Evil Life

Author : Martha Few
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292782004
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women Who Live Evil Lives written by Martha Few and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women Who Live Evil Lives documents the lives and practices of mixed-race, Black, Spanish, and Maya women sorcerers, spell-casters, magical healers, and midwives in the social relations of power in Santiago de Guatemala, the capital of colonial Central America. Men and women from all sectors of society consulted them to intervene in sexual and familial relations and disputes between neighbors and rival shop owners; to counter abusive colonial officials, employers, or husbands; and in cases of inexplicable illness. Applying historical, anthropological, and gender studies analysis, Martha Few argues that women's local practices of magic, curing, and religion revealed opportunities for women's cultural authority and power in colonial Guatemala. Few draws on archival research conducted in Guatemala, Mexico, and Spain to shed new light on women's critical public roles in Santiago, the cultural and social connections between the capital city and the countryside, and the gender dynamics of power in the ethnic and cultural contestation of Spanish colonial rule in daily life.

Author : Clive Small
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 1742374921
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Evil Life written by Clive Small and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2016-02-01 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Calabrian mafia is Australia's oldest, largest and most ruthless crime syndicate, trafficking drugs worth billions of dollars and laundering the proceeds through sophisticated international networks. Enforcing discipline with age-old tools of violence and intimidation, the Calabrians have been responsible for nearly 40 murders in Australia since the mid-1970s and many more before that. Mafia families in Australia report directly to bosses in Calabria and profits are funnelled back to the mother organisation. Yet despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, Federal and State law enforcement agencies have long assured the public that there is no Calabrian mafia in Australia. With powerful and uncompromising clarity, Evil Life shatters this myth. Drawing on court documents and unreleased intelligence reports, as well as interviews with well-informed sources, the authors reveal how the Calabrian mafia evolved from its beginnings on the north Queensland cane fields in the 1920s to establish cells in every major capital city, making Australia a key outpost in the world of global organised crime.

Author : Geoffrey Wansell
Publisher : Trafalgar Square
ISBN 13 : 9780747217602
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Evil Love written by Geoffrey Wansell and published by Trafalgar Square. This book was released on 1996 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gary Weise
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1434993442
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Origin of Space Stars Planets and Life written by Gary Weise and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Clinton R. Van Zandt
Publisher : G.P. Putnam's Sons
ISBN 13 : 9780399153082
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Facing Down Evil written by Clinton R. Van Zandt and published by G.P. Putnam's Sons. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An FBI hostage negotiator provides a white-knuckle portrait of his 25 years of service.

Author : Elizabeth K. Minnich
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442275979
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Evil of Banality written by Elizabeth K. Minnich and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-12-07 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How is it possible to murder a million people one by one? Hatred, fear, madness of one or many people cannot explain it. No one can be so possessed for the months, even years, required for genocides, slavery, deadly economic exploitation, sexual trafficking of children. In The Evil of Banality, Elizabeth Minnich argues for a tragic yet hopeful explanation. “Extensive evil,” her term for systematic horrific harm-doing, is actually carried out, not by psychopaths, but by people like your quiet next door neighbor, your ambitious colleagues. There simply are not enough moral monsters for extensive evil, nor enough saints for extensive good. In periods of extensive evil, people little different from you and me do its work for no more than a better job, a raise, the house of the family “disappeared” last week. So how can there be hope? The seeds of such evils are right there in our ordinary lives. They are neither mysterious nor demonic. If we avoid romanticizing and so protecting ourselves from responsibility for the worst and the best of which humans are capable, we can prepare to say no to extensive evil—to act accurately, together, and above all in time, before great harm-doing has become the daily work of ‘normal’ people.

Author : Michelle Knudsen
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 0763670871
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Evil Librarian written by Michelle Knudsen and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He’s young. He’s hot. He’s also evil. He’s . . . the librarian. When Cynthia Rothschild’s best friend, Annie, falls head over heels for the new high-school librarian, Cyn can totally see why. He’s really young and super cute and thinks Annie would make an excellent library monitor. But after meeting Mr. Gabriel, Cyn realizes something isn’t quite right. Maybe it’s the creepy look in the librarian’s eyes, or the weird feeling Cyn gets whenever she’s around him. Before long Cyn realizes that Mr. Gabriel is, in fact . . . a demon. Now, in addition to saving the school musical from technical disaster and trying not to make a fool of herself with her own hopeless crush, Cyn has to save her best friend from the clutches of the evil librarian, who also seems to be slowly sucking the life force out of the entire student body! From best-selling author Michelle Knudsen, here is the perfect novel for teens who like their horror served up with a bit of romance, plenty of humor, and some pretty hot guys (of both the good and evil variety).

Author : Brayton Polka
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527533921
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Death as Life’s Paradox written by Brayton Polka and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on death as life’s paradox in order to test, to put on trial, what it means for us human beings to exist. No one of us chooses to be born. Yet, having been born, we must choose to have been born, to live, to exist. To exist is to choose to exist. To choose to exist is to live with our choices. This text argues that death is the limit of life, that we can live freely and lovingly, at once justly and compassionately, solely within the limit of death. It shows that we can develop a comprehensive conception of life, and also of death, solely insofar as we learn to overcome the dualistic opposition between philosophy and theology that continues today to falsify our understanding of not only the secular, but also the sacred.

Author : Cynthia Owen
Publisher : Headline Review
ISBN 13 : 9780755319237
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Living with Evil written by Cynthia Owen and published by Headline Review. This book was released on 2010-01-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book that merges the classic misery memoir with a horrific true-life crime that has fascinated Ireland for over 30 years.

Author : Witness Lee
Publisher : Living Stream Ministry
ISBN 13 : 0870831399
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life-Study of Romans written by Witness Lee and published by Living Stream Ministry. This book was released on 1989-11 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: