The Abuse of Black and Minority Ethnic People (Working with Adult Abuse S.)
by Jacki Pritchard
Violence in the Education Sector
The Letter of Violence (New Directions in Latino American Cultures)
by I. Avelar
This book traces the theory of violence from nineteenth-century symmetrical warfare through today's warfare of electronics and unbalanced numbers. Surveying such luminaries as Walter Benjamin, Frantz Fanon, Hannah Arendt, Paul Virilio, and Jacques Derrida, Avelar also offers a discussion of theories of torture and confession, the work of Roman Polanski and Borges, and a meditation on the rise of the novel in Colombia.
In the second decade of the 21st century, the Philippine terrorist organisation the Abu Sayyaf, predominately domiciled in the southern Philippines, added a new dimension to their kidnap-for ransom enterprise - piracy. Accompanied by kidnap-for-ransom as opposed to traditional piracy which, in the main, this involved the robbery of an ocean-going vessel's crew, cargo, or even the vessel itself. The Abu Sayyaf has been in existence in some form or another for over a quarter of a century in the gr...
This Side of Silence (Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights)
by Tobias Kelly
We are accustomed to thinking of torture as the purposeful infliction of cruelty by public officials, and we assume that lawyers and clinicians are best placed to speak about its causes and effects. However, it has not always been so. The category of torture is a very specific way of thinking about violence, and our current understandings of the term are rooted in recent twentieth-century history. In This Side of Silence, social anthropologist Tobias Kelly argues that the tensions between post-C...
An empowering guide, helping kick-ass women to realise their true strength. 'As women, we've been told from an early age that we're weaker and need saving. Now we know better. We must learn how to use our strengths to our advantage, so that we can unleash the animalistic lioness in us all to protect and fight, tooth and nail, with our heads held high.' Fight Like a Girl is a practical and empowering guide, arming you with the kn...
The story of an African-Nova Scotian soldier and the woman he wasn’t supposed to love, and how his return from Afghanistan led to a tragedy that raises difficult questions about moral responsibility, domestic violence and the overlooked costs of war. What is the legacy of a fallen soldier who takes his family with him? This is the problem posed by the story of Lionel and Shanna Desmond. The young couple grew up in Guysborough County, Nova Scotia, one of the province's oldest Black communities...
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER On the first anniversary of the events at Parkland, the acclaimed, New York Times bestselling author of Columbine offers an intimate, deeply moving account of the extraordinary teenage survivors who became activists and pushed back against the NRA and feckless Congressional leaders--inspiring millions of Americans to join their grassroots #neveragain movement.Nineteen years ago, Dave Cullen was among the first to arrive at Columbine High, even before most of the SWAT...
Language Contact and Contact Languages (Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism)
by Peter Siemund
In this beautifully written and powerful memoir, author Craig K. Collins ushers readers down a remarkable path - one that wends from the American frontier to present-day suburbia. Along the way, he explores the meaning of a history - of his family's and his country's - that is infused with the culture of the gun. Stops include an Indian massacre at Bad Axe, the siege of Vicksburg, the slaughter of buffalo in Montana, and the discovery of gold in a remote Nevada canyon. The story begins on a hunt...
The 12 Angular Points of Social Justice and Peace
by Peter Fritz Walter