Rest in Pieces

Author: Bess Lovejoy
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451654987
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 344

Book Description
For some of the most influential figures in history, death marked the start of a new adventure. The famous deceased have been stolen, burned, sold, pickled, frozen, stuffed, impersonated, and even filed away in a lawyer's office. Their fingers, teeth, toes, arms, legs, skulls, hearts, lungs, and nether regions have embarked on voyages that crisscross the globe and stretch the imagination.

"Rest in Pieces"

Author: Sonya Maldar
Publisher: Human Rights Watch
ISBN:
Category : Detention of persons
Languages : en
Pages : 78

Book Description
Recommendations. -- Methods. -- Background: attitudes towards policing. History of policing in pre-colonial and colonial Nigeria -- Structure and organization of the Nigerian police force. -- Deaths in police custody. -- Torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. Types of torture or cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment -- Who is targeted: Arrest of friends or relatives of a suspect. Torture and ill-treatment of members of self-determination groups. -- The purpose -- The perpetrators --The location -- The right to freedom from torture. -- Rape by the police. -- Abusive conditions of detention and denial of medical treatment. -- Lack of due process of law. Acceptance of forced confessions -- Failure to be informed of grounds for arrest -- Absence of legal representation -- Prolonged pre-trial detention. -- Obstacles to redress. Criminal investigations and prosecutions -- Police Complaints Burea -- The 'Orderly Room Trial' -- The Police Service Commission -- National Human Rights Commission -- Inquests and autopsies -- Societal attitudes to torture and police abuses. -- Police Reform. Review of the Police Act -- Donor governments' support for police reform. -- Conclusion. -- Acknowledgements.

Rest In Pieces

Author: Ruzbeh N. Bharucha
Publisher: Diamond Pocket Books (P) Ltd.
ISBN: 9788189182847
Category : Indic fiction (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 162

Book Description

Rest in Pieces

Author: Bess Lovejoy
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451655010
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 352

Book Description
A “marvelously macabre” (Kirkus Reviews) history of the bizarre afterlives of corpses of the celebrated and notorious dead. For some of the most influential figures in history, death marked the start of a new adventure. The famous deceased have been stolen, burned, sold, pickled, frozen, stuffed, impersonated, and even filed away in a lawyer’s office. Their fingers, teeth, toes, arms, legs, skulls, hearts, lungs, and nether regions have embarked on voyages that crisscross the globe and stretch the imagination. Counterfeiters tried to steal Lincoln’s corpse. Einstein’s brain went on a cross-country road trip. And after Lord Horatio Nelson perished at Trafalgar, his sailors submerged him in brandy—which they drank. From Alexander the Great to Elvis Presley, and from Beethoven to Dorothy Parker, Rest in Pieces connects the lives of the famous dead to the hilarious and horrifying adventures of their corpses, and traces the evolution of cultural attitudes toward death.

Rest in Pieces

Author: Barry Du Bruyn
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1847535356
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 175

Book Description
In this book the process of death, dying and bereavement is discussed in full. Topics related to death (such as suicide, accidents, natural death, the undead, different funeral formats and the aftermath) is also explored in designated chapters. What sets this book apart from others on the topic, is the inclusion of MINISTRY TO THE UNDEAD.

Rest in Pieces

Author: Rita Mae Brown
Publisher: Crimeline
ISBN: 0553898620
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386

Book Description
Mrs. Murphy thinks the new man in town is the cat's meow.... Maybe she should think again. Small towns don't take kindly to strangers--unless the stranger happens to be a drop-dead gorgeous and seemingly unattached male. When Blair Bainbridge comes to Crozet, Virginia, the local matchmakers lose no time in declaring him perfect for their newly divorced postmistress, Marry Minor "Harry Haristeen." Even Harry's tiger cat, Ms. Murphy, and her Welsh Corgi, Tee Tucker, believe he smells A-okay. Could his one little imperfection be that he's a killer? Blair becomes the most likely suspect when the pieces of a dismembered corpse begin tuming up around Crozet. No one knows who the dead man is, but when a grisly clue makes a spectacular appearance in the middle of the fall festivities, more than an early winter snow begins chilling the blood of Crozet's very best people. That's when Ms. Murphy, her friend Tucker, and her human companion Harry begin to sort throughout the clues . . . only to find themselves a whisker away from becoming the killer's next victims.

Clint Faraday Mysteries book 31: Rest in Pieces

Author: CD Moulton
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0359346510
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 56

Book Description

Rest in Pieces

Author: Elizabeth Spann Craig
Publisher: Elizabeth Spann Craig
ISBN: 1946227277
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 197

Book Description
When Beatrice takes on a new case, she must solve it before anyone else rests in pieces. It’s a beautiful evening for a wedding and Beatrice couldn’t be prouder as the mother of the bride. It’s a happy occasion and a beautiful ceremony—aside from the appearance of the odd and uninvited Ophelia. Ophelia argues with another guest, who is later discovered dead. Beatrice must piece together the truth before the killer strikes again.

Rest in Pieces

Author: Ralph McInerny
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 264

Book Description
Father Dowling must see through the havoc of Latin American politics, liberation, theology, terrorism, and cocaine in the quiet little town of Fox River.

I Love Him to Pieces

Author: Evonne Tsang
Publisher: Graphic Universe
ISBN: 0761360042
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132

Book Description
St. Petersburg High school juniors Dicey Bell, a baseball star, and Jack Chen, who loves science and role-playing games, discover a mutual attraction when paired for a project, but on their first date, a zombie-producing fungus sends them on the run.