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George Ohr Sophisticate and Rube

George Ohr Sophisticate and Rube
Ellen J. Lippert, "George Ohr: Sophisticate and Rube"
English | 2013 | pages: 207 | ISBN: 1617039012, 1617039020 | PDF | 33,5 mb
The late nineteenth-century Biloxi potter, George Ohr, was considered an eccentric in his time but has emerged as a major figure in American art since the discovery of thousands of examples of his work in the 1960s. Currently, Ohr is celebrated as a solitary genius who foreshadowed modern art movements. While an intriguing narrative, this view offers a narrow understanding of the man and his work that has hindered serious consideration.

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Georg Letham Physician and Murderer

Georg Letham Physician and Murderer
Ernst Weiss, Joel Rotenberg, "Georg Letham: Physician and Murderer"
English | 2010 | pages: 562 | ISBN: 0980033039 | PDF | 1,3 mb
First published in 1931 and now appearing for the first time in English, Georg Letham: Physician and Murderer is a disquieting anatomy of a deviant mind in the tradition of Crime and Punishment. Letham, the treacherously unreliable narrator, is a depraved bacteriologist whose murder of his wife is, characteristically, both instinctual and premeditated. Convicted and exiled, he attempts to atone for his crimes through science, conceiving of the book we are reading as an empirical report on himself-whose ultimate purpose may be to substitute for a conscience. Yet Letham can neither understand nor master himself. His crimes are crimes of passion, and his passions remain more or less untouched by his reason-in fact they are constantly intruding on his "report," rigorous as it is intended to be. Both feverish and chilling, Georg Letham explores the limits of reason and the tensions between objectivity and subjectivity. Moving from an unnamed Central European city to arctic ice floes to a tropical island prison, this layered novel-with its often grotesquely comic tone and arresting images-invites us into the darkest chambers of the human psyche.

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Geoffrey Hill and his Contexts

Geoffrey Hill and his Contexts
Piers Pennington, Matthew Sperling, "Geoffrey Hill and his Contexts"
English | 2011 | pages: 272 | ISBN: 3034301855 | PDF | 1,9 mb
Geoffrey Hill is one of the most significant poets currently at work in the English language. The essays gathered in this book present a number of new contexts in which to explore a wide range of his writings, from the poems he wrote as an undergraduate to the recent volumes A Treatise of Civil Power (2007) and Collected Critical Writings (2008). Connections are made between the early and the later poetry, and between the poetry and the criticism, and archival materials are considered along with the published texts. The essays also make comparisons across disciplines, discussing Hill's work in relation to theology, philosophy and intellectual history, to literature from other languages, and to the other arts. In doing so, they cast fresh light upon Hill's dense, original and sometimes challenging writings, opening them up in new ways for all readers of his work.

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Forgotten Fires of Chicago The Lake Michigan Inferno and a Century of Flame

Forgotten Fires of Chicago The Lake Michigan Inferno and a Century of Flame
John F Hogan, "Forgotten Fires of Chicago: The Lake Michigan Inferno and a Century of Flame"
English | ISBN: 1540212041 | 2014 | 146 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
Chicago's war against cinder, flame and smoke did not end with the Great Fire of 1871. That conflagration was only one engagement in a ceaseless and often unrecognized conflict, fought in the most unlikely places. In 1909, fire ripped through the dynamite room of a staging facility one and a half miles off the Lake Michigan shoreline, transforming the pipe-laying operation into a raging inferno. During the World's Columbian Exposition, thousands of fairgoers watched in horror as twelve firefighters were trapped in a blazing ice warehouse. An operagoer left a smoking bomb under his seat at the Auditorium Theater in 1917, and the newly invented smoke ejector arrived too late to save firemen and laborers cut off in a sewer in 1931. Join John Hogan and Alex Burkholder for the history of these forgotten fires and the heroes who fight them.

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Forensic Mental Health Framing Integrated Solutions, 2nd Edition

Forensic Mental Health Framing Integrated Solutions, 2nd Edition
Forensic Mental Health: Framing Integrated Solutions, 2nd Edition
English | 2023 | ISBN: 0367635542 | 381 Pages | PDF (True) | 13 MB
In this book author Michele P. Bratina demonstrates how the Sequential Intercept Model (SIM) supports integration of the U.S. healthcare and justice systems to offer more positive outcomes for offenders with mental illness. The book describes a criminal justice-mental health nexus that touches every population-juvenile and adult male and female offenders, probationers and parolees, the aging adult prison population, and victims of crime. In the United States today, the criminal justice system functions as a mental health provider, but at great cost to society. The author summarizes the historical roots of this crisis and provides an overview of mental illness and symptoms, using graphics, case studies, and spotlight features to illustrate the most pressing issues encountered by justice and behavioral health professionals and the populations they serve.

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Fodor's Essential Germany, 2nd Edition

Fodor's Essential Germany, 2nd Edition
Fodor's Essential Germany, 2nd Edition by Fodor's
English | July 26, 2022 | ISBN: 1640975098 | True EPUB | 784 pages | 189 MB
Whether you want to take a boat down the Rhine, go to Oktoberfest in Munich, or explore the Black Forest, the local Fodor's travel experts in Germany are here to help! Fodor's Essential Germany guidebook is packed with maps, carefully curated recommendations, and everything else you need to simplify your trip-planning process and make the most of your time. This new edition has been fully-redesigned with an easy-to-read layout, fresh information, and beautiful color photos. Fodor's "Essential" guides have been named by Booklist as the Best Travel Guide Series of 2020!

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