Download or read book In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts written by Gabor Maté, MD and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2011-06-28 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “thought-provoking and powerful” study that reframes everything you’ve been taught about addiction and recovery—from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Myth of Normal (Bruce Perry, author of The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog). A world-renowned trauma expert combines real-life stories with cutting-edge research to offer a holistic approach to understanding addiction—its origins, its place in society, and the importance of self-compassion in recovery. Based on Gabor Maté’s two decades of experience as a medical doctor and his groundbreaking work with people with addiction on Vancouver’s skid row, this #1 international bestseller radically re-envisions a much misunderstood condition by taking a compassionate approach to substance abuse and addiction recovery. In the same vein as Bessel van der Kolk’s The Body Keeps the Score, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts traces the root causes of addiction to childhood trauma and examines the pervasiveness of addiction in society. Dr. Maté presents addiction not as a discrete phenomenon confined to an unfortunate or weak-willed few, but as a continuum that runs throughout—and perhaps underpins—our society. It is not a medical “condition” distinct from the lives it affects but rather the result of a complex interplay among personal history, emotional and neurological development, brain chemistry, and the drugs and behaviors of addiction. Simplifying a wide array of brain and addiction research findings from around the globe, the book avoids glib self-help remedies, instead promoting a thorough and compassionate self-understanding as the first key to healing and wellness. Dr. Maté argues persuasively against contemporary health, social, and criminal justice policies toward addiction and how they perpetuate the War on Drugs. The mix of personal stories—including the author’s candid discussion of his own “high-status” addictive tendencies—and science with positive solutions makes the book equally useful for lay readers and professionals.

Download or read book Romantic Sobriety written by Orrin N. C. Wang and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, 2011 Jean-Pierre Barricelli Prize, International Conference on Romanticism This book explores the relationship among Romanticism, deconstruction, and Marxism by examining tropes of sensation and sobriety in a set of exemplary texts from Romantic literature and contemporary literary theory. Orrin N. C. Wang explains how themes of sensation and sobriety, along with Marxist-related ideas of revolution and commodification, set the terms of narrative surrounding the history of Romanticism as a movement. The book is both polemical and critical, engaging in debates with modern thinkers such as Paul de Man, Jacques Derrida, Walter Benn Michaels, and Slavoj Žižek, as well as presenting fresh readings of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century writers, including Wordsworth, Kant, Shelley, Byron, Brontë, and Keats. Romantic Sobriety combines deeply complex, close readings with a broader reflection on Romanticism and its implications for literary study. It will interest scholars who study Romanticism from a number of perspectives, including those interested in bodily and social consumption, the roles of addiction and abstinence in literature, the connection between literary and visual culture, the intersection of critical theory and Romanticism, and the relationships among language, historical knowledge, and political practice.

Download or read book The Night Side of Nature Ghosts and Ghost Seers written by Catherine Ann Crowe and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Night-Side of Nature: Ghosts and Ghost-Seers" by Catherine Ann Crowe. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Download or read book The Night Side of Nature Or Ghosts and Ghost Seers written by Catherine Crowe and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book East Coast Ghosts written by Charles Gordon Waugh and published by B B& A Publishers. This book was released on 1989 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thrills, tears, and laughter await the reader in this Devil's dozen of delights by such authors as John D. MacDonald, Henry James and Ambrose Bierce. On the rocky coast of Maine you climb into horror as a peglegged lighthouse keeper probes his employer's secret. In primordial swamps of Florida, you itch with excitement as an elusive hotrodder knifes through roadblocks like a phantom. In between, you dodge a small psychic vampire in New Enlgand, are hassled by the premature ghost of your girlfriend in New Jersey, investigate a luminescent presence in Pennsylvania coal mine and much more!

Download or read book The night side of nature or Ghosts and ghost seers written by Catharine Crowe and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Night Side of Nature Or Ghosts and Ghost Seers written by Catherine Crowe and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-22 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Night Side of Nature' by Catherine Crowe is a groundbreaking study of the supernatural that challenges the dismissive attitude towards paranormal phenomena by the educated classes. Crowe's work is based on a vast collection of compelling anecdotes of hauntings, ghostly events, and psychic experiences that are too numerous and well-known to be disregarded as mere imagination. She argues that people are spirits that continue to exist after death, and that their moral state in life determines their spiritual state in death. Crowe's work remains relevant today as it explores the science and philosophy behind the supernatural, making it an essential read for anyone interested in parapsychology and the occult.

Download or read book Ghost on the Path written by Gail A. Webber and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2016-11-18 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1600s, a brutal massacre on an island off the coast of New England leaves only one survivor: Sarah. Wounded and alone in the carnage, she fights to stay alive as she waits for her rescuers. Each night, she returns to a group of boulders along a path to the beach and listens to scavengers feed. That path is where she finally dies, but her spirit lingers on. For more than three centuries, Sarahs ghost waits in the rocks for someone to save her. Most walk her path safely, but if they harbor dark emotionsanger, regret, hopelessness, or griefshe awakens. Sarahs spirit does not carry ill intent, but her presence magnifies the darkness in anyone she touches, producing rage, violence, suicide, or madness. Few manage to escape. Three groups in particular encounter Sarahs ghost: a whaling family in the 1800s, a young boy in the 1940s, and an elderly man in the present day. Each of them wants something, each has something to learn, and each could save Sarah, but the price is high. If her ghost is ever to find peace and resolution, then someone has to risk everything for her sake.

Download or read book An Unkindness of Ghosts written by Rivers Solomon and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A breathtaking science fiction debut from a worthy successor to Octavia Butler. —One of Esquire magazine’s 50 Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time “Solomon debuts with a raw distillation of slavery, feudalism, prison, and religion that kicks like rotgut moonshine . . . Stunning.” —Publishers Weekly, Starred Review Aster has little to offer folks in the way of rebuttal when they call her ogre and freak. She’s used to the names; she only wishes there was more truth to them. If she were truly a monster, she’d be powerful enough to tear down the walls around her until nothing remains of her world. Aster lives in the lowdeck slums of the HSS Matilda, a space vessel organized much like the antebellum South. For generations, Matilda has ferried the last of humanity to a mythical Promised Land. On its way, the ship’s leaders have imposed harsh moral restrictions and deep indignities on dark-skinned sharecroppers like Aster. Embroiled in a grudge with a brutal overseer, Aster learns there may be a way to improve her lot—if she’s willing to sow the seeds of civil war.

Download or read book The Baptism of the Holy Ghost written by Asa Mahan and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Ghost Stories and Mysteries written by J. S. LeFanu and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-09-11 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVRemaining supernatural fiction by writer many consider greatest ghost story writer of all time. Mystery stories are equally memorable. /div

Download or read book Haunted Arizona written by Charles A. Stansfield and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2010-01-15 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the arid desert to the cities of Phoenix and Tucson, Arizona is rich in tales of the paranormal.

Download or read book The Ghost Town Preservation Society written by Julie Clark Simon and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-08-03 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does the past really matter? Fleeing a failed marriage and a failed profession, a woman on the dangerous side of forty decides a Montana ghost town holds the key to the mystery of her birth. Hard-living AJ Armstrong is obsessed by history, especially her own. Abandoning her academic career, she arrives in the run-down mountain town of Misfire, Montana, armed only with her willingness to take on the world with a double-shot of irony chased down with a dose of pessimism. Roped into a temporary job at the town's weekly newspaper, AJ finds a friend in worldly-wise Rheta, a former prostitute turned editor. Rheta not only knows where all the bodies are buried in Misfire, she has a pretty good idea where AJ should seek the scandals still haunting nearby Bannack, infamous for its violent history. AJ's plan is to figure out how her roots are entangled with that ghost town's past—and then to hit the highway. Before she can escape, AJ is warned to “leave the past alone,” advice amplified by a devastating fire and a death that may or may not be accidental. But stubbornly digging through history is what AJ does best. As lives intersect and specters are raised, Bannack finally gives up its ghosts, and AJ's life is forever altered. Winner of the prestigious Utah Original Writing Competition, this novel conveys a sense of small-town Montana life as lived in the shadow of the mountains and reveals its story with sharp humor, distinctive characters, and a satisfying ending. The author is a Big Sky Country native who spent her early career as a newspaper reporter for Southwest Montana newspapers before settling down to teaching and to directing the Writing Center at Southern Utah University.

Download or read book The Ghost and the Bone Setter written by Joseph Sheridan le Fanu and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2015-10-21 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This early work by Sheridan Le Fanu was originally published in 1838. Born in Dublin in 1814, he came from a literary family of Huguenot origins; both his grandmother Alicia Sheridan Le Fanu and his great-uncle Richard Brinsley Sheridan were playwrights,

Download or read book The baptism of the holy Ghost by A Mahan and The enduement of power by C G Finney written by Asa Mahan and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Ghosts of Belfast written by Stuart Neville and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book and Winner of The Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Neville's debut remains "a flat-out terror trip" (James Ellroy) and "one of the best Irish novels, in any genre, of recent times" (John Connolly). Northern Ireland’s Troubles may be over, but peace has not erased the crimes of the past. Gerry Fegan, a former paramilitary contract killer, is haunted by the ghosts of the twelve people he slaughtered. Every night, at the point of losing his mind, he drowns their screams in drink. But it’s not enough. In order to appease the ghosts, Fegan is going to have to kill the men who gave him orders. From the greedy politicians to the corrupt security forces, the street thugs to the complacent bystanders who let it happen, all are called to account. But when Fegan’s vendetta threatens to derail a hard-won truce and destabilize the government, old comrades and enemies alike want him dead.

Download or read book The Ghost Story Megapack written by Mary Elizabeth Braddon and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2011-09-09 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hours of great reading await, with ghostly tales from some of the 19th and 20th century's most renowned authors. Here is the lineup: AT CHRIGHTON ABBEY, by Mary Elizabeth Braddon THE HAUNTED MILL, by Jerome K. Jerome THE GHOST CLUB, by John Kendrick Bangs THE SHADOWS OF THE DEAD, by Louis Becke THE ROOM IN THE TOWER, by E. F. Benson THE HAUNTED AND THE HAUNTERS, by Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton THE MIDDLE BEDROOM, by H. de Vere Stacpoole THE DRUMMER GHOST, by John William DeForest MISS JÉROMETTE AND THE CLERGYMAN, by Wilkie Collins THE SPECTRE BRIDE, by William Harrison Ainsworth THE TAPESTRIED CHAMBER; or, The Lady in the Square, by Sir Walter Scott THE OLD NURSE’S STORY, by Elizabeth Gaskell THE JUDGE’S HOUSE, by Bram Stoker AT THE END OF THE PASSAGE, by Rudyard Kipling THE WITHERED ARM, by Thomas Hardy JOHN CHARRINGTON’S WEDDING, by Edith Nesbit THE MAN OF SCIENCE, by Jerome K. Jerome WHAT DID MISS DARRINGTON SEE? by Emma B. Cobb A GHOST STORY, by Mark Twain THE SOUL OF ROSE DÉDÉ, by M.E.M. Davis THE HOUSE OF THE NIGHTMARE, by Edward Lucas White REALITY OR DELUSION? by Mrs Henry Wood FISHER’S GHOST, by John Lang THROUGH THE IVORY GATE, by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews THE COLD EMBRACE, by Mary Elizabeth Braddon And don't forget to check out all the other volumes in the "Megapack" series! Search on "Wildside Megapack" in your favorite ebook store to see the complete list...covering adventure stories, military, fantasy, ghost stories, westerns, mysteries, and much more!