A Nervous Breakdown

Pedro Almodovar's 1988 black comedy-melodrama Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown established its director as one of the most exciting of Eur...

Something is up at Miss Cackle's Academy for Witches: Mildred Hubble's new form teacher is really weird. Or is she? Investigating isn't easy, espec...

Sussex and England superstar Maurice Tate's story is one of triumph and fame, controversy and tragedy. In the 1920s and 1930s, the barnstorming all...

Reducere. I did have hallucinations, but did they harm anyone? Who did they harm, that's what I'd like to know!' From the supreme artist of the short story, ...

Reducere. In Hermann Hesse's Beneath the Wheel, Hans Giebernath lives among the dull and respectable townsfolk of a sleepy Black Forest village. When he is d...

Reducere. Aging is a gradual and continuous process that leads to a decline in bodily functions over time. With an increase in age, the brain and nervous sys...

Recovery from nervous suffering through understanding nervous fatigue - A new two-books-in-one edition which includes Peace from Nervous Suffering ...

Reducere. One of the most acclaimed writers in the world today, the inimitable Joyce Carol Oates follows up her searing, New York Times bestselling memoir, A...

Martin Sheen, best known for his role as a Catholic president in the prestigious television series The West Wing, returned to the practice of his C...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jennifer DunningAlvin Ailey (1931-1989) was a choreographic giant in the modern dance world and a champion of African-Ameri...

DescriptionGabrielle, daughter of a brilliant and charismatic local businessman, thinks she's losing her mind. Recovering from a nervous breakdown ...

As a psychologist specialising in court assessments, David Roland often saw the toughest, most heartbreaking cases. The emotional trauma had begun ...

Reducere. Jennie Gerhardt (1911) is a novel by Theodore Dreiser. Controversial for its honest depiction of work, desire, and urban life, Jennie Gerhardt has ...

Reducere. The Waste Land (1922) is a poem by T.S. Eliot. After suffering a nervous breakdown, Eliot took a leave of absence from his job at a London bank to ...

Reducere. How do you prioritize your own health when you're the parent of a high-needs child?Natalie Brobin's life turned upside down when she found herself ...

Reducere. Acclaimed for her gleeful and contagious love of language (Los Angeles Times), Nancy Lemann evokes the tattered glamour of fading traditional South...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: S. T. JoshiHoward Phillips Lovecraft was born to a well-to-do family in Providence, Rhode Island. As a child, he revealed r...

Reducere. DescriptionWinner of South Africa's top literary prize, the Alan Paton Award, The Unlikely Secret Agent tells the thrilling true story of one woman...

Reducere. DescriptionExcerpt from the editorial in The Journal of New Historical Perspectives, Vol. 3, #4, 2011: On the night of July 15, 1903, Nikola Tesla ...

Reducere. DescriptionToo much work, too much pressure, and too much heartache can lead even a strong young woman like Mallory Wingate to the edge of a nervou...

Reducere. DescriptionPedro Almodovar's films--such as Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Tie Me Up Tie Me Down , All About My Mother, and Talk to Her...

Reducere. Universally and repeatedly praised ever since it first appeared in 1983, Modern Baptists is the book that launched novelist James Wilcox's career a...

Reducere. Film -- Biography In full command of both Hollywood stylistics and camp aesthetics, Spain's Pedro Almod var (b. 1951) has become a master of the au...

Reducere. In Girls of Tender Age, Mary-Ann Tirone Smith fully articulates with great humor and tenderness the wild jubilance of an extended French-Italian fa...

Reducere. One of the great jazz novels of any era, A Drop of Patience tells the story of a blind horn player's journey through the themes of race, blindness,...

A dark, glittering debut novel echoing Hitchcock's Vertigo, The Body Double is the suspenseful story of a young woman who is recruited by a strange...

Reducere. Matthew Deibler, child of God, was born with a purpose. But he was a marked target of the devil.Unaware of this evil influence, Matthew fell under ...

Reducere. A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE MONTH FROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: "Nothing Mr. Gilder says or writes is ever delivered at anything less than the fu...

Reducere. "The year's funniest and most insightful baseball book." -- Chicago Tribune A classic look at those years of baseball futility and frustration that...

Lindsay Scott hit the big time at age five, when she became the star of the television show "Just Me and the Kids." It seemed like she was set for ...

Reducere. A sudden death, a never-mailed postcard, and a longburied secret set the stage for a luminous and heartbreakingly real novel about lost souls findi...

DescriptionThe Outward Room is a book about a young woman's journey from madness to self-discovery. It created a sensation when it was first publis...

Reducere. An absolutely HILARIOUS, unputdownable summer read about two best friends who pack their bags for the trip of a lifetime, and promise to start livi...

DescriptionFrom critically acclaimed New York Times best-selling author Jami Attenberg comes a novel of family secrets: think the drama of Big Litt...

Reducere. From critically acclaimed New York Times best-selling author Jami Attenberg comes a novel of family secrets: think the drama of Big Little Lies set...

A father's nervous breakdown during a visit to a theme park; a haunted 'blog' ... Welcome to Lethem-land, which can be discovered only by visiting ...

Through the Eyes of Nisey: A Memoir of a Lost Mississippi girl by Danise T. Donerson is a whirlwind of events of a little girl growing up in Missis...

Reducere. Barrie later altered Sylvia's will after her death so that he could become the boys' legal guardian, while pushing several members of the family to...

Nervous about statistics? This guide offers a clear, straight to the point break down of exploratory and descriptive statistics and its potential. ...

The mysterious death of Edward Mottisfontpulls the lives of David, Mary and Elizabethinto a whirlwind. David, a doctor by profession goes as far as...

What happens at the Von Spatz Rehabilitation Center after Walt Disney suffers a nervous breakdown?Walt Disney is exhausted both physically and ment...

Harry Radcliffe is a brilliant prize-winning architect---witty and remarkable. He's also a self-serving opportunist, ready to take advantage of wha...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Not Wives traces the lives of three women as they navigate the Occupy Wall Street movement and each other. In the midst of economic ...

This collection is for all the women who have done everything "right" but who still end up in a gutter- who have an empowered sense of humor about ...

Reducere. Meet the Mertzes is an expansive dual biography chronicling the lives of two of America's most popular situation-comedy actors, William Frawley and...

Reducere. At each step of this journey through American cultural history, Louis Menand has an original point to make: he explains the real significance of Wi...

DescriptionHave you ever wondered who you are? Or how you became who you are? Or what is it that defines you as a person and, more specifically, wh...

At just twelve years of age, Kathy met Kris, age fifteen, and it was love at first sight. Before her lay the journey of engagement and marriage to ...

Reducere. Description"This is a much-needed study of a remarkable life. Elizabeth Goudge was not only a sensitive and acute artist in fiction, but a profound...

Reducere. THE AWARD-WINNING SERIES CONTINUES... Once Upon a Zombie, Book One: The Color of Fear, is the winner of numerous awards, including best YA Fiction ...

DescriptionWHY CAN'T YOU CHOOSE WHAT YOU FORGET . . . AND WHAT YOU REMEMBER? There's a lot Zoey would like to forget. Like how her father has knock...

DescriptionMia uses her super-strength to break down walls in this fourth adventure of the Mia Mayhem chapter book series Mia is determined to be t...

You Can Heal from Chronic PainWe've been sold a lie: The world tells us that pain is inevitable, that our bodies must break down as we age, and tha...

Reducere. You Can Heal from Chronic PainWe've been sold a lie: The world tells us that pain is inevitable, that our bodies must break down as we age, and tha...

Reducere. CD 1: 1. Long Sermon 2. Me Neither 3. Who Needs Pictures 4. Don't Breathe 5. He Didn't Have to Be 6. It Never Woulda Worked Out Anyway 7. Holdin' O...