Tag: Disappearance

Free Download Alan Gallop, "Subsmash: The Mysterious Disappearance of HM Submarine Affray"
English | ISBN: 0752459309 | 2011 | 206 pages | EPUB | 557 KB
In April 1951, the disappearance of HM submarine Affray knocked news of the Korean War and Festival of Britain from the front pages. Affray had put to sea on a routine peacetime simulated war patrol in the English Channel. She radioed her last position at 2115hrs on 16 April, 30 miles south of the Isle of Wight – preparing to dive. This was the last signal ever received from the submarine. After months of searching, divers eventually discovered Affray resting upright on the sea bottom with no obvious signs of damage to her hull. Hatches were closed tight and emergency buoys were still in their casings. It was obvious that whatever had caused Affray to sink, and had ended the lives of all those on board, had occurred quickly. Sixty years later, in this compelling maritime investigation, Alan Gallop uses previously top secret documents, interviews with experts and contemporary news sources to explore how and why Affray became the last British submarine lost at sea – and possibly the greatest maritime mystery since the Marie Celeste.

Free Download Benjamin Bateman, "Queer Disappearance in Modern and Contemporary Fiction"
English | ISBN: 0192896334 | 2023 | 208 pages | EPUB, PDF | 558 KB + 1165 KB
Queer Disappearance in Modern and Contemporary Fiction breaks with appearance-based models of queer performativity and argues for the experiential richness and political potentials of recessive tendencies in twentieth and twenty-first-century queer literary production. The study theorizes a "perish-performative" that allows for agency in practices of abeyance, and it discovers within queerness’s ample archive of vanishing acts an environmental ethos antithetical to inflationary versions of the human. Tying modernist classics by E.M. Forster and Willa Cather to Andrew Holleran’s gay classic Dancer from the Dance, and then moving to the contemporary ecogothic of Lydia Millet’s How the Dead Dream and the trans decadence of Shola von Reinhold’s Lote, the book refuses the common wisdom that queerness becomes louder and prouder over time, delineating instead a minimalist and daydreaming subjectivity wherein queerness finds escape, respite, and varied opportunities for imaginative reverie. This precarious subjectivity, necessitated but not defined by oppression and obstacle, rewards and restores the queer self, and it also contests the logics of development, acquisition, and productivity that wreak havoc on the planet and entrench social disparities of race, class, and ability.

Free Download Maria Flook, "My Sister Life: The Story of My Sister’s Disappearance"
English | 1999 | ISBN: 0767903153 | EPUB | pages: 353 | 2.2 mb
When Maria Flook’s fourteen-year-old sister Karen disappeared from their suburban home, the author was changed forever. My Sister Life maps the story of two castaways from American suburbia who, while apart from each other, live mysteriously parallel lives.

Free Download David Smuts, "Death, Detention and Disappearance: A lawyer’s battle to hold power to account in 1980s Namibia"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 062408986X | EPUB | pages: 376 | 2.4 mb
In Namibia, the 1980s were a decade of human rights abuses by South African forces. Justice David Smuts’ gripping memoir details several dramatic cases where it was proven that torture was used to extract ‘confessions’ and that Koevoet killed citizens. He also takes a look at the assassination of his close friend, SWAPO activist Anton Lubowski.

Free Download Sebastián Eduardo Dávila, "On Withdrawal―Scenes of Refusal, Disappearance, and Resilience in Art and Cultural Practices "
English | ISBN: 3035805067 | 2023 | 352 pages | PDF | 5 MB
A multidisciplinary examination of the forms taken by withdrawal.

Free Download Karen Elizabeth Bishop, "The Space of Disappearance: A Narrative Commons in the Ruins of Argentine State Terror "
English | ISBN: 1438478518 | 2020 | 258 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 3 MB
More than thirty thousand people were forcibly disappeared during the military dictatorship that governed Argentina from 1976 to 1983, leaving behind a cultural landscape fractured by absence, denial, impunity, and gaps in knowledge. This book is about how these absences assume narrative form in late twentieth-century Argentine fiction and the formal strategies and structures authors have crafted to respond to the country’s use of systematic disappearance as a mechanism of state terror. In incisive close readings of texts by Rodolfo Walsh, Julio Cortázar, and Tomás Eloy Martínez, Karen Elizabeth Bishop explores how techniques of dissimulation, doubling, displacement, suspension, and embodiment come to serve both epistemological and ethical functions, grounding new forms of historical knowledge and a new narrative commons whose work continues into the twenty-first century. Their writing, Bishop argues, recalibrates our understanding of the rich and increasingly urgent reciprocities between fiction, history, and the demands of human rights. In the end,

Free Download The Great Disappearance: 31 Ways to Be Rapture Ready (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BZT8MVX7 | 2023 | 8 hours and 2 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 231 MB
Author: Dr. David Jeremiah
Narrator: David Jeremiah, Larry Wayne
An Instant Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly Bestseller. The rapture is the central event in biblical prophecy. But what does it mean for us today? How can this crucial end times event draw us nearer to God in a world that is seemingly on the brink of chaos? Political turmoil, economic uncertainty, an ideological divide that feels increasingly impassable-the signs of the times point us toward the end, and that can be disconcerting. But the greatest truth about the rapture is not its timing, but its reality-for blessed are all who long for His appearing. The Great Disappearance is a culmination of decades of Dr. Jeremiah studying end times throughout the Bible. In this definitive volume he will explain the meaning of the word rapture, the difference between the rapture and the second coming, and the joy of expecting our Savior to come at any given moment.

Free Download Neil Postman, "The Disappearance of Childhood"
English | 1994 | pages: 177 | ISBN: 0679751661, 0440319455 | EPUB | 1,8 mb
From the vogue for nubile models to the explosion in the juvenile crime rate, this modern classic of social history and media traces the precipitous decline of childhood in America today−and the corresponding threat to the notion of adulthood.