In this gripping family tale, Catherine Ehrlich explores her Austrian grandparents influential lives at the crossroads of German and Jewish national movements.
"Schattenhaftes Seelenleben" wirft einen Blick auf die komplexe Natur psychischer Störungen und beleuchtet die vielfältigen Auslöser, die zu ihrer Entstehung beitragen können.
The dark history of eugenic thought in Germany from the nineteenth century to todayand the courageous countervoicesBetween 1939 and 1945, Nazi genocide claimed the lives of nearly three hundred thousand people diagnosed with psychiatric illness or cognitive deficiencies.
"e;Bill Coleman's story is one that younger generations should mark and inwardly digest, lest they forget the pioneers who helped to make a better America possible.
A lo largo de sesenta años, Boris Cyrulnik ha sido testigo vivo de lo que él denomina «la loca historia de la psiquiatría», que va desde la práctica de la lobotomía, el uso de camisas de fuerza mentales y físicas, las condiciones deplorables que padecían los pacientes en los hospitales psiquiátricos; luego Lacan y el psicoanálisis, hasta llegar a la tranquilidad que le ha aportado la teoría del apego, de la cual la resiliencia es su capítulo preferido, su portavoz.
The Sunday Times bestsellerThe New York Times bestsellerGuardian Summer Reading Hottest Book PickThis is not just a book for people who follow politics, but for anyone who has ever doubted themselves, or wanted to make a difference.
The mention of an African autobiography often evokes images of a want and penury; a childhood sullied by poverty and hopelessness; and the predictable rags-to-riches narrative.
One would think that being thrown into a North African prison in leg-irons might be an exception to the adage that comedians can find the humor in anything.
One would think that being thrown into a North African prison in leg-irons might be an exception to the adage that comedians can find the humor in anything.
A Kirkus Best Nonfiction Book of 2025Published to coincide with the hundredth anniversary of his birth, the first major study of Malcolm X's influence in the sixty years since his assassination, exploring his enduring impact on culture, politics, and civil rights.
This ground-breaking, mixed genre memoir journeys from the soil of Texas farmland near Floresville to the shrimpers' nets of the Gulf Coast, near Matagorda.
This ground-breaking, mixed genre memoir journeys from the soil of Texas farmland near Floresville to the shrimpers' nets of the Gulf Coast, near Matagorda.
This book was unknowingly written by Bradley Jesse "e;Beej"e; Larson, a twenty-two year old college student who died in a tragic van/truck accident on April 26, 2006, just three weeks shy of his graduation from Taylor University, Upland, Indiana and two months before matriculating to University of Wisconsin Law School.
