Author: Charles Arthur MercierPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Insanity
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Author: William Williams Keen
Author: 
Author: William Williams Keen
Author: William Williams Keen
Author: William Williams Keen
Author: The Sanity Inspectors
Author: Friedrich DeichPublisher: Boiler House Press
ISBN: 1913861880
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
“Who can tell exactly where the difference lies between those of us who imagine ourselves sane and those we call insane?” As Robert Vossmenge tries to practice psychiatry in Germany in the early 1930s, he finds himself at odds with his profession as it increasingly falls under the influence of the Nazi regime with its aim to rid German society of those it considers undesirables. Vossmenge tries to stay out of trouble by keeping a low profile. Through his friendship with a Lutheran pastor, he begins to question his assumptions about what constitutes sanity in a world where the people in charge seem to be insane. Though he quietly wages a one-man campaign against the cruelty of the military mindset while serving as a Luftwaffe doctor, Vossmenge is ultimately forced to choose between survival and standing for his beliefs. The Sanity Inspectors is a gripping account of the challenge of trying to be a good man in the midst of evil.
The Sinful Stones
Author: Peter DickinsonPublisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504004973
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Scotland Yard detective James Pibble travels to a remote Scottish island to free an old man from a dangerous cult of self-proclaimed saints and saviors in this mystery by CWA Gold Dagger winner Peter Dickinson Ninety-two-year-old Sir Francis Francis summons James Pibble to an isolated island in the Hebrides to find out who pilfered the memoirs he was in the process of writing. The Nobel Prize–winning scientist was one of the builders of the first atom bomb. Is Francis senile? Paranoid? Was the manuscript really stolen? What’s the real reason he sent for Pibble? As Pibble tries to untangle the mystery of the missing document, he starts to suspect that the devout millenarian religious sect inhabiting the island may be less virtuous than it seems; the community is strangely hell-bent on preventing Francis from ever leaving. It’s up to Pibble to seek out the truth and find his own salvation before the walls of Jericho come tumbling down forever. The Sinful Stones is the 3rd book in the James Pibble Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
Sanity and Solitude
Author: Bob SpencerPublisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 9781477234693
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
The world is a mad place and the various vicissitudes of life appear to make it more so. The inherent mutability in nature can swing from the serendipitous to surreal malignity within a matter of moments. In this day and age, events can be ephemeral or appear so prolonged we are left, agonisingly, to wonder if they will ever terminate at all. To be lost in such a bewildering universe, when it feels impossible to gather oneself, to take stock of the changeability or to bear the interminable, we feel impotent, overwhelmed and wrongfully abused. Sanity and Solitude is one mans ramble through these frightful absurdities and contradictions that appear to confront us at every turn. To understand insanity one has to travel oneself to the very fringes of insanity itself for better or for worse. We are the clouds that veil the midnight moon; How restlessly they speed, and gleam, and quiver, Streaking the darkness radiantly!--yet soon Night closes round, and they are lost forever. (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
