The Last Asylum. A Memoir of Madness in our Times, Paperback - Barbara Taylor

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

Reducere. After a decade of caring for crazy and keeping her mother's mental illness a secret from the outside world, twenty-year-old Paolina Milana longs fo...

Reducere. The focus is on prophecies that are converging in our present times. These include the prophecy of the Last Pope in a line of 112 - Pope Francis be...

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...

DescriptionHow do colonial histories matter to the urgencies and conditions of our current world? How have those histories so often been rendered a...

Elizabeth II has lived through Abdication, the Blitz and World War Two, the sex and spy scandals of the swinging sixties, the Cold War and the nucl...

Reducere. During the chaos of partition in 1947, something dreadful happened in the city of Jalandhar in Punjab. As a result of this, Salman Rashid's family ...

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Written for the invisible walking wounded among us who hide their pain behind smiles-and for the educators and mentors who sometimes doubt the powe...

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Reducere. *Soon to be an HBO limited series*"Glorious...one of the best memoirs I've read in years...a tragicomic gem about family, class, race, justice, and...

In the vein of the Costa-winning Dadland, with the biographical elements of H is for Hawk and The Lonely City, The Fragments of my Father is a powe...

Reducere. Starting in 1911, and for many years, the Alberta Hospital Ponoka, or AHP, was the largest and highest-population psychiatric institution in the We...

In Colonizing Madness Jacqueline Leckie tells a forgotten story of silence, suffering, and transgressions in the colonial Pacific. It offers new in...

Reducere. 'Is it Partition time again?' Ma asked when I drove her to the station to put her on a train.Feeling her heart pounding against my chest, I patted ...

Reducere. Have you ever thought that there might be something wrong with human beings, even that we might be slightly insane? Why is it that human history ha...

Tells how a renowned preacher left her ministry to rediscover the authentic heart of her faith. She recalls with grace and wit her calling, her gro...

A moving memoir and urgent call to action for immigration justice by a Nigerian asylee who, after spending months in a US immigration detention cen...

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 Sunday Times bestselling memoir by the beloved clergyman - a moving and beautifully written account of losing his partner of 12 years and copin...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Larry LinkogleWith: Joe LaydenLarry Linkogle was a child-prodigy motocross racer who turned pro at age 15. A daredevil and ...

Reducere. This book is written to encourage and inspire those that are facing challenges in life. Barbara is a woman that grew up in a large family, in which...

Reflecting on the personal and ideological tensions within Labour and its successes and failures in power, he describes how to meet the challenge o...

Publisher: Ebury PublishingAuthor(s): Ali MillarNumber of pages: 400Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 144 x 224 x 39Cover type: HardbackRedescopera...

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Reducere. Like Michael Lewis's classic Liar's Poker, Jared Dillian's Street Freak takes us behind the scenes of the legendary Lehman Brothers, exposing its o...

Reducere. Old Testament and New Testament prophecies, plus (and mainly) prophecies from Saints and holy people regarding the End-of-Time era. This book conta...

Reducere. In the New York Times bestseller An Altar in the World, acclaimed author Barbara Brown Taylor continues her spiritual journey by building upon wher...

A brave, honest, unforgettable memoir about mental illness that breaks the silence and shatters the taboos to give hope to all those struggling to ...

An insightful biography, based on exclusive research, of Queen Elizabeth II, bringing us the full story of one of our greatest and best-loved monar...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Victoria GoldenAuthor: William WaltersFrom 1854 to the early 1930s, the American Orphan Trains transported 250, 000 childre...

Reducere. FISH TANK is an insightful allegory about the human condition, tackling issues of politics and power, limited resources and climate change.

The warm, rich and fascinating memoir of beloved broadcaster Tommie Gorman.Publisher: Atlantic BooksAuthor(s): Tommie (author) GormanNumber of page...

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Reducere. 'Madness Made Me' won a silver medal in the international Independent Publisher Book Awards 2015. After her journey through madness Mary O'Hagan re...

DescriptionOriginally written in the early 1940's this book is even more appropriate for those studying prophecy today. Any serious student of Cath...

A must-have information book, packed with fun facts and vivid photography!

Reducere. The authors organized this study around two ancestors (great-great grandsons of Gabriel Annance and great-great grandfathers of the authors) who we...

The high-profile clergyman's account of losing his partner of 12 years and coping with 'the madness of grief' after his death

HRH King Abdullah was schooled in America and at Sandhurst and was heading for a life as a career soldier, when his father fell ill and he unexpect...

Inferno is the riveting memoir of a young mother who is separated from her newborn son and husband when she's involuntarily committed to a psychiat...

Hilaire Belloc was a poet, polemicist, and prose stylist without peer, but above all, an entire generation's mighty champion for the Catholic faith...

The new building blocks for learning in a complex world This important resource introduces a framework for 21st Century learning that maps out the ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe richly adventurous memoirs of one of the most dazzling public figures to dominate the American scene over the last decades "As a rac...

Focused on three key themes - Helpers and Heroes, Your New Normal and Acts of Kindness, this book presents a unique portrait of the UK during the 2...

Through a detailed history of the asylum at Ticehurst in Sussex, Charlotte MacKenzie explores the consumer revolution which stimulated the prolifer...

Publisher: She Writes PressAuthor(s): Barbara KennardNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 140 x 215 x 17Cover type: Paperback / so...

Reducere. Gritty, harrowing and full of courage, a testimony to the men and woman from the council estates of Britain who lived and died in the longest campa...

Where does fiction begin and truth end? How does the telling of a white lie (adding or subtracting a year from one's age) mutate into a darker comp...