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Muerte!: Death in Mexican Popular Culture
by Harvey Stafford  Publisher Comments One of the first books in the English language to examine the Mexican tabloid obsession with death....
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Lost: Lost and Found Pet Posters from Around the World
by Ian Phillips 
Powells.com Staff Pick If you occasionally take pleasures in the innocent misfortune of others, this one is for you. Each page tells the story of desperation as owners resort to the one hope that someone will find and return their precious pets. If it weren't for lost snakes...
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Six Feet Under
by Elisabeth Bronfen Synopsis Six Feet Under collects an international array of contemporary and historical artworks, some dating back to the sixteenth century, that take on the topic of death and decay. In art, death is a universal subject. In contemporary art, two extremes can be...
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Extreme Encounters: How It Feels to Be Drowned in Quicksand, Shredded by Piranhas, Swept Up in a Tornado, and Dozens of Other Unpleasant E
by Greg Emmanuel Publisher Comments After reading The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook, did you ever wonder what it's like to be struck by lightning? To run with the bulls in Pamplona? To ride the crushing swell of an avalanche? Extreme Encounters describes these adventures and 37...
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The Portable Obituary: How the Famous, Rich, and Powerful Really Died
by Michael Largo Publisher Comments No matter what your station in society, everybody has to go sometime. Even the wealthy, powerful, and world-renowned must ultimately meet their Maker—though some have departed this life more ignobly than they might have wished. From Mozart to rock...
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Tortures & Torments of the Christian 2ND Edition
by Antonio Gallonio Publisher Comments This book captures the gruesomeness of torture and provides an intellectual examination of it, with an awareness of the visceral thrill that such images provide....
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Infernal Device: The Machinery of Torture and Execution
by Erik Ruhling Publisher Comments Erik Ruhling assembles an unmatched array of torture tools invented exclusively for the infliction of pain and the ending of life, each carefully researched with an accompanying full-color, highly detailed rendering. This beautifully presented book...
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What a Way to Go: Fabulous Funerals of the Famous and Infamous
by Adele Q Brown Publisher Comments A&E Biography meets Tales from the Crypt in this fun but respectful survey of the amazing lives and astonishing funerals of two dozen twentieth-century icons from politics, art, and pop culture. In more than 50 rare photographs and thoroughly researched...
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Crash!: Travel Mishaps & Calamities
by Robert Reed Synopsis Experience the thrill of danger in the comfort and safety of your own home through the pages of this exciting book. A sequel to Smashups, this book takes you to travel accidents through over 150 photos of wrecks and crashes in the air and on the highway,...
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The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death
by Corinne May Botz
Powells.com Staff Pick A fascinating book for anyone interested in criminal investigation and forensics. Frances Glessner Lee founded the Department of Legal Medicine at Harvard in 1936. By the 1940s, she was building detailed doll houses that replicated unsolved crime scenes...
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Let Me Finish
by Udo Grashoff Publisher Comments Every year, around one million people commit suicide, yet, for most of us, it remains an extremely taboo subject. Udo Grashoff has discovered forty-five suicide letters that offer us unique insight into this phenomenon. The authors of each letter differ...
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Death Warmed Over: Funeral Food, Rituals, and Customs from Around the World
by Lisa Rogak Synopsis - A guide to culinary customs for funeral and memorial services from 100 ethnic, cultural, and religious groups alongside more than 75 recipes.- With detailed mail-order resources for specialty and ethnic foods.- Features suggestions for ways to...
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Happy Together New York & the Other Worl
by Jan Christiaa Braun Publisher Comments Rambling through New York one day, Dutch photographer Jan Christiaan Braun ended up at a Queens cemetery, intending to find a good place to make a picture of the American flag. Instead, his attention was caught by a festively adorned gravestone with a...
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The Bloody Countess: Atrocities of Erzsebet Bathory
by Valentine Penrose and Alexander Trocchi
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Caligula: Divine Carnage: Atrocities of the Roman Emperors
by Stephen Barber
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Smash-Ups! (Schiffer Book for Collectors)
by Robert Carroll Reed
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Fancy Coffins to Make Yourself (Schiffer Book for Collectors)
by Dale L Power
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Trauma Code: On the Scene with Fire & Rescue
by Sonny Shepherd
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Requiem De La Rue Morgue
by Tsurisaki Kiyotaka
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