books about: slaughterhouse

books about: slaughterhouse

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Slaughterhouse

Slaughterhouse: The Handbook of the Eastern Front

The Aberjona Press, 2004

A "Must-Have" for the Eastern Front
Without echoing what others have written, this book is one that will appeal to both the neophytes and the veterans of researching the Eastern Front. It is useful on several levels, and contains a wealth of information that in some cases is newly available in the ...

The Tokyo Trilogy: Tokyo Sodom / Tokyo Slaughterhouse / Tokyo Supernova
Stephen Barber

Creation, 2008

Never previously published in the USA, the three volumes of Stephen Barber's TOKYO TRILOGY are now made available in a single volume. This futuristic fusion of apocalyptic sex, violence and annihilation in a ruined cyberpunk landscape is a virulent amalgam of adult pulp themes unlike anything seen before, harking back to de Sade and forwards to ...

Slaughterhouse-Five

Kurt Vonnegut

Dial Press Trade Paperback, 1999

"So it goes....."
Slaughterhouse Five is the sad tale of Allied firebombing of Dresden, Germany during the Second World War. The Dresden bombing caused nearly the same number of deaths as the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima. This novel is based on Kurt Vonnegut's own war ...

Slaughterhouse: Bosnia and the Failure of the West

David Rieff

Touchstone, 1996

Betrayal
On January 8, 1993 a UN convoy was transporting the vice-President of Bosnia, Dr. Hakija Turajlic back to Sarajevo when it was stopped by a Serb convoy. The UN commander, French Colonel Patrice Sartre did not call for help from the UNPROFOR aiport garrison. Instead he ...

Kurt Vonnegut (6 Books) Slaughterhouse Five, The Sirens of Titan, Player Piano, Cat's Cradle, Breakfast of ...

Octopus Books Inc., 1980

Kurt Vonnegut : All Star Collection
Six novels from Kurt Vonnegut. Includes Slaughterhouse Five, The Sirens of Titan, Player Piano, Cat's Cradle, Breakfast of Champions, and Mother Night. A great value when considering purchasing each title individually.

Slaughterhouse: The Shocking Story of Greed, Neglect, and Inhumane Treatment Inside the U.S. Meat Industry

Gail A. Eisnitz

Prometheus Books, 2006

Confirming the gross-ness
This book just confirms the other reading I have done on the subject. Read it if you are ready to get the facts and stop ignoring what I like to refer to as the "gross-ness" of the meat and dairy industry (both in terms of the animals' treatment, and the impact for ...

A Dance at the Slaughterhouse (Matthew Scudder Mysteries)

Lawrence Block

Avon, 1992

Very good novel based on the element of pornography
The cable television producer may have orchestrated the rape and death of his wife, so the dead woman's brother hires Scudder to prove him guilty. A snuff film death holds a major clue that will connect both murders and help Scudder and his girlfriend Elaine solve the ...

Basic Butchering of Livestock & Game

John J. Mettler

Storey Publishing, LLC, 1986

Excellent book
Coming from a family of hunters, fisherman, as well as a family that has always grown much of their own food, be it a vegetable garden, or hens for eggs, angus for beef, the occasional pig, sheep, I firmly believe that women (I am one) should know as much about self ...

Welcome to the Bangkok Slaughterhouse: The Battle for Human Dignity in Bangkok's Bleakest Slums

Joe Maier

Periplus Editions, 2005

A Revealing Look Downstream
This collection of Bangkok Post columns from Father Joe Maier, aka the Father Teresa of Bangkok's squatter slums, reveals in intimate detail the collateral damage and consequences of the world's gaping economic divide. But it doesn't beat us over the head with stories ...

Slaughterhouse-Five (Cliffs Notes)

Dennis Stanton Smith

Cliffs Notes, 1997

Not easy, but worth the effort
You have to accept this Vonnegut-style, or you will be disappointed just by his strange ideas about time-warp, extraterrestrials and his special wit. If you fight through, you will find more than this - it's a short book about a man/child, driven into WWII although ...

Meat, Modernity, and the Rise of the Slaughterhouse (Becoming Modern: New Nineteenth-Century Studies)

New Hampshire, 2008

Over the course of the nineteenth century, factory slaughterhouses replaced the hand-slaughter of livestock by individual butchers, who often performed this task in back rooms, letting blood run through streets. A wholly modern invention, the centralized municipal slaughterhouse was a political response to the public's increasing lack of ...

Forbidden Zone

Michael Lesy

Anchor, 1989

a thoughtful look into death's employees
this is an excellent book looking into those who work in the death industry. from pathologists, detectives, to slaughterhouse and shochets workers, to people who work in death row. the interviews and stories are fascinating. the visual imagery will keep you ...

Slaughterhouse Blues: The Meat and Poultry Industry in North America (Case Studies on Contemporary Social ...

Donald D. Stull, Michael J. Broadway

Wadsworth Publishing, 2003

Very good book!
I haven't read this yet, but I'm getting it for Christmas, and it should be just as good as the other slaughterhouse books! Read it if you want to learn about how badly animals are treated inside slaughterhouses!

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s "Slaughterhouse-Five": A Study Guide from Gale's "Novels for Students" (Volume 03, ...

The Gale Group, 2002

Term paper due tomorrow? Need to cram for a test? Or just looking for the best information about a favorite literary work? Turn to "Novels for Students" to get your research done in record time. Brought to you by Thomson Gale--the world's leading source of literary criticism and analysis--this e-doc contains: plot summary; character analysis; ...

The Slaughterhouse Cases: Regulation, Reconstruction, And the Fourteenth Amendment (Landmark Law Cases and ...
Ronald M. Labbe, Jonathan Lurie

University Press of Kansas, 2005

The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, ratified in 1868, sought to protect the rights of the newly freed slaves; but its first important test did not arise until five years later. That test centered on a vitriolic dispute among the white butchers of mid-Reconstruction New Orleans. The rough-and-tumble world of nineteenth-century New ...