Thursday, February 28, 2013

Kitchen Confidential

Kitchen Confidential
Kitchen Confidential
Anthony Bourdain (Author)
4.2 out of 5 stars(971)

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Kitchen Confidential reveals what Bourdain calls "twenty-five years of sex, drugs, bad behavior and haute cuisine." Last summer, The New Yorker published Chef Bourdains shocking, "Dont Eat Before Reading This." Bourdain spared no ones appetite when he told all about what happens behind the kitchen door. Bourdain uses the same "take-no-prisoners" attitude in his deliciously funny and shockingly delectable book, sure to delight gourmands and philistines alike. From Bourdains first oyster in the Gironde, to his lowly position as dishwasher in a honky tonk fish restaurant in Provincetown (where he witnesses for the first time the real delights of being a chef); from the kitchen of the Rainbow Room atop Rockefeller Center, to drug dealers in the east village, from Tokyo to Paris and back to New York again, Bourdains tales of the kitchen are as passionate as they are unpredictable. Kitchen Confidential will make your mouth water while your belly aches with laughter. Youll beg the chef for more, please.

  • Rank: #2294 in eBooks
  • Published on: 2008-12-10
  • Released on: 2008-12-10
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236 Pounds of Class Vice President: A Memoir of Teenage Insecurity, Obesity, and Virginity (P.S.)

236 Pounds of Class Vice President
236 Pounds of Class Vice President: A Memoir of Teenage Insecurity, Obesity, and Virginity (P.S.)
Jason Mulgrew (Author)
4.3 out of 5 stars(24)

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Jason Mulgrew, popular blogger and author of Everything Is Wrong with Me, continues his depreciating yet hilarious self-reflection with 236 Pounds of Class Vice President

Set in Mulgrew’s high school years, this genuine and honest memoir revisits his teenage antics and escapades as he, while navigating the indignity of puberty, attempts to run for vice president of the student body, displays a penchant for long fur capes, and (naturally) wonders about sex. 

Mulgrew’s blog, Everything Is Wrong with me, has received more than 200 million hits since its inception in 2004. Complete with awkward, “what was he thinking?” photos—unmitigated proof of Mulgrew’s ungainly adolescence—236 Pounds of Class Vice President is an no-holds-barred yet tender look at the years some of us would rather forget.

  • Rank: #31752 in eBooks
  • Published on: 2013-02-13
  • Released on: 2013-02-13
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Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Breaking Night

Breaking Night
Breaking Night
Liz Murray (Author)
4.7 out of 5 stars(361)

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Breaking night: (Urban slang) staying up through the night, until the sun rises

Breaking Night is the stunning memoir of a young woman who at age fifteen was living on the streets, and who eventually made it into Harvard.

Liz Murray was born to loving but drug-addicted parents in the Bronx. In school she was taunted for her dirty clothing and lice-infested hair, eventually skipping so many classes that she was put into a girls’ home. At age fifteen, Liz found herself on the streets when her family finally unraveled. She learned to scrape by, foraging for food and riding subways all night to have a warm place to sleep.

When Liz’s mother died of AIDS, she decided to take control of her own destiny and go back to high school, often completing her assignments in the hallways and subway stations where she slept. Liz squeezed four years of high school into two, while homeless; won a New York Times scholarship; and made it into the Ivy League. Breaking Night is an unforgettable and beautifully written story of one young woman’s indomitable spirit to survive and prevail, against all odds.

Breaking Night reads more like an adventure story than an addiction-morality tale. It’s a white-knuckle account of survival. . . . Murray’s stoicism has been hard-earned; it serves her well as a writer. Breaking Night itself is full of heart, without a sliver of ice, and deeply moving.”
The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)

“From runaway to Harvard student, Murray tells an engaging, powerfully motivational story about turning her life around. . . . In this incredible story of true grit, Murray went from feeling like ‘the world was filled with people who were repulsed by me’ to learning to receive the bountiful generosity of strangers who truly cared.”
Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“The admirable story of a teen who overcame homelessness through sheer grit and the kindness of friends. . . . An uplifting story of survival.”
Kirkus Reviews

“Education was the miracle that saved Murray’s life. . . . Her story is inspirational, and her description of [her high school], and its role in her life, should be read by everyone concerned about education.”
Washington Post Book World

“Truly uplifting. . . . Liz Murray has shown us the worst, and the very best, of America.”
—Haven Kimmel, author of A Girl Named Zippy and She Got Up Off the Couch

“Liz Murray shows us that the human spirit has infinite ability to grow and can never be limited by circumstance. Breaking Night is a beautifully written, heartfelt memoir that will change the way you look at your community, the obstacles in your own life, and the American Dream. An inspiration; a must-read.”
—Robert Redford

  • Rank: #4714 in eBooks
  • Published on: 2010-09-07
  • Released on: 2010-09-07
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  • Number of items: 1

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Bringing It All Back Home: An Oral History of New York City's Vietnam Veterans

Bringing It All Back Home
Bringing It All Back Home: An Oral History of New York City's Vietnam Veterans
Philip F. Napoli (Author)

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Fernando Wood: A Political Biography

Fernando Wood
Fernando Wood: A Political Biography
Jerome Mushkat (Author)
5.0 out of 5 stars(1)

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Fernando Wood was one of the most controversial figures of nineteenth-century America. His fellow New Yorkers either respected or despised him, depending whether they considered his policies beneficial or harmful to their interests. The character revealed herein possessed some admirable qualities; high intelligence, sharp analytic skills, great capacity for hard work, and a clear talent to set his ex3ecutive agenda. But equally evident are Wood's less admirable qualities; ruthless business practices, shoddy personal ethics, corrupt politics, dictatorial tendencies. What emerges is the story of a very complex person: a successful businessman, consummate politician, resourceful three-time may of New York City, and nine-term congressman, beneath which lurked mean and self-destructive tendencies. Take as a whole, Wood's colorful career was a unique microcosm of American history both during and after his lifetime. His business achievements mirrored popular beliefs in upward mobility. And Wood's mayoralty held a promise of revitalizing municipal government, giving it a social conscience, and setting new standards for the future. Despite his shortcomings, Fernando Wood played a major but unappreciated role in the urban and political history of time.

  • Rank: #326325 in eBooks
  • Published on: 1990-11-01
  • Released on: 2013-02-04
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Monday, February 25, 2013

Seabiscuit: An American Legend

Seabiscuit
Seabiscuit: An American Legend
Laura Hillenbrand (Author)
4.7 out of 5 stars(796)

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Seabiscuit was one of the most electrifying and popular attractions in sports history and the single biggest newsmaker in the world in 1938, receiving more coverage than FDR, Hitler, or Mussolini. But his success was a surprise to the racing establishment, which had written off the crooked-legged racehorse with the sad tail. Three men changed Seabiscuit’s fortunes:

Charles Howard was a onetime bicycle repairman who introduced the automobile to the western United States and became an overnight millionaire. When he needed a trainer for his new racehorses, he hired Tom Smith, a mysterious mustang breaker from the Colorado plains. Smith urged Howard to buy Seabiscuit for a bargain-basement price, then hired as his jockey Red Pollard, a failed boxer who was blind in one eye, half-crippled, and prone to quoting passages from Ralph Waldo Emerson. Over four years, these unlikely partners survived a phenomenal run of bad fortune, conspiracy, and severe injury to transform Seabiscuit from a neurotic, pathologically indolent also-ran into an American sports icon.

Author Laura Hillenbrand brilliantly re-creates a universal underdog story, one that proves life is a horse race.


From the Hardcover edition.

  • Rank: #56783 in Books
  • Published on: 2002-03-26
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Dimensions: 8.18" h x .89" w x 5.50" l, .75 pounds
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 399 pages
  • # 1 new york times bestseller

I Am Not Myself These Days: A Memoir (P.S.)

I Am Not Myself These Days
I Am Not Myself These Days: A Memoir (P.S.)
Josh Kilmer-Purcell (Author)
4.5 out of 5 stars(131)

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The New York Times bestselling, darkly funny memoirof a young New Yorker's daring dual life—advertising art director by day,glitter-dripping drag queen and nightclub beauty-pageant hopeful by night—was asmash literary debut for Josh Kilmer-Purcell, now known for his popular PlanetGreen television series The Fabulous Beekman Boys.His story begins here—before the homemade goat milk soaps and hand-gatheredhoneys, before his memoir of the city mouse’s move to the country, TheBucolic Plague—in I Am Not Myself These Days,  with “plenty of dishy anecdotes and moments of tragi-camp delight” (WashingtonPost).

  • Rank: #69769 in Books
  • Published on: 2006-02-07
  • Released on: 2006-02-07
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Dimensions: .83" h x 5.30" w x 8.08" l, .63 pounds
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 308 pages

Sunday, February 24, 2013

Impact Player: Leaving a Lasting Legacy On and Off the Field

Impact Player
Impact Player: Leaving a Lasting Legacy On and Off the Field
Bobby Richardson (Author), Joe Girardi (Foreword), David Thomas (Contributor)
4.3 out of 5 stars(18)

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Former Yankee Bobby Richardson played alongside Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris, Whitey Ford, Joe Pepitone, and Yogi Berra during one of the most prolific dynasties in baseball history, and he remains to this day the only player from the losing team ever to be named World Series MVP.

In Impact Player, Bobby shares his life story, including never-before-told tales from the Yankee clubhouse during the historic ’55-’65 pennant runs and World Series appearances. The book also features the unlikely friendship Richardson, a devout and outspoken Christian, shared with Yankee legend and renowned drinker and womanizer, Mickey Mantle.

The perfect combination of faith and baseball, Impact Player offers a rare glimpse into one of the most celebrated dynasties in the history of the game, and it paints a fascinating portrait of a life well-lived and the lasting rewards that come from knowing and loving God.

  • Rank: #106876 in Books
  • Published on: 2012-08-15
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Dimensions: 8.86" h x 6.22" w x 1.18" l, .0 pounds
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • 320 pages

Saturday, February 23, 2013

Don't Pee on My Leg and Tell Me It's Raining: America's Toughest Family Court Judge Speaks Out

Don't Pee on My Leg and Tell Me It's Raining
Don't Pee on My Leg and Tell Me It's Raining: America's Toughest Family Court Judge Speaks Out
Judy Sheindlin (Author)
4.4 out of 5 stars(97)

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¡n we get some reality in here?ss!sks Judy Sheindlin, former supervising judge for Manhattan Family Court. For twenty–four years she has laid down the law as she understands it:

a If you want to eat, you have to work.

a If you have children, you'd better support them.

  • If you break the law, you have to pay.

  • If you tap the public purse, you'd better be accountable.

    Now she abandons all judicial restraint in a scathing critique of the system – filled with realistic hard–nosed alternatives to our bloated welfare bureaucracy and our soft–on–crime laws.

  • Rank: #22542 in Books
  • Published on: 1997-01-10
  • Released on: 1997-01-10
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Dimensions: 8.03" h x .59" w x 5.31" l, .42 pounds
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 256 pages

The Tender Bar

The Tender
The Tender Bar
J.R. Moehringer (Author)
4.5 out of 5 stars(286)

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A moving, vividly told memoir full of heart, drama, and exquisite comic timing, about a boy striving to become a man, and his romance with a barJ .R. Moehringer grew up listening for a voice: It was the sound of his missing father, a disc jockey who disappeared before J.R. spoke his first words. As a boy, J.R. would press his ear to a clock radio, straining to hear in that resonant voice the secrets of masculinity, and the keys to his own identity. J.R.+s mother was his world, his anchor, but he needed something else, something more, something he couldn+t name. So he turned to the bar on the corner, a grand old New York saloon that was a sanctuary for all types of men-cops and poets, actors and lawyers, gamblers and stumblebums. The flamboyant characters along the bar-including J.R.+s Uncle Charlie, a Humphrey Bogart look-alike; Colt, a Yogi Bear sound-alike; Joey D, a soft-hearted brawler; and Cager, a war hero who raised handicapping horses to an art-taught J.R., tended him, and provided a kind of fatherhood by committee. When the time came for J.R. to leave home, the bar became a way station-from his entrance to Yale, where he floundered as a scholarship student way out of his element; to his introduction to tragic romance with a woman way out of his league; to his stint as a copy boy at the New York Times, where he was a faulty cog in a vast machine way out of his control. Through it all, the bar offered shelter from failure, from rejection, and eventually from reality-until at last the bar turned J.R. away.Riveting, moving, and achingly funny, The Tender Bar is at once an evocative portrait of one boy+s struggle to become a man, and a touching depiction of how some men remain lost boys.

  • Rank: #325384 in Books
  • Published on: 2005-08-31
  • Released on: 2005-08-31
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Dimensions: 1.16" h x 6.58" w x 9.84" l, 1.40 pounds
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • 384 pages

Thursday, February 21, 2013

Cake Boss: Stories and Recipes from Mia Famiglia

Cake Boss
Cake Boss: Stories and Recipes from Mia Famiglia
Buddy Valastro (Author)
4.4 out of 5 stars(65)

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In this heartfelt memoir, master baker and star of the #1 hit TLC show, Buddy Valastro tells his inspiring story—and recounts his family’s warm memories from a lifetime of living, loving, and cake making.   Television viewers have fallen in love with Buddy Valastro, master cake maker, and his funny and fiery family, proprietors of Carlo’s Bakery in Hoboken, New Jersey, on the smash hit TLC series Cake Boss. Now, to coincide with Carlo’s 100th anniversary, cake designer extraordinaire Buddy Valastro brings together his passion for baking and his high-energy family stories in the pages of this charming, heartwarming book—complete with 25 recipes and tips that will make every reader the “cake boss” of their own kitchen.             Buddy’s beautifully designed cakes are the stuff of legend—and so is the remarkable story of his father, a beloved pillar of the community and himself a talented baker who set the stage for his family’s rise to the pinnacle of their industry. Cake Boss recounts the story of Buddy’s life and of his family’s bakeshop, originally established in 1910 and now a Hoboken, New Jersey, landmark and culinary tourist destination. Here also are twenty-five recipes for Carlo’s Bakery’s most sought-after pastries, pies, cupcakes, and cakes, an irresistible combination of time-tested old-world recipes and modern creations, all founded on a rock-solid “old-school” baking foundation and classic techniques.             This is the incredible true story of how Carlo’s Bakery came to be, how one hard-working family realized their patriarch’s dream of making their beloved bake shop a household name. The special bond and loving dynamic of the Valastro clan make this an uncommonly touching and truly inspiring memoir.

  • Rank: #44523 in Books
  • Brand: Simon & Schuster
  • Published on: 2010-11-02
  • Released on: 2010-11-02
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Dimensions: 7.28" h x .91" w x 8.07" l, 1.40 pounds
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • 272 pages
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Letter to My Daughter

Letter to
Letter to My Daughter
Maya Angelou (Author)
4.4 out of 5 stars(104)

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Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to My Daughter reveals Maya Angelou’s path to living well and living a life with meaning. Here in short spellbinding essays are glimpses of the tumultuous life that taught Angelou lessons in compassion and fortitude: how she was brought up by her indomitable grandmother in segregated Arkansas, taken in at thirteen by her more worldly and less religious mother, and grew to be an awkward six-foot-tall teenager whose first experience of loveless sex paradoxically left her with her greatest gift, a son.

Whether she is recalling lost friends such as Coretta Scott King and Ossie Davis, extolling honesty, decrying vulgarity, explaining why becoming a Christian is a “lifelong endeavor,” or simply singing the praises of a meal of red rice, Maya Angelou writes from the heart to millions of women she considers her extended family.

  • Rank: #14776 in Books
  • Published on: 2009-10-27
  • Released on: 2009-10-27
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Dimensions: 7.99" h x .51" w x 5.13" l, .31 pounds
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 192 pages

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Fist Stick Knife Gun: A Personal History of Violence in America

Fist Stick Knife Gun
Fist Stick Knife Gun: A Personal History of Violence in America
Geoffrey Canada (Author)
4.6 out of 5 stars(73)

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Long before U.S. News and World Report named him one of America's Best Leaders and Oprah Winfrey called him "an angel from God," Geoffrey Canada was a small, vulnerable, scared boy growing up in the South Bronx. Canada's world was one where "sidewalk" boys learned the codes of the block and were ranked through the rituals of fist, stick, and knife. Then the streets changed, and the stakes got even higher. In this candid and riveting memoir, Canada relives a childhood in which violence stalked every street corner. "If you wonder how a fourteen-year-old can shoot another child his own age in the head and then go home to dinner," Canada writes, "you need to know you don't get there in a day, or week, or month. It takes years of preparation to be willing to commit murder, to be willing to kill or die for a corner, a color, or a leather jacket."

  • Rank: #28538 in Books
  • Published on: 1996-04-09
  • Released on: 1996-04-09
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Dimensions: 8.46" h x .55" w x 5.51" l, .50 pounds
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 192 pages

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

The Architect of Desire: Beauty and Danger in the Stanford White Family

The Architect of Desire
The Architect of Desire: Beauty and Danger in the Stanford White Family
Suzannah Lessard (Author)
3.5 out of 5 stars(14)

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The story of Stanford White--his scandalous affair with the 16-year-old actress Evelyn Nesbit, his murder in 1906 by her husband, the millionaire Harry K. Thaw, and the hailstorm of publicity that surrounded "the trial of the century"--has proven irresistable to generations of novelists, historians, and biographers. The premier neoclassical architect of his day, White's legacy to the world were such masterpieces as New York's original Madison Square Garden, the Washington Square Arch, and the Players, Metropolitan, and Colony clubs. He was also responsible for the palaces of such clients as the Whitneys, Vanderbilts, and Pulitzers, the robber barons of the Gilded Age whose power and dominance shaped the nation in its heady ascent at the turn of the century.

As the century rolled on, however, the story of Stanford White and Evelyn Nesbit came to be viewed as glamorous and romantic, the darker narrative of White's out-of-control sexual compulsion obscured by time. Indeed, White's wife Bessie and his son Larry remained adamantly silent about the matter for the duration of their lives, a silence that reverberated through the next four generations of their extended family.

Suzannah Lessard is the eldest of Stanford White's great grandchildren. It was only in her 30's that she began to sense the parallels between the silence about her great-grandfather's life and the silence about her own perilous experience as a little girl in her own home. Thus she became drawn to the remarkable history of her family in order to uncover its hidden truths, and in so doing to liberate herself from its enclosure at last. The result is a multi-layered memoir of astonishing elegance and power, one that, like a great building, is illumined room by room, chapter by chapter, until the whole is clearly seen.

  • Rank: #367491 in eBooks
  • Published on: 2013-01-23
  • Released on: 2013-01-23
  • Format: Kindle eBook
  • Number of items: 1

Monday, February 18, 2013

I Am Not Myself These Days (P.S.)

I Am
I Am Not Myself These Days (P.S.)
Josh Kilmer-Purcell (Author)
4.5 out of 5 stars(130)

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The New York Times bestselling, darkly funny memoirof a young New Yorker's daring dual life—advertising art director by day,glitter-dripping drag queen and nightclub beauty-pageant hopeful by night—was asmash literary debut for Josh Kilmer-Purcell, now known for his popular PlanetGreen television series The Fabulous Beekman Boys.His story begins here—before the homemade goat milk soaps and hand-gatheredhoneys, before his memoir of the city mouse’s move to the country, TheBucolic Plague—in I Am Not Myself These Days,  with “plenty of dishy anecdotes and moments of tragi-camp delight” (WashingtonPost).

  • Rank: #5410 in eBooks
  • Published on: 2009-10-13
  • Released on: 2009-10-13
  • Format: Kindle eBook
  • Number of items: 1

Eyes on the Sporting Scene, 1870-1930: Will and June Rankin, New York's Sportswriting Brothers

Eyes on the Sporting Scene, 1870-1930
Eyes on the Sporting Scene, 1870-1930: Will and June Rankin, New York's Sportswriting Brothers
Pamela A. Bakker (Author)

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Helms Hall of Fame's brothers William M. and Andrew B. "June" Rankin lived exciting lives covering sports for papers like the New York Sunday Mercury, New York Herald, New York World, Brooklyn Daily Eagle and New York Clipper from 1870 to 1930. Playing for amateur and semiprofessional Rockland County (N.Y.) clubs in the mid-1860s through early 1870s, the brothers developed into baseball writers and editors.
Often working with Henry Chadwick, called the Father of Baseball, the brothers became authorities on the sport, writing histories of clubs and players, and scoring for the early New York and Brooklyn clubs.
June went on to cover boxing as it transitioned into a gentlemen's sport, football as it emerged on college campuses, and golf through the formative years of the USGA and PGA. He also wrote two baseball books. Filled with sporting details, this book sets the brothers into a period of great changes in the world of American sports.

  • Rank: #281874 in eBooks
  • Published on: 2013-04-07
  • Released on: 2013-04-07
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Sunday, February 17, 2013

The Receptionist: An Education at The New Yorker

The Receptionist
The Receptionist: An Education at The New Yorker
Janet Groth (Author)
2.8 out of 5 stars(39)

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In 1957, when a young Midwestern woman landed a job at The New Yorker, she didn’t expect to stay long at the reception desk. But stay she did, and for twenty-one years she had the best seat in the house. In addition to taking messages, she ran interference for jealous wives checking on adulterous husbands, drank with famous writers at famous watering holes throughout bohemian Greenwich Village, and was seduced, two-timed, and proposed to by a few of the magazine’s eccentric luminaries. This memoir of a particular time and place is an enchanting tale of a woman in search of herself.

  • Rank: #1036024 in Books
  • Published on: 2013-06-11
  • Released on: 2013-06-11
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 240 pages

Saturday, February 16, 2013

Memoirs of My Nervous Illness (New York Review Books Classics)

Memoirs of
Memoirs of My Nervous Illness (New York Review Books Classics)
Daniel Paul Schreber (Author), Rosemary Dinnage (Introduction), Ida Macalpine (Author), Richard A. Hunter (Author)
5.0 out of 5 stars(7)

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In 1884, the distinguished German jurist Daniel Paul Schreber suffered the first of a series of mental collapses that would afflict him for the rest of his life. In his madness, the world was revealed to him as an enormous architecture of nerves, dominated by a predatory God. It became clear to Schreber that his personal crisis was implicated in what he called a "crisis in God's realm," one that had transformed the rest of humanity into a race of fantasms. There was only one remedy; as his doctor noted: Schreber "considered himself chosen to redeem the world, and to restore to it the lost state of Blessedness. This, however, he could only do by first being transformed from a man into a woman...."

  • Rank: #45437 in Books
  • Published on: 2000-01-31
  • Released on: 2000-01-31
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Dimensions: 7.99" h x 1.26" w x 5.00" l, 1.10 pounds
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 488 pages