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Economic reforms in China began in 1979 and initiated some of the
most fundamental changes ever to occur in any country. While
allowing some of the most astonishing economic growth the world has
seen, they have also induced some of the most profound social and
environmental shifts. This volume looks at two aspects of the
impacts of the reforms, firstly on the demography of the country
(especially migration and urbanization), and secondly on the
environment. A third section examines various problems of
environmental degradation in relation to natural processes and
human efforts to mitigate their effects.
Terrorism and war have engendered a special set of people with
distinctive and uniquely contemporary therapeutic needs. How do we
cope with the personal experience of political violence? Living
with Terror, Working with Trauma addresses the ways that mental
health practitioners can assist survivors of terrorism. Drawing
upon the experience of leading practitioners and renowned experts
throughout the world, this edited volume explores the most
innovative methods currently employed to help people heal and even
grow from traumatic experiences. It argues for a multi-dimensional
approach to understanding and treating the effects of
terror-related trauma. Comprehensive in scope, Living with Terror,
Working with Trauma covers psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral,
existential, and neuro-physiological techniques for working with
individuals and groups, children and adults, both in the clinic and
in the field. The contributors share their personal and clinical
experiences in Hiroshima, Cambodia, the Middle East, Vietnam, and
other sites of mass violence and terror, including the Holocaust. A
special section is devoted to the September 11th. As it addresses
the basic existential challenge of finding meaning and creatively
transforming one's experience of terror and trauma, this volume
explores the territory, identifies the key problems, and presents
effective therapeutic solutions."
Economic reforms in China began in 1979 and initiated some of the
most fundamental changes ever to occur in any country. While
allowing some of the most astonishing economic growth the world has
seen, they have also induced some of the most profound social and
environmental shifts. This volume looks at two aspects of the
impacts of the reforms, firstly on the demography of the country
(especially migration and urbanization), and secondly on the
environment. A third section examines various problems of
environmental degradation in relation to natural processes and
human efforts to mitigate their effects.
A deadly betrayal triggers an inexorable avalanche of events
vaulting Pyge the Black back home to the loving clutches of his
immediate family, twenty years after he went to insane lengths to
make them think he was dead. Forced to re-assume his true name and
the curse of immobility that accompanied his old identity, Pyge has
to face a family who's actions left him crippled, in mind, and
body, and unravel the secret that kept him hidden from them for 20
years. Pyge has a god on his side, unfortunately his family does as
well and their divine backup is much bigger than his. But Pyge
isn't a young lad being taken apart on a torturer's table anymore.
He has his guns; his war hammer; the demonic power he sacrificed
dearly for; and his only friend and most precious possession: The
Obsidian Horse.
Werewolves are not born. Werewolves are not cursed. Werewolves, and
other shapeshifters, are built for a purpose: war. Seeded within
the human population as the ultimate tool for survival. The Sidhe
choose humans with the appropriate ancestry to be brought across
the boundaries of Dream to join their society. Others do not lead
such charmed lives. Doomed because they are deemed to not add
anything to the Sidhe's future, they are drafted to defend the
present; pressed into service as the tractable cousins to
werewolves: werehounds. Spencer Westinghouse was one of those poor
souls pressed into hasty service to find a monster before she could
kill again. But his transition was botched and he was left unable
to shapeshift, but unable die, his faery animus stillborn, but
alive, a poltergeist that keeps him safe but sets him further apart
from the only people he can retreat to. So he runs to those who
maimed him in the first place: the Sidhe.
Vycta Franks always considered himself a man of Faith; an
unconventional Faith, a private Faith. He believes what he feels he
was told by God. "Follow my voice and your path, but do not teach.
Do this, and you will reach paradise." When he died, he went to
Heaven, where everyone has Faith. They are still people, and where
there are people, there is conflict. Man warring on man because
interpreting how to express Faith is still an issue. Faith is
always an issue. From the orbiting paradisiac Principalities,
connected to the war ravaged spiritual earth by great orbital
elevators, to the hidden, secret copses, man's free will is only
trumped by God's law. God was not a busybody on Earth, he is not
one in Heaven. The Choir of Heaven keeps them from ultimate
destruction, while the "discussions" continue. Vycta is drawn
immediately into these wars of Faith. Despite thinking he is
different, he is just another theocrat, and he has a lot to learn
about Faith and the even more precious, Grace.
John Henry Munroe has done everything right. He worked hard, owns
his home, and has prepared for retirement. Now that he is ready to
retire, he wonders why he worked so hard to live the rest of his
days, bereft of close friends and family; in persistent arthritic
pain; finding his only escape in virtual reality games. When the
technology is developed to move human consciousness into a solid
state mind, John Henry puts the same dogged determination to build
his retirement to work to prolong his life; even if he has to work
the rest of his days in his blue collar job, or make a deal with
the devil. It is not the devil that John Henry deals with, but he
steadily loses bits and pieces of himself, starting with his name.
When John Henry Munroe becomes Dekamara, he begins a journey that
will take him away from the little box he worked in for thirty
years to a life he may not want, and compromises he could not even
contemplate, but will be more than willing to make.
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