Author: John BouvierPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1360
Book Description
Bouvier's Law Dictionary
Author: John BouvierPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1360
Book Description
The Book of the Duffs
Author: Alistair Norwich TaylerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Ambrose Bierce is Missing
Author: Joe NickellPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813164141
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
What constitutes historical truth is often subject to change. Through ingenious detection, the accepted wisdom of one generation may become the discredited legend of another—or vice versa. In this wide- ranging study of historical investigation, former detective Joe Nickell allows the reader to look over his shoulder as he demonstrates the use of varied techniques in solving some of the world's most perplexing mysteries. All the major categories of historical mystery are here—ancient riddles, biographical enigmas, hidden identity, "fakelore," questioned artifacts, suspect documents, lost texts, obscured sources, and scientific challenges. Each is then illustrated by a complete case from the author's own files. Nickell's investigation of the giant Nazca drawings in Peru, for example—thought by some to provide proof of ancient extraterrestrial visitations—uses innovative techniques to reveal a very different origin. Other cases concern the 1913 disappearance of writer and journalist Ambrose Bierce, the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin, the truth about the identity of John Demjanjuk ("Ivan the Terrible" to Polish death camp victims), the fate of a lost colonial American text, the authenticity of Abraham Lincoln's celebrated Bixby letter, and the apparent real-life model for a mysterious character in a novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne. In reaching his solutions, Nickell demonstrates a wide variety of investigative techniques—chemical and instrumental analyses, physical experimentation, a "psychological autopsy," forensic identification, archival research, linguistic analysis, folklore study, and many others. His highly readable book will intrigue the scholar and the history buff no less than the mystery lover.
Men of Invention and Industry
Author: Samuel SmilesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industrial arts
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
A Law Dictionary
Author: John BouvierThe Smith Family
Author: Compton ReadePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Bouvier's Law Dictionary
Author: John BouvierSt. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture
Author: Tom PendergastPublisher: Saint James Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
The millenium-inspired fascination with 20th-century studies cannot be fully satisfied without a comprehensive and scholarly look at popular culture. With its emphasis on ideas, people, events and products that symbolize America, the St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture is a cross-curriculum resource that will find use among a wide variety of users. Major topics include: television, movies, theater, art, books, magazines, radio, music, sports, fashion, health, politics, trends, community life and advertising.
Commentaries on the Law of Scotland, and on the Principles of Mercantile Jurisprudence
Author: George Joseph BellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bankruptcy
Languages : en
Pages : 768
Book Description
Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archeological Society
Author: Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cumberland (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
List of members included in each volume except v. 1.