Author: Henry Kisor
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780765317803
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The peace and quiet of Porcupine City, a tiny town in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, is destroyed by the discovery of a headless corpse, wrapped in plastic and accompanied by clues to another headless corpse.
Cache of Corpses
Author: Henry Kisor
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780765317803
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The peace and quiet of Porcupine City, a tiny town in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, is destroyed by the discovery of a headless corpse, wrapped in plastic and accompanied by clues to another headless corpse.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780765317803
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The peace and quiet of Porcupine City, a tiny town in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, is destroyed by the discovery of a headless corpse, wrapped in plastic and accompanied by clues to another headless corpse.
Cache of Corpses
Author: Henry Kisor
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781537602714
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Porcupine County, a peaceful little place in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, suddenly becomes the unlikely backdrop for a grisly and high-tech treasure hunt when amorous teen-agers stumble upon a headless corpse. When a second cadaver turns up, Deputy Steve Martinez realizes the bodies are someone's twisted idea of a game. Worse, the election for county sheriff is fast approaching. And Steve's relationship with the beautiful Ginny Fitzgerald becomes strained as he searches for a way to connect with her foster son. The case becomes Steve's toughest investigation yet.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781537602714
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Porcupine County, a peaceful little place in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, suddenly becomes the unlikely backdrop for a grisly and high-tech treasure hunt when amorous teen-agers stumble upon a headless corpse. When a second cadaver turns up, Deputy Steve Martinez realizes the bodies are someone's twisted idea of a game. Worse, the election for county sheriff is fast approaching. And Steve's relationship with the beautiful Ginny Fitzgerald becomes strained as he searches for a way to connect with her foster son. The case becomes Steve's toughest investigation yet.
The Sacred Body
Author: Nicola Laneri
Publisher: Oxbow Books
ISBN: 178925521X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
The human body represents the perfect element for relating communities of the living with the divine. This is clearly evident in the mythological stories that recount the creation of humans by deities among ancient and contemporaneous societies across a very broad geographical environment. Thus, parts of selected human body parts or skeletal elements can then become an ideal proxy for connecting with the supernatural as demonstrated by the cult of the human skulls among Neolithic communities in the Near East as well as the cult of the relics of Christian saints. The aim of this volume is to undertake a cross-cultural investigation of the role played in antiquity by humans and human remains in creating forms of relationality with the divine. Such an approach will highlight how the human body can be envisioned as part of a broader materialization of religious beliefs that is based on connecting different realms of materiality in perceiving the supernatural by the community of the livings. Case studies on ritual aspects of funerary practices is presented, emphasising the varied roles of body parts in mortuary rituals and as relics. Other papers take a wider look at regional practices in various time periods and cultural contexts to explore the central role of the corpse in the negotiation of death in human culture.
Publisher: Oxbow Books
ISBN: 178925521X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
The human body represents the perfect element for relating communities of the living with the divine. This is clearly evident in the mythological stories that recount the creation of humans by deities among ancient and contemporaneous societies across a very broad geographical environment. Thus, parts of selected human body parts or skeletal elements can then become an ideal proxy for connecting with the supernatural as demonstrated by the cult of the human skulls among Neolithic communities in the Near East as well as the cult of the relics of Christian saints. The aim of this volume is to undertake a cross-cultural investigation of the role played in antiquity by humans and human remains in creating forms of relationality with the divine. Such an approach will highlight how the human body can be envisioned as part of a broader materialization of religious beliefs that is based on connecting different realms of materiality in perceiving the supernatural by the community of the livings. Case studies on ritual aspects of funerary practices is presented, emphasising the varied roles of body parts in mortuary rituals and as relics. Other papers take a wider look at regional practices in various time periods and cultural contexts to explore the central role of the corpse in the negotiation of death in human culture.
Rat Island
Author: William Stolzenburg
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1608193314
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Rat Island rises from the icy gray waters of the Bering Sea, a mass of volcanic rock covered with tundra, midway between Alaska and Siberia. Once a remote sanctuary for enormous flocks of seabirds, the island gained a new name when shipwrecked rats colonized, savaging the nesting birds by the thousands. Now, on this and hundreds of other remote islands around the world, a massive-and massively controversial-wildlife rescue mission is under way. Islands, making up just 3 percent of Earth's landmass, harbor more than half of its endangered species. These fragile ecosystems, home to unique species that evolved in peaceful isolation, have been catastrophically disrupted by mainland predators-rats, cats, goats, and pigs ferried by humans to islands around the globe. To save these endangered islanders, academic ecologists have teamed up with professional hunters and semiretired poachers in a radical act of conservation now bent on annihilating the invaders. Sharpshooters are sniping at goat herds from helicopters. Biological SWAT teams are blanketing mountainous isles with rat poison. Rat Island reveals a little-known and much-debated side of today's conservation movement, founded on a cruel-to-be-kind philosophy. Touring exotic locales with a ragtag group of environmental fighters, William Stolzenburg delivers both perilous adventure and intimate portraits of human, beast, hero, and villain. And amid manifold threats to life on Earth, he reveals a new reason to hope.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1608193314
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Rat Island rises from the icy gray waters of the Bering Sea, a mass of volcanic rock covered with tundra, midway between Alaska and Siberia. Once a remote sanctuary for enormous flocks of seabirds, the island gained a new name when shipwrecked rats colonized, savaging the nesting birds by the thousands. Now, on this and hundreds of other remote islands around the world, a massive-and massively controversial-wildlife rescue mission is under way. Islands, making up just 3 percent of Earth's landmass, harbor more than half of its endangered species. These fragile ecosystems, home to unique species that evolved in peaceful isolation, have been catastrophically disrupted by mainland predators-rats, cats, goats, and pigs ferried by humans to islands around the globe. To save these endangered islanders, academic ecologists have teamed up with professional hunters and semiretired poachers in a radical act of conservation now bent on annihilating the invaders. Sharpshooters are sniping at goat herds from helicopters. Biological SWAT teams are blanketing mountainous isles with rat poison. Rat Island reveals a little-known and much-debated side of today's conservation movement, founded on a cruel-to-be-kind philosophy. Touring exotic locales with a ragtag group of environmental fighters, William Stolzenburg delivers both perilous adventure and intimate portraits of human, beast, hero, and villain. And amid manifold threats to life on Earth, he reveals a new reason to hope.
Social Bioarchaeology
Author: Sabrina C. Agarwal
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 144439052X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 485
Book Description
Illustrates new methodological directions in analyzing human social and biological variation Offers a wide array of research on past populations around the globe Explains the central features of bioarchaeological research by key researchers and established experts around the world
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 144439052X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 485
Book Description
Illustrates new methodological directions in analyzing human social and biological variation Offers a wide array of research on past populations around the globe Explains the central features of bioarchaeological research by key researchers and established experts around the world
Option Delta
Author: Richard Marcinko
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451693117
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
As A U.S. Navy Seal, Richard Marcinko knew no limits -- as the Rogue Warrior, he obeys no rules. In six spectacular New York Times bestsellers -- Rogue Warrior, his #1 blockbuster autobiography, and five explosive Rogue Warrior novels -- covert combat master Richard Marcinko has blown the lid off the classified world of SpecWar ops. Now, the commando's (redo "kill-or-be-killed" is pushed to the brink in a shattering new conflict -- with the fate of America at stake. The Rogue Warrior is invading Germany with a blitzkrieg of bravado. His secret assignment: recover a pair of U.S. ADM's -- Atomic Demolition Munitions -- lost in the Rhine Valley. Yet, what begins as a simple SEAL mission explodes in his face when terrorists visit the cache site. With scandals at home and fresh hotbeds of political and military tensions igniting all over the world, America's diplomatic priorities are everywhere but eastern Europe -- and the Rogue Warrior and his SEALs must take matters into their own hands. But not even Marcinko is aware that a cabal of ultranational extremists -- led by Lothar Beck, a billionaire defense contractor -- is ready to take advantage of the U.S.'s global distractions. Beck and his subversive cadre believe the time is ripe for their great notion to emerge as Europe's first superpower -- a true Fourth Reich. They have the money and influence to make it happen. And thanks to Cold War stockpiling of nuclear and conventional weapons on German soil, they have the arms. Fortunately Marcinko has some firepower of his own, and the manpower to deliver it the way the God of war intended: with maximum prejudice and extreme efficiency. He and his elite SEALs will have to wade through tango cells of skinheads, neo-Nazis, Russian mobsters, and Middle Eastern terrorists before they get the scent of the real powerbrokers. But once they do, it's time to go hunting -- with no bag limit.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451693117
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
As A U.S. Navy Seal, Richard Marcinko knew no limits -- as the Rogue Warrior, he obeys no rules. In six spectacular New York Times bestsellers -- Rogue Warrior, his #1 blockbuster autobiography, and five explosive Rogue Warrior novels -- covert combat master Richard Marcinko has blown the lid off the classified world of SpecWar ops. Now, the commando's (redo "kill-or-be-killed" is pushed to the brink in a shattering new conflict -- with the fate of America at stake. The Rogue Warrior is invading Germany with a blitzkrieg of bravado. His secret assignment: recover a pair of U.S. ADM's -- Atomic Demolition Munitions -- lost in the Rhine Valley. Yet, what begins as a simple SEAL mission explodes in his face when terrorists visit the cache site. With scandals at home and fresh hotbeds of political and military tensions igniting all over the world, America's diplomatic priorities are everywhere but eastern Europe -- and the Rogue Warrior and his SEALs must take matters into their own hands. But not even Marcinko is aware that a cabal of ultranational extremists -- led by Lothar Beck, a billionaire defense contractor -- is ready to take advantage of the U.S.'s global distractions. Beck and his subversive cadre believe the time is ripe for their great notion to emerge as Europe's first superpower -- a true Fourth Reich. They have the money and influence to make it happen. And thanks to Cold War stockpiling of nuclear and conventional weapons on German soil, they have the arms. Fortunately Marcinko has some firepower of his own, and the manpower to deliver it the way the God of war intended: with maximum prejudice and extreme efficiency. He and his elite SEALs will have to wade through tango cells of skinheads, neo-Nazis, Russian mobsters, and Middle Eastern terrorists before they get the scent of the real powerbrokers. But once they do, it's time to go hunting -- with no bag limit.
Peerless Alaska, Our Cache Near the Pole
Author: Charles Hallock
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Dragon Age: Inquisition - Strategy Guide
Author: GamerGuides.com
Publisher: Gamer Guides
ISBN: 1629515094
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 868
Book Description
Improved & Updated: September 2020! This is the Dragon Age. A tear has ripped open the heavens and demons pour forth to ravage the land. You are caught up in this destruction, the only survivor complete with a mark on your hand. This mark is the only thing that can close the Breach and save Thedas. Heralded as a savior, you begin an Inquisition by assembling an army of powerful allies to put a stop to the chaos. Only you can decide the fate of Thedas. You are the Inquisitor! Allow us to lead you through the lands of Thedas and uncover the secrets behind the Breach. This guide for Dragon Age: Inquisition offers a detailed walkthrough of the main story and all side quests associated with each region, detailing easily missed features and hidden lore secrets along the way. The guide also covers all three main DLC: Jaws of Hakkon, The Descent, and Trespasser, and all dialogue choices throughout the game. Inside this guide you will find: - A Walkthrough for all main story quests, detailing the consequences of your choices along the way. - Walkthrough for all DLC content, covering Jaws of Hakkon, The Descent and Trespasser. - Exploration sections for each region, including side quests, requisitions, collections and companion quests. - Comprehensive section on Dialogue Choices, covering both approval and romance options for companions. - Breakdown of Specialization Trainers including where to find them and how to complete their missions. - Crafting section covering key locations for potions, tonics, grenades, and other materials. - An Equipment section, detailing where to find some of the best weapons and armor. - A Mounts section with descriptions of how to acquire them and when they become available. - Overview of Multiplayer - including basic starting tips, coverage of characters, challenges, and loot.
Publisher: Gamer Guides
ISBN: 1629515094
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 868
Book Description
Improved & Updated: September 2020! This is the Dragon Age. A tear has ripped open the heavens and demons pour forth to ravage the land. You are caught up in this destruction, the only survivor complete with a mark on your hand. This mark is the only thing that can close the Breach and save Thedas. Heralded as a savior, you begin an Inquisition by assembling an army of powerful allies to put a stop to the chaos. Only you can decide the fate of Thedas. You are the Inquisitor! Allow us to lead you through the lands of Thedas and uncover the secrets behind the Breach. This guide for Dragon Age: Inquisition offers a detailed walkthrough of the main story and all side quests associated with each region, detailing easily missed features and hidden lore secrets along the way. The guide also covers all three main DLC: Jaws of Hakkon, The Descent, and Trespasser, and all dialogue choices throughout the game. Inside this guide you will find: - A Walkthrough for all main story quests, detailing the consequences of your choices along the way. - Walkthrough for all DLC content, covering Jaws of Hakkon, The Descent and Trespasser. - Exploration sections for each region, including side quests, requisitions, collections and companion quests. - Comprehensive section on Dialogue Choices, covering both approval and romance options for companions. - Breakdown of Specialization Trainers including where to find them and how to complete their missions. - Crafting section covering key locations for potions, tonics, grenades, and other materials. - An Equipment section, detailing where to find some of the best weapons and armor. - A Mounts section with descriptions of how to acquire them and when they become available. - Overview of Multiplayer - including basic starting tips, coverage of characters, challenges, and loot.
A Century of Smiles
Author: Eric K. Curtis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dental schools
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dental schools
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
The Corpse
Author: Christine Quigley
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786424494
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Throughout the centuries, different cultures have established a variety of procedures for handling and disposing of corpses. Often the methods are directly associated with the deceased's position in life, such as a pharaoh's mummification in Egypt or the cremation of a Buddhist. Treatment by the living of the dead over time and across cultures is the focus of this study. Burial arrangements and preparations are detailed, including embalming, the funeral service, storage and transport of the body, and forms of burial. Autopsies and the investigative process of causes of deliberate death are fully covered. Preservation techniques such as cryonic suspension and mummification are discussed, as well as a look at the "recycling" of the corpse through organ donation, donation to medicine, animal scavengers, cannibalism, and, of course, natural decay and decomposition. Mistreatments of a corpse are also covered.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786424494
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Throughout the centuries, different cultures have established a variety of procedures for handling and disposing of corpses. Often the methods are directly associated with the deceased's position in life, such as a pharaoh's mummification in Egypt or the cremation of a Buddhist. Treatment by the living of the dead over time and across cultures is the focus of this study. Burial arrangements and preparations are detailed, including embalming, the funeral service, storage and transport of the body, and forms of burial. Autopsies and the investigative process of causes of deliberate death are fully covered. Preservation techniques such as cryonic suspension and mummification are discussed, as well as a look at the "recycling" of the corpse through organ donation, donation to medicine, animal scavengers, cannibalism, and, of course, natural decay and decomposition. Mistreatments of a corpse are also covered.