Book Madness

Author : Nicholas A. Basbanes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 635 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0979949157

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A Gentle Madness by Nicholas A. Basbanes Pdf

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.

Author : Louise Penny
Publisher : Minotaur Books
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250145284

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The Madness of Crowds by Louise Penny Pdf

Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller AARP The Magazine – Recommended Summer Reading CNN – A Most Anticipated Book of August Bustle – A Most Anticipated Book of August Chief Inspector Armand Gamache returns to Three Pines in #1 New York Times bestseller Louise Penny's latest spellbinding novel You’re a coward. Time and again, as the New Year approaches, that charge is leveled against Armand Gamache. It starts innocently enough. While the residents of the Québec village of Three Pines take advantage of the deep snow to ski and toboggan, to drink hot chocolate in the bistro and share meals together, the Chief Inspector finds his holiday with his family interrupted by a simple request. He’s asked to provide security for what promises to be a non-event. A visiting Professor of Statistics will be giving a lecture at the nearby university. While he is perplexed as to why the head of homicide for the Sûreté du Québec would be assigned this task, it sounds easy enough. That is until Gamache starts looking into Professor Abigail Robinson and discovers an agenda so repulsive he begs the university to cancel the lecture. They refuse, citing academic freedom, and accuse Gamache of censorship and intellectual cowardice. Before long, Professor Robinson’s views start seeping into conversations. Spreading and infecting. So that truth and fact, reality and delusion are so confused it’s near impossible to tell them apart. Discussions become debates, debates become arguments, which turn into fights. As sides are declared, a madness takes hold. Abigail Robinson promises that, if they follow her, ça va bien aller. All will be well. But not, Gamache and his team know, for everyone. When a murder is committed it falls to Armand Gamache, his second-in-command Jean-Guy Beauvoir, and their team to investigate the crime as well as this extraordinary popular delusion. And the madness of crowds.

Author : Sam Sykes
Publisher : Orbit
Page : 611 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316363457

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Seven Blades in Black by Sam Sykes Pdf

Acclaimed author Sam Sykes returns with a brilliant new epic fantasy that introduces an unforgettable outcast mage caught between two warring empires. Her magic was stolen. She was left for dead. Betrayed by those she trusts most and her magic ripped from her, all Sal the Cacophony has left is her name, her story, and the weapon she used to carve both. But she has a will stronger than magic, and knows exactly where to go. The Scar, a land torn between powerful empires, where rogue mages go to disappear, disgraced soldiers go to die and Sal went with a blade, a gun, and a list of seven names. Revenge will be its own reward.

Author : Thomas Frognall Dibdin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 804 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Bibliographical literature
ISBN : HARVARD:32044012736112

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Bibliomania by Thomas Frognall Dibdin Pdf

Author : Regina O'Melveny
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316195829

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The Book of Madness and Cures by Regina O'Melveny Pdf

Dr. Gabriella Mondini, a strong-willed, young Venetian woman, has followed her father in the path of medicine. She possesses a singleminded passion for the art of physick, even though, in 1590, the male-dominated establishment is reluctant to accept a woman doctor. So when her father disappears on a mysterious journey, Gabriella's own status in the Venetian medical society is threatened. Her father has left clues -- beautiful, thoughtful, sometimes torrid, and often enigmatic letters from his travels as he researches his vast encyclopedia, The Book of Diseases. After ten years of missing his kindness, insight, and guidance, Gabriella decides to set off on a quest to find him -- a daunting journey that will take her through great university cities, centers of medicine, and remote villages across Europe. Despite setbacks, wary strangers, and the menaces of the road, the young doctor bravely follows the clues to her lost father, all while taking notes on maladies and treating the ill to supplement her own work. Gorgeous and brilliantly written, and filled with details about science, medicine, food, and madness, The Book of Madness and Cures is an unforgettable debut.

Author : Denise Gigante
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780300265217

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Book Madness by Denise Gigante Pdf

The fascinating history of American bookishness as told through the sale of Charles Lamb’s library in 1848 Charles Lamb’s library—a heap of sixty scruffy old books singed with smoke, soaked with gin, sprinkled with crumbs, stripped of illustrations, and bescribbled by the essayist and his literary friends—caused a sensation when it was sold in New York in 1848. The transatlantic book world watched as the relics of a man revered as the patron saint of book collectors were dispersed. Following those books through the stories of the bibliophiles who shaped intellectual life in America—booksellers, publishers, journalists, editors, bibliographers, librarians, actors, antiquarians, philanthropists, politicians, poets, clergymen—Denise Gigante brings to life a lost world of letters at a time when Americans were busy assembling the country’s major public, university, and society libraries. A human tale of loss, obsession, and spiritual survival, this book reveals the magical power books can have to bring people together and will be an absorbing read for anyone interested in what makes a book special.

Author : Thomas Frognall Dibdin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 750 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1842
Category : Bibliographical literature
ISBN : BML:37001101896772

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Bibliomania, Or Book Madness by Thomas Frognall Dibdin Pdf

Author : Roy Porter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Insanity (Law).
ISBN : 0571143881

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The Faber Book of Madness by Roy Porter Pdf

It is true that little is known about the mind and for that matter the mind in the state of derangement. This book does not unlock the secrets of either but it does give the reader a look into the different states and perhaps possible causes that lead to insanity. The author provides a collaboration of letters taken from history that describes the point of view of the patient and their families as well as the physicians who dealt with the patients.

Author : Thomas Frognall Dibdin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 814 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1811
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z164433401

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Bibliomania; Or Book Madness, a Bibliographical Romance in 6 Parts by Thomas Frognall Dibdin Pdf

Author : Andrea Daley,Lucy Costa,Peter Beresford
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781442629974

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Madness, Violence, and Power by Andrea Daley,Lucy Costa,Peter Beresford Pdf

Madness, Violence, and Power: A Critical Collection disengages from the common forms of discussion about violence related to mental health service users and survivors which position those users or survivors as more likely to enact violence or become victims of violence. Instead, this book seeks to broaden understandings of violence manifest in the lives of mental health service users/survivors, 'push' current considerations to explore the impacts of systems and institutions that manage 'abnormality', and to create and foster space to explore the role of our own communities in justice and accountability dialogues. This critical collection constitutes an integral contribution to critical scholarship on violence and mental illness by addressing a gap in the existing literature by broadening the "violence lens," and inviting an interdisciplinary conversation that is not narrowly biomedical and neuro-scientific.

Author : Thomas Frognall Dibdin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1842
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0027073015

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The Bibliomania; Or, Book-madness; Containing Some Account of the History, Symptoms and Cure of this Fatal Disease. In an Epistle Addressed to Richard Heber by Thomas Frognall Dibdin Pdf

Author : Douglas Murray
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781635579994

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The Madness of Crowds by Douglas Murray Pdf

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Updated with a new afterword "An excellent take on the lunacy affecting much of the world today. Douglas is one of the bright lights that could lead us out of the darkness." – Joe Rogan "Douglas Murray fights the good fight for freedom of speech ... A truthful look at today's most divisive issues" – Jordan B. Peterson Are we living through the great derangement of our times? In The Madness of Crowds Douglas Murray investigates the dangers of 'woke' culture and the rise of identity politics. In lively, razor-sharp prose he examines the most controversial issues of our moment: sexuality, gender, technology and race, with interludes on the Marxist foundations of 'wokeness', the impact of tech and how, in an increasingly online culture, we must relearn the ability to forgive. One of the few writers who dares to counter the prevailing view and question the dramatic changes in our society – from gender reassignment for children to the impact of transgender rights on women – Murray's penetrating book, now published with a new afterword taking account of the book's reception and responding to the worldwide Black Lives Matter protests, clears a path of sanity through the fog of our modern predicament.

Author : Marion Roach
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1986-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0671626302

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Another Name for Madness by Marion Roach Pdf

Author : Travis Jonker
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-09
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781683353805

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The Very Last Castle by Travis Jonker Pdf

A curious little girl watches the man who guards the last castle in town. Every time she passes by him, she tries to catch his eye. While the other townspeople fear what may be locked up inside the mysterious castle, the girl finally gets up the courage to knock on the door and find out what’s really behind the gate. A story about overcoming fear of the unknown, trying new things, and reaching out to make new friends, The Very Last Castle shows that bravery comes in packages both big and small.

Author : J. K. Wing
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781412832731

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Reasoning About Madness by J. K. Wing Pdf

The exact definition of "madness" remains elusive. There are difficulties in distinguishing the criminal from the mad or, more euphemistically, the mentally ill. Controversy has centered on the frightening potential possessed by the state to deprive of his rights the individual officially classified as mad. In this book, Wing, a psychiatrist of international repute, argues for a limited medical definition of mental illness, although he explains how even a doctor's professional judgment may often be influenced by social pressures. He compares concepts of madness prevalent in different types of society, examining, for example, the Marxist attitude towards the deviant in a socialist state. In a chapter which draws much from his own experience, he shows precisely how the apparatus of state medicine is used to suppress political dissidence in Russia. He also critically reviews the petty tyrannies prevalent in the West and tackles the difficult analytical problem of schizophrenia, a subject on which he is one of the most respected medical authorities. Reasoning about Madness is an original and important work in which the author successfully resists the temptation to erect "grand theories that explain nothing because they attempt to explain everything." Instead, he concentrates on developing a definition of madness which strikes a balance between the benefits of medical care and the preservation of human liberties.