St Elizabeths in Washington, D.C.: Architecture of an Asylum, Hardcover - Sarah A. Leavitt

St. Elizabeths has been a mental health hospital in Washington, D.C., since 1852, when it was established by the United States Congress as the Gove...

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The first comprehensive, in-depth book on the Trump administration's assault on asylum protections. The first book to take on the inhumane debacle ...

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Presents a memoir of a young historian, who was admitted in England's largest psychiatric institution, Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum, later known as ...

Contributor(s): Author: Sarah Bird"You'll be swept away by the passion and power of this remarkable, trailblazing woman who risked everything to fo...

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In the bestselling tradition of works by such authors as Susan Orlean and Mary Roach, a New York Times reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist explore...

Explore the Captivating Life of George WashingtonOne day at Mount Vernon, a young boy climbed into a window, fell, and hurt himself. George Washing...

Through powerful firsthand accounts, A Story to Save Your Life offers new insight into the harrowing realities of seeking protection in the United ...

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Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing GroupAuthor(s): Sarah PekkanenNumber of pages: 384Publication date: 2019Dimensions: 157 x 233 x 34Cover type: Pa...

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Reducere. Lively and reader-friendly, this second edition of Daily Life in Renaissance Italy provides a colorful and accurate sense of how it felt to inhabit...

The ancient Axumite Kingdom, now a part of Ethiopia, was possibly the first nation in the world to convert to Christianity. In AD 340 King Ezana co...

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Reducere. When one little girl tries to solve a big problem involving a goose on her roof, she enlists the help of her animal friends. Despite her best effor...

Reducere. How much do we really know about the lives of our parents and the secrets lodged in their past? Judy Bolton-Fasman's fascinating saga, Asylum: A Me...

When it comes to the Founding Fathers, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and Alexander Hamilton are generally considered the great minds of earl...

Reducere. Think you know fae? Think again.From USA Today bestselling author Sarah K. L. Wilson comes a deliciously trope-filled young adult romantic fantasy ...

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If you center a globe on Kiritimati (Christmas Island), all you see around it is a vast expanse of ocean. Islands of various sizes float in view wh...

Reducere. How has great progress in the science of medicine over two centuries of research changed the way it is accepted and practiced today? Or has it?Vien...

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A woman in Pennsylvania's Blue Ridge Mountains befriends an Uzbek fugitive. Atmospheric and politically-charged, for fans of Ottessa Moshfegh's Eil...

Description1940s, Washington DC. Government girl Louise is blackmailed into investigating the suspicious death of a missing co-worker, with siniste...

Reducere. In the Rocky Mountain West, Denver is considered the big city. Yet its urban core consists of numerous neighborhoods developed in the late 19th cen...