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Que se passe-t-il dans la tête des personnes qui commettent des actes de violence? Celles qui tuent un ami ou un parfait étranger? Celles qui agressent sexuellement un enfant? Qu'est-ce qui motive ces personnes à agir de façon immorale et incompréhensible pour la majorité de la population? Malgré qu'il n'existe pas de réponses simples à ces questions, ce livre sur les violences familiales et sociales propose quelques pistes d'explication...
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Ce livre plonge le lecteur au cœur de la réalité complexe de la violence familiale, offrant une exploration approfondie des racines psychologiques, des diverses formes pernicieuses et des conséquences dévastatrices de ce fléau. À travers des témoignages poignants, des exemples concrets et des données statistiques percutantes, chaque chapitre dévoile une facette de cette problématique, de l'introduction captivante à l'épilogue rempli d'espoir.Le...
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Le présent ouvrage aborde la violence familiale et conjugale en milieu autochtone dans ses dimensions systémique et historique, essentielles à la compréhension de ce phénomène si étroitement lié aux effets dévastateurs de la colonisation et des politiques assimilatrices réservées aux Autochtones du Canada. La désorganisation des structures familiales traditionnelles, les multiples traumatismes, notamment ceux engendrés par le régime...
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Une diva à l'élégance classique d'une autre époque. Une scène de crime théâtrale et inhumaine. Des crimes de rue d'une cruauté qui glace le sang, marquent l'imagination et effraient tant le crime organisé que sa clientèle.
L'inspecteur-chef coureur mène l'enquête. Celle-ci sera complexe et éprouvante pour toute l'équipe et spécialement les deux jeunes recrues qui débutent à la section. Ils seront confrontés en peu de temps à plusieurs...
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Violence familiale, agression sexuelle, harcèlement scolaire, sexe, drogue, sida, homosexualité sont les thèmes abordés sans ménagement par l'auteur pour décrire sa vie. Il ne nous épargne rien! Ne s'épargne rien de sa cruelle descente aux enfers. En littérature, il faut boire la coupe de l'amertume jusqu'à la lie. Une famille pathogène. Un homme malheureux, amoureux fou d'une
mère toxique, manipulatrice, perverse, culpabilisatrice ,...
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Pour David Goggins, l'enfance a été un cauchemar – pauvreté, préjugés raciaux et violences familiales ont ponctué ses jours et hanté ses nuits. Jeune homme dépressif, en surpoids et sans aucun avenir à l'horizon, incapable de courir sur plus de 500 mètres, il va pourtant choisir de prendre son destin en main. Grâce à une force de caractère hors du commun, une discipline extrême et un travail acharné, il va se métamorphoser en une...
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L'enfant qui courait est un roman basé sur une histoire vraie. Cette dernière tente de retracer le récit de Sacha qui ne connaîtra jamais l'amour maternel.
Privé de père, il partage sa vie avec un frère aîné brutal et un cadet très souvent absent.
Courir est l'unique échappatoire face aux nombreuses violences jalonnant les étapes de sa vie. Une violence familiale qui n'a aucune peine à exister par l'absence de cellules de défense pour...
9) Curb
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"Divya Victor documents how immigrants and Americans navigate the liminal sites of everyday living: lawns, curbs, and sidewalks, undergirded by violence, but also constantly repaved with new possibilities of belonging. Curb witnesses immigrant survival, familial bonds, and interracial parenting in the context of nationalist and white-supremacist violence against South Asians. The book refutes the binary of the model minority and the monstrous, dark...
10) Sea of Stone: 4
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Fire and ice volume 4
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Atlantic Books
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 online resource (320 pages)
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English
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Can Magnus prove he is innocent of murder without implicating his brother? And can both men get to the heart of the twisted secrets that blighted their childhoods?Oli and Magnus Jonson have spent years trying to escape from the shadows of their past. Raised by their grandparents in Bjarnarh�ofn, a remote farmstead in Iceland, both brothers had to endure brutal violence at the hands of their grandfather. Now, two decades later, the past has returned...
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2023.
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"The Ramirez women of Staten Island orbit around absence. When thirteen year old middle child Ruthy disappeared after track practice without a trace, it left the family scarred and scrambling. One night, twelve years later, oldest sister Jessica spots a woman on her TV screen in Catfight, a raunchy reality show. She rushes to tell her younger sister, Nina: This woman's hair is dyed red, and she calls herself Ruby, but the beauty mark under her left...
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SAGE
Pub. Date
[2015]
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Second edition.
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1 online resource (xii, 491 pages)
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English
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The Sage Handbook of Family Communication provides a comprehensive examination of family communication theory and research. Chapters by leading scholars in family communication expand the definition of family, address recent shifts in culture, and cover important new topics, including families in crisis, families and governmental policies, social media, and extended families. The combination of groundbreaking theories, research methods, and reviews...
13) Halo
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Frankie Rose
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 online resource
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English
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Book 1 in the Blood and Fire series. Radicals, book two, is available for pre-order on iBooks now! She has no name. She has her knives. Her training. Her halo. The first and second give her the ability to defeat the opponents she is pitted against each month. The third frees her from pain and fear. From any kind of emotion at all. Everything is as it should be. Everything is as it should be, until. . .Fear. . . Pain. . . Anger. . . Happiness. . ....
14) Vox lux
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Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
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Widescreen.
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English
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The story of Celeste's rise from the ashes of a national tragedy to stardom. It follows her life from 1999 to 2017 including her survival of a violent tragedy as a teenager, her rise to fame with the help of her sister and talent manager, and her mounting a comeback after a scandal.
15) Sleepwalking
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Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008, c2007
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Full/Widescreen.
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1 DVD (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A moving drama about the deep familial bond that develops between James and his young niece, Tara after the girl's mother suddenly leaves town. As old wounds from James' own turbulent childhood begin to reopen, he is forced to re-examine his life and, for the first time, discover his true purpose.
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2017.
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First edition.
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ix, 242 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"In these thirteen indelible stories, Richard Bausch once again proves himself a modern master. From the prize-winning novelist and universally acclaimed short story writer ("Richard Bausch is a master of the short story"--The New York Times Book Review), thirteen unforgettable tales that showcase his electrifying artistry. Bausch plumbs the depths of familial and marital estrangement, the violence of suicide and despair, the gulfs between friends...
17) The Wrong Girl
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Jane Ryland mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Forge Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First Edition
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366 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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"Award-winning and Boston Globe bestselling author Hank Phillippi Ryan presents a spine-chilling, heart-wrenching suspense novel that explores a terrifying scenario striking at the heart of every family. Does a respected adoption agency have a frightening secret? Tipped off by a determined ex-colleague on a desperate quest to find her birth mother, Boston newspaper reporter Jane Ryland begins to suspect that the agency is engaging in the ultimate...
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Steerforth press
Pub. Date
2024.
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322 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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English
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"An illuminating and thought-provoking examination of the uniquely American institution of marriage, from the Colonial era through the #MeToo age. Americans hold marriage in such high esteem that we push people toward it, reward them for taking part in it, and fetishize its benefits to the point that we routinely ignore or excuse bad behavior and societal ills in the name of protecting and promoting it. In eras of slavery and segregation, Blacks sometimes...
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