Phillip Coffin, the legendary Dean of the Benjamin Franklin Medical School, harbors a secret that plagues him in his dreams and feeds his insecurities. Nick Ware=s implacable animosity towards him seems fueled by jealousy over the close relationship Coffin enjoys with the Chair of Internal Medicine. Over the course of their struggle, Ware, emboldened by the discovery of Coffin's secret, conspires to schedule an unauthorized meeting of his fellow chairpersons for a no-confidence vote on the Dean. The multiple subplots tell how the personal and professional lives of these chairpersons dovetail...
Phillip Coffin, the legendary Dean of the Benjamin Franklin Medical School, harbors a secret that plagues him in his dreams and feeds his insecurities...
Larry Olson, a twenty-two years old conscientious objector, is sentenced by his draft board during the Viet Nam war to spend two years of alternative service on the back ward of a mental hospital. At odds with his family, country and himself, he dreads working there. Then, on his first day, he learns the chronic schizophrenics pose less danger to him than certain "sane" staff members. To complicate matters, Larry soon gets drawn into a nasty power struggle between the ward psychiatrist and psychologist, who espouse different forms of treatment. He also becomes entangled in a thorny, romantic...
Larry Olson, a twenty-two years old conscientious objector, is sentenced by his draft board during the Viet Nam war to spend two years of alternative ...
People may choose to ignore their animal heritage by interpreting their behavior as divinely inspired, socially purposeful, or even self-serving, all of which they attribute to being human, but they masticate, fornicate, and procreate, much as chimps and apes do, so they should have little cause to get upset if they learn that they act like other primates when they politically agitate, debate, abdicate, placate, and administrate, too." -- from the book King of the Mountain presents the startling findings of Arnold M. Ludwig's eighteen-year investigation into why people want to rule. The...
People may choose to ignore their animal heritage by interpreting their behavior as divinely inspired, socially purposeful, or even self-serving, a...
People may choose to ignore their animal heritage by interpreting their behavior as divinely inspired, socially purposeful, or even self-serving, all of which they attribute to being human, but they masticate, fornicate, and procreate, much as chimps and apes do, so they should have little cause to get upset if they learn that they act like other primates when they politically agitate, debate, abdicate, placate, and administrate, too." -- from the book King of the Mountain presents the startling findings of Arnold M. Ludwig's eighteen-year investigation into why people want to rule. The...
People may choose to ignore their animal heritage by interpreting their behavior as divinely inspired, socially purposeful, or even self-serving, a...
This book examines the lives and achievements of over 1,000 extraordinary men and women to address age-old questions about the relationship between mental illness and greatness. Filled with colorful anecdotes about many of the most eminent persons of our times, the book delves into many of mankind's greatest achievements, the special attributes of those who accomplished them, the unique circumstances of their lives, and the characteristics of their families. Written with a sophistication that will appeal to a professional audience and an accessible style that invites the general reader, this...
This book examines the lives and achievements of over 1,000 extraordinary men and women to address age-old questions about the relationship between me...
With her professional credentials, Doctor Maria Donovan could have practiced anywhere. But she accepted a position in a Texas town bordering the Rio Grande River because of a desire to return to her childhood roots. Shortly after beginning her practice, she hospitalized a terrified, sixteen year old, Mexican girl, claiming Satan wanted to kill her. Though diagnosing the girl as psychotic, Maria could not dismiss the possibility of bewitchment. Shortly afterwards, because of certain mysterious happenings, Maria enters a nightmarish world where her life is in danger and little is what it seems....
With her professional credentials, Doctor Maria Donovan could have practiced anywhere. But she accepted a position in a Texas town bordering the Rio G...
Because Arthur Pendleton had been so successful in besmirching the reputation of a troublesome college President, Jonathon Jones, the founder of R.S.V.P., gave him the almost impossible assignment of making sure Reginald O. Bradley, a seeming shoo-in for Governor, did not get elected to office. Bradley, who was planning an entire overhaul of higher education, was an especially formidable adversary because of one important attribute. Whatever charisma was, he had IT: IT, being the ineffable quality, the ineluctable aura, the essence of presence, or, at a less abstruse level, the ability to...
Because Arthur Pendleton had been so successful in besmirching the reputation of a troublesome college President, Jonathon Jones, the founder of R.S.V...
