After an accident causes the Farmer to lose his memory, he finds an outrageous new use for his sheep-shearing skills in the city. Heavily illustrated with full-colour scenes taken from the film.
This ambitious volume, worldwide in scope and ranging from antiquity to the present, examines the human encounter with Unreason in all its manifestations, the challenges it poses to society and our responses to it. In twelve chapters organized chronologically...
Mandatory Madness offers a new perspective on a pivotal period in the history of modern Palestine, by putting mental illness and the psychiatric encounters it engendered at the heart of the story. Through a careful and creative reading of an eclectic mix of...
In the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning 93-year history of Crownsville Hospital, one of the United States' last segregated asylums. On a cold day in March of 1911, officials marched twelve Black men into the heart of a forest...
Are we living through the great derangement of our times? In The Madness of Crowds Douglas Murray investigates the dangers of 'woke' culture and the rise of identity politics. In lively, razor-sharp prose he examines the most controversial issues of our moment:...
Miért történik ez velem? – kérdezte magától kétségbeesetten. Mi baj van velem? Flynn-nek jól mennek a dolgai egyetemistaként. A Királyi Konzervatórium egyik legjobb zongoristájaként életre szóló lehetőséget kap, amikor felkérik egy fontos koncerten való szereplésre....
Christmas time is crazy. Falling in love is crazy. Falling in love at Christmas time...that's the best kind of crazy there is. Christmas is rough for Abigail this year. Trapped in her cruddy home town. Working with her brother’s dorky best friend. Plus she’s...
What has happened to us? Where did all the love go? In A Brilliant Madness, poet and social critic Robert M. Drake addresses these and other pressing questions for the 21st century. These poems, taken from the last decade of Drake's work, trace the devolution...