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Author: Anthony Wolff Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1491855207 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 202
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Three private investigators, all with Zen Buddhist backgrounds, are hired to determine whether or not the clients mother is dead, as she is alleged to be. If she is dead, he wants to know how she died. If she is not dead but is being detained somewhere, they must locate her. Peculiar Aztec artworks have been found among her possessions; and in following the trail left by these pieces, the detectives encounter ancient beliefs and practices for which no one in the modern world can be prepared.
Author: Anthony Wolff Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1491855207 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 202
Book Description
Three private investigators, all with Zen Buddhist backgrounds, are hired to determine whether or not the clients mother is dead, as she is alleged to be. If she is dead, he wants to know how she died. If she is not dead but is being detained somewhere, they must locate her. Peculiar Aztec artworks have been found among her possessions; and in following the trail left by these pieces, the detectives encounter ancient beliefs and practices for which no one in the modern world can be prepared.
Author: Aliette de Bodard Publisher: Watkins Media Limited ISBN: 0857660322 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 432
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IT IS THE YEAR ONE-KNIFE IN TENOCHTITLAN - THE CAPITAL OF THE AZTECS. The end of the world is kept at bay only by the magic of human sacrifice. A Priestess disappears from an empty room drenched in blood. Acatl, High Priest of the Dead must find her, or break the boundaries between the worlds of th living and the dead. But how do you find someone, living or dead, in a world where blood sacrifices are an everyday occurrence and the very gods stalk the streets? File Under: Fantasy [ Aztec Mystery | Locked Room | Human Sacrifice | The Dead Walk! ]
Author: Anthony Wolff Publisher: ISBN: 9781491855218 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 202
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Three private investigators, all with Zen Buddhist backgrounds, are hired to determine whether or not the client's mother is dead, as she is alleged to be. If she is dead, he wants to know how she died. If she is not dead but is being detained somewhere, they must locate her. Peculiar Aztec artworks have been found among her possessions; and in following the trail left by these pieces, the detectives encounter ancient beliefs and practices for which no one in the modern world can be prepared.
Author: Alicia Gaspar de Alba Publisher: University of Texas Press ISBN: 029272277X Category : True Crime Languages : en Pages : 329
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Since 1993, more than five hundred women and girls have been murdered in Ciudad Juárez across the border from El Paso, Texas. At least a third have been sexually violated and mutilated as well. Thousands more have been reported missing and remain unaccounted for. The crimes have been poorly investigated and have gone unpunished and unresolved by Mexican authorities, thus creating an epidemic of misogynist violence on an increasingly globalized U.S.-Mexico border. This book, the first anthology to focus exclusively on the Juárez femicides, as the crimes have come to be known, compiles several different scholarly "interventions" from diverse perspectives, including feminism, Marxism, critical race theory, semiotics, and textual analysis. Editor Alicia Gaspar de Alba shapes a multidisciplinary analytical framework for considering the interconnections between gender, violence, and the U.S.-Mexico border. The essays examine the social and cultural conditions that have led to the heinous victimization of women on the border—from globalization, free trade agreements, exploitative maquiladora working conditions, and border politics, to the sexist attitudes that pervade the social discourse about the victims. The book also explores the evolving social movement that has been created by NGOs, mothers' organizing efforts, and other grassroots forms of activism related to the crimes. Contributors include U.S. and Mexican scholars and activists, as well as personal testimonies of two mothers of femicide victims.
Author: Neil Levy Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1780744544 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 180
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On September 11 2001, thousands of people died in the attacks on the United States. How could the terrorists justify these acts? A young man kills his sister to protect his family's honour. How could this be 'right' These are just some of the questions tackled by Neil Levy in an incisive and elegant guide to the philosophy of moral relativism - the idea that concepts of 'rightness' and 'wrongness' vary from culture to culture, and that there is no such thing as an absolute moral code. Opening with a comprehensive definition of this controversial theory, the book examines all the arguments for and against moral relativism, from its implications for ethics to the role of human biology and the difficulty of separating cultural values from innate behaviour
Author: Susan Kellogg Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1108585515 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 399
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Susan Kellogg's history of the Aztecs offers a concise yet comprehensive assessment of Aztec history and civilization, emphasizing how material life and the economy functioned in relation to politics, religion, and intellectual and artistic developments. Appreciating the vast number of sources available but also their limitations, Kellogg focuses on three concepts throughout – value, transformation, and balance. Aztecs created value, material, and symbolic worth. Value was created through transformations of bodies, things, and ideas. The overall goal of value creation and transformation was to keep the Aztec world—the cosmos, the earth, its inhabitants—in balance, a balance often threatened by spiritual and other forms of chaos. The book highlights the ethnicities that constituted Aztec peoples and sheds light on religion, political and economic organization, gender, sexuality and family life, intellectual achievements, and survival. Seeking to correct common misperceptions, Kellogg stresses the humanity of the Aztecs and problematizes the use of the terms 'human sacrifice', 'myth', and 'conquest'.
Author: Ruth Solski Publisher: Oshawa, Ont.: S&S Learning Materials ISBN: 0921511892 Category : Activity programs in education Languages : en Pages : 97
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"Discover the ancient world of the Aztecs people, the island city of Tenochtitlan, the Temple Quarter, royal palaces, Montezuma the king, the Spanish Conquest and more."--Page 4 of cover.
Author: David Carrasco Publisher: Beacon Press ISBN: 9780807046432 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 292
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At an excavation of the Great Aztec Temple in Mexico City, amid carvings of skulls and a dismembered warrior goddess, David Carrasco stood before a container filled with the decorated bones of infants and children. It was the site of a massive human sacrifice, and for Carrasco the center of fiercely provocative questions: If ritual violence against humans was a profound necessity for the Aztecs in their capital city, is it central to the construction of social order and the authority of city states? Is civilization built on violence? In City of Sacrifice,Carrasco chronicles the fascinating story of Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital, investigating Aztec religious practices and demonstrating that religious violence was integral to urbanization; the city itself was a temple to the gods. That Mexico City, the largest city on earth, was built on the ruins of Tenochtitlan, is a point Carrasco poignantly considers in his comparison of urban life from antiquity to modernity. Majestic in scope, City of Sacrifice illuminates not only the rich history of a major Meso american city but also the inseparability of two passionate human impulses: urbanization and religious engagement. It has much to tell us about many familiar events in our own time, from suicide bombings in Tel Aviv to rape and murder in the Balkans.
Author: Rubén Amaro Soriano Publisher: Palibrio ISBN: 1506529267 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 221
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Teohua Minister of Uitzilopochtli god described in twenty-seven chapters the experiences of the soul of an Aztec boy, his education and his training as an assassin Aztec priest in his different reincarnations through time in the Aztec Empire. This story talks about the daily life and bloody festivities of the Aztecs, but mainly describes the abuses committed by the Aztec priests by sacrificing hundreds of thousands of people at the time of Teotihuacan and the great Tenochtitlan. In the Twentieth century and by a twist of fate, this Aztec soul reincarnated in the body of a Mexican child of Jewish descent. The boys' father was one of the wealthiest landowners in the region of the Popocatepetl and Itztaccihuatl volcanoes. On the other hand, the house that belonged to the child's father was built five hundred years before and had been inherited from generation to generation until the twentieth century. The house was constructed with the ruins of an Aztec temple dedicated to Omacatl reptile god, and for the Jewish boy, being born among those ruins tied him a course. Because during the Aztec Empire, children born only inside a temple could be Aztec priests. The reason reincarnation was to continue with the most feared and respected profession of the Aztec Empire, that was to be an assassin Aztec priest. Weeks before the fall of the Aztec Empire, the Aztec chief priests gathered in the Birds' Hall in the house of Emperor Moctezuma II. They had an agreement to keep secret the real existence of their Aztec reptilian gods and continue the sacrifices regardless of the historical era in which the descendants of the Aztecs lived. In that meeting, they promised, continued with the traditions of human sacrifices. Then, it seems that the future of the Jewish boy without being descendent of the Aztec race was marked to be an assassin who was at the services of the Aztec reptilian gods.
Author: Robert Shanafelt Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317564685 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 205
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Multiple killings by serial or spree killers and the mass violence seen in war crimes and other atrocities have typically been understood as discrete category types, which can foster the view that there are fundamentally different kinds of human beings, including "deviants" who are born evil and innately given to sadism or a callous lack of empathy. In contrast, this book considers the violence of these "deviants" in terms of larger questions about human violence. Therefore, in addition to describing the life histories of a sample of individual serial and spree murderers, the book includes analysis of macro-level phenomena such as genocide, mass rape and killing, and torture occurring under conditions of war, state authorization, or political upheaval. The chief claim of the book is that, given the "right" combination of factors occurring at different levels of analysis, virtually anyone can emerge as a killer or perpetrator of atrocities. While it is crucial to understand individual killers in terms of the details of their biographies, it is equally crucial to understand political atrocities in terms of the details of their histories; and to see that persons and groups are always the product of complexly interacting assemblage processes.
Author: Anthony Wolff
Author: Anthony Wolff
Author: Aliette de Bodard
Author: Anthony Wolff
Author: Alicia Gaspar de Alba
Author: Neil Levy
Author: Susan Kellogg
Author: Ruth Solski
Author: David Carrasco
Author: Rubén Amaro Soriano
Author: Robert Shanafelt