Download or read book A Brief Lunacy written by Cynthia Thayer and published by Delta. This book was released on 2006-02-28 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The disappearance of their daughter from the institution in which she resides draws Jessie and Carl, a retired couple enjoying the peace of rural Maine, into a nightmare when they offer shelter to a supposedly stranded young man who knows far too much about their family. By the author of Strong for Potatoes. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.
Download or read book A Brief Lunacy written by Cynthia A. Thayer and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The disappearance of their daughter from the institution in which she resides draws Jessie and Carl, a retired couple enjoying the peace of rural Maine, into a nightmare when they offer shelter to a supposedly stranded young man who knows far too much about their family. By the author of Strong for Potatoes.
Download or read book A Brief Lunacy written by Cynthia Thayer and published by Wheeler Publishing, Incorporated. This book was released on 2006 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A couple make the mistake of letting a stranger come in their Maine woods cabin and end up in a fight for their lives.
Download or read book Serendipities written by Umberto Eco and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1998-10-06 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best-selling author Umberto Eco's latest work unlocks the riddles of history in an exploration of the "linguistics of the lunatic," stories told by scholars, scientists, poets, fanatics, and ordinary people in order to make sense of the world. Exploring the "Force of the False," Eco uncovers layers of mistakes that have shaped human history, such as Columbus's assumption that the world was much smaller than it is, leading him to seek out a quick route to the East via the West and thus fortuitously "discovering" America. The fictions that grew up around the cults of the Rosicrucians and Knights Templar were the result of a letter from a mysterious "Prester John"—undoubtedly a hoax—that provided fertile ground for a series of delusions and conspiracy theories based on religious, ethnic, and racial prejudices. While some false tales produce new knowledge (like Columbus's discovery of America) and others create nothing but horror and shame (the Rosicrucian story wound up fueling European anti-Semitism) they are all powerfully persuasive. In a careful unraveling of the fabulous and the false, Eco shows us how serendipities—unanticipated truths—often spring from mistaken ideas. From Leibniz's belief that the I Ching illustrated the principles of calculus to Marco Polo's mistaking a rhinoceros for a unicorn, Eco tours the labyrinth of intellectual history, illuminating the ways in which we project the familiar onto the strange. Eco uncovers a rich history of linguistic endeavor—much of it ill-conceived—that sought to "heal the wound of Babel." Through the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, Greek, Hebrew, Chinese, and Egyptian were alternately proclaimed as the first language that God gave to Adam, while—in keeping with the colonial climate of the time—the complex language of the Amerindians in Mexico was viewed as crude and diabolical. In closing, Eco considers the erroneous notion of linguistic perfection and shrewdly observes that the dangers we face lie not in the rules we use to interpret other cultures but in our insistence on making these rules absolute. With the startling combination of erudition and wit, bewildering anecdotes and scholarly rigor that are Eco's hallmarks, Serendipities is sure to entertain and enlighten any reader with a passion for the curious history of languages and ideas.
Download or read book Mad Mary Lamb written by Susan Tyler Hitchcock and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2005 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After killing her mother with a carving knife, Mary Lamb spent the rest of her life in and out of madhouses; yet the crime and its aftermath opened up a new life. Freed to read extensively, she discovered her talent for writing and, with her brother, the essayist Charles Lamb, collaborated on the famous Tales from Shakespeare. This narrative of a nearly forgotten woman is a tapestry of insights into creativity and madness, the changing lives of women, and the redemptive power of the written word.
Download or read book Administrations of Lunacy written by Mab Segrest and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2021-04-14 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Whew! They going to send around here and tie you up and drag you off to Milledgeville. Them fat blue police chasing tomcats around alleys." —Berenice in The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers A scathing and original look at the racist origins of the field of modern psychiatry, told through the story of what was once the largest mental institution in the world, by the prize-winning author of Memoir of a Race Traitor After a decade of research, Mab Segrest, whose Memoir of a Race Traitor forever changed the way we think about race in America, turns sanity itself inside-out in a stunning book that will become an instant classic. In December 1841, the Georgia State Lunatic, Idiot, and Epileptic Asylum was founded on land taken from the Cherokee nation in the then-State capitol of Milledgeville. A hundred years later, it had become the largest insane asylum in the world with over ten thousand patients. To this day, it is the site of the largest graveyard of disabled and mentally ill people in the world. In April, 1949, Ebony magazine reported that for black patients, "the situation approaches Nazi concentration camp standards . . . unbelievable this side of Dante's Inferno." Georgia's state hospital was at the center of psychiatric practice and the forefront of psychiatric thought throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in America—centuries during which the South invented, fought to defend, and then worked to replace the most developed slave culture since the Roman Empire. A landmark history of a single insane asylum at Milledgeville, Georgia, A Peculiar Inheritance reveals how modern-day American psychiatry was forged in the traumas of slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction, when African Americans carrying "no histories" entered from Freedmen's Bureau Hospitals and home counties wracked with Klan terror. This history set the stage for the eugenics and degeneracy theories of the twentieth century, which in turn became the basis for much of Nazi thinking in Europe. Segrest's masterwork will forever change the way we think about our own minds.
Download or read book Brainless written by Joe Maguire and published by William Morrow. This book was released on 2006-10-10 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maguire presents a biting and funny look at pundit and columnist Ann Coulter and exposes her, her lies, and her hypocritical, ill-informed views.
Download or read book Love Lust Lunacy written by Richard B. Logan and published by Author House. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reviews and Comments: "Somewhere between infatuation and devotion, lost within the folds of insatiable desire and sinfully delicious passion, we find the cross-roads of Love, Lust & Lunacy...In a Lunchbox. Erotically tantalizing and majestically romantic, Richard Logan has managed to showcase and compile the running gamut of human emotion that sweeps relationships." -Erin Young Inspired, in part, by "Love?lust?Lunacy?: Oh how my heart loves a restless soul. One made for wandering - never quite whole. Like I could fill them up with pieces of me, as they travel on new worlds to see. Oh how I love the ways of a vagabond - never quite content with what's done. Always searching for more, to find a truth. Never quite sure what they have's of use. Oh how I love a restless soul. One that aches, for something magical. Ordinary days can't quench the thirst. For what's unknown always spurs the search. Is it the lure of your changing course - Like the wayward ways of the sea? A mystic passion that shackles, and sets you free. Oh how I love a restless soul. Forever changing fleeting, seeking more. Someone found in being lost. Like the inquisition of a dream. Not to be defined by resolute notions of reality. Oh how I love the untamed heart, the question that begs of a restless soul.
Download or read book Leadership as Lunacy written by Jacky Lumby and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2010-08-10 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research has shown that metaphors inspire leaders to reflect on their mind-sets, behaviors, practices, and approaches, leading to new perspectives on their roles. Using such thought-provoking and unexpected metaphors as "leadership as war" and "leadership as lunacy," the authors draw readers through historical perspectives and cognitive possibilities that inspire, resolve, confuse, and provoke reflection on the state of leadership in education. This book examines the current discourse on educational leadership models, behaviors, and roles, and helps school and district leaders
Download or read book A Brief for the Defence of the Unequivocal Divinity of the Founder of Christianity as the Son of Jehovah written by John Armstrong Chaloner and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Strong for Potatoes written by Cynthia Thayer and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cynthia Thayer's acclaimed debut novel, Strong for Potatoes, is the resonant story of the difficult youth of Blue Willoughby, a remarkable girl growing up in eastern Maine. In a life beset by tragedy, beginning with the death of her twin sister Berry only days after their birth, Blue must discover on her own strength she needs to survive. Blue's true ally is her grandfather, a full-blooded Passamoquoddy Indian who teaches Blue life's most vital lessons: that the ways of nature can illuminate life, that family can be depended on, that true passion is worth waiting for, and that grief can heal. Most important, he passes on the ways of his ancestors-knowledge that Blue will need to find a sense of her own true self amid the chaos of her adolescence. Reminiscent of Dorothy Allison and Barbara Kingsolver, Strong for Potatoes is a rich, evocative literary debut by a gifted writer and teller of the most rewarding kind of story: beautifully crafted, authentic, moving, and ultimately uplifting.
Download or read book Barrow s Boys written by Fergus Fleming and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes a series of nineteenth-century British expeditions into Africa, the Arctic, and Antarctica, chronicling the adventures of explorers who ventured into some of the most perilous unknown regions of the world.
Download or read book The Trial of Ebenezer Haskell in Lunacy and His Acquittal Before Judge Brewster in November 1868 Together with a Brief Sketch of the Mode of Treatment of Lunatics in Difference Asylums in this Country and in England written by Ebenezer Haskell and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Lunatic written by Mohi Ismail and published by . This book was released on 2012-03 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first human literary novel written by an Egyptian star that predicted the Egyptian revolution of January 25th, 2011. Mohi Ismail is the first Egyptian Actor and Star to write a literary novel. He studied philosophy, psychology, and acting. He was awarded by the Egyptian president Anwar El Sadat for his outstanding movie roles in 1977. He also has received numerous International awards for his work.
Download or read book Dig written by A.S. King and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Michael L. Printz Medal ★“King’s narrative concerns are racism, patriarchy, colonialism, white privilege, and the ingrained systems that perpetuate them. . . . [Dig] will speak profoundly to a generation of young people who are waking up to the societal sins of the past and working toward a more equitable future.”—Horn Book, starred review “I’ve never understood white people who can’t admit they’re white. I mean, white isn’t just a color. And maybe that’s the problem for them. White is a passport. It’s a ticket.” Five estranged cousins are lost in a maze of their family’s tangled secrets. Their grandparents, former potato farmers Gottfried and Marla Hemmings, managed to trade digging spuds for developing subdivisions and now they sit atop a million-dollar bank account—wealth they’ve refused to pass on to their adult children or their five teenage grandchildren. “Because we want them to thrive,” Marla always says. But for the Hemmings cousins, “thriving” feels a lot like slowly dying of a poison they started taking the moment they were born. As the rot beneath the surface of the Hemmings’ white suburban respectability destroys the family from within, the cousins find their ways back to one another, just in time to uncover the terrible cost of maintaining the family name. With her inimitable surrealism, award winner A.S. King exposes how a toxic culture of polite white supremacy tears a family apart and how one determined generation can dig its way out.
Download or read book Corporate Lunacy Behind the Scenes of America s Worst Gas Station written by Rob Clooney and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-09-30 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join Rob for this look behind the scenes at one of the largest chain of gas stations in the United States, as he questions the decisions and motivation of corporate America. Sometimes, it isn't the company's bottom line that matters. This memoir includes wrestling stories about Rob, an All World amateur and regional professional wrestler, which coincide with his experiences of climbing the corporate ladder for the chain of gas-selling convenience stores.
Download or read book Operation Luna written by Poul Anderson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poul Anderson, recently the winner of the Nebula's Grandmaster Award for lifetime achievement, returns to the world of his acclaimed novel Operation Chaos with the tale of one family's mission to the moon. Ginny Greylock and Steven Matuchek are partners an Earth quite unlike our own. For starters, Ginny is a licensed witch and Steve is an engineer and werewolf. Steve moonlights by working on a spacecraft in the Arizona desert, a project which soon discovers that there is life on the moon. Neither Steve nor the US government has any inkling as to the nature of the moonsprites, and everyone is anxious to make contact. But when the time comes to test the spacecraft, a host of bugs, snafus, and angry spirits conspire to prevent the launch. It's a recipe for perfect lunacy as Ginny and her clan struggle to figure out who, or what, is sabotaging the greatest magical and scientific achievement of the century.
