EBookClubs

Read Books & Download eBooks Full Online

EBookClubs

Read Books & Download eBooks Full Online

Book Mexico Madness

    Book Details:
  • Author : Eduardo García Aguilar
  • Publisher : Aliform Publishing
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN : 9780970765208
  • Pages : 206 pages

Download or read book Mexico Madness written by Eduardo García Aguilar and published by Aliform Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bedlam in the New World

    Book Details:
  • Author : Christina Ramos
  • Publisher : UNC Press Books
  • Release : 2021-12-20
  • ISBN : 1469666588
  • Pages : 267 pages

Download or read book Bedlam in the New World written by Christina Ramos and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2021-12-20 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rebellious Indian proclaiming noble ancestry and entitlement, a military lieutenant foreshadowing the coming of revolution, a blasphemous Creole embroiderer in possession of a bundle of sketches brimming with pornography. All shared one thing in common. During the late eighteenth century, they were deemed to be mad and forcefully admitted to the Hospital de San Hipolito in Mexico City, the first hospital of the New World to specialize in the care and custody of the mentally disturbed. Christina Ramos reconstructs the history of this overlooked colonial hospital from its origins in 1567 to its transformation in the eighteenth century, when it began to admit a growing number of patients transferred from the Inquisition and secular criminal courts. Drawing on the poignant voices of patients, doctors, friars, and inquisitors, Ramos treats San Hipolito as both a microcosm and a colonial laboratory of the Hispanic Enlightenment—a site where traditional Catholicism and rationalist models of madness mingled in surprising ways. She shows how the emerging ideals of order, utility, rationalism, and the public good came to reshape the institutional and medical management of madness. While the history of psychiatry's beginnings has often been told as seated in Europe, Ramos proposes an alternative history of madness's medicalization that centers colonial Mexico and places religious figures, including inquisitors, at the pioneering forefront.

Book New York Court of Appeals  Records and Briefs

Download or read book New York Court of Appeals Records and Briefs written by New York (State). and published by . This book was released on with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mexican Madness

Download or read book Mexican Madness written by Bill Hartnett and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Microgenre

    Book Details:
  • Author : Anne H. Stevens
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 2020-01-23
  • ISBN : 1501345834
  • Pages : 224 pages

Download or read book The Microgenre written by Anne H. Stevens and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-01-23 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everybody knows, and maybe even loves, a microgenre. Plague romances and mommy memoirs. Nudie-cutie movies, Nazi zombies, and dinosaur erotica. Baby burlesks, Minecraft fiction, grindcore, premature ejaculation poetry...microgenres come in all varieties and turn up in every form of media under the sun, tailor-made for enthusiasts of all walks of life. Coming into use in the last decade or so, the term "microgenre" classifies increasingly niche-marketed worlds in popular music, fiction, television, and the Internet. Netflix has recently highlighted our fascination with the ultra-niche genre with hilariously specific classifications -- “independent supernatural dramedy featuring a strong female lead” – that can sometimes hit a little too close to home. Each contribution in this collection introduces readers to a different microgenre, drawn from a range of historical periods and from a variety of media. The Microgenre presents a previously untreated point of cultural curiosity, revealing the profound truth that humanity's desire to classify is often only matched by the unsustainability of the obscure and hyper-specific. It also affirms, in colorful detail, what most people suspect but have trouble fathoming in an increasingly homogenized and commercial West: that imaginative projects are just that, imaginative, diverse, and sometimes completely and hilariously inexplicable.

Book New York Magazine

    Book Details:
  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1983-08-01
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 100 pages

Download or read book New York Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1983-08-01 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.

Book Home Grown

    Book Details:
  • Author : Isaac Campos
  • Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 0807835382
  • Pages : 345 pages

Download or read book Home Grown written by Isaac Campos and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historian Isaac Campos combines wide-ranging archival research with the latest scholarship on the social and cultural dimensions of drug-related behavior in this telling of marijuana's remarkable history in Mexico. Introduced in the sixteenth century by t

Book Healthy Made Easy

    Book Details:
  • Author : Luke Hines
  • Publisher : Plum
  • Release : 2017-07-25
  • ISBN : 176055491X
  • Pages : 272 pages

Download or read book Healthy Made Easy written by Luke Hines and published by Plum. This book was released on 2017-07-25 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Luke Hines is passionate about creating meals that not only look and taste incredible but are good for you too. Packed full of nutrient-dense wholefoods - think seasonal fruits and veggies, sustainable proteins and healthy alternatives to dairy and sugar - these are recipes to help you thrive and flourish. It's not about restricting yourself, but finding equally or MORE delicious substitutes for foods that aren't so good for you. These delicious, fuss-free meals will help you increase your energy, lose weight and feel happier and healthier than ever before! Healthy Made Easy features over 100 recipes, this time with a focus on simple and quick dishes for those short on time but who still strive to eat well. Luke makes eating healthily as easy as possible for people, regardless of how much time they have or how much experience they have in the kitchen. His recipes are friendly and approachable, like Luke himself! Whether you're looking for super-fast breakfasts, easy and nutritious lunchbox ideas, wholesome mid-week dinners, one-pan wonders or guilt-free sweets, Luke has you covered. This is a specially formatted fixed-layout ebook that retains the look and feel of the print book.

Book The Dick

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bruce Jay Friedman
  • Publisher : Open Road Media
  • Release : 2015-09-29
  • ISBN : 1504019555
  • Pages : 241 pages

Download or read book The Dick written by Bruce Jay Friedman and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pencil-pushing policeman becomes a badass sleuth in this off-the-wall detective story from one of America’s funniest writers Kenneth LePeters (née Sussman) is a “quasi-dick.” A public relations man for homicide bureaus, he carries a half-size badge and keeps his pearl-handled Smith & Wesson .38 locked in his desk drawer. Recently returned to the East Coast after 17 years in America’s heartland, he finds the cosmopolitan air of a big-city police department refreshing—the detectives treat him almost like a real member of the homicide family. Then everything goes horribly wrong. . . . A zoning quirk of their new neighborhood forces the LePeters’s 10-year-old daughter, Jamie, to go to the worst school in town. Blaming her husband, Claire LePeters starts an affair with Detective Chico, a cop turned underground filmmaker. To make matters worse, when his colleagues discover that LePeters is Jewish, their bonhomie dries up as fast as a false lead. To reclaim his manhood and get his family back, LePeters must become the full-fledged dick he never thought he could be. Bruce Jay Friedman’s twisted take on the cop novel is a hilarious, mordant, and wildly inventive portrait of a man daring to succeed in a world that has always expected him to fail. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Bruce Jay Friedman including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.

Book Move Under Ground

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nick Mamatas
  • Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
  • Release : 2020-06-17
  • ISBN : 0486841863
  • Pages : 178 pages

Download or read book Move Under Ground written by Nick Mamatas and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2020-06-17 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Readers will be enthralled, chilled, and astonished." -- Tom Piccirilli, author of A Choir of Ill Children. In the first of many references to H. P. Lovecraft's "The Call of Cthulhu," this thoroughly unique novel begins with the rise of the lost city of R'lyeh, portending certain doom for human existence. The witness to this deadly harbinger is Jack Kerouac, who recruits fellow beats Neal Cassady and William S. Burroughs for a cross-country road trip that will climax in a confrontation with a murderous cult.

Book Psychiatric Encounters

    Book Details:
  • Author : Beatriz M. Reyes-Foster
  • Publisher : Rutgers University Press
  • Release : 2018-10-30
  • ISBN : 0813594855
  • Pages : 217 pages

Download or read book Psychiatric Encounters written by Beatriz M. Reyes-Foster and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coloniality, La Zona del Estar, and Yucatan's Maya heritage -- Making the matrix -- Modernity : problem and promise of Mexican psychiatry -- Psychiatric encounters -- In the heart of madness.

Book Home Grown

    Book Details:
  • Author : Isaac Campos
  • Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
  • Release : 2012-04-23
  • ISBN : 0807882682
  • Pages : 344 pages

Download or read book Home Grown written by Isaac Campos and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2012-04-23 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historian Isaac Campos combines wide-ranging archival research with the latest scholarship on the social and cultural dimensions of drug-related behavior in this telling of marijuana's remarkable history in Mexico. Introduced in the sixteenth century by the Spanish, cannabis came to Mexico as an industrial fiber and symbol of European empire. But, Campos demonstrates, as it gradually spread to indigenous pharmacopoeias, then prisons and soldiers' barracks, it took on both a Mexican name--marijuana--and identity as a quintessentially "Mexican" drug. A century ago, Mexicans believed that marijuana could instantly trigger madness and violence in its users, and the drug was outlawed nationwide in 1920. Home Grown thus traces the deep roots of the antidrug ideology and prohibitionist policies that anchor the drug-war violence that engulfs Mexico today. Campos also counters the standard narrative of modern drug wars, which casts global drug prohibition as a sort of informal American cultural colonization. Instead, he argues, Mexican ideas were the foundation for notions of "reefer madness" in the United States. This book is an indispensable guide for anyone who hopes to understand the deep and complex origins of marijuana's controversial place in North American history.

Book National Magazine

    Book Details:
  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1901
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1126 pages

Download or read book National Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 1126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Mexican Filmography

Download or read book The Mexican Filmography written by David E. Wilt and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2004 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mexican cinema has largely been overlooked by international film scholars because of a lack of English-language information and the fact that Spanish-language information was difficult to find and often out of date. This comprehensive filmography helps fill the need for a single source for basic information on Mexican films. Arranged by year of release and then by title, the filmography contains entries that include basic information (film and translated title, production company, genre, director, cast), a plot summary, and additional information about the film. To be included, a film must meet the following criteria: it must be a Mexican production or co-production, feature length (one hour or more, although exceptions are made for silent films), fictional (documentaries and compilation films are not included unless the topic relates to Mexican cinema; some docudramas and films with recreated or staged scenes are included), and theatrically released or intended for theatrical release.

Book Dream Love

    Book Details:
  • Author : Eileen Sheehan
  • Publisher : Earth Wise Books
  • Release : 2017-07-23
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 222 pages

Download or read book Dream Love written by Eileen Sheehan and published by Earth Wise Books. This book was released on 2017-07-23 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when you fall in love with the fantasy man in your dreams only to discover that he's real... but, not human? Get ready for a thrilling ride as you follow Gertie Hitchcock's journey of falling in love with her fantasy man from her dreams, only to find out he's not just a figment of her imagination. But when her dream man becomes a reality, she also discovers a world of alien shape shifters and dangerous stalkers who will stop at nothing to possess her. Will Gertie's Dream Love come to her rescue and save her from some seriously bad errors in judgement? Dive into the pages of this gripping tale and find out. HERE'S WHAT READERS ARE SAYING ABOUT THIS SIZZLING PARANORMAL ROMANCE THRILLER... "What a crazy, fun paranormal read...... A bit of sci-fi, fantasy, paranormal, romance, suspense, and thriller all in one." "The plot is great and runs smoothly, there's enough to continuously keep me wondering whats going to happen next. "

Book The Fatal Environment

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard Slotkin
  • Publisher : Open Road Media
  • Release : 2024-01-23
  • ISBN : 1504090365
  • Pages : 994 pages

Download or read book The Fatal Environment written by Richard Slotkin and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2024-01-23 with total page 994 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A two-time National Book Award finalist’s “ambitious and provocative” look at Custer’s Last Stand, capitalism, and the rise of the cowboys-and-Indians legend (The New York Review of Books). In The Fatal Environment, historian Richard Slotkin demonstrates how the myth of frontier expansion and subjugation of Native Americans helped justify the course of America’s rise to wealth and power. Using Custer’s Last Stand as a metaphor for what Americans feared might happen if the frontier should be closed and the “savage” element be permitted to dominate the “civilized,” Slotkin shows the emergence by 1890 of a mythos redefined to help Americans respond to the confusion and strife of industrialization and imperial expansion. “A clearly written, challenging and provocative work that should prove enormously valuable to serious students of American history.” —The New York Times “[An] arresting hypothesis.” —Henry Nash Smith, American Historical Review

Book Planet Taco

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jeffrey M. Pilcher
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2017-02-14
  • ISBN : 0190655771
  • Pages : 311 pages

Download or read book Planet Taco written by Jeffrey M. Pilcher and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-14 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Planet Taco, Jeffrey Pilcher traces the historical origins and evolution of Mexico's national cuisine, explores its incarnation as a Mexican American fast-food, shows how surfers became global pioneers of Mexican food, and how Corona beer conquered the world. Pilcher is particularly enlightening on what the history of Mexican food reveals about the uneasy relationship between globalization and authenticity. The burritos and taco shells that many people think of as Mexican were actually created in the United States. But Pilcher argues that the contemporary struggle between globalization and national sovereignty to determine the authenticity of Mexican food goes back hundreds of years. During the nineteenth century, Mexicans searching for a national cuisine were torn between nostalgic "Creole" Hispanic dishes of the past and French haute cuisine, the global food of the day. Indigenous foods were scorned as unfit for civilized tables. Only when Mexican American dishes were appropriated by the fast food industry and carried around the world did Mexican elites rediscover the foods of the ancient Maya and Aztecs and embrace the indigenous roots of their national cuisine"--