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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 : Jerrold Ladd
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 49,15 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 : Bart Andrews
Publisher : HarperPrism
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 29,84 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780061007903
Author : Nic Compton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 43,15 MB
Release : 2017-09-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1472941101
Confined in a small space for months on end, subject to ship's discipline and living on limited food supplies, many sailors of old lost their minds – and no wonder. Many still do. The result in some instances was bloodthirsty mutinies, such as the whaleboat Sharon whose captain was butchered and fed to the ship's pigs in a crazed attack in the Pacific. Or mob violence, such as the 147 survivors on the raft of the Medusa, who slaughtered each other in a two-week orgy of violence. So serious was the problem that the Royal Navy's own physician claimed sailors were seven times more likely to go mad than the rest of the population. Historic figures such as Christopher Columbus, George Vancouver, Fletcher Christian (leader of the munity of the Bounty) and Robert FitzRoy (founder of the Met Office) have all had their sanity questioned. More recently, sailors in today's round-the-world races often experience disturbing hallucinations, including seeing elephants floating in the sea and strangers taking the helm, or suffer complete psychological breakdown, like Donald Crowhurst. Others become hypnotised by the sea and jump to their deaths. Off the Deep End looks at the sea's physical character, how it confuses our senses and makes rational thought difficult. It explores the long history of madness at sea and how that is echoed in many of today's yacht races. It looks at the often-marginal behaviour of sailors living both figuratively and literally outside society's usual rules. And it also looks at the sea's power to heal, as well as cause, madness.
Author : Daniel Mackler
Publisher :
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 31,35 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781449083489
Family conflict can wreak havoc on people diagnosed with psychiatric disorders. A Way Out of Madness offers guidance in resolving family conflict and taking control of your life. The book also includes personal accounts of family healing by people who were themselves psychiatrically diagnosed. Contributors include: Patch Adams, M.D., inspiration for Robin Williams film Joanne Greenberg, author, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden David Oaks, director, MindFreedom International Will Hall, co-founder, Freedom Center
Author : Fiona Ann Papps
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 40,22 MB
Release : 2019-01-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1848883234
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 37,18 MB
Release : 1919
Category : Latin America
ISBN :
Author : Jeff Rovin
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 41,23 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780061009549
Here, at last, is the real story of a star whose early life reads more like a Greek tragedy than a TV sitcom. Grammer's father was murdered when Kelsey was 13 years old, and Kelsey suddenly became man the man of the family. His sister was raped and murdered when he was 21, and his two half-brothers drowned a few years later. Includes 8-page photo insert.
Author : Pamela Loos
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 50,68 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1438114966
This volume examines the development of comedy and tragedy in early Greek Drama, with essays that explore the works of many of the original dramatists, including Aristophanes, Sophocles, Aeschylus, and Euripides.
Author : Joseph G. Peterson
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 33,47 MB
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1609387309
Romulus was the founder of Rome; and those tossed outside the city-gate are not Romulus’s children but the cast-offs living in hovels, the Rumphulus. However, this isn’t ancient Rome, but rather the nature preserve of a contemporary American suburb. The outcasts don’t understand why they’ve been relegated to the woods. Nor do they know if they will ever summon the courage to cross the roads that act as a physical and psychological barrier to their reentry into conventional society. Daily they negotiate the harsh conditions of the wild and the dangerous presence of one another while they contemplate their exiles. That is until society comes for one of them. The Rumphulus have grown their beards long, and when they can no longer stand life they howl like wolves; only they are not wolves but the stranded city outcasts who howl in pain.
Author : Richard Levitón
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 1107 pages
File Size : 27,65 MB
Release : 2007-01-02
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0595865267
[Headline, in boldface and/or small caps; do in 2 lines maximum] The healthier we are in body, mind, and culture, the more we can happily interact with the Spirit of Earth or Gaia, who needs our attention now. [Main text] Health, how to keep it, regain it, or even optimize it, concerns many today. But we usually think of health in personal terms, human terms. What about the health of the Earth? To be healthy rather than sick has planetary implications, and Healthy Gaians shows you ways of improving your health to help improve the planet's. Welcome to a diverse anthology of 70 articles on human health drawn from a journalistic career spanning 25 years. Here are bodywork, cancer, the immune system, vaccinations, eurythmy, chakras, Jungian psychology, intuition, conflict resolution, healing with art, music, sound, and color, singing to the dying, dreams, water rejuvenation, the poetics of the elements, near-death experiences, the purpose of evil, myth-living, and quantum-shamanic adventures. You'll get familiar with lots of natural health modalities such as herbalism, acupuncture, flower essences, and bionutrient fortification. And meet a stimulating group of health pioneers, such as R.D. Laing, William Irwin Thompson, Barbara Walker, Fred Alan Wolf, Robert Sardello, Caroline Myss, M.F.K. Fisher, Kyriacos Markides, and Rowena Kryder, among others. Each gives innovative ways to free ourselves from the ill-health constraints of body, mind, and culture as part of the larger process of becoming healthy Gaians-exactly what the planet needs from us. There are many ways to better health. The important thing is to start getting healthy so you can help the planet in its time of need. Then the Earth can start sending back the good health vibrations to you now you're back in the health loop. [Note: Be sure to note boldface two-line headline at top; this is 250 words but the book's format will be large and it will fit easily without crowding.