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What Fresh Lunacy is This?

Author : Robert Sellers
Publisher : Constable
ISBN 13 : 1472101146
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book What Fresh Lunacy is This? written by Robert Sellers and published by Constable. This book was released on 2013-06-13 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oliver Reed may not have been Britain's biggest film star - for a period in the early 70s he came within a hairsbreadth of replacing Sean Connery as James Bond - but he is an august member of that small band of people, like George Best and Eric Morecambe, who transcended their chosen medium, became too big for it even, and grew into cultural icons. For the first time Reed's close family has agreed to collaborate on a project about the man himself. The result is a fascinating new insight into a man seen by many as merely a brawling, boozing hellraiser. And yet he was so much more than this. For behind that image, which all too often he played up to in public, was a vastly complex individual, a man of deep passions and loyalty but also deep-rooted vulnerability and insecurities. Why was a proud, patriotic, intelligent, successful and erudite man so obsessed about proving himself to others, time and time again? Although the Reed myth is of Homeric proportions, he remains a national treasure and somewhat peculiar icon. Praise for other books by Robert Sellers: Hellraisers: The Life and Inebriated Times of Richard Burton, Richard Harris, Peter O'Toole, and Oliver Reed: 'So wonderfully captures the wanton belligerence of both binging and stardom you almost feel the guys themselves are telling the tales.' GQ. Vic Armstrong: The True Adventures of the World's Greatest Stuntman: 'This is the best and most original behind-the-scenes book I have read in years, gripping and revealing.' Roger Lewis, Daily Mail. Don't Let the Bastards Grind You Down: '...a rollicking good read... Sellers has done well to capture a vivid snapshot of this exciting time.' Lynn Barber, Sunday Times.

Serendipities

Author : Umberto Eco
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780156007511
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Serendipities written by Umberto Eco and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1999 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: See:

Inconvenient People

Author : Sarah Wise
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1619023229
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Inconvenient People written by Sarah Wise and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The phenomenon of false allegations of mental illness is as old as our first interactions as human beings. Every one of us has described some other person as crazy or insane, and most all of us have had periods, moments at least, of madness. But it took the confluence of the law and medical science, mad–doctors, alienists, priests and barristers, to raise the matter to a level of "science," capable of being used by conniving relatives, "designing families" and scheming neighbors to destroy people who found themselves in the way, people whose removal could provide their survivors with money or property or other less frivolous benefits. Girl Interrupted in only a recent example. And reversing this sort of diagnosis and incarceration became increasingly more difficult, as even the most temperate attempt to leave these "homes" or "hospitals" was deemed "crazy." Kept in a madhouse, one became a little mad, as Jack Nicholson and Ken Kesey explain in One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest. In this sadly terrifying, emotionally moving, and occasionally hilarious book, twelve cases of contested lunacy are offered as examples of the shifting arguments regarding what constituted sanity and insanity. They offer unique insight into the fears of sexuality, inherited madness, greed and fraud, until public feeling shifted and turned against the rising alienists who would challenge liberty and freedom of people who were perhaps simply "difficult," but were turned into victims of this unscrupulous trade. This fascinating book is filled with stories almost impossible to believe but wildly engaging, a book one will not soon forget.

Lunacy and the Arrangement of Books

Author : Terry Belanger
Publisher : New Castle, Del. : Oak Knoll Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Lunacy and the Arrangement of Books written by Terry Belanger and published by New Castle, Del. : Oak Knoll Books. This book was released on 1982 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reference tool for Rare Books Collection.

Hellraisers

Author : Robert Sellers
Publisher : Preface Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781848090170
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Hellraisers written by Robert Sellers and published by Preface Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Burton, Richard Harris, Peter O'Toole, and Oliver Reed: On screen they were stars, off screen they were legends. This is the story of drunken binges of near biblical proportions, parties and orgies, broken marriages, riots, and wanton sexual conquests--indeed, acts so outrageous that if ordinary mortals had perpetrated them they would have ended up in jail. They got away with the kind of behavior that today's film stars could scarcely dream of, because of their mercurial acting talent and because the press and public loved them. They were truly the last of a breed. This is a celebratory catalogue of their miscreant deeds, a greatest-hits package of their most breathtakingly outrageous behavior, told with humor and affection. You can't help but enjoy it--after all, they certainly did.--From publisher description.

Disrupted

Author : Dan Lyons
Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 031630607X
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (163 download)

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Download or read book Disrupted written by Dan Lyons and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An instant New York Times bestseller, Dan Lyons' "hysterical" (Recode) memoir, hailed by the Los Angeles Times as "the best book about Silicon Valley," takes readers inside the maddening world of fad-chasing venture capitalists, sales bros, social climbers, and sociopaths at today's tech startups. For twenty-five years Dan Lyons was a magazine writer at the top of his profession--until one Friday morning when he received a phone call: Poof. His job no longer existed. "I think they just want to hire younger people," his boss at Newsweek told him. Fifty years old and with a wife and two young kids, Dan was, in a word, screwed. Then an idea hit. Dan had long reported on Silicon Valley and the tech explosion. Why not join it? HubSpot, a Boston start-up, was flush with $100 million in venture capital. They offered Dan a pile of stock options for the vague role of "marketing fellow." What could go wrong? HubSpotters were true believers: They were making the world a better place ... by selling email spam. The office vibe was frat house meets cult compound: The party began at four thirty on Friday and lasted well into the night; "shower pods" became hook-up dens; a push-up club met at noon in the lobby, while nearby, in the "content factory," Nerf gun fights raged. Groups went on "walking meetings," and Dan's absentee boss sent cryptic emails about employees who had "graduated" (read: been fired). In the middle of all this was Dan, exactly twice the age of the average HubSpot employee, and literally old enough to be the father of most of his co-workers, sitting at his desk on his bouncy-ball "chair."

Reed All about Me

Author : Oliver Reed
Publisher : W.H. Allen
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Reed All about Me written by Oliver Reed and published by W.H. Allen. This book was released on 1979 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Peter O'Toole

Author : Robert Sellers
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0283072164
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Peter O'Toole written by Robert Sellers and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-09-10 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter O'Toole was supremely talented, a unique leading man and one of the most charismatic and unpredictable actors of his generation. Described by Richard Burton as 'the most original actor to come out of Britain since the war', O'Toole regularly seemed to veer towards self-destruction. With the help of exclusive interviews with colleagues and close friends, Peter O'Toole: The Definitive Biography paints the first complete picture of this much loved man and reveals what drove him to extremes, why he drank to excess and hated authority. But it also describes a man who was fiercely intelligent, with a great sense of humour and huge energy. Always insightful, at times funny, at times deeply moving, this is a fitting tribute to an iconic actor who made a monumental contribution to theatre and cinema.

Lunacy of Light

Author : Wendy Barker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Lunacy of Light written by Wendy Barker and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Are you afraid of the sun?" Emily Dickinson asked a friend in 1859. Wendy Barker states here that that apparently casual query reveals a major theme of Dickinson’s poetry, a theme she shares with women writers ranging from Anne Finch to Anne Sexton. It is a tradition based upon the inversion of the traditional male-centered metaphors of light and dark. Through time the light-giving sun has represented vitality, order, God; the light-swallowing night death, chaos, Satan. These metaphors are reinforced in the writing of Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, and Keats,but Eliot, Brontë, Browning, and Dickinson use the sun and images of light quite differently. Barker argues that since light was a masculine tradition, it had come to represent male power, energy, sexuality—not only to Dickinson but to other women writing during the era. To these writers the inversion of the light/darkness metaphor became a countertradition used as a means to express their energies in a society that was hostile to their intelligence. Dickinson, who read avidly, could not have been insensitive to this usage of light as a masculine symbol—of her Calvinist God, of her father, of all that was male—and of darkness as a feminine symbol. Emily Dickinson thought in a richly symbolic manner. Her most frequently used metaphor is one of light in contrast to darkness, employing single-word references to light more than one thousand times in her 1,775 poems. Barker offers close readings and new interpretations of some previously overlooked or misunderstood poems and demonstrates that "Many of her most ecstatic images are of little lights created from darkness." In answer to those critics who have characterized her poems as being piecemeal, Barker argues that Dickinson’s consistent use of light as a metaphor unifies her poetry. In her final chapter, Barker explores the ways in which twentieth-century female writers have carried on the countertradition of the light/darkness metaphor. "That Dickinson was able so brilliantly to transform and transcend the normative metaphoric patterning of her culture, creating, in effect, a metaphor of her own, has much to do with the genius of her art."

Evil Spirits

Author : Cliff Goodwin
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0753505193
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (535 download)

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Download or read book Evil Spirits written by Cliff Goodwin and published by Random House. This book was released on 2001 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In May 1999, after a 40-year career including 100 films, Oliver Reed died, as he had invariably, lived, drinking with friends while making another film - his well-reviewed performance in the blockbuster Gladiator. Having risen through Hammer Horror films to international stardom as Bill Sykes in Oliver!, Reed became, in his own works, 'the biggest star this country has got'. With his legendary off-screen exploits and blunt opinions - especially of his co-stars - he was also on the most infamous. Bestselling author Cliff Goodwin uses material from first-hand interviews with Reed's family, friends and colleagues and never before seen photographs to explore Reed's eventful career. but he also reveals another side to this unique and complex man.

Lunacy and Letters

Author : G. K. Chesterton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780758139429
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Lunacy and Letters written by G. K. Chesterton and published by . This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

What Fresh Lunacy is This?

Author : Robert Sellers
Publisher : Constable
ISBN 13 : 1472101146
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

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Sixteenth Annual Report of the General Board of Commissioners in Lunacy for Scotland

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3382505878
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (825 download)

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Download or read book Sixteenth Annual Report of the General Board of Commissioners in Lunacy for Scotland written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-05-18 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1874. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

The Journal of Mental Science

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 646 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Journal of Mental Science written by and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. 77- includes Yearbook of the Association, 1931-

The Sexualization of Childhood

Author : Sharna Olfman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0275999866
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (759 download)

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Download or read book The Sexualization of Childhood written by Sharna Olfman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-11-30 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only a generation or two ago, childhood in the United States was understood to be a unique and vulnerable stage of development; a time for play and protection from adult preoccupations and responsibilities. In recent decades however, we appear to have jettisoned these norms, and the lines that separate the lifestyles of even very young children from adults are blurring. As widely known experts on the team that created this book explain, children begin formal education now in preschool, dress like adults, listen to the same music, play the same video games, explore the same Internet sites, and watch explicit depictions of sex and violence on TV and in movies. What is the impact of immersing children in a sexualized world? The Sexualization of Childhood first explains the nature of healthy sexual development. It then describes the ways in which children are being sexualized, and the physical and psychological consequences. It then looks at the lower and lower age at which girls are experiencing puberty, that reduction being fueled by the pseudoestrogens in so many of our foods and products, as well as obesity. Finally, it examines what we can do legally, politically, and as caregivers to protect children from developmentally inappropriate sexual experiences.

The Spectator Book of Wit, Humour and Mischief

Author : Marcus Berkmann
Publisher : Little, Brown Book Group
ISBN 13 : 1408707446
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book The Spectator Book of Wit, Humour and Mischief written by Marcus Berkmann and published by Little, Brown Book Group. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approaching its 200th birthday in the rudest of health, the Spectator is known for the quality of its writing and the deep eccentricity of some of its writers. Given the freedom to say what they want, they take that freedom and more, and the result is original, provocative, often very funny, sometimes plain wrong. From Jeffrey Bernard's reports from the Soho frontline and Auberon Waugh fulminating about hamburger gases in the early 1990s, we encounter in turn the wild stream of consciousness of Deborah Ross's restaurant reviews, the pinpoint etiquette advice of Mary Killen, Rod Liddle's frothing but elegantly sculpted outrage and the magazine's secret weapon, low life adventurer Jeremy Clarke. This bumper selection, which also includes eminent diarists, mad letter-writers and Boris Johnson, amounts to a masterclass in comic writing, lovingly compiled and edited by Marcus Berkmann, who still can't believe he wrote a monthly pop column for the magazine for twenty-eight years without being fired.

Heartthrobs

Author : Carol Dyhouse
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191078395
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Heartthrobs written by Carol Dyhouse and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-09 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What can a cultural history of the heartthrob teach us about women, desire, and social change? From dreams of Prince Charming or dashing military heroes, to the lure of dark strangers and vampire lovers; from rock stars and rebels to soulmates, dependable family types or simply good companions, female fantasies about men tell us as much about the history of women as about masculine icons. When girls were supposed to be shrinking violets, passionate females risked being seen as 'unbridled', or dangerously out of control. Change came slowly, and young women remained trapped in double-binds. You may have needed a husband in order to survive, but you had to avoid looking like a gold-digger. Sexual desire could be dangerous: a rash guide to making choices. Show attraction too openly and you might be judged 'fast' and undesirable. Education and wage-earning brought independence and a widening of cultural horizons. Young women in the early twentieth century showed a sustained appetite for novel-reading, cinema-going, and the dancehall. They sighed over Rudolph Valentino's screen performances, as tango-dancer, Arab tribesman, or desert lover. Contemporary critics were sniffy about 'shop-girl' taste in literature and in men, but as consumers, girls had new clout. In Heartthrobs, social and cultural historian Carol Dyhouse draws upon literature, cinema, and popular romance to show how the changing position of women has shaped their dreams about men, from Lord Byron in the early nineteenth century to boy-bands in the early twenty-first. Reflecting on the history of women as consumers and on the nature of fantasy, escapism, and 'fandom', she takes us deep into the world of gender and the imagination. A great deal of feminist literature has shown women as objects of the 'male gaze': this book looks at men through the eyes of women.