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Download or read book Bedlam Burning written by Geoff Nicholson and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 2003-12-30 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed author of Bleeding London spins a yarn of academia, lunacy, and the blurry lines between them in this Whitbread Prize–finalist novel. It all starts at Cambridge University, where Dr. John Bentley throws his book burning parties—“a little active, symbolic literary criticism”—in which guests are invited to state their grudges against their least favorite books, and then toss them into a fire. It is at one such party that the brilliant but sheepish Gregory Collins meets Mike Smith, a handsome classmate. They become fast friends. And then their friendship takes a decidedly strange turn. When Gregory’s first novel, The Wax Man, is published, he convinces Mike to take his place on the book jacket. Now Mike is the one invited to be a writer-in-residence at an insane asylum run by Dr. Eric Kincaid, whose obscure therapeutic philosophy centers on the soothing powers of literature. When Mike compiles a book of the inmates’ writings, and it becomes a literary success, this comedy of errors threatens to take another, far darker turn. “Completely addictive and very, very funny. Great.” —Jonathan Lethem, author of A Gambler’s Anatomy “Donald Westlake meets Ken Kesey in this . . . compulsively good read.” —Library Journal
Download or read book Bedlam Burning written by Geoff Nicholson and published by . This book was released on 2002-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It all starts at Cambridge, in the rooms of Dr John Bentley, an eccentric don famous for his book-burning parties. Mike Smith is handsome, clever but untalented; Gregory Collins is unprepossessing of face and form, but, it will transpire, a novelist of enormous promise. When Gregory¿s first novel is published, he persuades Smith to take his place on the book jacket, on the grounds that nobody would buy a novel by an ugly novelist, however talented. Thus is set in train a chain of events which leads to Mike Smith becoming writer-in-residence in a mental hospital. The therapy of the charismatic but possibly fraudulent Dr Kincaid is based on the theory that people are driven mad by an overload of images; all such are banned in the hospital, but words are encouraged, hence Smith¿s job. It is only when a book of the patients¿ writings, teased out of them by Mike, is published and becomes a literary succes d¿estime that this comedy of errors of judgement threatens to become a tragedy ¿
Book Synopsis Beasts of the Field by : Richard Steven Street
Download or read book Beasts of the Field written by Richard Steven Street and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by one of America's preeminent labor historians, this book is the definitive account of one of the most spectacular, captivating, complex and strangely neglected stories in Western history--the emergence of migratory farmworkers and the development of California agriculture. Street has systematically worked his way through a mountain of archival materials--more than 500 manuscript collections, scattered in 22 states, including Spain and Mexico--to follow the farmworker story from its beginnings on Spanish missions into the second decade of the twentieth century. The result is a comprehensive tour de force. Scene by scene, the epic narrative clarifies and breathes new life into a controversial and instructive saga long surrounded by myth, conjecture, and scholarly neglect. With its panoramic view spanning 144 years and moving from the US-Mexico border to Oregon, Beasts of the Field reveals diverse patterns of life and labor in the fields that varied among different crops, regions, time periods, and racial and ethic groups. Enormous in scope, packed with surprising twists and turns, and devastating in impact, this compelling, revelatory work of American social history will inform generations to come of the history of California and the nation.
Book Synopsis A Brief History of Stigma by : Ashley L. Peterson
Download or read book A Brief History of Stigma written by Ashley L. Peterson and published by Mental Health @ Home Books. This book was released on 2021-11-08 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stigma can have a huge impact on the lives of people living with mental illness. That needs to change, but how can we make it happen? A Brief History of Stigma explores the past and present of stigma to give a solid basis to examine strategies to reduce stigma and critically evaluate their effectiveness. It also incorporates the author's experiences as a former mental health nurse living with a chronic mental illness. The book is divided into three parts. Part I explores what exactly stigma is, including relevant sociological theory and common stereotypes. Part II looks at some of the contexts in which stigma can occur, including the media and health care. Part III explores different stigma reduction strategies and what the research has to say about their effectiveness. You'll likely be surprised to learn how ineffective certain commonly used strategies are when it comes to changing public attitudes. This book is for anyone who's interested in understanding stigma and making the world a better place for people with mental illness. Together, we can create positive change!
Download or read book Enna Burning written by Shannon Hale and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-07-25 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second book in award-winning, bestselling author Shannon Hale's beloved Books of Bayern series returns with a gorgeous brand new cover.
Book Synopsis Wizard King: Wyvern Master Chronicles (Book 4) by : pdmac
Download or read book Wizard King: Wyvern Master Chronicles (Book 4) written by pdmac and published by Trimble Hollow Press. This book was released on 2022-09-22 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiach is not a happy camper. There are far too many people wanting him dead. Add to that, dragon hunters now freely roam in three of the five kingdoms. And there’s been another change of leadership at the College. Of course, that happened after the College was invaded by a neighboring kingdom. And there’s more chilling news when he learns someone has discovered Lorcyn’s sorcery and has turned a wyvern. Brendal Pendragon, Lord of the Dragons, has come to him for help. It’s now time to settle old scores and forever rid the world of dragon hunters. At the same time, he must defeat the marshalled forces of sorcery that threaten to return the world to those dark days when Lorcyn resurrected dead dragons and unleashed them to destroy his enemies. Fiach must choose. If he helps Brendal Pendragon, he could lose a kingdom. If he stays in Wyndych, he could lose everything, the College included.
Download or read book Eli,Ely written by Ezekiel Tyrus and published by hardheadpress, inc. This book was released on 2013-12-03 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eli,Ely - a San Francisco dramedy of sex, tears, and a life lived in not-so-quiet desperation Unstable, struggling writer, Eli Trocchi is in a relationship with serious grad student, Jennifer Ely. Friends speculate they hooked-up to say their own names during sex. In this tragicomedy, Miss Ely breaks up with Eli the same week he is fired from a sales job. Humiliated, the writer proceeds to have a meltdown both hilarious and sad, reflecting upon a lifetime of bad decisions, abject failure and vivid experiences. Through Eli, we discover another San Francisco, one as eccentric and deeply flawed as the character himself.
Book Synopsis Tom O'Bedlam's Night Out and Other Strange Excursions by : Darrell Schweitzer
Download or read book Tom O'Bedlam's Night Out and Other Strange Excursions written by Darrell Schweitzer and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Forbidden Vampire: The Inception, Book I by :
Download or read book The Forbidden Vampire: The Inception, Book I written by and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Lollardy and the Reformation in England: The Lollards. Royal supremacy by : James Gairdner
Download or read book Lollardy and the Reformation in England: The Lollards. Royal supremacy written by James Gairdner and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Lollardy and the Reformation in England by : James Gairdner
Download or read book Lollardy and the Reformation in England written by James Gairdner and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Crystal Ice, Cold-Blooded by : Chyna Dixon-Kennedy
Download or read book Crystal Ice, Cold-Blooded written by Chyna Dixon-Kennedy and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2014-09-03 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An invitation to a funeral that turns deadly. A series of curious kidnappings in New York. Cryptic messages from beyond the grave. A hidden stash of diamonds in a secret safe. A serial killer as cold as ice. What do these elements all have in common? Your favorite psychotherapist, Dr. Crystal Knight-Davenport, is back as the seductive siren that no man can resist. Fueled by a passion to avenge her sisters death, Crystal finds herself dodging a sex-crazed stalker and a trio of girlfriends who bring nothing but drama. Theres no end to the wild antics with this crazy crew! After an explosive turn of events lands Crystal at a crossroads, she suddenly has a lot of free time on her hands. Should she rekindle a flaming romance with her beau, Chief Inspector Don Dellevega, or attempt to pursue an exciting new career? Ultimately, Davenport and Dellevega must follow the trail of clues to solve a string of heinous crimes. As fate would have it, their choices lead down a path which ends in a stunning showdown with a sociopathic killer. Together, they go on a perilous mission to end the mysterious murders and bring a demented destroyer to justice!
Download or read book Bedlam's Edge written by Mercedes Lackey and published by Baen Publishing Enterprises. This book was released on 2005-08-01 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mercedes Lackey and Rosemary Edghill are the biggest names in the urban fantasy subgenre-where elves, banshees, trolls, and even stranger creatures walk modern city streets, their presence, and even their existence unsuspected by the human inhabitants. Now these two present a volume of all new urban fantasy, with a stellar lineup of the best new fantasy writers, such as Roberta Gellis, Dave Freer and Eric Flint, Diana Paxton, and more-including two new stories and an afterword by Mercedes Lackey herself, as well as a story by Rosemary Edghill. This is an indispensable volume for fans of urban fantasy in general, and the thousands of fans of Mercedes Lackey in particular. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).
Book Synopsis Otherland: River of Blue Fire by : Tad Williams
Download or read book Otherland: River of Blue Fire written by Tad Williams and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 1998-07-01 with total page 885 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Second book in New York Times-bestselling author Tad Williams's cyberpunk fantasy series • “Tad Williams is the brightest and best of the fantasists.” ―Neil Gaiman, author of American Gods Otherland. In many ways it is humankind's most stunning achievement: a private, multidimensional universe built over two generations by the greatest minds of the twenty-first century. But this most exclusive of places is also one of the world's best kept secrets, created and controlled by an organization made up of the world's most powerful and ruthless individuals, a private cartel known—to those who know of their existence at all—as The Grail Brotherhood. Though their purpose in creating Otherland is still a mystery, it may not remain so for long. For they have exacted a terrible price from humanity in the process, and even their highly organized global conspiracy cannot hide the nature of their crimes forever. And now a small band of adventurers has penetrated the veil of secrecy that prevents the uninitiated from entering Otherland. But having broken into the amazing worlds within worlds that make up this universe, they are trapped, unable to escape back to their own flesh-and-blood bodies in the real world. And as dangers and circumstances split their party into small, widely scattered groups, their only hope of reuniting lies in returning again and again to the River that flows—in one form or another—through all the worlds. But the odds seem to be completely against them as they—and the one outsider with whom they might join forces—become hopelessly lost in realms where an Ice Age tribe's fears can only be quenched in blood...where insects are as large and deadly as dinosaurs...where they are caught in the war between a man made of straw and one made of tin...where cartoon ads take on a life of their own...where humans strive to survive in the aftermath of an alien invasion...and where one among their party is actually The Grail Brotherhood's most terrifying weapon—a sociopathic killer who has never failed and whose current mission is to make certain that not even one member of this little invasion force lives long enough to reveal the truth about Otherland to the people of Earth...
Book Synopsis Meet the Dogs of Bedlam Farm by : Jon Katz
Download or read book Meet the Dogs of Bedlam Farm written by Jon Katz and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-04-26 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces the dogs of Bedlam Farm that inspire the author's books.
Book Synopsis Utopia Computer. The “New” in Architecture? by : Bredella, Nathalie
Download or read book Utopia Computer. The “New” in Architecture? written by Bredella, Nathalie and published by Universitätsverlag der TU Berlin. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The critical concern of the book “Utopia Computer” is the euphoria, expectation and hope inspired by the introduction of computers within architecture in the early digital age. With the advent of the personal computer and the launch of the Internet in the 1990s, utopian ideals found in architectural discourse from the 1960s were revisited and adjusted to the specific characteristics of digital media. Taking the 1990s discourse on computation as a starting point, the contributions of this book grapple with the utopian promises associated with topics such as participation, self-organization, and non-standard architecture. By placing these topics in a historical framework, the book offers perspectives for the future role computation might play within architecture and society. Die Publikation „Utopie Computer“ thematisiert die Euphorie und die Erwartungen, die mit der Einführung des Computers in der Architektur im frühen digitalen Zeitalter verbunden sind. Mit dem Aufkommen des Personal Computers und der kommerziellen Nutzung des Internets in den 1990er Jahren werden utopische Ideen, die bereits den Architekturdiskurs der 1960er Jahre prägten, aufgegriffen und an die spezifischen Möglichkeiten der digitalen Medien angepasst. Ausgehend vom Diskurs eines computer-basierten Entwerfens der 1990er Jahre setzen sich die Beiträge dieses Buches mit Entwurfskonzepten der Nachkriegszeit auseinander. Es werden Themen wie Partizipation, Selbstorganisation oder Non-Standard-Architektur in einen historischen Kontext gesetzt und Perspektiven für die zukünftige Rolle des Computers in der Architektur und Gesellschaft entwickelt.
Book Synopsis Geodesica Descent by : Sean Williams
Download or read book Geodesica Descent written by Sean Williams and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An alien artifact’s mysteries could spark humanity’s collapse in the second novel of the Geodesica Duology from the New York Times–bestselling authors. Revolution spreads like wildfire through humanity’s interstellar empire, sparked by the opening of Geodesica and the destruction of an entire inhabited system. But who was ultimately responsible? And who will pay the price? Melilah Awad and Palmer Eogan delve deeper into Geodesica’s ancient alien labyrinth than anyone has ever dared, hoping to unravel its secrets before the hunter-killers from Earth bring them down. Former Exarch of Bedlam, Isaac Forge Deangelis, finds his grip on sanity slipping as his very reason for existing is ripped from him. While a rebel Exarch and Palmer Horsfall, grieving for her lost sister, form an alliance that might tear humanity’s interstellar empire apart . . . Praise for the Geodesica Duology “Splendid fun, brimming with heroes, villains, chicanery, neat imaginative details, some seriously cool space battles, and one of the most mind-twisting alien artifacts ever imagined.” —Alastair Reynolds, award-winning author “Williams and Dix have a flair for combining slam-bang adventures, intriguing characters and cutting-edge scientific and philosophical speculations, resulting in books that elevate your adrenaline and your intellect. This latest series is no exception to their reign.” —Paul di Filippo, author of The Big Get-Even “Williams and Dix are writing first-class MMPB space opera, chock full of what we’ve come to hope for; antagonists, allies and alien artifacts in perfectly balanced doses.” —Agony Column
