While examining how these mysterious items were often initially ignored and later “discovered,” the producers carefully “reenact” ... variant on that idea, in this way gesturing to the trope of the so-called deservedness of death as it is featured on 1000 Ways to Die. ... embedded in his skull; a motocross rider who crashed and ended up with a stick in his face; a 64-year-old woman who discovered a bug in ...
Hundreds of entertaining, freshly collected factual accounts are all in this book - the largest collection of hilarious stories chronicling bizarre, amazing and absurd ways to die.
Featuring beautifully rendered new translations, How to Die also includes an enlightening introduction, notes, the original Latin texts, and an epilogue presenting Tacitus's description of Seneca's grim suicide.
Forget what you were taught in school – this is history like you’ve never heard it before, full of captivating historical quirks that will make you laugh out loud and scratch your head in disbelief.
. . .This is not a book for just Democrats or Republicans. It is a book for all Americans. It is nonpartisan. It is fact based. It is deeply rooted in history. . .
"40 years ago as a graduate student I wrote a book about Spaghetti Westerns, called 10,000 Ways to Die.
A historical guide to execution outlines methods that have been used throughout time and in various parts of the world, from the Swedish method through which the condemned were trapped in a cave with poisonous reptiles to the Spanish ...
Can any beast stand against the conqueror and his savage troops? Tammo's dream comes true when he is given the chance to run with the Long Patrol, the legendary fighting hares of Salamandastron. . .
A Million Ways to Die in the West pays homage to the traditional Western with a modern comic spin, following a cowardly farmer who seeks the help of a gunslinger's wife to win back the woman who left him.
" In One Thousand Gifts, Ann invites you to discover a way of seeing that opens your eyes to ordinary amazing grace, a way of living that is fully alive, and a way of becoming present to God that brings you deep and lasting joy.