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Throughout most of history, in China the insane were kept within the home and treated by healers who claimed no specialized knowledge of their condition. In the first decade of the twentieth century, however, psychiatric ideas and institutions began to influence longstanding beliefs about the proper treatment for the mentally ill. In “The Invention of Madness”, Emily Baum traces a genealogy of insanity from the turn of the century to the onset...
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Wonderscape Entertainment
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[2023]
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In this new 2023 high-definition program, learn all about famous moments in history that never actually happened. One such event involves a 1938 radio broadcast announcing the invasion of aliens from outer space with in-depth reporting of the attack. But how can this be? When George Washington was a young boy, did he chop down his father's cherry tree? Did Christopher Columbus discover America? Did the Pilgrims and all Indigenous Peoples come together...
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Wonderscape Entertainment, LLC
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[2024]
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In this new 2024 high-definition program, learn all about the Industrial Revolution and the important inventions that defined it. What was the Industrial Revolution? How did manufacturing change during this period? What was the cotton gin? What was the steam engine? How was electricity introduced? How did these inventions and other key machines change the world? The answers to these questions and more are covered in depth with the exciting...
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Still Open All Hours volume 2
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Granville invents an exciting past for Mrs. Featherstone.
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Mars in the human imagination from the invention of the telescope to the present
For centuries, the planet Mars has captivated astronomers and inspired writers of all genres. Whether imagined as the symbol of the bloody god of war, the cradle of an alien species, or a possible new home for human civilization, our closest planetary neighbor has played a central role in how we think about ourselves in the universe. From Galileo to Kim Stanley Robinson,...
7) Noble Prince
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A princess enslaved to her mother's company, a prince at the end of his rope, a fairy godmother racing against the clock, and an enemy who wants them all dead… Quinn Schaeffer needs two more weeks. If she can display her new invention at the upcoming conference, she might just save her dearly departed mother's company. But there are people who are willing to kill to keep Quinn quiet. Owen King has lost it all. His livelihood. His dream. Everything...
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When the DeSoto Building is stolen on a rainy night in January, the first thing Commissioner Pennyworth does is blame Vic. From then on Doc and the team are caught in a race to save the skyscrapers of New York from cryptid invaders while home-grown Nazis try to throw a monkey wrench in the works!This one has everything: Thousand-foot skyscrapers punching it out, daring aerial rescues, and even a French-speaking dinosaur!Ooops I forgot. It doesn't...
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An essential collection of James Tate's extraordinary poems that will captivate today's readers, with an introduction by Terrance Hayes.
Celebrating James Tate's work as it transcends convention, time, and everything that tells us, "No, you can't do that," Hell, I Love Everybody gives us the poet at his best, his most intimate, hopeful, inventive, and brilliant. John Ashbery called Tate the "poet of possibilities," and this collection records forays...
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An essential collection of James Tate's extraordinary poems that will captivate today's listeners, with an introduction by Terrance Hayes
Celebrating James Tate's work as it transcends convention, time, and everything that tells us, "No, you can't do that," Hell, I Love Everybody gives us the poet at his best, his most intimate, hopeful, inventive, and brilliant. John Ashbery called Tate the "poet of possibilities," and this collection records forays...
11) In Our Own Image
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When Dr. Marcus Tao created CAAN to reverse aging and store both a person's genetic code and unique neuronal pattern, he knew his invention would relegate death to a choice for every human being to make in his own time, and that he would one day have to make that choice for himself.In Our Own Image, a novella, is a glimpse into the lives of nine characters--the scholar, the father, the daughter, the lovers, the faithful, the sociopath, and the savior--as...
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Edgar Allen Poe wrote in what was considered the New World. It wasn't. The European settlers brought their emotional and psychological baggage with them - they brought the old horrors and sometimes invented new ones. And there were already horrors there, waiting to be woken...His work still resonates, but does the horror?Does it stand up, two hundred (ish) years later, half a world away, a modern world, with all new horrors, with the ravages of analysis,...
13) Juja
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In 1953, a teenage girl, Jeanne Saré, jumps in front of a train at the Gare du Nord station. She leaves behind writings that to some are unreadable, but to others tell universal, unspoken truths about the lives and struggles of women. When published in the 1970s, her work triggers a rash of copycat suicides. It is hastily withdrawn from sale and eventually forgotten about. Then, in 2004, two women from opposite corners of the globe-Amsterdam and...
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A new Vampire Lord is attempting to rise, but the organization founded to destroy his kind chooses to watch while another man destroys him alone.A house owned by an unsuccessful inventor is possessed by a spirit that does what his inventions failed to achieve – with inhuman perfection.A selfless female magi is approached by a beast who is supposed to be a man – is this the karma of magic?And, perhaps most desperate and dramatic of all, Dr. Loonatik,...
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Get to know your glasses and become a proud glasses-wearer!
Kitty and Joe wear glasses, and thanks to that, they can see the world in full detail, beautiful and clear as it is.
Maybe you're getting used to your own new pair of glasses right now, and maybe you're not sure what to think about this funny thing on your nose. Will it really be as useful as adults tell you? Will it ever stop feeling funny? Will you ever be able to see past the frames?
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Once Upon a Truth....
Cygnus catches dreamers with her daughters. A lost Mermelf from the stars arrives in Storyhenge.
An imprisoned girl with a blue birthmark. An 1803 edition of 'The Birdspotter's Guide' with a mysterious dedication. A rediscovered invention. A dying Earth where books are banned. And all anomalies are outlaw.
What if our dreams are always caught?
What if your dreams are always heard?
What if dreams are Imagination's stars?
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Crescent City Fae, Book 2Finding the perfect dress can be hell… especially when a stranger tries to gun you down in broad daylight. Void agent and magical baker extraordinaire, Willow Rhoswen has been anticipating her first date with Talisen Kavanagh since she was sixteen. After eight years of waiting, there are only two things that can stand in her way-an assassination attempt and a new game-changing drug.Talisen's invented a new elixir that creates...
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Moon Dust in My Hairnet is a fresh, hopeful, and diverse sci-fi romp following an autistic lunar lunch lady as she juggles relationships and threatening corporate overlords, all while adjusting to life on Lunar Trust One.
20-year-old Lane was perfectly happy living in her big sister's shadow. The great Faraday Tanner, who invented the gravdrive and inspired the movement to found the moon's first independent colony, was the unequaled voice of the post-melt...
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Ministry is a memoir both ugly and captivating, revealing Al Jourgensen as a man who lived a hard life his own way without making compromises. He survived prolonged drug addiction, twenty-two years of chronic heroin, cocaine, and alcohol abuse, to be more precise, before cleaning up, straightening out, and finding new reasons to live.
During his career, Jourgensen has engaged in all of the rock 'n' roll clich's regarding decadence and debauchery...
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Nostalgia today is seen as essentially benign, a wistful longing for the past. This wasn't always the case, however: from the late seventeenth century through the end of the nineteenth, nostalgia denoted a form of homesickness so extreme that it could sometimes be deadly.
“What Nostalgia Was” unearths that history. Thomas Dodman begins his story in Basel, where a nineteen-year-old medical student invented the new diagnosis, modeled on prevailing...