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Winner of the 2020 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing Nearly 1,600 Americans are still unaccounted for and presumed dead from the Vietnam War. These are the stories of those who mourn and continue to search for them. For many families the Vietnam War remains unsettled. Nearly 1,600 Americans—and more than 300,000 Vietnamese—involved in the conflict are still unaccounted for. In What Remains, Sarah E. Wagner tells the stories of America’s missing service members and the families and communities that continue to search for them. From the scientists who work to identify the dead using bits of bone unearthed in Vietnamese jungles to the relatives who press government officials to find the remains of their loved ones, Wagner introduces us to the men and women who seek to bring the missing back home. Through their experiences she examines the ongoing toll of America’s most fraught war. Every generation has known the uncertainties of war. Collective memorials, such as the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington National Cemetery, testify to the many service members who never return, their fates still unresolved. But advances in forensic science have provided new and powerful tools to identify the remains of the missing, often from the merest trace—a tooth or other fragment. These new techniques have enabled military experts to recover, repatriate, identify, and return the remains of lost service members. So promising are these scientific developments that they have raised the expectations of military families hoping to locate their missing. As Wagner shows, the possibility of such homecomings compels Americans to wrestle anew with their memories, as with the weight of their loved ones’ sacrifices, and to reevaluate what it means to wage war and die on behalf of the nation.

Nearly 1,600 Americans who took part in the Vietnam War are still missing and presumed dead. Sarah Wagner tells the stories of those who mourn and continue to search for them. Today's forensic science can identify remains from mere traces, raising expectations for repatriation and forcing a new reckoning with the toll of America's most fraught war.--

In the aftermath of the 1992-1995 Bosnian war, the discovery of unmarked mass graves revealed Europe's worst atrocity since World War II: the genocide in the UN "safe area" of Srebrenica. To Know Where He Lies provides a powerful account of the innovative genetic technology developed to identify the eight thousand Bosnian Muslim (Bosniak) men and boys found in those graves and elsewhere, demonstrating how memory, imagination, and science come together to recover identities lost to genocide. Sarah E. Wagner explores technology's import across several areas of postwar Bosnian society—for families of the missing, the Srebrenica community, the Bosnian political leadership (including Serb and Muslim), and international aims of social repair—probing the meaning of absence itself.

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"Wagner provides a remarkable analysis of a deeply disturbing subject and offers her own powerful contribution to the multi-layered efforts to identify and recognize Srebrenica's victims--including not just those who were killed but also the relatives left behind."--Pamela Ballinger, author of History in Exile: Memory and Identity at the Borders of the Balkans "To Know Where He Lies forces the legal community to think about identification for families as opposed to evidence collection; the scientific community to look beyond technology and statistics; the international community to acknowledge accountability; and the public to examine its attitudes toward genocide by personalizing loss."--Dr. Harvey Weinstein, University of California, Berkeley

Hardwired Humanity is a collection of short stories by Science-Fiction author, Sarah Wagner. Set in the new future, when cyborgs are not too uncommon, Sarah weaves tails of suspense and intrigue packed with raw human emotion.

With more than two thousand songs handpicked and organized by former Spin magazine writer and editor Sarah Lewitinn (aka Ultragrrrl), The Pocket DJ is the ultimate insider's reference guide for selecting music, downloading MP3s, and making all-purpose mixes for every occasion imaginable. Playlists include: • Essential genres: with crowd-pleasing dance mixes for indie rockers, headbangers, and hip-hop lovers alike • Essential artists: with the best songs by all the greats from the Beatles to Björk • Celebrity playlists: featuring Duran Duran, Smahing Pumpkins, Interpol, and Good Charlotte, among others • Other playlists: with tunes for working out, making out, or rocking out • Plus rock trivia, new music recommendations, DJing tips, Web resources, and more!

Ihr ganzes Leben lang wurde Juna darauf vorbereitet, ihr Leben und alles was dazu gehört an nur einem einzigen Tag zu riskieren. Denn um zu ihrer Gemeinde zu gehören, muss sie erst einen Ort durchqueren, in dem es von Gefahren nur so wimmelt. Aber was passiert, wenn plötzlich nichts mehr so ist, wie es mal war? Was kann passieren, wenn man seine Familie verliert und nicht weiß, ob man selbst überleben wird? Und was ist, wenn nach all dem doch noch ein kleiner Hoffnungsschimmer auftaucht? Kann man dazu in der Lage sein, sich zwischen zwei Leben zu entscheiden, und wenn ja, welches wird es dann sein? Kann man, nach all dieser Zeit überhaupt noch glücklich werden?