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Epitaphs in the old Burial Place, Dedham, Mass. / by Slafter, Carlos,1825-1909.;
Facsim. reprint.
Subjects: Death registers.; Conference papers and proceedings.; Family histories.; Registers of births, etc.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Still life with bones : genocide, forensics, and what remains / by Hagerty, Alexa,author.(CARDINAL)860483;
"An anthropologist working with forensic teams and victims' families to investigate crimes against humanity in Latin America explores what science can tell us about the lives of the dead in this haunting account of grief, the power of ritual, and a quest for justice. "Exhumation can divide brothers and restore fathers, open old wounds and open the possibility of regeneration-of building something new with the pile of broken mirrors that is loss and mourning." Over the course of Guatemala's thirty-year armed conflict -the longest ever in Central America-over 200,000 people were killed. During Argentina's military dictatorship in the seventies, over 30,000 people were disappeared. Today, forensic anthropologists in each country are gathering evidence to prove atrocities and seek justice. But these teams do more than just study skeletons-they work to repair families and countries torn apart by violence. In Still Life with Bones, anthropologist Alexa Hagerty learns to see the dead body with a forensic eye. She examines bones for evidence of torture and fatal wounds-hands bound by rope, cuts from machetes-but also for signs of a life lived: to articulate how life shapes us down to the bone. A weaver is recognized from the tiny bones of the toes, molded by years of kneeling before a loom; a girl is identified alongside her pet dog. In the tenderness of understanding these bones, Hagerty discovers how exhumation serves as a ritual in the naming and placement of the dead, and connects ancestors with future generations. She shows us how this work can bring meaning to families dealing with unimaginable loss, and how its symbolic force can also extend to entire societies in the aftermath of state terror and genocide. Encountering the dead has the power to transform us, making us consider each other, our lives, and the world differently. Weaving together powerful stories about investigative breakthroughs, grieving families, histories of violence, and her own forensic coming of age, Hagerty crafts a moving portrait of the living and the dead."--Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-300).Introduction: Articulating bones -- A lovely grave for learning -- Forensic lamentations -- Día de los Muertos -- An archive of surveillance -- Teaching skeleton -- The ghosts of Argentina -- Tucumán is burning -- Touching bones -- Mothers -- Seven griefs -- Southern Cross -- Odysseus -- The Guarumo tree -- The well -- Epilogue.
Subjects: Informational works.; Hagerty, Alexa.; Crimes against humanity; Forensic anthropology; Mass burials; Exhumation;
Available copies: 20 / Total copies: 21
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Island of the dead [videorecording] / by McDowell, Malcolm,1943-; Ramsay, Bruce,actor.; Soto, Talisa.; Southam, Tim.;
Talisa Soto, Bruce Ramsay, Malcolm McDowell.A real estate developer plans to use a potter's field for his next project, until a visit to the island becomes a fight for survival against swarm of supernatural flies.MPAA rating: R.DVD.
Subjects: Feature films.; Horror films.; Mass burials; Real estate developers; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.;
For private home use only.
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Nunca nos contamos lo que pasó / by Junquera, Natalia,1981-author.(CARDINAL)892704;
"Un nuevo director llega al periódico El Día. Es un mal profesional, la redacción no lo respeta y él decide imponer su autoridad sembrando el miedo con castigos ejemplarizantes. Belén, una de las represaliadas, opta por cogerse una excedencia después de que Jaime, un forense que dedica su tiempo libre a abrir las fosas comunes del franquismo, le enseñe la misteriosa carta de un anciano que pide ayuda para morirse en paz y recuperar los restos de una mujer, Matilde, fusilada en 1936. Con su vida patas arriba, recuperándose de una relación tóxica y de otra imposible, la periodista se traslada a un pequeño pueblo de Ávila para tratar de hacer hablar a sus vecinos. Una novela sobre el poder reparador de la verdad. Una carta de amor al periodismo"--Back cover.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Novels.; Journalism; Journalists; Mass burials; Periodismo; Periodistas;
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Gravestone inscriptions and records of tomb burials in the Granary Burying Ground, Boston, Mass. / by Codman, Ogden.(CARDINAL)712560; Wyman, Thomas Bellows.(CARDINAL)223745;
Subjects: Directories.; Family histories.; Registers (Lists); Granary Burying Ground (Boston, Mass.); Cemeteries; Inscriptions; Registers of births, etc.;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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Sharon Tate and the Manson murders [sound recording] / by King, Greg,1964-author(CARDINAL)685696; Arlt, Lewisnarrator;
Read by Lewis Arlt.A comprehensive biography of actress Sharon Tate that provides a vital new perspective on one of the most notorious massacres of the twentieth century.Compact discs.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Biographies.; True crime stories.; Manson, Charles, 1934-2017.; Tate, Sharon, 1943-1969; Mass murder; Murder victims;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Golden harvest : events at the periphery of the Holocaust / by Gross, Jan Thomasz,author.; Grudzińska-Gross, Irena,author.(CARDINAL)523223;
It seems at first commonplace: a group photograph of peasants at harvest time, after hard work well done, resting contentedly with their tools behind the fruits of their labor. But when one finally notices the "crops" scattered in front of the group, what seemed innocent on first view become horrific skulls and bones. Where are we? Who are the people in the photograph, and what are they doing?<p>The starting pointof Jan Tomasz and Irena Grudzinska Gross's Golden Harvest, this haunting photograph in fact depicts a group of peasants--"diggers"--atop a mountain of ashes at Treblinka, where some 800,000 Jews were gassed and cremated. The diggers are searching for gold and precious stones that Nazi executioners may have overlooked. The story captured in this grainy black-and-white photograph symbolizes the vast, continent-wide plunder of Jewish wealth that went hand-in-hand with the Holocaust.<p>The seizure of Jewish assets during World War II occasionally generates widespread attention when Swiss banks are challenged to produce lists of dormant accounts, or national museums are forced to return stolen paintings. But the theft of Europe's Jewish population was not limited to conquering armies, leading banks, or museums. It was perpetrated also by local people, such as those pictured in the photograph. Lyrical and often heartbreaking, A Golden Harvest takes readers across Europe as it exposes the economic ravaging of an entire society. Beginning with a simple group shot, the authors have written a moving book that evokes the depth and range, as well as the intimacy, of the Final Solution.
Subjects: Jews; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Grave goods; Human remains (Archaeology); Jewish cemeteries; Mass burials; Jews;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Dead certainties : unwarranted speculations / by Schama, Simon.(CARDINAL)125548;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-333).
Subjects: Biographies.; Parkman, Francis, 1823-1893; Parkman, George, 1790-1849; Wolfe, James, 1727-1759; Death;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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A woman like her : the story behind the honor killing of a social media star / by Maher, Sanam,author.(CARDINAL)823720;
Includes bibliographical references and index."In 2016, Pakistan's first social media celebrity, Qandeel Baloch, was murdered in a suspected honor killing. Her death quickly became a media sensation. It was both devastatingly routine and breathtakingly brutal, and in a new media landscape, it couldn't be ignored. Qandeel had courted attention and outrage with a talent for self-promotion that earned her comparisons to Kim Kardashian--and made her the constant victim of harassment and death threats. Social media and reality television exist uneasily alongside honor killings and forced marriages in a rapidly, if unevenly, modernizing Pakistan, and Qandeel Baloch's story became emblematic of the cultural divide. In this deftly reported and artfully told account, Sanam Maher reconstructs the story of Qandeel's life and explores the depth and range of her legacy from her impoverished hometown rankled by her infamy, to the aspiring fashion models who follow her footsteps, to the Internet activists resisting the same vicious online misogyny she faced. Maher depicts a society at a crossroads, where women serve as an easy scapegoat for its anxieties and dislocations, and teases apart the intrigue and myth-making of the Qandeel Baloch story to restore the humanity of the woman at its center"--The Baloch family -- "People say this is no job for a woman" -- The models of Islamabad -- "How I'm looking?" -- The blue-eyed Chaiwala -- "Guys, who want to watch my next nasty clip?" -- The helpline -- "I'm going to do something that gets everyone worried" -- The Mufti -- "I'm telling you that my life is in danger" -- The media and the murder.
Subjects: Biographies.; Baloch, Qandeel, 1990-2016.; Baloch, Qandeel, 1990-2016; Celebrities; Women in mass media; Online social networks; Internet personalities; Models (Persons); Social media; Honor killings; Social media.;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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The Panama deception [videorecording] / by Trent, Barbara.; Kasper, David.; Montgomery, Elizabeth,1933-1995.; Docurama (Firm)(CARDINAL)215269; Empowerment Project.; New Video Group.(CARDINAL)219113;
Camera, Michael Dobo, Manuel Becker ; music, Sting ... [et al.].Narrator, Elizabeth Montgomery.Offers a view of the 1989 invasion of Panama that was not given by the American media. Presents evidence of mass burials of civilian casualties and internment of homeless civilians which was concealed by the U.S. military or went unreported. Also claims to reveal President Bush's "secret agenda" behind the invasion: to keep U.S. military bases in Panama after the year 2000 in defiance of canal treaties.Not rated.DVD; Dolby Digital stereo."Academy Award winner"--Container.
Subjects: Documentary films.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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