Memoirs from a Madhouse

Born in Huddersfield in 1961 to parents Frederick and Jean, Graham Buckley grew up living on a council estate. Now, he looks back on his youth in M...

Reducere. Description Don't talk to strangers...Faced with his parents' divorce, eleven-year-old Lucas runs away from home in the hope that his family will g...

Reducere. Often likened to Rigoberta Menchu and Nadine Gordimer, Nawal El Saadawi is one of the world's leading feminist authors. Director of Health and Educ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: David CooganContribution by: Kevin BeltonContribution by: Karl BlackDetailing the formative and transformative memories of ...

'A brilliant cultural history ... Scull's book fills a gap in the literature and deserves to be widely read ... outstanding' The Times

Memoirs from the Women's Prison is an unforgettable, landmark work of prison writing that offers a rare insight into the indomitable, soaring liter...

Reducere. Through Adopted Hearts explores the world of adoption from the viewpoints of both birth and adoptive parents. In this follow up to Through Adopted ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Publisher: Orpen PressAuthor(s): Ray TaylorIllustration(s): 20 colour photographs; 20 colour photographsNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2021D...

Reducere. DescriptionThrough Adopted Eyes explores the world of adoption from the viewpoint of adoptees. Russian adoptee Elena S. Hall shares her own story a...

In this almost documentary account of his own experiences of penal servitude in Serbia, Dostoevsky describes the physical and mental suffering of t...

The "exquisitely researched and deeply engrossing" (The New York Times) true survival story of an early polar expedition that went terribly awry--w...

Reducere. Memoirs of a Master is a book of short stories told by Adamus Saint-Germain as part of his lectures to audiences around the world. The stories are ...

Reducere. The Evil I Have Seen is a collection of true crime short stories from the memoirs of veteran homicide investigator, Detective Lt. Robert (Robbo) Da...

Publisher: MX PublishingAuthor(s): Don HobbsNumber of pages: 228Collection: A Study in Sherlockian Aesthetic RealismPublication date: 2021Dimension...

Reducere. The Evil I Have Seen is a collection of true crime short stories from the memoirs of veteran homicide investigator, Detective Lt. Robert (Robbo) Da...

Publisher: Ebury PublishingAuthor(s): Julian SanctonNumber of pages: 368Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 168 x 232 x 29Cover type: Paperback / sof...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Amy BingamanForeword by: Doug Stanhope"In April of 2004, the long downward spiraling of Amy Bingaman's mental illness could...

Reducere. Ten Days in a Mad-House (1887) is a book by American investigative journalist Nellie Bly. For her first assignment for Joseph Pulitzer's famed New ...

Reducere. Ten Days in a Mad-House (1887) is a book by American investigative journalist Nellie Bly. For her first assignment for Joseph Pulitzer's famed New ...

From My Recent Past is a memoir written by Russian revolutionary Grigory Gershuni (1870-1908). The book depicts his revolutionary activities, arres...

Reducere. DescriptionTen Days in A Madhouse is the true account of investigative journalist Nellie Bly's confinement inside an insane asylum. In 1887 the you...

Reducere. "I said I could and I would. And I did. ― Nellie Bly - An American Classic - Includes Images of Nellie Bly and Scenes from the Book

The Men of Wellington's Light Division is certain to be welcomed by historians and enthusiasts alike, providing a glimpse into the past that has no...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Nellie Bly"The insane asylum on Blackwell's Island is a human rat-trap. It is easy to get in, but once there it is impossib...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Nellie BlyThis is Bly's truly disturbing account (and expose) of a mental asylum to which Bly was committed after feigning ...

Reducere. The life of Taj al-Saltaneh, daughter of the ruler of Iran, Naser al-Din Shah Qajar, epitomized the predicaments of her changing era. Overcoming he...

DescriptionAt the age of 23, pioneering reporter Nellie Bly faked dementia in order to expose abuses of patients in Blackwell's Island Insane Asylu...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Nellie BlyTen Days in a Mad House is the report of journalist Nellie Bly, who went undercover into a mental institution to ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Nellie BlyON the 22d of September I was asked by the World if I could have myself committed to one of the asylums for the i...

Absorbing analysis of fighter pilots, their culture and ethos presented by a long-standing member of the fraternity. During his career, the author ...

Unique combined account of the Battle of the Atlantic from both the German and British viewpointsPublisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAuthor(s): Showell...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Nellie BlyNellie Bly was an American reporter best known for a record-breaking trip around the world in 72 days. Bly also u...

Reducere. DescriptionMany children of World War II have stories to tell. Memoirs of a Girl from Berlin is the compelling story of one young girls strength, c...

Edward Bunker's life was beyond the imaginings of most fiction writers. He was born in Hollywood, California, the son of a stagehand and Busby Berk...

The Troubling but ultimately Triumphant Memoirs of Holocaust Survivor Hank BrodtA story of resilience, Hank Brodt Holocaust Memoirs - A Candle and ...

Reducere. Ten Days in a Mad-House is a book by newspaper reporter Nellie Bly. It was initially published as a series of articles for the New York World. Bly ...

A humorous history of prehistoric beasts by one of the Ice Age's biggest superstars, Maisie Mammoth.

A superb example of the ever-popular Japanese POW genre. First hand and contemporaneous account of survival on the notorious Burma Railway.

This is the autobiography of Air Marshal Sir Christopher Charles Cotton Coville KCB, FRAeS.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAuthor(s): Coville, Chri...

Reducere. Read this book as the ultimate Beatles' fantasy tour of their magickal mystery! This book (for those who do not already have these chapters of the ...

An extraordinary assemblage of moving and revelatory documents and testimony from the Nazi forced labour camps.Publisher: Granta BooksAuthor(s): ME...