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Author: Caitlin Doughty
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393652718
Size: 40.79 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2019-09-10
Category: Social Science
Language: en
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Download PDF Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs And Other Questions About Dead Bodies eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. New York Times Bestseller Winner of a Goodreads Choice Award “Funny, dark, and at times stunningly existential.” —Marianne Eloise, Guardian Everyone has questions about death. In Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?, best-selling author and mortician Caitlin Doughty answers the most intriguing questions she’s ever received about what happens to our bodies when we die. In a brisk, informative, and morbidly funny style, Doughty explores everything from ancient Egyptian death rituals and the science of skeletons to flesh-eating insects and the proper depth at which to bury your pet if you want Fluffy to become a mummy. Now featuring an interview with a clinical expert on discussing these issues with young people—the source of some of our most revealing questions about death—Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? confronts our common fear of dying with candid, honest, and hilarious facts about what awaits the body we leave behind.

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Book Detail:
Author: Caitlin Doughty
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 039365270X
Size: 23.64 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2019-09-10
Category: Social Science
Language: en
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Download PDF Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. New York Times Bestseller Winner of the 2019 Goodreads Choice Award for Science & Technology Best-selling author and mortician Caitlin Doughty answers real questions from kids about death, dead bodies, and decomposition. Every day, funeral director Caitlin Doughty receives dozens of questions about death. The best questions come from kids. What would happen to an astronaut’s body if it were pushed out of a space shuttle? Do people poop when they die? Can Grandma have a Viking funeral? In Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?, Doughty blends her mortician’s knowledge of the body and the intriguing history behind common misconceptions about corpses to offer factual, hilarious, and candid answers to thirty-five distinctive questions posed by her youngest fans. In her inimitable voice, Doughty details lore and science of what happens to, and inside, our bodies after we die. Why do corpses groan? What causes bodies to turn colors during decomposition? And why do hair and nails appear longer after death? Readers will learn the best soil for mummifying your body, whether you can preserve your best friend’s skull as a keepsake, and what happens when you die on a plane. Beautifully illustrated by Dianné Ruz, Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? shows us that death is science and art, and only by asking questions can we begin to embrace it.

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Book Detail:
Author: Caitlin Doughty
Publisher: Thorndike Press Large Print
ISBN: 9781432872274
Size: 60.10 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2019
Category: Humor
Language: en
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Download PDF Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Bestselling author and mortician Doughty answers real questions from kids about death, dead bodies, and decomposition.

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Book Detail:
Author: Caitlin Doughty
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393249905
Size: 58.97 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2017-10-03
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Language: en
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Download PDF From Here To Eternity Traveling The World To Find The Good Death eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. A New York Times and Los Angeles Times Bestseller “Doughty chronicles [death] practices with tenderheartedness, a technician’s fascination, and an unsentimental respect for grief.” —Jill Lepore, The New Yorker Fascinated by our pervasive fear of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty embarks on a global expedition to discover how other cultures care for the dead. From Zoroastrian sky burials to wish-granting Bolivian skulls, she investigates the world’s funerary customs and expands our sense of what it means to treat the dead with dignity. Her account questions the rituals of the American funeral industry—especially chemical embalming—and suggests that the most effective traditions are those that allow mourners to personally attend to the body of the deceased. Exquisitely illustrated by artist Landis Blair, From Here to Eternity is an adventure into the morbid unknown, a fascinating tour through the unique ways people everywhere confront mortality.

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Book Detail:
Author: Caitlin Doughty
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393245950
Size: 72.70 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2014-09-15
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Language: en
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Download PDF Smoke Gets In Your Eyes And Other Lessons From The Crematory eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. "Morbid and illuminating" (Entertainment Weekly)—a young mortician goes behind the scenes of her curious profession. Armed with a degree in medieval history and a flair for the macabre, Caitlin Doughty took a job at a crematory and turned morbid curiosity into her life’s work. She cared for bodies of every color, shape, and affliction, and became an intrepid explorer in the world of the dead. In this best-selling memoir, brimming with gallows humor and vivid characters, she marvels at the gruesome history of undertaking and relates her unique coming-of-age story with bold curiosity and mordant wit. By turns hilarious, dark, and uplifting, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes reveals how the fear of dying warps our society and "will make you reconsider how our culture treats the dead" (San Francisco Chronicle).

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Book Detail:
Author: Todd Harra
Publisher: Citadel
ISBN: 0806541393
Size: 22.60 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2021-12-28
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Language: en
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Download PDF Mortuary Confidential eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. From rookie mistakes and runaway corpses to screaming dead men and unusual requests, a collection of stories by funeral directors.

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Book Detail:
Author: Mary Roach
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393324826
Size: 10.20 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Release Date: 2004-04-27
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines
Language: en
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Download PDF Stiff The Curious Lives Of Human Cadavers eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. A look inside the world of forensics examines the use of human cadavers in a wide range of endeavors, including research into new surgical procedures, space exploration, and a Tennessee human decay research facility.

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Book Detail:
Author: Loren Rhoads
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal
ISBN: 0316473790
Size: 13.15 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2017-10-24
Category: Travel
Language: en
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Download PDF 199 Cemeteries To See Before You Die eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. A hauntingly beautiful travel guide to the world's most visited cemeteries, told through spectacular photography and their unique histories and residents. More than 3.5 million tourists flock to Paris's Pÿ Lachaise cemetery each year. They are lured there, and to many cemeteries around the world, by a combination of natural beauty, ornate tombstones and crypts, notable residents, vivid history, and even wildlife. Many also visit Mount Koya cemetery in Japan, where 10,000 lanterns illuminate the forest setting, or graveside in Oaxaca, Mexico to witness Day of the Dead fiestas. Savannah's Bonaventure Cemetery has gorgeous night tours of the Southern Gothic tombstones under moss-covered trees that is one of the most popular draws of the city. 199 Cemeteries to See Before You Die features these unforgettable cemeteries, along with 196 more, seen in more than 300 photographs. In this bucket list of travel musts, author Loren Rhoads, who hosts the popular Cemetery Travel blog, details the history and features that make each destination unique. Throughout will be profiles of famous people buried there, striking memorials by noted artists, and unusual elements, such as the hand carved wood grave markers in the Merry Cemetery in Romania.

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Book Detail:
Author: Kel McDonald
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781945820632
Size: 35.75 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2020-10-13
Category: Comics & Graphic Novels
Language: en
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Download PDF You Died eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Death -- the one aspect of life we all have in common -- is waiting for everyone, yet our practices, beliefs, myths, and stories about it are as diverse as we are. YOU DIED celebrates these vibrant cultural expressions of the great equalizer in a thrilling, life-affirming whirlwind of a book, an inspirational volume to be treasured through times of both loss and abundance (and every day in between). At turns both brazen and insightful, morose and optimistic, YOU DIED asks a wide array of cartoonist newbloods and all-stars to relate their most unforgettable tales of death and what comes next. Filled with beautifully illustrated accounts of grief and mourning, ancient myths, memorial rites around the globe, afterlife in the far reaches of space, and the simple and touching ways both the living and the dead carry on, this lively collection starts a comforting and much-needed dialogue about death as a natural part of life. Featuring an introduction by death positivity movement pioneer and activist mortician CAITLIN DOUGHTY and a murderer's row of comics talent including RAINA TELGEMEIER, SHAE BEAGLE, and LISA STERLE.

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Book Detail:
Author: Kenneth McKenzie
Publisher: Citadel
ISBN: 0806536659
Size: 28.88 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2014-06-01
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Language: en
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Download PDF Over Our Dead Bodies eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Discover a more lighthearted side of the funeral industry in this collection of real-life stories from the authors of Mortuary Confidential. Not knowing what to do, I sat on the church steps and waited. As the gravity of my failure began to well up in me, I began to cry . . . I Had Lost The Hearse! Funerals and the all the things that accompany them are traditionally somber, contemplative events in which the bereaved look to their undertaker to guide them through that most difficult of times. Of course, sometimes tradition gets thrown under the bus. From a dysfunctional family who turn their mother’s wake into a full-blown riot, to funeral crashers looking for free meals, to a horse-drawn hearse taking the dearly departed for the ride of their afterlife, these accounts from actual undertakers will have you laughing, thinking, and gasping in disbelief. A literal graveyard of wild coincidences, slapstick humor, and touching moments, Over Our Dead Bodies explores the lighter side of the dead, the living, and the lone undertaker who must make it all go as planned—even if it doesn’t. Praise for Mortuary Confidential “Outrageous funeral stories, dipped in beauty and morbid humor.” —Caleb Wilde, author of Confessions of a Funeral Director “Curious, wildly honest stories that need to be told, but just not at the dinner table.” —Dana Kollmann, author of Never Suck a Dead Man’s Hand “As unpredictable and lively as a bunch of drunks at a New Orleans funeral.” —Joe R. Lansdale, author of Moon Lake “Sick, funny, and brilliant! I love this book.” —Jonathan Maberry, Bram Stoker Award–winning author of They Bite! And Rot & Ruin “These true mortuary tales are poignant—and suddenly, gaspi

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Book Detail:
Author: Erika Engelhaupt
Publisher: National Geographic
ISBN: 1426220979
Size: 53.96 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2021-03-02
Category: Science
Language: en
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Download PDF Gory Details eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. "Erika Engelhaupt, founding editor of National Geographic's Gory Details blog, explores oft-ignored but alluring facets of biology, anatomy, space exploration, nature, and more. Featuring reporting and interviews with leading researchers in the field, Gory Details illuminates the world's most intriguing real-world applications of science"--

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Book Detail:
Author: Bess Lovejoy
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451655002
Size: 21.23 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2016-01-05
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Language: en
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Download PDF Rest In Pieces eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. "IN THE LONG RUN, WE'RE ALL DEAD. But for some of the most influential figures in history, death marked the start of a new adventure. The famous deceased have been stolen, burned, sold, pickled, frozen, stuffed, impersonated, and even filed away in a lawyer's office. Their fingers, teeth, toes, arms, legs, skulls, hearts, lungs, and nether regions have embarked on voyages that crisscross the globe and stretch the imagination. Counterfeiters tried to steal Lincoln's corpse. Einstein's brain went on a cross-country road trip. And after Lord Horatio Nelson perished at Trafalgar, his sailors submerged him in brandy--which they drank. From Mozart to Hitler, Rest in Pieces connects the lives of the famous dead to the hilarious and horrifying adventures of their corpses, and traces the evolution of cultural attitudes toward death"--Back cover.

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Book Detail:
Author: Samrat Upadhyay
Publisher: HMH
ISBN: 0547488408
Size: 50.47 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2010-07-14
Category: Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF Buddha S Orphans eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. A novel of love and political upheaval, in which “Kathmandu is as specific and heartfelt as Joyce’s Dublin” (San Francisco Chronicle). In Buddha’s Orphans, Nepal’s political upheavals of the past century serve as a backdrop to the story of an orphan boy, Raja, and the girl he is fated to love, Nilu, a daughter of privilege. Their love scandalizes both of their families—and the novel takes readers across the globe and through several generations. This engrossing, unconventional love story explores the ways that events of the past, even those we are ignorant of, inevitably haunt the present. It is also a brilliant depiction of Nepali society from the Whiting Award–winning author of Arresting God in Kathmandu. “[Upadhyay is] a Buddhist Chekhov.” —San Francisco Chronicle “Upadhyay . . . [illuminates] the shadow corners of his characters’ psyches, as well as the complex social and political realities of life in Nepal, with equal grace.” —Elle “[Upadhyay’s] characters linger. They are captured with such concise, illuminating precision that one begins to feel that they just might be real.” —The Christian Science Monitor “Absorbing . . . Beautifully told.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review

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Book Detail:
Author: John Troyer
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262043815
Size: 79.56 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2020-04-14
Category: Social Science
Language: en
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Download PDF Technologies Of The Human Corpse eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. The relationship of the dead body with technology through history, from nineteenth-century embalming machines to the death-prevention technologies of today. Death and the dead body have never been more alive in the public imagination—not least because of current debates over modern medical technology that is deployed, it seems, expressly to keep human bodies from dying, blurring the boundary between alive and dead. In this book, John Troyer examines the relationship of the dead body with technology, both material and conceptual: the physical machines, political concepts, and sovereign institutions that humans use to classify, organize, repurpose, and transform the human corpse. Doing so, he asks readers to think about death, dying, and dead bodies in radically different ways. Troyer explains, for example, how technologies of the nineteenth century including embalming and photography, created our image of a dead body as quasi-atemporal, existing outside biological limits formerly enforced by decomposition. He describes the “Happy Death Movement” of the 1970s; the politics of HIV/AIDS corpse and the productive potential of the dead body; the provocations of the Body Worlds exhibits and their use of preserved dead bodies; the black market in human body parts; and the transformation of historic technologies of the human corpse into “death prevention technologies.” The consequences of total control over death and the dead body, Troyer argues, are not liberation but the abandonment of Homo sapiens as a concept and a species. In this unique work, Troyer forces us to consider the increasing overlap between politics, dying, and the dead body in both general and specifically personal terms.

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Book Detail:
Author: Robert Webster
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1600080715
Size: 73.65 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2007-07
Category: Funeral homes
Language: en
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Download PDF Does This Mean You Ll See Me Naked eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. A funeral director reflects on 30 years of serving the living and the deceased while providing us with a behind-the-scenes story told with both empathy and humor. He attempts to assuage our curiosity and answer those questions that are uppermost in our minds when faced with death, including: - How do you handle the loss of a loved one? - What really happens during a death call? - Why do people send flowers? - What occurs during the restoration process? - What do people leave in loved ones' caskets? - How has the undertaker's role evolved? - and much more...

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Book Detail:
Author: Caleb Wilde
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062465260
Size: 19.14 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2017-09-26
Category: Social Science
Language: en
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Download PDF Confessions Of A Funeral Director eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. The blogger behind Confessions of a Funeral Director—what Time magazine called a "must read"—reflects on mortality and the powerful lessons death holds for every one of us in this compassionate and thoughtful spiritual memoir that combines the humor and insight of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes with the poignancy and brevity of When Breath Becomes Air. We are a people who deeply fear death. While humans are biologically wired to evade death for as long as possible, we have become too adept at hiding from it, vilifying it, and—when it can be avoided no longer—letting the professionals take over. Sixth-generation funeral director Caleb Wilde understands this reticence and fear. He had planned to get as far away from the family business as possible. He wanted to make a difference in the world, and how could he do that if all the people he worked with were . . . dead? Slowly, he discovered that caring for the deceased and their loved ones was making a difference—in other people’s lives to be sure, but it also seemed to be saving his own. A spirituality of death began to emerge as he observed: The family who lovingly dressed their deceased father for his burial The act of embalming a little girl that offered a gift back to her grieving family The nursing home that honored a woman’s life by standing in procession as her body was taken away The funeral that united a conflicted community Through stories like these, told with equal parts humor and poignancy, Wilde offers an intimate look into the business and a new perspective on living and dying

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Book Detail:
Author: Hayley Campbell
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250281857
Size: 73.55 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2022-08-16
Category: Social Science
Language: en
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Download PDF All The Living And The Dead eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. A deeply compelling exploration of the death industry and the people—morticians, detectives, crime scene cleaners, embalmers, executioners—who work in it and what led them there. We are surrounded by death. It is in our news, our nursery rhymes, our true-crime podcasts. Yet from a young age, we are told that death is something to be feared. How are we supposed to know what we’re so afraid of, when we are never given the chance to look? Fueled by a childhood fascination with death, journalist Hayley Campbell searches for answers in the people who make a living by working with the dead. Along the way, she encounters mass fatality investigators, embalmers, and a former executioner who is responsible for ending sixty-two lives. She meets gravediggers who have already dug their own graves, visits a cryonics facility in Michigan, goes for late-night Chinese with a homicide detective, and questions a man whose job it is to make crime scenes disappear. Through Campbell’s incisive and candid interviews with these people who see death every day, she asks: Why would someone choose this kind of life? Does it change you as a person? And are we missing something vital by letting death remain hidden? A dazzling work of cultural criticism, All the Living and the Dead weaves together reportage with memoir, history, and philosophy, to offer readers a fascinating look into the psychology of Western death.

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Book Detail:
Author: Randy Ribay
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0525554920
Size: 73.27 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Release Date: 2020-04-21
Category: Young Adult Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF Patron Saints Of Nothing eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST "Brilliant, honest, and equal parts heartbreaking and soul-healing." --Laurie Halse Anderson, author of SHOUT "A singular voice in the world of literature." --Jason Reynolds, author of Long Way Down A powerful coming-of-age story about grief, guilt, and the risks a Filipino-American teenager takes to uncover the truth about his cousin's murder. Jay Reguero plans to spend the last semester of his senior year playing video games before heading to the University of Michigan in the fall. But when he discovers that his Filipino cousin Jun was murdered as part of President Duterte's war on drugs, and no one in the family wants to talk about what happened, Jay travels to the Philippines to find out the real story. Hoping to uncover more about Jun and the events that led to his death, Jay is forced to reckon with the many sides of his cousin before he can face the whole horrible truth -- and the part he played in it. As gripping as it is lyrical, Patron Saints of Nothing is a page-turning portrayal of the struggle to reconcile faith, family, and immigrant identity.

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Book Detail:
Author: Ishmael Beah
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374105235
Size: 14.66 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2007-02-13
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Language: en
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Download PDF A Long Way Gone eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. My new friends have begun to suspect I haven’t told them the full story of my life. “Why did you leave Sierra Leone?” “Because there is a war.” “You mean, you saw people running around with guns and shooting each other?” “Yes, all the time.” “Cool.” I smile a little. “You should tell us about it sometime.” “Yes, sometime.” This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. Children have become soldiers of choice. In the more than fifty conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them. What is war like through the eyes of a child soldier? How does one become a killer? How does one stop? Child soldiers have been profiled by journalists, and novelists have struggled to imagine their lives. But until now, there has not been a first-person account from someone who came through this hell and survived. In A Long Way Gone, Beah, now twenty-five years old, tells a riveting story: how at the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, he’d been picked up by the government army, and Beah, at heart a gentle boy, found that he was capable of truly terrible acts. This is a rare and mesmerizing account, told with real literary force and heartbreaking honesty.

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Book Detail:
Author: Frances Larson
Publisher: Granta Books
ISBN: 1847088015
Size: 59.44 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2014-11-06
Category: History
Language: en
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Download PDF Severed eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Our history is littered with heads. Over the centuries, they have decorated our churches, festooned our city walls and filled our museums; they have been props for artists and specimens for laboratory scientists, trophies for soldiers and items of barter. Today, as videos of decapitations circulate online and cryonicists promise that our heads may one day live on without our bodies, the severed head is as contentious and compelling as ever. From shrunken heads to trophies of war; from memento mori to Damien Hirst's With Dead Head; from grave-robbing phrenologists to enterprising scientists, Larson explores the bizarre, often gruesome and confounding history of the severed head. Its story is our story.

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