Author: John Cawte
Publisher: Melbourne University
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
A searing historical account of the treatment of the mentally ill in Australia before the invention of tranquilizers.
The Last of the Lunatics
Author: John Cawte
Publisher: Melbourne University
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
A searing historical account of the treatment of the mentally ill in Australia before the invention of tranquilizers.
Publisher: Melbourne University
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
A searing historical account of the treatment of the mentally ill in Australia before the invention of tranquilizers.
Lunatics
Author: Dave Barry
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101565772
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Philip Horkman is a happy man, the owner of a pet store called The Wine Shop, and on Sundays a referee for a local kids’ soccer league. Jeffrey Peckerman is the proud and loving father of a star athlete in the girls’ ten-and-under soccer league, and he’s not exactly happy with the ref. The two of them are about to collide in a swiftly escalating series of events that will send them running for their lives, pursued by the police, soldiers, subversives, bears, revolutionaries, pirates, and a black ops team that does not exist. Where all that takes them you can’t even begin to guess, but the literary journey there is a masterpiece of inspiration, chaos, and unadulterated, well, lunacy. And they might even learn a lesson or two along the way.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101565772
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Philip Horkman is a happy man, the owner of a pet store called The Wine Shop, and on Sundays a referee for a local kids’ soccer league. Jeffrey Peckerman is the proud and loving father of a star athlete in the girls’ ten-and-under soccer league, and he’s not exactly happy with the ref. The two of them are about to collide in a swiftly escalating series of events that will send them running for their lives, pursued by the police, soldiers, subversives, bears, revolutionaries, pirates, and a black ops team that does not exist. Where all that takes them you can’t even begin to guess, but the literary journey there is a masterpiece of inspiration, chaos, and unadulterated, well, lunacy. And they might even learn a lesson or two along the way.
The Poet and the Lunatics
Author: G. K. Chesterton
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 0755100204
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
Gabriel Gale is an eccentric poet. His madness is the madness of insight and he uses this gift to solve or prevent crimes committed by madmen. Chesterton ably illustrates his own premise that lunacy and sanity may just be a point of view...
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 0755100204
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
Gabriel Gale is an eccentric poet. His madness is the madness of insight and he uses this gift to solve or prevent crimes committed by madmen. Chesterton ably illustrates his own premise that lunacy and sanity may just be a point of view...
Lunatics
Author: Bradley Denton
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250091616
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Jack has been widowed for close to a year, and his behavior has his friends worried. Arrested for public indecency, Jack insists that he was meeting a moon goddess of desire named Lily. Furthermore, he claims that she can only find him if he waits outside, naked under a full moon. To prevent further troubles with the law, Jack's friends begin taking him to a cabin in the woods each full moon. But one at a time, they are each touched by Lily and forced to deal with their desires before they can truly know their hearts.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250091616
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Jack has been widowed for close to a year, and his behavior has his friends worried. Arrested for public indecency, Jack insists that he was meeting a moon goddess of desire named Lily. Furthermore, he claims that she can only find him if he waits outside, naked under a full moon. To prevent further troubles with the law, Jack's friends begin taking him to a cabin in the woods each full moon. But one at a time, they are each touched by Lily and forced to deal with their desires before they can truly know their hearts.
A Graveyard for Lunatics
Author: Ray Bradbury
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 006224213X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Halloween Night, 1954. A young, film-obsessed scriptwriter has just been hired at one of the great studios. An anonymous investigation leads from the giant Maximus Films backlot to an eerie graveyard separated from the studio by a single wall. There he makes a terrifying discovery that thrusts him into a maelstrom of intrigue and mystery—and into the dizzy exhilaration of the movie industry at the height of its glittering power.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 006224213X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Halloween Night, 1954. A young, film-obsessed scriptwriter has just been hired at one of the great studios. An anonymous investigation leads from the giant Maximus Films backlot to an eerie graveyard separated from the studio by a single wall. There he makes a terrifying discovery that thrusts him into a maelstrom of intrigue and mystery—and into the dizzy exhilaration of the movie industry at the height of its glittering power.
Survival Tips for Lunatics
Author: Shandana Minhas
Publisher: Hachette India
ISBN: 9350098350
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
To save the most important things in the world, you have to first find out what they are. . . TIP NO. 1: Believe it or not, a camping trip is the best place to start, especially if it has: Changez, 12 (TIP NO. 2: Think constable in the lunatic police) Timmy, 9 (TIP NO. 3: Think capuchin-monkey-brained snotasaurus) A mud volcano (TIP NO. 4: Yes, it can erupt!) snippy sparrow (TIP NO. 5: Small is BIG) Saw-toothed crocs (TIP NO. 6: The animals, not the shoes) The last Ursus thibetanus gedrosianus (TIP NO. 7: Think large, furry and walking towards you!) A herd of hyper-herbivorous Baluchitheria (TIP NO. 8: Don’t think. . . RUN!) One poetic Markhor (TIP NO. 9: Yup, get the earplugs) A Protoliterodragon (TIP NO. 10: It may go from bad to verse!) Vegetarian Velociraptors (TIP NO. 11: Be glad you are not green) And as always. . . Assorted pesky humans, including angry soldiers and heartless rogues (TIP NO. 12: Think the most dangerous animal on the planet) Got the idea? Here’s a story that tells you what on earth is really happening. . . If you are a clever Smartosapiens, Survival Tips for Lunatics is the mad, mad handbook for you to make sense of the world and where it is going, besides round and round!
Publisher: Hachette India
ISBN: 9350098350
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
To save the most important things in the world, you have to first find out what they are. . . TIP NO. 1: Believe it or not, a camping trip is the best place to start, especially if it has: Changez, 12 (TIP NO. 2: Think constable in the lunatic police) Timmy, 9 (TIP NO. 3: Think capuchin-monkey-brained snotasaurus) A mud volcano (TIP NO. 4: Yes, it can erupt!) snippy sparrow (TIP NO. 5: Small is BIG) Saw-toothed crocs (TIP NO. 6: The animals, not the shoes) The last Ursus thibetanus gedrosianus (TIP NO. 7: Think large, furry and walking towards you!) A herd of hyper-herbivorous Baluchitheria (TIP NO. 8: Don’t think. . . RUN!) One poetic Markhor (TIP NO. 9: Yup, get the earplugs) A Protoliterodragon (TIP NO. 10: It may go from bad to verse!) Vegetarian Velociraptors (TIP NO. 11: Be glad you are not green) And as always. . . Assorted pesky humans, including angry soldiers and heartless rogues (TIP NO. 12: Think the most dangerous animal on the planet) Got the idea? Here’s a story that tells you what on earth is really happening. . . If you are a clever Smartosapiens, Survival Tips for Lunatics is the mad, mad handbook for you to make sense of the world and where it is going, besides round and round!
Beautiful Idiots and Brilliant Lunatics
Author: Rob Baker
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445651203
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 469
Book Description
London's forgotten scandals, secrets and personalities from the twentieth century, told by the writer of the popular blog Another Nickel in the Machine.
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445651203
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 469
Book Description
London's forgotten scandals, secrets and personalities from the twentieth century, told by the writer of the popular blog Another Nickel in the Machine.
Political Troglodytes and Economic Lunatics
Author: Dominic Kelly
Publisher: Black Inc.
ISBN: 1743820763
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Political history at its best. This is the story of the hard right in Australia – of how Ray Evans and his boss at Western Mining Corporation, Hugh Morgan, became the pioneers of a new form of right-wing politics whose forceful reshaping of public debates transformed Australian politics. With a calm gaze, forensic detail and a dry wit, Dominic Kelly shows how they did it. Starting in the mid-1980s, Evans set up four small but potent organisations: the H.R. Nicholls Society (industrial relations), the Samuel Griffith Society (constitutional issues), the Lavoisier Group (climate change) and the Bennelong Society (Indigenous affairs). Their aim was to transform public debate on key issues. Morgan and Evans had an energy that bordered on fanaticism. They lobbied politicians and wrote op-eds. They were born intriguers and colourful rhetoricians, with a wide influence that famously included treasurer-to-be Peter Costello. It was Bob Hawke who called the H.R. Nicholls Society ‘political troglodytes and economic lunatics’; yet in their dogged pursuit of influence, the hard right made an impact. From successive backdowns on emissions targets to the rejection of the Uluru Statement from the Heart, the efforts of hard right conservatives continues to be felt today – not only on the right but across mainstream public policy. Political Troglodytes and Economic Lunatics is a compelling case study in how some very determined people can change a political culture.
Publisher: Black Inc.
ISBN: 1743820763
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Political history at its best. This is the story of the hard right in Australia – of how Ray Evans and his boss at Western Mining Corporation, Hugh Morgan, became the pioneers of a new form of right-wing politics whose forceful reshaping of public debates transformed Australian politics. With a calm gaze, forensic detail and a dry wit, Dominic Kelly shows how they did it. Starting in the mid-1980s, Evans set up four small but potent organisations: the H.R. Nicholls Society (industrial relations), the Samuel Griffith Society (constitutional issues), the Lavoisier Group (climate change) and the Bennelong Society (Indigenous affairs). Their aim was to transform public debate on key issues. Morgan and Evans had an energy that bordered on fanaticism. They lobbied politicians and wrote op-eds. They were born intriguers and colourful rhetoricians, with a wide influence that famously included treasurer-to-be Peter Costello. It was Bob Hawke who called the H.R. Nicholls Society ‘political troglodytes and economic lunatics’; yet in their dogged pursuit of influence, the hard right made an impact. From successive backdowns on emissions targets to the rejection of the Uluru Statement from the Heart, the efforts of hard right conservatives continues to be felt today – not only on the right but across mainstream public policy. Political Troglodytes and Economic Lunatics is a compelling case study in how some very determined people can change a political culture.
A Practical Treatise on the Law concerning Lunatics, idiots and persons of unsound mind. With an appendix of the statutes of England, Ireland and Scotland, relating to such persons; and precedents and bills of costs
Author: Leonard Shelford
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Costs (Law)
Languages : en
Pages : 1162
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Costs (Law)
Languages : en
Pages : 1162
Book Description
God's Lunatics
Author: Michael Largo
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061981257
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
God’s Lunatics is an eyebrow-raising encyclopedia of the strange and shocking side of history’s religions, cults, and spiritual movements, by Michael Largo, the bestselling author of the Bram Stoker Award-winning Final Exits. A fascinating compendium of “Lost Souls, False Prophets, Martyred Saints, Murderous Cults, Demonic Nuns, and Other Victims of Man’s Eternal Search for the Divine,” God’s Lunatics contains a wealth of valuable extreme spiritual information—including the number of exorcisms performed each year and the proper method for identifying the Antichrist.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061981257
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
God’s Lunatics is an eyebrow-raising encyclopedia of the strange and shocking side of history’s religions, cults, and spiritual movements, by Michael Largo, the bestselling author of the Bram Stoker Award-winning Final Exits. A fascinating compendium of “Lost Souls, False Prophets, Martyred Saints, Murderous Cults, Demonic Nuns, and Other Victims of Man’s Eternal Search for the Divine,” God’s Lunatics contains a wealth of valuable extreme spiritual information—including the number of exorcisms performed each year and the proper method for identifying the Antichrist.