Daydreams and Nightmares: A Virginia Family Faces Seccession and War, Brent Tarter

Автор: McQueen Keven
Название: New England Nightmares: True Tales of the Strange and Gothic
ISBN: 0253034698 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780253034694
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: New England is renowned for its quaint towns, beautiful landscapes, and busy ports. But it is also infamous as the setting for unexplained deaths, ghost stories, bizarre murders, and peculiar wills and epitaphs.
In New England Nightmares: True Tales of the Strange and Gothic, author Keven McQueen explores the darker and stranger side of New England and the Mid-Atlantic. With shocking and unforgettable tales from the tip of Maine all the way to the New Jersey shore, this eerie collection explores our fascination with death and the unknown, including tales of medical students digging up bodies to dissect, of a murderer's bones being wired together after death, and of Dr. Timothy Clark Smith, who requested that he be buried with a breathing tube and glass window so he could see the outside world.
An intriguing and frightful look into the odder side of the Northeast, New England Nightmares promises to send chills down your spine.

Автор: McQueen Keven D.
Название: New England Nightmares: True Tales of the Strange and Gothic
ISBN: 0253034701 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780253034700
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: New England is renowned for its quaint towns, beautiful landscapes, and busy ports. But it is also infamous as the setting for unexplained deaths, ghost stories, bizarre murders, and peculiar wills and epitaphs.
In New England Nightmares: True Tales of the Strange and Gothic, author Keven McQueen explores the darker and stranger side of New England and the Mid-Atlantic. With shocking and unforgettable tales from the tip of Maine all the way to the New Jersey shore, this eerie collection explores our fascination with death and the unknown, including tales of medical students digging up bodies to dissect, of a murderer's bones being wired together after death, and of Dr. Timothy Clark Smith, who requested that he be buried with a breathing tube and glass window so he could see the outside world.
An intriguing and frightful look into the odder side of the Northeast, New England Nightmares promises to send chills down your spine.

Автор: Best Joel
Название: American Nightmares: Social Problems in an Anxious World
ISBN: 0520296354 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780520296350
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: In an accessible and droll style, best-selling author Joel Best shines a light on how we navigate these anxious, insecure social times. While most of us still strive for the American Dream--to graduate from college, own a home, work toward early retirement--recent generations have been told that the next generation will not be able to achieve these goals, that things are getting--or are on the verge of getting--worse. In American Nightmares, Best addresses the apprehension that we face every day as we are bombarded with threats that the social institutions we count on are imperiled. Our schools are failing to teach our kids. Health care may soon be harder to obtain. We can't bank on our retirement plans. And our homes--still the largest chunk of most people's net worth--may lose much of their value. Our very way of life is being threatened Or is it?
With a steady voice and keen focus, Best examines how a culture develops fears and fantasies and how these visions are created and recreated in every generation. By dismantling current ideas about the future, collective memory, and sociology's marginalization in the public square, Best sheds light on how social problems--and our anxiety about them--are socially constructed.