Book Description
Provides information on cemetery research covering such topics as locating graves and cemeteries, accessing death records, searching a cemetery, and American burial customs.
Author : Sharon Debartolo Carmack
Publisher : Betterway Books
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 31,86 MB
Release : 2002-04-22
Category : Architecture
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Provides information on cemetery research covering such topics as locating graves and cemeteries, accessing death records, searching a cemetery, and American burial customs.
Author : John B Keane
Publisher : Mercier Press Ltd
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 48,90 MB
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1781175535
Sharon's Grave deals with a man's ruthless lust for land, which overrides all family loyalties, and can ultimately lead to tragedy. In The Crazy Wall, John B. Keane loses none of his realistic force in creating the powerful symbol of the wall that Michael Barrett erects. The Man from Clare deals with the personal tragedy of an ageing athlete who finds he no longer has the physical strength to maintain his position as captain of the team, or his reputation as the best footballer in Clare.
Author : John B. Keane
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Page : 96 pages
File Size : 18,61 MB
Release : 1960
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Author : Anita Miller
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 21,2 MB
Release : 2005-08-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0897334965
Ariel Sharon, Israel's former Prime Minister, was perhaps one of the most controversial public figures in the Mideast. He was born in 1928 in a moshav—an agricultural community in which, unlike a kibbutz, residents own their own property—and was raised by parents who were not only ardent Zionists but also rugged individualists. His father especially was contemptuous of socialism and believed in individual enterprise, raising his son to be self-reliant and physically strong in order to prepare him for the inevitable struggle to establish a Jewish state. Sharon was perhaps best known as the organizer of what was called Commando Unit 101 and for his original ideas for the training of commando forces, which he later adapted to the training of larger, more traditional armies. During his military career he personally led many raids into Arab territory and has been criticized for his role in the destruction, in 1953, of some forty Arab homes—which he insisted he thought were empty and in which sixty-nine Arabs died. Later, in 1982, he was blamed also for allowing the Lebanese Christian Militia into a Palestinian refugee camp in which hundreds were killed. His political career was of course indelibly colored by his military exploits. What made Sharon tick? What kind of a man was he? How did his childhood and early life condition him to become a brilliant commander, controversial soldier and an as-yet-untested leader of a small democracy which is divided both within and without? This first biography in English—frank, but balanced—will perhaps answer some of the questions raised by his career both as a soldier and politician.
Author : Mark Harris
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 14,47 MB
Release : 2008-12-09
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1416564047
Examines the embalming process and the impact the standard funeral has on the environment while also discussing alternative eco-friendly burials.
Author : Sharon Penman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 49,94 MB
Release : 2013-09-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1781857059
April, AD 1193: A usurper threatens England's empty throne. Richard the Lionheart languishes in an Austrian dungeon, prisoner of the Holy Roman Emperor. Eleanor of Aquitaine, his mother, searches for a way to free her eldest son, aware her youngest plots to take the crown. When John seizes Windsor castle, Eleanor summons her trusted agent, Justin de Quincy, to do the impossible – mediate a truce with her rebel son. De Quincy cannot but heed his Queen's demand, but he is already ensnared in another matter: the cruel murder of a young girl, daughter of an itinerant Welsh peddler. He is determined to bring her killer to justice and nothing, not even the threat of war, can keep him from pursuing her murderer.
Author : Ronen Bergman
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 818 pages
File Size : 43,20 MB
Release : 2019-07-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0812982118
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The first definitive history of the Mossad, Shin Bet, and the IDF’s targeted killing programs, hailed by The New York Times as “an exceptional work, a humane book about an incendiary subject.” WINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD IN HISTORY NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY JENNIFER SZALAI, THE NEW YORK TIMES NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Economist • The New York Times Book Review • BBC History Magazine • Mother Jones • Kirkus Reviews The Talmud says: “If someone comes to kill you, rise up and kill him first.” This instinct to take every measure, even the most aggressive, to defend the Jewish people is hardwired into Israel’s DNA. From the very beginning of its statehood in 1948, protecting the nation from harm has been the responsibility of its intelligence community and armed services, and there is one weapon in their vast arsenal that they have relied upon to thwart the most serious threats: Targeted assassinations have been used countless times, on enemies large and small, sometimes in response to attacks against the Israeli people and sometimes preemptively. In this page-turning, eye-opening book, journalist and military analyst Ronen Bergman—praised by David Remnick as “arguably [Israel’s] best investigative reporter”—offers a riveting inside account of the targeted killing programs: their successes, their failures, and the moral and political price exacted on the men and women who approved and carried out the missions. Bergman has gained the exceedingly rare cooperation of many current and former members of the Israeli government, including Prime Ministers Shimon Peres, Ehud Barak, Ariel Sharon, and Benjamin Netanyahu, as well as high-level figures in the country’s military and intelligence services: the IDF (Israel Defense Forces), the Mossad (the world’s most feared intelligence agency), Caesarea (a “Mossad within the Mossad” that carries out attacks on the highest-value targets), and the Shin Bet (an internal security service that implemented the largest targeted assassination campaign ever, in order to stop what had once appeared to be unstoppable: suicide terrorism). Including never-before-reported, behind-the-curtain accounts of key operations, and based on hundreds of on-the-record interviews and thousands of files to which Bergman has gotten exclusive access over his decades of reporting, Rise and Kill First brings us deep into the heart of Israel’s most secret activities. Bergman traces, from statehood to the present, the gripping events and thorny ethical questions underlying Israel’s targeted killing campaign, which has shaped the Israeli nation, the Middle East, and the entire world. “A remarkable feat of fearless and responsible reporting . . . important, timely, and informative.”—John le Carré
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File Size : 36,91 MB
Release : 1860
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Author : Jacqueline Diamond
Publisher : K. Loren Wilson
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 39,63 MB
Release : 2020-05-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1936505029
Will she find love or danger in the dark shadows of an old house? A young widow newly arrived with her young son .. a handsome ex-cop obsessed with painting a murdered woman who looks just like her... the mysterious Victorian-style rooming house where they both live. Can Ian protect Sharon and her small son from an old tragedy that appears to be playing out anew? The twists and surprises will keep you turning the pages in this small-town mystery by USA Today bestselling novelist Jacqueline Diamond, whose books have sold more than 7 million copies. “Touch Me in the Dark ensnared me in its roller coaster story line, entertaining and thrilling me as Ms. Diamond skillfully unraveled mystery after mystery,” wrote reviewer Donna Zapf on Ecateromance.com.
Author : Kami Fletcher
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 17,93 MB
Release : 2023-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0820365823
Grave sites not only offer the contemporary viewer the physical markers of those remembered but also a wealth of information about the era in which the cemeteries were created. These markers hold keys to our historical past and allow an entry point of interrogation about who is represented, as well as how and why. Grave History is the first volume to use southern cemeteries to interrogate and analyze southern society and the construction of racial and gendered hierarchies from the antebellum period through the dismantling of Jim Crow. Through an analysis of cemeteries throughout the South-including Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, and Virginia, from the nineteenth through twenty-first centuries-this volume demonstrates the importance of using the cemetery as an analytical tool for examining power relations, community formation, and historical memory. Grave History draws together an interdisciplinary group of scholars, including historians, anthropologists, archaeologists, and social-justice activists to investigate the history of racial segregation in southern cemeteries and what it can tell us about how ideas regarding race, class, and gender were informed and reinforced in these sacred spaces. Each chapter is followed by a learning activity that offers readers an opportunity to do the work of a historian and apply the insights gleaned from this book to their own analysis of cemeteries. These activities, designed for both the teacher and the student, as well as the seasoned and the novice cemetery enthusiast, encourage readers to examine cemeteries for their physical organization, iconography, sociodemographic landscape, and identity politics.