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"Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is considered by many readers to be the Great American Novel. But most don't know that since its appearance in 1851, it has been revised in substantial ways that alter its original meaning. Melville's masterpiece is described as a "fluid text": it exists in multiple versions, each revealing shifting intentions. The new Longman Critical Edition offers unprecedented access to the revisions that Melville made, the further...

A mentally ill young woman who lives with her older brother finds her love in an eccentric young man who models himself after Buster Keaton.

"A teenage boy struggles with schizophrenia"--

This document pertains to the procedures of community placement and treatment for those persons adjudicated Not Guilty By Reason of Insanity and committed to the Colorado Department of Human Services under Forensic Community-Based Services. Under the law, persons found insane are not necessarily incompetent to stand trail. Where incompetence abates the criminal action and is procedural in effect, insanity is substantive and renders the defendant not...

"The Time Machine, H. G. Wells’s first novel, is a tale of Darwinian evolution taken to its extreme. Its hero, a young scientist, travels 800,000 years into the future and discovers a dying earth populated by two strange humanoid species: the brutal Morlocks and the gentle but nearly helpless Eloi. The Invisible Man mixes chilling terror, suspense, and acute psychological understanding into a tale of an equally adventurous scientist who discovers...

Victoria Oliver will do anything to ensure that her troubled son has some semblance of a childhood. Danielle Burton is a dedicated nurse at a locked-down pediatric psych ward. But she remains haunted by a family tragedy. The dark anniversary is approaching, and when veteran Boston police detective D. D. Warren shows up at the facility, Danielle realizes it has started again. The lives of these three women unfold and connect in unexpected ways, as...