The Book About Blanche and Marie

The Book About Blanche and Marie
Author: Per Olov Enquist
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2007-04-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781585678884

From one of the world's most acclaimed authors comes a tale that explores the complex relationship between Blanche Whitman, the famous hysteria patient of Professor J. M. Charcot and Marie Curie, Polish physicist and Nobel Prize winner.

Bonnie & Clyde & Marie

Bonnie & Clyde & Marie
Author: Jonathan Davis
Publisher: Stephen F. Austin University Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781936205127

"It's probably too late to change the overall perception that the American public has of my brothers Clyde and Buck, as well as Clyde's sweetheart Bonnie Parker and Buck's wife Blanche Caldwell Barrow. The public's perspective on my family members and friends has been reinforced by over 60 years of caricature and exaggeration through the output of the publishing houses and the Hollywood studios. It began during the days of the old newsreels in the movie houses and has continued unchanged up through today's modern cable television networks and satellite communications. No matter which medium carries the message, the message itself is typically 100% pure baloney." A new slant on the infamous Bonnie and Clyde by Clyde's sister Marie Barrow.

The Story of Blanche and Marie

The Story of Blanche and Marie
Author: Per Olov Enquist
Publisher: Harvill Press
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2006
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

With rights sold in ten countries, The story of Blanche and Marie is at once a haunting look at scientific martyrdom and an intimate and moving portrait of a friendship between two uniquely brave and talented women."--BOOK JACKET.

Harbored Secrets

Harbored Secrets
Author: Marie F. Martin
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2013-02-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781482320824

In May of 1935, Blinny Platt's homestead shack burns to the ground forever leaving her family asunder, scattering them like the embers flew on the Montana wind. She was only eight-years-old, sent away and in charge of her little sister. She could handle that because Platts take care of Platts. However, it is the hidden secrets of her parents smoldering beneath the charred remains that haunts Blinny until 1982. She once again leaves the home place to build a house for herself. As the foundation is poured and the walls go up, each of the hurtful memories are uncovered. Finally the mystery, left in the ashes of the burned home, is revealed.

Blanche on the Lam

Blanche on the Lam
Author: Barbara Neely
Publisher: Blanche White Mystery Series
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014-08-13
Genre: African American women
ISBN: 9781941298381

Originally published: New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992.

Think Less, be More

Think Less, be More
Author: Christine Maingard
Publisher:
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2010
Genre: Mind and body
ISBN: 9780855723941

It is easy to let ourselves be affected by the fast pace, the complexity and the mad rush of 21st-century living and working. It can be difficult to know how to change this and how to slow down. THINK LESS, BE MORE is a powerful guide to finding more happiness and contentment, despite the challenges, difficulties and often unrealistic expectations we are confronted with in our daily lives, be it at work, at home or somewhere in between. The message in the book is simple, mindful and compelling: Think less, think differently and distance yourself from the merry-go-round of your own mind! That nagging voice in your head does not need to control you. Worry-thinking, feelings of anxiety, frustration or anger do not need to be your constant companion. Only when your mind is calm and clear can you feel truly alive and be who you truly are. Written unlike any other book about how stress can affect our health and well-being, THINK LESS, BE MORE offers insightful strategies on how we can help ourselves - and others - become free from the limitations and negative influence of our own thinking. It also contains real-life stories and an Eight-Week 'Mental Detox' program, based on sound principles of cognitive behaviour, used by teachers of mindfulness and therapists. Informative, engaging and inspirational, Christine Maingard takes the reader on a journey towards a more mindful life. This book can change your life in a most profound and joyful way.

Medical Muses

Medical Muses
Author: Asti Hustvedt
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 387
Release: 2012-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1408822350

In 1862 the Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris became the epicenter of the study of hysteria, the mysterious illness then thought to affect half of all women. There, prominent neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot's contentious methods caused furore within the church and divided the medical community. Treatments included hypnosis, piercing and the evocation of demons and, despite the controversy they caused, the experiments became a fascinating and fashionable public spectacle. Medical Muses tells the stories of the women institutionalised in the Salpêtrière. Theirs is a tale of science and ideology, medicine and the occult, of hypnotism, sadism, love and theatre. Combining hospital records, municipal archives, memoirs and letters, Medical Muses sheds new light on a crucial moment in psychiatric history.

Tomb of the Unknown Racist

Tomb of the Unknown Racist
Author: Blanche McCary Boyd
Publisher: Catapult
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2018-05-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1640090681

Finalist for the 2019 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction “In this suspenseful novel . . . Boyd gives a chilling portrait of the white terrorist network in the US during the time of Timothy McVeigh, convicted of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.” —BBC Culture Blanche McCrary Boyd's first novel in twenty years continues the story of former activist Ellen Burns, whose search for her estranged brother leads her across the country and into the dark abyss of racism and white supremacy, and the confrontation that occurs when she learns the truth about her family's past.

Miss Don't Touch Me

Miss Don't Touch Me
Author: Hubert
Publisher: NBM Publishing
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2014-11-01
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1561638897

In 1930s Paris, the &“Butcher of the Dances&” is on the prowl for young, loose women, and local dominatrix Agatha suddenly turns up dead. Everyone assumes it was suicide, but her sister Blanche is convinced that the Butcher is responsible. She decides to take matters into her own hands, and in her pursuit, she ends up hired into a luxury house of call-girls. She soon becomes adept at certain practices, but she does not lose sight of her ultimate goal—to find her sister's killer. A suspenseful spicy tale as only the French could so lightly get away with, this work is deceptive in its depth and realism.

Writing about Lives in Science

Writing about Lives in Science
Author: Paola Govoni
Publisher: V&R unipress GmbH
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2014
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 384710263X

Following discussions on scientific biography carried out over the past few decades, this book proposes a kaleidoscopic survey of the uses of biography as a tool to understand science and its context. The authors belong to a variety of academic and professional fields, including the history of science, anthropology, literary studies, and science journalism. The period covered spans from 1732, when Laura Bassi was the first woman to get a tenured professorship of physics, to 2009, when Elizabeth H. Blackburn and Carol W. Greider were the first women's team to have won a Nobel Prize in science.