"A fascinating insight into the country's most famous asylum for criminals" which reveals Victorian England's care and management of the mentally ill (Your Family Tree).On 27 May 1863, three coaches pulled up at the gates of a new asylum, built amongst the tall, dense pines of Windsor Forest. Broadmoor's first patients had arrived.In Broadmoor Revealed, Mark Stevens writes about what life was like for the criminally insane, over one hundred years ago...

A vivid portrait of the day-to-day experience in the public asylums of nineteenth-century England, by the bestselling author of Broadmoor Revealed.Life in the Victorian Asylum reconstructs the lost world of nineteenth-century public asylums. This fresh take on the history of mental health reveals why county asylums were built, the sort of people they housed, and the treatments they received, as well as the enduring legacy of these remarkable insti...

The Times Art Book of the Year 2021 FINALIST FOR THE PLUTARCH AWARD 2022‘Must surely be the definitive life of Francis Bacon … A biography that no Bacon fan – or indeed foe – can afford to overlook … Mesmerising’ THE TIMES‘A magnificent triumph … I was captivated by every line’ OBSERVERA decade in the making, based upon hundreds of interviews and extensive new material, Pulitzer Prize winners Mark Stevens and Annaly...

For six centuries, the world has worshipped Jan van Eyck’s Ghent altarpiece. Few know that the painter hid something inside it. Fewer still know he killed to protect it.When a fragment of a lost Nazi diary surfaces in Ghent, young art historian Sophia Rossi stumbles onto a trail long dismissed as myth—a trail leading to the missing panel of the altarpiece, stolen in 1934 and never recovered. The diary hints at something far older buried within the painting’s creati...

Whenever things seem to fall apart around Daisy, romance novels are her way of escaping. When immersed in a novel, she can imagine herself in the story as the lead female character. Still, the difference between her and the typical female character in her novels is that she is not your average damsel in distress.Daisy was raised by a military father who ensured his daughter knew survival skills and how to protect herself. Following in her beloved father's footsteps, Daisy joined th...

Splatter Capital shows how a popular subgenre of cinematic horror has developed a uniquely sensitive perspective on the cycles of capitalism. It argues that the emphatically messy brand of horror mobilized in gore or "splatter" films is extremely responsive to the internal contradictions that threaten the future sustainability of capitalist accumulation. And, while responding to the prospect of that end, splatter promotes an extant truth: capitalist accumulation is and always has been a ni...

Four Corners Voices: Stories, Poetry, Essays is a collection of writing published by Four Corners Writers based in Cortez, Colorado. The pieces included (12 short stories, 24 poems, and 13 essays) were gathered through a submission process in the summer of 2024.In 2025, Four Corners Voices was named the winner of the 2025 Colorado Book Award for Best Anthology and, in 2026, Four Corners Voices was named by Colorado Humanities as Colorado's selection for the 2026 National Book Festi...

Finally — A Samsung Galaxy S26 Guide That Actually Makes Sense.No tech jargon. No confusing shortcuts. No assumptions about what you "should" already know.Did someone just hand you a brand-new Samsung Galaxy S26 and you have no idea where to start? Maybe you've been using a flip phone for years and this is your very first smartphone. Maybe your kids keep saying "just Google it" but you're not even sure what that means yet. Or maybe you've ha...

Just got the Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra and not sure where to start?This step-by-step user guide is designed for beginners and everyday users who want to confidently use their phone without frustration. No confusing tech jargon—just clear instructions, practical tips, and easy explanations to help you unlock the full power of your Galaxy S26 Ultra.Inside this guide, you’ll learn how to set up your device the right way from day one, customize it to fit your lifestyle, and mast...

A richly illustrated commemorative 2025 edition marking the opening of Princeton University’s new art museumRenaissance: A New Museum for Princeton reflects on the history of the Princeton University Art Museum as one of the oldest collecting institutions in North America and the role of its architecture in campus making. The 2025 opening of its new building affirms the museum’s long-standing commitment to considering works of art in the original as essent...

Steve Hayes couldn't sit still in school, lost his homework more times than he could count, and was pretty sure the two angels on his shoulders were both arguing just to mess with him. Teachers wrote him off. But put a ball in his hands or point him toward a finish line, and that restless kid from Oildale, California, turned into something nobody expected.From a family tree tangled with Irish river rogues, Cherokee bloodlines, and a great-grandmother who hid her children in an orph...

This book gives street-level instruction and real-world examples on how to promote, distribute, and sell your production.