A Death-Dealing Famine

A Death-Dealing Famine
Title A Death-Dealing Famine PDF eBook
Author Christine Kinealy
Publisher Pluto Press
Pages 204
Release 1997-03-20
Genre History
ISBN 9780745310749

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Examines the historiography of the Irish Famine and its relevance now, in the context of the longer-term relationship between England and Ireland.

Hunger For Death

Hunger For Death
Title Hunger For Death PDF eBook
Author Joshua Marsella
Publisher Joshua Marsella
Pages 186
Release 2021-11-30
Genre Fiction
ISBN 9781088009062

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A mother is willing to sacrifice it all to save her unborn child... A pair of fishermen reel in a catch they'll soon regret.. A mysterious puzzle holds an ancient secret... ...and ten more wicked tales of the macabre from the remarkably disturbed mind of Joshua Marsella.

So Much Wasted

So Much Wasted
Title So Much Wasted PDF eBook
Author Patrick Anderson
Publisher Duke University Press
Pages 205
Release 2010-10-25
Genre Art
ISBN 0822348284

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An analysis of self-starvation as a significant mode of staging political arguments across the institutional domains of the clinic, the gallery, and the prison.

Will the Circle Be Unbroken?

Will the Circle Be Unbroken?
Title Will the Circle Be Unbroken? PDF eBook
Author Studs Terkel
Publisher Granta Books
Pages 436
Release 2003
Genre Family & Relationships
ISBN 9781862075603

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We will all die. Yet modern culture fears and avoids the subject of death. Will the Circle be Unbroken? deals sensitively and unforgettably with a universal experience.

Hunger

Hunger
Title Hunger PDF eBook
Author Jackie Morse Kessler
Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages 183
Release 2010-10-18
Genre Young Adult Fiction
ISBN 0547505094

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A teenage girl saddles up to take on worldwide famine—and her own anorexia—in a “fast-paced, witty, and heart-breaking” fantasy adventure (Richelle Mead, #1 New York Times-bestselling author) Jackie Morse Kessler’s Riders of the Apocalypse series follows teens who are transformed into the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. In Hunger, Lisabeth Lewis has a black steed, a set of scales, and a new job: she’s been appointed Famine. How will an anorexic seventeen-year-old girl from the suburbs fare as one of the Four Horsemen? Traveling the world on her steed gives Lisa freedom from her troubles at home—her constant battle with hunger, and her struggle to hide it from the people who care about her. But being Famine forces her to go places where hunger is a painful part of everyday life, and to face the horrifying effects of her phenomenal power. Can Lisa find a way to harness that power—and the courage to fight her own inner demons? A wildly original approach to the issue of eating disorders, Hunger is about the struggle to find balance in a world of extremes and uses fantastic tropes to explore a difficult topic that touches the lives of many teens. “A great book . . . funny and sad, brilliant and tragic, and most of all, it speaks the truth. I adore it.”—Rachel Caine, New York Times-bestselling author “It was sheer genius to combine the eating disorder anorexia with the ultimate entity signifying lack of food, nourishment and all that that entails: famine.”—New York Journal of Books “The storytelling is both realistic and compassionate.”—School Library Journal, (starred review)

Will the Circle Be Unbroken?

Will the Circle Be Unbroken?
Title Will the Circle Be Unbroken? PDF eBook
Author Studs Terkel
Publisher New Press, The
Pages 353
Release 2014-10-07
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1620970619

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The renowned oral historian interviews ordinary people about facing mortality: “It’s the unguarded voices he presents that stay with you.” —The New York Times In this book, the Pulitzer Prize winner and National Book Award finalist Studs Terkel, author of the New York Times bestseller Working, turns to the ultimate human experience: death. Here a wide range of people address the unknowable culmination of our lives, the possibilities of an afterlife, and their impact on the way we live, with memorable grace and poignancy. Included in this remarkable treasury are Terkel’s interviews with such famed figures as Kurt Vonnegut and Ira Glass as well as with ordinary people, from policemen and firefighters to emergency health workers and nurses, who confront death in their everyday lives. Whether a Hiroshima survivor, a death-row parolee, or a woman who emerged from a two-year coma, these interviewees offer tremendous eloquence as they deal with a topic many are reluctant to discuss openly and freely. Only Terkel, whom Cornel West called “an American treasure,” could have elicited such honesty from people reflecting on the lives they have led and what lies before them still. “Extraordinary . . . a work of insight, wisdom, and freshness.” —The Seattle Times

Death Without Weeping

Death Without Weeping
Title Death Without Weeping PDF eBook
Author Nancy Scheper-Hughes
Publisher Univ of California Press
Pages 632
Release 2023-11-10
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0520911563

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When lives are dominated by hunger, what becomes of love? When assaulted by daily acts of violence and untimely death, what happens to trust? Set in the lands of Northeast Brazil, this is an account of the everyday experience of scarcity, sickness and death that centres on the lives of the women and children of a hillside "favela". Bringing her readers to the impoverished slopes above the modern plantation town of Bom Jesus de Mata, where she has worked on and off for 25 years, Nancy Scheper-Hughes follows three generations of shantytown women as they struggle to survive through hard work, cunning and triage. It is a story of class relations told at the most basic level of bodies, emotions, desires and needs. Most disturbing - and controversial - is her finding that mother love, as conventionally understood, is something of a bourgeois myth, a luxury for those who can reasonably expect, as these women cannot, that their infants will live.