| Author | : Sherman Young |
| Publisher | : UNSW Press |
| Total Pages | : 204 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9780868408040 |
"... books are machines for reading"--P. 161.
My Dead Book
| Author | : Nate Lippens |
| Publisher | : MIT Press |
| Total Pages | : 137 |
| Release | : 2024-10-22 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1635902150 |
A rumination on survival, queer aging, and estrangement that was a finalist for the Republic of Consciousness Prize. My dead friends are back. I lie in bed at night and see them. Haunted by insomnia and the past as he approaches his fiftieth birthday, the narrator of My Dead Book flips through scenes of his youth and memories of dozens of friends who are no longer with him. Living alone and working odd jobs in Wisconsin, he ruminates on survival, queer aging, his years as a teenage throwaway, and estrangement, wondering whether he has outlived his place in the world. First published in 2021, Lippens’s debut novel was hailed as “a brutally acerbic novel of queer pessimism” (Donna Marcus, AnOther Magazine). As Lindsay Lerman observed in Southwest Review, “My Dead Book is not transgressive because it follows a gay man as he struggles to survive on the fringes of multiple worlds. … It is continually transgressing. It’s a living book (a living dead book), moving around in time, making tangential connections.” This new edition includes an introduction by LAMBDA Literary Award-winning American poet and writer, Eileen Myles.
The Book of the Dead
| Author | : Muriel Rukeyser |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2018 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9781946684219 |
Written in response to the Hawk's Nest Tunnel disaster of 1931 in Gauley Bridge, West Virginia, The Book of the Dead is an important part of West Virginia's cultural heritage and a powerful account of one of the worst industrial catastrophes in American history. The poems collected here investigate the roots of a tragedy that killed hundreds of workers, most of them African American. They are a rare engagement with the overlap between race and environment in Appalachia. Published for the first time alongside photographs by Nancy Naumburg, who accompanied Rukeyser to Gauley Bridge in 1936, this edition of The Book of the Dead includes an introduction by Catherine Venable Moore, whose writing on the topic has been anthologized in Best American Essays.
The Book of Dead Philosophers
| Author | : Simon Critchley |
| Publisher | : Melbourne Univ. Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 336 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Death |
| ISBN | : 0522855148 |
Diogenes died by holding his breath. Plato allegedly died of a lice infestation. Diderot choked to death on an apricot. Nietzsche made a long, soft-brained and dribbling descent into oblivion after kissing a horse in Turin. From the self-mocking haikus of Zen masters on their deathbeds to the last words (gasps) of modern-day sages, The Book of Dead Philosophers chronicles the deaths of almost 200 philosophers-tales of weirdness, madness, suicide, murder, pathos and bad luck. In this elegant and amusing book, Simon Critchley argues that the question of what constitutes a 'good death' has been the central preoccupation of philosophy since ancient times. As he brilliantly demonstrates, looking at what the great thinkers have said about death inspires a life-affirming enquiry into the meaning and possibility of human happiness. In learning how to die, we learn how to live.
Print Is Dead
| Author | : Jeff Gomez |
| Publisher | : Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 257 |
| Release | : 2009-06-09 |
| Genre | : Computers |
| ISBN | : 0230614469 |
For over 1500 years books have weathered numerous cultural changes remarkably unaltered. Through wars, paper shortages, radio, TV, computer games, and fluctuating literacy rates, the bound stack of printed paper has, somewhat bizarrely, remained the more robust and culturally relevant way to communicate ideas. Now, for the first time since the Middle Ages, all that is about to change. Newspapers are struggling for readers and relevance; downloadable music has consigned the album to the format scrap heap; and the digital revolution is now about to leave books on the high shelf of history. In Print Is Dead, Gomez explains how authors, producers, distributors, and readers must not only acknowledge these changes, but drive digital book creation, standards, storage, and delivery as the first truly transformational thing to happen in the world of words since the printing press.
The Book of the Dead
| Author | : John Mitchinson |
| Publisher | : Crown Pub |
| Total Pages | : 434 |
| Release | : 2010-09 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0307716406 |
A whimsical treasury of biographical profiles of famous and lesser-known individuals now dead includes hundreds of entries that reveal embarrassing-but-true details typically omitted by official biographers. Co-authored by the award-winning producer of Blackadder and the writer of QI.
Journey Through the Afterlife
| Author | : John H. Taylor |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 328 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : Book of the dead |
| ISBN | : 9780674057500 |
With contributions from leading scholars and detailed catalog entries that interpret the spells and painted scenes, this fascinating and important work affords a greater understanding of ancient Egyptian belief systems and poignantly reveals the hopes and fears about the world beyond death.
The Book of the Dead
| Author | : Douglas Preston |
| Publisher | : Grand Central Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 410 |
| Release | : 2006-05-30 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0759516030 |
Can FBI Special Agent Pendergast stop a cursed Egyptian tomb from terrorizing New York City -- or will he stay trapped in a maximum security prison, punished for a murder he didn't commit? An FBI agent, rotting away in a high-security prison for a murder he did not commit... His brilliant, psychotic brother, about to perpetrate a horrific crime... A young woman with an extrodinary past, on th edge of a violent breakdown... An ancient Egyptian tomb with an enigmatic curse, about to be unveiled at a celebrity-studded New York gala... Memento Mori
The Book of the Dead
| Author | : John Skipp |
| Publisher | : Bantam |
| Total Pages | : 390 |
| Release | : 1989 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780553279986 |
Blood-draining tales by horror masters--including Stephen King, Robert McCammon, Ramsey Campbell, and David Schow--conjure the heinous deeds of the vengeful living dead, in a collection of Zombie stories
