I Live in a Mad House

I Live in a Mad House
Author: Kaye Umansky
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 114
Release: 2011-12-05
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1408153351

Following his star turn in I am a Tree Tim is back for more comic fun. This time he's spending half term cleaning cars, and screaming toddlers have taken over his home. He's not happy. Luckily his friend Flora is on hand to help out and have a joke with. Things start to look up. Until, that is, they encounter a very angry customer and a very wet Rottweiler. But in this comedy, who will have the last laugh?

Ten Days In a Mad-House

Ten Days In a Mad-House
Author: Nellie Bly
Publisher:
Total Pages: 106
Release: 2021-02-09
Genre:
ISBN:

"She went undercover to expose an insane asylum's horrors. Now Nellie Bly is getting her due." ― Diane Bernard, The Washington Post "It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world." Ten Days in a Mad-House is a book by American journalist Nellie Bly. It was initially published as a series of articles for the New York World; Bly later compiled the articles into a book, being published by Ian L. Munro in New York City in 1887. The book was based on articles written while Bly was on an undercover assignment for the New York World, feigning insanity at a women's boarding house, so as to be involuntarily committed to an insane asylum. She then investigated the reports of brutality and neglect at the Women's Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell's Island. The book received acclaim from critics at the time. Accumulation of her reportage and the release of her content brought her fame and led to a grand jury investigation and financial increase in the Department of Public Charities and Corrections. A True Classic that Belongs on Every Bookshelf!

Mad House

Mad House
Author: Clea Simon
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Total Pages: 232
Release: 1997
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN:

When the "Boston Globe first published Clea Simon's cover story on growing up with her two schizophrenic siblings, the response was overwhelming. "Healthy" siblings constitute that silent majority of people who have grown up in dysfunctional families and, largely due to their age have often stood on the sidelines as the tragic consequences of a mental disorder claimed either the health or life of a brother or sister. For Clea Simon, the experience was shattering as first her beloved, older brother Daniel, the brilliant Harvard freshman started hearing voices and dropping out of school when his schizophrenia made functioning impossible. And then again as the same illness claimed her sister Althea, who has bounced around from one state institution to another after her parents eventually gave up on helping the daughter who refused their help. The issues "well" siblings face run the gamut from guilt (why do I deserve to be OK?), fear (what are the chances that I have this disease, or that my children may inherit it?), to the burden of caring for a sibling (am I my brother's keeper?), and overcompensating in the family, or its converse, acting destructively to get attention. In talking to hundreds of other siblings and experts in the field, Simon has written a comprehensive book that combines the best of memoir writing with the kind of practical advice that should ease the pain of any brother or sister who has felt helpless in the face of a sibling's mental illness.

The Madhouse Effect

The Madhouse Effect
Author: Michael E. Mann
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2016-09-27
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0231541813

The award-winning climate scientist Michael E. Mann and the Pulitzer Prize–winning political cartoonist Tom Toles have been on the front lines of the fight against climate denialism for most of their careers. They have witnessed the manipulation of the media by business and political interests and the unconscionable play to partisanship on issues that affect the well-being of billions. The lessons they have learned have been invaluable, inspiring this brilliant, colorful escape hatch from the madhouse of the climate wars. The Madhouse Effect portrays the intellectual pretzels into which denialists must twist logic to explain away the clear evidence that human activity has changed Earth's climate. Toles's cartoons collapse counter-scientific strategies into their biased components, helping readers see how to best strike at these fallacies. Mann's expert skills at science communication aim to restore sanity to a debate that continues to rage against widely acknowledged scientific consensus. The synergy of these two climate science crusaders enlivens the gloom and doom of so many climate-themed books—and may even convert die-hard doubters to the side of sound science.

Madhouse at the End of the Earth

Madhouse at the End of the Earth
Author: Julian Sancton
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2021-05-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 0753553473

'An epic of survival' -- MICHAEL PALIN 'A "grade-A classic"' -- SUNDAY TIMES 'Utterly enthralling' -- GEOFF DYER, GUARDIAN 'Deeply engrossing' -- NEW YORK TIMES LISTED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, SUNDAY TIMES The harrowing, survival story of an early polar expedition that went terribly wrong, with the ship frozen in ice and the crew trapped inside for the entire sunless, Antarctic winter August 1897: The Belgica set sail, eager to become the first scientific expedition to reach the white wilderness of the South Pole. But the ship soon became stuck fast in the ice of the Bellinghausen sea, condemning the ship's crew to overwintering in Antarctica and months of endless polar night. In the darkness, plagued by a mysterious illness, their minds ravaged by the sound of dozens of rats teeming in the hold, they descended into madness. In this epic tale, Julian Sancton unfolds a story of adventure gone horribly awry. As the crew teetered on the brink, the Captain increasingly relied on two young officers whose friendship had blossomed in captivity - Dr. Frederick Cook, the wild American whose later infamy would overshadow his brilliance on the Belgica; and the ship's first mate, soon-to-be legendary Roald Amundsen, who later raced Captain Scott to the South Pole. Together, Cook and Amundsen would plan a last-ditch, desperate escape from the ice-one that would either etch their names into history or doom them to a terrible fate in the frozen ocean. Drawing on first-hand crew diaries and journals, and exclusive access to the ship's logbook, the result is equal parts maritime thriller and gothic horror. This is an unforgettable journey into the deep.

Ten Days in a Mad-House

Ten Days in a Mad-House
Author: Nellie Bly
Publisher: BEYOND BOOKS HUB
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2021-01-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

♥♥Ten Days in a Mad-House by Nellie Bly♥♥ Ten Days in a Mad-House by Ten Days in a Mad-House is a book by American journalist Nellie Bly. It was initially published as a series of articles for the New York Nellie Bly. World; Bly later compiled the articles into a book, being published by Ian L. Munro in New York City in 1887. ♥♥Ten Days in a Mad-House by Nellie Bly♥♥ The book was based on articles written while Bly was on an undercover assignment for the New York World, feigning insanity at a women's boarding house, so as to be involuntarily committed to an insane asylum. ♥♥Ten Days in a Mad-House by Nellie Bly♥♥ She then investigated the reports of brutality and neglect at the Women's Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell's Island (now called Roosevelt Island). ♥♥Ten Days in a Mad-House by Nellie Bly♥♥ The book received acclaim from critics at the time. Accumulation of her reportage and the release of her content brought her fame and led to a grand jury investigation and financial increase in the Department of Public Charities and Corrections. ♥♥Ten Days in a Mad-House by Nellie Bly♥♥

Cain's Book

Cain's Book
Author: Alexander Trocchi
Publisher: Grove Press
Total Pages: 270
Release: 1992
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780802133144

This is the journal of Joe Necchi, a junkie living on a barge that plies the rivers and bays of New York. Joe's world is the half-world of drugs and addicts -- the world of furtive fixes in sordid Harlem apartments, of police pursuits down deserted subway stations. Junk for Necchi, however, is a tool, freely chosen and fully justified; he is Cain, the malcontent, the profligate, the rebel who lives by no one's rules but his own. Like DeQuincey and Baudelaire before him, Trocchi's muse was drugs. But unlike his literary predecessors, in his roman a clef, Trocchi never romanticizes the source of his inspiration. If the experience of heroin, of the "fix," is central to Cain's Book, both its destructive force and the possibilities for creativity it creates are recognized and accepted without apology. "Cain's Book is the classic late-1950s account of heroin addiction. . . . An un-self-forgiving existentialism, rendered with writerly exactness and muscularity, set this novel apart from all others of the genre." -- William S. Burroughs

The Madhouse

The Madhouse
Author: TJ Benson
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2021-03-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1485904692

The dazzling story of a Nigerian family. The house at the end of Freetown Street in Nigeria’s Sabon Gari was once a sanatorium for colonists deranged from the heat and insanity of the place. Now it is home to a family whose unorthodox lives unfold into legend: Sweet Mother, an artist, her husband Shariff, a writer and soldier, and their children André and Max. From the moment his baby brother André is born, Max attaches himself to him, even dreaming the boy’s homicidal dreams. When the wayward André later pulls free from the family to join a death cult, Max must decide how far he will be drawn into his brother’s web. Serene and beautiful, Ladidi joins the family as a foster child, promising to marry the boy at school who can bring her a strawberry, a fruit she has never tasted. Sensuality blooms, along with loss of innocence amid the death of music legend Fela Kuti, massacres, disappearances, abductions and broken promises. While Sweet Mother and Shariff battle their personal demons, Max realises you cannot save your family. But can you ever escape them? In his exhilarating debut, TJ Benson conjures up a kaleidoscope of Nigeria. This is the extraordinary tale of five people bound by blood, each searching for a way through.

10 Days in a Madhouse - the Nellie Bly Story: Screenplay

10 Days in a Madhouse - the Nellie Bly Story: Screenplay
Author: Timothy Hines
Publisher:
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2018-03-23
Genre:
ISBN: 9781980624974

This pocketbook edition of the screenplay, "10 DAYS IN A MADHOUSE - The Nellie Bly Story" written by Timothy Hines ("War of the Worlds the True Story", "Sean Young: Honesty", "Earth Angel"), was made into a 2015 American biographical feature film directed by Hines. This screenplay edition features an alternate opening based in Nellie Bly's childhood, filmed but cut from the movie before its release. The movie encapsulates the life of the first-ever female Journalist, Nellie Bly, world-known for her notorious and brave commitment to work with Blackwell's Island Insane Asylum.10 Days in a Madhouse - The Nellie Bly Story stars Caroline Barry, Christopher Lambert and Julia Chantrey with Kelly Le Brock, about real life reporter, 23 year old Nellie Bly who, working for Joseph Pulitzer, infiltrated the notorious Blackwell's Island Insane Asylum by feigning insanity to report on abuses from within. The movie had its US festival premiere to a sold out audience at Geena Davis' Bentonville Film Festival celebrating women and diversity in film and had its European premiere at the 68th Cannes Film Festival in France. 10 Days in a Madhouse opened in the U.S. with a red carpet theatrical premiere at the AMC Empire 25 in Times Square then went on to play at AMC Theaters across the US. The picture had an Oscar® qualifying run in North Hollywood, California at the Laemmle NoHo 7.MS. Magazine labeled the picture a "Must See." Timothy Hines' 10 Days in a Madhouse competed in the 89th Academy Awards.Universal Home entertainment and Broad Green picked the movie up distributing on DVD to WalMart, BestBuy, Target, Barnes and Nobles, etc. 10 Days in a Madhouse premiered on cable on DirecTV and Time Warner Comcast Cable, The picture is on all VOD platforms including iTunes, Google Play, Amazon, Amazon Prime and Vudu. 10 Days in a Madhouse is being distributed worldwide, dubbed in many languages such as German and Turkish.Filmed in Salem, Oregon, where One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest was filmed, as well as Culver City, 10 Days in a Madhouse was selected for the Los Angeles Women's International Film Festival in 2017 and recently played at the Regal Live Stadium Theaters in Los Angeles.The movies director, Timothy Hines observes, at the success of the picture, "I think the movie's continuing success is in part due to the fact that Nellie Bly's story is so fascinating. She had three dollars to her name when she was hired by Joseph Pulitzer to go undercover in Blackwell's. 10 Days in a Madhouse is a testament to the words, as Nellie Bly always said and lived, "Energy rightly applied and directed will accomplish anything."