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Come molte forme di violenza giovanile, anche quella all’interno delle coppie adolescenti è prevenibile. La prevenzione, inoltre, getta le basi per ridurre la violenza domestica in età adulta. Il manuale si propone come strumento educativo e formativo, sia per i docenti che per gli studenti delle scuole secondarie.

On September 18, 2012 my beloved Mother Esther M. Auguste succumbed to her private 10 year battle with diabetes and cancer. My previously normal world crashed head on into a surreal deep dark twilight zone pit of 24/7 emotional anguish. Writing through the pain is gradually helping me to resuscitate...

Jackie Morgan is the manager of a Hong Kong based Sourcing Office. When her boss comes into town and tells her she might lose her job because the company needs to cut costs, Jackie blames it on the arrogant Anthony Ryde whom she suspects of trying to steal her customers. But having witnessed a terrible...

The Fluid Boundaries of Suffrage and Jim Crow: Staking Claims in the American Heartland engages in an important conversation about race relations in the twentieth century and significantly extends the historical narrative of the Civil Rights Movement. The essays in this collection examine instances...

In the courtrooms of seventeenth-century Russia, the great majority of those accused of witchcraft were male, in sharp contrast to the profile of accused witches across Catholic and Protestant Europe in the same period. While European courts targeted and executed overwhelmingly female suspects, often...

A companion to History of Oral History, Thinking about Oral History presents parts III and IV of Handbook of Oral History, an essential resource for scholars and students. Guided by Charlton, Myers, and Sharpless, the prominent authors capture the current state-of-the-art in oral history and predict key directions for future growth in theory and application.

Creating a New Library: Recipes for Transformation offers ways to make your library group space into one conducive to transformational learning. The book is structured as a cookbook with an introduction to the idea, then directions on its execution. Next, the book gives tips on how to adapt...

Since the emergence of social media in the journalistic landscape, the BBC has sought to produce reporting more connected to its audience while retaining its authority as a public broadcaster in crisis reporting. Using empirical analysis of crisis news production at the BBC, this book shows that the...

Work in the construction industry is particularly tough. It demands excessively long hours and frequent weekend work. Other characteristics are particularly marked, such as re-location, job insecurity and distinctive behavioural patterns, which negatively affect employees’ personal lives further....

The 1950s was a time of regeneration and change for Portsmouth. For children growing up during this decade, life was changing fast. They still made their own toys and earned their own pocket, but, on new television sets, Andy Pandy and Bill and Ben delighted them. With rationing discontinued, confectionary...

Thinking Chinese Translation is a practical and comprehensive course for advanced undergraduates and postgraduate students of Chinese. Thinking Chinese Translation explores the ways in which memory, general knowledge, and creativity (summed up as ‘schema’) contribute to the linguistic ability...

Written by two postpartum experts, a definitive guide offering compassionate support and solid advice on dealing with every aspect of Postpartum Depression (PPD). If you or someone you love is among the one in seven women stricken by PPD, you know how hard it is to get real help. This proven...

Social Infrastructure and Vulnerability in the Suburbs examines how the combination of the low-density, car-centric geography of outer suburbs and neoliberal governance in the past several decades has affected disadvantaged populations in North American metro areas. Taking the example of York Region,...

God Is In Love With You presents a radically transformative spiritual perspective: God is head over heels in love with you and will stop at nothing to express it in every moment of every day, and in every circumstance. Realizing our own capacity to connect with God's unconditional love creates an...