Download or read book A Gentle Madness written by Nicholas A. Basbanes and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 635 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Gentle Madness continues to astound and delight readers about the passion and expense a collector is willing to make in pursuit of the book. The book captures that last moment in time when collectors pursued their passions in dusty bookshops and street stalls, high stakes auctions, and the subterfuge worthy of a true bibliomaniac. An adventure among the afflicted, A Gentle Madness is vividly anecdotal and thoroughly researched. Nicholas Basbanes brings an investigative reporter's heart to illuminate collectors past and present in their pursuit of bibliomania. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year.

Download or read book The Psychopath Test written by Jon Ronson and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-06-03 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if society wasn't fundamentally rational, but was motivated by insanity? This thought sets Jon Ronson on an utterly compelling adventure into the world of madness. Along the way, Jon meets psychopaths, those whose lives have been touched by madness and those whose job it is to diagnose it, including the influential psychologist who developed the Psychopath Test, from whom Jon learns the art of psychopath-spotting. A skill which seemingly reveals that madness could indeed be at the heart of everything . . . Combining Jon Ronson's trademark humour, charm and investigative incision, The Psychopath Test is both entertaining and honest, unearthing dangerous truths and asking serious questions about how we define normality in a world where we are increasingly judged by our maddest edges. 'The belly laughs come thick and fast – my God, he is funny . . . provocative and interesting' – Observer

Download or read book Checker Madness written by Byron Babbish and published by . This book was released on 2014-02-16 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Train Madness and Car Madness, Checker Madness is the story of owning Checker Cab automobiles. It continues the series of Madness books by the author.Checker Madness begins by chronicling the author's purchase of a 1982 Checker Marathon that he bought new from Checker Motors Corporation of Kalamazoo, Michigan as his daily driver. This was the last year of car production by Checker Motors and the author was able to purchase one of the last Checker Cabs built. Checker Madness tells the stories that come with buying a new Checker car and owning it for 31 years, driving it to work, raising kids with it, taking it to car shows and maintaining it. Checker Madness then continues with the story of the author buying a second used 1979 Checker Cab for his son as his first car when he was in high school. Checker Madness tells the stories of finding this second Checker Cab, bringing it home, his son's restoration of it with his friend, driving it to school and car shows and owning it and keeping it running for ten plus years.The stories go beyond just the cars' facts to include the many adventures and escapades the author and his son had with their Checker Cabs. Included are many photographs, mostly in color, from the author's photographs of his Checkers.If you or someone you know loves Checker Cabs or cars in general, this book of owning a classic car like the Checker Cab is a must have. Even if you don't know about Checker Cabs this book will stir memories of some classic car in your life and how much fun it was to own, drive and maintain.

Download or read book The Traveler and the Gate Checkers written by Ted Lerner and published by Asiatype, Inc.. This book was released on 2003 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For most people, life comes down to a daily chore of pile management. But for a traveler like Ted Lerner, life often revolves around dealing with gate checkers. Gate checkers? Yes, those people given a badge, a stamp and the authority to stop you from getting where you want to go.In this his second book, the American author of the hilarious Philippine adventure, "Hey, Joe," takes to the road in the gate checker capital of the world, Asia. No matter the obstacles, though, Lerner never fails to uncover the juicy stories and one-of-a-kind experiences which can only be found in the world's largest and most populated continent.From the sheer madness, and brilliance, of tortuously crowded India, to the wildly popular and barbaric realm of Japanese professional wrestling, to high class Hong Kong and its notorious, low down landmark, to jaded Thailand and untouched Laos and, finally, revisiting the teeming and seedy heart of Manila, this collection of five original travel tales will bring you decidedly off the beaten path, roaming as few foreigners dare, on journeys as unique as the countries themselves.Part travelogue, part reportage, part outrageously good fun, with everything from sex to death and all the colorful life in between, Ted Lerner's The Traveler and the Gate Checkers presents a fresh and unusual version of Asia. So open your heart and mind and get ready for the ride. But remember; watch out for those gate checkers!

Download or read book Wings of Madness written by Paul Hoffman and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2003 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "By the turn of the century, Santos-Dumont had moved to Paris. Soon, the dashing and impeccably dressed aeronaut was barhopping around the city in a one-man dirigible he invented, circling above crowds and crashing into rooftops. Eventually, he would join the world-wide competition to build the first true airplane. Once he succeeded, the press hailed him as the man who had conquered the air. (Because the Wright brothers worked in near secrecy, word of their first flights had not widely reached Europe when Santos-Dumon took to the skies.) His picture appeared on cigar boxes and dinner plates and he dined regularly with the Cartiers, the Rothschilds, and the Roosevelts, hosting "aerial dinners" in which his guests ate at an elevated table so they could imagine how it felt to be above the world." "But all would change after Santos-Dumont witnessed the destructive capacity of flying machines in World War I."--BOOK JACKET.

Download or read book Fact Checking the Fact Checkers written by Matt Palumbo and published by Liberatio Protocol. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who fact-checks the fact-checkers? An industry that started in the 1990s by fact-checking chain emails and Bigfoot sightings has evolved over the past decade into the American political left’s strongest tool in justifying the censorship of their political opposition and shaping the national narrative in their favor. There may have been a brief era where the fact-checkers fact-checked facts—now they fact-check reality itself.

Download or read book Literal Madness written by Kathy Acker and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of three novels from the experimental feminist writer: “Literal Madness is Acker at her most powerful, disturbing, and provocative.” —Catherine Texier, author of Victorine Kathy Goes to Haiti, the first of three novels in Literal Madness, “speaks to us out of a delightful mock-naivete that reminds one at times of the Dick and Jane readers rewritten as manuals for politics and sex . . . At once hilarious and terrifying, [it] has all the logic of a Caribbean tour and a nightmare combined” (Los Angeles Times). My Death My Life by Pier Paolo Pasolini—wherein, among other things, the late Italian filmmaker solves his own murder, with the help of, among others, Romeo, Juliet, and the Bronté sisters—is a “scathing commentary on false values in art” (The Hartford Courant). In the haunting Florida, Acker achieves “a nearly telegraphic reduction of the Bogart-Bacall movie Key Largo to fatalistic, tough-guy essentials” (Booklist). “There’s a haunting method to Acker’s ‘madness’: a rough, raw, erudite wail against the postmodern loss of meaning and emotion.” —Kirkus Reviews

Download or read book Viva La Madness written by J. J. Connolly and published by Prelude Books. This book was released on 2011-09-21 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hiding out in the Carribean until the heat dies down from his last job, X is thinking it’s time to ditch the resort life and calls up his old friend Morty to plot his return to London. But he’s hardly stepped off the plane when his associates, Sonny King and Roy ‘Twitchy’ Burns, get on the wrong side of a feuding Venezuelan drug cartel on the hunt for a sensitive package. Suddenly he’s thrown into a stand-off between rival mobs and with so many players in the game it’s tough going making out who wants to cut him a deal and who’s trying to kill him. Darkly comic, fast-paced and full of twists Viva la Madness is packed with sex, scams, drugs and enough dirty money to fill a few offshore bank accounts.

Download or read book Market Madness written by Blake C. Clayton and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Market Madness, Dr. Blake Clayton, a Wall Street stock analyst and former Oxford researcher, draws on a century's worth of statistical data to offer a revolutionary new look the history of oil and future of energy. The culmination of a multi-year study, he shows how generational fears about an imminent, irreversible shortage of oil punctuate the history of oil since its earliest days. He explores the conditions in which oil supply fears arise, gain popularity, and eventually wane, and shows how important such stories can be in affecting financial markets. He links these episodes to the behavioral concept of irrational exuberance and new era economic thinking, first popularized by Nobel Laureate Yale economist Robert Shiller, to show how unfounded pessimism affects the market for oil and other exhaustible resources. Acknowledging the significant geological and structural changes the oil market has undergone over the last century, the book does not dismiss today's shortage fears out of hand, but asks what they reveal about how commodity markets function and what that means for investors and public officials. Clayton argues that the lessons to be learned from this history are the need for quality data about US and global oil reserves, the importance of clear communication from public officials about energy markets and resources, and the value of transparency in commodities markets. While these measures will not eliminate volatility and unpredictability in energy markets, he writes, they would mitigateunnecessary price spikes and improve investor and government decision-making. The book addresses popular debates in economics and finance on how mass beliefs affect financial markets while also offering a colorful narrative history for general readers about the dramatic booms and busts of the American oil industry"--

Download or read book Yhwh written by Monique Churchill and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2020-03-12 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you think that there is no hope for you? Do you feel that you’re too far gone and that life has past you by? Do you suffer with depression, anxiety or just feeling like you’re a failure who should apologize for breathing? There is hope. If Monique Churchill can claw her way from completely bonkers to sanity then you can too. Be open to the possibility of choosing YHWH: Journey to Not Crazy

Download or read book Deep Madness Shattered Seas written by Byron Leavitt and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Minds. Seas. Dimensions. All will shatter like glass.His muscles elastic and his mind fragmented, Connor Durham awakens on an unknown beach. In the distance before him is a black tower whose peak rises to meet the clouds. In the water behind him are beings who used to be human, their bodies warping and twisting into horrific new configurations. With nowhere else to turn, Connor runs for the tower. In the Kadath deep-sea mining facility, Lucas Kane feels haunted. He dreams of lives he never lived and hears whispers from people who don't exist. During his days, four grey figures vibrate in and out of focus behind him, their words mostly unintelligible mutters. But there's something else, too, which he sees while both awake and asleep: a sphere, massive, metallic, and beautiful, which awaits him outside Kadath's walls at the bottom of the ocean. Separated by dimensions, these two men - and their unfolding stories - are intrinsically linked. As they descend deeper into the dark terrors of the unknown, they will draw inextricably closer together until, at last, both men find themselves trapped in the very depths of otherworldly madness. Welcome to Shattered Seas.

Download or read book Motorcycle Madness and Midnight Manicotti written by Elizabeth Heaton and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-05-16 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parents will go to almost ANY lengths for their kids, even grown kids. This is a wild tale of parents who leave their home in England, and put their own lives and careers "on hold" to fly to NYC, to help their daughter, Willa, whom they suspect may be having a nervous breakdown. She flees the restaurant where she's a chef, to head to California to start up her own eatery. Her parents, Liz and Colin Archer decide to hop on a motorcycle and travel the East Coast, Canada and the rest of America, in her tracks, all the way to Santa Monica, California, to help their daughter make her dream of having her own restaurant come true. Follow along on this zany, wild goose chase, to far flung locales, and bizarre situations.

Download or read book The Madness Underneath Shades of London Book 2 written by Maureen Johnson and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2013-02-28 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When madness stalks the streets of London, no one is safe...

Download or read book Flirting with Madness written by Lecturer in Law Louise Ellison and published by Chipmunkapublishing ltd. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Description'Flirting with Madness, ' focuses upon the mental illnesses, Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and Depression. 'Flirting with Madness' is written under the pen name of Louise Ellison. This is due to the confidentiality of her occupation and to protect the identities of those she is close to. This book is a raw and honest account of her experiences as a sufferer of mental illness, told in a sensitive and wry manner. It focuses upon the relationship between counsellor Maggie and Louise. It was Maggie's use of Dialectical Behavioural Therapy that provided Louise with the skills to deal with the possibility of living with BPD in conjunction with OCD and Depression. Alongside the details of therapy sessions, 'Flirting with Madness, ' contains unedited diary entries that provide the reader with honest and accurate thoughts of a mental health sufferer. 'Flirting with Madness' is the words of a young woman struggling to find her identity in the world and make sense of what is 'normal' whilst trying to stay on the correct side of the borderline. I hope you enjoy this honest account. About the AuthorLouise Ellison is a pen name chosen to protect the identities of those she loves and the confidentiality of her profession. She is a sufferer of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Depression and undergone treatment for Borderline Personality Disorder. Born in 1985, in Northern England, Louise has suffered with mental illness since she was an infant and has been through the adolescent and adult mental health services. Louise Ellison graduated from The University of Teesside with a 2:1 hons in Criminology with Law and has worked in the Criminal Justice System for over 8 years within the Prison Service and Youth Offending Service. Heavily influenced by the new wave music and literature movement, Louise is liberal in her political views. Louise is also a keen musician who plays bass and sings a band from the north of England.

Download or read book Stalking Irish Madness written by Patrick Tracey and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2008-08-26 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this powerful, sometimes harrowing, deeply felt story, Patrick Tracey journeys to Ireland to track the origin and solve the mystery of his Irish-American family's multigenerational struggle with schizophrenia. For most Irish Americans, a trip to Ireland is often an occasion to revisit their family's roots. But for Patrick Tracey, the lure of his ancestral home is a much more powerful need: part pilgrimage, part investigation to confront the genealogical mystery of schizophrenia–a disease that had claimed a great-great-great-grandmother, a grandmother, an uncle, and, most recently, two sisters. As long as Tracey could remember, schizophrenia ran on his mother's side, seldom spoken of outright but impossible to ignore. Devastated by the emotional toll the disease had already taken on his family, terrified of passing it on to any children he might have, and inspired by the recent discovery of the first genetic link to schizophrenia, Tracey followed his genealogical trail from Boston to Ireland's county Roscommon, home of his oldest-known schizophrenic ancestor. In a renovated camper, Tracey crossed the Emerald Isle to investigate the country that, until the 1960s, had the world's highest rate of institutionalization for mental illness, following clues and separating fact from fiction in the legendary relationship the Irish have had with madness. Tracey's path leads from fairy mounds and ancient caverns still shrouded in superstition to old pubs whose colorful inhabitants are a treasure trove of local lore. He visits the massive and grim asylum where his famine starved ancestors may have lived. And he interviews the Irish research team that first cracked the schizophrenic code to learn how much–and how little–we know about this often misunderstood disease. Filled with history, science, and lore, Stalking Irish Madness is an unforgettable chronicle of one man's attempt to make sense of his family's past and to find hope for the future of schizophrenic patients. From the Hardcover edition.

Download or read book Checker Crazy written by Michele Claiborne and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Checking C Programs with Lint written by Ian F. Darwin and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 1988 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using lint. Dealing with lint's concerns. Using lint in detail. Limits to lint. Under the hood. An evaluation of lint. Future directions. Appendixes. Bibliography. Index.