The Edge of Madness
Title | The Edge of Madness PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Dobbs |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | 400 |
Release | 2008-11-10 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 184737560X |
Cyber-warfare: the kind that brings nations to their knees, switching off energy lifelines, crippling the financial markets, starving leaders of authority. An old Russian nuclear reactor goes into Chernobyl-style meltdown while, on the other side of the world, the US Eastern Seaboard is plunged into darkness. No one knows - yet - who is responsible for the chaos. Hidden from view of the rest of the world, an extraordinary meeting of the US President, the Russian President and the British Prime Minister is about to take place. They have the weekend to save the world - and they must do it alone. Something serious is going on in Beijing. Military manoeuvres. Troops on the streets. It's as though the Chinese are preparing for the final thrust against their old enemies, bringing them to their knees in a war that will see not a single shot being fired.
Edge of Madness
Title | Edge of Madness PDF eBook |
Author | Kyla Stone |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | |
Release | 2020-10-31 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781945410574 |
Edge of Collapse
Title | Edge of Collapse PDF eBook |
Author | Kyla Stone |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | |
Release | 2020-10-31 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781945410567 |
In the dead of winter, a super EMP destroys the nation's power grid. No electricity. No cars or phones. Worst of all: No heat. The country is plunged into instant chaos. But for twenty-six-year-old Hannah Sheridan, it's the best day of her life. For the last five years, she's been held captive by a sadistic psychopath--until the EMP releases the lock of her prison.Hannah emerges from her underground cell into a hostile winter landscape with no way to call for help, no vehicle that will drive, armed with nothing but the clothes on her back and her own determination to survive.Liam Coleman, cynical loner and former soldier, is headed nowhere fast. He believed he was prepared for any disaster--until the EMP took everything he'd ever cared about in a matter of seconds. When he runs across a desperate woman who will die without his help, he's forced to make a choice.Two hundred frozen, perilous miles stand between them and their destination in rural Michigan. But the lack of power, desperate people, and the treacherous elements aren't the only threats.Hannah's captor isn't about to let her go. He will hunt her to the ends of the earth and beyond, destroying anything and anyone who gets in his way. For she has something he wants--she's nine months pregnant with his child.Edge of Collapse is a gripping post-apocalyptic EMP thriller perfect for fans of Ryan Schow, Grace Hamilton, Harley Tate, Jack Hunt, and Boyd Craven.
Edge of Madness - The Story of Joseph Kallinger
Title | Edge of Madness - The Story of Joseph Kallinger PDF eBook |
Author | Kim Cresswell |
Publisher | KC Publishing |
Total Pages | 30 |
Release | 2017-04-10 |
Genre | True Crime |
ISBN | 0995057834 |
In the Time of Madness
Title | In the Time of Madness PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Lloyd Parry |
Publisher | Grove Press |
Total Pages | 334 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780802142931 |
Reprint. Originally published: London: Jonathan Cape, 2005.
Living on the Edge of Madness
Title | Living on the Edge of Madness PDF eBook |
Author | Sonny Kramer |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 268 |
Release | 2006-05-01 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780979101502 |
Sonny Kramer and Linda Wakeman met each other innocently enough over twenty years ago. Sonny has spent his days and nights with Linda, a woman of intellect, charm, beauty and wit. The two have aged well together over the years. For the same twenty years, however, Sonny Kramer has also lived side by side with a woman of deceit, infidelity, manipulation and madness. The two women are one and the same: Linda suffers from bipolar disorder. Sonny has stood by her through it all and today they still stand together, caring for and loving one another. More than 2 million American adults suffer from bipolar disorder. Unknown millions suffer alongside them as family members. This is one family member's story.20 years in the making.
A Philosophy of Madness
Title | A Philosophy of Madness PDF eBook |
Author | Wouter Kusters |
Publisher | MIT Press |
Total Pages | 769 |
Release | 2020-12-01 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0262044285 |
The philosophy of psychosis and the psychosis of philosophy: a philosopher draws on his experience of madness. In this book, philosopher and linguist Wouter Kusters examines the philosophy of psychosis—and the psychosis of philosophy. By analyzing the experience of psychosis in philosophical terms, Kusters not only emancipates the experience of the psychotic from medical classification, he also emancipates the philosopher from the narrowness of textbooks and academia, allowing philosophers to engage in real-life praxis, philosophy in vivo. Philosophy and madness—Kusters's preferred, non-medicalized term—coexist, one mirroring the other. Kusters draws on his own experience of madness—two episodes of psychosis, twenty years apart—as well as other first-person narratives of psychosis. Speculating about the maddening effect of certain words and thought, he argues, and demonstrates, that the steady flow of philosophical deliberation may sweep one into a full-blown acute psychotic episode. Indeed, a certain kind of philosophizing may result in confusion, paradoxes, unworldly insights, and circular frozenness reminiscent of madness. Psychosis presents itself to the psychotic as an inescapable truth and reality. Kusters evokes the mad person's philosophical or existential amazement at reality, thinking, time, and space, drawing on classic autobiographical accounts of psychoses by Antonin Artaud, Daniel Schreber, and others, as well as the work of phenomenological psychiatrists and psychologists and such phenomenologists as Edmund Husserl and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. He considers the philosophical mystic and the mystical philosopher, tracing the mad undercurrent in the Husserlian philosophy of time; visits the cloud castles of mystical madness, encountering LSD devotees, philosophers, theologians, and nihilists; and, falling to earth, finds anxiety, emptiness, delusions, and hallucinations. Madness and philosophy proceed and converge toward a single vanishing point.