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  • Afghanistan
    Barnett Rubin / Mikhail Tarasov
    Barnett R. Rubin, one of the world’s leading scholars of contemporary conflict and politics in Afghanistan, offers unique insights into the country’s turbulent history, gleaned from four decades of work as a scholar and practitioner for both the United Nations and the United States. After situating the formation of modern Afghanistan in its long-term historical context, Rubin f...
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    40,65 €

  • The Tuskegee Strangler
    Linda Lou Long
    Every serial killer is a 'nice guy'-until he’s found out. The shocking, true account of a Southern charmer who left a trail of victims in his wake.Jerry Marcus fooled them all. He was 'a nice guy,' always helped at home, did well in school, an athlete, and always employed. When things went wrong, he was the first to help clean up the mess. He was the last person anyone suspecte...
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    13,01 €

  • Spotting, Coping, Escaping and Recovering from Narcissists
    John Smale
    AVOID BEING INFLUENCED BY THE BAD REVIEW; MAKE UP YOUR OWN MIND.Based on years of help given by a therapist, This a purposefully short book that contains powerful messages. It is like having a good and genuine friend by your side.Written by a therapist with many, many years of practical experience in the resolution of problems such as these; what this book does is to turn suffe...
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    10,92 €

  • Rape Myths
    Dr Katie Dhingra / Dr Sofia Persson
    Rape Myths: Understanding, Assessing, and Preventing is ideal for anyone wishing to know more about their theoretical background, prevalence, assessment, and functions. Outlining their meaning and foundations, this book also considers their conceptualisation and the construct of rape myth acceptance. ...
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    143,07 €

  • Minds of Madness
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    This book is a journey into the madness of the human mind and the innate and evolutionary factors that have created the most aggressive and violent species ever to walk the earth. The true selfish nature of humans has allowed them to become susceptible to jealousy, greed, violence, aggression, and victims of those who are naturally born to hunt and prey on the weak and vulnerab...
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    11,96 €

  • Pushing Back the Darkness
    Becca Anderson / Jennifer Redcay
    For almost 10 years every waking moment of Jennifer’s life was a nightmare. This is her story. Jennifer didn’t hold up a sign asking to be lured into a cult, instead, she followed in the footsteps of everyone she loved and trusted. Family members had joined the group before she did. Her hunger for approval from a father figure completed her fall into the control of a seemingl...
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    14,44 €

  • Handbook of Terrorism in the Middle East
    ROHAN GUNARATNA
    In the Middle East, the world’s deadliest organizations, the Islamic State and al Qaeda have firmly established their presence in the Levant and the Gulf. In parallel, state- sponsored Shia threat networks, groups and cells, notably the Lebanese Hezbollah and Houthis operate throughout the Middle East and beyond. Exploiting the conflict zones and their cascading ideologies, bot...
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    144,90 €

  • These Ragged Edges
    The U.S.-Mexico border has earned an enduring reputation as a site of violence. During the past twenty years in particular, the drug wars—fueled by the international movement of narcotics and vast sums of money—have burned an abiding image of the border as a place of endemic danger into the consciousness of both countries. By the media, popular culture, and politicians, mayhem ...
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    121,16 €

  • A Table Set For Hope
    Camilla Draymarch / SC Burress
    Dive into Northwick, Pennsylvania and discover a world of modern magic, adoption, and hope when all seems hopeless. Follow an abused magical teen on his road to happiness. ...
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    32,69 €

  • How I Overcame Abuse
    Patricia Edwards-Burton
    This is a true story of abuse. Did it happen to you? Were you violated as a child or an adult and held unto this dark secret of pain that negatively impacted your life? Are you the victim of a secret touch? Were you abused, rejected, or are you confused?If so, this book is about a woman, someone who endured those things. I will share my journey in overcoming molestation and rap...
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    9,96 €

  • Motherhood In and After Prison
    Lucy Baldwin
    Motherhood In and After Prison focuses on how imprisonment impacts incarcerated mothers’ maternal identity, emotions and role. It explores both the short and longer-term consequences of sending mothers to prison. It reveals the devastating and often underestimated impact of maternal imprisonment on mothers themselves, on their children, and on their families and their place in ...
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    50,53 €

  • How to Heal from Toxic Parents
    Rachel Stone
    You will take a deep breath and realise it was always about them and not you...Do you struggle with your childhood trauma? Are you feeling lost in life and believe the future is bleak?Are your thoughts affecting your adult life every single day?Do you feel you can’t concentrate at work, or hold down friendships or relationships?This is leaving you drained from constantly overth...
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    15,09 €

  • Fighting for Empowerment in an Age of Violence
    In today’s modern world, persistent violence against vulnerable groups and minorities permeates societies, making it difficult for them to flourish. Empowering these groups has never been more important as society attempts to evolve and focus on inclusion. To understand the best practices and challenges of empowerment for minorities, further study is required. Fighting for Empo...
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    216,43 €

  • My Scars Tell My Story
    Renee Izle Campos
    Growing up with a single parent and three siblings and not having much, my mother made sure we had food on the table. At a young age until the age of thirteen, I was molested. When I was fifteen years old, I became a Christian and thought getting married was the way out to being independent. I got married at the age of fifteen to my first husband. A few years after, the abuse b...
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    23,96 €

  • The NRA and the American Gun Control Debate The Original Intent of the Second Amendment and the Wrong Meaning of the Right to Bear Arms
    Jim Colajuta
    The II Amendment and gun control are problems that affect many aspects of our lives: they are political, economic, criminal, social, juridical, but also ethical. The purpose of this book is to look at how, starting with the Second Amendment, the United States developed a firearms culture unlike any other country on the planet. In this book, I will show how gun control is the gr...
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    11,99 €

  • Sitting on the Lap of God
    Timothy Mark
    Discover the Father You’ve Always Longed For Do you ever feel like something is missing in your life? I do.We experience loneliness, a sense of longing for something more. Often, past experiences haunt us. And no matter what we try, nothing seems to change. I know how this feels. I wrote this book for us.For most of my life, I’ve known a subtle ache in my soul, an unnamed empti...
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    21,29 €

  • Bullets That Changed America
    Peter Zablocki
    One gunshot by a single person could be powerful enough to move a whole nation. Well known are the assassinations of Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, William McKinley, and Martin Luther King Jr., and their long-lasting consequences. History, however, is littered with lesser-known gunshots that have had equally echoing outcomes. Some were small mistakes or misjudgments, others ...
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    42,97 €

  • Cry Baby
    Lisa Marie Cochrane
    Colette, affectionately or otherwise known as Teeny (Teeny Bash) to most, battles with her sense of worth and identity in the small village she grew up in. Spending most her time working in the local pub, she falls in love with an older man and begins to hope for a more adventurous life for herself. This idea quickly fades into a tense, controlling and abusive relationship whic...
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    10,88 €

  • Women Victims of Hidden Abuse Healing From Psychological and Emotional Abuse Suffered by Women Within Relationship
    Jim Colajuta
    Emotional abuse in intimate relationships is a serious issue because it is motivated by power and control rather than respect and love. They say that emotional abuse is the foundation or umbrella for all types of abuse, including physical and sexual abuse. Although emotional, psychological, and financial abuse is not illegal, they are forms of domestic violence that can lead to...
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    9,36 €

  • Ted Bundy
    Kevin Sullivan
    'With all the material we have on Ted Bundy, it’s easy to think we’ve thoroughly covered his life and crimes. But there still are holes, still things to learn . . . Newly discovered facts, some speculation, and some clarification-they’re all here. For those who can’t get enough of Bundy, the items in this illuminating volume show that we can still chip away at his secrets.' -Ka...
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    12,48 €

  • The Broken Circle of Seven
    Latonya Black
    A courageous group of scared women had to overcome demons and are forced to relive dark areas of their life yet again. Through pain, they are able to protect each other. Their bonds are greater than any bond I know. Through their experiences of dark, hidden secrets, they will have to relive events, open doors, and focus on how to continue living. Their lives are many, but they ...
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    15,84 €

  • Leben mit Isebel
    Miko Marsh
    Viele sind mit der biblischen Figur der Isebel vertraut. Ihr Name ist zu einer Art Schimpfwort geworden, mit dem eine Frau beschrieben wird, die als schamlos oder unmoralisch gilt.In Wirklichkeit war diese Frau eine bösartige Narzisstin. Ihre Handlungen sind zu einer Vorlage für Narzissmus geworden und beinhalten Begriffe, die wir heute kennen, wie z. B. Verleumdungskampagnen, ...
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    12,12 €

  • A Cry For Help
    Mipo E. Dadang
    The gospel of Christ is a gospel of peace, yet Christianity has not escaped the specter of religious violence. The legacy of the church has not only been one of patient suffering and forgiving love but also of brutal bloodshed. With tensions between Christians and non-Christians on the rise in many areas of the world, the question of how the church is to respond to religious vi...
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    21,31 €

  • HIM and HER
    Kathryn Chinn
    A woman by the name of Rose finds herself entangled in other individuals’ dark pasts after suffering her own graphic abuse. Rose helps with the rehabilitation and recovery of these souls that are not lost just yet. These men and women have a story to tell and find themselves tangled in memory as they sit with her and listen to wise words of someone that has been through what th...
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    13,74 €

  • Essentially Alone
    Charles R. Wang
    The guide presented here will help us gain a level of understanding about our own discomfiting emotions and the incomprehensible behavior of others to a remarkable degree. This work takes a bio-psycho-social perspective in combination with human development to devise a targeted therapy that is distinct from available practices today. DSA begins by calling attention to chronic b...
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    45,49 €

  • Mis-Mother
    Kate Emerson Forrester
    Mis-Mother: Truths About Motherhood Your Mom Never Revealed is a story of survivorship, love, and imperfect mothering spanning 150 years in one crazy family. Our culture both adulates and irrationally blames mothers, obscuring much of the real maternal experience. This secrecy often leads women and men thunderstruck in early parenthood.Intending to do it 'better' than our own p...
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    15,90 €

  • Overpowered
    Judith Beckman
    Anything but dull, OVERPOWERED describes the lives of two authentic Christians who fi nd themselves in the middle of tragic situations that only God can get them out of. Eventually, God brings each one to the same city on the same day, and their paths intersect. They fall in love and get married. Daunting challenges continue in this true story of God’s providential care which i...
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    13,79 €

  • A Feminist Theory of Violence
    Françoise Vergès / Melissa Thackway
    The mainstream conversation surrounding gender equality is a repertoire of violence: harassment, rape, abuse, femicide. These words suggest a cruel reality. But they also hide another reality: that of gendered violence committed with the complicity of the State. In this book, Françoise Vergès denounces the carceral turn in the fight against sexism. By focusing on ’violent men’,...
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    126,95 €

  • Confusing Mind Confusing Time
    Adrian Hamilton
    The book is centered on an elderly man named Sio,living in a residential facility, who longs to be in his own home. His conversations with a visitor, a good friend of the facility’s owner. He talks about his love for his independence, that is slipping, or is being taken away from him.Sio speaks  about the way of life before and later,in a sequence of conversations,varying from ...
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    6,08 €

  • Unhealthy Relationship Habits
    Vanessa Daniel
    ⭐ Tired of feeling disconnected from your significant other? Want to make sure the relationship is always fresh and exciting? The good news: you can get back on track with just a few simple changes!Keeping the fire burning between you and your partner is no easy feat. You both have busy lives, with family obligations or other commitments that make it difficult for one person to...
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    149,88 €