Discreet Madness

Author : Mindy McGinnis
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780062320889

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A Madness So Discreet by Mindy McGinnis Pdf

Edgar Award for Best Young Adult Mystery Mindy McGinnis, the acclaimed author of Not a Drop to Drink and In a Handful of Dust, combines murder, madness, and mystery in a beautifully twisted gothic historical thriller perfect for fans of novels such as Asylum and The Diviners as well as television's True Detective and American Horror Story. Grace Mae is already familiar with madness when family secrets and the bulge in her belly send her to an insane asylum—but it is in the darkness that she finds a new lease on life. When a visiting doctor interested in criminal psychology recognizes Grace's brilliant mind beneath her rage, he recruits her as his assistant. Continuing to operate under the cloak of madness at crime scenes allows her to gather clues from bystanders who believe her less than human. Now comfortable in an ethical asylum, Grace finds friends—and hope. But gruesome nights bring Grace and the doctor into the circle of a killer who will bring her shaky sanity and the demons in her past dangerously close to the surface.

Author : Darian Leader
Publisher : Penguin Books
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Health and fitness
ISBN : 0141047356

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What is Madness? by Darian Leader Pdf

What separates the sane from the mad? How hard or easy is it to tell them apart? And what if the difference is really between being mad and going mad? In this landmark work Darian Leader undermines common conceptions of madness. Through case studies like that of the apparently 'normal' Harold Shipman, he shows that madness rarely conforms to the images we might expect. By exploring the idea of 'quiet madness' - that psychosis and an uneventful normal life are absolutely compatible - he argues that we must radically revise our understanding of madness. Once we realise that psychosis can be stable and contained, we have valuable tools to help those who have been less fortunate and whose psychosis has already been triggered. 'Fascinating. A formidable grasp of psychiatric history and a storyteller's flair for detail. What Leader does so effectively is to give us a sense of what it might be like to live inside the mind of a psychotic. A humane and timely book.' New Statesman 'Superb insights, brilliant.' Observer 'Leader's insights could have radical consequences for the way we regard madness.' Daily Telegraph 'Witty, probing. A myth-busting diagnosis of the method in our madness.' Independent 'Provides valuable insights into how psychiatry can help those who have suffered psychosis to rebuild their lives.' Sunday Times

Author : Sahara Kelly
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1514245973

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Discreet Madness by Sahara Kelly Pdf

Four women, trapped in the mold assigned them by the society in which they live. But inside each burns an independent spirit and when they meet the right man, the fires of passion erupt. They might be Regency belles, but they're all women of intelligence and honor. Lucky the gentlemen privileged to love them!!

Author : Edward John Hamilton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Psychology
ISBN : UOM:39015026431455

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The Human Mind by Edward John Hamilton Pdf

Author : Deane Blackler
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1571133518

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Reading W. G. Sebald by Deane Blackler Pdf

A daring new view of Sebald's works and the reading practice they call forth. W. G. Sebald was born in 1944 in Germany. He found his way as a young academic to England and a career as professor of German. Only between the late 1980s and his untimely death in 2001 did he concentrate on nonacademic writing, crafting a new kind of prose work that shares features with but remains distinct from the novel, essay, travel writing, and memoir forms and gaining elevation to the first rank of writers internationally. No less a critic than Susan Sontag was moved to ask "Is literary greatness still possible?," implying that it was and that she had found it embodied in his writing. Deane Blackler explores Sebald's biography before analyzing the reading practice his textscall forth: that of a "disobedient reader," a proactive reader challenged to question the text by Sebald's peculiar use of poetic language, the pseudoautobiographical voice of his narrators, the seemingly documentary photographs he inserted into his books, and by his exquisite representations of place. Blackler reads Sebald's fiction as adventurous and disobedient in its formulation, an imaginative revitalization of literary fiction for the third millennium. Deane Blackler received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature in 2005 from the University of Tasmania.

Author : Edward John Hamilton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Psychology
ISBN : UOM:39015026309917

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Mental Science by Edward John Hamilton Pdf

""Mental Science," therefore, is now offered as an educational manual, and as a compend for the reading of those who would inform themselves respecting the doctrines of an earnest philosophy without entering upon non-essential details. The majority of the discussions have been not merely abridged, but simplified; a considerable number have been entirely re-written. Some chapters, too, which are devoted to logical questions, and which may prove serviceable in connection with some future effort, have been omitted. It has, however, been the aim to present a true theory of every normal activity of the intellect"--Preface

Author : Alison Clarey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2000-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0738814369

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Discreet Madness by Alison Clarey Pdf

Discreet Madness is written as a murder mystery, and the killer’s identity is not revealed until over half way through the novel. Suspense and terror are mixed with horror and fear as evil lives and exists in the most innocent and unexpected place. The stalker, Romeo, lives in a small community where suddenly you are stalked, and you have no idea of the stalker’s identity. Imagine the madness and evil of his acts, and you are on a journey with him that you can not escape. His violent acts delight and satisfy him. He knows no limits, no restrictions. He makes the rules and you follow as a puppet, a terrified puppet dangling from his strings, at his mercy and madness. A discreet madness that no one, including you, could see. A small town in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula is terrorized with the discovery that a killer is living in their midst. It they did not believe in the existence of evil before, they are now convinced that evil lives among them. Fear and frustration permeate the community. Imagine being stalked and journey into the mind of madness.

Author : Fred Sedgwick
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780335263233

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EBOOK: Teaching Shakespeare to Develop Children's Writing: A Practical Guide: 9-12 years by Fred Sedgwick Pdf

Shakespeare's words belong to all of us. This book offers 87 lessons full of practical advice on how to teach Shakespeare to young children, with the knowledge that the best way to learn about the playwright is to write in the grip of his words. In this exciting and accessible book, Fred Sedgwick, who has been teaching Shakespeare to KS2 children for many years, offers techniques for introducing some of the plays, starting with A Midsummer Night's Dream, to children between the ages of nine and twelve. These ideas will help them to write, act and draw in the grip of the greatest of writers. Above all, they will help children enjoy Shakespeare's words, and extend the power of their own words. Any teacher concerned with literacy, however nervous she or he may be about approaching Shakespeare, will find this book practical and inspiring.

Author : Akihito Suzuki
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2006-03-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520932210

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Madness at Home by Akihito Suzuki Pdf

The history of psychiatric institutions and the psychiatric profession is by now familiar: asylums multiplied in nineteenth-century England and psychiatry established itself as a medical specialty around the same time. We are, however, largely ignorant about madness at home in this key period: what were the family’s attitudes toward its insane member, what were patient’s lives like when they remained at home? Until now, most accounts have suggested that the family and community gradually abdicated responsibility for taking care of mentally ill members to the doctors who ran the asylums. However, this provocatively argued study, painting a fascinating picture of how families viewed and managed madness, suggests that the family actually played a critical role in caring for the insane and in the development of psychiatry itself. Akihito Suzuki’s richly detailed social history includes several fascinating case histories, looks closely at little studied source material including press reports of formal legal declarations of insanity, or Commissions of Lunacy, and also provides an illuminating historical perspective on our own day and age, when the mentally ill are mainly treated in home and community.

Author : Andrew Sullivan
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780804152266

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Love Undetectable by Andrew Sullivan Pdf

"I intend to be among the first generation that survives this disease." That was former New Republic editor Andrew Sullivan's first public statement about his HIV diagnosis. Speaking to heterosexual and homosexual audiences alike, this book is about the first steps in that journey of survival. If Sullivan's acclaimed first book, Virtually Normal, was about politics, this long-awaited sequel is about life. In a memoir in the form of three essays, Sullivan asks hard questions about his own life and others'. Can the practice of friendship ever compensate for a life without love? Is sex at war or at peace with spirituality? Can faith endure the randomness of death? Is homosexuality genetic or environmental? Love Undetectable, then, refers to many things: to a virus that, for many, has become "undetectable" in the bloodstream thanks to new drugs, and to the failed search for love and intimacy that helped spread it; to the love of God, which in times of plague seems particularly hard to find and understand; to a sexual orientation long pathologized and denied any status as an equal form of human love; and to the love between friends, a love ignored when it isn't demeaned, and obscured by the more useful imperatives of family and society. In a work destined to be as controversial as his first book, Sullivan takes on religious authorities and gay activists; talks candidly about his own promiscuity and search for love; revisits Freud in the origins of homosexuality; and makes one of the more memorable modern cases for elevating the virtue of friendship over the satisfactions of love. Scholarly, impassioned, wide-ranging, and embattled, Love Undetectable is a book that is ultimately not about homosexuality or plague, but about humanity and mortality.

Author : Heron
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 944 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1821
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600021555

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Conversation; or, Shades of difference by Heron Pdf

Author : Gilbert Austin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1806
Category : Gesture
ISBN : OXFORD:600028947

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Chironomia; or, A treatise on rhetorical delivery by Gilbert Austin Pdf

Author : Josephine Johnson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781982177492

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The Inland Island by Josephine Johnson Pdf

The author shares experiences and insights into one year's efforts to revert the author's and her husband's thirty-seven acre farm in Ohio back to wilderness, reflecting as well on many social and environmental issues of the United States in the 20th century.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2003-05-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781139835275

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Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare Pdf

The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with accounts of new critical, stage and screen interpretations. This second edition of Romeo and Juliet retains the text prepared by G. Blakemore Evans, together with his introduction and detailed textual notes. A thorough stage history features illustrations and photographs of notable performances from the eighteenth century onwards while a lucid commentary alerts the reader to the difficulties of language, thought and staging. For this second edition, Thomas Moisan has added a new introductory section which focuses on recent scholarly criticism and contemporary productions of the play. The reading list has also been revised and updated.

Author : Gilbert Austin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1806
Category : Gesture
ISBN : PRNC:32101067483410

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Chironomia by Gilbert Austin Pdf