Spectacular Death

Spectacular DeathA collection of essays on the medical and social articulation of death, this anthology considers to what extent a subject as elusive as death can be examined. Though it touches us all, we can perceive it only in life with the predictable result that we treat it either as a clinical or social problem to be managed or as a phenomenon to be studied quantitatively. This volume goes beyond these models to self reflexively question how the management of

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Sydney is nevertheless Australia’s cultural capital

Handwriting of the Twentieth Century is a delightful

These legends are of America

from the earliest stages of investigation and arrest through to the punishment and release of offenders

Dennis Hopper

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The collection of papers and articles

It traces the brief but meteroic history of the World Wide Web

Brazilian president Fernando Collor de Mello and Argentine president Carlos Menem eliminated long-standing state financial support for cinema

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the influential architect Giuseppe Pagano and his contribution to the development of modern architecture

Dreamcatcher and 1408 as well as the much-neglected portmanteau films and touchstones like The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile