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A Handbook on Hanging

8 best books like A Handbook on Hanging (Charles Duff): Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth, Maxims, The Bog People: Iron-Age Man Preserved, A Short History of Decay, God: A Human History, The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe, Divine Invasions: A Life of Philip K. Dick, The Nocturnal Brain: Nightmares, Neuroscience, and the Secret World of Sleep

Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
AuthorReza Aslan
From the internationally bestselling author of No god but God comes a fascinating, provocative, and meticulously researched biography that challenges long-held assumptions about the man we know as Jesus of Nazareth.

Two thousand years ago, an itinerant Jewish preacher and miracle worker...
Maxims
AuthorFrançois de La Rochefoucauld

‘Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily,’ declares La Rochefoucauld.

The editors assure us:

the same may be said of his Maxims. Few books as widely read have provoked as much resistance. Most of us can no more look at it without wavering than we could the sun. We cannot...
The Bog People: Iron-Age Man Preserved
AuthorPeter Vilhelm Glob
ISBN1590170903
One spring morning two men cutting peat in a Danish bog uncovered a well-preserved body of a man with a noose around his neck. Thinking they had stumbled upon a murder victim, they reported their discovery to the police, who were baffled until they consulted the famous archaeologist P.V. Glob. Glob identified...
A Short History of Decay
AuthorEmil M. Cioran
ISBN1559704640
The Poetry of Death

A Short History of Decay is a compendium of pessimistic aphorism, a sort of cosmopolitan collection of Gnostic scripture through the ages. It is entertaining, observationally acute, and compelling - all descriptions that the author would object to strenuously. I think...
God: A Human History
AuthorReza Aslan
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The bestselling author of Zealot and host of Believer explores humanity’s quest to make sense of the divine in this concise and fascinating history of our understanding of God.
 
In Zealot, Reza Aslan replaced the staid, well-worn portrayal of Jesus of Nazareth...
The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe
AuthorD.G. Compton
ISBN0575118318
A forgotten SF classic that exposed the pitfalls of voyeuristic entertainment decades before the reality show craze.

A few years in the future, medical science has advanced to the point where it is practically unheard of for people to die of any cause except old age. The few exceptions provide...
Divine Invasions: A Life of Philip K. Dick
AuthorLawrence Sutin
ISBN0786716231
"The only biography I've ever read that's as exciting as a spy novel . . . Phil Dick's life was as weird and mysterious as any of his science fiction books."--Robert Anton Wilson


With thirty-eight books currently in print and seven of his novels and short stories adapted into blockbuster...
The Nocturnal Brain: Nightmares, Neuroscience, and the Secret World of Sleep
AuthorGuy Leschziner
ISBN1250202701
For Dr. Guy Leschziner's patients, there is no rest for the weary in mind and body. Insomnia, narcolepsy, night terrors, sleep apnea, and sleepwalking are just a sampling of conditions afflicting sufferers who cannot sleep--and their experiences in trying are the stuff of nightmares. Demoniac hallucinations...
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