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Book Synopsis'Culture' and 'violence' have always been regarded as antithetical terms. In The Culture of Violence, Francis Barker takes a different view. Central to his argument is the contention that, contrary to post-Enlightenment humanist, liberal and conservative thought, 'culture' does not necessarily stand in opposition to political inequality and social injustice, but may be complicit with the oppressive exercise of power. The book focuses on Shakespearean tragedy and on the historicism and culturalism of much present-day cultural theory. Barker's analysis moves dialectically backwards and forwards between these two moments in order to illuminate aspects of early modern culture, and to critique the ways in which the complicity between culture and violence has been occluded. Rejecting the tendency of both modernism and post-modernism to homogenise historical time, Barker argues for a genuinely new, 'diacritical' understanding of the violence of history.

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Book SynopsisFor decades India has been the scene of outbursts of religious violence, thrusting many ordinary Hindus and Muslims into bloody conflict. This work analyzes the psychological roots of Hindu-Muslim violence and examines the subjective experience of religious hatred in the author's native land.

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Book SynopsisIn the Los Angeles riots, 2300 Korean shopkeepers lost their businesses in one day. The riots showed them the fragility of their economic base, since their businesses depended on impoverished, oppressed and rebellious classes. This is an account of Korean-black relations in Chicago and Los Angeles.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction 1: The State of Immigrant and Ethnic Entrepreneurship in America 2: The Social Origins of Korean Immigration to the United States, 1903 to the Present 3: Class, Family, and Ethnicity in Korean Immigrant Entrepreneurship 4: Who Is My Neighbor?: Korean-Black Relations in Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York City 5: Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisShows how 1947 marked the beginning of a history of politicized animosity associated with the differing ideas of "India" held by communities and in regions on one hand, and by the political-military Indian state on the other.Trade ReviewEugene M. Kayden Book Award in Literary Studies, University of Colorado Boulder, 2016. "An original and engaging piece of scholarship. It ranges widely and easily across materials in many genres and disciplines; it demonstrates a very fine eye for the telling textual detail; in a field vulnerable to sentimentality, it is clear-eyed and willing to pose uncomfortable questions; and it is written with verve and force." --Parama Roy, University of California, Davis"Engaging and evocative. I thought I was familiar with almost all of the topics addressed in the book, but after reading it I have emerged with a more nuanced understanding."--Sujata Moorti, author of Color of Rape: Gender and Race in Television's Public Spheres"A new and valuable addition to the rich store of work on Partition. Deepti Misri's book breaks new ground in drawing on a varied and multi-layered archive which brings in the literary, the historical, the visual and the performative, to attempt an understanding of culture and violence in the context of the history of Partition and nation-making, teasing out a nuanced, and feminist, history of the 'then' and the 'now.'"--Urvashi Butalia, author of The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India"This brilliant and exciting book illuminates how representational practices of violence are co-constitutive of power and resistance."--Pacific Affairs

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Book Synopsis“Beautifully observed. . . This jewel of a book belongs on the shelf with our best Western writers—Norman MacLean, Pam Houston, and Annie Proulx.”—John Vaillant, bestselling author of The Tiger and The Golden SpruceFrom the award-winning author of Down from the Mountain, a memoir of inheritance, history, and one gun’s role in the violence that shaped the American West—and an impassioned call to forge a new way forwardBryce Andrews was raised to do no harm. The son of a pacifist and conscientious objector, he moved from Seattle to Montana to tend livestock and the land as a cowboy. For a decade, he was happy. Yet, when Andrews inherited his grandfather’s Smith & Wesson revolver, he felt the weight of the violence braided into his chosen life. Other white men who’d come before him had turned firearms like this one against wildlife, wilderness,

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Book SynopsisBased on over a decade of research, a powerful, moving work of narrative nonfiction that illuminates the little-known world of the anexos of Mexico City, the informal addiction treatment centers where mothers send their children to escape the violence of the drug war.The Way That Leads Among the Lost reveals a hidden place where care and violence are impossible to separate: the anexos of Mexico City. The prizewinning anthropologist Angela Garcia takes us deep into the world of these small rooms, informal treatment centers for alcoholism, addiction, and mental illness, spread across Mexico City's tenements and reaching into the United States. Run and inhabited by Mexico's most marginalized populations, they are controversial for their illegality and their use of coercion. Yet for many Mexican families desperate to keep their loved ones safe, these rooms offer something of a refuge from what lies beyond themthe intensifying violence surrounding the drug war.

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Book Synopsis“One of the few world intellectuals on whom we may rely to make sense out of our existential confusion.”—Nadine GordimerTrade Review"Sen is now Asia’s preeminent philosopher of freedom. . . . This is an indispensable book." -- Anwar Ibrahim, former deputy prime minister of Malaysia"Amartya Sen brings to our generation a new and modern vision of how to obtain peace." -- George Akerlof, Nobel Laureate in Economics"Amartya Sen, one of the world’s great thinkers, tells us how to go about building a more peaceful world. I hope the book will be read by all." -- Ted Turner

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Fascinating and provocative." -- Los Angeles Times"Insightful and engaging.… An excellent introduction to America’s up-and-down urban-violence roller-coaster ride." -- Edward Glaeser - Wall Street Journal"Admirably connects two stories about the criminal legal system that are usually told separately. One is that the country that Americans live in is safer than it has been for a long time. The other story is that for some citizens, especially African-American men, the country that they live in is not free." -- Paul Butler - New York Times Book Review"Uneasy Peace has enhanced my understanding of the decline in urban violent crime. Compelling too is Sharkey’s discussion of ways to avert a possible new wave of national violence. This well-written and carefully researched book is a must-read for anyone residing in our nation’s cities." -- William Julius Wilson, author of More than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner City"Patrick Sharkey explains with accessible precision just how much the massive decline in homicide since the 1990s has mattered to the most vulnerable of city-dwellers, African American men. Sharkey also makes clear why this public health triumph is precarious.… Any student of cities will regard this book as essential reading." -- Tracey L. Meares, Walton Hale Hamilton Professor at Yale Law School"Patrick Sharkey is the leading young scholar of urban crime and concentrated poverty.… Uneasy Peace is a must-read for mayors, city-builders, urbanists, and all those concerned with building and living in great urban places." -- Richard Florida, author of The Rise of the Creative Class and The New Urban Crisis

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Book SynopsisA CrimeReads Best True Crime Book of 2021 A People Best Book of Summer A New York Times Most Anticipated Book of the Summer A riveting investigation into a cold case asks how much control women have over their bodies and the direction of their lives.Trade Review"Dykstra casts a searing light on racism, sexism, and the stigma of being a ‘bad’ girl. This is the perfect blueprint for any true crime writer moved to investigate a cold case." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)"Paula’s story is riveting—not only for her time, but for our own. This book is fascinating, heartbreaking, and empowering all at once." -- Abby Sher, coauthor of Sanctuary"A sharp and seductive investigation into the unsolved death of a young woman fifty years ago becomes, in Dykstra’s telling, an investigation into the genre of dead-girl true crime itself. A bracing and powerful book, unsentimental and sleek, and a roadmap for actual change." -- Lacy Crawford, author of Notes on a Silencing"A vivid, unflinching account, with its share of rage and sensitivity, equal in power and tenderness, What Happened to Paula is the story of the daring task of living in a female body. This deeply moving investigation is required reading for anyone who is or knows a woman." -- Mira Ptacin, author of Poor Your Soul and The In-Betweens"A book like no other. A murder mystery. A powerful exploration of what it means to be a vibrant woman in this cold, unfeeling, and somehow, still wonderful world. Debut author Katherine Dykstra will blow your mind." -- Marcy Dermansky, author of Very Nice"The most chilling thing about What Happened to Paula is that although Paula died fifty years ago, her story could be that of a teenage girl in 1990 or 2000 or today. This is essential reading, as gripping as any thriller." -- Julia Dahl, author of Invisible City and The Missing Hours"The missing-girl narrative can create a sort of pleasing cleanliness around the idea of violence against women: a heinous act, an innocent girl, all to be properly vilified and mourned. What Happened to Paula upends and unpacks all the smaller, subtler, scarier violences that live inside of this: what of all the ways the girl wasn’t innocent, what of all the ways none of us are?" -- Lynn Steger Strong, author of Want"A missing person, an unsolved mystery — but this is no typical true crime book. Instead, Dykstra looks at the context, the life Paula lived, in all its small moments of violence and violation, before she was murdered. Thoughtful and thought-provoking." -- Kate Tuttle - Boston Globe"A provocative true-crime page-turner on how sexism, racism and public opinion set up women for violence." -- People"What Happened to Paula resists the true crime genre...The book doesn’t rely on [Paula’s] homicide to be the climax. It resists playing into the very problem it is critiquing. The book is an unspooling of all the people and systems that conspired in Paula’s death. It has not one cause, but too many." -- Tana Wojczuk - BOMB"What Happened to Paula is not only the story exploring theories about the crime that ended Paula's life; it also reflects on other true crime stories with women as their victims, including rape and rape-murder stories, and on the burdensome costs of being born in a female body. What Happened to Paula is sobering, insightful, and a highly recommended addition to both true crime and women's issues collections." -- Midwest Book Review"Rather than simply trying to piece together a perpetrator from the facts of the case, Katherine Dykstra takes a different, more thoughtful, approach to Paula’s story, examining how stifling community standards, antagonism against interracial relationships, and assumptions about “bad girls” worked in tandem to condemn Paula and bury her story." -- Molly Odintz - CrimeReads

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Book SynopsisWritten by a therapist who specializes in abusive men, this guide reveals how abusers interact with and manipulate children—and how mothers can help their children recover from the trauma of witnessing abuse.Can my partner abuse me and still be a good parent? Should I stay with my partner for my children's sake? How should I talk to my children about the abuse and help them heal? Am I a bad mother?Mothers in physically or emotionally abusive relationships ask themselves these questions every day. Whether it’s physical or “just” emotional abuse, whether it’s aimed at them or you, whether they see or hear it, your kids need you.This book, the first ever of its kind, shows mothers how to:• Protect children and help them heal emotionally• Provide love, support, and positive role models, even in the midst of abuse• Increase their chances of winning custody• Help their kids feel good about themselves“A must-read for every mother who has been abused...it offers the knowledge women need to protect their children and help them heal.”—William S. Pollack, Ph.D., author of the national bestseller Real BoysTrade Review“If you have a child who has seen or heard abuse, this book is for you.”—Patricia Evans, author of Teen Torment: Overcoming Verbal Abuse at Home and at School“The perfect, long-awaited guide for mothers who have been abused…also essential reading for every social worker, custody evaluator, guardian ad litem, custody attorney, child protection worker, and judge.”—Joan Zorza, Esq., editor, Domestic Violence Report“The system to protect the abused is seriously flawed. Bancroft helps mothers win the battle using the court’s rules while empowering them to write new ones.”—The Cleveland Plain Dealer“A gift to mothers who are in abusive relationships. With exceptional compassion and deep understanding, Lundy Bancroft helps abused mothers understand how their children are affected by an abuser’s attitude and behavior, and empowers them to…help their children heal…I strongly recommend the book to mothers who are currently being abused or who have been abused in the past, as well as to therapists who work with abused women and their children.”—Beverly Engel, MFT, author of The Emotionally Abused Woman and Loving Him Without Losing You “Wonderful—this book covers the most important concerns facing an abused mother, in a friendly and compassionate tone that helps women avoid self-blame, while empowering them to promote their children’s well-being.”—Mo Therese Hannah, Ph.D., psychologist, Siena CollegeTable of ContentsWhen Dad Hurts MomPrefaceOne: Partner Abuse Through Children's Eyes and EarsPart I: The Abusive Man and Your ChildrenTwo: The Abusive Mindset and ChildrenThree: Abusive Men as ParentsFour: Understanding Your Children's Inner WorldFive: Protecting your Children's BoundariesPart II: The Abusive Man and Family DynamicsSix: A Weekend with the Abbott FamilySeven: Defending Your Role as MotherEight: Maintaining Healthy Dynamics in Your FamilyNine: To Leave or Not to LeaveTen: Dealing with Child Protective ServicesPart III: The Abusive Man and Your Children Post-SeparationEleven: What Separation and Divorce Mean for Your ChildrenTwelve: Abusive Men as post-Separation ParentsThirteen: making your Way in the Family Court SystemPart IV: Children Moving ForwardFourteen: Helping Your Children HealFifteen: Empowering your ChildrenSixteen: Stopping the Cycle of AbuseResourcesHearing the Personal Accounts of Abused MothersIndex

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Book SynopsisForensic Assessment of Violence Risk: A Guide for Risk Assessment and Risk Management provides both a summary of research to date and an integrated model for mental health professionals conducting risk assessments, one of the most high-stakes evaluations forensic mental health professionals perform.Trade Review"Conroy and Murie have written a unique book. Readers will appreciate the useful appendixes, which include risk-assessment instruments and sample reports. This is a wonderful resource for those interested in assessing dangerousness in others. Highly recommended." (Choice, 4/08) "This is a very nice book, primarily aimed at psychology trainees and other professionals who are preparing for forensic careers. One of the things I like about this book is its primary focus on understanding, managing and communicating about violence risk rather than prediction of individual behavior. This is one of those "must have" books for forensic mental health professionals." (Journal of Psychiatric Practice, January 2008)Table of ContentsPreface vii Acknowledgments xi 1 Historical Overview of Risk Assessment 1 2 Introducing a Broad Model for Risk Assessment 16 3 Risk of What? Defining the Referral Question 34 4 What Do We Know Overall? Consider Normative Data and Population Base Rates 45 5 What Do We Know about Individuals Like This One? Empirically Supported Risk and Protective Factors 67 6 What Do We Know about This Individual? Idiographic Factors and the Need for Individualized Assessment 83 7 What Can We Say about the Results of a Risk Assessment? Risk Communication 99 8 From Risk Assessment to Risk Management 135 9 Risk Assessment of Patients with Serious Mental Illness 153 10 Risk Assessment with Sexual Offenders 179 11 Risk Assessment with Juvenile Offenders 202 12 Risk Assessment of Death Penalty Defendants 235 Epilogue 255 Appendix A Risk Assessment Instruments 259 Appendix B Sample Risk Assessment Reports 269 References 309 Index 353

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Book Synopsis* Provides a review of key developments in armed responsepolicing around the world * Describes the crucial phases in armed response policydevelopment in Britain and explores the consequences of arming thepolice * Reflects upon the issues arising when police action goes badlywrong.Table of ContentsPreface. About the Authors. Acknowledgements. List of Abbreviations. 1. Introduction: The Hardest Job in Policing? Shots Around theWorld. Controversy. Changes, Mistakes and Learning in Police Circles. Contexts, Command, Frequencies and Victims. Structure and Contents. Timeline on PoliceWeapons and Firearms. 2. The Shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes and 'Operation Kratos'. Stockwell, 22 July. Briefing and Kratos. 3. Old Myths and Changing Realities. DiscoursesWithin and About Policing. Tooling Up? Driving out the Dixon Myth. New Problems and 'Exceptional' Measures. 4. Shootings, Policy Shifts and Competing Pressures. Continuing Official Caution. Hungerford. Tragedy and Farce. After Hungerford. 'Event Driven' or 'Gun Driven'. Shooting to Kill? Men, Guns and Ammo. Replica Arguments and ReplicaWeapons. 5. Police Politics and Morale. Hanging, Shooting and Opinion Polling. Click by Click? The 'Greatest British Defeat since Dunkirk'. New Frontiers and Supply Side Questions. The Most Important Decision for the Future of British Policing - Since Last Year. War and Order: The New Continuum of Force. The Dunblane Primary School Massacre and its Aftermath. 6. Policing in a 'Gun Culture'? Policing of Guns and Policing with Guns. Unpacking the Notion of a 'Gun Culture'. Guns and Gangs. Gang Studies and 'Cultures of Violence'. Policing and Enforcement Action in 'Gangland'. Gun Crime Hotspots and 'Problem-oriented Policing'. Operation Ceasefire. Bringing It All Back Home: 'Gunchester'. Policing of Guns, Policing with Guns. 7. Intelligence Dilemmas, Armed Response Policy and Research. Gang Culture and the 'Trident Model'. From Reactive to Proactive. Intelligence-led Dilemmas. Research on Recent Police Shootings. 8. Critical Case Studies of Selected Police-involved Shooting Incidents. The Shooting of James Ashley in Hastings, 1998. The Shooting of Harry Stanley, 1999. The Shooting of Andrew Kernan, 2001. Caution at Highmoor Cross, 2004. Ambush at Chandler's Ford, 2007. 9. Concluding Themes: Losing by Appearing toWin? Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisInvestigates the reasons for the resort to violence characteristic of premodern states. This work contends that law can never offer an adequate account of political violence. Instead, we must turn to political theology, which reveals that torture and terror are, essentially, forms of sacrifice.Trade ReviewAn extended meditation on the contemporary debate about torture and terrorism that forces the reader to grapple with troubling issues that we would prefer to ignore. - Sanford Levinson, University of Texas Law School

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Book SynopsisA fascinating ethnographic history that analyses how popular resistance actively molded both the form of colonialism and the social, economic, and political experience of the Javanese laboring communities on Sumatra's plantation borders.Trade ReviewFrom written historical records, as well as from very broad and intensive field work, Ann Laura Stoler has pieced together an eminently rich and meaningful episode of Indonesian history. . . . What makes for its quality is the remarkable balance, maintained throughout the study, between description, analysis and interpretation." —Pacific Affairs"Stoler has produced a stunning and seminal study. . . . This is a superb piece of interdisciplinary research. . . ." —World Development". . . intellectually provocative and significant." —Journal of Asian Studies". . . an interesting and valuable book . . . " —Times Literary Supplement". . . a reissue of a fine field study together with a smaller . . . fascinating preface which explores the context of the production of academic scholarship." —Pacific Affairs"From written historical records, as well as from very broad and intensive field work, Ann Laura Stoler has pieced together an eminently rich and meaningful episode of Indonesian history. . . . What makes for its quality is the remarkable balance, maintained throughout the study, between description, analysis and interpretation." —Pacific Affairs "A well-crafted and expertly researched history . . . exhibits a brand of intellectual integrity that is rare in a work so critical and this makes it a major contribution to the literature of the impact of imperialism and capitalism on the traditional populations of the Third World." —Peasant Studies

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Book SynopsisA piercing portrait of the struggles and triumphs of one of America''s renowned Jewish neighborhoods in the wake of unspeakable tragedy that highlights the hopes, fears, and tensions all Americans must confront on the road to healing.Squirrel Hill, Pittsburgh, is one of the oldest Jewish neighborhoods in the country, known for its tight-knit community and the profusion of multigenerational families. On October 27, 2018, a gunman killed eleven Jews who were worshipping at the Tree of Life synagogue in Squirrel Hill--the most deadly anti-Semitic attack in American history. Many neighborhoods would be understandably subsumed by despair and recrimination after such an event, but not this one. Mark Oppenheimer poignantly shifts the focus away from the criminal and his crime, and instead presents the historic, spirited community at the center of this heartbreak. He speaks with residents and nonresidents, Jews and gentiles, survivors and witnesses, teenagers and se

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Book SynopsisA groundbreaking work by an internationally acclaimed forensic psychotherapist that looks at women who commit extreme acts of violence and cruelty and at the underlying oppression and abuse often at the heart of these crimesWomen can be murderers and child abusers. They can commit acts of extreme and sadistic brutality. And those who do, are outcasts from society and from womanhood itself. They are seen as monsters and angels of death: and must be kept at a safe distance.Anna Motz is a renowned clinical and forensic psychologist in London and New York. Writing with candor, compassion, and a clear-eyed perspective, she explores in depth the shockingly underexamined psychological underpinnings of female violence. Far from the heartless and inhuman monsters we might believe them to be, these women are often victims of a culture of violence and emotional trauma.Already hailed as a landmark, Motz's daring book, bursting with humanity, makes

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Book SynopsisHis fascinating and ambitious book provides a fully developed theory of violence as the `heart and secret soul' of the sacred. Girard's fertile, combative mind links myth to prophetic writing, primitive religions to classical tragedy.--Victor Brombert, 'Chronicle of Higher Education.'Trade ReviewHis fascinating and ambitious book provides a fully developed theory of violence as the 'heart and secret soul' of the sacred. Girard's fertile, combative mind links myth to prophetic writing, primitive religions to classical tragedy. -- Victor Brombert Chronicle of Higher EducationTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsChapter 1. SacrificeChapter 2. The Sacrificial CrisisChapter 3. Oedipus and the Surrogate VictimChapter 4. The Origins of Myth and RitualChapter 5. DionysusChapter 6. From Mimetic Desire to the Monstrous DoubleChapter 7. Freud and the Oedipus ComplesChapter 8. Totem and Taboo and the Incest ProhibitionChapter 9. Lévi-Strauss, Structuralism, and Marriage LawsChapter 10. The Gods, the Dead, the Sacred, and Sacrificial SubstitutionChapter 11. The Unity of All RitesConclusionBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisA candid and riveting memoir from the founder of Harlem Children's Zone, taking readers through his Canada in which violence stalked every street corner.   Long before the avalanche of praise for his work—from Oprah Winfrey, from President Bill Clinton, from President Barack Obama—long before he became known for his talk show appearances, Members Project spots, and documentaries like Waiting for “Superman”, Geoffrey Canada was a small boy growing up scared on the mean streets of the South Bronx. His childhood world was one where “sidewalk boys” learned the codes of the block and were ranked through the rituals of fist, stick, and knife. Then the streets changed, and the stakes got even higher. 

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Book SynopsisThis questions how we think about the dynamics of lynching, what lynchings mean to the society in which they occur, how lynching is defined, and the circumstances that lead to lynching. Ashraf H. A. Rushday looks at three lynchings over the course of the twentieth century to see how Americans developed two distinct ways of thinking and talking about this act before and after the 1930s.Trade Review"Both excellent and unique, The End of American Lynching offers a sophisticated yet clear and methodical approach to the study of lynching...fresh, distinct, and eminently readable." -- Leigh Raiford * author of Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare *"Written with vigor and in sprightly prose, in this provocative book Rushdy adds much-needed subtlety to the contemporary ‘end of racism’ debate while clarifying why so many Americans misunderstood or denied the reality of lynching for so long." -- W. Fitzhugh Brundage * author of Lynching in the New South: Georgia and Virginia, 1880-1930 *"The End of American Lynching, Ashraf H. A. Rushdy’s important examination of lynching discourse, asks scholars to reconsider how theyremember and talk about racial violence." * Journal of American History *Table of ContentsContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: When Is an American Lynching?1 The Accountant and the Opera House2 Date Night in the Courthouse Square3 The End of American Lynching4 The Last American LynchingConclusion: The Subject of LynchingNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisA diverse group of contributors offer different perspectives on whether or not the different experiences of the US military and the broader society amounts to a “gap” - and if the American public is losing connection to its military. They analyse extensive polling information to identify those gaps between civilian and military attitudes on issues central to the military profession and the professionalism of the military.

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Book SynopsisIn August 1986, Alice Auma, a young Acholi woman in northern Uganda, proclaiming herself under the orders of a Christian spirit named Lakwena, raised an army called the “Holy Spirit Mobile Forces.”

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Book SynopsisWar in Pre-Colonial Eastern Africa examines the nature and objectives of violence in the region in the nineteenth century. It is particularly concerned with highland Ethiopia and the Great Lakes.Trade Review“An important and thoughtful overview that reminds us that African military history is worth studying in its own right, and that it illuminates much else about ‘state and society.’” * African Studies Review *“(A) much needed counterpart to studies already done on precolonial warfare in other geographical regions of Africa.... Through well-organized chapters, Reid shows how the East African societies...had a refined sense of the meaning of warfare and its influence on identity, respect, royal inheritance, nationhood, and community.” * International Journal of African Historical Studies *Table of ContentsContents: I THEORY & CONTEXT African War in Historical & Theoretical Perspective Antiquity & Inheritance Restorative Violence & the Weight of History II ARMIES Tools & Tactics Organisation & Function III PROCESS, IMPACT & CULTURE Cost & Profit War & Economic Change Violence & Society The Resolution & Avoidance of Conflict The Culture of Conflict Conclusions: War & the Making of State & Society

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Book Synopsis“These two volumes clearly demonstrate the efforts by a wide range of African scholars to explain the roots, routes, regimes and resolution of African conflicts and how to re-build post-conflict societies.Trade Review“(The Resolution of African Conflicts’s) contribution to the current debate on conflict in Africa cannot be overemphasized. It is a must-read for all professors and graduate students of African conflicts, researchers, policymakers, statesman, elites, and all those interested in peace on the continent.” * The Historian *

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Book Synopsis“Africa is no more prone to violent conflicts than other regions. Indeed, Africa’s share of the more than 180 million people who died from conflicts and atrocities in the twentieth century is relatively modest.…Trade Review“One of the major achievements of the book is pointing without complacency to the African causes of the conflicts, while not precluding the colonial legacy as ‘the most powerful precipitant’ of wars in Africa.” * The International Journal of African Historical Studies *

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Book SynopsisCarlos Guevara Mann argues that Panamanian militarism, a consequence of the breakdown of legitimacy that occurred in the early nineteenth century, is more a manifestation of a deeply-rooted political tradition than an isolated phenomenon of the late twentieth century.Trade Review“Panamanian Militarism is both the fruit of the author’s intellectual labors and a testament to his passionate and personal concern for this issue.”“This book…is a succinct and lucid summary of the subject which makes its case persuasively.” * Journal of Latin American Studies *

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Book SynopsisFor hundreds of years, military intervention in another country was considered taboo and prohibited by international law. Since 1992, intervention has often been described as an international responsibility, and efforts have been made to give it legal justification.Trade Review“Talentino does a wonderful job of outlining the theory and applying its central tenets to a wide range of ethnic conflicts. International humanitarian workers, policymakers, military leaders, and government officials will find the book useful.”

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Book SynopsisThe participant''s essential guide to reflection and personal growth Beyond Anger and Violence: A Program for Women Participant Workbook is the participant''s personal place for reflection, reactions, and learning, during and after management sessions. The activities inside reinforce program lessons about anger and violence, including how families, relationships, communities, and society affect one''s life. In learning about the relationships between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, participants can begin to grasp a better self-understanding that will help them manage anger in a healthier, more productive manner. They''ll develop new skills for communication, conflict resolution, and decision-making, and will be introduced to a variety of calming techniques. Beyond Anger and Violence is a 40-hour, evidence-based program designed for women who have difficulty managing anger. Based on a social-ecological model, the program addresses the factors that put Table of ContentsIntroduction xi Orientation Session 1 Overview of the Program 1 Your Workbook 2 Group Introductions 3 Topics Covered in this Program 3 Group Agreements 4 Triggers and Coping Tools 5 Five Senses 6 Breathing and Exhaling 6 Statistics on Violence in the United States 7 Definition of Violence 9 The Social-Ecological Model (People in the Environment) 9 Creating a Container 13 Discovering Your Anger Style 15 Assignment 17 Self-Soothing Activity: Palms Down, Palms Up 18 Part A: Self 19 Session One: Thinking Our Thoughts 21 The Spiral of Violence and Nonviolence 22 Cognitive Distortion 23 My Typical Distorted Thinking 25 Feelings Inside and Outside 27 The DVD of What I Want My Words To Do To You 28 Understanding Keila 28 Understanding Me 30 Assignment 32 Session Two: Feeling Our Feelings 35 Identifying Feelings 36 Beliefs About Feelings 39 Intensity of Feelings 40 Emotional Wellness 44 Feelings and the Body 45 When Feelings Threaten to Overwhelm You 46 The Observer Self 47 Assignment 48 Session Three: Violence and Trauma in Our Lives 49 Types of Abuse 50 The Process of Trauma 50 Calming Strategies 54 Two Calming Activities 54 Daily Anger Log 56 Assignment 57 Session Four: The Effects of Trauma 59 Adverse Childhood Experiences Survey 60 The Adverse Childhood Experiences Study 62 The Effects of Trauma and Substance Use on the Brain 63 Risk Factors for Addiction 64 Personal Experiences with Substances 65 Triggers and the Body 67 Yoga Poses and the Mind-Body Connection 70 Assignment 70 Session Five: Women and Anger 73 Understanding Our Anger 74 Words for Anger 75 Meeting a Feeling 76 The Anger Funnel 77 Anger Triggers 79 Hidden Anger 80 Self-Inflicted Violence 81 Personal Anger Inventory 82 Assignment 88 Session Six: Tools for Managing Anger 91 Anger Management Strategies 92 Anger Dos and Don’ts 93 Self-Reflection Tool 95 My Personal Best 99 Assignment 100 Session Seven: Understanding Ourselves 101 DVD of What I Want My Words To Do To You 102 Understanding My Anger 104 Understanding My Behavior 106 Becoming Whole 108 Assignment 110 Part B: Relationships 111 Session Eight: Our Families 113 Self-Soothing Activity: Deep Breathing 114 Risk Factors 114 Family Sculpture 115 The Cost of Violence 116 Feelings and the Family 117 The Family Anger Questionnaire 118 Wheel of the Nurturing Family 122 Assignment 125 Session Nine: Communication 127 Communication Styles 128 Nonverbal Communication 129 Communicating Emotions 130 Strategies for Creating Connection in Communication 131 Responses to Stress 132 Assignment 134 Session Ten: Power and Control 135 The Power and Control Wheel 136 Types of Abuse in Relationships 140 The Violence Continuum 142 Escalation and De-escalation 144 Assignment 145 Session Eleven: Conflict Resolution 147 Fair Fighting 148 Words, Words, Words 150 Impulse Control 151 The Equality Wheel 153 Assignment 155 Session Twelve: Creating Our Relationships 157 Falling in Love 158 Love and Addiction 159 Contrasting Intimate Relationships and Addictive Relationships 160 How to End a Relationship 161 Assignment 162 Part C: Community 163 Session Thirteen: Our Communities 165 Self-Soothing Activity: Progressive Muscle Relaxation 166 Our Communities 169 Visualization 170 Friendship 173 Assignment 174 What’s in a Name? 176 Session Fourteen: The Importance of Safety 177 Safety in the Community 178 The Four Kinds of Safety 179 Environment and Behavior 181 Safe and Unsafe Environments 182 Safety and the Body 183 Community Maps 184 Assignment 187 Session Fifteen: Creating Community 189 DVD of What I Want My Words To Do To You 190 Crossroads 192 Making Good Decisions 194 Assignment 196 Session Sixteen: The Power of Community 199 DVD of What I Want My Words To Do To You 200 Activity: Writing About a Kind Act 201 Assignment 202 Part D: Society 203 Session Seventeen: Society and Violence 205 Self-Soothing Activity: Breathing in the Positive 206 Reviewing the Risks for Violence 207 The Culture Wheel 208 Institutional and Cultural Supports for Domestic Violence 210 Working to End Violence 212 Art as an Expression of the Levels of Violence 215 Assignment 217 Session Eighteen: Creating Change 221 Health, Harmony, and Wholeness 222 The Spirals of Transformation 224 Assignment 226 Session Nineteen: Transforming Our Lives 227 Visualization 228 The Role of Remorse in Transformation 229 The Process of Transformation 230 Making Amends 231 Forgiveness 232 Assignment 233 Session Twenty: Honoring Ourselves and Our Community 235 The Relational Wheel 236 Are You Becoming the Person You Want to Be? 238 ORID 239 Appreciation 241 Appendix 1: Daily Anger Log 243 Appendix 2: Self-Reflection Tool 251 Appendix 3: Yoga Poses 261 1. Breath of Joy 261 2. Seated Pigeon’s Pose 262 3. Modified Triangle 263 4. Twisted Branches to Open Wings 264 References 267 About the Author 271 About the Cover 273 Feedback Form 275

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Book SynopsisA People Best Book of Summer A New York Times Most Anticipated Book of the Summer A riveting investigation into a cold case asks how much control women have over their bodies and the direction of their lives.Trade Review"Dykstra casts a searing light on racism, sexism, and the stigma of being a ‘bad’ girl. This is the perfect blueprint for any true crime writer moved to investigate a cold case." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)"Paula’s story is riveting—not only for her time, but for our own. This book is fascinating, heartbreaking, and empowering all at once." -- Abby Sher, coauthor of Sanctuary"A sharp and seductive investigation into the unsolved death of a young woman fifty years ago becomes, in Dykstra’s telling, an investigation into the genre of dead-girl true crime itself. A bracing and powerful book, unsentimental and sleek, and a roadmap for actual change." -- Lacy Crawford, author of Notes on a Silencing"A vivid, unflinching account, with its share of rage and sensitivity, equal in power and tenderness, What Happened to Paula is the story of the daring task of living in a female body. This deeply moving investigation is required reading for anyone who is or knows a woman." -- Mira Ptacin, author of Poor Your Soul and The In-Betweens"A book like no other. A murder mystery. A powerful exploration of what it means to be a vibrant woman in this cold, unfeeling, and somehow, still wonderful world. Debut author Katherine Dykstra will blow your mind." -- Marcy Dermansky, author of Very Nice"The most chilling thing about What Happened to Paula is that although Paula died fifty years ago, her story could be that of a teenage girl in 1990 or 2000 or today. This is essential reading, as gripping as any thriller." -- Julia Dahl, author of Invisible City and The Missing Hours"The missing-girl narrative can create a sort of pleasing cleanliness around the idea of violence against women: a heinous act, an innocent girl, all to be properly vilified and mourned. What Happened to Paula upends and unpacks all the smaller, subtler, scarier violences that live inside of this: what of all the ways the girl wasn’t innocent, what of all the ways none of us are?" -- Lynn Steger Strong, author of Want"A missing person, an unsolved mystery — but this is no typical true crime book. Instead, Dykstra looks at the context, the life Paula lived, in all its small moments of violence and violation, before she was murdered. Thoughtful and thought-provoking." -- Kate Tuttle - Boston Globe"A provocative true-crime page-turner on how sexism, racism and public opinion set up women for violence." -- People"What Happened to Paula resists the true crime genre...The book doesn’t rely on [Paula’s] homicide to be the climax. It resists playing into the very problem it is critiquing. The book is an unspooling of all the people and systems that conspired in Paula’s death. It has not one cause, but too many." -- Tana Wojczuk - BOMB"What Happened to Paula is not only the story exploring theories about the crime that ended Paula's life; it also reflects on other true crime stories with women as their victims, including rape and rape-murder stories, and on the burdensome costs of being born in a female body. What Happened to Paula is sobering, insightful, and a highly recommended addition to both true crime and women's issues collections." -- Midwest Book Review"Rather than simply trying to piece together a perpetrator from the facts of the case, Katherine Dykstra takes a different, more thoughtful, approach to Paula’s story, examining how stifling community standards, antagonism against interracial relationships, and assumptions about “bad girls” worked in tandem to condemn Paula and bury her story." -- Molly Odintz - CrimeReads

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Book SynopsisIlluminating the moral views on violence, from the moral restraint of the just-war tradition through pragmatic nonviolence to principled variations of pacifismTrade Review “The book is strong when it exposes our culture’s uncritical acceptance of war, when Cady shows that violent means are not likely to result in pacific ends and that peace has a harmonic and cooperative content and is not merely the absence of war. Moreover, the author shows that the usual objections against pacifism are answerable….A worthy contribution to the discussion of the morality of war." —Choice “Cady is to be applauded for authoring a book which is a thought provoking and original contribution to peace and war studies. Teachers and students alike will benefit from his analysis which challenges us to critique the usually subconscious assumption of warism, to more critically investigate the ‘wealth of pacifisms’ which exist, and to explore the often ignored successes of nonviolence in history.”—Teaching Philosophy “With his fair, careful, and balanced presentations of the ‘richness and variety’ of the various positions on the moral continuum of war and peace, Duane Cady has gone a considerable way in making ‘constructive relationships’ possible. Consequently, all who care and think about the issues of violence and war are in his debt.”—International Social Science Review Table of ContentsPreface to the Second Edition Preface to the First Edition Introduction: A History of the Idea of Pacifism 1 Warism 2 A Just-War Continuum 3 Means and Ends 4 A Pacifist Continuum 5 Positive Peace 6 Objections 7 I mplications Afterword: Nonviolence and the War on Terror Notes Index

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Book SynopsisInterdisciplinary and international in scope, this volume forms the foundations for a Durkheimian sociology of violence, exploring the political anthropology of war, the rapport between power and the sacred, and various forms of contemporary irrationalism ranging from mass-mediated suicide to torture at Abu Ghraib.Table of ContentsAbstracts. 1. Introduction: On violence as the negativity of the Durkheimian: between anomie, sacrifice, and effervescence (S. Romi Mukherjee). 2. Durkheim’s theory of violence (Mike Gane). 3. Durkheimism: a model for external constraint without a theory of violence (Jacques Plouin). 4. Durkheim, the question of violence and the Paris Commune of 1871 (Susan Stedman Jones). 5. Durkheimian sociology, biology and the theory of social conflict (Jean-Christophe Marcel and Dominique Guillo). 6. ‘‘Change only for the benefit of society as a whole’’: pragmatism, knowledge and regimes of violence (Ivan Strenski). 7. Festival, vacation, war: Roger Caillois and the politics of paroxysm (S. Romi Mukherjee). 8. Durkheim’s concept of de´re`glement retranslated, Parsons’s reading of Durkheim re-parsed: an examination of post-emotional displacement, scapegoating and responsibility at Abu Ghraib (Stjepan G. Mestrovic and Ryan Ashley Caldwell). 9. ‘‘A new kind of fear’’: Jean Baudrillard’s neo-Durkheimian theory of mass-mediated suicide (Alexander Riley). From political emergencies and states of exception to exceptional states and emergent politics: a neo-Durkheimian alternative to Agamben (Ronjon Paul Datta). References. Index.

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Book SynopsisExplores the legal justification for state-sanctioned violence

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Book SynopsisExplores the legal justification for state-sanctioned violence

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Book SynopsisDomestic abuse is an ugly, but all too real, problem that is often not dealt with well within our churches. Eryl Davies tells the stories of domestic abuse survivors – both men and women – who have been let down by their churches’ reactions. How are we to respond biblically to such situations? How do pastors and church leaders address this problem when both victim and abuser are part of their congregation? As well as making the reader aware of the reality of this issue, Davies gives helpful guidelines and suggestions for church leaders dealing with cases of domestic abuse.Trade ReviewWriting with patience and care Eryl acknowledges the courage of sufferers, and brings scripture to bear on the sin of domestic abuse. Helpful pastoral advice is presented, and a clear biblical understanding of marriage presented. The chapter on divorce is particularly stimulating. -- Philip Swann (Pastor, Llanelli Free Evangelical Church & Lecturer in Pastoral Theology, Evangelical Movement of Wales Training Course)… wakes us up to the disturbing reality that the church is not immune to the horrors of domestic abuse … Yet this is not something the church knows how to handle. Davies gives us the data and tools we need to dig our heads out of the sand and help those in danger! -- Natalie Brand (Bible teacher and author of ‘Priscilla, Where Are You? A Call to Joyful Theology’)… blends personal accounts, biblical insight, and pastoral wisdom. I wept as I read sections of the book, and was forced to think deeply about what I believed and taught. I pray that this book would help many to find safety and love in the church. -- Jonathan Thomas (Pastor, Cornerstone Church, Abergavenny, Wales; author, ‘Intentional Interruptions: Learning to be Interrupted the Way God Intended’)… a must–read for all in church leadership, especially in Bible–believing churches, and perhaps particularly in independent churches. It should also be read by as many Bible–believing Christians as possible. -- Hector Morrison (Principal, Highland Theological College, Dingwall)

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Book SynopsisWhat do the Catholic Church, college sports, Hollywood, prisons, the military, fraternities and politics have in common? All have extraordinarily high rates of sexual and intimate partner violence and child sexual abuse. Sexual and intimate partner violence is part of the landscape that women and children live with. Women and children are subjected to high levels of sexual and intimate partner violence and in the era of #metoo, Gender, Power and Violence provides a nuanced analysis of the ways in which the organizational structure of an institution, like a college campus or Hollywood, can create an environment ripe for sexual and intimate partner violence and even child sexual abuse. Gender, Power, and Violence looks at the problem of sexual and intimate partner violence through cases, observing the role that institutions play in facilitating and perpetuating gender based violence, and provides a more complex understanding about the ways in which institutional structures create an environment that facilitates and perpetuates gender based violence. Angela J. Hattery and Earl Smith touch on current events that have highlighted the pervasiveness of gender based violence across the institutions they interrogate throughout the book, but also in the entertainment industry, the government, and television journalism. Gender, Power, and Violence gives the reader a better understanding of what factors shape who will be perpetrators, who will be victims, and how organizations respond (or not) when sexual or intimate partner violence or child sexual abuse is reported. It also offers recommendations for transforming these institutions so that they are safe for women and children of all genders.Trade ReviewHattery and Smith’s timely book is a searing, incisive look at how and why gender-based violence persists, the institutions that enable it, and the impact that it has on various groups in society. This accessible, powerful book is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand this pervasive problem—and more importantly, for anyone who wants to start thinking about solutions. -- Adia Harvey Wingfield, Washington University in St. LouisToo often we choose to engage in complicit silence and numbness in response to the rampant gender-based violence that seeps through our country, particularly through our male-dominated institutions. But this book reminds us that we must do more. Each chapter is a timely rallying point for not only saying #MeToo, but for saying #LetsAct to create a cultural shift where gender-based violence is eliminated once and for all. -- Holly Kearl, Author of Stop Street Harassment: Making Public Places Safe and Welcoming for WomenIn Gender, Power and Violence, Angela J. Hattery and Earl Smith illuminate the empirical connections between gender-based violence and homosocial organizations—especially those that glorify boys’ and men’s violence. The book’s timely and important message is that ending gender-based violence requires moving beyond sensitivity training and social media campaigns, to serious efforts at institutional transformation. -- Michael A. Messner, Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies, University of Southern CaliforniaAngela Hattery and Earl Smith's book, Gender, Power, and Violence, is an excellent introductory text for courses on gender based violence. The authors present a comprehensive intersectional analysis how sexual and intimate partner violence is supported by institutional structures—an analysis that is necessary, if we are to truly end the epidemic of violence and the devastating impact of its concomitant trauma. -- Claire N. Kaplan, PhD, Program Director, Gender Violence and Social Change and Men's Leadership Project, University of VirginiaThis book contributes to the literature on sexual and gender based violence by examining the institutions in which these phenomena occur and the power structures that justify and facilitate this type of violence. The authors attempt to situate violence within the context of power and oppression. This analysis is timely and necessary in order to understand interpersonal violence from a macro perspective. Written in an accessible and engaging manner, this book will be a useful tool for students and laypersons alike who seek to understand the complexities of gender based violence and who wish to prevent future occurrences of violence and harm. -- Karen Holt, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, Michigan State UniversityThis book is a must-read for anyone who is interested in understanding the power dynamic of institutional gender-based violence and the role of institutions in perpetuating sexual violence. For decades, people pointed the finger primarily at Athletes and Frat Guys. "Gender Power and Violence" outlines the role of ALL institutions in perpetuating, permitting and protecting offenders of all types of sexual violence. From the Catholic Church to Congress, from prisons to parliament, from Hollywood to The Hague, from Boy Scouts to band leaders, from the military to media moguls - institutions have played a major role in harboring predators, providing them with a steady stream of prey and in protecting repeat offenders 'for the sake of the institution.' " Fortunately, the #MeToo movement has pulled the curtain back to expose the power dynamics that exist within hierarchical institutions. As a former Division 1 Athlete, I am certainly not pointing the finger at ALL athletes or all actors or all priests or all politicians. However, institutions possess inherent power dynamics that the 10% of bad guys are drawn to. Rape is about power and control - phenomena that exist in all institutions from Penn State to prison to politics. As a result of wanting to maintain that power, institutions put their reputation before individual people - often at the expense of victims. The epidemic of gender-based violence will continue until institutions are willing to admit they have a problem. It is up to Hollywood, Washington, DC and Wall Street to put people before profits and to STAND up for the lowest member of the totem pole at any institution. When institutions are willing to treat the custodian with the same respect as the CEO or hold the Pope just as accountable as his parishioners then - and only then - will we see change. The President should be held to an even higher degree of ethical standards than the peasant.. Like the Homeland Security slogan says, "if you see something, say something" - it is up to us to live by the mantra that "if you see something, DO something" especially when it comes to institutions. Only then will we, as a society, be able to protect victims and help them to truly become survivors. -- Keith Labelle, PhD, Assistant Director of Bystander Intervention Training, University of Rhode IslandThis is a compelling, accessible, and polemical interrogation of rape culture and gender based violence in U.S. institutions. Rather than simply describing male abuse of power the authors end each chapter with potential strategies and solutions for each institution, ending with a “call to arms” in the final chapter to change institutional practices to change society. -- Jennifer Marchbank, Professor, Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies, Simon Fraser UniversityIn an analysis that is both broad and incisive, Gender, Power and Violence provides a fresh vantage point on an epidemic that is anything but new. Zooming out from individual victims and perpetrators to the institutions where gender-based violence is rampant, Hattery and Smith connect the dots, arguing compellingly that these structures have the power to either perpetuate or address a devastating social problem. -- Lauren B. Cattaneo, Associate Professor, George Mason UniversityTable of ContentsPREFACE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 2: THEORY, HISTORY, AND TERMINOLOGY CHAPTER 3: FRATERNITIES CHAPTER 4: THE MILITARY CHAPTER 5: PRISONS CHAPTER 6: SPORTSWORLD CHAPTER 7: THE CATHOLIC CHURCH CHAPTER 8: HOLLYWOOD, WASHINGTON, AND THE #METOO MOVEMENT CHAPTER 9: CONCLUSIONS AND A CALL TO ACTION

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