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Winner of the 2022 British Academy Prize for Global Cultural
Understanding. Novelist Alia Trabucco Zeran has long been
fascinated not only with the root causes of violence against women,
but by those women who have violently rejected the domestic and
passive roles they were meant by their culture to inhabit. Choosing
as her subject four iconic homicides perpetrated by Chilean women
in the twentieth century, she spent years researching this
brilliant work of narrative nonfiction detailing not only the
troubling tales of the murders themselves, but the story of how
society, the media and men in power reacted to these killings,
painting their perpetrators as witches, hysterics, or femmes
fatales . . . That is, either evil or out of control. Corina Rojas,
Rosa Faundez, Carolina Geel and Teresa Alfaro all committed murder.
Their crimes not only led to substantial court decisions, but gave
rise to multiple novels, poems, short stories, paintings, plays,
songs and films, produced and reproduced throughout the last
century. In When Women Kill, we are provided with timelines of
events leading up to and following their killings, their
apprehension by the authorities, their trials and their
representation in the media throughout and following the judicial
process. Running in parallel with this often horrifying testimony
are the diaries kept by Trabucco Zeran while she worked on her
research, addressing the obstacles and dilemmas she encountered as
she tackled this discomfiting yet necessary project.
In January 1991, when civil war came to Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, two-thirds of the city's population fled.
Among them was eight-year-old Asad Abdullahi. His mother murdered by a militiaman, his father somewhere in hiding, he was swept into the great wartime migration that scattered the Somali people throughout sub-Saharan Africa and the world.
Serially betrayed by the people who promised to care for him, Asad lived his childhood at a sceptical remove from the adult world, his relation to others wary and tactical.
By the time he had reached the cusp of adulthood, Asad had honed an array of wily talents. At the age of seventeen, in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, he made good as a street hustler. He also courted the famously beautiful Foosiya and, to the astonishment of his peers, married her.
Buoyed by success in work and in love, Asad put $1 200 into his pocket and made his way down the length of the African continent to Johannesburg, South Africa. And so began a shocking adventure in a country richer and more violent than he could possibly have imagined.
A Man of Good Hope is the story of a person shorn of the things we have come to believe make us human - personal possessions, parents, siblings. And yet Asad's is an intensely human life, one suffused with dreams and desires and a need to leave something of permanence on this earth.
As the digital world assumes an ever-increasing role in the daily
life of the public, opportunities to engage in crimes increase as
well. The consequences of cyber aggression can range from emotional
and psychological distress to death by suicide or homicide. Cyber
Harassment and Policy Reform in the Digital Age: Emerging Research
and Opportunities is a critical scholarly resource that examines
cyber aggression and bullying and policy changes to combat this new
form of crime. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics such
as anti-bullying programs, cyberstalking, and social exclusion,
this book is geared towards academicians, researchers, policy
makers, and students seeking current research on cyberstalking,
harassment, and bullying.
An extraordinary account of one woman's single-minded campaign to
restore a Victorian steamship to her former glory and make her an
Andean attraction Here is a vivid account of Meriel Larken's
incredible quest to restore the "Yavari" steamship against the
odds--a ship that is now celebrating its 150 year anniversary in
2012. In 1862 the English-built "Yavari" was taken to bits and
shipped to South America. In an epic logistical feat it was carried
in thousands of pieces, by mule, up the Andes to Lake Titicaca,
12,500 feet above sea level, the world's highest navigable
waterway. She was reconstructed and for more than a century plied
her trade up and down the lake, but by 1985 she was a sad rotting
hulk--until she was found by Larken, who led the quest to project
to restore and preserve the ship. The oldest single screw iron
passenger ship in the world, this nautical and engineering jewel is
now a major Peruvian tourist attraction.
"Stephen Senise's... newly published study of the case, offers the
most important clue not just as to whodunit, but why." TIMES OF
ISRAEL "fascinating" - Gareth Williams, editor RIPPEROLOGIST, The
Journal Of Jack The Ripper, East End & Victorian Studies
"remarkable" - APN NEWS & MEDIA, Australia "painstaking
research" - JEWISH CHRONICLE, London Did Jack The Ripper flee
London for the colony of New South Wales at the height of the
world's most notorious serial-murder rampage? Was the deadly attack
on Alice McKenzie in 1889 his last bid in pursuit of what was, not
just a brazen killing spree, but a macabre, politically motivated
publicity stunt? Is it conceivable that a maniac took it upon
himself to try and shut down the flow of Jewish refugees spilling
into London's East End, just as the area was being thrust into the
political spotlight? Journalist Stephen Senise, explores these
questions and the neighbourhoods of old Whitechapel to discover
that by February 1888 community tensions were so high that two
parliamentary select committees of investigation were dispatched to
advise the House of Commons and the House of Lords on the social
and industrial tensions tearing a community apart. Enter an
opportunist hell-bent on broadcasting a hateful message... a
madman, ready to unleash an 'Autumn of Terror'.
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