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Book Synopsis Madness in Miniature by : Camille Minichino
Download or read book Madness in Miniature written by Camille Minichino and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2021-12-25 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The grand opening of a giant chain crafts store is both good and bad news for miniaturist Gerry Porter. But when the big event is accompanied by an earthquake and a murder in the store, there's plenty of opportunity for Gerry and her computer-gifted granddaughter Maddie to help the police investigate. Did the New Yorkers bring crime to quiet Lincoln Point, or are the town's dispossessed small-business people responsible?
Book Synopsis Madness in Miniature by : Margaret Grace
Download or read book Madness in Miniature written by Margaret Grace and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The grand opening of a giant chain crafts store is both good and bad news for miniaturist Gerry Porter. But when the big event is accompanied by an earthquake and a murder in the store, there’s plenty of opportunity for Gerry and her computer-gifted granddaughter Maddie to help the police investigate. Did the New Yorkers bring crime to quiet Lincoln Point, or are the town’s dispossessed small-business people responsible? From querying suspects to drawing up alibi charts, Gerry applies her insights to various issues of personal relations—but can she solve her own with her BFF, Henry Baker?
Book Synopsis The Probability of Murder by : Camille Minichino
Download or read book The Probability of Murder written by Camille Minichino and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2019-09-07 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Math Professor Sophie Knowles finds herself in the middle of an investigation after her friend, Henley College librarian, Charlotte Crocker, is found dead in the stacks. When Sophie learns that Charlotte wasn't the quiet, law-abiding citizen she seemed to be, she sets out to determine who her friend really was, and to find her killer. As she deals with a group of lottery players, winners and losers, the odds are Sophie will solve the puzzle.
Book Synopsis A Function of Murder by : Camille Minichino
Download or read book A Function of Murder written by Camille Minichino and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Math Professor Sophie Knowles is looking forward to some time off for the summer, but things do not go as planned. The graduates are complaining about the mayor who gave the commencement address, one student is upset about her grade and vents on social media, and just when she is about to escape all of the drama to take a stroll with her helicopter pilot boyfriend, they’re interrupted by the mayor himself as he falls into the campus fountain with a knife in his back. Sophie dives into all the scandal and corruption that seems to connect to the mayor and finds his killer.
Book Synopsis The Square Root of Murder by : Camille Minichino
Download or read book The Square Root of Murder written by Camille Minichino and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2019-08-25 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Math Professor Sophie Knowles shares her teaching venue with many other math and science faculty, most of whom she gets along with. But one in particular gives Sophie and her teaching assistant, Rachel, a hard time, thus annoying both women. When this colleague, a professor of chemistry, is found dead, poisoned in his office, Rachel is the prime suspect. It’s up to Sophie to put her talent for designing and solving puzzles to use to find his killer.
Book Synopsis The Quotient of Murder by : Camille Minichino
Download or read book The Quotient of Murder written by Camille Minichino and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2019-10-13 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Math Professor Sophie Knowles becomes involved in the restoration of the campus bell tower, which has been closed for decades, ever since a student died there in a tragic accident. Sophie is curious when history seems to repeat itself—one of her students, Jenn, who was chosen to play the carillon in the new bell tower is beaten and left in a coma. Are students associated with the bell tower cursed? Sophie is determined to get to the bottom of Jenn's tragedy, which may mean digging back in history and finding out what happened twenty-five years ago.
Book Synopsis Latin American Women and the Literature of Madness by : Elvira Sánchez-Blake
Download or read book Latin American Women and the Literature of Madness written by Elvira Sánchez-Blake and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-05-11 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the turn of the millennium, narrative works by Latin American women writers have represented madness within contexts of sociopolitical strife and gender inequality. This book explores contemporary Latin American realities through madness narratives by prominent women authors, including Cristina Peri Rossi (Uruguay), Lya Luft (Brazil), Diamela Eltit (Chile), Cristina Rivera Garza (Mexico), Laura Restrepo (Colombia) and Irene Vilar (Puerto Rico). Close reading of these works reveals a pattern of literary techniques—a “poetics of madness”—employed by the writers to represent conditions that defy language, make sociopolitical crises tangible and register cultural perceptions of mental illness through literature.
Download or read book Up from Eden written by Ken Wilber and published by Quest Books. This book was released on 2007-05-16 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book chronicles humanity's cultural and psychospiritual evolutionary journey over some six million years from its primal past into its dazzling cosmic future.
Book Synopsis Murder in Miniature by : Margaret Grace
Download or read book Murder in Miniature written by Margaret Grace and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the local Dollhouse and Miniatures Fair, Geraldine Porter, the chairwoman of this illustrious event, gets into big trouble when she is faced with strange occurrences and murder, all of which lead to her friend Linda Reed. Original.
Download or read book Blake's Margins written by Hazard Adams and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2009-11-03 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known for his prophetic and imaginative works of poetry, painting, and printmaking, William Blake was also a prolific reader and annotator of other writers' works. This is the first work of criticism to consider Blake's annotations in their entirety, and it covers such topics as art, poetry, theology, madness and philosophy, as well as the authors Lavater, Swedenborg, Bacon, Spurzheim, Berkeley, and Wordsworth, among others.
Book Synopsis My Family and Other Hazards by : June Melby
Download or read book My Family and Other Hazards written by June Melby and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A funny, heartwarming memoir about saying goodbye to your childhood home, in this case a quirky, one-of-a-kind, family-run miniature golf course in the woods of Wisconsin When June Melby was ten years old, her parents decided on a whim to buy the miniature golf course in the small Wisconsin town where they vacationed every summer. Without any business experience or outside employees, the family sets out to open Tom Thumb Miniature Golf to the public. Naturally, there are bumps along the way. In My Family and Other Hazards, Melby recreates all the squabbling, confusion, and ultimately triumph, of one family's quest to build something together, and brings to life the joys of one of America's favorite pastimes. In sharp, funny prose, we get the hazards that taunted players at each hole, and the dedication and hard work that went into each one's creation. All the familiar delights of summer are here—snowcones and popcorn and long days spent with people you love. Melby's relationship with the course is love-hate from the beginning, given the summer's freedom it robs her of, but when her parents decide to sell the course years later, her panicked reaction surprises even her. Now an adult living in Hollywood, having flown the Midwest long ago, she flies back to the course to help run it before the sale goes through, wondering if she should try to stop it. As the clock ticks, she reflects on what the course meant to her both as a child and an adult, the simpler era that it represents, and the particular pains of losing your childhood home, even years after you've left it.
Book Synopsis Theaters of Madness by : Benjamin Reiss
Download or read book Theaters of Madness written by Benjamin Reiss and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mid-1800s, a utopian movement to rehabilitate the insane resulted in a wave of publicly funded asylums—many of which became unexpected centers of cultural activity. Housed in magnificent structures with lush grounds, patients participated in theatrical programs, debating societies, literary journals, schools, and religious services. Theaters of Madness explores both the culture these rich offerings fomented and the asylum’s place in the fabric of nineteenth-century life, reanimating a time when the treatment of the insane was a central topic in debates over democracy, freedom, and modernity. Benjamin Reiss explores the creative lives of patients and the cultural demands of their doctors. Their frequently clashing views turned practically all of American culture—from blackface minstrel shows to the works of William Shakespeare—into a battlefield in the war on insanity. Reiss also shows how asylums touched the lives and shaped the writing of key figures, such as Emerson and Poe, who viewed the system alternately as the fulfillment of a democratic ideal and as a kind of medical enslavement. Without neglecting this troubling contradiction, Theaters of Madness prompts us to reflect on what our society can learn from a generation that urgently and creatively tried to solve the problem of mental illness.
Book Synopsis Madness: A Very Short Introduction by : Andrew Scull
Download or read book Madness: A Very Short Introduction written by Andrew Scull and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2011-08-25 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Madness is something that frightens and fascinates us all. It is a word with which we are universally familiar, and a condition that haunts the human imagination. Through the centuries, in poetry and in prose, in drama and in the visual arts, its depredations are on display for all to see. A whole industry has grown up, devoted to its management and suppression. Madness profoundly disturbs our common sense assumptions; threatens the social order, both symbolically and practically; creates almost unbearable disruptions in the texture of daily living; and turns our experience and our expectations upside down. Lunacy, insanity, psychosis, mental illness - whatever term we prefer, its referents are disturbances of reason, the passions, and human action that frighten, create chaos, and yet sometimes amuse; that mark a gulf between the common sense reality most of us embrace, and the discordant version some humans appear to experience. Social responses to madness, our interpretations of what madness is, and our notions of what is to be done about it have varied remarkably over the centuries. In this Very Short Introduction, Andrew Scull provides a provocative and entertaining examination of the social, cultural, medical, and artistic responses to mental disturbance across more than two millennia, concluding with some observations on the contemporary accounts of mental illness. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Download or read book Great Games! written by Matthew Toone and published by Great Games Book. This book was released on 2009-07 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Whether you're planning a party, gathered as a family, confined by a rainy day or organizing a team-building exercise, Great Games is the perfect source for exciting, free games for every age and play situation. Comprised of new games and exciting twists on time-tested favorites, this book celebrates fun while promoting a wholesome spirit of competition. From two players to the largest groups, interactive play expands friendships, motivates and inspires. Once you delve into this exciting, new creative resource, you can finally remove the word bored from your vocabulary."--Publisher marketing.
Book Synopsis History of Mediaeval Art by : Franz von Reber
Download or read book History of Mediaeval Art written by Franz von Reber and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Insanity of Place / The Place of Insanity by : Andrew Scull
Download or read book The Insanity of Place / The Place of Insanity written by Andrew Scull and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-04-18 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andrew Scull is a big name in the history of medicine, his previous book was reviewed glowingly by Roy Porter There is a growing literature on the history of psychiatry This volume represents an impressively wide range of coverage and will appear to historians and sociologists alike
Book Synopsis A Poetics of Minds and Madness by : XINRAN YANG
Download or read book A Poetics of Minds and Madness written by XINRAN YANG and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-10-28 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph aims to explore the mind-narrative nexus by conducting a cognitive narratological study on the mad minds in fictional narratives. Set on the interface of narrative and cognitive science (cognitive linguistics, cognitive psychology and cognitive neuropsychology), it adopts an indirect empirical approach to the fictional representation of madness. The American writer Ken Kesey’s novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is chosen as the primary text of investigation, whereas due consideration is also given to other madness narratives when necessary. This book not only demonstrates the value of reading and rereading literary classics in the modern era, but also sheds light on the studies of cognitive narratology, cognitive poetics, madness narratives and literature in general.
