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Book A History of Delusions

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  • Author : Victoria Shepherd
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2022-06-02
  • ISBN : 0861540921
  • Pages : 328 pages

Download or read book A History of Delusions written by Victoria Shepherd and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-06-02 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Fascinating and compassionate’ Horatio Clare The King of France – thinking he was made of glass – was terrified he might shatter…and he wasn’t alone. After the Emperor met his end at Waterloo, an epidemic of Napoleons piled into France’s asylums. Throughout the nineteenth century, dozens of middle-aged women tried to convince their physicians that they were, in fact, dead. For centuries we’ve dismissed delusions as something for doctors to sort out behind locked doors. But delusions are more than just bizarre quirks – they hold the key to collective anxieties and traumas. In this groundbreaking history, Victoria Shepherd uncovers stories of delusions from medieval times to the present day and implores us to identify reason in apparent madness.

Book The Triumph of Seeds

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  • Author : Thor Hanson
  • Publisher : Basic Books
  • Release : 2015-03-24
  • ISBN : 0465048722
  • Pages : 321 pages

Download or read book The Triumph of Seeds written by Thor Hanson and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2015-03-24 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As seen on PBS's American Spring LIVE, the award-winning author of Buzz and Feathers presents a natural and human history of seeds, the marvels of the plant kingdom. "The genius of Hanson's fascinating, inspiring, and entertaining book stems from the fact that it is not about how all kinds of things grow from seeds; it is about the seeds themselves." -- Mark Kurlansky, New York Times Book Review We live in a world of seeds. From our morning toast to the cotton in our clothes, they are quite literally the stuff and staff of life: supporting diets, economies, and civilizations around the globe. Just as the search for nutmeg and pepper drove the Age of Discovery, coffee beans fueled the Enlightenment and cottonseed sparked the Industrial Revolution. Seeds are fundamental objects of beauty, evolutionary wonders, and simple fascinations. Yet, despite their importance, seeds are often seen as commonplace, their extraordinary natural and human histories overlooked. Thanks to this stunning new book, they can be overlooked no more. This is a book of knowledge, adventure, and wonder, spun by an award-winning writer with both the charm of a fireside story-teller and the hard-won expertise of a field biologist. A fascinating scientific adventure, it is essential reading for anyone who loves to see a plant grow.

Book Demon Seed

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  • Author : John Gordon-Jones
  • Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
  • Release : 2017-03-02
  • ISBN : 1681815001
  • Pages : 356 pages

Download or read book Demon Seed written by John Gordon-Jones and published by Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: … a lost and violated Welsh girl, surrounded by the stench of coal and thick smog. Raped repeatedly by her father, she runs away to London, and after trying her hand at different jobs, she gets a place as a nursing auxiliary in a hospital. At a dance she meets an Indian aristocrat, and after a brief courtship, they plan to marry. When they ask permission of her father, the latter sells his daughter like a lorry load of coal for £50. Her journeys in India begin … In a time of huge political and social upheaval, with many disturbing riots in India, she, with the help of the British Government, returns to South Wales with her five half-caste children, in a land where there is very little immigration. On the boat voyage over, tired and bitter about being “used,” and totally suspicious of men, she meets her beloved, whom she first scolds, as she thinks he is after her eldest daughter, now a very beautiful teenager. Their journey continues, and their experiences are many, varied, and often extreme. It is said that fact is stranger than fiction …

Book The Trinity

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  • Author : Saint Augustine (of Hippo)
  • Publisher : New City Press
  • Release : 1990
  • ISBN : 0911782966
  • Pages : 472 pages

Download or read book The Trinity written by Saint Augustine (of Hippo) and published by New City Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1990, New City Press, in conjunction with the Augustinian Heritage Institute, began the project known as: The Works of Saint Augustine, A Translation for the 21st Century. The plan is to translate and publish all 132 works of Saint Augustine, his entire corpus into modern English. This represents the first time in which The Works of Saint Augustine will all be translated into English. Many existing translations were often archaic or faulty, and the scholarship was outdated. New City Press is proud to offer the best modern translations available. The Works of Saint Augustine, A Translation for the 21st Century will be translated into 49 published books. To date, 41 books have been published by NCP containing 93 of The Works of Saint Augustine, A Translation for the 21st Century. Augustine's writings are useful to anyone interested in patristics, church history, theology and Western civilization. -- Publisher.

Book The Seed of Bas Quirum

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  • Author : S. A. Burgess
  • Publisher : Rowanvale Books
  • Release : 2015-10-31
  • ISBN : 1910607886
  • Pages : 103 pages

Download or read book The Seed of Bas Quirum written by S. A. Burgess and published by Rowanvale Books. This book was released on 2015-10-31 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A menacing evil, vile and lethal, has come to manifest beneath the opulent towers of glorious Asim-dar. Tasked with what appears to be the simple quest of taking the life of an unscrupulous nobleman, Quillan, the Lion of Vashtan, soon finds his mission far from the easy undertaking he had first envisaged! Encountering a shape-shifting necromancer, a bloodthirsty Slaver and a beautiful Lybezian slave girl to boot, Quillan strides through his pre-classical world like an unstoppable juggernaut to produce a fast-paced adventure filled with barbaric brutality, fiendish sorcery and the cut and thrust of a world where all hangs on the edge of the sharpest blade.

Book Seeds of Glory and Ruin

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  • Author : Melanie Cellier
  • Publisher : A Mage's Influence
  • Release : 2021-12-30
  • ISBN : 9781922636294
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book Seeds of Glory and Ruin written by Melanie Cellier and published by A Mage's Influence. This book was released on 2021-12-30 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cadence and Airlie possess the seeds of glory and ruin. So their father insisted. When Airlie becomes the most powerful mage in generations, Cadence decides her own dormant seed must be malevolent. Under threat, she must choose her path.

Book A Theology of Mark s Gospel

Download or read book A Theology of Mark s Gospel written by David E. Garland and published by Zondervan Academic. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Theology of Mark’s Gospel is the fourth volume in the BTNT series. This landmark textbook, written by leading New Testament scholar David E. Garland, thoroughly explores the theology of Mark’s Gospel. It both covers major Markan themes and also sets forth the distinctive contribution of Mark to the New Testament and the canon of Scripture, providing readers with an in-depth and holistic grasp of Markan theology in the larger context of the Bible. This substantive, evangelical treatment of Markan theology makes an ideal college- or seminary-level text.

Book When We Were Orphans

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  • Author : Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 2001-01-16
  • ISBN : 0375412654
  • Pages : 481 pages

Download or read book When We Were Orphans written by Kazuo Ishiguro and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2001-01-16 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prize–winning novel The Remains of the Day comes this stunning work of soaring imagination. Born in early twentieth-century Shanghai, Banks was orphaned at the age of nine after the separate disappearances of his parents. Now, more than twenty years later, he is a celebrated figure in London society; yet the investigative expertise that has garnered him fame has done little to illuminate the circumstances of his parents' alleged kidnappings. Banks travels to the seething, labyrinthine city of his memory in hopes of solving the mystery of his own painful past, only to find that war is ravaging Shanghai beyond recognition—and that his own recollections are proving as difficult to trust as the people around him. Masterful, suspenseful and psychologically acute, When We Were Orphans offers a profound meditation on the shifting quality of memory, and the possibility of avenging one’s past.

Book Farseed

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  • Author : Pamela Sargent
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 2007-03-06
  • ISBN : 9780765314277
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book Farseed written by Pamela Sargent and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-03-06 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than two decades after Ship leaves its children on an uninhabited, earthlike planet, old rivalries are reborn when an encounter between the children of Zoheret and those of her former nemesis, Ho, threaten to ignite hostilities between the two groups of former shipmates.

Book Mastering the Flute with William Bennett

Download or read book Mastering the Flute with William Bennett written by Roderick Seed and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-05 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time the exercises and teaching methods of world-renowned flutist William Bennett are featured in one workbook. After more than a decade of study with Bennett and many of his students, Roderick Seed has documented the tools that have made Bennett known for his ability to give the flute the depth, dignity, and grandeur of the voice or the stringed instrument. Topics range from how to overcome basic technical difficulties, such as pitch control, to the tools for phrasing, prosody, tone, and intonation needed for playing with different dynamics and ranges of expression. Advanced musicians will find useful exercises and techniques in this book that will deepen their knowledge and enjoyment of making music and help them in their quest to master the flute.

Book Wild Seed

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  • Author : Octavia E. Butler
  • Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
  • Release : 2023-03-28
  • ISBN : 1538765446
  • Pages : 291 pages

Download or read book Wild Seed written by Octavia E. Butler and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2023-03-28 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an "epic, game-changing, moving and brilliant" story of love and hate, two immortals chase each other across continents and centuries, binding their fates together -- and changing the destiny of the human race (Viola Davis). Doro knows no higher authority than himself. An ancient spirit with boundless powers, he possesses humans, killing without remorse as he jumps from body to body to sustain his own life. With a lonely eternity ahead of him, Doro breeds supernaturally gifted humans into empires that obey his every desire. He fears no one -- until he meets Anyanwu. Anyanwu is an entity like Doro and yet different. She can heal with a bite and transform her own body, mending injuries and reversing aging. She uses her powers to cure her neighbors and birth entire tribes, surrounding herself with kindred who both fear and respect her. No one poses a true threat to Anyanwu -- until she meets Doro. The moment Doro meets Anyanwu, he covets her; and from the villages of 17th-century Nigeria to 19th-century United States, their courtship becomes a power struggle that echoes through generations, irrevocably changing what it means to be human.

Book Ceremonies of Possession in Europe s Conquest of the New World  1492 1640

Download or read book Ceremonies of Possession in Europe s Conquest of the New World 1492 1640 written by Patricia Seed and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-10-27 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 1996 comparative history exploring the significance of ceremonies performed by the western imperial powers to mark their territorial possession of the New World.

Book Seeds of Yesterday

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  • Author : V.C. Andrews
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2011-02-08
  • ISBN : 1451636989
  • Pages : 385 pages

Download or read book Seeds of Yesterday written by V.C. Andrews and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-02-08 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now a major Lifetime movie event—Book Four of the Dollanganger series that began with Flowers in the Attic—the novel of forbidden love that captured the world’s imagination and earned V.C. Andrews a fiercely devoted fanbase. They escaped their mother’s hellish trap years ago, but a cruel history of lies and deceit has come full circle… The forbidden love that blossomed when Cathy and Christopher were held captive in Foxworth Hall is one the Dollanganger family’s darkest secrets. Now, with three grown children and even a new last name, the pair seem to have outlived a twisted legacy. But on their son Bart’s twenty-fifth birthday, when the spiteful and disturbed young man claims his rightful inheritance, the full, shattering truth of their tainted past will be revealed at Foxworth Hall—the place where the nightmare began, and where Christopher and Cathy were once just innocent flowers in the attic…

Book The Way  The Truth  and The Life

Download or read book The Way The Truth and The Life written by Pablo H. Solutin and published by Pablo Solutin. This book was released on with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of us believe or being made to believe that the Bible is the complete and inerrant word of God. As far as completeness is concerned, that is not what the Bible is saying in John 21:25 of the New Testament. It says that if all the works of the Son of God were written, even the world cannot contain all the writings. So, the Bible itself honestly admits its own incompleteness. As far as the Bible's being inerrant, there are obvious errors in the English versions of today. The books in the Bible were originally written in Hebrew in ancient time. There have been a lot of changes in the Hebrew language at the time of the translation to Latin and Greek. That means the understanding of the translator could be affected by the culture of that time. For example, the Hebrew letters in ancient times were written in pictograph. The letter "hey" for example is drawn like a man with arms raised. The letter "yad" is drawn like a hand. The word "hayah" still means exist today as in ancient times. But in ancient times it is drawn as a man with arms raised, a hand, and a man with hands raised. There is strong reason to believe that the word has something more profound to say in ancient times. That is lost in the Hebrew language at the time of the translation. Another example is the use of "us" and "our" in God's statement in Genesis chapter one. Who was God talking to? This is due to the fact that the word God was translated from the Hebrew word Elohim which is plural. The singular is Eloha. It is very obvious that the translation was influenced by the preconceived one-god idea of the translator. That renders the texts seemingly inconsistent.Christian churches make their followers believe that their teachings and practices are consistent with what the Bible says. This is not true most of the time. Some even contradict the Bible.

Book Seed of the Puritan

Download or read book Seed of the Puritan written by Elizabeth Dewing Kaup and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Portrait of a political boss." Cf. Hanna, A. Mirror for the nation.

Book Reflections on the Causes of the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire  1825

Download or read book Reflections on the Causes of the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire 1825 written by Baron Charles De Secondat Montesquieu, Bar and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-08-07 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A New Release Of The Original 1825 Edition.