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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.
Using Blanche Wittman's notebooks - 'The Book of Questions', this work weaves fact and fiction to render the extraordinary relationship of two extraordinary women at the dawn of a century of tremendous change. This is a tale of scientific discovery, death, art and love.
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.
"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.
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.
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.
Originally published: New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992.
If the story of Blanche Monnier seems familiar, it's with good reason. The tale has lived on in pop culture reference, becoming the central theme of many widely circulated ghost stories and horror flick scenarios. The popular FX television show, American Horror Story, has touched on the deplorable imprisonment of Blanche Monnier a number of times with the imprisonment of various characters throughout the series. Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? and Flowers in the Attic, also, are based on the anguished tale of a cruelly imprisoned family member.
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.
A handsome doctor stirs up scandal in the eighteenth-century Danish royal court in this “extraordinarily elegant and gorgeous novel” (Los Angeles Times). The Royal Physician's Visit magnificently recasts the dramatic era of Danish history when Johann Friedrich Struensee—court physician to mad young King Christian—stepped through an aperture in history and became the holder of absolute power in Denmark. His is a gripping tale of power, sex, love, and the life of the mind, and it is superbly rendered here by Sweden’s most acclaimed writer. A charismatic German doctor and brilliant intellectual, Struensee used his influence to introduce hundreds of reforms in Denmark in the 1760s and had a tender and erotic affair with Queen Caroline Mathilde, who was unsatisfied by her unstable, childlike husband. And yet, his ambitions ultimately led to tragedy. This novel, perfect for book clubs, is a compelling look into the intrigues of an Enlightenment court and the life of a singular man. “An enthralling fable of the temptations of power—and a surprisingly poignant love story,” —Time “Realized with a vividness and subtlety that place the book in the front ranks of contemporary literary fiction,” —The New York Times Book Review “The Swedish novelist’s method is to begin 10 years after Struensee’s fall, then retrace the “Struensee era,” as it came to be called, by probing the characters of four principal players—Christian, Guldberg, Struensee, and Queen Caroline Mathilde—each of whose perspectives, even the king’s, he makes intelligible and occasionally even sympathetic. A towering achievement,” —Booklist