Count Not The Dead

Author : Michael L. Hadley
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773565264
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Count Not the Dead written by Michael L. Hadley and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1995-03-17 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Basing his study on some two-hundred-and-fifty German novels, memoirs, fictionalized histories, and films (including Das Boot), Michael Hadley examines the popular image of the German submarine and weighs the values, purposes, and perceptions of German writers and film makers. He considers the idea of the submarine as a war-winning weapon and the exploits of the "band of brothers" who made up the U-boat crews. He also describes the perceptions of the German public about the role of the U-boat in the war effort and the hopes that it carried for victory in two world wars against the Allied forces. Analysed in context, the U-boat emerges as a central factor and metaphor in Germany's ongoing struggle with its political and military past. In Count Not the Dead Hadley explores the complex relationships between political reality and cultural myth, and draws important conclusions about the way in which Germans have interpreted their past and how present concerns change these views.

Author : Michael L. Hadley
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780773512825
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Count Not the Dead written by Michael L. Hadley and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1995 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Basing his study on literature and film, the author presents the exploits and images of U-boats and their intrepid crews.

Author : Frances Harrison
Publisher : House of Anansi
ISBN 13 : 1770893059
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Still Counting the Dead written by Frances Harrison and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2012-09-20 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An extraordinary book. This dignified, just and unbearable account of the dark heart of Sri Lanka needs to be read by everyone." — Roma Tearne, author of Mosquito The tropical island of Sri Lanka is a paradise for tourists, but in 2009 it became a hell for its Tamil minority, as decades of civil war between the Tamil Tiger guerrillas and the government reached its bloody climax. Caught in the crossfire were hundreds of thousands of schoolchildren, doctors, farmers, fishermen, nuns, and other civilians. And the government ensured through a strict media blackout that the world was unaware of their suffering. Now, a UN enquiry has called for war crimes investigation, and Frances Harrison, a BBC correspondent for Sri Lanka during the conflict, recounts those crimes for the first time in sobering, shattering detail.

Author : Stephen Berry
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469667533
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Count the Dead written by Stephen Berry and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2022-02-17 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The global doubling of human life expectancy between 1850 and 1950 is arguably one of the most consequential developments in human history, undergirding massive improvements in human life and lifestyles. In 1850, Americans died at an average age of 30. Today, the average is almost 80. This story is typically told as a series of medical breakthroughs—Jenner and vaccination, Lister and antisepsis, Snow and germ theory, Fleming and penicillin—but the lion's share of the credit belongs to the men and women who dedicated their lives to collecting good data. Examining the development of death registration systems in the United States—from the first mortality census in 1850 to the development of the death certificate at the turn of the century—Count the Dead argues that mortality data transformed life on Earth, proving critical to the systemization of public health, casualty reporting, and human rights. Stephen Berry shows how a network of coroners, court officials, and state and federal authorities developed methods to track and reveal patterns of dying. These officials harnessed these records to turn the collective dead into informants and in so doing allowed the dead to shape life and death as we know it today.

Author : Nick Turse
Publisher : Haymarket Books
ISBN 13 : 1608466574
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Next Time They'll Come to Count the Dead written by Nick Turse and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2016-05-14 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A] vivid, gripping account of inhuman cruelty, laced with rays of hope and courage and dignity amidst the horrors” (Noam Chomsky, leading public intellectual and author of Hopes and Prospects). A dramatic true story of men and women trapped in the grip of war, Next Time They’ll Come to Count the Dead is modern crisis reporting at its best. For six weeks in the spring of 2015, award-winning journalist Nick Turse traveled on foot, as well as by car, SUV, and helicopter, around war-torn South Sudan, talking to military officers and child soldiers, United Nations officials and humanitarian workers, civil servants, civil society activists, and internally displaced persons—people whose lives had been blown apart by a ceaseless conflict there. In a fast-paced and emotionally powerful fashion, Turse reveals the harsh reality of modern warfare in the developing world and the ways people manage to survive the unimaginable. Next Time They’ll Come to Count the Dead isn’t about combat. It’s about the human condition, about ordinary people thrust into extraordinary circumstances, and about death, life, and the crimes of war in the newest nation on earth. “The average journalist follows the herd of others. A bold one like Nick Turse goes to where the herd isn’t. His searing reporting in this book brings alive the suffering of a country that the United States, midwife to its birth, has largely forgotten.” ―Adam Hochschild, author of King Leopold’s Ghost and Mirror at Midnight

Author : Boston Teran
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312980207
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Never Count Out the Dead written by Boston Teran and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-10-13 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's been 11 years since Shay Storey watched as her recklessly violent gang-member mother gunned down 26-year old Sheriff John Victor Sully and buried him in the Mojave Desert. But he survived. Now, with the tools he needs to avenge his own "murder, " Sully comes back to separate truth from lies, the damaged from the damned, and a daughter from the devil herself. Martin's Press.

Author : John Rowe
Publisher : Sydney University Press
ISBN 13 : 0975086049
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Count Your Dead written by John Rowe and published by Sydney University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Winifred Tate
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520252829
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Counting the Dead written by Winifred Tate and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2007-10-09 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores how the idea of human rights is actually employed by activists and human rights professionals. Tate, an anthropologist and activist with extensive experience in Colombia, finds that radically different ideas about human rights have shaped three groups of human rights professionals working there--nongovernmental activists, state representatives, and military officers. From publisher description.

Author : Michael Crichton
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307816435
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eaters of the Dead written by Michael Crichton and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-05-14 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of Jurassic Park, Timeline, and Sphere comes an epic tale of unspeakable horror. It is 922 A.D. The refined Arab courtier Ibn Fadlan is accompanying a party of Viking warriors back to their home. He is appalled by their customs—the gratuitous sexuality of their women, their disregard for cleanliness, and their cold-blooded sacrifices. As they enter the frozen, forbidden landscape of the North—where the day’s length does not equal the night’s, where after sunset the sky burns in streaks of color—Fadlan soon discovers that he has been unwillingly enlisted to combat the terrors in the night that come to slaughter the Vikings, the monsters of the mist that devour human flesh. But just how he will do it, Fadlan has no idea.

Author : Marlene Perez
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547573839
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dead Is Not an Option written by Marlene Perez and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2011-05-02 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of Dead Is Just a Rumor delivers a paranormal tale that “will remind you of Twilight . . . with the vamp versus werewolf . . . It’s awesome” (Teen Ink). It’s springtime of senior year, and psychic sleuth Daisy Giordano is preparing to say goodbye to Nightshade High. But no college acceptance letters have arrived yet, and she’s beginning to worry about where she’ll end up come fall—and if it will be anywhere near her boyfriend, Ryan. But that’s not the only uncertainty Daisy’s dealing with. There’s a vamps-versus-shifters war going on in Nightshade, and things are so tense that there is talk of canceling the prom. The conflict is carrying over to the Giordano home, since Rose and Daisy are both dating werewolves and Poppy’s new boyfriend is a vampire. Can the paranormal community in Nightshade finally find peace? And will Daisy and her friends survive graduation? All of these questions and more are answered in this explosive installment in the Dead Is series. “Once again, Perez offers up a clever mix of reality—senioritis, high-school graduation events, part-time jobs, and young love—and paranormal elements . . . Although familiarity with the other four books in the series will certainly give readers an advantage here, newcomers to Nightshade High will have few problems following the sometimes tense, often humorous plotlines.”—Booklist