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Reanimating grief is a wide-ranging study of the poetics of bereavement in theatre, literature and song. It examines the way cultural works reanimate the dead in the form of ghosts, memories or scenes of mourning, and uses critical and creative writing to express grief’s subjectivity and uniqueness. It covers classic texts from Greek tragedy and Shakespeare to works by Anton Chekhov, Samuel Beckett, Enda Walsh, Sally Rooney and Maggie O’Farrell. The book argues that the return of the dead in theatre and fiction is an act of memorial and an expression of love that illustrates the relationship between art, enchantment and impossibility.

Australia's international man of mystery - swashbuckler, bobsled medal winner at Hitler's 1936 Winter Olympics, daredevil racing-car champion, gambler, smuggler, scoundrel, stud, best mate of Errol Flynn, and suspected Nazi agent who died a mysterious death - this is the fascinating story of the scandalous Freddie McEvoy. But who was the real Freddie McEvoy? Born in Melbourne in 1907, Freddie's life took him from partying with a young Errol Flynn in Sydney, wild parties among England's wealthy social set and onto the French Riviera in the heady years leading up to World War II. A daredevil sportsman, skilled in shooting, deep-sea diving, boxing, racing cars, skiing, and bobsledding, he earned the nickname 'Suicide Freddie' for his madcap downhill runs and car racing. With his dashing good looks and charm, he lived a swashbuckling life and he quickly figured out his path to easy fortune was through the legs of the idle rich. And World War II didn't stop Freddie's hedonistic pursuits. He skipped enlistment in Australia or Britain to party on in Hollywood, where he renewed his friendship with Errol Flynn - in 1942 it was Freddie who got Flynn out of jail for sex with an underage girl. Always short of cash, Freddie smuggled guns and diamonds on his yacht between California and Mexico and was rumoured to have worked as a Nazi agent. It was a life lived large and Freddie's death in 1951 was under the most mysterious circumstances off the coast of Morocco: his body was found naked and scalped...

The book notes the history of the Catholic Mount Auburn Cemetery at Watertown, MA. There have been 23,000+ burials since April 11, 1854. There have but a few burials since the 1940s. A description of my methodology is included. That would assist anyone who intends to perform a large scale project with little information available. Chapter 1-Cemetery Acquisition; Chapter-2, Clergy; Chapter 3-Physicians; Chapter 4-Homicide Victims; Chapter 5-Compassion and Forgiveness-Suicides;Chapter 6-African Americans; Chapter 7-Accidental Deaths; Chapter 8-Vital Statistics of the Residents; Chapter 9-Veterans; Chapter 10-Monuments; Chapter 11-Secretary of State's Complaint; Chapter 12-Neglect of Headstones & Perpetual Care?; Appendix 1-Cemetery Capacity without Over-Burials; Appendix 2-Cemetery Map.Bill McEvoy is a US Army Veteran (1968-1971). He earned a BA from Bentley University, MBA from Suffolk University, and MA in Political Science from Boston College. While at BC he had the privilege of participating in a semester long colloquium with Dr. Thomas H. O'Connor, the Dean of the History Department. He retired as a Massachusetts District Court Magistrate in 2009. He has volunteered for eight years with the No Veteran Dies Alone program at the Bedford Veterans Hospital, as well performing pro bono work as a Magistrate, one day per week, for ten years. Since his first month of retirement, he has performed many large-scale cemetery research projects, several as a volunteer at Mount Auburn Cemetery (MAC). This book is the result his four year study of the 23,000+ people (primarily Irish immigrants or their first generation descendants) buried from 1854 to 1920 at the Catholic Mount Auburn Cemetery (CMAC), Watertown, MA. He expended over 6,000 hours in the course of his research and writing. The CMAC project made him aware of the high mortality rate of Boston's children. Of 15,562 burials, from 1854-1881, eighty percent died in Boston. Forty-nine percent of those Boston deaths were children who did not reach age 6. Forty-five percent of those Boston deaths were children who did not reach age 4. Between 1856 and 1893, thirty-six of the people buried at the CMAC were noted as dying at Rainsford Island. Their ages ranged from nine months to eighty-six years. James Tubman, nine months old, died in 1863 at Rainsford Island from starvation. Prior to going to Rainsford, he had been baptized at St. Joseph Church, Boston. Mary E. Sullivan, died in 1858 at Bennett Avenue [sic], Boston, from lung inflammation. She was born at Rainsford Island. That finding resulted in Bill's researching Rainsford Island and the book A Boston Harbor Case Study in Public Neglect and Private Activism, Coauthored by Robin Hazard Ray. Most of the people buried at CMAC and Rainsford Island resided in Boston's tenements. Bill plans to combine both cemetery's databases. That will allow him to measure the positive impact of Boston's men and women whose philanthropic efforts were dedicated to tenement reforms during the last half of the nineteenth century. In addition to the rehabilitation of properties, the reformers attempted to change the lives of their tenants by setting boundaries of behavior, providing encouragement and life skills, as well as closely overseeing the operation of the properties.

Swashbuckler, daredevil racing-car champion, Winter Olympian, gambler, smuggler, scoundrel, stud and suspected spy - this is the fascinating story of the scandalous Freddie McEvoy. Born in Melbourne in 1907, Freddie's life took him from socialising with a young Errol Flynn in Sydney and on to the French Riviera in the heady years leading up to World War II. With his dashing good looks and charm, Freddie lived a swashbuckling life, quickly figuring out his path to easy fortune was through lonely rich women. World War II didn't stop Freddie's hedonistic pursuits - he skipped enlistment for Australia and Britain to party on in Hollywood, where he renewed his friendship with the now infamous Errol Flynn. Always short of cash, Freddie smuggled guns and diamonds on his yacht between California and Mexico and was rumoured to have worked as a spy. It was a life lived large and Freddie's death in 1951 was under the most mysterious circumstances off the coast of Morocco: his body was found naked and scalped . . . Frank Walker, bestselling author of The Tiger Man of Vietnam and Maralinga, has for the first time uncovered the complete, outrageous and incredible true story of Freddie McEvoy, Australia's daredevil Lothario. 'Freddie was one of the great livers of life. He lived it the way he saw it - he didn't give a hoot.' Errol Flynn 'Pleasure is my business.' Freddie McEvoy

Corpsman in the Marine Corps during Vietnam war. 1966. Spiritual struggle while in combat.

Using comic-book style illustration combined with accessible but authoritative text, the Introducing Graphic Guide series is a uniquely brilliant way to get your head around some of humankind's most thrilling ideas.Infinity is a profoundly counter-intuitive and brain-twisting subject that has inspired some great thinkers - and provoked and shocked others. Introducing Infinity: A Graphic Guide is a brilliant graphic tour of infinity features a cast of characters ranging from Archimedes and Pythagoras to al-Khwarizmi, Fibonacci, Galileo, Newton, Leibniz, Cantor, Venn, Gödel and Mandelbrot, and shows how infinity has challenged the finest minds of science and mathematics. Introducing Consciousness presents the history of the philosophical relation between mind and matter, and covers the scientific attempts to explain consciousness in terms of neural mechanisms, cerebral computation and quantum mechanics. It also introduces readers to zombies, ghosts in machines and Schrodinger's cat. Stephen Hawking is the world-famous physicist; to the public he is a tragic figure - a brilliant scientist and author of the 9 million-copy-selling 'A Brief History of Time', and yet confined to a wheelchair and almost completely paralysed. Introducing Stephen Hawking: A Graphic Guide guide explores his life, and the evolution of his work from his days as a student.