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  • Mitigating Mass Violence and Managing Threats in Contemporary Society
    In a decade that has seen the rise of far-right extremism, Western countries still face myriad threats of mass violence, including terrorism. Of particular concern is the phenomenon of 'lone-wolf terrorism,' whereby acts of political violence are committed by individuals who are operating independently of any organized terrorist group, something which makes them inherently more...
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    282,32 €

  • Darn It All
    Cindy Lowrey
    Cindy Lowrey knows what it’s like to feel invisible. She was thrown away by her parents and was afraid of growing up and not mattering to anyone and felt worthless. Then something happened-she realized God made her just the way he wanted in order for her to have complete joy. Accepting his love and sacrifice made her visible; she matters and is full of worth. As you read Cindy’...
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    12,91 €

  • What Belongs to God
    David Livingston Edwards
    As militarism and nationalism are circling our planet once again, pastor, teacher and singer-songwriter David Edwards reminds us of the timeless Christian calling to be peacemakers. During the Vietnam War, his own calling as a conscientious objector (CO) led him to alternative service in a children’s hospital. In this memoir, he invites us to share his spiritual journey and red...
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    25,71 €

  • What Belongs to God
    David Livingston Edwards
    As militarism and nationalism are circling our planet once again, pastor, teacher and singer-songwriter David Edwards reminds us of the timeless Christian calling to be peacemakers. During the Vietnam War, his own calling as a conscientious objector (CO) led him to alternative service in a children’s hospital. In this memoir, he invites us to share his spiritual journey and red...
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    30,89 €

  • Completely Naked
    Jameel Davis
    Why Does Society Get to Decide Who I Am Before I’m Even Able to Speak?Completely Naked is a look at people of color in our unnatural (broken) state, in which our brokenness affects our relationships with each other and our ability to live dignified and wealthy lives. It is a look at assisting those of us who are battling demons and traumas with finding our inner voices so we ca...
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    42,82 €

  • Mitigating Mass Violence and Managing Threats in Contemporary Society
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    216,47 €

  • Chained / ബന്ദനം
    Sreejith S
    the book describes the short stories of two genres  which contradicts the human relationship and bond between the characters described. the first story is about the person who suffers from the hands of the perpetual society while the second story describes the inner self in human beings. ...
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    11,92 €

  • The Grief Of Getting Over A Relationship Breakup
    Anthea Peries
    The Grief of Getting Over A Relationship Breakup: How To Accept Breaking Up With Your Ex | Advice And Tips To Move OnIf you have just been dumped (or you dumped him or her), you may be feeling remarkably tearful and heartbroken, right?Breakups can be like bereavement and you are grieving. You are feeling paralyzed, troubled or maybe lousy?It’s most helpful to think about a plan...
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    14,12 €

  • Cosmopolitan Belongingness and War
    Matthew Leep
    Offers a cosmopolitan account of war that blends sharp inquiry into interspecies politics with original poetry on animals, loss, and war. ...
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    122,10 €

  • Green Grass
    Frances Rose
    The heart of Green Grass spans 1885 in the Deep South to Upstate, New York in 1927. Anna, a key narrator in 1945 tells us the past of her family and friends. The story intersects people who have suffered loss, and abuses inherited down through the decades, and how they chose to handle them. It is also a story of self-discovery, and there is a strong element of lesbianism, and a...
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    8,65 €

  • Transforming State Responses to Feminicide
    Fiona Macaulay
    This book provides a new, positive story from Latin America by tracing the transformation of state responses to feminicide in Brazil. It is the first single country study to examine how action by the women’s movement has resulted in significant improvements in the investigation, prosecution and prevention of domestic violence and feminicide. ...
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    87,88 €

  • Recovery from Complex PTSD From Trauma to Regaining Self Through Mindfulness & Emotional Regulation Exercises
    Don Barlow
    How you can heal from trauma and own who you are, even if things feel completely hopeless Are you suffering from chronic anxiety, feelings of hopelessness, or uncontrollable emotions? Although PTSD affects 7-8% of people in the world, it remains a relatively taboo subject. When people do talk about it, it’s usually restricted to war veterans and victims of child abuse. The trut...
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    17,63 €

  • Dante and Violence
    Brenda Deen Schildgen
    This study explores how Dante represents violence in the Comedy and reveals the connection between contemporary private and public violence and civic and canon law violations.Although a number of articles have addressed particular aspects of violence in discrete parts of Dante’s oeuvre, a systematic treatment of violence in the Commedia is lacking. This ambitious overview of vi...
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    84,69 €

  • And May God Bless
    Ruth Ann Comer
    Read about sixty-nine years of miracle after miracle. How I survived numerous unimaginable traumas, illnesses, surgeries, mental illness, and suicide attempts. The book begins at age twenty-one, just married, suffered kidney failure, having emergency surgery afterward being pronounced dead, ending up in heaven. My return from heaven finds I am now terminally ill with only a yea...
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    16,47 €

  • Sleeping with one eye open
    Helen Coneyworth-Smith
    A child doesn’t ask to be born; they are brought into the world by their parents. If they’re lucky, that child is nurtured, fed, loved, and guided by their mother and father. They are given a home and shelter, an education, something to occupy them, and they are protected from the worst the world has to offer.  This wasn’t the case for Helen. Told even from an early age that sh...
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    15,35 €

  • A WORKBOOK FOR OVERCOMING RESENTMENT
    A. Sehatti / ASehatti
    This short, easy-to-read, and transformational workbook triggers thoughts and points to the root causes of resentment that are explored in Accountability and Empowerment: A Four-Step Strategy for Overcoming Resentment. Through offering brief perspectives, A Workbook for Overcoming Resentment delivers its message in a forthright and straightforward manner. The mindfulness script...
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    15,00 €

  • UNVEIL
    Latosha Denise
    UNVEIL, part memoir, part self-help, is a short read that includes snippets of a woman’s abusive experience and the ten steps she takes to break free from the chains of domestic abuse. Latosha Denise Barnes-Henderson reveals the chronicles of heartbreak, painful memories, and lack of love from the man she shared her world with and bear children with. Barnes-Henderson briefly go...
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    25,00 €

  • UNVEIL
    Latosha Denise
    UNVEIL, part memoir, part self-help, is a short read that includes snippets of a woman’s abusive experience and the ten steps she takes to break free from the chains of domestic abuse. Latosha Denise Barnes-Henderson reveals the chronicles of heartbreak, painful memories, and lack of love from the man she shared her world with and bear children with. Barnes-Henderson briefly go...
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    26,53 €

  • Conversations on Violence
    Adrian Parr / Brad Evans
    Whether physical or metaphorical, institutional or interpersonal, violence is everywhere. A seemingly immutable fact of life, it is nonetheless rarely engaged with at the conceptual level. What does violence actually mean? And is it an inevitable part of the human condition? Conversations on Violence brings together many of the world’s leading critical scholars, artists, writer...
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    126,93 €

  • CARNAGE
    Thomas Gabor
    In his book CARNAGE, Thomas Gabor examines the 1,000+ mass shootings in America in 2019-2020, as well as trends in US mass shootings. CARNAGE explores the geography and demographics of mass shootings, weapons used, extent of defensive gun uses by victims, and the settings and circumstances of mass shootings.Gabor’s analysis shatters the myth that most mass shootings are random...
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    20,01 €

  • Doble crimen
    Linda Loaiza
    Doble crimen. Tortura, esclavitud sexual e impunidad es el testimonio de Linda Loaiza, una mujer que conoció el horror durante 112 días, en 2001: Veinte años después nos cuenta su historia.Linda Loaiza fue rescatada, pero a partir de ese día conoció otro horror: el  doble crimen que significó la impunidad institucional y que permitió a su verdugo librarse del juicio por el crim...
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    20,80 €

  • Why My Daddy?
    Ty’Aja Jones
    Nothing in this world hurts more than to lose a parent to gun violence. I just want to share with the world how I feel. ...
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    23,64 €

  • UnAddicted to You
    Etel Leit
    ★★★★★ 'A must-read: shift your view on how it feels to be in depression!' - Reader review___When Ella, a former Israeli intelligence commander, finds herself lifeless on the bathroom floor, she realizes it is time to make a drastic change in her seemingly 'perfect' life.Ella admits to herself she is an addict, the drug of her choice is not substances but people and codependency...
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    21,56 €

  • The Courage to Not Be Controlled
    Iona Christine Nall
    Have you ever felt a gnawing on the inside of you that something was not quite right in what was being spoken and or done to you? A frustration or anger, not realizing you were being controlled, manipulated, or abused. Hopefully, this book will shed some insight to the actions and words of others, or even your own. Free yourself from control. Learning to recognize, recalculate,...
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    9,70 €

  • Critical Perspectives on African Genocide
    Genocide has become a part of the contemporary global expression of political violence. After all, every continent has had its genocide, but genocide in Africa and the African diaspora is distinctly different from those in Europe or the West. This text approaches genocide from within the context of Africa and the African diaspora to examine political and philosophical after-eff...
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    150,29 €

  • Examining Gun Regulations, Warning Behaviors, and Policies to Prevent Mass Shootings
    Selina E.M. Kerr / Selina E.MKerr
    Mass shootings have become more prevalent in the past few decades, especially within the United States. Whilst the United States has suffered from hundreds of mass shootings over the years, policy change relating to guns has been limited in scope, particularly when compared with other developed nations. Recognizing that the United States has a different history and culture, new...
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    281,64 €

  • Echoing Silence from the Child Within
    Shari Rickenbach
    HAS ABUSE TRAPPED YOU IN A PRISON OF SILENCE? FREEDOM IS A CHOICE AWAY! Right now over 200,000 children in the United States are part of the present human trafficking industry. Sexual abuse ravages, exploits, and wounds the souls of our children and adolescents. They are left with no voice and their plight is NOT their choice. Until now...in Echoing Silence from the Child Withi...
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    32,41 €

  • Worse than Death
    Mamtimin Ala
    This book explains how Uyghur rights have been diminishing under the authoritarian rule of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which has recently escalated into the cultural genocide of Uyghurs. ...
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    27,12 €

  • Preventing and Reducing Violence in Schools and Society
    In recent years, different regions of the world have been unfortunately experiencing an increase in violent acts within various communities. For example, the United States has seen an emergence of severe violence within schools over the past two decades. This tragic phenomenon is causing administrators and practitioners to rethink teaching techniques and implement concepts of v...
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    282,07 €

  • Fighting for My Life
    Mark Britton
    Fighting for My Life is the real-life story about one man’s struggle to find faith and hope amid physical abuse, torture, and sexual abuse. It is about how discovering that God has always been there for him, even in the darkest episodes of his life, helped him overcome staggering obstacles so that he could step out of a period of total darkness and into God’s magnificent light....
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    18,21 €