Ward Books

Combining death, sex, goth, and erotica, Autopsyrotica is the anti-glamour pin-up collection. Boldly colored, glistening bodies are replaced by dark, horrific, yet hauntingly beautiful images from artist Chad Michael Ward. Ward combines his skills at digital photography and digital painting to provide an 80 page collection that make Clive Barker's Hellish Cenobytes look tame by comparison. The images are paired with Ward's text in symphony of depravity. It's as if Ward took his models, and sent them down to the Abyss where they were transformed by demonic hands. His mastery of the digital format blends seamlessly. These are images that will stick with you long after you've put the book down. And the models seem to dare you to just try and forget them!

"Zombie" is perhaps at once the most terrifying, and yet sorrowful pieces in the book. The dark make-up around her eyes and her black hair blend into the deep, background shadows, making them seem as one. Only her left eye seems to hint at a shred of life, peering hatefully off of the page.

"Queen Hell" is appropriately named. This piece features a snarling, twisted horned, unholy queen who is the living embodiment of Hell. Then there is "The Curse", perhaps the second most chilling image in the book. Grimacing...wide-eyed...hair disheveled...this poor girl personifies madness, anger, and revenge.

Visually stunning and thoroughly unsettling, Autopsyrotica is certainly not for the squeamish. And due to its subject matter and nudity, it is definitely a book for mature audiences. But those who appreciate the female form...in all its forms, even the dark and wicked, will find it to be a unique experience to read. I also love the fact that the models names and pictures were listed in the credits in the back of the book. Nice Touch! From NBM Publishing.

Reviewed by Tim Janson

This product is same as described in purchase. Delivery was very quickly and good conditions. I recommend this product and provider. Sincerely. Jose Pena

This product is same as described in purchase. Delivery was very quickly and good conditions. I recommend this product and provider. Sincerely. Jose Pena

This delightful book investigates the cat, its relationship with man and the development of the specialised breeds found today. It provides a practical guide to the care of one's pet while making entertaining excursions into the lives of famous cats of fact and fiction by using quotes from prose and poetry and showing cats in works of art. The book in fact opens with the poem My Cat Jeoffry by Christopher Smart and includes quotes from Chaucer and John Skelton. Cats feature in the works of famous artist like Leonardo da Vinci, Rembrandt, Dürer, Tintoretto, Ghirlandaio, Hieronymus Bosch, Brueghel and many others. In a way, the text serves also as a bibliography of works dedicated to cats, or in which they are mentioned, by people like Mark Twain, Doris Lessing, Tenessee Williams, Truman Capote and many others. There is even a chapter on Cats in the East. The character of the cat is described and compared with other animals, and its early history traced from the first appearance of the species, through the ancient Egyptian reverence for sacred cats to its association with magic and witchcraft in the middle ages. The enthusiasm and love of cats expressed by great figures in history make delightful reading. The different breeds that now exist are considered in turn and rare types like the Tibetan, Paraguyan, Kimona, Malay, Oriental, Bobtail and Korat are described. The author also provides practical advice on choosing the right cat and caring for it from kittenhood through all the phases of its life. With more than 200 pictures in black & white (including pics of Henri Matisse, Robert Graves & Ernest Hemingway with their cats) - plus over 40 more in full color - an intoxicating gallery of cats and kittens is provided. This is a classic book and a must-have for all people who are owned by or love cats.

Thanks to this well written book I was able to learn about the Bonanza aircraft. The revalation of this book has come to me in a critical time for me - working hard to get the endorsment of my flight instructor to be signed in my logbook.

Thanks again for the author who allows me to reveal the secrets of the Beechcraft masterpiece.

hoping that is the original edition.well here goes the original is exquisite and gives original antique paterns with 600 illustrations,600 pAGES NOT COUNTING ILLUSTRATIONS,VERY CLEARLY WRITTEN AND VERY BEAUTIFUL ATREASURE AND A MUST USE AS YOU WILL BE THE ENVEY OF YOUR FRIENDS.

Marle Woodson's book reminds the reader that we are all human beings, with the same hopes and dreams, whether we are on the "inside" or the "outside" of the hospital walls. His story describe his stay in an Oklahoma hospital as a last resort to defeat his alcoholism. The book is not a sensationalist tale, but rather a telling record of his days spent on Ward 8. What I found compelling was his honesty as he contemplates his existence in the past, the present, and the future. His words are touching and sometimes humorous. I wish I could have met Mr. Woodson. This is a book for readers who are interested in how other people think.

Every year since 19??, a book is published that celebrates the best essays of that year. These essays range in topic from science to law, from art to sociology. Reading this year's edition, I am particularly impressed. Of course, not every essay is for everyone. However, even the essays that have nothing to do with my background I have found to be interesting at the least, compelling and mind-rattling at best. It is worth buying the book for even a few: 'The Art of the Nap,' 'The Trouble with Wilderness' 'Influenza 1918'.

This book details the Ward Family bloodline, which I descend from.

The book mainly covers my Great-Great-Great Uncle David Ward as well as his Wife and Children.

My Great-Great Grandfather Jacob Bechtel Ward seems to be detailed briefly in the book as well (well his father George Ward is detailed along with the number of children that my Great-Great-Great Grandfather George Ward had fathered but there seems to be a small mention of my Great-Great Grandfather using his middle name Bechtel in the detail).

I gotta say that although I am Willa's 4th cousin, I so cannot believe that this book is out of print as I think it is a very powerful book.

If anyone wants to beg for reprints please see to it that reprints are done (Willa Kabetzke passed away in 1992 but her book needs to live on for future generations to read).

"There is very little to eat. Very little to wear. Papa just doesn't get a job. He has no permanent job. Before the leak, he used to work on a boring machine. Now he cannot work on that machine.

"Carbide must be punished. Take them to the police station. Then hit them and then jail them--those Carbide fellows. I can't play. I am weak. My hands and legs ache when I run. I get breathless soon. If I run I fall down immediately."

So said Suresh, an eight-year old student from the city of Bhopal, India, in the aftermath of the December 2-3, 1984 leakage of 80,000 pounds of methyl isocyanate (MIC, an ingredient of the pesticide Sevin) from the Union Carbide plant that killed up to 10,000 overnight. Children have an uncanny sense of truth-telling.

So, too, does the Bhopal Reader, a remarkable and devastating compendium of primary and secondary sources on the disaster. It reprints the charge sheet, arrest warrant, and bail bond for then-Carbide Chair Warren Anderson. Although he was indeed taken to a police station, he was not jailed, and both Mr. Anderson and Union Carbide have been pronounced "absconders" by Indian courts for failing to this day to appear to face charges of culpable homicide, the equivalent of manslaughter in the US. "Those Carbide fellows" have never fully faced the consequences for their role in the disaster, while Suresh (if she survived) and her fellow Bhopal residents live every day with the consequences, which include contaminated water and soil and inadequate medical attention.

The book brings the issue very close to the present, as it also reprints the January 6, 2005 order from the Bhopal Chief Judicial Magistrate asking Dow Chemical (ticker: DOW), which acquired Union Carbide in 2001, to present the absconders. Ward Morehouse, one of the book's editors, is asking Dow the same question today at its annual meeting, appearing as a representative of socially responsible investment (SRI) firm Boston Common Asset Management to read a letter that the company has failed to respond to before now.

The book touches on shareholder activism as the latest in 20 years of activism asking Union Carbide to assume accountability for the disaster. Boston Common submitted a shareholder resolution asking Dow to address the legacy of the Bhopal disaster last year. When it did so again this year, Dow petitioned the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for permission to omit the resolution on technical grounds, according to Lauren Compere, chief administrative officer at Boston Common.

"The resolution was omitted this year because we essentially reversed the supporting statement and the resolve clause--that was it," Ms. Compere told SocialFunds.com. "The SEC ruled that we were asking about future liability which we have no business doing...."

This position of subverting corporate accountability is completely consistent with the tactics presented throughout the book, as Union Carbide and now Dow seek to do the absolute minimum in taking responsibility for the disaster. Through the course of the book, the reader feels a slow accretion of information that makes it impossible to comprehend the current position of Dow's refusal to accept accountability.

The book documents how the tragedy started years before the actual gas leak, as internal Union Carbide documents reveal how the Bhopal plant was inferior to its sister plant in the United States, and how the company was well aware of multiple safety breaches. The company was warned, both internally and externally, of the risk the plant posed to the surrounding population.

"Phosgene gas that was used by Hitler in his gas chambers, and that is used for the production of methyl isocyanate, is stored in a tank in this factory and if that leaks or explodes it will take one to one and half hour for the death of the entire population of the city," wrote Rajkumar Keswani in the October 1, 1982 edition of Rapat Weekly, two years before the disaster.

The book also reprints Union Carbide and Dow documents and explanations, but the companies' attempts to bolster their case against legal liability only serves to increase their moral liability in the reader's eyes (to borrow concepts advanced by SustainAbility in a recent report). One of the most devastating sections in a book filled with sections that brought this reviewer to tears is "Moral orientations to suffering," a 1995 essay by Delhi University professor Veena Das. The essay points out how the aftermath of the disaster essentially re-victimized the victims while absolving Union Carbide of its culpability.

In the end, the strength of the stories related in each of the sections cohere to become something much larger than a book, and more of a catalyst for readers to abandon complacency.

"I guess I am now expected to make my point, elaborate on the meaning of the stories, draw upon their interconnectedness and present a framework that holds them together," writes Satinath Sarangi, another of the book's editors, in an essay reprinted in the text. "That would, however, be straying away from why I really wanted to tell these stories."

"Why I really began telling these stories was to move you, dear reader, to action. Twenty years is much too long and we have had a lot of words," he continues. "No more interpretations, no more words--the point is to stop the medical disaster in Bhopal."

I originally published this review on SocialFunds.com.