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  Childhood Denied

  Jim Colajuta

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  Throughout history, violence against children has taken every possible form (physical, emotional, psychological, sexual, neglect, and child labor), at times adopting quite strange shapes. He went on to say that in ancient times, even the right to life had to be conferred by a rite; before that, a kid with no rights might be disposed of as casually as an aborted fetus.Throughout much of history, adult-adolescent sexual interaction was not only permitted but often the standard; adult-child sexual interaction was somewhat less common but still reasonably prevalent. Many famous historical characters demonstrate that adult/adolescent, and to a lesser extent adult-child, sexual behavior was widespread and generally tolerated. The man-boy partnerships that were frequent in ancient Greece and Rome are one of the most well-known examples. Individual examples include St. Augustine, and Mahatma Gandhi.Child abuse and neglect do not often have visible warning signals. However, by learning to spot the indicators of a problem, you can make a significant impact on a child's life. Child abuse is more than simply black eyes. While physical abuse is horrifying because of its scars, not all indications of child abuse are as visible. Ignoring a child's needs, leaving them unsupervised in risky settings, exposing them to sexual situations, or making them feel worthless or foolish are all forms of child abuse and neglect that can leave profound, lasting scars on children.Abuse and neglect of any kind leave permanent scars. Some of these scars may be physical, but emotional scarring has long-term consequences, affecting a child's sense of self, future relationships, and capacity to perform at home, work, and school.Individuals who have been traumatized as children face unique issues that can be addressed via various healing techniques. The approach used and its efficacy differ from person to person and frequently change over time as the nature of trauma and healing shifts.

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  Who’s the Devil: the Other or...

  Régis Le Sommier

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  “We’ve spent nine trillion dollars bombing the Middle East like mad. We’ve sown death there, including our own. And what has it gotten us? Nothing.” 
  Donald Trump, November 1, 2024. 
  
  The figure of the devil has haunted our collective consciousness since the dawn of time. He structures our societies, whether religious or secular. Sometimes, the devil has been a friend before being “demonized”. Sometimes, by force of circumstance, he has become an ally. And sometimes, the devil must be eliminated to mask or even justify the errors of our societies. 
  Thus, during the Second World War, we made a pact with Stalin to bring down a devil deemed more formidable: Hitler. In Northern Ireland, the British ended up talking with representatives of the IRA, just as the French did a few years earlier with the Algerian FLN. Recently, the Americans negotiated with the Taliban, another terrorist group, before handing over the keys to Afghanistan. Saddam Hussein, Muammar Gaddafi and Bashar al-Assad were friends of the West before the latter precipitated their downfall, even if it meant causing chaos in their countries.
  Régis Le Sommier has been a war reporter for 27 years, and has himself interviewed a number of infamous figures. His aim is to revisit the concept of the devil in the light of recent and current conflicts, in order to answer one question: shouldn’t the deleterious consequences of geopolitics conducted “in the name of good” lead us to doubt the validity of the actions taken by our governments, even today, against those they like to refer to as devils?

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  Mad Tom's Rising - The...

  Ian Breckon

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  A story of faith, fanaticism, and the uncanny power of the imagination.
  
  
  
  The dawn of the Victorian era: the world is changing rapidly. Poverty and the workhouse cast long shadows across rural England, and a traditional way of life is coming to an end.
  
  
  
  In the villages and fields of Kent, the discontented find an unlikely champion in John Nicholls Tom. Calling himself 'Sir William Courtenay', he appears to the local magistrates and gentry as a madman, a charlatan, or a dangerous radical. But for the labouring people he is the New Messiah, come to lead them in a revolt against the forces of oppression, and to herald the end of the world.
  
  
  
  But equality and wealth redistribution are dangerous ideas, and in May 1838 Tom's crusade ignites into bloody violence. The confrontation that follows will shock the country, and become known as the last battle ever fought on English soil.
  
  
  Mad Tom's Rising presents an alternative vision of early Victorian England, as a place of mystical religious faith, riot and disturbance, surveillance and insecurity, arson and uproar. Drawing on original sources, it reconstructs the strange and astonishing events of that time, and the lives and experiences of those forever marked by them.

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  En Route - Encounters and...

  Martin Nydegger, Hansruedi Müller

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  "En Route" is the insightful journey of two authors with around 75 years of collective tourism experience. Following their publication in 2008, "Swiss Tourism in a Changing Climate", their new work is dedicated to a total of 16 important topics, ranging from resilience to excellence and overtourism to diversity. Together with 16 exciting Swiss and international personalities, a multifaceted panorama of discussions, assessments and insights is presented. The non-fiction book offers a differentiated examination of current challenges and promises an inspiring journey. "En Route" is a stimulating read for tourism professionals and anyone looking for insights behind the scenes of tourism.

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  Dead Sea and the Dead Sea...

  Charles River Editors

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  If the world had a navel, it would be the Dead Sea, the lowest point on Earth where one can still stand on dry land. The photographs of this unique lake seem to be taken from a science fiction movie, or a land devastated after a nuclear holocaust. To others, the fluffy shores could remind them of Antarctica although it is in one of the warmest spots on the planet. Its white, creamy masses, scattered along golden beaches, are not ice floes or frozen water, but effervescent salt formations. The famous Jordan River, where the Hebrew people entered the Promised Land and Jesus was baptized, flows into the lake, but the basin is so deeply sunk into the face of the planet that the waters never leave, as if they had fallen into a small black hole where nothing can escape.  
  	The Dead Sea is also an archaeological site loaded with history. Known among the first civilizations in the region as "Sea of Asphalt" and “Salt Sea,” innumerable myths and legends lend it an air of mystery, as if it attracted sterility and misfortune while eradicating all life from its waters. It was perhaps the inhospitable feel of the place, the almost total desolation surrounding it, which led the writer of the Pentateuch to imagine that many years ago, a cataclysm sent to annihilate perverted people had taken place there.  
  	In the mid-20th century, one of the most important religious discoveries of all time was made in a series of caves near the Dead Sea, which had hidden remnants of nearly 1,000 texts, some of which were included in the Hebrew Bible and others which were extra-biblical. In addition to being the oldest surviving copies of such documents, the mixture of languages and different kinds of papers helped shed light on the people in the region at the time, making the Dead Sea Scrolls vitally important to the world’s major religions. 

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  Anger Management for Parents -...

  Erika Miller

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  All I ever seem to do is shout at my kids. Why can’t I get this right? 
  Does your relationship with your children seem like a chain of shouting matches with some dead silences in between? Does the sight of somebody else’s calm, well-behaved son or daughter make you feel really envious? You really don’t want your life to be the way it is… 
  This book was written to help parents like you. 
  I’ve put together a lot of practical advice and psychological insights so you can begin changing the way you relate to your child or children. You may be feeling trapped, and a little hopeless, but I assure you that it is possible to calm yourself, get your child to hear and understand you, and to start building better family relationships. Yes, you can! 
  This is a comprehensive guide that will teach you to understand what went wrong, and how to fix it! 
  You will understand where your outbursts of anger came from, in yourself; 
  You will learn how to handle your feelings; 
  I will give you many practical tips to help you to handle your kids better! 
  What this book can do for the “Angry Parent”: 
  - I can show you how to use strategies to manage kids without shouting, or pleading… 
  - You can handle your own stress better, without taking it out on them… 
  - It can stop you from doing and saying stuff that makes you feel like an ogre afterwards… 
  - It gives you words to say, and tells you what not to say… 
  This book covers these and many more valuable topics: 
  - 10 Signs That Show You Have Anger-Management Problems 
  - The 7 Negative Effects of Being an Angry Parent 
  - Why You MUST Manage Your Anger IMMEDIATELY 
  - The 20 Most Effective Methods to Stop Your Anger 
  - How to Get Your Child to Listen Without Yelling 
  - Questions and Answers

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