Download or read book The Echoes Of Madness written by Mary Brainard and published by MSB Publishing. This book was released on with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When paranormal investigator Lila Seasons and her partner Ethan Parker arrive at the abandoned Blackwood Asylum, they expect to uncover ghost stories. What they find is far more sinister—a dark connection to Lila’s family and a malevolent force unleashed by Dr. Marcus Blackwood’s twisted experiments. As terrifying visions and a centuries-old conspiracy threaten their lives and Lila’s very soul, she faces an impossible choice: stop the evil from escaping or lose everything—including herself. The Echoes of Madness is a spine-chilling paranormal thriller that will haunt you long after the final page.

Download or read book Madness Power and the Media written by S. Harper and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-07-30 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Questioning the psychiatric construction of mental distress as 'illness', and challenging existing studies of media stigmatization, Stephen Harper argues that today's media images of mental distress are often sympathetic, yet tend to reproduce the sexist, classist, racist and individualist ideologies of contemporary capitalism.

Download or read book Waiting for an Echo written by Christine Montross and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-07-20 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A haunting and harrowing indictment . . . [a] significant achievement.” —The New York Times Book Review L.A. Times Book Prize Finalist * New York Times Book Review Paperback Row * Time Best New Books July 2020 Waiting for an Echo is a riveting, rarely seen glimpse into American jails and prisons. It is also a damning account of policies that have criminalized mental illness, shifting large numbers of people who belong in therapeutic settings into punitive ones. Dr. Christine Montross has spent her career treating the most severely ill psychiatric patients. This expertise—the mind in crisis—has enabled her to reckon with the human stories behind mass incarceration. A father attempting to weigh the impossible calculus of a plea bargain. A bright young woman whose life is derailed by addiction. Boys in a juvenile detention facility who, desperate for human connection, invent a way to communicate with one another from cell to cell. Overextended doctors and correctional officers who strive to provide care and security in environments riddled with danger. Our methods of incarceration take away not only freedom but also selfhood and soundness of mind. In a nation where 95 percent of all inmates are released from prison and return to our communities, this is a practice that punishes us all.

Download or read book Shakespearean Echoes written by Kevin J. Wetmore Jr. and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-05-07 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespearean Echoes assembles a global cast of established and emerging scholars to explore new connections between Shakespeare and contemporary culture, reflecting the complexities and conflicts of Shakespeare's current international afterlife.

Download or read book The Naraka Cycle written by Sundar Nathan and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2024-06-26 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A continuation of the saga begun with Ravan's Trial... Chakravarthi Indra tightens his grip over the realm of Naraka, where five warring kingdoms bend the knee to his might. Ravan, crown prince of Asurapura returns from his trial of seven days in the dangerous Aranya, having survived an encounter with the terrifying Simurgh creature and escaped the clutches of Devan slavers at the infamous Ayasapur iron mine. Rocked by the disappearance of his beloved sister Surpanakha and Vidhyadharan crown prince Harsha Gurung, and armed with the advice of their mysterious Teacher, Ravan and his Nagan friend Vaasuki embark from Lanka’s palaces to the forbidding wilds of Simha Aranya on a quest to find the two lost teenagers… High Praise for ‘Ravan’s Trial’ “In Ravan's Trial', Sundar Nathan delivers a tour de force of storytelling, blending ancient myth with modern sensibilities to create a work that is at once timeless and timely" - The Times of India “The Naraka Cycle is a triumph of storytelling. with a captivating combination of myth, fantasy, and adventure that will leave readers spellbound.” - Hitvada “Sundar Nathan's ‘Ravan's Trial’ embarks on a fantastical journey through ancient mythological realms, weaving a narrative replete with intrigue and adventure.” - CNN News 18 “Ravan’s Trial is gripping; familiar characters in new roles with new destinies. I enjoyed it a lot.” - Viswanathan Anand, Five Time World Chess Champion

Download or read book Injustice and Restitution written by Stephen David Ross and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1993-09-28 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the nature and injustice of authority, retracing the ideas of reason and law from ancient Greece to the present, pursuing a line of thought begun with Anaximander, who speaks of the ordinance of time as restitution for immemorial injustice, and Heraclitus, who speaks of justice as strife. Predominantly philosophical, exploring the authority of Western philosophy in twentieth-century continental and pragmatist writings, the book explores alternative voices as challenges to authority, in feminist and multicultural writings, in Greek mythology and African narratives, in Greek drama and twentieth-century literature.

Download or read book And Then the Monsters Come Out Madness Language and Power written by Fiona Ann Papps and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-01-04 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Are Racists Crazy written by Sander L. Gilman and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The connection and science behind race, racism, and mental illness In 2012, an interdisciplinary team of scientists at the University of Oxford reported that - based on their clinical experiment - the beta-blocker drug, Propranolol, could reduce implicit racial bias among its users. Shortly after the experiment, an article in Time Magazine cited the study, posing the question: Is racism becoming a mental illness? In Are Racists Crazy? Sander Gilman and James Thomas trace the idea of race and racism as psychopathological categories., from mid-19th century Europe, to contemporary America, up to the aforementioned clinical experiment at the University of Oxford, and ask a slightly different question than that posed by Time: How did racism become a mental illness? Using historical, archival, and content analysis, the authors provide a rich account of how the 19th century ‘Sciences of Man’ - including anthropology, medicine, and biology - used race as a means of defining psychopathology and how assertions about race and madness became embedded within disciplines that deal with mental health and illness. An illuminating and riveting history of the discourse on racism, antisemitism, and psychopathology, Are Racists Crazy? connects past and present claims about race and racism, showing the dangerous implications of this specious line of thought for today.

Download or read book Virginia Woolf and the Madness of Language written by Daniel Ferrer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-21 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1990, Virginia Woolf and the Madness of Language explores the relationship between madness and the disruption of linguistic and structural norms in Virginia Woolf’s modernist novels, opening new ground in Woolfian studies, as well as in psychoanalytic criticism. Focusing on Mrs Dalloway, The Waves, To the Lighthouse and Between the Acts, it investigates narrative strategies, showing that Woolf’s writings question their own origins and connection with madness and suicide. By combining textual analysis with an original use of autobiographical material, the books cause us to reconsider the full complexity of the articulation between an author’s life and work.

Download or read book Triumph of Pierrot written by Martin Green and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Echoes and Reflections written by SunHee Kim Gertz and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-01 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines tales from The Metamorphoses by the Roman poet Ovid (43 BC-18 AD) and from The Lais by the French poet Marie de France (fl. mid-to late twelfth century) to explore a paradox: how can a vibrant, complex, and timeless vision be conveyed in convention-informed and time-bound language? Marie plays against Ovid’s tales to probe the dilemma, thereby echoing Ovid who does the same to the canonical literary monuments of his day. Both poets suggest that poetry can avoid the flattening effect of monumental canonizing not only by the creative use of literary echoes, but also by shifting perspectives on the conventional, which in turn, can encourage readers to see reflections of many stories in any given tale. Ovid and Marie suggest and encourage in this manner by presenting literary love’s topoi and traditional lovers from a variety of metaliterary perspectives, thereby eliciting active readerly memory as well as providing the opportunity to see the conventional afresh, activity that allows even canonical texts to become living memorials.

Download or read book Echo of Survival written by Jessica Ghazarian and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2024-01-31 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Out of tragedy something beautiful can blossom. We can never be truly prepared for difficult circumstances, but how we react when they disrupt our lives makes all the difference. None of us is exempt from pain and suffering; yet, it is for us to choose whether we allow those burdens to strengthen or weaken us. Echo of Survival offers a wealth of perspective-altering guidance on how to turn your pain into power, your negatives into positives, your losses into wins, and your self-doubt into self-confidence. Whether you are going through a divorce, grieving the loss of a friendship, or nursing broken moments, this book will guide you to a place of confidence, reassurance, positivity, and healing. Overflowing with profound nuggets of wisdom gathered from true life experiences, empathy, admirable and high emotional intelligence, Echo of Survival will inspire you to let go of every crippling, debilitating barrier in your life and rise above it using kindness, generosity, positivity, love, and compassion. It will introduce you to the path of a Free Soul Victory. You deserve a full, healthy, happy life, and it is right there waiting for you to reach out and embrace it.

Download or read book Shan written by Eric Van Lustbader and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2017-07-18 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel of suspense and mystical adventure in China from the New York Times–bestselling author of Jian and the Nicholas Linnear series. A martial arts expert and former agent of the top secret US government agency known as the Quarry, Jake Maroc has experienced great betrayal and tragedy. Caught up in a game of shifting loyalties, assassins, and power hungry nations, he knows there are few he can trust. Now part of Hong Kong’s yuhn-hyun, the inner circle that will someday control all of Asia, Jake is poised to lead China to fulfill its ancient destiny. On a plateau in the heart of the Burmese highlands lies Shan, the holy site where men are tested and the deepest secrets of Eastern mysticism are revealed. It is here that Jake will face his greatest challenge as the fate of the world hangs in the balance. From a master known for his continuation of Robert Ludlum’s legendary Jason Bourne thrillers, as well as numerous other bestsellers, Shan is “a Far East Arthurian epic, laden with . . . dragons, mountains, fire . . . and a story line mined with mystical aphorisms” (The Wall Street Journal).

Download or read book Daedalus X written by Unathi Ndlelantle Ngada and published by Kindle Direct Publishing . This book was released on 2024-04-06 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the 1960s and a prequel to 2.37: Terror in Resonance, this novel follows the classified and recorded journal entries of Patient 46709DP, known as 'Daedalus X'. These haunting journal entries unpack some of the so-called conspiracies known to the public and the hidden secrets behind body modification and experimentation of patients to produce 'superhumans' in an effort to combat the Plague and civil wars.

Download or read book Sensate Haven Abyss written by Aaisha Daniel and published by Aaisha Daniel. This book was released on 2024-02-03 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sensate Haven is profoundly influenced by augmented reality and artificial intelligence, and it symbolizes and acts as an excellent example of technological progress. Nevertheless, there's a shadow—an unintended result of unbridled expansion—somewhere amid the glistening skyline. A digital turbulent strikes the city, revealing the murky side of networked progress. The Bodhisattvas, discovers a malevolent force that seeks revenge with a technological weapon of unimaginable power and threatens to annihilate their worlds. An unfathomable power threatens to destroy their worlds with a diabolical force that demands retribution. The menacing sound of hopelessness reverberates through Sensate Haven's broken urban landscapes, pressing the Bodhisattvas to discover the evil force's mysteries and avert the ultimate convergence—a pit of unending fear. The haunting chorus of despair echoes through misty woods and shattered cityscapes, challenging the Bodhisattvas to unravel the malevolent force's secrets and prevent the ultimate abyss of perpetual dread. The previously praised innovations are now upending the delicate balance between creation and chaos, from holographic illusions to virtual horrors. This is a compelling story about using code to play god. Will the shadows cast by its own advancements kill Sensate Haven, or can the hesitant hero face the nightmare and find a way to restore balance to a planet on the verge of technological chaos? Travel into the digital shadows, a future where creativity as well as ethics collide and where unintended consequences of technology disruption wreak havoc.

Download or read book Alabaster Shadows written by Matt Gardner and published by Oni Press. This book was released on 2015-12-09 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carter Normandy knows there's something weird about the neighborhood he and his family move into. Maybe it's the physics-defying leak in the basement, or the way all the adults seem to look down on kids like they're scum. With the help of his new friends, Carter discovers a whole other world alongside his seemingly normal community—a world filled with terrifying monsters. A world the adults of the community already know all about. Now it's up to Carter and his friends to keep these monsters from crossing over into our world, or face the dire consequences! A gorgeously illustrated mystery perfect for fans of Gravity Falls with just a hint of Lovecraftian horror.

Download or read book Keko and the Lost Bananas written by CM Snow and published by Fae Corps Inc. This book was released on 2023-05-07 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the tale of Keko the monkey, how she 'lost' her bananas, and then found them with the help of a friend and a trail of peels. This book, while fun and playful, also shows that you can solve many problems with the help of others , you don't always have to be angry with the person that caused the problem, and that you should forgive the small things