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The Man Who Closed the Asylums: Franco Basaglia and the Revolution in Mental Health Care by John Foot
azw3 |eng | 2015-09-15 | Author:John Foot [Foot, John]

__________ 1Fulvio Marone, ‘La psichiatria alternativa italiana’, La psicoanalisi. Rivista del campo Freudiano 25, January–June 1999, p. 102. 2Marcello Flores and Alberto De Bernardi, Il Sessantotto, Bologna: Il Mulino, 2003, ...
( Category: Historical November 18,2017 )
Mayakovsky: A Biography by Jangfeldt Bengt
azw3 |eng | 2014-12-23 | Author:Jangfeldt, Bengt [Jangfeldt, Bengt]

Back to Paris Several writers and critics commented on the resolution, among them Osip, who latched on to those points on which the party might be said to have supported ...
( Category: Historical November 17,2017 )
You Were Never in Chicago by Neil Steinberg
epub |eng | 2012-11-17 | Author:Neil Steinberg

8 “How long is it supposed to last?” The morning my son Ross was born, a yellow school bus stopped at a red light with its back end hanging over ...
( Category: Americas November 17,2017 )
Henry by Dawn
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Dawn

Chapter Six Thanks to an unseasonably warm week in December, the ice in the rink was far too slushy for Henry’s liking, but he wouldn’t have cared if he’d had ...
( Category: Historical November 17,2017 )
Crazy Town by Robyn Doolittle
epub |eng | | Author:Robyn Doolittle

The three Ford brothers, Randy, Rob, and Doug, pose in front of a portrait of their late father, Doug Sr., at the family business, Deco Labels & Tags. March 22, ...
( Category: Politics & Government November 17,2017 )
The Simple Faith of Franklin Delano Roosevelt by Christine Wicker
epub |eng | 2017-10-10 | Author:Christine Wicker

Then, with fury, she indicted their response: “You have a couple of dollars for the sorrow of mothers and brothers and sisters by way of a charity gift. But if ...
( Category: Historical November 16,2017 )
Hoover by Kenneth Whyte
epub |eng | 2017-10-10 | Author:Kenneth Whyte

This statement was consistent with Hoover’s oft-repeated message on equality of opportunity as the foundation of American life and “the right of every American—rich or poor, foreign or native-born, irrespective ...
( Category: Historical November 16,2017 )
Britain's War by Daniel Todman
epub |eng | 2016-03-28 | Author:Daniel Todman

A PEOPLE’S WAR? One of the groups that Home Intelligence noted were being publicly criticized was ‘those in charge of the LDV’. The most widespread complaint among volunteers was the ...
( Category: Military November 16,2017 )
The Fall of the House of Wilde by Emer O'Sullivan
epub |eng | 2016-11-16 | Author:Emer O'Sullivan

26 ‘The Crushes’ Though 116 Park Street was by all accounts down at heel, certainly in comparison to the splendour of Merrion Square, it did not stop Jane from entertaining. ...
( Category: Arts & Literature November 16,2017 )
Guilty Thing by Frances Wilson
epub |eng | | Author:Frances Wilson

Whether he was in his native country at the time of the unhappy troubles of 1798 can only be a matter of conjecture, but it is certainly not unnatural to ...
( Category: Historical November 16,2017 )
Twenty Letters to a Friend by Svetlana Alliluyeva
epub |eng | 2016-04-16 | Author:Svetlana Alliluyeva

That was the end of governesses for me. My father had now made up his mind that everything else could go by the board but I simply had to learn ...
( Category: Memoirs November 15,2017 )
Napoleon Bonaparte: A Life by Alan Schom
epub |eng | 2015-11-02 | Author:Alan Schom [Schom, Alan]

Chapter Twenty-Five – The Marches of Empire ‘Your Holiness [Pope Pius VII] is sovereign of Rome, but I am its emperor.’ Napoleon’s return from Austerlitz had been triumphant. As he ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People November 15,2017 )
The Notorious Captain Hayes by Joan Druett
epub |eng | 2016-06-20 | Author:Joan Druett

CHAPTER 14 Pioneer The story of Bully Hayes’ remarkable escape was broken by the Daily Southern Cross on 28 September, written by an editor who found the news amusing. ‘Captain ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers November 15,2017 )
Lenin by Victor Sebestyen
epub |eng | 2017-11-07 | Author:Victor Sebestyen

*1 Almost no contemporary accounts mention Inessa’s presence on the train and the Soviets later clumsily tried to censor the fact that she was there. Official histories in the Soviet ...
( Category: Historical November 15,2017 )
Becoming Hitler by Thomas Weber
epub |eng | 2017-10-07 | Author:Thomas Weber

As Hitler had not managed by 1921 to charm his way into the houses of the rich and influential of Bavaria’s capital city, his route to success would bypass the ...
( Category: Historical November 15,2017 )

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