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Contrary to competing popular beliefs, police violence against African Americans has neither remained unchanged since the era of slavery nor is it a recent phenomenon disconnected from the past. In Bluecoated Terror, Jeffrey S. Adler draws on rich archival accounts to show how racialized police brutality is part of a larger system of state oppression with roots in the early twentieth-century South, particularly New Orleans.

In a Copenhagen park the body of an elderly woman is discovered. Though the case bears a striking resemblance to another unsolved homicide from over a decade ago, the police cannot find any connection between the two victims. Across town a group of young women are being hunted down. The attacks seem random, but could these brutal acts of violence be related? Detective Carl Mørck of Department Q is charged with solving the mystery.

Fake spirit medium Gretchen Acorn is happy to help when her wealthiest client hires her to look into the unexplained phenomena preventing the sale of her bridge partner's struggling goat farm. Gretchen may be a complete fraud, but she's a beneficent one. So if 'cleansing' the historic property will help a nice old man get on with his retirement and put some much-needed cash in her pockets at the same time, who's she to say no? Of course, it turns out said bridge partner isn't quite who Gretchen imagined - Charlie Waybill is young, hot as hell, and extremely unconvinced by Gretchen.

AN INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER! "The perfect alchemy of romance, humor and quirky originality."—Sophie Cousens, New York Times bestselling author of This Time Next Year and The Good Part A clever con woman must convince a skeptical, sexy farmer of his property's resident real-life ghost if...

Llevar a la comunidad que ha estado interesada en el mundo del terror en todos sus aspectos y que lo une a esa cultura, un producto lleno de información, entretenimiento y que involucre a más personas afines con el género y con cada tema expuesto en el programa Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

No podcast "Mae, eu não quero ser princesa", as jornalistas Laura Adler e Amanda Mota analisam os filmes das princesas da Disney à luz de importantes teóricas feministas e com comentários de comunicadores e pesquisadores das questões de gênero e sexualidade. Venha entender os impactos, os desdobramentos e as curiosidades sobre essas emblemáticas animações!

Written by two leading clinicians in the perinatal community, in collaboration with two promising leaders in this specialized field, Dropping the Baby and Other Scary Thoughts, 2nd edition offers a compassionate approach to breaking the cycle of scary thoughts that is invaluable to new parents and clinicians alike.

Milton H. Erickson, the father of modern clinical hypnosis. When I trained it was so frustrating having to consult so many books in order to get a comprehensive sense of his work. After 60 years of clinical experience, I decided to write a book that contained his basic principles, presenting them in both linear and non-linear style—the way he worked, no jargon, in plain English.

Repeat mothers are assumed to know what to expect during pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum period. Unexpected: A Postpartum Memoir is the moving, raw account of a second-time mother who finds herself struggling for the first time with postpartum depression, anxiety and motherhood itself. Only as a mother of two does Emily find herself unable to ignore the impossible tempo of motherhood. At eight-months postpartum, Emily finds motherhood to be punctuated with unexpected sensations of irritability and feelings of rage all lathered in immobilizing guilt and shame.

Felix Adler (August 13, 1851 – April 24, 1933) was a Jewish professor of political and social ethics, rationalist, popular lecturer, religious leader and social reformer who founded the Ethical Culture movement, and is often considered one of the main influences on modern Humanistic Judaism

Uma viagem improvável reúne um escritor cínico, uma eterna romântica e uma urna funerária, mudando suas vidas para sempre. Millicent Watts-Cohen tem uma missão a cumprir. Determinada a reafirmar o poder duradouro do amor, ela decide levar as cinzas da Sra. Nash, uma idosa de 98 anos que se tornou uma grande amiga, de Washington até a Flórida. Seu objetivo: reuni-la, ainda que simbolicamente, ao grande amor de sua vida, oitenta anos depois.

'A joy to read' Sophie Ward 'Funny, sexy, heartbreaking' Ann Napolitano 'Wildly inventive and moving' Patrick Ryan East Village, summer of 1984. Renata is a young dyke-about-town who has the ability to see ghosts, which has been happening more and more frequently as her friends have started...

An astronaut on a routine space flight is forced to make a decision that saves his crew, but ultimately finds him publicly disgraced by the corporation that built his ship and the politicians they own through lobbyists. Forced out of his rank as the scapegoat for what went wrong on the mission, he makes a fateful decision that brings him to the attention of a reclusive billionaire genius with his own vision and means to fulfill a dream to set foot on Mars.

In the vast, shadowed corners of space, the crew of Derelicts Scavenging and Salvage Co. makes their living among the wreckage of forgotten worlds—recovering abandoned ships, ancient relics, and remnants of battles long past. Their work is as dangerous as it is vital, navigating treacherous debris fields, derelict vessels, and unstable relics, all while seeking to uncover valuable artifacts—and sometimes secrets—hidden beneath layers of rust and darkness.

The War of the Roses tells the story of the Roses, starting with their fateful meeting as students, falling in love, and creating the perfect nuclear family. Oliver, a Harvard graduate and successful corporate lawyer, has his sights set on a major promotion while Barbara, a steely self-starter, runs her own catering company, wowing the upper echelons of Washington DC society. Along with their two children, grand mansion and joint hobby of visiting auction houses, the Roses seem to be the paragon of a family living the American Dream. But things then take an unexpected and shocking course.

Book 1: High school senior Ally Duncan's best friend may be the Vanessa Park—star of TV's hottest new teen drama—but Ally's not interested in following in her BFF's Hollywood footsteps. In fact, the only thing Ally's ever really wanted is to go to Columbia and study abroad in Paris. Book 2: Young actor Josh Chester has never been sure that acting is for him—he’s mostly interested in the parties and the hot Hollywood girls that come with the job. But he ends up taking a job on the hit TV series Daylight Falls, opposite Vanessa Park, a girl who is immune to his charms and also his polar opposite

Last week, Nina was a professor about to move into a gorgeous new apartment with her long-term boyfriend. Now, she's single, unemployed, and living with her parents. Even more shocking is the fact that Quentin, her childhood neighbour (and okay, fine, crush), is also back in town - and wants to resume the treasure hunt that ended their friendship almost two decades ago.

Marcus solo tiene quince años, pero no ha tenido infancia. Pertenece a una banda cuyo violento líder, Zola, obliga a sus miembros a robar y a cometer otros actos criminales. Cuando amenaza con mutilarlo para que dé más pena, Marcus huye. Pero antes descubre el...

For generations, basketball has united people through the players' unwavering determination and the thrilling moments that define this sport. However, there exists a realm of untold stories and experiences beyond the scores displayed on the scoreboard and the excitement of winning or losing that have greatly influenced the sport and the individuals who participate in it. These tales are the pieces to the whole puzzle of what makes basketball one of the greatest sports there are today.

For anyone who is trying to figure IT the F out…and by “IT”, I mean ALLLL of it - life, love, health, travel, reality shows…all of IT. Let’s talk about IT. Let’s get deep with IT. Let’s get personal. We are all out here trying to figure it out, so let’s do it together. Welcome to the Tribe.