When Eileen Munro's mother became pregnant at 16, she was told to give her baby away to a 'good family', but the couple who paid the fee at the Salvation Army mother-and-baby home in Glasgow in 1963 turned out to be alcoholics who neglected and physically abused Eileen.
Addicted to coke and booze and reliant on selling her body for cash, Katie, the heroine of Clare Gee's bestselling Hooked, can no longer cope with the life she's created for herself.
In her bestselling memoir As I Lay Me Down to Sleep, Eileen Munro vividly documented the abuse she experienced at the hands of her adoptive parents and, later, within the care system.
In this compelling, powerful book, highly respected writer and commentator Jack Holland sets out to answer a daunting question: how do you explain the oppression and brutalization of half the world's population by the other half, throughout history?
'The most important study on this subject in years, perhaps ever' Phillip Knightley, SUNDAY TIMESA history of drug-taking, telling the story across five centuries of addicts and users: monarchs, prime ministers, great writers and composers, wounded soldiers, overworked physicians, oppressed housewives, exhausted labourers, high-powered businessmen, playboys, sex workers, pop stars, seedy losers, stressed adolescents, defiant schoolchildren, the victims of the ghetto, and happy young people on a spree.
Delve into the rich and mysterious history of geishas with our latest book: "e;The History of Geishas in Japan - A Excursion through Japan's Cultural History"e;.
The remarkable story of the women who defined sexual harassment as unlawful sex discrimination under Title IXWhen the US Congress enacted Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, no one expected it to become a prominent tool for confronting sexual harassment in schools.
The remarkable story of the women who defined sexual harassment as unlawful sex discrimination under Title IXWhen the US Congress enacted Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, no one expected it to become a prominent tool for confronting sexual harassment in schools.
Shaker Fancy Goods tells the story of the Shaker Sisters of the nineteenth and early twentieth century who responded to the economic perils of the Industrial Revolution by inventing a lucrative industry of their ownFancy Goods, a Victorian term for small adorned household objects made by women for women.
Tucked in the Old Testament book of Isaiah is a warning meant for ancient Judah, but it might as well have been written for twenty-first century America: ';Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness' (Isaiah 5:20).
A ground-breaking, personal exploration of Americas obsession with continuing human bondage from the editor of the New York Times-bestselling Barracoon.
Late at night around the campfires, Seminole children safely tucked into mosquito nets used to listen to the elders retelling the old stories and legends.
From the Pulitzer Prize winning Washington Post comes a meticulously detailed, insightful report on the killing that brought the nation's attention to a city coming apart at the seams.
'This is a moving memoir about how recipes are formed by migration, love and loss, even within a single family' - Bee Wilson, author of The Secret of Cooking 'A fascinating book.
How American-style capitalism creates a coercive state unlike any otherHow could America, that storied land of liberty, be home to mass incarceration, police killings, and racialized criminal justice?
A guide to designing a personal program to break your addictions safely, gently, and naturally *; Shares herbs, supplements, natural remedies, and alternative practices that can help liberate you from habitual substance use, ease the withdrawal period, cleanse the body of toxins, and combat depression, anxiety, fatigue, and stress *; Offers specific advice and remedies for individual addictive substances and behaviors, including sugar, caffeine, alcohol, opioids, tobacco, and tranquilizers *; Explores the potential of psychedelic therapy for overcoming addiction and addresses how cannabis can be of benefit for recovery, without being misused Addiction affects more people than any other disease.
En El genocidio como práctica social se articulan dos genocidios de modo original: el ejecutado por el nazismo entre 1933 y 1945, con sus diferentes modalidades, objetivos y momentos, y el ocurrido en la Argentina entre 1974 y 1983, antes de y durante la última dictadura militar.
When the Continental Congress decided to declare independence from the British empire in 1776, ten percent of the population of their fledgling country were from Ireland.
Das Buch bietet gedankliche, emotionale sowie praktische Hilfe für Menschen, die erwachsene autistische trans* Personen in ihrer Transition begleiten sowie für Autist:innen, die sich transident wahrnehmen oder die ihre Geschlechtsidentität in Frage stellen.
When Geraldine Gerry Largay (AT trail name, Inchworm) first went missing on the Appalachian Trail in remote western Maine in 2013, the people of Maine were wrought with concern.
In 2014 after fighting through yards of bureaucratic red tape, leaving her family, and putting her own health at risk in order to help suffering strangers, Kwan Kew Lai finally arrived in Africa to volunteer as an infectious disease specialist in the heart of the largest Ebola outbreak in history.
More than forty years after Deep Throat arrived on the cultural scene and inspired a sexual revolution, questions about the ethics of pornography and its impact on society are still being asked today and remain as controversial as ever.
Local resistance to German-led Axis occupation occurred throughout the European continent during World War II, taking a wide range of formsnoncooperation and disinformation, sabotage and espionage, and armed opposition and full-scale partisan warfare.
According to Ilana Garon, popular books and movies are inundated with the myth of the hero teacherthe one who charges headfirst into dysfunctional inner city schools like a firefighter into an inferno, bringing the student victims to safety through a combination of charisma and innate righteousness.
Elise Lufkin and Diana Walker once again present a moving collection of profiles, in beautiful, duotone photographs and moving text, of dogs that have found new lives after being throw away dogs.
Let survival expert, Army veteran, NASA scientist help you and your family prepare for any kind of disasterflood, civil unrest, hurricane, fire, war, earthquake.
More than a half-century after Adolf Hitler committed suicide in a Berlin bunker, the dictators legacy and influence lives on, precisely as he predicted before putting the gun to his head.
»Armut hat System«: Warum wir in Deutschland eine soziale Zeitenwende brauchen – ein Appell der Tafel Deutschland-GeschäftsführerinSirkka Jendis – Geschäftsführerin der Tafel Deutschland – fordert eine soziale Zeitenwende.
Desde hace algunos años asistimos a un discurso solemne en defensa de la dignidad (de los trabajadores, de los más vulnerables –los ancianos, los enfermos–, incluso de los animales), mientras en la práctica toleramos y hasta naturalizamos que amplios sectores carezcan de umbrales mínimos de bienestar.
