Authors:Kenzaburo Oe, John Natha,
Publisher: Grove Pre
Keywords: teach, madness, outgrow, prize, stock, sky, monster, tears, aghwee, himself, four, short, novels, day, wipe
Number of Pages: 261
Published: 1994-10-13
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 080215185X
ISBN-13: 9780802151858
These four novels display Oes passionate and original vision. Oe was ten when American jeeps first drove into the mountain village where he lived, and his literary work reveals the tension and ambiguity forged by the collapse of values of his childhood on the one hand and the confrontation with American writers on the other. The earliest of his novels included here, Prize Stock, reveals the strange relationship between a Japanese boy and a captured black American pilot in a Japanese village. Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness tells of the close relationship between an outlandishly fat father and
Author: Roy Porter
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: history, brief, madness
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2003-05-08
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0192802674
ISBN-13: 9780192802675
Looking back on his confinement to Bethlem, Restoration playwright Nathaniel Lee declared: ""They called me mad, and I called them mad, and damn them, they outvoted me."" As Roy Porter shows in Madness: A Brief History, thinking about who qualifies as insane, what causes mental illness, and how such illness should be treated has varied wildly throughout recorded history, sometimes veering dangerously close to the arbitrariness Lee describes and often encompassing cures considerably worse than the illness itself. Drawing upon eyewitness accounts of doctors, writers, artists, and the mad themsel
Author: Fens Jacai
Publisher: China Books and Periodical
Keywords: madness, years
Number of Pages: 290
Published: 2007-02-13
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 083512584X
ISBN-13: 9780835125840
Author: Robert Birkby
Publisher: Citadel
Keywords: madness, mountain
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2009-02-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0806528761
ISBN-13: 9780806528762
"You’re either cruisin’ or you’re bummin’, so you might as well cruise."--Scott Fischer Mountain climber Scott Fischer’s mantra would lead him to scale the highest and most treacherous peaks on earth. Best known as one of the guides who perished near the summit of Mount Everest during the tragic spring of 1996, Scott Fischer became for many an iconic symbol of audacity, hubris, and the limits of human endurance. But to those who knew him well, Scott was much more than an action figure at the heart of a modern-day cautionary tale. Now in this vivid, candid biograph
Author: Barbara Parker
Publisher: Dutto
Keywords: madness, suspicion
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2003-02-24
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0525946810
ISBN-13: 9780525946816
For nearly a decade Barbara Parker’s phenomenally successful thrillers have delighted readers and reviewers alike. The Chicago Tribune applauds her "taut storytelling...tight plotting and lively characterization." The Miami Herald hails her for her "well-paced, compelling stories and believable characters with emotional depth and texture that should turn casual readers into fanatics." And the San Antonio Express-News calls her novels simply "enthralling." Now this supremely gifted author returns with a blockbuster story of smoldering suspense that pits Gail and Anthony against their most
Author: Michel Foucault
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: madness, history
Number of Pages: 776
Published: 2006-08-18
List price: $85.00
ISBN-10: 0415277019
ISBN-13: 9780415277013
When it was first published in France in 1961 as Folie et Draison: Histoire de la Folie l’ge Classique, few had heard of a thirty-four year old philosopher by the name of Michel Foucault. By the time an abridged English edition was published in 1967 as Madness and Civilization, Michel Foucault had shaken the intellectual world. This translation is the first English edition of the complete French texts of the first and second edition, including all prefaces and appendices, some of them unavailable in the existing French edition. History of Madness begins in the Middle Ages with
Author: Paul Shepard
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Keywords: madness, nature
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 1998-04-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0820319805
ISBN-13: 9780820319803
Through much of history our relationship with the earth has been plagued by ambivalence--we not only enjoy and appreciate the forces and manifestations of nature, we seek to plunder, alter, and control them. Here Paul Shepard uncovers the cultural roots of our ecological crisis and proposes ways to repair broken bonds with the earth, our past, and nature. Ultimately encouraging, he notes, "There is a secret person undamaged in every individual. We have not lost, and cannot lose, the genuine impulse."
