Baker Acted!: Three Days in a Madhouse by April Showers and Michael T. Sylvester

Baker Acted!: Three Days in a Madhouse by April Showers and Michael T. Sylvester

Author: April Showers

Publisher: Dorrance Publishing

Published: 2020-04-17

Total Pages: 62

ISBN-13: 1645308065

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Baker Acted! Three Days in a Madhouse By: April Showers Baker Acted! Three Days in a Madhouse is a true story about the Florida mental health system. When April Showers stops by Ivy Green to retrieve a copy of her psychosocial report that had been assessed a few days prior, she is wrongfully Baker Acted and committed to the hospital for three days. During those tumultuous three days of frustration, no one on staff takes the time to understand her feelings, and what’s worse, inside she meets others who are similar situations. A poignant statement on the sorry state of mental health services in the United States, as you read Baker Acted! Three Days in a Madhouse, you can imagine the hopelessness, the desperation, and the despair that a place like Ivy Green brings to its patients. See the world through April’s eyes and receive a first-hand account of what it’s like to be prisoner in a madhouse.


Invisible Man

Invisible Man

Author: Ralph Ellison

Publisher: Penguin Books Limited

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780241970560

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The invisible man is the unnamed narrator of this impassioned novel of black lives in 1940s America. Embittered by a country which treats him as a non-being he retreats to an underground cell.


La Misère Du Monde

La Misère Du Monde

Author: Pierre Bourdieu

Publisher:

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 646

ISBN-13: 9780745615936

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This book can be read like a series of short stories - the story of a steel worker who was laid off after twenty years in the same factory and who now struggles to support his family on unemployment benefits and a part-time job; the story of a trade unionist who finds his goals undermined by the changing nature of work; the story of a family from Algeria living in a housing estate in the outskirts of Paris whose members have to cope with pervasive, everyday forms of racism; the story of a school teacher confronted with urban violence; and many others as well. Reading these stories enables one to understand these people's lives and the forms of social suffering which are part of them. And the reader will see that this book offers not only a distinctive method for analysing social life, but also another way of practising politics.


Where I'm from

Where I'm from

Author: Steven Borsman

Publisher:

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 33

ISBN-13:

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"In the Fall of 2010 I gave an assignment in my Appalachian Literature class at Berea College, telling my students to write their own version of "Where I'm From" poem based on the writing prompt and poem by George Ella Lyon, one of the preeminent Appalachian poets. I was so impressed by the results of the assignment that I felt the poems needed to be preserved in a bound document. Thus, this little book. These students completely captured the complexities of this region and their poems contain all the joys and sorrows of living in Appalachia. I am proud that they were my students and I am very proud that together we produced this record of contemporary Appalachian Life" -- Silas House


Hotter Than a Match Head

Hotter Than a Match Head

Author: Steve Boone

Publisher: ECW Press

Published: 2014-08-01

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 1770906029

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On October 15, 1967, bass player Steve Boone took the Ed Sullivan Show stage for the final time, with his band The Lovin' Spoonful. Since forming in a Greenwich Village hotel in early 1965, Boone and his bandmates had released an astounding nine Top 20 singles, the first seven of which hit the Billboard Top 10, including the iconic Boone co-writes "Summer in the City" and "You Didn't Have to Be So Nice." Little did Steve Boone know that the path of his life and career would soon take a turn for the bizarre, one that would eventually find him looking at the world through the bars of a jail cell. From captaining a seaworthy enterprise to smuggle marijuana into the U.S. from Colombia, to a period of addiction, to the successful reformation of the band he'd helped made famous, Hotter Than a Match Head tells the story of Boone's personal journey along with that of one of the most important and enduring groups of the 1960s.


Displacement and the Somatics of Postcolonial Culture

Displacement and the Somatics of Postcolonial Culture

Author: Douglas Robinson

Publisher:

Published: 2016-10-28

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9780814254141

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Displacement and the Somatics of Postcolonial Culture is divided into three essays covering the refugee experience, colonization and decolonization, and intergenerational trauma.


Knitted Cats & Kittens

Knitted Cats & Kittens

Author: Sue Stratford

Publisher:

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781844488469

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Knitting patterns and instructions for 20 different stuffed cats and accessories.