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Blue Dreams
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Author : Lauren Slater
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2018-02-20
Blue Dreams written by Lauren Slater and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-20 with Medical categories.
The explosive story of the discovery and development of psychiatric medications, as well as the science and the people behind their invention, told by a riveting writer and psychologist who shares her own experience with the highs and lows of psychiatric drugs. Although one in five Americans now takes at least one psychotropic drug, the fact remains that nearly seventy years after doctors first began prescribing them, not even their creators understand exactly how or why these drugs work -- or don't work -- on what ails our brains. Lauren Slater's revelatory account charts psychiatry's journey from its earliest drugs, Thorazine and lithium, up through Prozac and other major antidepressants of the present. Blue Dreams also chronicles experimental treatments involving Ecstasy, magic mushrooms, the most cutting-edge memory drugs, placebos, and even neural implants. In her thorough analysis of each treatment, Slater asks three fundamental questions: how was the drug born, how does it work (or fail to work), and what does it reveal about the ailments it is meant to treat? Fearlessly weaving her own intimate experiences into comprehensive and wide-ranging research, Slater narrates a personal history of psychiatry itself. In the process, her powerful and groundbreaking exploration casts modern psychiatry's ubiquitous wonder drugs in a new light, revealing their ability to heal us or hurt us, and proving an indispensable resource not only for those with a psychotropic prescription but for anyone who hopes to understand the limits of what we know about the human brain and the possibilities for future treatments.
Blue Dreams
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Author : Nancy ABELMANN
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2009-06-30
Blue Dreams written by Nancy ABELMANN and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-30 with Social Science categories.
No one will soon forget the image, blazed across the airwaves, of armed Korean Americans taking to the rooftops as their businesses went up in flames during the Los Angeles riots. Why Korean Americans? What stoked the wrath the riots unleashed against them? Blue Dreams is the first book to make sense of these questions, to show how Korean Americans, variously depicted as immigrant seekers after the American dream or as racist merchants exploiting African Americans, emerged at the crossroads of conflicting social reflections in the aftermath of the 1992 riots. The situation of Los Angeles's Korean Americans touches on some of the most vexing issues facing American society today: ethnic conflict, urban poverty, immigration, multiculturalism, and ideological polarization. Combining interviews and deft socio-historical analysis, Blue Dreams gives these problems a human face and at the same time clarifies the historical, political, and economic factors that render them so complex. In the lives and voices of Korean Americans, the authors locate a profound challenge to cherished assumptions about the United States and its minorities. Why did Koreans come to the United States? Why did they set up shop in poor inner-city neighborhoods? Are they in conflict with African Americans? These are among the many difficult questions the authors answer as they probe the transnational roots and diversity of Los Angeles's Korean Americans. Their work finally shows us in sharp relief and moving detail a community that, despite the blinding media focus brought to bear during the riots, has nonetheless remained largely silent and effectively invisible. An important corrective to the formulaic accounts that have pitted Korean Americans against African Americans, Blue Dreams places the Korean American story squarely at the center of national debates over race, class, culture, and community. Table of Contents: Preface The Los Angeles Riots, the Korean American Story Reckoning via the Riots Diaspora Formation: Modernity and Mobility Mapping the Korean Diaspora in Los Angeles Korean American Entrepreneurship American Ideologies on Trial Conclusion Notes References Index Reviews of this book: Blue Dreams--a poetic allusion to the clear blue sky that Koreans see as a symbol of freedom--is a welcome exploration by outsiders into the vexing and largely invisible Korean-American predicament in Los Angeles and the nation. [Abelmann and Lie 's] colorful interview subjects offer sharp observations. --K.W. Lee, Los Angeles Times Reviews of this book: An informed and thoughtful examination of Korean immigration to the United States since 1970...[Abelmann and Lie] show that even in a period as short as twenty-five years, there have been successive waves of differently motivated, differently resourced Korean immigrants, and their experiences and reactions have differed accordingly. --Michael Tonry, Times Literary Supplement Reviews of this book: [The authors'] transnational perspective is particularly effective for explicating Korean immigrants' behaviors, activities, and feelings...Interesting and readable. --Pyong Gap Min, American Journal of Sociology Reviews of this book: Beginning with a poetic book title, the authors recount in depth as to how the 'Blue Dreams' of the Korean-American merchants in East Los Angeles had shattered in the midst of [the] 1992 riot that turned out to be 'elusive dreams' in America...The book not only portrays the L.A. riot surrounding the Korean merchants, but also characterizes diaspora of the Koreans in America. The authors have also examined with scholarly insights the more complex socioeconomic and political underplay the Koreans encountered in their 'Promised New Land'. --Eugene C. Kim, International Migration Review
Blue Dreams
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Author : William Hanley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1971
Blue Dreams written by William Hanley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with Happiness categories.
Walter Hartman hasn't managed his major goal: to show his wife how much the proper use of imagination--some exploration of the possibilities--would add to their lives. The beautiful Mimi doesn't acknowledge secret dreams, and before Walter can convince her of their potential, he is introduced to extracurricular possibilities even he never imagined.
Blue Dreams Journal
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Author : Peter Pauper Press Inc
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-11-04
Blue Dreams Journal written by Peter Pauper Press Inc and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-04 with categories.
Attractive journal provides plenty of space for all of your musings! 160 lightly lined pages provide plenty of space for personal reflection, sketching, or jotting down favorite quotations or poems. Thick, smooth-finish paper supports a variety of pens or pencils beautifully. Archival quality/acid-free helps preserve your writing. Inside back cover pocket holds notes, mementos, and more. Matching elastic closure secures your journal entries. Durable hardcover binding. Complementary endsheets. Mid-size journal measures 6-1/4'' wide x 8-1/4'' high. "Believe in Yourself" is written in gold foil, gloss highlights, embossed.
Metro Reads Dreams In Prussian Blue
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Author : Paritosh Uttam
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Books India
Release Date : 2010
Metro Reads Dreams In Prussian Blue written by Paritosh Uttam and has been published by Penguin Books India this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Blind categories.
'Listen, Michael. This is serious. This is your best chance to help me ...us. If you waste this, it's all over.' 'What's all over?' 'Everything. Between us.' 'Naina?' 'Five minutes, that's all you have. I kid you not.' First-year student Naina is utterly smitten by her senior, Michael, acknowledged genius and resident rebel of the Fine Arts College, Mumbai. So when he proposes that they drop out of college and live-in, she readily agrees. But life with Michael soon turns into an emotional rollercoaster. Temperamental, opinionated and incredibly selfish, he expects Naina to run the household so that he is free to paint. Naina tries her hand at several odd jobs, but when an accident leaves Michael blind, their life together begins to come undone as she can only helplessly watch. And in trying to pull it together, Naina is driven to being what she has never been-a liar and a cheat. Will Michael forgive her when he learns the truth? Will she forgive him for what he has done to her?
Limbo
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Author : Alfred Lubrano
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2010-12-22
Limbo written by Alfred Lubrano and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-22 with Social Science categories.
In Limbo, award-winning journalist Alfred Lubrano identifies and describes an overlooked cultural phenomenon: the internal conflict within individuals raised in blue-collar homes, now living white-collar lives. These people often find that the values of the working class are not sufficient guidance to navigate the white-collar world, where unspoken rules reflect primarily upper-class values. Torn between the world they were raised in and the life they aspire too, they hover between worlds, not quite accepted in either. Himself the son of a Brooklyn bricklayer, Lubrano informs his account with personal experience and interviews with other professionals living in limbo. For millions of Americans, these stories will serve as familiar reminders of the struggles of achieving the American Dream.
The Pavilion Of Blue Dreams
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Author : Samy Oserapis
language : en
Publisher: Dromelin
Release Date : 2020
The Pavilion Of Blue Dreams written by Samy Oserapis and has been published by Dromelin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with categories.
In a world so unreliable lies a narrator who feels lost, who doesn't belong. The only link he finds in his life is a girl named Sophia. Perhaps she holds the key to it all. Maybe it is finally time to realize who has unleashed upon him this damnation, this life-changing damnation. Does the Orion belt tell him something? Or is it merely a guide?
The Blue Dream
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Author : Golmei Gandumpu
language : en
Publisher: Mississippir Megh
Release Date :
The Blue Dream written by Golmei Gandumpu and has been published by Mississippir Megh this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Art categories.
Blue Sky Dream
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Author : David Beers
language : en
Publisher: Doubleday
Release Date : 2012-05-02
Blue Sky Dream written by David Beers and has been published by Doubleday this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In Blue Sky Dream: A Memoir of America’s Fall from Grace, award-winner David Beers offers a powerful, personal vision of the rise and fall of the American middle class. Here is a dazzling literary chronicle of a family, a people, and a nation: the “blue sky tribe” of ever-optimistic middle-class Americans who believed in something called the American Dream, then woke up one day to discover it was gone. Blue Sky Dream is a book incredibly rich in ideas, in ways of seeing the recent past with stunning clarity. David Beers explores issues that define our times—downsizing, middle-class anxiety, the profound anger with government, the sense that something has gone awry with the United States—with such skill, personal immediacy, and compassion that readers will see their own histories in his prose. Blue Sky Dream can rightly be called a communal memoir, because in telling his family’s tale—growing tensions and disillusionment in their suburban paradise, a son rejecting his parents’ values, one sudden and inexplicable moment of violence—Beers tells the story of his people, the blue sky tribe “who imagined ourselves to be living the inevitable future, and are very surprised today to discover we were but a strange and aberrant moment that is now receding into history.”
Thoughts Dreams And Poetry
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Author : Alie E. Kamara
language : en
Publisher: FriesenPress
Release Date : 2016-12-02
Thoughts Dreams And Poetry written by Alie E. Kamara and has been published by FriesenPress this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-02 with Poetry categories.
Thoughts, Dreams, and Poetry, was created out of the will for creativity and exploratory imagination. it’s what I’ll call an artistic vagabond’s dream. For the painters, writers, musician, filmmaker’s of the new age, and for the scoundrels or misfit souls, looking for lantern to lead you home, this one is for you. I merely don’t create poetry, I create dreams, and for the reader who’s fascination has lead them down several turnpikes, the cost of a Kaleidoscopic rabbit hole, is most certainly worth the ride. Come with me and my twist and turns of humanity, and I’ll reveal the illusion of magic within us all. "Thoughts, Dreams and Poetry is a thought-provoking, engaging poetry collection. I find your work reminiscent of beat poetry (for example, Allen Ginsberg’s work), and as such, it is a delight to read out loud. Your poems have a unique beat and rhythm that makes reading and/or hearing them most enjoyable." - Elizabeth Siegel "Your poems are filled with careful word choices that evoke strong images...Within each poem, these distinct images slowly build upon each other until they mesh to reveal a 'bigger picture' with an observation, truth, or message for the reader. This is an effective and powerful way to share your creativity and vision with others." - Elizabeth Siegel