenneth McKenzie
language : en
Publisher: Citadel
Release Date : 2014-06-01
Over Our Dead Bodies written by Kenneth McKenzie and has been published by Citadel this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Discover a more lighthearted side of the funeral industry in this collection of real-life stories from the authors of Mortuary Confidential. Not knowing what to do, I sat on the church steps and waited. As the gravity of my failure began to well up in me, I began to cry . . . I Had Lost The Hearse! Funerals and the all the things that accompany them are traditionally somber, contemplative events in which the bereaved look to their undertaker to guide them through that most difficult of times. Of course, sometimes tradition gets thrown under the bus. From a dysfunctional family who turn their mother’s wake into a full-blown riot, to funeral crashers looking for free meals, to a horse-drawn hearse taking the dearly departed for the ride of their afterlife, these accounts from actual undertakers will have you laughing, thinking, and gasping in disbelief. A literal graveyard of wild coincidences, slapstick humor, and touching moments, Over Our Dead Bodies explores the lighter side of the dead, the living, and the lone undertaker who must make it all go as planned—even if it doesn’t. Praise for Mortuary Confidential “Outrageous funeral stories, dipped in beauty and morbid humor.” —Caleb Wilde, author of Confessions of a Funeral Director “Curious, wildly honest stories that need to be told, but just not at the dinner table.” —Dana Kollmann, author of Never Suck a Dead Man’s Hand “As unpredictable and lively as a bunch of drunks at a New Orleans funeral.” —Joe R. Lansdale, author of Moon Lake “Sick, funny, and brilliant! I love this book.” —Jonathan Maberry, Bram Stoker Award–winning author of They Bite! And Rot & Ruin “These true mortuary tales are poignant—and suddenly, gaspi
Over Our Dead Bodies
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Author : Ivor Herbert
language : en
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Release Date : 1972
Over Our Dead Bodies written by Ivor Herbert and has been published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with categories.
Over Our Dead Bodies
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Author : Chapman, Simon
language : en
Publisher: Sydney University Press
Release Date : 2013-02-06
Over Our Dead Bodies written by Chapman, Simon and has been published by Sydney University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-06 with Political Science categories.
The Port Arthur massacre on 28 April 1996, when 35 people were shot dead by Martin Bryant, transformed Australia’s gun control debate. Public outrage drove politicians from all sides of politics to embrace gun control. Non-violent ‘people power’ galvanised government resolve to outlaw semi-automatic weapons, register all guns, and tighten gun ownership laws. Simon Chapman’s book gives an insider’s view of the struggle for gun control, highlighting the public discourse between shooters determined to preserve the right for civilians to bear military-style weapons, and activists dedicated to getting Australia ‘off the American path’ of gun violence. Law reform is not inevitable. It requires the planned, strategic use of media and advocacy to convert anger into action. The story of the campaign for gun control is a practical guide to achieving humane social change for activists everywhere.
Over My Dead Body William Warwick Novels
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Author : Jeffrey Archer
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2021-10-12
Over My Dead Body William Warwick Novels written by Jeffrey Archer and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-12 with Fiction categories.
An unputdownable story of murder, revenge and betrayal from international number one bestseller Jeffrey Archer.
Over Our Dead Bodies
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Author : Dorothy Thompson
language : en
Publisher: London : Virago
Release Date : 1983
Over Our Dead Bodies written by Dorothy Thompson and has been published by London : Virago this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Antinuclear movement categories.
Over Her Dead Body
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Author : Elisabeth Bronfen
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 1992
Over Her Dead Body written by Elisabeth Bronfen and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Family & Relationships categories.
In 1846, Edgar Allen Poe wrote that 'the death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetic topic in the world'. The conjuction of death, art and femininity forms a rich and disturbing strata of Western culture, explored here in fascinating detail by Elisabeth Bronfen. Her examples range from Carmen to Little Nell, from Wuthering Heights to Vertigo, from Snow White to Frankenstein. The text is richly illustrated throughout with thirty-seven paintings and photographs. The argument that this book presents is that narrative and visual representations of death can be read as symptoms of our culture and because the feminine body is culturally constructed as the superlative site of "other" and "not me", culture uses art to dream the deaths of beautiful women.
The Political Lives Of Dead Bodies
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Author : Katherine Verdery
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 1999-04-07
The Political Lives Of Dead Bodies written by Katherine Verdery 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 1999-04-07 with Political Science categories.
Since 1989, scores of bodies across Eastern Europe have been exhumed and brought to rest in new gravesites. Katherine Verdery investigates why certain corpses—the bodies of revolutionary leaders, heroes, artists, and other luminaries, as well as more humble folk—have taken on a political life in the turbulent times following the end of Communist Party rule, and what roles they play in revising the past and reorienting the present. Enlivening and invigorating the dialogue on postsocialist politics, this imaginative study helps us understand the dynamic and deeply symbolic nature of politics—and how it can breathe new life into old bones.
Technologies Of The Human Corpse
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Author : John Troyer
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2021-08-03
Technologies Of The Human Corpse written by John Troyer and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-03 with Social Science categories.
“One of our greatest thinkers” on death presents a radical new approach to thinking about dying and the human corpse (Caitlin Doughty, mortician and bestselling author of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes). A fascinating exploration of the relationship between technology and the human corpse throughout history—from 19th-century embalming machines to 21st-century death-prevention technologies. Death and the dead body have never been more alive in the public imagination—not least because of current debates over modern medical technology that is deployed, it seems, expressly to keep human bodies from dying, blurring the boundary between alive and dead. In this book, John Troyer examines the relationship of the dead body with technology, both material and conceptual: the physical machines, political concepts, and sovereign institutions that humans use to classify, organize, repurpose, and transform the human corpse. Doing so, he asks readers to think about death, dying, and dead bodies in radically different ways. Troyer explains, for example, how technologies of the nineteenth century including embalming and photography, created our image of a dead body as quasi-atemporal, existing outside biological limits formerly enforced by decomposition. He describes the “Happy Death Movement” of the 1970s; the politics of HIV/AIDS corpse and the productive potential of the dead body; the provocations of the Body Worlds exhibits and their use of preserved dead bodies; the black market in human body parts; and the transformation of historic technologies of the human corpse into “death prevention technologies.” The consequences of total control over death and the dead body, Troyer argues, are not liberation but the abandonment of Homo sapiens as a concept and a species. In this unique work, Troyer forces us to consider the increasing overlap between politics, dying, and the dead body in both general and specifically personal terms.
Over Our Dead Bodies
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Author : Simon Chapman
language : en
Publisher: Sydney University Press
Release Date : 2018-08-30
Over Our Dead Bodies written by Simon Chapman and has been published by Sydney University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-30 with Political Science categories.
The Port Arthur massacre on 28 April 1996, when 35 people were shot dead by Martin Bryant, transformed Australia's gun control debate. Public outrage drove politicians from all sides of politics to embrace gun control. Non-violent 'people power' galvanised government resolve to outlaw semi-automatic weapons, register all guns and tighten gun ownership laws. Simon Chapman's book gives an insider's view of the struggle for gun control, highlighting the public discourse between shooters determined to preserve the right for civilians to bear military-style weapons, and activists dedicated to getting Australia 'off the American path' of gun violence.
Death To Dust
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Author : Kenneth V. Iserson
language : en
Publisher: Gale Group Incorporated
Release Date : 2001
Death To Dust written by Kenneth V. Iserson and has been published by Gale Group Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Autopsy categories.
In our culture, we rarely speak about death -- partly because it is seen as a sort of pornography, shrouded in indecency and immersed in taboos; and partly because we know so little about it. Yet nearly everyone at some point has questions about what happens after death. At long last, here is a book to answer many of those questions: What physical changes occur to a dead body?