Posts Tagged ‘books’
Last Words Reprise
15, Oct 2010I posted a bit ago about William Brahms’ Last Words of Notable People. I wasn’t the first (and certainly shan’t be the last) to get super-nerdy about it. Check out author John Green’s lovely, spastic video review. Hee hee!
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Death + Popular Culture
- Tags: books, last words, video
“Last Words” Scholarly at Last
23, Aug 2010Last Words of Notable People William B. Brahms. (2010). 680 pages. Haddonfield, NJ: Reference Desk Press. ISBN: 978-09765325-2-1 Press kit with sample pages (PDF) Order from Amazon The DRD was kindly offered a review copy of this book to be released in September 2010. DeathRef librarian Meg Holle took it to task, after a survey [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Death + Popular Culture
- Tags: books, last words, research
Librarian in New Mexico Collates Murders in Juarez
16, Jun 2010A Gruesome Reckoning: Librarian Sifts Mexican Press to Tally Drug-Cartel-Related Killings in Juárez Ana Campoy, Wall Street Journal (June 15, 2010) With 2,633 homicides in 2009, murder in Juarez, Mexico, is out of control. Much of the violence is related to drug trafficking, accounting for gang on gang and police killings. But civilians are attacked, [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Death + Crime
- Tags: books, homicide, informatics, Mexico
Mr. Freeze
28, Jan 2010The January 25 issue of the New Yorker features an amusing article about cryopreservation of bodies, a.k.a. cryogenics or cryonics. The article doesn’t so much shed light on the science of this controversial procedure; but rather, it spotlights Robert C.W. Ettinger, one of the founders of the cryonics movement. The ninety-one year old Ettinger gives [...]
- By: Kim
- In: Afterlife|Death + Biology|Death + Technology|Death Ethics|Defying Death
- Tags: books, cryonics
The Weird Book Room
24, Oct 2009The Weird Book Room has a little something for everyone. As part of the larger AbeBooks.com, this little corner of the website offers titles you may or may not find in your local library, neighborhood bookstore or even the thrift store around the corner. Most are downright obscure—and probably out-of-print to boot in many cases. [...]
- By: Kim
- In: Death + Humor
- Tags: books