Count Your Dead
Author | : John Rowe |
Publisher | : Sydney University Press |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0975086049 |
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Author | : John Rowe |
Publisher | : Sydney University Press |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0975086049 |
Author | : Stephen Berry |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 141 |
Release | : 2022-02-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1469667533 |
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 |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 2016-05-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1608466574 |
“[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 | : Frances Harrison |
Publisher | : House of Anansi |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2012-09-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1770893059 |
"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 | : Boston Teran |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 476 |
Release | : 2002-10-13 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780312980207 |
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 | : Wyndham Lewis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1937 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : John Rowe |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 1968 |
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Author | : Ava Dellaira |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2014-04-01 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 0374346682 |
It begins as an assignment for English class: Write a letter to a dead person. Laurel chooses Kurt Cobain because her sister, May, loved him. And he died young, just like May did. Soon, Laurel has a notebook full of letters to people like Janis Joplin, Amy Winehouse, Amelia Earhart, Heath Ledger, and more -- though she never gives a single one of them to her teacher. She writes about starting high school, navigating new friendships, falling in love for the first time, learning to live with her splintering family. And, finally, about the abuse she suffered while May was supposed to be looking out for her. Only then, once Laurel has written down the truth about what happened to herself, can she truly begin to accept what happened to May. And only when Laurel has begun to see her sister as the person she was -- lovely and amazing and deeply flawed -- can she begin to discover her own path in this stunning debut from Ava Dellaira, Love Letters to the Dead.
Author | : Jonathan W. Haubert |
Publisher | : Trafford Publishing |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2014-04 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1490721800 |
COMPLETING OVER A DECADE OF LIVE MUSIC, RECORDINGS AND POETRY, VOCALIST/POET JONATHAN W. HAUBERT BRINGS HIS READERS MUCH DEEPER INTO THE TWISTEDLY POETIC WORLD OF THE WARS OF THE MIND IN WARS OF THE MIND VOL. 5 (BETWEEN FLESH & BONE.) THIS NEW CHAPTER IN THE ONGOING SERIES TELLS THE STORIES BEHIND THE WRITING AND RELEASE OF THE "COUNT YOUR DEAD" DEBUT ALBUM "NO RETURN." AND THE CONCLUSION OF THE TENTH YEAR IN THE WARS OF THE MIND SERIES, PAVING THE WAY FOR MANY NEW CHAPTERS TO COME IN THE EVER-GROWING POETIC CHRONICLINGS. SO ONCE AGAIN I WELCOME YOU THE READER INTO THIS WORLD OF LOVE, DEATH, RAGE, PAIN, HATE, HOPE AND TRUTH. TO HELP TO INSPIRE AND ENCOURAGE ALL TO FIND THE STRENGTH WITHIN OURSELVES TO OVERCOME ANY OBSTACLE AND TO TRULY FIND INNER PEACE, AGAIN I WELCOME YOU INTO THE WARS OF OUR MINDS...
Author | : Ezra Pound |
Publisher | : New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780811209328 |
The friendship of Ezra Pound and Wyndham Lewis began in London in 1909, survived two European wars and the rise and fall of the totalitarian governments both men misguidedly supported, and lasted through Pound's years of confinement at St. Elizabeths, to Lewis's death in 1957. In Pound/Lewis, their correspondence of five decades is gathered for the first time; it proves a revealing reflection of their intense, always professional, mutual regard.