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Despite its great achievements, the domestic violence revolution is stalled, Evan Stark argues, a provocative conclusion he documents by showing that interventions have failed to improve womens long-term safety in relationships or to hold perpetrators accountable. Stark traces this failure to a startling paradox, that the singular focus on violence against women masks an even more devastating reality. In millions of abusive relationships, men use a largely unidentified form of subjugation that more closely resembles kidnapping or indentured servitude than assault. He calls this pattern coercive control. Drawing on sources that range from FBI statistics and film to dozens of actual cases from his thirty years of experience as an award-winning researcher, advocate, and forensic expert, Stark shows in terrifying detail how men can use coercive control to extend their dominance over time and through social space in ways that subvert womens autonomy, isolate them, and infiltrate the most intimate corners of their lives. Against this backdrop, Stark analyzes the cases of three women tried for crimes committed in the context of abuse, showing that their reactions are only intelligible when they are reframed as victims of coercive control rather than as battered wives. The story of physical and sexual violence against women has been told often. But this is the first book to show that most abused women who seek help do so because their rights and liberties have been jeopardized, not because they have been injured. The coercive control model Stark develops resolves three of the most perplexing challenges posed by abuse: why these relationships endure, why abused women develop a profile of problems seen among no other group of assault victims, and why the legal system has failed to win them justice. Elevating coercive control from a second-class misdemeanor to a human rights violation, Stark explains why law, policy, and advocacy must shift its focus to emphasize how coercive control jeopardizes womens freedom in everyday life. Fiercely argued and eminently readable, Starks work is certain to breathe new life into the domestic violence revolution.

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perceptive and well presented.......2007-05-31

Professor Stark has a perceptive understanding of his material, and his manner of presentation is outstanding. My wife, a divorce attorney who dealt with abused women in New York City, heard Dr. Stark speak and came back enthused.

A breath of fresh air.......2007-04-29

If you are burned out or fed up in the daily grind of domestic violence field work, this book will invigorate you. Battered women always say that the physical violence is the least of what they endure... yet the legal and social services systems, media and society increasingly place incident-specific physical abuse front and center. This book offers a frank examination of how the organized domestic violence movement may be enabling this approach -- which is so at odds with battered women's experiences -- and provides a rich, insightful and honest examination of the reality of women's lives under the control of abusive partners.

Same-Sex Domestic Violence: Strategies for Change (SAGE Series on Violence against Women)

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Same-Sex Domestic Violence: Strategies for Change (SAGE Series on Violence against Women)

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While a great deal has been written about domestic violence, almost all of it focuses on the violence of men against their current or former wives or girlfriends. Yet studies have shown that partner abuse is common and as severe among same-sex couples as among heterosexual couples. After years of willful or negligent silence, the gay/lesbian/bisexual communities, the battered women’s communities, academicians, and even portions of the general public are beginning to realize that same-sex domestic violence is a serious social and public health issue.

Unfortunately, the social worker, lawyer, mental health professional, police officer, teacher, or lay person who seeks to assist victims of same-sex domestic violence quickly discovers the dearth of written resource material available. There are very few books and only a smattering of articles that focus on same-sex domestic violence. Most of these works deal either with lesbian or gay male abuse, but not both at once. Moreover, most of these works are devoted to explaining the fact of same-sex domestic violence, rather than discussing strategies for addressing it on both the individual and societal level.

This book examines a broad range of issues that confront victims of same-sex domestic violence, whether women or men, and those who offer them services. The goal is to provide a comprehensive resource book consisting of chapters by prominent professionals and activists on topics of practical concern to people who work with victims of same-sex partner abuse, Topics such as HIV, and same-sex domestic violence, establishing safe-home networks for battered gay men, courtroom advocacy, coalition building, and sexual and dating violence prevention. In each chapter, authors are sensitive and responsive to multicultural issues and to broad issues of social oppression and avoid "one-size-fits-all" assumptions and conclusions.

Men and Women: Partners at Work (Fifty-Minute)

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Men and Women: Partners at Work (Fifty-Minute)
George F. Simons
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Help promote effective communication in the workplace between men and women.

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Men and women: Partners in service
Gordon J Spykman
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Very complete.......2003-06-09

I've read many books on the subject and this is, by far, the best one out there for beginners who want to build a succesfull aquarium. Very easy to read and understand. You will learn everything you need to know and more about water chemistry, fish and plants.

Very complete.......2003-06-09

Hands down, the best "basics plus" book I've read........2002-07-23

I've been keeping fish for well over 12 years and this is, without question, the book I always recommend for people new to, or getting into, fishkeeping. Levine thoroughly and clearly explains water chemistry and its effect on your tank, equipment functions and purposes, how to calculate the number of fish your tank will hold healthily - everything a beginner or someone returning to the hobby needs to know. There are excellent sections on determining what fish will "go" with others, characteristics of many common - and not so common - fish and even a very good section on live plants. I can't praise _The Complete Fishkeeper_ or Dr. Levine highly enough.

De-fin-atly a good book.......2002-06-18

This book is very informative on the keeping of home aquaria, the author is obviously very knowledgeable and knows his fish. From species profiles to chosing a filter, this is a great book for beginners and full blown aquarists alike. It really is too bad it's out of print. :(

Complete Info.......2001-06-05

This is the best book on fish anyone could hope to own. It is concise and informative, yet easy to read. An excellent buy. I used it for my first tank and not a fish has died yet.

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This volume contains papers based on all the oral presentations delivered at the INPC 2001. Topics include: nuclear structure, neutrino physics, nuclear astrophysics, nuclear reaction dynamics, high energy nuclear physics, and applications of nuclear science.

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This revised and updated edition contains provocative and challenging essays from Australian and New Zealand specialists that address ethical, social, and ecological problems arising from biotechnology and genetic engineering. This collection challenges society's supposed acceptance of genetic engineering. Though promising much, emerging technology also threatens to disrupt evolution and usher in new forms of social control. This book is essential reading for those uncomfortable with developments in this area.

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Secular religions are fascinating in the devotion and zealousness they breed, and in Texas, high school football has its own rabid hold over the faithful. H.G. Bissinger, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, enters into the spirit of one of its most fervent shrines: Odessa, a city in decline in the desert of West Texas, where the Permian High School Panthers have managed to compile the winningest record in state annals. Indeed, as this breathtaking examination of the town, the team, its coaches, and its young players chronicles, the team, for better and for worse, is the town; the communal health and self-image of the latter is directly linked to the on-field success of the former. The 1988 season, the one Friday Night Lights recounts, was not one of the Panthers' best. The game's effect on the community--and the players--was explosive. Written with great style and passion, Friday Night Lights offers an American snapshot in deep focus; the picture is not always pretty, but the image is hard to forget.

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The classic, best-selling story of life in the football-driven town of Odessa, Texas, with a new afterword that looks at the players and the town ten years later.

Return once again to the timeless account of the Permian Panthers of Odessa--the winningest high-school football team in Texas history. Odessa is not known to be a town big on dreams, but the Panthers help keep the hopes and dreams of this small, dusty town going. Socially and racially divided, its fragile economy follows the treacherous boom-bust path of the oil business. In bad times, the unemployment rate barrels out of control; in good times, its murder rate skyrockets. But every Friday night from September to December, when the Permian High School Panthers play football, this West Texas town becomes a place where dreams can come true. With frankness and compassion, H.G. Bissinger chronicles a season in the life of Odessa and shows how single-minded devotion to the team shapes the community and inspires--and sometimes shatters--the teenagers who wear the Panthers' uniforms.

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FRIDAY NIGHT LETDOWN.......2007-09-26

I came into this one with high expectations, especially since I lived in Odessa for a short time in 1986 on a job assignment. Talk about a bleak and desolate place...But I was truly amazed at the hubub around the Panthers. I think that was Gary Gaines first year. I remember the dead-red build up before the Lee game. Saw it all firsthand as a very temporary transplant.

The book was a dissapointment. Okay, but not great. Maybe he should have just written a book about Boobie. He didn't talk nearly enough about the games, for instance. Probably half the book is devoted to off the field issues. Racism, favortism, school system, ect. The rest is Boobie, Boobie, Boobie. Could have been so much better. A letdown beacause it came off as some kind of expose piece.

Ok quick read but it's more tabloid than it is journalism.......2007-06-22

Ok book nothing outstanding. The writing I'd give about a 3. Pretty much college sophomore level. Negatively biased against almost everything generally considered good. A real hatchet job on just about everyone. The author bashes teachers, schools, colleges, parents, parenting, fans, churches, the school board, the coaches, he even spends a chapter bashing Bush #1 and the Republicans. He throws in some gratuitous scatalogical jokes about Bush. He goes out of his way to paint everyone in as poor a moral light as possible. In one case he beats up on a character but to obtain contrast later needs to paint that character in a good light so that he can paint someone else in a poor light.

I read the whole book in a few days at the beach. It's just an average book - not so bad that you put it down but nothing special. I can see the appeal especially to liberal boomer white America. It's the other white American that's bad in this book. You know the one that's not you or me. I figure the author must have won the Pulitzer by sullying some other sacred cow because honestly his writing just isn't that good. The metaphors he uses were unoriginal and were strangely forced in several cases. Read it if you got nothing better to do but I would think you should find better books on the subject of high school football.

Fantasictlickious Book.......2007-06-06

Drew Oliver
Friday Night Lights
H.G. Bissinger
Da Capo Press
©2003
416 Pages

"You saying I can't play football, all I know how to do is play football!" One of the famous quotes from Boobie Miles when he finds out that he can't be the star halfback he wanted. Back in Texas the Permian Panthers was in for a good football season, maybe even take state. With the star running back Boobie hurt, can they still pull it together? The answer to that and all the others is in the text of H.G. Bissinger's book Friday Night Lights. Friday Night Lights is a story about a football team playing their way to the state championship. My favorite part of the book would have to be the last game at state where they were getting completely pounded on but at the very end the Panthers were making an amazing come back. I think this is my favorite part because it is just so glorious and suspenseful and I just know exactly what that feels like. It seems that one big message just keeps coming up. It seems that the book is trying to tell you that you should never give up. To never let anyone hold you back, never let them stop you in believe what you strongly believe, just always try, just never give up. Friday Night Lights was pretty much an all around good book. Every part was exciting and really made you not want to atop reading. The only part that was kind of bad, but more of just a bummer, was the ending but only because I didn't wand it to end that way. But I guess it had more of meaning ending that way. I think all of you out there that like a good sports book that you should definitely go and pick Friday Night Lights up.

friday night lights.......2007-06-04

i thought that this book was just ok. it was just a meteocre book for me. yes, it is a good representation of big town fame and spotlight in a small town. it just did not hit the spot for me thats it.

heartbeat of America.........2007-05-30

a fabulous book about the Permian Panthers of Odessa, TX and the MOJO magic that permeates thoughout the city. H.G. Bissinger has found the heartbeat of America in high school football as he writes in fascinating detail the story of the 1988 Permian Panthers. It could be any high school across American as the tradition, passion and politics of local high school football reign over a city that would seemingly have no identity without it's high scool football team. A wonderful book.

Friday Night Lights - A Town, A Team, And A Dream

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Friday Night Lights - A Town, A Team, And A Dream
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Friday Night Lights A Town, a Team and a Dream
H.G. BISSINGER
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Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, a Dream

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Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, a Dream
H. G. Bissinger
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Friday Night Lights.......2007-05-25

Friday Night Lights
Friday night lights is a great book full of action packed football games. It tells the story of the 1988 Permian Panther high school football team. During this season the team over came injuries and many other struggles. They were under pressier the hole season as there best play tore is Acl and was done for the season and there second string running back came up to start and the first game they got beat really bad then the back up stepped up and took over the game with a 55 yard touch down and from there on out he stepped up and took the team all the way to the game befor the championship game and got beat but has nothing to be ashamed of because most teams don't even make it to the playoffs so they should be pretty proud of themselves. Some differences between the book and the movie is in the movie they go to the championship game and get beat by 10 yards and in the book they made it to the game befor the championship. Some things that are the same in booby miles got hurt he was there top running back and had all the division 1 schools recruiting him and had a great rode Ahead of him in the NFL.

Great Read.......2001-10-19

Friday Night Lights, by H.G. Bissinger is a great book for sports fans; especially football. I've never liked reading because I never can get into the book. This book was very interesting and I couldn't put it down. I read it for a book report in my high school English class and would recommend it to anyone.

Friday Night Lights.......2000-10-31

This was a good book. I like that this was a non-fiction book about football, because fiction books can't quite capture the magic of highschool football. This book is not just about football but its about, segregation, and the oil boom and the oil crisis the town of Odessa faced. I would recommend this to football players and diehard fans, because this book shows how much football means to the state of Texas and hard working towns like Odessa.

how true.......2000-10-20

To the wife of a high school football coach, of a very winning (but maniacally ethical) team, this book rang true. The preparation, the pressures,the sacrifice, the criticism (from those who never contribute anything other than their attendance on Friday night). How the smaller but better coached team can be a contender, can take on anyone and win. And, at least in this story, a balanced description of a dedicated coach, rather than the usual sterotypical "win at all costs" depiction. The author shows tremendous respect for all he characterizes on the team he follows and the town of Odessa. But he does so while still revealing all their flaws. The tragic outcome of passion gone awry is saved for the opposing team or the teams of subsequent years. After reading this, some will be glad that they don't live in Odessa, others would want to move there to take part in the tradition.

serious football.......2000-10-03

Being a high school football player as I am, this was one of the best books I have ever read. The title of the book almost explains it all. Even though the book doesn't tell a constant story and sometimes you may feel lost, in the end you'll be glad you've read it. It sets the standard in your heart for how much you should love a sport. This team is the winningest team in Texas high school football history. The town of Odessa which it takes place in is a high school football town, football is the only thing holding it together. Even all those of you that don't play or even like football will think this is a fascinating book considering how you never thought high school football could be this crazy. It is a true story that you'll remember forever. A great read, you'll be writing your own review!

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Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream
H. G. Bissinger
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H. G. Bissinger
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Secret Tasmania
Philip Blake , and Mary Blake
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A Very Disappointing Read

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The Secret of Lost Things (Unabridged)
Sheridan Hay
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A Very Disappointing Read.......2007-10-13

I was extremely disappointed with this book. I eagerly anticipated reading this story of books and the people who love them - especially the quirky staff of a major New York bookstore. I believe the writer tried too many different genres - a coming of age book, a mystery and a sexual awakening tale. There was a major ick factor in the latter causing this reader to say, "What was the author thinking when she wrote these uttely inappropriate passages?" "The Secret of Lost Things" was lost to me.

An Exciting Tale.......2007-09-24

Lost things, dreams, letters, her ideas of people and place permeate Sheridan Hay's lovely, first novel. Here is an energetic story teller, masterfully embodied in the young Rosemary Savage who, after her mother's death, travels from Tasmania to New York to shake herself from grief, or perhaps from the sheer routine of life on such a faraway isle.

Her job at the Arcade bookstore brings Rosemary in touch with all kinds of zany characters. As she helps Geist with his mission of secretly procuring a lost novel of Herman Melville, Rosemary enters the world of people who deal in books for the thrill of their possession as well as their contents. Each has his or her own agenda. Hay's ability to bring a little of American literary history alive amidst her fictional millieu kept me turning the pages. Her voice has the quality of a writer who has lived a bookish life, but her turn of phrase displays the lighter touch of one who still believes in fairy tales.
I found The Secret of Lost things a very satisfying novel on several levels and I am very glad to have read it.

Major Creep Fest.......2007-08-17

Ok. So I was given this book to read by my local book store to get my opinion on it. So, I read and was highly desturped. That creepy old guy like raping her and her being okay with it. I'm younger then she is and yet, I still would never submit to something that vandelizing. Not even worth a glance at the title!

don't waste your time.......2007-07-19

Truly this is one of the worst books I have wasted my time reading. One keeps hoping it will get better but it does not. The end is disappointing and leaves one feeling that the author got tired of this book as well. The only good thing I can say is that I checked it out from the library and did not waste any money on it.

Dickensian.......2007-07-17

More a coming of age story than a true mystery, The Secret of Lost Things is populated by a strange assortment of psychologically stunted characters who are memorable by virtue of their eccentricities. Poor orphaned, heartbreakingly young Rosemary travels to New York City from Tasmania, of all places, to recover from the death of her beloved mother, and finds herself the center of a whirlpool of desire and greed. Her struggle not only to establish her own independent identity, to support herself financially, and to find love and friendship is considerably complicated by the denizens of The Arcade. The quest for Melville's mysterious manuscript takes, while nominally the focus of the plot, takes a back seat to Rosemary's courageous attempt to remain true to herself while being pulled in various unsavory directions by others who want to use her. She does so admirably.

Tasmania and the secret ballot.(first use of secret ballot): An article from: The Australian Journal of Politics and History

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Tasmania and the secret ballot.(first use of secret ballot): An article from: The Australian Journal of Politics and History
Terry Newman
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This digital document is an article from The Australian Journal of Politics and History, published by University of Queensland Press on March 1, 2003. The length of the article is 4914 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: Encyclopaedias and handbooks, etc, all present Tasmania's starting date for implementing the secret ballot as 1858. But this research note argues the correct date was two years earlier in 1856. Moreover, before this, Tasmania's early 1830s participation in the Australia-wide pro-ballot campaign, and its Constitutional inclinations towards the ballot have also been overlooked. To correct this omission relevant background is presented which highlights the riotous behaviour of pre-ballot elections. This is followed by a summary concerning the ballot's starting dates for Victoria and South Australia. Having confirmed these basic facts, further evidence is presented regarding Tasmania's true application of the secret ballot, including citations from a rare copy of the state's 1856 Electoral Act. In short, this "rediscovery" means that Tasmania definitely deserves a new place in the history of Australia's famous democratic innovation.

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Title: Tasmania and the secret ballot.(first use of secret ballot)
Author: Terry Newman
Publication: The Australian Journal of Politics and History (Refereed)
Date: March 1, 2003
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
Volume: 49 Issue: 1 Page: 93(9)

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See how it all began!

Mates, Dates fans as well as new readers, can now find the first four books of the immensely popular series together in the fabulous bargain-priced collection.

It's always an adventure with Lucy, Izzie, Nesta and TJ as they navigate the ups and downs of being teenagers. But with laughter, fun, and a whole lot of romance, the four manage to stick together through it all.

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THIS BOOK ROX!!!!!!!.......2007-08-05

READ IT I LOVE IT. i am a slow reader and i read this whole seires in less than 1 month. --12 books.

Bummer In the summer!!!!.......2006-06-23

It's summer and poor old me is stuck at home! I wanted to read a good book since I had finished all the Gossip Girl books. I wanted to find an equally juicy book as Gossip Girl.....so I started reading the A-list(im on book#4) and a friend recommended "Mates,Dates Simply Fabulous."So I bought it!

I began reading and kinda liked it, the book isn't as revealing as Gossip Girl and the girls are only 14. They also live in London.So half the things they said were kinda random and hard to understand, but if you like the books about Georgia Nicholson, you will definetly fall for Lucy, Nesta, Izzie and T.J! I ended up loving the books and can't wait to read the rest!!!! I absolutely love Lucy-shes sooo kind and although she worries about her looks a lot shes got a hottie who is absolutely in love with her(although he doesnt show it until they break up!) Nesta is the "girl-that-every-boy-wants-to-date-but-will-only-date-her-in-their-dreams." At first I thought she was shallow and just another pretty face like Serena in Gossip Girl who gets any boy she wants, but by the end of the book Nesta shows her true colors and true personality! Shes a lot of fun but sometimes lets her big mouth get in the way before she thinks about whats the right thing to say! None the less she stands up for her friends all the time! Izzie is a bundle of fun! She may be different but beauty is in her eyes and so is Ben, the singer of the band King Noz. He may not be amazingly gorgeous, but he has a good heart and good ears to listen! T.J is just as wonderful as the other characters although she joins the group later on. Her friend Hannah has gone to Africa and T.J is left with not a friend in the world, until Lucy comes to the rescue!!! Together these fab fantastic four friends pull though relationships, sticky situations, and desperate measures, but nothing can pull these friends apart!!!!!

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