Life in Death

The definitive history of Oradour-sur-Glane, a village ripped apart by tragedy in Nazi-occupied FranceIllustrations: 45 Illustrations, black and white

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Malcolm GaskillNumber of pages: 336Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 163 x 241 x 34Cover type: HardbackRedes...

On the west bank of the Mississippi lies the New Orleans neighborhood of Algiers. Short on hope but big on dreams, its mostly poor and marginalized...

Reducere. Adventurist Jim Wickwire, an eyewitness to glory and terror above 20, 000 feet, has braved bitter cold, blinding storms, and avalanches to become w...

It is estimated that almost 1 million jobs will be eliminated in the traditional role of "sales person" in the next five years in the United States...

Reducere. Angels Over Moscow is an inspirational, first-person account of the life of American physician, Dr. Juliette Engel, who founded the non-profit Mira...

Publisher: Brewin BooksAuthor(s): Simon ButeuxIllustration(s): 111 colour illustrationsNumber of pages: 184Publication date: 2003Dimensions: 239 x ...

Find out what happens when Lucifer's Sword Motorcycle Club goes head to head with a badass rival club in this graphic novel from a lifelong motorcy...

When Dr. Ellen Einterz first arrives in the town of Kolofata in Cameroon, the situation is dire: patients are exploited by healthcare workers, unst...

DescriptionA gripping account of the Russian visionaries who are pursuing human immortalityAs long as we have known death, we have dreamed of life ...

DescriptionA New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. Long-listed for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence. One of Esquire's Best Books of 2...

Reducere. The Achuar people have survived in isolation in the Amazonian jungle by aggressively resisting intruders. In this book, Descola depicts an altogeth...

At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Jack Miles and Mark C. Taylor embarked on an extended conversation about living and dying in an imperiled wo...

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers IncAuthor(s): Buzz BissingerNumber of pages: 480Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 165 x 237 x 45Cover type: Har...

A deeply emotional combination of grief memoir and soldier's story.

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A British Band of Brothers: a thrilling account of the Second World War, told through the eyes of a regiment who fought at battles from Tobruk to t...

Reducere. Is it possible to find meaning in life after the death of a child? This is the question that steered Linda Kolsky to a quest for answers after she ...

Reducere. A reevaluation of psychoanalytic theory, based on a Freudian interpretation of the history of Western civilization

Examines the life and work of William Lamport (d. 1659), an Irish rebel, soldier, poet, and thinker who was burned at the stake by the Inquisition ...

This book recounts in detail the negotiations, internal and external struggles, and the outcome of an attempt by HUD, the City of Washington, and s...

DescriptionKalief Browder was 16 when he was arrested in the Bronx for allegedly stealing a backpack. Unable to raise bail and unwilling to plead g...

Reducere. Idaho Library Association Book AwardJulie Whitesel Weston left her hometown of Kellogg, Idaho, but eventually it pulled her back. Only when she ret...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Andrew B. KipnisIllustration(s): 17 color photographs, 2 mapsNumber of pages: 190Publication da...

Eyewitness accounts reveal how the Iranian state secretly executed thousands of political prisoners in the summer of 1988

Publisher: Permuted PressAuthor(s): Robert BurrisNumber of pages: 192Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 159 x 236 x 20Cover type: HardbackRedescoper...

This book is about how, when, and why our dead visit us. Allan Kellehear-a medical sociologist and expert on death, dying, and palliative care-has ...

Life in one of the world's oldest civilisations is considered in relation to the contemporary nature of an Egypt in flux since the revolution of 20...

Reducere. Choice Outstanding Title Scorned by allies and enemies alike, the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) was one of the most maligned fighting forc...

Reducere. The Inevitable Journey, We inevitably go through the journey starting in this life and extending into the grave, before our final abode in the here...

Reducere. In Enduring Cancer Dwaipayan Banerjee explores the efforts of Delhi's urban poor to create a livable life with cancer as patients and families nego...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

DescriptionA feminist media history of quantification, uncovering the stories behind the tools and technologies we use to count, measure, and weigh...

Reducere. As a companion workbook to 'Essentials in Hospice and Palliative Care: A Resource for Nursing Assistants', this workbook actively engages you to he...

Interweaving images of the manuscript, portraits, medical instruments and contemporary diagrams into her narrative, Sharon Ruston shows how this ex...

Reducere. It is normally thought that the bass viol or viola da gamba dropped out of British musical life in the 1690s, and that Henry Purcell was the last c...

Presents seven dramas from the first truly American theatre. Composed in Nahuatl during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, most of these play...

Reducere. The most recent addition to the Fundamentals of Philosophy series, John Martin Fischer's Death, Immortality, and Meaning in Life offers a brief yet...

This book demonstrates how Britain's black soldiers helped shape attitudes towards race throughout the nineteenth century. Using military-medical l...

Based on never previously explored personal accounts and archival documentation, this book examines life and death in the Theresienstadt ghetto, se...

Life in Death: My Animated Films 1976-2020 explores death as it relates to experience, storytelling, theory, and narrative.Publisher: Taylor & Fran...

This volume reports on excavations in advance of the development of a site in Norton-on-Derwent, North Yorkshire close to the line of the main Roma...

The book traces the history of ACT UP/LA, whose members battled government and institutional neglect of the AIDS crisis during the 1980s and 1990s....

Twenty papers combining archaeology and bioarchaeology to give a sophisticated picture of life and death in Asia Minor from ca. 200 BC - to AD 1300...

Modern democracies face tough life-and-death choices in armed conflicts. Chief among them is how to weigh the value of soldiers' lives against thos...

Human remains and burial customs are often considered separately in studies of ancient Greek populations. In this seminal work, Carrie Sulosky Weav...