Lost in a sea of nostalgia, NYC becomes an inwardly focused schizophrenic culture of alienation and loss. In this backwards-looking culture where only some of the dead have returned, Donner is haunted by revivers guilt, and becomes obsessed with finding out who killed him and his non-returning wife. Little does he know, strange forces have already begun tracking him.
Donner isn't the only one obsessed with the past. Author : E. Layer by layer, McIlvaine reveals a modern metropolis surging with primordial urges and sins, where the Tweed Ring operates the city for its own profit and a conspicuously self-satisfied nouveau-riche ignores the poverty and squalor that surrounds them.
Author : Michael A. Vince, a veteran of WW II, has hung up his PI shingle in favor of a life of leisure, but old pals and new troubles keep interfering.
Join Vince and Laura as they confront gangsters, crimes of passion, crooked politicians, and even a serial killer in this thrill-packed collection of stories that also has the continuity of a novel. Stories included in this collection: Whodunit? Author : R.
Fourteen short-stories from the Necropolis—the city of the dead. Ghosts, killers, revenge from the grave—death itself haunts these pages. Are you shivering? Afraid of the dark? Can you hear the screams? But the kingdom's exceptional status came with a substantial caveat: Bangkok, its bustling capital, was a port city that was subject to many of the same legal and fiscal constraints as other colonial treaty ports.
Sovereign Necropolis offers new insight into turn-of-the-century Thai history by disinterring the forgotten stories of those who died "unnatural deaths" during this period and the work of the Siamese state to assert their rights in a pluralistic legal arena. Based on a neglected cache of inquest files compiled by the Siamese Ministry of the Capital, official correspondence, and newspaper accounts, Trais Pearson documents the piecemeal introduction of new forms of legal and medical concern for the dead.
He reveals that the investigation of unnatural death demanded testimony from diverse strata of society: from the unlettered masses to the king himself. These cases raised questions about how to handle the dead—were they spirits to be placated, or legal subjects whose deaths demanded compensation?
Exhuming the history of imperial politics, transnational commerce, technology, and expertise, Sovereign Necropolis demonstrates how the state's response to global flows transformed the nature of legal subjectivity and politics in lasting ways.
Sovereign Necropolis is a compelling exploration of the troubling lives of the dead in a cosmopolitan treaty port, and a notable contribution to the growing corpus of studies in science, law, and society in the non-Western world. The ancient Egyptian Coffin Texts form a corpus of ritual spells written on the inside of coffins from the Middle Kingdom c. Thus accompanying the deceased in a very concrete sense, the spells are part of a long Egyptian tradition of equipping the dead with ritual texts ensuring the transition from the state of a living human being to that of a deceased ancestor.
The texts present a view of death as entailing threats to the function of the body, often conceptualised as bodily fragmentation or dysfunction. Ghosts it would be Ibram Gaunt. Coming off a victory on Monthax, the Ghosts, along with a number of other imperial guard regiments, are redirected from the next Crusade push to help resolve an inter hive conflict on an industrial world known as Verghast.
Many of the Tanith members resented Gaunt for fleeing their homeworld when it came under attack on the day of their founding, even if the more reasonable among them acknowledged they couldn t hope to win. Necropolis is the third of the Gaunt s Ghosts books and the final chapter of The Founding trilogy.
It was first published in December It chronicles the events of the Vervunhive war, an immense 54 day siege fought between the corrupted Ferrozoican foe and the beleaguered Imperial defenders, including the understated Tanith 1st.
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No ncropolis or quizzes yet. Read honest and unbiased product reviews from our users. Necropolis Novel Warhammer 40k Lexicanum The next morning, Merity confides to Gaunt that her father had a secret weapon. The city s former High Master, Heironymo, who was a mechanical genius, created a hand held device that could shut down the entire city.
He entrusted it to House Chass, as a safeguard against the High Master becoming a tyrant as Salvador did , but Lord Chass decided not to use it. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Necropolis Gaunt s Ghosts Book 4. Gaunt s Ghosts is a Warhammer 40, novel series written and edited by Dan Abnett and published by the Black Library.
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