Author: Brian Sack
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 006137430X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Funny and philosophical at the same time, father-to-son life wisdom is delivered by humorist Sack, the creator of banterist.com.
In the Event of My Untimely Demise
Author: Brian Sack
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 006137430X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Funny and philosophical at the same time, father-to-son life wisdom is delivered by humorist Sack, the creator of banterist.com.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 006137430X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Funny and philosophical at the same time, father-to-son life wisdom is delivered by humorist Sack, the creator of banterist.com.
Untimely Demise
Author: William Dylan Powell
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1604336420
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
"Be careful whom you cross - they may have read this book! Killed with a toilet? Deadly belt buckles? Sexed to death? Untimely Demise is a daily exploration of the most fascinating ways people have offed one another since the beginning of time. From ninja swords to cyanide, poisons to pistols, the deadly details of 365 dastardly, mundane, ritualistic and just plain bizarre ways people have murdered one another are revealed in this darkly humorous - and suprisingly informative - cautionary collection. Whether you love a good whodunit or solve real-life murders for a living, this daily dose of deadly weapons will shock and amaze you! Or, at least, remind you to lock you doors at night."--Back cover.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1604336420
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
"Be careful whom you cross - they may have read this book! Killed with a toilet? Deadly belt buckles? Sexed to death? Untimely Demise is a daily exploration of the most fascinating ways people have offed one another since the beginning of time. From ninja swords to cyanide, poisons to pistols, the deadly details of 365 dastardly, mundane, ritualistic and just plain bizarre ways people have murdered one another are revealed in this darkly humorous - and suprisingly informative - cautionary collection. Whether you love a good whodunit or solve real-life murders for a living, this daily dose of deadly weapons will shock and amaze you! Or, at least, remind you to lock you doors at night."--Back cover.
Untimely Demise
Author: S. L. Bradish
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781460964569
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
John Corbette all but owned the town of Libra Station, Nevada. But there were those who wondered how he managed to buy it. Perhaps the stranger on the black Harley could be the key to unlocking a dangerous and deadly mystery.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781460964569
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
John Corbette all but owned the town of Libra Station, Nevada. But there were those who wondered how he managed to buy it. Perhaps the stranger on the black Harley could be the key to unlocking a dangerous and deadly mystery.
Death and the Creative Life
Author: Lisl Marburg Goodman
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
ISBN: 9780140062755
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
ISBN: 9780140062755
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
An Untimely Death
Author: Blythe Baker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
At a 1921 garden party, murder is on the menu... The sudden death of her employer sets loyal maid Anna Fairweather on a dangerous quest for justice. Discovering who killed the quarrelsome Colonel will require joining forces with the victim's attractive nephew, Jerome Townson, but is the charming Mr. Townson hiding darker motives than anyone guesses? A formidable dowager, an incompetent Chief Constable, and a host of greedy relations become obstacles in Anna's search for the truth. Will the head butler and the other inscrutable household servants become her allies? Or will Anna face her ultimate fate - and a ruthless killer - alone?
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
At a 1921 garden party, murder is on the menu... The sudden death of her employer sets loyal maid Anna Fairweather on a dangerous quest for justice. Discovering who killed the quarrelsome Colonel will require joining forces with the victim's attractive nephew, Jerome Townson, but is the charming Mr. Townson hiding darker motives than anyone guesses? A formidable dowager, an incompetent Chief Constable, and a host of greedy relations become obstacles in Anna's search for the truth. Will the head butler and the other inscrutable household servants become her allies? Or will Anna face her ultimate fate - and a ruthless killer - alone?
The Untimely Demise of Fotherington-Tomas
Author: Robin Alexander Gregory
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780995122703
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780995122703
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Bas Jan Ader
Author: Alexander Dumbadze
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022603867X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
On July 9, 1975, Dutch-born artist Bas Jan Ader set sail from Chatham, Massachusetts, on a thirteen-foot sailboat. He was bound for Falmouth, England, on the second leg of a three-part piece titled In Search of the Miraculous. The damaged boat was found south of the western tip of Ireland nearly a year later. Ader was never seen again. Since his untimely death, Ader has achieved mythic status in the art world as a figure literally willing to die for his art. Considering the artist’s legacy and concise oeuvre beyond the romantic and tragic associations that accompany his peculiar end, Alexander Dumbadze resituates Ader’s art and life within the conceptual art world of Los Angeles in the early 1970s and offers a nuanced argument about artistic subjectivity that explains Ader’s tremendous relevance to contemporary art. Bas Jan Ader blends biography, theoretical reflection, and archival research to draw a detailed picture of the world in which Ader’s work was rooted: a vibrant international art scene populated with peers such as Ger van Elk, William Leavitt, and Allen Ruppersberg. Dumbadze looks closely at Ader’s engagement with questions of free will and his ultimate success in creating art untainted by mediation. The first in-depth study of this enigmatic conceptual artist, Bas Jan Ader is a thoughtful reflection on the necessity of the creative act and its inescapable relation to death.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022603867X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
On July 9, 1975, Dutch-born artist Bas Jan Ader set sail from Chatham, Massachusetts, on a thirteen-foot sailboat. He was bound for Falmouth, England, on the second leg of a three-part piece titled In Search of the Miraculous. The damaged boat was found south of the western tip of Ireland nearly a year later. Ader was never seen again. Since his untimely death, Ader has achieved mythic status in the art world as a figure literally willing to die for his art. Considering the artist’s legacy and concise oeuvre beyond the romantic and tragic associations that accompany his peculiar end, Alexander Dumbadze resituates Ader’s art and life within the conceptual art world of Los Angeles in the early 1970s and offers a nuanced argument about artistic subjectivity that explains Ader’s tremendous relevance to contemporary art. Bas Jan Ader blends biography, theoretical reflection, and archival research to draw a detailed picture of the world in which Ader’s work was rooted: a vibrant international art scene populated with peers such as Ger van Elk, William Leavitt, and Allen Ruppersberg. Dumbadze looks closely at Ader’s engagement with questions of free will and his ultimate success in creating art untainted by mediation. The first in-depth study of this enigmatic conceptual artist, Bas Jan Ader is a thoughtful reflection on the necessity of the creative act and its inescapable relation to death.
An Inconvenient Death
Author: Miles Goslett
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1788543084
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
A DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR. 'A compelling, authoritative insight into possibly the most controversial death in Britain this century' The Observer. 'Goslett's like Poirot; he asks questions... Spooky and scary' Evening Standard. 'Masterful... This book made me proud of my trade as a journalist' Daily Mail. 'This searing excavation of the mysterious death of Dr David Kelly is investigative journalism at its best. It is brave, relentless, dazzlingly revealing' Peter Oborne. In March 2003 British forces invaded Iraq after Tony Blair said the country could deploy weapons of mass destruction at 45 minutes' notice. A few months later, government scientist Dr David Kelly was unmasked by Blair's officials as the assumed source of a BBC news report challenging this claim. Within days, Dr Kelly was found dead in a wood near his home. Blair immediately convened the controversial Hutton Inquiry, which concluded Dr Kelly committed suicide. Yet key questions remain: could Dr Kelly really have taken his life in the manner declared? And why did Blair's government derail the coroner's inquest into Dr Kelly's death? In this meticulous account, award-winning journalist Miles Goslett shows why we should be sceptical of the official story of what happened in that desperate summer of 2003.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1788543084
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
A DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR. 'A compelling, authoritative insight into possibly the most controversial death in Britain this century' The Observer. 'Goslett's like Poirot; he asks questions... Spooky and scary' Evening Standard. 'Masterful... This book made me proud of my trade as a journalist' Daily Mail. 'This searing excavation of the mysterious death of Dr David Kelly is investigative journalism at its best. It is brave, relentless, dazzlingly revealing' Peter Oborne. In March 2003 British forces invaded Iraq after Tony Blair said the country could deploy weapons of mass destruction at 45 minutes' notice. A few months later, government scientist Dr David Kelly was unmasked by Blair's officials as the assumed source of a BBC news report challenging this claim. Within days, Dr Kelly was found dead in a wood near his home. Blair immediately convened the controversial Hutton Inquiry, which concluded Dr Kelly committed suicide. Yet key questions remain: could Dr Kelly really have taken his life in the manner declared? And why did Blair's government derail the coroner's inquest into Dr Kelly's death? In this meticulous account, award-winning journalist Miles Goslett shows why we should be sceptical of the official story of what happened in that desperate summer of 2003.
Death Without Weeping
Author: Nancy Scheper-Hughes
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520911563
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
When lives are dominated by hunger, what becomes of love? When assaulted by daily acts of violence and untimely death, what happens to trust? Set in the lands of Northeast Brazil, this is an account of the everyday experience of scarcity, sickness and death that centres on the lives of the women and children of a hillside "favela". Bringing her readers to the impoverished slopes above the modern plantation town of Bom Jesus de Mata, where she has worked on and off for 25 years, Nancy Scheper-Hughes follows three generations of shantytown women as they struggle to survive through hard work, cunning and triage. It is a story of class relations told at the most basic level of bodies, emotions, desires and needs. Most disturbing - and controversial - is her finding that mother love, as conventionally understood, is something of a bourgeois myth, a luxury for those who can reasonably expect, as these women cannot, that their infants will live.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520911563
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
When lives are dominated by hunger, what becomes of love? When assaulted by daily acts of violence and untimely death, what happens to trust? Set in the lands of Northeast Brazil, this is an account of the everyday experience of scarcity, sickness and death that centres on the lives of the women and children of a hillside "favela". Bringing her readers to the impoverished slopes above the modern plantation town of Bom Jesus de Mata, where she has worked on and off for 25 years, Nancy Scheper-Hughes follows three generations of shantytown women as they struggle to survive through hard work, cunning and triage. It is a story of class relations told at the most basic level of bodies, emotions, desires and needs. Most disturbing - and controversial - is her finding that mother love, as conventionally understood, is something of a bourgeois myth, a luxury for those who can reasonably expect, as these women cannot, that their infants will live.
Forgotten Fashion
Author: Kate Hahn
Publisher: Tow Books
ISBN: 9781582975399
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
A blend of humor, satire, and fashion sense, this uniquely humorous look at trends in fashion throughout the ages will be the talk of the town. Forgotten Fashion is a fake history book of clothing trends that never really happened, but are based on actual fashion movements from the early 1900s until the present. Each entry examines the life and death of a supposed fashion trend while poking fun at the social climate of the times. &break;&break;With smart humor, a tongue-in-cheek academic tone, and a keen sense of style, this book will appeal to fashionistas, sophisticates, and anyone who keeps up with what's en vogue.
Publisher: Tow Books
ISBN: 9781582975399
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
A blend of humor, satire, and fashion sense, this uniquely humorous look at trends in fashion throughout the ages will be the talk of the town. Forgotten Fashion is a fake history book of clothing trends that never really happened, but are based on actual fashion movements from the early 1900s until the present. Each entry examines the life and death of a supposed fashion trend while poking fun at the social climate of the times. &break;&break;With smart humor, a tongue-in-cheek academic tone, and a keen sense of style, this book will appeal to fashionistas, sophisticates, and anyone who keeps up with what's en vogue.