Author : Dianne Ebertt Beeaff
Publisher :
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 27,38 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780965618816
A candid account of the Irish rock band U2 from a fan's perspective, laced with warmth, intelligence and humor. Original printing; now out of print
Author : Tracy Higley
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 31,97 MB
Release : 2012-04-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1401686818
The untold story of King Nebuchadnezzar’s daughter For seven years the Babylonian princess Tiamat has waited for the mad king Nebuchadnezzar to return to his family and to his kingdom. Driven from his throne to live as a beast, he prowls his luxurious Hanging Gardens, secreted away from the world. Since her treaty marriage at a young age, Tia has lived an opulent yet oppressive life in the palace. But her husband has since died and she relishes her newfound independence. When a nobleman is found murdered in the palace, Tia must discover who is responsible for the macabre death, even if her own freedom is threatened. As the queen plans to wed Tia to yet another prince, the powerful mage Shadir plots to expose the family’s secret and set his own man on the throne. Tia enlists the help of a reluctant Jewish captive, her late husband’s brother Pedaiah, who challenges her notions of the gods even as he opens her heart to both truth and love. In a time when few gave their hearts to Yahweh, Tia must decide if she is willing to risk everything—her possessions, her gods, and her very life—for the Israelites’ one God. Madness, sorcery, and sinister plots mingle like an alchemist’s deadly potion as Tia chooses whether to risk all to save the kingdom—and her family. “The biblical story of Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar’s seven years as a madman, found in the Old Testament Book of Daniel, deepens and broadens thanks to veteran author Higley’s historical research and vivid imagination . . . Readers will find much to enjoy here: fine writing, suspense, mystery, faith, love, and a new look at an old story.” —Publishers Weekly “Higley gives readers a dose of biblical history set in King Nebuchadnezzar’s palatial gardens and a character like no other in Tiamat, devoted daughter of a king gone mad. The author’s insights into a woman’s inner strength as she searches for the one true God will leave readers rejoicing.”—Romantic Times TOP PICK "Her story will appeal not just to readers of historical fiction but also to those with an interest in biblical history." —Booklist
Author : Jerrold Ladd
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 31,61 MB
Release : 2009-09-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0446564958
A raw and hopeful autobiography of a young African-American who used self-education and sheer force of will to overcome the battery of drugs, violence, and abject povery of his early life in the Dallas projects.
Author : Dianne Ebertt Beeaff
Publisher :
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 22,79 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Rock musicians
ISBN :
Author : Gabriel Ojeda-Sague
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 11,37 MB
Release : 2022-02-22
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781643621173
Author : Somtow Sucharitkul
Publisher :
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 34,27 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780671454395
Kelver, a boy, is taken to Uran s'Varek, where he will become one of the Inquestors, responsible for the future of all humanity
Author : Daniel Berthold-Bond
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 23,50 MB
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780791425053
This book shows how an understanding of the nature and role of insanity in Hegel's writing provides intriguing new points of access to many of the central themes of his larger philosophic project. Berthold-Bond situates Hegel's theory of madness within the history of psychiatric practice during the great reform period at the turn of the eighteenth century, and shows how Hegel developed a middle path between the stridently opposed camps of "empirical" and "romantic" medicine, and of "somatic" and "psychical" practitioners. A key point of the book is to show that Hegel does not conceive of madness and health as strictly opposing states, but as kindred phenomena sharing many of the same underlying mental structures and strategies, so that the ontologies of insanity and rationality involve a mutually illuminating, mirroring relation. Hegel's theory is tested against the critiques of the institution of psychiatry and the very concept of madness by such influential twentieth-century authors as Michel Foucault and Thomas Szasz, and defended as offering a genuinely reconciling position in the contemporary debate between the "social labeling" and "medical" models of mental illness.
Author : Dianne Beeaff
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 12,21 MB
Release : 1919-09-30
Category :
ISBN : 9780965618878
Author : Frank Bures
Publisher : Melville House
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 11,1 MB
Release : 2016-04-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1612193730
Why do some men become convinced—despite what doctors tell them—that their penises have, simply, disappeared. Why do people across the world become convinced that they are cursed to die on a particular date—and then do? Why do people in Malaysia suddenly “run amok”? In The Geography of Madness, acclaimed magazine writer Frank Bures investigates these and other “culture-bound” syndromes, tracing each seemingly baffling phenomenon to its source. It’s a fascinating, and at times rollicking, adventure that takes the reader around the world and deep into the oddities of the human psyche. What Bures uncovers along the way is a poignant and stirring story of the persistence of belief, fear, and hope.
Author : Joseph Melling
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 25,10 MB
Release : 2006-04-18
Category : History
ISBN : 1134417101
The discovery and treatment of insanity remains one of the most debated and discussed issues in social history. Focusing on the second half of the nineteenth century, The Politics of Madness provides a new perspective on this important topic, based on research drawn from both local and national material. Within a social and cultural history of the English political and class order, it presents a fresh appraisal of the significance of the asylum in the decades following the creation of a national asylum system in 1845. Arguing that the new asylums provided a meeting place for different social interests and aspirations, the text asserts that this then marked a transition in provincial power relations from the landed interests to the new coalition of professional, commercial and populist groups, which gained control of the public asylums at the end of the period surveyed.
