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Languages : en
Pages : 436
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Bizarre
Author:
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 436
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 436
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Scandal at Bizarre
Author: Cynthia A. Kierner
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813926162
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
In the early 1790s Richard Randolph was accused of fathering a child by his sister-in-law, Nancy, and murdering the baby shortly after its birth. Rumors about the incident, which occurred during a visit to the plantation of close family friends, spread like wildfire. Randolph found himself on trial for the crime largely because of the public outrage fueled by these rumors. The rest of the household suffered too, and only Nancy, who later married the esteemed New York statesman Gouverneur Morris, would find any degree of happiness. A tale of family passion, betrayal, and deception, Scandal at Bizarre is a fascinating historical portrait of the social and political realities of a world long vanished.
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813926162
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
In the early 1790s Richard Randolph was accused of fathering a child by his sister-in-law, Nancy, and murdering the baby shortly after its birth. Rumors about the incident, which occurred during a visit to the plantation of close family friends, spread like wildfire. Randolph found himself on trial for the crime largely because of the public outrage fueled by these rumors. The rest of the household suffered too, and only Nancy, who later married the esteemed New York statesman Gouverneur Morris, would find any degree of happiness. A tale of family passion, betrayal, and deception, Scandal at Bizarre is a fascinating historical portrait of the social and political realities of a world long vanished.
Bizarre
Author: Marc Dingman PhD
Publisher: Nicholas Brealey
ISBN: 1399805355
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The human brain is an impossibly complex and delicate instrument - capable of extraordinary calculations, abundant creativity and linguistic dexterity. But the brain is not just the most brilliant of evolutionary wonders. It's also one of the most bizarre. This book shows a whole other side of how brains work - from the patient who is afraid to take a shower because she fears her body will slip down the drain to a man who is convinced, against all evidence, that he is a cat, and a woman who compulsively snacks on cigarette ashes. Entertaining though they are, these cases are more than just oddities. In attempting to understand them, neuroscientists have uncovered important details about how the brain works. BIZARRE will examine these details while explaining what neuroscience's most unusual patients have taught us about normal brain function -ideal both for readers seeking a better appreciation of the inner workings of the brain and those who simply want some extraordinary topics for dinner-party conversation.
Publisher: Nicholas Brealey
ISBN: 1399805355
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The human brain is an impossibly complex and delicate instrument - capable of extraordinary calculations, abundant creativity and linguistic dexterity. But the brain is not just the most brilliant of evolutionary wonders. It's also one of the most bizarre. This book shows a whole other side of how brains work - from the patient who is afraid to take a shower because she fears her body will slip down the drain to a man who is convinced, against all evidence, that he is a cat, and a woman who compulsively snacks on cigarette ashes. Entertaining though they are, these cases are more than just oddities. In attempting to understand them, neuroscientists have uncovered important details about how the brain works. BIZARRE will examine these details while explaining what neuroscience's most unusual patients have taught us about normal brain function -ideal both for readers seeking a better appreciation of the inner workings of the brain and those who simply want some extraordinary topics for dinner-party conversation.
Bizarre
Author: Lawton Mackall
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Have you ever, on returning home from a round of calls, discovered upon your coat a large, obtrusive spot? Stricken with horror, you wonder how long it has been there. Did you have this adjunct when you appeared before your wealthy aunt? That severe female has never quite approved of you, and now this will finish you as far as she is concerned. Did you exhibit yourself thus disgraced at the Brumleighs'? You recollect that the maid eyed you queerly[Pg 16] when she opened the door, and that Mrs. B. had frequent recourse to her lorgnettes. Then, too, both the Greens and the Worthingtons seemed a little stiffer than usual. How did you acquire it, anyhow? It looks and feels like ice cream of a very rich quality; ice cream that has drippled merrily in leaps and bounds. But you had no ice cream today. Neither did you talk to anyone who was having ice cream. Perhaps you have been struck by ice cream, just as people are struck by lightning. The weather does such peculiar things nowadays.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Have you ever, on returning home from a round of calls, discovered upon your coat a large, obtrusive spot? Stricken with horror, you wonder how long it has been there. Did you have this adjunct when you appeared before your wealthy aunt? That severe female has never quite approved of you, and now this will finish you as far as she is concerned. Did you exhibit yourself thus disgraced at the Brumleighs'? You recollect that the maid eyed you queerly[Pg 16] when she opened the door, and that Mrs. B. had frequent recourse to her lorgnettes. Then, too, both the Greens and the Worthingtons seemed a little stiffer than usual. How did you acquire it, anyhow? It looks and feels like ice cream of a very rich quality; ice cream that has drippled merrily in leaps and bounds. But you had no ice cream today. Neither did you talk to anyone who was having ice cream. Perhaps you have been struck by ice cream, just as people are struck by lightning. The weather does such peculiar things nowadays.
Listverse.com's Ultimate Book of Bizarre Lists
Author: Jamie Frater
Publisher: Ulysses Press
ISBN: 1569758174
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 714
Book Description
FREAKS OF NATURE, ODD CRIMES, SHOCKING DEATHS, DEVASTATING DISASTERS, BLOOD-CURDLING RITES, CRAZY CONSPIRACIES & MUCH, MUCH MORE -Gruesome Torture Devices -Mass Hysteria Outbreaks -Unbelievable Miniatures -Disturbingly Scary Clowns -Outer Space Mysteries -Astonishing Aphrodisiacs -Disgusting Ancient Jobs -Spooky Sports Curses -World-Famous Penises -Mail-Order-Bride Shockers -Brutal Pope Deaths -Outrageous Wedding Locales -Grossest Edible Animals -Appalling Religious Practices
Publisher: Ulysses Press
ISBN: 1569758174
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 714
Book Description
FREAKS OF NATURE, ODD CRIMES, SHOCKING DEATHS, DEVASTATING DISASTERS, BLOOD-CURDLING RITES, CRAZY CONSPIRACIES & MUCH, MUCH MORE -Gruesome Torture Devices -Mass Hysteria Outbreaks -Unbelievable Miniatures -Disturbingly Scary Clowns -Outer Space Mysteries -Astonishing Aphrodisiacs -Disgusting Ancient Jobs -Spooky Sports Curses -World-Famous Penises -Mail-Order-Bride Shockers -Brutal Pope Deaths -Outrageous Wedding Locales -Grossest Edible Animals -Appalling Religious Practices
Weird Science and Bizarre Beliefs
Author: Gregory L. Reece
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857717871
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
Does the giant Yeti roam the mountain ranges of Tibet? Does a real-life Shangri La lie waiting to be discovered in a Himalayan valley? Do transmissions from lost civilizations beam messages of salvation to humankind? What lost creatures lurk in the murky depths of Scotland's brooding Loch Ness? And who - or what - is responsible for the implacable monoliths which tower over Easter Island? The obsession that so many now have with the uncanny and the unnatural is in itself a mystery. It prompts serious questions which could have remarkable answers. Drinking deep from the wells of esoteric knowledge, Greg Reece undertakes a heroic quest for solutions. Braving the darkest recesses of cult belief, he stalks the twilight borderlands of contemporary culture, where, at the outer edges of mainstream thought, things become downright freaky and outlandish. Taking his life in both hands, the author explores a subterranean cavern reputed to be the home of elusive blue-skinned troglodytes; goes hiking in the backwoods for a glimpse of Bigfoot; investigates the truth of Alternative Archaeology in search of Atlantis; and tests for himself the time-travel and anti-gravity theories of famed inventor Nikola Tesla. Unashamedly revelling in the unexplained, Weird Science and Bizarre Beliefs is both a penetrating analysis of the hidden underbelly of science, pseudo-science and religion as well as an unforgettable journey into the innermost depths of the fantastic, the extraordinary and the peculiar.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857717871
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
Does the giant Yeti roam the mountain ranges of Tibet? Does a real-life Shangri La lie waiting to be discovered in a Himalayan valley? Do transmissions from lost civilizations beam messages of salvation to humankind? What lost creatures lurk in the murky depths of Scotland's brooding Loch Ness? And who - or what - is responsible for the implacable monoliths which tower over Easter Island? The obsession that so many now have with the uncanny and the unnatural is in itself a mystery. It prompts serious questions which could have remarkable answers. Drinking deep from the wells of esoteric knowledge, Greg Reece undertakes a heroic quest for solutions. Braving the darkest recesses of cult belief, he stalks the twilight borderlands of contemporary culture, where, at the outer edges of mainstream thought, things become downright freaky and outlandish. Taking his life in both hands, the author explores a subterranean cavern reputed to be the home of elusive blue-skinned troglodytes; goes hiking in the backwoods for a glimpse of Bigfoot; investigates the truth of Alternative Archaeology in search of Atlantis; and tests for himself the time-travel and anti-gravity theories of famed inventor Nikola Tesla. Unashamedly revelling in the unexplained, Weird Science and Bizarre Beliefs is both a penetrating analysis of the hidden underbelly of science, pseudo-science and religion as well as an unforgettable journey into the innermost depths of the fantastic, the extraordinary and the peculiar.
Bizarre Things We've Eaten
Author: Amie Jane Leavitt
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1496656733
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Come and get your bugs for supper! That's probably not what you want to hear from your mom. Check out some of the most bizarre things humans have eaten throughout history.
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1496656733
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Come and get your bugs for supper! That's probably not what you want to hear from your mom. Check out some of the most bizarre things humans have eaten throughout history.
Bizarre Behaviours (Psychology Revivals)
Author: Herschel Prins
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134098987
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
The most deviant forms of human behaviour can be disturbing, incomprehensible, and sometimes very frightening. Herschel Prins believes that even the most deviant-seeming behaviours have their counterparts in ‘normality’ and can often be seen as an extension of this. In Bizarre Behaviours he sets some extreme forms of behaviour, such as vampirism and amok, in their socio-cultural and psychological contexts. Originally published in 1990, this very accessible and readable book will interest not only all those who have to deal with bizarre behaviour in the course of their work, but also the general reader who is interested in the origins and the infinite variety of human behaviours.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134098987
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
The most deviant forms of human behaviour can be disturbing, incomprehensible, and sometimes very frightening. Herschel Prins believes that even the most deviant-seeming behaviours have their counterparts in ‘normality’ and can often be seen as an extension of this. In Bizarre Behaviours he sets some extreme forms of behaviour, such as vampirism and amok, in their socio-cultural and psychological contexts. Originally published in 1990, this very accessible and readable book will interest not only all those who have to deal with bizarre behaviour in the course of their work, but also the general reader who is interested in the origins and the infinite variety of human behaviours.
Bizarre Things We've Called Medicine
Author: Alicia Z. Klepeis
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1496656709
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Take two leeches and call me in the morning. That's probably not what you want to hear from your doctor. Check out some of the most bizarre things humans have done in the name of medicine.
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1496656709
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Take two leeches and call me in the morning. That's probably not what you want to hear from your doctor. Check out some of the most bizarre things humans have done in the name of medicine.
The Bizarre Events at Hellman Elementary
Author: Richard M. Born
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1662483899
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Would you want to be known as the perfect child and student at school? Be the best at academics, sports, and anything else you choose to do? That recognition can be a lot of pressure for one person to handle. Well, Sam has the reputation of having that perfection. It is of great concern to him, and it does not help that he attends Hellman Elementary where bizarre things often happen. This school year the Perfect Games are being played in Golfing Blue at the Phobus Arena, and the reality TV star, Ludo Bilker, seeks Sam out to personally invite him to participate. The competition consists of thirteen games with students chosen as the contestants competing to be named the Perfect One. With each competition, more students will be eliminated as they participate in various challenging categories. Who will be successful? Also, is there danger awaiting some contestants during the competition, and if so, who is responsible? Who can be trusted? Will Sam strive to be the Perfect One or is all the uncertainties surrounding the events just too overwhelming? Furthermore, will the mysteries and risks at the Phobus Arena cause Sam to be a target of the next bizarre event? don't miss the sixth bizarre event--program evil--coming soon!
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1662483899
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Would you want to be known as the perfect child and student at school? Be the best at academics, sports, and anything else you choose to do? That recognition can be a lot of pressure for one person to handle. Well, Sam has the reputation of having that perfection. It is of great concern to him, and it does not help that he attends Hellman Elementary where bizarre things often happen. This school year the Perfect Games are being played in Golfing Blue at the Phobus Arena, and the reality TV star, Ludo Bilker, seeks Sam out to personally invite him to participate. The competition consists of thirteen games with students chosen as the contestants competing to be named the Perfect One. With each competition, more students will be eliminated as they participate in various challenging categories. Who will be successful? Also, is there danger awaiting some contestants during the competition, and if so, who is responsible? Who can be trusted? Will Sam strive to be the Perfect One or is all the uncertainties surrounding the events just too overwhelming? Furthermore, will the mysteries and risks at the Phobus Arena cause Sam to be a target of the next bizarre event? don't miss the sixth bizarre event--program evil--coming soon!