Famished

• Author : Rebecca J. Lester
• Publisher : University of California Press
• Release Date : 2019-11-19
• Category: Social Science
• Pages : 416
• ISBN Code: 0520303938

Summary: When Rebecca Lester was eleven years old—and again when she was eighteen—she almost died from anorexia nervosa. Now both a tenured professor in anthropology and a licensed social worker, she turns her ethnographic and clinical gaze to the world of eating disorders—their history, diagnosis, lived realities, treatment, and place in the American cultural imagination. Famished, the culmination of over two decades of anthropological and clinical work, as well as a lifetime of lived experience, presents a profound rethinking of eating disorders and how to treat them. Through a mix of rich cultural analysis, detailed therapeutic accounts, and raw autobiographical reflections, Famished helps make sense of why people develop eating disorders, what the process of recovery is like, and why treatments so often fail. It’s also an unsparing condemnation of the tension between profit and care in American healthcare, demonstrating how a system set up to treat a disease may, in fact, perpetuate it. Fierce and vulnerable, critical and hopeful, Famished will forever change the way you understand eating disorders and the people who suffer with them.

• Author : Evelyn Hampton
• Publisher : F2c
• Release Date : 2019-02-19
• Category:
• Pages : 160
• ISBN Code: 1573660698

Summary: Stories that remap the world to reveal hidden places we have always suspected of existing and scenarios that show us glimpses of ourselves

• Author : Edward E. Hunt
• Publisher : Good Press
• Release Date : 2019-12-16
• Category: Fiction
• Pages : 268
• ISBN Code: N.A

Summary: "Tales from a Famished Land" by Edward E. Hunt. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

• Author : Edwin F. Becker
• Publisher : AuthorHouse
• Release Date : 2012-08-30
• Category: Fiction
• Pages : 224
• ISBN Code: 147725367X

Summary: Eaten Alive??? Earl Mason was your average small town pharmacist whose hidden sideline was manufacturing Methamphetamine for the largest drug dealer in southwest Missouri. In a failed attempt to improve his meth recipe and give these emaciated drug addicts a case of the munchies, he adds a powerful hunger enzyme that alters and damages their brain. It creates uncontrollable aggression and hunger which is focused solely on their species. They want human flesh! In effect, he creates a mindless cannibal that is stronger, faster, and impervious to pain. As the problem manifests, read how each drastically different town, with varying law enforcement resources attempts to deal with, and contain the problem. What would you do if 911 was busy? Written as a novel, the premise has turned out to be prophetic as evidenced in recent news headlines. They blame “bath salts.” However, one of the main ingredients is methylenedioxypyrovalerone (MDPV.) The key is the first four letters.....Meth. This drug when mixed with a number of other chemicals can produce unimaginable effects on the hypothalamus part of the brain. Ever wonder why an anti-depressant can have the contradictory side effect of suicide? Simply because dousing the hypothalamus with chemicals can be unpredictable, and a known fact in the pharmaceutical and medical communities. So the human behavior I describe has already occurred when a man ate another man’s face in Miami, then cannibalism in Canada, then Louisiana. So who is next? Did you ever wonder what could be more horrifying then a zombie? Reality!

• Author : Meghan O’Flynn
• Publisher : Pygmalion Publishing
• Release Date : 2016-05-17
• Category: Fiction
• Pages : 324
• ISBN Code: 0997465107

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• Author : Dr. Paraveen Kumar Anshuman,Ravi Prakash Chaubey
• Publisher : Pharos Books Private Limited
• Release Date : 2020-01-22
• Category: Architecture
• Pages : 160
• ISBN Code: 9389843715

Summary: The Famished Gods: Speaking Selves in Akkarmashi is a critical reception of the Indian Dalit classical autobiography of Sharankumar Limbale, Akkarmashi, The Outcaste (2003). This book microscopically scrutinizes aspects of penury and destitution for which 'stomach' becomes the metaphor. While centrally focusing on the themes of 'food' and 'hunger', it also undertakes discussions on resistance, identities, atrocities and the like.
“. . .This book is a must read for anyone who cares for the liberation and empowerment of dalits.”
- Bama, a Renowned Dalit Novelist
“This is a powerful, and at times heart wrenching book. Essential reading for all connected with the emancipation of Dalits.
- Robert Maddox-Harle, Writer & Reviewer, Australia
“The Famished God' is a successful academic endeavour in analyzing the roots of social, cultural, economic and political dialectics in India through its deliberations on hunger in Akkarmashi. . .” - Ajay Navaria, an Eminent Academician & Scholar

Dr. Praveen Kumar Anshuman is working as Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Kirori Mal College, University of Delhi for the last ten years. He did his Ph.D. from Banaras Hindu University. He has published fi ve books- Stoppardian Coconuts: Soft Within though Hard Without, Changing Complexion of Delhi: A Study of Jhuggi-Jhopdi Cluster and Cultural Transition, Ecosensibilities: Finding Path to Harmony, Aakhar Sovat Naahin, and Maanush Jaagat Naahin. The Famished Gods: Speaking Selves in Akkarmashi is his sixth book that deals with Sharankumar Limbale’s autobiography, Akkarmashi: The Outcaste, through a critical lens.
Ravi Prakash Chaubey is a Research Fellow at the School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He did his M.Phil. from the same University. He completed his graduation from St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi. He has published two books- Aakhar So

• Author : Anatole France
• Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
• Release Date : 2008-10-01
• Category: Fiction
• Pages : 268
• ISBN Code: 9781434476227

Summary: Two novels by Anatole France: Jocasta and The Famished Cat. "

• Author : Vanessa Guignery
• Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Release Date : 2014-09-26
• Category: Literary Criticism
• Pages : 180
• ISBN Code: 144386773X

Summary: Some twenty years after the publication of Ben Okri’s 1991 Booker Prize winning novel, The Famished Road, this volume proposes a spiralling journey into the imaginary homelands of its main protagonist, the adventurous spirit-child Azaro. Over the years, The Famished Road has been attributed a variety of mixed and sometimes contradictory labels (postcolonial, magic realist, mythopoeic, new ageist, picaresque, epic, to name just a few). Contributors to this volume have chosen to look beyond pre-conceived patterns and categories in order to embrace the otherness of the text and accept to be challenged by it. Disentangling themselves from the rationality of Western discourses, they have opened their minds to unfamiliar ground and new modes of being and seeing the world, which entailed bringing together various structures of feeling, modes of knowledge and protocols of representation, both African and Western. The purpose of this volume is therefore to offer new ways of reading The Famished Road that testify to the richness of Okri’s poetic prose and his reliance on indigenous mythical and oral traditions. The volume also includes an exclusive interview with Ben Okri who provides an insight into his writing processes and discusses the main themes, narrative techniques and literary strategies at work in The Famished Road.

• Author : Marcia Feese
• Publisher : iUniverse
• Release Date : 2003-02-01
• Category: Fiction
• Pages : 264
• ISBN Code: 0595268226

Summary: Could you find your way without so much as a trail of breadcrumbs? A tragic 1925 accident plunges nine-year-old Edna Modene into the role of orphan. Famished Heart is the moving story of her journey to find her place in the world after shattering tragedies. Abandoned by a callous step-mother, she must find a way to piece herself together like her cherished patchwork quilt, into a whole person, capable of surviving and finding love and acceptance. Set against a sprawling Oklahoma sky, her travels take her into the homes of reluctant relatives, an Indian Boys' School, and eventually an orphanage. She must come to grips with an ugly, personal truth, and discover the truth about love, beauty, and prejudice. Running the emotional gamut from poignant, sad, funny and courageous, her story is liberally sprinkled with endearing characters, homespun wisdom, and treasured family recipes. Glimpses into the world of quilting, crafting and gardening richly texture this real life story of her painful passage into womanhood.

• Author : Mizuki Nomura
• Publisher : Yen Press LLC
• Release Date : 2012-12-18
• Category: Juvenile Fiction
• Pages : 240
• ISBN Code: 0316245941

Summary: Life in the literary club has settled into a predictable - if unusual - routine. Junior member Konoha Inoue dutifully writes short stories for his club president, Tohko Amano, who subsequently shreds them and devours each morsel like the book-eating goblin she is. When the club begins receiving cryptic messages, though, routine goes out the window as Tohko sets out to find the culprit with Konoha in tow! When their investigation suggests that a tormented spirit might be stalking the school halls, matters quickly take an ominous turn. Is it possible that ghosts really exist, or is there something even more disturbing at play? But if there is room in the world for a literature-consuming goblin, then, really, how unlikely is a famished spirit?

• Author : Jean Arasanayagam
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 2004
• Category:
• Pages : 88
• ISBN Code: N.A

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• Author : Anatole France
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 1909
• Category:
• Pages : N.A
• ISBN Code: N.A

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• Author : George Bellairs
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 1949
• Category: Detective and mystery stories
• Pages : 181
• ISBN Code: N.A

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• Author : Anatole France
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 1923
• Category:
• Pages : N.A
• ISBN Code: N.A

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• Author : Ellie Messe
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 2018-12-02
• Category:
• Pages : 632
• ISBN Code: 9781791589059

Summary: Moms a junkie, Dad's not dead.After lying to me for the past twenty-one years, Mom got in too deep with her debt and had to call not-dead dad to bail her out. But wait, there's more; not-dead dad is a biker who thinks he knows what's best for the daughter he's never met. Agreeing to bail dear mom out for the low, low price of one grown ass adult.So here I am in some hot as sin city with my junkie mom racking up more debt, living day to day with a needle in her arm without anyone around to make sure she's bathed or fed. I'm sure Ricky will love the fact his favorite hostage is MIA. Like I don't have enough problems I'm trying to deal with.I just need some no name to make it all go away for a little while.I don't need love or romance; I just want to forget.I'm a hungry man, plain and simple.I've got a bomb ass family, great job, and a f*ckable face. Everything is perfect on the outside; it's the inside that's f*cked up. People die, relationships fall apart, good people turn ugly, and others leave you in the dust. That's life. The only problem is when shit gets too dark, and you're no longer able to lose yourself between some girls thighs, what the f*ck are you supposed to do? Like I don't have enough demons trying to claw free. I just need to lose myself in some piece of pussy that doesn't reek of tequila.I don't need love, f*ck; I don't want it. I just want to forget.Due to the sexual nature of this book, it is recommended for 18+ This is the second book in the Broken series. It is PART ONE of Two, so there is a cliffhanger. Part Two will be released in May2019.Some content could be considered triggers. Read at your own digression.

• Author : Tunde Akingbade
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 1998
• Category: Oyo (African people)
• Pages : 50
• ISBN Code: N.A

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• Author : Lauren Hammond
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 2011-07
• Category: End of the world
• Pages : 254
• ISBN Code: 9780615516639

Summary: After Georgina is severely injured, her life as she knows it begins to fall apart.

• Author : Anna Vaught
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 2020-09-10
• Category:
• Pages : 224
• ISBN Code: 9781910312490

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• Author : Alan Cumyn
• Publisher : Fredericton, N.B. : Goose Lane Editions
• Release Date : 2006
• Category: Fiction
• Pages : 306
• ISBN Code: 9780864924483

Summary: In this much anticipated follow-up to The Sojourn, Alan Cumyn continues the story of Ramsay Crome, an artist who never quite came home from the First World War. The horrors of his years in a German prisoner of war camp continue to haunt him, as does the idealized memory of his long-lost sweetheart, his beautiful Margaret. It is those memories that literally save his life and keep him from a cold grave in a foreign land. Upon his return home to Montreal, Crome seeks the nourishment of body and soul, sometimes impulsively, after years of torture and deprivation. He meets Lillian, a farm girl from the Eastern Townships and is drawn to her youthful vigour, her innocence, and yes, her beauty. These prove to be a potent elixir and they marry quickly. By the time she is pregnant with their son, she wants nothing more than to escape the dreary poverty of their Depression-era existence and flee back to the farm with her husband and child. She wants him to love only her, to open up about his war experiences, explain the paintings she found of a nude Margaret. To her they are obscenities and provoke the bitter taste of jealousy. The Famished Lover is Alan Cumyn's most mature and accomplished novel to date. It explores one man's hunger for love and meaning in a harsh, unforgiving world and the beautiful, yet corrosive, nature of longing.

• Author : Ian Ewert
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 2012
• Category: Appetite
• Pages : 228
• ISBN Code: 9780985532321

Summary: Hunger is wider than the world and more powerful than heaven. What would man not do in service to its terrifying glory? Famished: The Farm is a world of horrific appetites, not far removed from our own. Men and women go about their days half-aware of an empty dissatisfaction with their lives, their world-a void of empty consumption-and a gnawing sense that there must be more. Yet some few are aware. They have stepped beyond the pale to see the truth of both their hunger and its inevitable fulfillment: Power. Satiety. Completion. Godhead. These are the gentleman ghouls of The Farm: the eaters of human flesh. The Farm follows Gordon Velander into the path of utter damnation and horrible redemption. His life will change forever. His sacrifice will change The Farm and all of the gentlemen ghouls in the world.

• Author : CHERRY. SMYTH
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 2019-03-04
• Category:
• Pages : 100
• ISBN Code: 9781999355920

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• Author : Ben Okri
• Publisher : Open Road Media
• Release Date : 2016-10-25
• Category: Fiction
• Pages : 504
• ISBN Code: 1504040201

Summary: Winner of the Man Booker Prize: “Okri shares with García Márquez a vision of the world as one of infinite possibility. . . . A masterpiece” (The Boston Sunday Globe). Azaro is a spirit child, an abiku, existing, according to the African tradition, between life and death. Born into the human world, he must experience its joys and tragedies. His spirit companions come to him often, hounding him to leave his mortal world and join them in their idyllic one. Azaro foresees a trying life ahead, but he is born smiling. This is his story. When President Bill Clinton first went to Africa he quoted from The Famished Road, which has inspired literature, art, politics, and pop songs—and even been referenced in an episode of The Simpsons. A transformative story for all ages and all times, it means many things to many people. Few contemporary novels have aroused as much passion as this one. Indeed, twenty-five years after its breakout publication, the iconic story of Azaro’s travels continues to mesmerize new generations. For readers of Things Fall Apart or One Hundred Years of Solitude, this Man Booker Prize–winning blend of fabulism and gritty realism by the Nigerian author of Astonishing the Gods and Dangerous Love is a “dazzling, hypnotic” journey through Africa that “weaves the humblest detail with the most extravagant flight of fancy to create an astonishing fictional tapestry” (San Francisco Chronicle). Already considered a classic of world literature, it is “a masterpiece if ever one existed” (The Boston Sunday Globe).

• Author : Anatole France
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 1924
• Category:
• Pages : 249
• ISBN Code: N.A

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• Author : N.A
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 1884
• Category:
• Pages : N.A
• ISBN Code: N.A

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• Author : Nicola White
• Publisher : An Inspector Vincent Swan Mystery
• Release Date : 2020-02-06
• Category:
• Pages : 368
• ISBN Code: 9781788164085

Summary: The first in a powerful new crime trilogy set in 1980s Dublin, exploring the power of the Catholic church and the powerlessness of unmarried women.

• Author : Pamela Duncan Edwards
• Publisher : Harper Collins
• Release Date : 1997-04-11
• Category: Juvenile Fiction
• Pages : 32
• ISBN Code: 006443480X

Summary: One Fine Fox Four famished foxes make fun of their brother Fosdyke, who feels fondly for fried figs, fennel, and French bread. Leaving him behind to fry and flambé, they go foraging for fowl in a forbidden farmyard. Unfortunately, the foxes find the fowl forwarned. Foiled, they return to their den. Will they ever filch a fabulous farmyard feast? Or will they forgo fowl and finally admit that "a fox is a fox whatever the food"?

• Author : Ying Zhu
• Publisher : Peter Lang
• Release Date : 2006
• Category: Literary Criticism
• Pages : 160
• ISBN Code: 9783039107469

Summary: Based on the author's thesis (Doctoral--University of Hong Kong, 2005).

• Author : Neal Salisbury
• Publisher : CRC Press
• Release Date : 2017-12-18
• Category:
• Pages : N.A
• ISBN Code: 9781138426450

Summary: A Wonka-Like Journey into an Ultra Private World of Decadence and Excess From cooking for Martha Stewart, Sean �Puff Daddy� Combs, and Jerry Seinfeld to more than 20 of the world�s most reclusive billionaires, Chef Neal Sheldon Salisbury has been serving the world's power elite for more than 15 years. His new book, The Billionaire's Chef: Cooking for the Rich and Famished takes you on a journey around the globe and into the private world of working for, living, and travelling with the world�s billionaires. You�ll find stories and tips on event planning and social etiquette, but that�s not all. You�ll get career advice from someone who has been to the top of the game, made mistakes, and groveled his way back into the game. The book goes beyond polite smile-inspiring stories and gets into the real-life challenges lived by Chef Neal and his peers, detailing disappointments and unexpected triumphs, battles of ego, the money, the sex (or sometimes lack of it) coupled with the loneliness�all a part of the job. Written with passion, love, and respect for craft and artistry, this book focuses on what is unique about the operation of kitchen on a superyacht or plane, even an impromptu or cleverly improvised kitchen on a beach. Chef Neal offers an honest, yet surreal view of what it is like to have worked as a top private chef during the "Golden Age" (1998-2008) of superyacht building / cruising and grand estate renovation / building. Whether you read it for escapism, as a practical career reference, or to help you throw better events doesn�t really matter�just enjoy the trip.

• Author : Joyce Moss,Lorraine Valestuk,David Galens
• Publisher : Gale / Cengage Learning
• Release Date : 2000
• Category: Literary Criticism
• Pages : 544
• ISBN Code: N.A

Summary: Entries on African literary works from Thomas Mofolo's "Chaka" to Doris Lessing's "African Laughter" describe each works' genre, contents, and reflection of real-life events in African history and in the author's life.

• Author : Charles Addams
• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• Release Date : 2008-06-16
• Category: Humor
• Pages : 112
• ISBN Code: 9781439103869

Summary: A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.

• Author : N.A
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 1868
• Category: Great Britain
• Pages : N.A
• ISBN Code: N.A

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• Author : Meghan O'Flynn
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 2020-02
• Category:
• Pages : N.A
• ISBN Code: 9781947748033

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• Author : Anatole France
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 1922
• Category:
• Pages : 248
• ISBN Code: N.A

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• Author : Anatole France
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 1912
• Category:
• Pages : 248
• ISBN Code: N.A

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• Author : Anatole France
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 1922
• Category:
• Pages : 248
• ISBN Code: N.A

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• Author : Henry Purcell
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 1943
• Category: Sacred songs (High voice) with instrumental ensemble
• Pages : 3
• ISBN Code: N.A

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• Author : John Foxe
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 1833
• Category:
• Pages : 597
• ISBN Code: N.A

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• Author : Laura Joyce Moriarty
• Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Release Date : 2017-08-19
• Category:
• Pages : 352
• ISBN Code: 9781975630485

Summary: About the Book Fewer and fewer religious leaders preach love for the disadvantaged, the sick, the poor, or those who are different. Instead, many of them sell their promises of salvation to the highest bidders. Worse they preach wealth, good health, and good luck as God's demonstration of favor. In fact, if you listen carefully, you may have come to believe that God Himself endears wealth and easy living. More and more leaders are blatantly dishonest, hypocritical, and corrupt. Haters carry their signs swearing that they know what Christ wants and yet do nothing Christian. Is it true that His message of faith, hope, and charity is a fraud for suckers? The power of wealth is so crushing and defeating, that you may think God has deserted the victims, and cares only for those hungry for power and decadent wealth. That is because the rationalization behind greed makes it a hard temptation to control. Like an addictive drug, its domination over people's decisions grows as more and more riches and personal power accumulates. Greed is not the only deadly sin of our protagonist. In this novel, a man born into super wealth is not only insatiable, but his excessive self-indulgence leads him into an unprecedented life of crime. To his utter disbelief, he is completely unaware that his ravenous appetite for seeking pleasure and decadence leads to sins that are permanently recorded on his soul. Only when he is rejected by God and sentenced to live in a piece of wood, that is, an existence of painful contemplation, does he become aware of his errors. The worst of human behavior is contrasted by characters who follow God's acts of supreme blessedness known as The Beatitudes. They are people who practice faith, hope and charity. Their lives demonstrate typical human existence as they labor over mundane decisions just to survive. They struggle with adversity, fear, and hardship. These individuals are also unaware that their good works and labors of peace are permanently recorded.

• Author : Edward Eyre Hunt
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 2008-06
• Category:
• Pages : 206
• ISBN Code: 9781436631525

Summary: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

• Author : Marlene Dee Gray Potoura
• Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Release Date : 2016-07-14
• Category:
• Pages : 130
• ISBN Code: 9781535268714

Summary: Marlene Dee Gray Potoura is a prolific writer. Her stories are quirky and very often, extremely funny but she also has a serious side. She is particularly adept at exploring and analyzing the idiosyncrasies of modern life in Papua New Guinea.