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Author
Publisher
Vergara
Pub. Date
2014
Language
Español
Description
En este libro, dirigido a cualquier persona preocupada por los alarmantes indices de violencia en Mexico, la novelista y psicoanalista Mariana Osorio explora las raices profundas del problema, para a continuacion analizar situaciones comunes de violencia, en las familias y en las escuelas, que pueden afectar de manera especial a los ninos. Con guinos a la literatura, el cine, la clinica y la cultura popular, ofrece a los lectores (padres de familia,...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"For readers of Room and Dear Edward, a propulsive and psychologically immersive novel about a young girl who escapes captivity--but not the secrets that shadow the rest of her life"--
Lex Gracie doesn't want to think about growing up in her parents' House of Horrors. And she doesn't want to think about her identity as Girl A: the girl who escaped, the eldest sister who freed her older brother and four younger siblings. Her father never made it out...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The author of the landmark work On Killing reveals how violent video games have ushered in a new era of mass homicide--and what we must do about it. Paducah, Kentucky, 1997: a 14-year-old boy shoots eight students in a prayer circle at his school. Littleton, Colorado, 1999: two high school seniors kill a teacher, twelve other students, and then themselves. Utoya, Norway, 2011: a political extremist shoots and kills sixty-nine participants in a youth...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"When women of color write history, we see the world as we have never seen it before. In Fruit of the Drunken Tree, Ingrid Rojas Contreras honors the lives of girls who witness war. Brava! I was swept up by this story."--SANDRA CISNEROS, author of The House on Mango Street. A mesmerizing debut set against the backdrop of the devastating violence of 1990's Colombia about a sheltered young girl and a teenage maid who strike an unlikely friendship that...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
"Using the experiences of her patients along with the biographical stories of literary giants such as Virginia Woolf, Franz Kafka, and Marcel Proust, world-renowned psychologist Alice Miller shows how a child's humiliation, impotence, and bottled rage will manifest themselves as adult illness-be it cancer, stroke, or other debilitating diseases. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.
Author
Publisher
Tusquets Editores
Pub. Date
2022
Language
Español
Description
El cuarto mandamiento -"Honrarás a tu padre y a tu madre", heredado de la moral tradicional- nos exige que honremos y queramos a nuestros padres, pero oculta una amenaza. El que quiera seguirlo pese a haber sido despreciado o maltratado por sus padres sólo podrá hacerlo reprimiendo sus verdaderas emociones. Sin embargo, el cuerpo a menudo se rebela, con graves enfermedades, contra esta negación y esta falta de reconocimiento de los traumas infantiles...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Español
Description
"When women of color write history, we see the world as we have never seen it before. In Fruit of the Drunken Tree, Ingrid Rojas Contreras honors the lives of girls who witness war. Brava! I was swept up by this story."--SANDRA CISNEROS, author of The House on Mango Street A mesmerizing debut set against the backdrop of the devastating violence of 1990's Colombia about a sheltered young girl and a teenage maid who strike an unlikely friendship that...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Updated to include information on twenty-first century military conflicts, recent crime rates, suicide bombings, school shootings, and much more, this account looks at the techniques the military uses to overcome soldiers' reluctance to kill and examines the psychological cost on fighting men and women as well as the detrimental effects on society.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"The powerful account of one writer's unlikely friendship with his childhood bully, now the president of a motorcycle club in one of America's most dangerous cities. Once upon a time, Alex Abramovich and Trevor Latham were mortal enemies: miniature outlaws in a Long Island elementary school, perpetually at each other's throats. Then they lost track of each other. Decades later, when they met again, Abramovich was a writer and Latham had become president...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
We've all asked, "What is the world coming to?" But we seldom ask, "How bad was the world in the past?" In this startling new book, cognitive scientist Steven Pinker shows that the past was much worse. Evidence of a bloody history has always been around us: genocides in the Old Testament, gory mutilations in Shakespeare and Grimm, monarchs who beheaded their relatives, and American founders who dueled with their rivals. The murder rate in medieval...
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