Free Download Gabriel Filippi, Brett Popplewell, "The Escapist: Cheating Death on the World's Highest Mountains"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1443450162, 1443450170 | EPUB | pages: 384 | 2.4 mb
As a young boy growing up in Lac-Mégantic, Gabriel Filippi lived in fear of drowning. A close encounter in a childhood swimming pool left him terrified of the depths, but he had no idea that it was the heights of this world that would eventually call him―and threaten his life over and over again.

Free Download David Hipshon, "Richard III and the Death of Chivalry"
English | 2009 | ISBN: 0750950749 | EPUB | pages: 224 | 0.5 mb
The conventional view of Richard III's defeat at the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485 is that it was due to a loss of support for him after his usurpation of the throne. However, David Hipshon argues that the result might very well have been in his favor, had not his support for James Harrington in a long-running family feud with Thomas, Lord Stanley led to the latter betraying him. Bosworth was the last English battle in which the monarch relied on feudal retainers: at Stoke two years later professional mercenaries were the key to Henry VII's victory. The author examines how the power politics of the conflict between the Stanleys and the Harringtons, and Richard's motives in supporting the latter, led to the king's death on the battlefield, the succession of the Tudors to the throne of England, the "death of chivalry," and the end of the Middle Ages.

Free Download Ogden, "Lev Shestov's Angel of Death"
English | ISBN: 1800791127 | 2021 | 290 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 26 MB
Based on new research and translations of unpublished writings by Russian émigré philosopher Lev Shestov, this book analyses the thoughts of one of the most influential thinkers of the past century in an interdisciplinary context. His work is read in the light of pivotal figures such as Dostoevsky, Husserl, Jaspers, Buber and Freud.

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English | ISBN: 9004442596 | 2021 | 279 pages | PDF | 9 MB
"[...], Davidson's and Oosterwijk's volume [...] offers a deeply researched, wide-ranging, and profoundly valuable overview of major Anglo-French contributions to the broader danse macabre tradition."

Free Download Thiessen, "Jesus and the Forces of Death: The Gospels' Portrayal of Ritual Impurity within First-Century Judaism"
English | 2020 | ISBN: 1540964876 | EPUB | pages: 254 | 5.0 mb
Named a Sejong Book of 2021, Publication Industry Promotion Agency of Korea (KPIPA)

Free Download William Hunt, "God, Probability, and Life after Death: An Argument for Human Resurrection"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 1498526063 | EPUB | pages: 286 | 1.9 mb
God, Probability and Life after Death reveals its objective in its title, namely, to present an exploratory argument concerning the probability of human resurrection. The exploratory argument follows a probabilistic passage along an evidential trail to the discovery of the probability of life after death. It is a trail that the reader can personally engage with in order to reach their own conclusion and even introduce additional evidence they think relevant.

Free Download Ruth Richardson, "Death, Dissection and the Destitute"
English | 2001 | ISBN: 0226712397, 0226712400 | PDF | pages: 474 | 12.9 mb
In the early nineteenth century, body snatching was rife because the only corpses available for medical study were those of hanged murderers. With the Anatomy Act of 1832, however, the bodies of those who died destitute in workhouses were appropriated for dissection. At a time when such a procedure was regarded with fear and revulsion, the Anatomy Act effectively rendered dissection a punishment for poverty. Providing both historical and contemporary insights, Death, Dissection, and the Destitute opens rich new prospects in history and history of science. The new afterword draws important parallels between social and medical history and contemporary concerns regarding organs for transplant and human tissue for research.

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English | 2021 | ISBN: 1635768101 | EPUB | pages: 352 | 3.7 mb
A brutally dismembered corpse . . . a wife lying in wait . . . and all the shocking details behind a former exotic dancer's motivation for her depraved crime of passion

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English | March 5th, 2024 | ISBN: 1644119218 | 336 pages | True EPUB | 1.11 MB
* Examines the experiences of those who have survived comas

Free Download P. Davies, "Beckett and Eros: Death of Humanism"
English | 2000 | ISBN: 0333681622 | PDF | pages: 249 | 1.9 mb
The decade since Beckett's death has seen new interests in the erotic sweeping through our culture, acting in uneasy counterpoint to its established humanistic infrastructure and opening new questions about the significance of sexuality. Surprisingly or not, Beckett has startling further light to throw on the erotic phenomenon variously but insistently recognised in our time. This book is the first to propose a 'mythopoetics of sex' with which to explore Beckett's work as a whole.