Author: Potter Gift Publisher: Clarkson Potter ISBN: 1984822667 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 82
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Celebrate a life well-lived with this guest book dedicated to remembering a lost loved one with hopeful quotes and plenty of space to write memories and anecdotes. Losing someone is one of the most difficult parts of life, but during times of sorrow is when love feels most abundant. In Memoriam is a meaningful keepsake for those in mourning featuring quotations from famous people and authors that encourage guests to say goodbye, express sympathy, and celebrate memories and moments shared as well as bring them hope for happier days.
Author: Didier Daeninckx Publisher: Melville International Crime ISBN: 1612191460 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 194
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On the evening of October 17, 1961 twenty-thousand Algerians marched in Paris in defiance of and in protest against a curfew imposed by Maurice Papon, chief of the Paris Metropolitan Police. The protesters were met with ferocious and uninhibited violence. Eleven-thousand were arrested; more than one thousand injured; as many as three hundred were killed, many of them thrown into the Seine, from which their bodies were later recovered. In recreating the scene of the atrocities in Murder in Memoriam, his controversial alarum first published in 1984, Didier Daeninckx introduces a fictional observer of the riot, Roger Thiraud, a middle-aged history teacher in a public school, only steps from his home and his waiting, pregnant wife. In the first few minutes of the demonstration, he will be assassinated, in cold blood, by a member of the anti-terrorist secret police. For nearly forty years after October 1961, France would deny the killings. Upon the independence of Algeria in 1962 an amnesty put its perpetrators safely beyond prosecution. The records were buried. In 1981, Bernard Thiraud, Roger's son, is researching the archives in Toulouse, intent on completing his father's history of his birthplace, Drancy, now notorious as the site of a detention and transit camp from which Jews were deported to Auschwitz. One afternoon, after leaving the town hall, he too is murdered -- the victim of what appears to investigating officers to be a professional killing. When inspector Cadin of the Toulouse prefecture learns of the unsolved murder of the young man's father, he suspects a connection. But why would anybody want to kill two bourgeois, politically unconnected history teachers? Didier Daeninckx has located the link between the two murders in the history that France had yet to confront -- in its colonial racism and its complicity in genocide. Daeninckx made this connection in fiction, deliberately provoking its acknowledgment in fact. Murder in Memoriam anticipated by more than a decade the shocking revelations provided by the exposure, trial, and conviction of Maurice Papon -- the Parisian chief of police in 1961, and the never-named villain whose real crimes, unrevealed at the time of its first publication, haunt this account -- for crimes against humanity; for his part in the administration of the deportation of the Jews from Bordeaux to Auschwitz.
Author: Alfred Tennyson Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated ISBN: 9780393979268 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 252
Book Description
Tennyson s central poem is presented with an extensive introduction that provides background information on the poet and poem as well as an overview of In Memoriam s formal and thematic peculiarities, including Tennyson s use of the stanza and the poem s rhyme scheme."
Author: Running Press Publisher: Running Press Adult ISBN: 0762457910 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 116
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A tribute to some of the most memorable characters that have died during the course of the first four seasons of Game of Thrones. The book includes quotes, brief character profiles, and is fully illustrated with series photography throughout.
Author: Terence Foley Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1439136378 Category : Reference Languages : en Pages : 294
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A comprehensive planning guide to help ease the difficult responsibilities involved in honoring a life that has ended. A unique guide leads friends and family members through each step of planning a funeral or memorial service, from writing eulogies to arranging flowers; shows how to personalize a service; and explains the rites and rituals of various religions.
Author: Jerome Neu Publisher: North Atlantic Books ISBN: 9780971254619 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 112
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Norman O. Brown was a scholar, poet and revolutionary who made a lasting impression on the sixties generation. His distinctive fusion of Marxism, psychoanalysis and classical literature inspired students across the United States and in Europe to participate in the political upheaval of that time. His books, including Love’s Body and Life Against Death, are still being used in college classrooms throughout the country. This memorial volume has two sections, the first presenting a previously unpublished autobiographical essay in which Brown details both his family and intellectual background prior to arriving in the United States at the University of Chicago. The second section contains a number of short meditations on his life and work by friends, family and colleagues. The pieces are poetic and insightful, a true testimony to the kind of thinking Brown inspired. They were presented originally during a memorial gathering at the University of California Santa Cruz, which included, among others, his colleagues there: Carl E. Schorske, Jay Cantor, Hayden White, Helene Moglen, Jim Clifford and Nathaniel Mackey.