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|  | Memoirs of My Nervous Illness by Daniel Paul Screber, Rosemary Dinnage
In 1884 the German judge Daniel Paul Schreber (1842-1911) suffered the first of a series of mental breakdowns that would eventually lead to his permanent confine in an insane asylum. He accused his doctors of soul-murder and composed this memoir to tell the public about his treatment and as a plea for his release. The book, as Rosemary Dinnage says in her introduction, is an account of what it is to be forsaken by everything familiar and real, and of the delusionary world that gets invented in their place -- one of the most revealing dispatches ever received from the far side of madness. AUTHOR: Daniel Paul Screber, Rosemary Dinnage
PUBLISHER: New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies 
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 | Fifty Years a Country Doctor by Hull Cook
In a world of HMOs, insurance companies, and an endless flood of forms, Hull Cook reminds us that there was a time when a visit to the doctor`s office cost three dollars and doctors still made house calls. Cook recounts fifty years of service as a rural doctor in Texas and Nebraska, where a wide spectrum of dilemmas tested his resourcefulness, endurance, and sense of humor. He describes helping to deliver a baby via telephone during the Blizzard of `49, and he explains his special delivery of medication in the dead of winter - an operation involving his Beechcraft Bonanza airplane and a parachute jerry-rigged from dental floss and a red handkerchief. Cook saw it all, from cow-manure poultices to snakebite to kerosene poisoning to drug addiction. AUTHOR: Hull Cook
PUBLISHER: University of Nebraska Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Genius by Dick Estell, James Gleick
From the author of the national bestseller Chaos comes an outstanding biography of one of the most dazzling and flamboyant scientists of the 20th century that not only paints a highly attractive portrait of Feynman but also . . . makes for a stimulating adventure in the annals of science (The New York Times). 16 pages of photos. AUTHOR: Dick Estell, James Gleick
PUBLISHER: Knopf Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Public Places
British actress Sian Phillips writes about her own distinguished career and that of her unruly ex-husband, Peter O`Toole, whom she characterizes as a debauched and usually drunken megalomaniac.
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | The Mammoth Book of Explorers by John Keay, Wilfred Thesiger
During the golden age of exploration in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when the intrepid travelers emerged from the jungles, deserts, and ice caps of the world?s remotest locations, they were greeted by an awestruck public as though they had returned from the dead or other worlds. THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF EXPLORERS recaptures the thrill of the unknown with first-hand accounts of expeditions across all seven continents. In Africa, there is Burton?s search for the source of the Nile. In the Americas, Meriwether Lewis tells how he reunited Sacajawea with her tribe, and Alexander Mackenzie recounts the first overland crossing of the continent by the Canadian fur trader in 1793. At the globe?s top and bottom, Robert Peary and Ernest Shackleton race for the poles. In addition to such triumphs of human endurance, there are the tragedies of Livingstone?s last days in Africa, William John Wills?s lonely death in the Australian outback, and Robert Scott?s tragic final expedition in Antarctica. To round out this Mammoth collection, noted author John Keay has also chosen twentieth-century explorers who have carried on the dauntless tradition, including Hiram Bingham?s account of the discovery of Machu Picchu, Thesiger on Arabia?s Empty Quarter, Edmund Hillary on scaling the summit of Everest, and Harry St. John Bridger Philby on traversing the desert alone. AUTHOR: John Keay, Wilfred Thesiger
PUBLISHER: Avalon Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | The Territory of Men by Joelle Fraser
In this memoir Fraser explains how the example of her mother`s love life helped create a revolving door in her own. AUTHOR: Joelle Fraser
PUBLISHER: Random House Adult Trade Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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