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| Author | : Hans Askenasy |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 294 |
| Release | : 1994 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : |
Psychologist Hans Askenasy has put together the first comprehensive history of a subject combining violence, horror, and exotic customs. In Part One of his study, Dr. Askenasy gives a historical and geographic overview of humankind's practice of and attitudes toward cannibalism. Part Two discusses motivational factors for cannibalism, including famines (natural and man-made), survival in extreme situations, magic, ritual, and madness. Among the people and events covered are the siege of Leningrad by the Nazis; the wreckage of the frigate Medusa; the Donner Party; the notorious nineteenth-century "Colorado Man-Eater," Alferd Packer; the Andes plane crash of 1972; Elizabeth Bathory (b. 1560), the "Vampire Lady of the Carpathians"; and Georg Haarmann, who ground up his victims and sold them as potted meat. In Part Three, "Cannibalism in Culture and Society," Askenasy addresses our continuing fascination with cannibals, man-eating witches, werewolves, and vampires in literature, myth, and the media, ranging from Francis Ford Coppola's film version of Bram Stoker's Dracula and Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles to the blood curdling events surrounding the cases of Issei Sagawa, Jeffrey Dahmer, and the Russian schoolteacher-turned torturer, Andrei Romanovitsch Chikatilo.
| Author | : Matthew Warshauer |
| Publisher | : Wesleyan University Press |
| Total Pages | : 329 |
| Release | : 2014-08-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0819571393 |
“Serves as a model of what a state-level survey of the Civil War can achieve . . . a potent combination of description and analysis.” —The Civil War Monitor Connecticut in the American Civil War offers a remarkable window into the state’s involvement in a conflict that challenged and defined the unity of a nation. The arc of the war is traced through the many facets and stories of battlefield, home front, and factory. Matthew Warshauer masterfully reveals the varied attitudes toward slavery and race before, during, and after the war; Connecticut’s reaction to the firing on Fort Sumter; the dissent in the state over whether or not the sword and musket should be raised against the South; the raising of troops; the sacrifice of those who served on the front and at home; and the need for closure after the war. This book is a concise, amazing account of a complex and troubling war. No one interested in this period of American history can afford to miss reading this important contribution to our national and local stories.
| Author | : Theresa Milk |
| Publisher | : Mammoth |
| Total Pages | : 172 |
| Release | : 2007-11-01 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 9780976177388 |
Milk presents American Indian/Alaskan Native student stories from early days of Haskell, a federal boarding school founded in 1884. Their stories reveal the ordeals and successes of Native students as they struggle within a military, assimilationist educational environment.
| Author | : Bill Boyce |
| Publisher | : Bright Sky Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2015 |
| Genre | : Aircraft accidents |
| ISBN | : 9781931721110 |
"When you were growing up, did you ever wonder why your father was the way he was? Did you ever take time to discover what he had been through? Bill Boyce did. In Miss Fortune's Last Mission he shares his search to discover how WWII affected his dad--and the extended family created from one plane's crew"--Publisher summary.
| Author | : Lisa Mahoney |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2020-09-07 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781922497048 |
The disappearance and subsequent murder of one of Western Australia's most infamous underworld crime figures, Frank La Rosa, is only the tip of the iceberg. This is a true account, the untold story of Frank's daughter Lisa Mahoney, told in intimate detail as only Lisa herself can tell it in this rollercoaster of a memoir. It is more than a story of life as a drug dealer's daughter, and Lisa opens up about how her life was thrown into chaos on more than one occasion, including the many months of dealing with a missing person, to the somewhat closure she had when all hope was lost. In this must-read book, you will take a journey into the shadows of a damaged heart as Lisa recalls the many trials and tribulations endured during her father's colourful lifetime and even beyond his death.Many know the Frank La Rosa story.Now it's time to read the story of the one who called him Dad?
| Author | : Sadeqa Johnson |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 288 |
| Release | : 2021-01-12 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1982149124 |
From the New York Times bestselling author of House of Eve—a 2023 Reese’s Book Club Pick! *A Best Book of the Year by NPR and Christian Science Monitor* Called “wholly engrossing” by New York Times bestselling author Kathleen Grissom, this “fully immersive” (Lisa Wingate, #1 bestselling author of Before We Were Yours) story follows an enslaved woman forced to barter love and freedom while living in the most infamous slave jail in Virginia. Born on a plantation in Charles City, Virginia, Pheby Delores Brown has lived a relatively sheltered life. Shielded by her mother’s position as the estate’s medicine woman and cherished by the Master’s sister, she is set apart from the others on the plantation, belonging to neither world. She’d been promised freedom on her eighteenth birthday, but instead of the idyllic life she imagined with her true love, Essex Henry, Pheby is forced to leave the only home she has ever known. She unexpectedly finds herself thrust into the bowels of slavery at the infamous Devil’s Half Acre, a jail in Richmond, Virginia, where the enslaved are broken, tortured, and sold every day. There, Pheby is exposed not just to her Jailer’s cruelty but also to his contradictions. To survive, Pheby will have to outwit him, and she soon faces the ultimate sacrifice.
| Author | : Diane Matcheck |
| Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) |
| Total Pages | : 208 |
| Release | : 2016-03-15 |
| Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1466895705 |
An Apsaalooka (Crow) Indian girl has lived her life as a despised loner, overshadowed by her dead twin brother, who, it was prophesied at their birth, would become a "Great One" among his people. One night, she sets off on a forbidden journey to prove to her village, and her brother's spirit, that she is the one destined to become the true Great One. Her trek over the plains and into the mysterious region of modern-day Yellowstone National Park is a disaster, culminating in her eventual capture by a tribe of Pawnee. Strangely, these foreigners treat her with an unfamiliar respect, and the girl starts to let down her guard. But when it is suddenly revealed that she has been kept alive in order to be killed in a ritual harvest-season sacrifice, the girl is thrown back into her desperate battle for survival...in Diane Matcheck's The Sacrifice.
| Author | : Anthony Fields |
| Publisher | : WAHIDA CLARK PRESENTS |
| Total Pages | : 267 |
| Release | : 2010-04-13 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1936649799 |
Betrayal is worse than slaughter. That s what Antonio Ameen Felder always instilled in his friends. When a murder at the prison threatens to incarcerate them all for life, one man decides to sacrifice himself to free the others. All he asks in return is for his family to be taken care of. Luther Khadafi Fuller is the leader of the recently freed trio. He takes his two friends Boo and Umar on a ride they will never forget through the streets of DC. Take a ride with these three men as they make love and money, while trying not to forget the man they left behind. When one wrong move causes things to spiral out of control, can their bond survive the viciousness of the streets? Will their lives be spared? Or will their promises to each other be forgotten? The Ultimate Sacrifice is a story of love, life, money, sex, betrayal and murder. This is a page turner that you won t be able to put down.
| Author | : Charlie Higson |
| Publisher | : Puffin Books |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : Horror tales |
| ISBN | : 9780141336121 |
Follows the dual storylines of Small Sam on his search for Ella and of Shadowman's discoveries about Saint George and the Disease itself.
| Author | : Andrew Bienkowski |
| Publisher | : Allen & Unwin |
| Total Pages | : 265 |
| Release | : 2014-06-17 |
| Genre | : Self-Help |
| ISBN | : 1741764300 |
An illuminating melding of narrative and inspiring practical guidance, this is both the extraordinary true story of a family's survival in Stalinist Siberia and a guide to becoming a person who can give to others.
