The Madness of Waiting

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Publisher : Zubaan Books
ISBN 13 : 9789381017708
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (177 download)

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Book Synopsis The Madness of Waiting by : Mirza Mohammad Hadi Ruswa

Download or read book The Madness of Waiting written by Mirza Mohammad Hadi Ruswa and published by Zubaan Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in March of 1899, Muhammad Hadi Ruswa's famous novel, Umrao Jaan Ada created a sensation when it came out, with its candid account of the life of Umrao Jaan, a semi-fictional, possibly real, courtesan in the North Indian city of Lucknow. What is less known, however, is that a month after he wrote Umrao Jaan Ada, Ruswa penned a short text, a novella entitled Junun-e-Intezar, in which Umrao avenges herself on her creator, Ruswa, by narrating the story of his life. Blurring the lines between truth and fiction, narrator and character, this clever narrative strategy gives the courtesan a voice.

The Madness of Waiting

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Publisher : Zubaan
ISBN 13 : 9383074434
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (83 download)

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Book Synopsis The Madness of Waiting by : Muhammad Hadi Ruswa

Download or read book The Madness of Waiting written by Muhammad Hadi Ruswa and published by Zubaan. This book was released on 2013-07-22 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in March of 1899, Muhammad Hadi Ruswa’s famous novel, Umrao Jaan Ada created a sensation when it came out, with its candid account of the life of Umrao Jaan, a semi-fictional, possibly real, Lucknow courtesan. Subsequent translations and films based on the book have further extended its fame. What is less known, however, is that a month after he wrote Umrao Jaan Ada, Ruswa penned a short text, a novella entitled Junun-e-Intezar (‘The Madness of Waiting,’ April 1899) in which Umrao avenges herself on her creator, Ruswa, by narrating the story of his life. Blurring the lines between truth and fiction, narrator and character, this clever narrative strategy gives the courtesan a speaking voice. Although there has been much interest in the original novel, this paratext has been completely forgotten; something this volume attempts to redress through a critical introduction which rethinks Umrao Jaan Ada and the Urdu literary milieu of late-nineteenth century Lucknow. This book contains both the Urdu text and its translation for the bilingual reader. Published by Zubaan.

Waiting for an Echo

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143110667
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Book Synopsis Waiting for an Echo by : Christine Montross

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.

Waiting

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Publisher : Hazelden Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1592858252
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (928 download)

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Book Synopsis Waiting by : Marya Hornbacher

Download or read book Waiting written by Marya Hornbacher and published by Hazelden Publishing. This book was released on 2011-04-21 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Waiting

The Madness of Crowds

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Publisher : Minotaur Books
ISBN 13 : 1250145287
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)

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Book Synopsis The Madness of Crowds by : Louise Penny

Download or read book The Madness of Crowds written by Louise Penny and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2021-08-24 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting for

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Publisher : The New Press
ISBN 13 : 1595585893
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (955 download)

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Book Synopsis We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting for by : Alice Walker

Download or read book We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting for written by Alice Walker and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2007-11-06 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times bestseller in hardcover, Pulitzer Prize winner Alice Walker’s We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For was called “stunningly insightful” and “a book that will inspire hope” by Publishers Weekly. Drawing equally on Walker’s spiritual grounding and her progressive political convictions, each chapter concludes with a recommended meditation to teach us patience, compassion, and forgiveness. We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For takes on some of the greatest challenges of our times and in it Walker encourages readers to take faith in the fact that, despite the daunting predicaments we find ourselves in, we are uniquely prepared to create positive change. The hardcover edition of We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For included a national tour that saw standing-room–only crowds and standing ovations. Walker’s clear vision and calm meditative voice—truly “a light in darkness”—has struck a deep chord among a large and devoted readership.

The Book of Madness and Cures

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Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0316195820
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (161 download)

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Book Synopsis The Book of Madness and Cures by : Regina O'Melveny

Download or read book The Book of Madness and Cures written by Regina O'Melveny and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2012-04-10 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Patients of the State

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Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822352338
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Book Synopsis Patients of the State by : Javier Auyero

Download or read book Patients of the State written by Javier Auyero and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-04 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the power that can be imposed, and the misery that is caused, especially for the poor, by the simple act of waiting. This title also describes a variety of different situations, including waiting for national identity cards, for welfare agencies, and the endless waiting for relocation from the slums.

The Paris Review Book for Planes, Trains, Elevators, and Waiting Rooms

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Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312422400
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (224 download)

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Download or read book The Paris Review Book for Planes, Trains, Elevators, and Waiting Rooms written by The Paris Review and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-07 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ingeniously useful compendium--organized to suit whatever time that the reader has available at that moment--offers reading material to fill those gray, in-between moments in life with beauty, wonder, insight, and emotion.

Waiting for the Apocalypse: A Memoir of Faith and Family

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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393073548
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Book Synopsis Waiting for the Apocalypse: A Memoir of Faith and Family by : Veronica Chater

Download or read book Waiting for the Apocalypse: A Memoir of Faith and Family written by Veronica Chater and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2009-02-02 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up Catholic in a family where the reforms of Vatican II are seen as the work of Satan. It is 1972, and Veronica Chater's parents believe that Vatican II's liberalization has corrupted the Catholic Church, inviting the Holy Chastisement—an apocalypse prophesied by three shepherds in Fatima, Portugal. To spare his family this horror, Veronica's father quits the highway patrol, sells everything, and moves the family of eight from California to an isolated village near Fatima. But Portugal is no Catholic utopia, and the family schleps home penniless to join the nascent Catholic counterrevolution: attending the Latin Mass in truck garages and abandoned buildings, serving meals to religious soldiers, breeding a new member of the faithful every year. As Veronica comes of age on the fringes of the American Dream, she rebels against a fanaticism that forbids anything modern—clothes, movies, or music. This is the story, both sad and funny, of a family torn apart by religion and brought back together in spite of the injuries it inflicted on itself.

The Madness of Crowds

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1635579996
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (355 download)

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Book Synopsis The Madness of Crowds by : Douglas Murray

Download or read book The Madness of Crowds written by Douglas Murray and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Standing and Waiting

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ISBN 13 : 9781524624828
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Standing and Waiting written by Graham Richardson and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Standing and Waiting covers events that sweep from the mid-Fifties until the early Nineties. Mark Atwood is the only son of an accountant / insurance salesman, Chris Atwood, and part-time secretary / homemaker, Mira Carson Atwood, who live in Whitley, Tennessee. Events of a tragic past are recounted by Mira to Mark. Chris and Mira's lives become wound around several figures of a local Baptist church that they have joined: Brother Bob Clark, the dogmatic pastor of the church, and the imposing chair of the deacons at the church, Hamilton Wallace Stewart, known as "Ham." Chris becomes embroiled in several conflicts between the pastor and Ham on various church issues. The events rise to a climactic occurrence--a Wednesday evening prayer and business meeting in which a power play occurs in the leadership of the church. Afterward, a car accident changes the lives of the characters. Years later, in a story recounted by Mark to Mira, Mark finishes his doctorate in literature and accepts his first teaching job at Andrew Jackson University. Mark clashes with students and administrators and is eventually dismissed from the university. He also romances and secretly marries a beautiful, African-American biology professor, Eva Garden, whose destiny become entwined with and separated from his. The novel covers such controversies as abuses of religious and academic leadership and the shadowy intolerance of inter-racial marriage. Issues and themes surrounding these controversies are explored with colorings of event, character, setting, and symbol that make the novel a panoply of people and culture in the modern South.

Within the Madness That Is Grief

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Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1479750654
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (797 download)

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Book Synopsis Within the Madness That Is Grief by : Jeanette Fagan

Download or read book Within the Madness That Is Grief written by Jeanette Fagan and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-11 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the grief of a sudden young death and the madness that I was hurled into as a result. On March 12th 2004 I found my beloved brother dead at his flat and I was overcome with the grief that followed. I am a Registered General Nurse and have dealt with death and suffering within my profession for over 20 years. However, the impact of my grief after finding Kevin dead lead to a nervous breakdown, the loss of my beloved job and the sense of myself as a person. I have had to write this book not only for me but also for the countless people out there who as I type are getting a phone call, a knock on the door, the news that a young person has died suddenly. The impact of this type of grief is within the pages of my book and I hope that my words and emotions experienced will support you within the madness that is created. But mainly it is for Kevin because I could not let his death mean nothing because he meant everything to me and his family. In memory of Kevin this book has been wrote but it is mainly intended for those that are left behind to live within the madness that their loss has created.

The Madness of March

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Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1039134904
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (391 download)

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Book Synopsis The Madness of March by : Marguerite Nardone Gruen

Download or read book The Madness of March written by Marguerite Nardone Gruen and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2022-03-07 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Tanner and Nicky Newman were two of the most highly recruited Point Guards in the country for Basketball. New Coach at the U Bob Barrows built his whole program around them. Everything was going fine and the team was on track to become one of the greatest ever until Paul let fame and attention go right to his head. He partied hardy, drinking and doing drugs, never remembering what happened once he went down that dark path. He and Nicky became brothers that first year and even lectures and pleas from Nicky didn’t help. Paul knew Nicky was hurting too – watching him destroy his life just like his brother and feared the same would happen to Paul. Until - Paul met Maggie Sardo. He didn’t want to fall in love with her and knew she would hate his habits but he couldn’t help himself. He knew the only way he could be with her was if he changed his life around and was Nicky ever so happy he had someone to help him save Paul. This story is about life itself with Paul's past always haunting him. It's about tragedy, hope, kindness, friendships and most of all love.

Goodbye Miramar

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Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1728346460
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (283 download)

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Download or read book Goodbye Miramar written by Hector R. Valles and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book starts in the neighborhood of Miramar in San Juan, Puerto Rico towards the end of the 1960s It begins in midst of a relationship between two college students. The woman is Susan Ruiz, the daughter of a well known artist of the time, who is seeped in European culture: and her male counterpart is Hector Ramon Martinez, the son of a renown medical doctor who lives in Ocean Park, a neighborhood of established professionals. The novel takes place in the middle of the intellectual, political, and drug culture of the time. Hector Ramon Martinez, who aspires to be a writer, but who suffers a severe mental breakdown, is sent to Spain where he is hospitalized in the Esquerdo Sanatorium before he drifts through different cities in an attempt to find himself, in a valid reason for his life. The two of them will meet again in New York University in Manhattan where even though they are in the process of drafting their doctoral dissertations, they walk and talk the streets of the Big Apple without a clear idea of what they can become. The result for him, at any rate, is this convoluted text.

Milkman

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Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1644450003
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (444 download)

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Book Synopsis Milkman by : Anna Burns

Download or read book Milkman written by Anna Burns and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2018-12-04 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Man Booker Prize “Everything about this novel rings true. . . . Original, funny, disarmingly oblique and unique.”—The Guardian In an unnamed city, middle sister stands out for the wrong reasons. She reads while walking, for one. And she has been taking French night classes downtown. So when a local paramilitary known as the milkman begins pursuing her, she suddenly becomes “interesting,” the last thing she ever wanted to be. Despite middle sister’s attempts to avoid him—and to keep her mother from finding out about her maybe-boyfriend—rumors spread and the threat of violence lingers. Milkman is a story of the way inaction can have enormous repercussions, in a time when the wrong flag, wrong religion, or even a sunset can be subversive. Told with ferocious energy and sly, wicked humor, Milkman establishes Anna Burns as one of the most consequential voices of our day.

Number 24

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ISBN 13 : 9780825200939
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (9 download)

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Book Synopsis Number 24 by : Guy Billout

Download or read book Number 24 written by Guy Billout and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A man waits for bus 24 as other vehicles approach and crash in the intersection.