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Documentation from Truth and Reconciliation Commissions
Documentation from Truth and Reconciliation Commissions highlights the need for post-conflict societies to have access to - and to use – Truth Reconciliation Commissions (TRCs’) documentation to achieve reconciliation and to work towards a democratic society. Including international contributions from a range of disciplines, the volume discusses the challenges that surround TRCs’ documentation. Considering the impact of the politicization of documentation, chapters also highlight the lack of political will to democratize information, the lack of dissemination and the preservation infrastructures that hinder access and its effective use and re-use. Arguing that TRCs’ documentation sho...
Loss of Heaven, Pains of Hell
Loss of Heaven, Pains of Hell tells the story of One determined newspaper writer who takes on the challenges of a local Roman Catholic diocese and the parishioners and clergy in it struggling with today’s difficult and even criminal realities. It is a human tale that Catholics, non-Catholics, and non- believers alike will find all-too familiar and one which many headlines across the nation and around the world reference all too often. This is a book that deals less with drama and more with the troubling reality of human weaknesses, temptations, and day-to- day tragedies with which we are all too familiar, The author’s greatest hope is that it will not only remind us of daily challenges w...
Transplant
This is the story of a bored, forty-year-old professor, who seeks the adventure of a second career with a German company, attempting to establish a manufacturing base in the United States. His colorful story spans three continents and the men and women of three distinct cultures. Initially rejected and subjected to demeaning treatment by his American bosses, he spends the first two years in the bowels of an assembly plant, where the heat, the noise, swarms of rats and his bosses make his life a living hell. He seeks solace in alcohol and in the arms of many women. His marriage is destroyed. He is eventually given an opportunity to prove his ability by a scholarly, German Vice-President. He e...
Clean Streets
In this profile of a typical white working-class community on Chicago's South side, Carr describes the response within the community to the shootings of two local teenage girls by gang members. He describes how these shootings led to profound changes in the community's relationship to crime prevention.
The Chatelaine Connection
THE CHATELAINE CONNECTION is a fresh contemporary fiction filled with daring suspense about international high-stakes medical research around illegal stem-cell experimentation. Barrister Emma Llewelyn is drawn into a dangerous situation when she accepts a case for a new client, Lucinda Rudolphi. With her investigator, Dillon O'Rourke, this case takes them to Italy, where Emma is targeted for kidnapping. Unaware her grandfather, Cyrus MacKenna, is an agent in Interpol investigating this notorious Rudolphi organization, Emma gets caught up in Interpol's intrigue while pursuing information for Lucinda about the death of her children. Cyrus blames this danger on Emma's relationship to Lucinda Rudolphi, wife of the most powerful Rudolphi! His "MacKenna trait" tells him there is another darker reason for her danger.a secret from Emma's past. In a gripping climax, each character's schema holds a key to unlock the secret of THE CHATELAINE CONNECTION.
Valley Of Death
He is a Chicago Police Detective. She is an investigative reporter for the Chicago Sun. Together, Jack Riley and Moria Clark race against the clock to locate and rescue Moria's brother who is missing in the Arctic Circle. Dodging assassin's bullets and mercenary killers, Riley and Clark race from the mean streets of Chicago to the snow-covered wastes of the Arctic Tundra as they strive to rescue her brother and stop the plans of an evil oil company CEO to exploit and destroy the prehistoric wonders of a mysterious lost valley!
The Life Well Lived
We all long to live a fulfilled and happy life – a life that offers us love and opportunity, independence and hope. Sadly, for many people struggling with mental health problems such as anxiety, depression, eating disorders and addiction, recovery and a future full of potential may seem to be unachievable goals. In The Life Well Lived Professor Jim Lucey focuses on how a range of contemporary therapies can provide pathways to recovery. Through insightful case histories, he also explores issues such as stigma and other barriers to recovery, the true meaning of wellness, and how the rediscovery of a life of independence and social connection is not only possible but entirely achievable. Positive and optimistic, The Life Well Lived shines a light into the psychotherapeutic world – a world which is so often feared and misunderstood.
Political Conflict in East Ulster, 1920-22
Reassesses the context in which the state of Northern Ireland was created.
