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Nasar, Sylvia.

Summary: The true story of John Nash, the math genius who was a legend by age thirty when he slipped into madness; through the selflessness of a beautiful woman and the loyalty of the mathematics community he emerged after decades of ghostlike existence to win a Nobel Prize; now a major motion picture--Cover.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2001

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NASH, JOHN NAS

Wang, Esmé Weijun

Summary: "Schizophrenia is not a single unifying diagnosis, and Esmé Weijun Wang writes not just to her fellow members of the 'collected schizophrenias' but to those who wish to understand it as well. Opening with the journey toward her diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder, Wang discusses the medical community's own disagreement about labels and procedures for diagnosing those with mental illness, and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 WAN

Kolker, Robert

Summary: "Don and Mimi Galvin seemed to be living the American dream. After World War II, Don's work with the Air Force brought them to Colorado, where their twelve children perfectly spanned the baby boom: the oldest born in 1945, the youngest in 1965. In those years, there was an established script for a family like the Galvins--aspiration, hard work, upward mobility, domestic harmony--and they worked...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2020

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 KOL

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 920 KOL

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 KOL

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Health Mind Kolker

Kolker, Robert.

Summary: "For a time, Don and Mimi Galvin seemed to be living a dream life of domestic harmony and upward mobility in Colorado. Their twelve children perfectly spanned the baby boom: the oldest was born in 1945, the youngest in 1965. But by the mid-1970s, six of the ten Galvin boys were diagnosed with schizophrenia. And inside the walls of a once happy home, a devastating story of psychological...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: Book Club Kit 309 NF KOL

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