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Author: Sabrina Solin Weill
Publisher: HarperTeen
Published: 2002-01-08
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780060295431
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Collects the opinions and comments of teenagers about topics including teen-adult relations and the causes of school violence, molestation, and self-destructive behavior.
Author: Pamela D. Schultz
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780742530584
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the wake of recent violence our nation has experienced, and the paranoia that has ensued, we've directed our attention to potential terrorists in our midst. Yet our children face more risk from people they know than from terrorists they have never met. An estimated one in five girls and one in ten boys in the United States experience some form of sexual abuse by age eighteen. What could possibly motivate a person to molest a child? Not Monsters documents the stories of nine convicted child molesters through one-on-one interviews, listening to what offenders have to say about their crimes and exploring the roots of these behaviors from a social constructionist perspective. Their words paint a compelling and frightening portrait of how sexual abuse works in Western culture to perpetuate a political and social system of dominance and control.
Author: Tracey Hammet
Publisher:
Published: 2018-10-04
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9781913134341
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Alan L. Bates
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
Published: 2024-02-07
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1662487142
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A story of love and...death. "Wow, she's gorgeous!" "Mmm, Gilly, I love your kisses." "Happy birthday, Grampa!" "Are you here to kill us?" "Mommy, is it the end of the world? Dell says that, he says that." "Trixi will save us," Becky says. "This brave little dog is my best friend. Do I save her, or does she save me?" "You know you're going to have to have to kill. Can you kill when you don't want to?" "Mommy, Daddy, are we going to be dead?"
Author: Price Stern Sloan Publishing
Publisher: Price Stern Sloan
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9780843135817
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Everyone knows monsters come out at night, and Dillydale definitely has its share! But Mr. Stubborn, although he has had quite a few close encounters with them, will swear he has never, ever seen a monster nor are there any monsters in this book!
Author: A.W. Bates
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2016-08-29
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9004332995
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In early modern Europe, monstrous births were significant events that were seen alive by many people, and dissected, embalmed and collected after death. Emblematic Monsters is a social history of monstrous births as seen through popular print, scholarly books and the proceedings of learned societies. Representations of monsters are considered in the context of their roles as wonders and emblems, and studies of the anatomy of monsters are discussed along with contemporary theories of their origin. By approaching accounts of monstrous births not only as a literary form but also as descriptions of real-life cases, similarities between the pre-scientific recording of wonders and the scientific case report can be explored. Most impressively, A.W. Bates draws upon his own experience of diagnosis of birth defects to summarise more than two hundred original descriptions of monstrous births and compare them with modern diagnostic categories. Emblematic Monsters is an up-to-date approach to a classical yet under-explored subject: gruesome, compelling and monstrous.
Author: Kory Merritt
Publisher: HMH Books For Young Readers
Published: 2020-09-15
Total Pages: 387
ISBN-13: 0358128536
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Cowslip Grove seems like the perfect place to raise a family until the children start disappearing. Nobody looks for the children because nobody can remember them. Nobody except Levi and Kat. Now they must figure out what terrible presence is taking the chilren and fight it to save the missing kids, before the whole town disappears.
Author: David Livingstone Smith
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2021-10-12
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 0674545567
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A leading scholar explores what it means to dehumanize othersÑand how and why we do it. ÒI wouldnÕt have accepted that they were human beings. You would see an infant whoÕs just learning to smile, and it smiles at you, but you still kill it.Ó So a Hutu man explained to an incredulous researcher, when asked to recall how he felt slaughtering Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994. Such statements are shocking, yet we recognize them; we hear their echoes in accounts of genocides, massacres, and pogroms throughout history. How do some people come to believe that their enemies are monsters, and therefore easy to kill? In Making Monsters David Livingstone Smith offers a poignant meditation on the philosophical and psychological roots of dehumanization. Drawing on harrowing accounts of lynchings, Smith establishes what dehumanization is and what it isnÕt. When we dehumanize our enemy, we hold two incongruous beliefs at the same time: we believe our enemy is at once subhuman and fully human. To call someone a monster, then, is not merely a resort to metaphorÑdehumanization really does happen in our minds. Turning to an abundance of historical examples, Smith explores the relationship between dehumanization and racism, the psychology of hierarchy, what it means to regard others as human beings, and why dehumanizing others transforms them into something so terrifying that they must be destroyed. Meticulous but highly readable, Making Monsters suggests that the process of dehumanization is deeply seated in our psychology. It is precisely because we are all human that we are vulnerable to the manipulations of those trading in the politics of demonization and violence.
Author: Danny Lacy
Publisher: SCB Distributors
Published: 2017-02-23
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 1942099304
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →“This book made me feel much better about my awful personality and disgusting body.” –Avery Monsen, author of All My Friends Are Dead “I wish these monsters well and hope they find peace in their awful, horrible lives.” –KC Green, creator of Gunshow “This book is messed up. The good kind of messed up.” –Jhonen Vasquez, creator of Invader Zim Is your life bad? Hate your body? Bad breakup? Brain all weird? Hey, we all have problems. But at least you’re not the monsters inside this book!
Author: Lee Eldridge Huddleston
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2014-12-15
Total Pages: 137
ISBN-13: 1477306145
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An examination of early European theories about the origin of American indigenous peoples. The American Indian—origin, culture, and language—engaged the best minds of Europe from 1492 to 1729. Were the Indians the result of a co-creation? Were they descended from the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel? Could they have emigrated from Carthage, Phoenicia, or Troy? All these and many other theories were proposed. How could scholars account for the multiplicity of languages among the Indians, the differences in levels of culture? And how did the Indian arrive in America—by using as a bridge a now-lost continent or, as was later suggested by some persons in the light of an expanding knowledge of geography, by using the Bering Strait as a migratory route? Most of the theories regarding the American Indian were first advanced in the sixteenth century. The two most influential men in an early-developing controversy over Indian origins were Joseph de Acosta and Gregorio García. Approaching the subject with restraint and with a critical eye, Acosta, in 1590, suggested that the presence of diverse animals in America indicated a land connection with the Old World. On the other hand, García accepted several theories as equally possible and presented each in the strongest possible light in his Origen de los indios of 1607. In this distinctive book Lee E. Huddleston looks carefully into those theories and proposals. From many research sources he weaves an historical account that engages the reader from the very first.
