Half-Human Monsters and Other Fiends

Half-Human Monsters and Other Fiends
Author: Ruth Owen
Publisher: Bearport Publishing
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2013-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1617727725

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Could half-human, half-ape creatures really roam the Himalayan Mountains and the forests of North America? If tales of Bigfoot, Yeti, and Sasquatch are just stories, why do so many people report seeing these monsters in remote areas around the world? What would it be like to come upon a footprint of the Abominable Snowman or catch sight of Mothman, and how can you tell if the creature lurking down the path is part human and part beast? In Half-Human Monsters and Other Fiends, young readers will read historical stories and modern-day accounts of encounters with half-human monsters. Kids will get all the facts they need to help them spot Bigfoot, Mothman, ghouls, and other supernatural creatures. Children will also investigate the truth behind the stories, exploring the fears and superstitions of different cultures and looking at the scientific facts that might explain the seemingly unexplainable. If you love a nerve-racking story but also want to investigate the truth behind the myths, this is the book for you!

Human Monsters

Human Monsters
Author: David Everitt
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1993-04-22
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780809239948

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Presents 100 gripping case studies of the worst killers of all time.

Human Monsters

Human Monsters
Author: Gregory Lamberson
Publisher: Medallion Media Group
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2012-11-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1605427314

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Lisa Marie Wilkinson brings you Gold IPPY Award and USA Book News Best Romance Award–winning Fire at Midnight as well as Stolen Promise. Fire at Midnight In 1703 London, Rachael Penrose is confined in Bedlam Insane Asylum after discovering her uncle Victor plans to kill her brother in order to inherit the family fortune. Victor uses French privateer/smuggler Sébastien Falconer as the scapegoat for his crimes. When Victor spreads the lie that Rachael informed the authorities of Falconer’s smuggling activities, Falconer vows revenge on the girl. A dangerously ill Rachael finally escapes from Bedlam, only to find shelter in Sébastien’s carriage and end up in his care. It is a twist of fate that will alter both their lives forever. Believing she is in danger from Sébastien, Rachael meets up with his estranged twin brother, Jacques, a customs officer intent on bringing his brother to justice. But the real criminal is still at large, and she and her brother are still in danger. Stolen Promise In 1806 in the Lowara Gypsy Camp outside Windsor, England, a young woman will lose her independence in a common marriage market transaction. Jade is promised to Dimitri, a possessive abuser. In order to escape his clutches, she sails for Charleston with Evan Dark, a half-Gypsy gentleman, as his indentured servant. Though an attraction soon develops, Evan’s affiliation with Jade can never be more than professional; he is engaged to a woman as part of a plantation merger in South Carolina. Evan faces the most difficult decision of his life: remain loyal to his fiancée or be true to the lover he holds in his heart.

Portraits of Human Monsters in the Renaissance

Portraits of Human Monsters in the Renaissance
Author: Touba Ghadessi
Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2018-03-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 1580442765

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At the center of this interdisciplinary study are court monsters--dwarves, hirsutes, and misshapen individuals--who, by their very presence, altered Renaissance ethics vis-a-vis anatomical difference, social virtues, and scientific knowledge. The study traces how these monsters evolved from objects of curiosity, to scientific cases, to legally independent beings. The works examined here point to the intricate cultural, religious, ethical, and scientific perceptions of monstrous individuals who were fixtures in contemporary courts.

Half-Human Monsters and Other Fiends

Half-Human Monsters and Other Fiends
Author: Ruth Owen
Publisher: Bearport Publishing
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2013-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1684029880

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Could half-human, half-ape creatures really roam the Himalayan Mountains and the forests of North America? If tales of Bigfoot, Yeti, and Sasquatch are just stories, why do so many people report seeing these monsters in remote areas around the world? What would it be like to come upon a footprint of the Abominable Snowman or catch sight of Mothman, and how can you tell if the creature lurking down the path is part human and part beast? In Half-Human Monsters and Other Fiends, young readers will read historical stories and modern-day accounts of encounters with half-human monsters. Kids will get all the facts they need to help them spot Bigfoot, Mothman, ghouls, and other supernatural creatures. Children will also investigate the truth behind the stories, exploring the fears and superstitions of different cultures and looking at the scientific facts that might explain the seemingly unexplainable. If you love a nerve-racking story but also want to investigate the truth behind the myths, this is the book for you!

Human Monsters

Human Monsters
Author: George Eugene Turner
Publisher:
Total Pages: 220
Release: 1995
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN:

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Representations of the Post/human

Representations of the Post/human
Author: Elaine L. Graham
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2002
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9780813530598

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This work draws together a wide range of literature on contemporary technologies and their ethical implications. It focuses on advances in medical, reproductive, genetic and information technologies.

Half-Human Monsters and Other Fiends

Half-Human Monsters and Other Fiends
Author: Ruth Owen
Publisher: Bearport Publishing
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2013-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1617727253

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Examines the many rumored monsters said to inhabit the world, including the Mothman, Bigfoot, the Chupacabra, and the Mongolian Death Worm.

HUMAN MONSTERS

HUMAN MONSTERS
Author: GEORGE TURNER. MICHAEL H. PRICE
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release:
Genre:
ISBN: 9781644300534

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Monstrosity

Monstrosity
Author: Alexa Wright
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 124
Release: 2013-06-30
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0857733354

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From the 'Monster of Ravenna' to the 'Elephant Man', Myra Hindley and Ted Bundy, the visualisation of 'real', human monsters has always played a part in how society sees itself. But what is the function of a monster? Why do we need to embody and represent what is monstrous? This book investigates the appearance of the human monster in Western culture, both historically and in our contemporary society. It argues that images of real (rather than fictional) human monsters help us both to identify and to interrogate what constitutes normality; we construct what is acceptable in humanity by depicting what is not quite acceptable. By exploring theories and examples of abnormality, freakishness, madness, otherness and identification, Alexa Wright demonstrates how monstrosity and the monster are social and cultural constructs. However, it soon becomes clear that the social function of the monster – however altered a form it takes – remains constant; it is societal self-defence allowing us to keep perceived monstrosity at a distance. Through engaging with the work of Michel Foucault, Julia Kristeva and Canguilhem (to name but a few) Wright scrutinises and critiques the history of a mode of thinking. She reassesses and explodes conventional concepts of identity, obscuring the boundaries between what is 'normal' and what is not.