Cameisha Douglass has it all -- a sprawling home in a posh neighborhood, a fancy car, three healthy children, and a husband, Fashad, who is devoted to her. Her biggest worry is catching her daytime soap operas before the kids come home from school and her husband returns from work, "businesses" that everyone knows are mere fronts through which he launders his drug-dealing money. But as the emotional and sexual secrets of her family come to the surface, she can no longer deny that her life ...

This book explores how political actors draw on memories of violent pasts to generate political power and legitimacy in the present. Drawing on fieldwork in post-violence Cambodia, Rwanda and Indonesia, the book demonstrates in what way power is derived from how roles are assigned, exploring who is deemed a perpetrator, victim or hero, as well as ambivalences in this memory.The author interrogates the ways in which these roles are attributed and ambivalences created in each society...

The long-awaited return of Timothy Williams, CWA award-winning grand master of crime fiction, whom The Observer named one of the “10 Best Modern European Crime Writers”The sun-drenched Caribbean island of Guadeloupe is technically part of France, subject to French law and loyal to the French Republic. But in 1980, the scars of colonialism are still fresh, and ethnic tensions and political unrest seethe just below the surface of everyday life.French...

In recent years, the world has been shaken by numerous events that have caused and continue to cause massive human suffering, from the COVID-19 pandemic to intrastate and interstate armed conflicts. Moreover, climate change continues to plow ahead, contributing to growing tensions, population movements, and resource scarcity. Meanwhile, the methods by which groups and group life are threatened, and the means by which violence is incited and perpetrated, continue to evolve. Such divergent c...

A small-town kidnapping presents a major problem for Commissario Trotti—and draws us into CWA Award winner Timothy Williams' debut, set against the rich backdrop of a provincial Italian city.Northern Italy, 1978: Commissario Piero Trotti, trusted senior police investigator in an anonymous provincial city off the River Po, has two difficult cases to solve. A dismembered body has been found in the river, and it’s up to Trotti to figure out who the murder victim is. A...

How has (COVID-19) Affected you or your family? We will never be the same even as we appear to be coming out of this viscous killer know as (COVID-19) pandemic has affected millions of people since December 2019. Summarizing the development of COVID-19 and assessing the effects of control measures are very critical to China and other countries.Deciding to take the vaccine became a political hot thing. Some of the 900.000 dead American were a casualty of the raging war (COVID-19) unl...

One cannot deny that the Church is in dire need of revival. But the emotionally driven invitation that most Churches advertise does not take hold in the heart of each Christian.What does true, Biblical revival look like?Like Elijah, many people in the church today look for God in earthquakes, fire, wind, and the shattering of rocks. They believe themselves to be the only ones not defiled. They are too busy looking at the loud and flashy things in the church to notice they h...

It is easy to call oneself a disciple of Jesus, but quite difficult to take his directive to Peter seriously: "Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross." (Mt. 16:24)Churches today often preach a gospel of self-fulifillment, or, just as dangerously, they prescribe intense lists and regulations for denying self. These only produce false humility, self-righteousness, or despair.True denial of self is simply giving the lordship of our body ov...

In this electrifying and thrilling pre-teen novel about two best friends, Coco and Courtney, readers will get engrossed as each chapter develops and increases the intensity of their various situations. While visiting Coco's grandparents in the quaint town of Altonville, the girls happen upon an old shack in the woods at they were exploring about. This begins a turn of events where they stumble upon a group of mysterious teenagers and adults involved in criminal activities that threaten the...

"Therefore God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false, in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness." 2 Thessalonians 2:11It is easy to sit in the comfort of one's own righteousness and bemoan how every other revival, denomination, and ministry is preaching the wrong gospel. But who, then, is doing it right?Perhaps we are asking the wrong question. God allows delusion in the church so that...

As the most comprehensive edited volume to be published on perpetrators and perpetration of mass violence, the volume sets a new agenda for perpetrator research by bringing together contributions from such diverse disciplines as political science, sociology, social psychology, history, anthropology and gender studies, allowing for a truly interdisciplinary discussion of the phenomenon of perpetration. The cross-case nature of the volume allows the reader to see patterns across case studies...

April 1990: French-Algerian judge Anne Marie Laveaud has been living and working in the French Caribbean département of Guadeloupe for more than a decade, but her days are still full of surprises. She is only just starting to investigate the suspicious suicide of a high-profile environmental activist and media personality when she is pulled off the case. Is it because she was getting too close to the truth?But the new case she’s been assigned takes precedence. The naked bo...