Madness in the City of Magnificent Intentions: A History of Race and Mental Illness in the Nation's Capital, Hardcover - Martin Summers

From the mid-nineteenth to the late twentieth centuries, Saint Elizabeths Hospital was one of the United States' most important institutions for th...

Reducere. DescriptionMonumental in scope and vividly detailed, Chocolate City tells the tumultuous, four-century story of race and democracy in our nation's ...

"Marlon Bundo is the adorable bunny that should bring us all together."-- PARENTS.COM "The rabbit's romp through Washington takes him to places mea...

Reducere. In January of 1950, Mary Church Terrell, an 86-year-old charter member of the NAACP, headed into Thompson's Restaurant, just a few blocks from the ...

A radical reappraisal of mental illness Madness, melancholy, insanity, lunacy, craziness, loco: a dizzying litany of words are used to describe a c...

DescriptionWINNER: Best Autobiography/Memoir, 2018 Best Book Awards, sponsored by American Book Fest Glenn Close says: "Another Kind of Madness is ...

A powerful anthology giving voice to the mental health struggles experienced by people of colour in the UK.Publisher: Pan MacmillanAuthor(s): Riann...

Reducere. While Washington, D.C., is still often referred to as "Chocolate City, " it has undergone significant demographic, political, and economic change i...

By the former editor of the London Times, a vivid, evocative, and deeply knowledgeable history of this unique world capital. London: a settlement f...

Reducere. Affectionately called Woodies" by loyal Washingtonians, the beloved department store Woodward & Lothrop stood at the heart of downtown for over a c...

Reducere. "What was the likelihood my adopted daughter would havemy father's hazel eyes and my mother's mental illness?"In this fiercely candid memoir, Dr. P...

The illustrated story of the rich pop music scene in the city of Adelaide in the 1960s and all the local bands that contributed to that remarkable ...

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University PressAuthor(s): Rachel A. PruchnoNumber of pages: 384Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 x 228 x 26Cover type...

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University PressAuthor(s): Rachel A. PruchnoNumber of pages: 384Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 160 x 238 x 29Cover type...

Based on a purpose-built 45-million-word corpus, this book offers timely and original linguistic insights into how the UK press report on mental he...

Publisher: Elsevier AustraliaAuthor(s): David (Director, Left Turn Solutions; Adjunct Lecturer, Paramedic Unit, College of Medicine and Public Heal...

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In the 19th century, when gender roles were more confining, the dominant forms of psychosomatic illness were paralysis and hysteria. Today, when pe...

Reducere. For much of the twentieth century, psychiatry, psychology and social theory have held that mental illness, historically known as madness, cannot be...

Reducere. During the Gilded Age, Dupont Circle was Washington's undisputed center of wealth, power and status. Over twenty years, it evolved from small farms...

DescriptionMental illness among teens has risen to epidemic levels. When mental health issues come to the library, what is the librarian's role? Th...

DescriptionIn Black on the Block, Mary Pattillo--a Newsweek Woman of the 21st Century--uses the historic rise, alarming fall, and equally dramatic ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Diana Hollingsworth GesslerA travel guide with character, this fact-filled keepsake offers all the history, beauty, charm, ...

Reducere. During the hot summer of 1906, anger simmered in Atlanta, a city that outwardly savored its reputation as the Gate City of the New South, a place w...

Reducere. Erik Larson, author of #1 bestseller In the Garden of Beasts, intertwines the true tale of the 1893 World's Fair and the cunning serial killer who ...

In a society that defined manhood as a mastery of self-control, the madman stood as a horrifying example of what could go wrong. Out of His Mind is...

Reducere. Over the latter half of the twentieth century, the Guatemalan state slaughtered more than two hundred thousand of its citizens. In the wake of this...

When young Samuel Clemens first visited the nation's capital in 1854, both were rough around the edges and of dubious potential. Returning as Mark ...

Beastly London explores the complex and changing relationship between Londoners of all classes and their animal neighbours: from a mainly exploitat...

Reducere. The first book to show that immigration laws in the US have always been motivated by racial exclusion and the desire to save the idea of a white Am...

Reducere. Every age, labels others to a particular fate, such as the witch consigned to the fire. The priest has now been replaced by the psychiatrist and th...

Reducere. In this definitive portrait of the political and social life of Georgetown, bestselling biographer C. David Heymann chronicles the dinner parties, ...