Borders, Conflict Zones, and Memory: Scholarly Engagements with Luisa Passerini
Donna R. Gabaccia and Franca Iacovetta
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This volume pays tribute to Luisa Passerini, whose scholarship has had a major impact on feminist...
Sexuality After War Rape: From Narrative to Embodied Research
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This book examines the potential impact of rape survivors' traumatic experiences in post-conflict...
The Gender of Crime
Dana M. Britton, Shannon K. Jacobsen and Grace Howard
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The Gender of Crime introduces readers to how gender shapes our understanding of every aspect of...
The Power of Eight: The Miraculous Healing Effects of Small Groups
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What we send out into the universe comes back to us, magnified. Although the power of intention -...
Contingent Citizens: Professional Aspiration in a South African Hospital
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Over the past decade, South Africa has experienced widening inequality. The ostentatious lifestyles...
Fault Lines in Global Jihad: Organizational, Strategic, and Ideological Fissures
Assaf Moghadam and Brian Fishman
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This book deals with the causes, nature, and impact of the divisions within the jihadi movement, and...
How to Do Things with International Law
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A provocative reassessment of the rule of law in world politics Conventionally understood as a set...
ClareR (6001 KP) rated Making a Psychopath: My Journey into 7 Dangerous Minds in Books
Nov 8, 2020
This was a fascinating look at seven very different people (six men and one woman), and looked at how they used different kinds of violence and manipulation to get what they wanted.
This also looks at rehabilitation and whether it’s actually possible - which surprised me. I had thought that there was no chance of that at all. I shouldn’t have judged though, because all people are different, and that applies to those diagnosed with psychopathy as well. Some will never be able to rehabilitate, but there are those who want to be able to live their lives out of an institution.
I’ve said this a lot, but this really WAS interesting, insightful and informative, and I very much enjoyed it.
Many thanks to The Pigeonhole and the author, Mark Freestone, for reading along and adding clarifications to us readers, as well as answering our questions!
Matthew Krueger (10051 KP) rated Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970) in Movies
Nov 17, 2020
The plot: Three elderly and distinguished gentlemen, searching for some excitement in their boring lives, get in contact with one of Count Dracula's servants.
Taste the Blood of Dracula was originally written without Dracula appearing at all. With Christopher Lee's increasing reluctance to reprise the role, Hammer intended to replace Lee and Dracula in the franchise with the Lord Courtley character played by Ralph Bates, who would rise as a vampire after his death and seek revenge on Hargood, Paxton, and Secker.
Hammer intended to replace Lee and Dracula in the franchise with the Lord Courtley character played by Ralph Bates, who would rise as a vampire after his death and seek revenge on Hargood, Paxton, and Secker. Hammer's American distributor refused to release the film if it lacked an appearance by Dracula; this prompted Hammer to convince Lee to return, with Dracula replacing the resurrected Courtley.
In its original United States release, it was rated GP (General audience, Parental guidance suggested—the forerunner to today's PG), but when it was re-released to DVD it was rated R for sexual content/nudity and brief violence.
Its a hammer film, what else do you expect.
Cori June (3033 KP) rated The Dirty Streets Of Heaven (Bobby Dollar #1) in Books
Apr 28, 2021
This book is a supernatural noir type, Set in Heaven and San Judas, California-named after the patron saint of the hopeless, the unloved, and other lost causes. Told in a first person narrator pov. (Think similar to Brust. The narrator is talking to 'you personally'). The characters are phenomenal and the descriptions are great. As this is not his normal writing style it shows and can be a bit rough at some places.
This fast paced mystery is a delight with its unique show of how heaven and hell could work it makes you think. Even though it is about angels it isn't overly religious it also isn't anti-God. There is drinking, cussing, and violence. Yep the angels drink, some even to the point of drinking their Earthly bodies to death.
Heaven's most problematic angel is figuring out how he can survive being stuck in the middle of this ancient battle.