Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Le Guide Musical
Author: Crime and Police Effectiveness
Author: R. V. G. ClarkePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
T.M.C. Asser (1838-1913), Founder of The Hague Tradition
Author: Arthur EyffingerPublisher:
ISBN: 9789067043403
Category : Biografieën (vorm)
Languages : en
Pages : 115
Book Description
Transnational Associations
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Associations, institutions, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
Zacarias, My Brother
Author: Abd Samad MoussaouiPublisher: Seven Stories Press
ISBN: 1609803310
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Zacarias Moussaoui was arrested in the United States in August 2001. He is currently in a federal prison in Virginia, charged with "conspiring with Osama bin Laden and Al-Qaeda to murder thousands of innocent people in New York, Virginia, and Pennsylvania." Moussaoui , who trained to be a pilot in Oklahoma, admits to being a member of Al-Qaeda but denies involvement in the events of September 11. He has opted to defend himself. Written by his brother, Zacarias, My Brother tells the story of Zac’s life from birth to the time in 1996 when he broke contact with his family and became deeply involved with Muslim fundamentalists in London. It is a unique document about what it is to grow up a Muslim in Western Europe today and how an extremist is made. In Zacarias, My Brother, author Abd Samad Moussaoui describes the struggle that young Arab men and their families endure in Europe, seeking an education and equal opportunity, only to find most avenues of assimilation effectively barred to people of color. At the same time, he authoritatively details the techniques of the extremist sects that recruit potential terrorist cadres. Members of the Wahhabi sect have perfected a rhetoric that appeals to the wounded pride of these young Arab men, Moussaoui writes—for example, offering funds to help them complete their education. Moussaoui deplores the route taken by his brother. He is not in any way an apologist for terrorism. Even so, he shows convincingly that normal young men can end up terrorists, and suggests how and why this happens. Moussaoui shows with gripping clarity how Wahhabism distorts true Islamic faith and the threat it poses to Islam. And his book strongly suggests that the best defense against terrorist groups like the Wahhabi sect in the future is anything people can do to end racism.
Good Practice in Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters
Author: Council of the European Union. General SecretariatPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
The Congo from Leopold to Kabila
Author: Georges Nzongola-NtalajaPublisher: Zed Books
ISBN: 9781842770535
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
As this book shows, the People of the Congo have suffered throughout the past century from a particularly brutal experience of colonial rule, and a series of post-independence political conflicts. But as this insightful political history of the Congolese democratic movement of the 20th century decisively makes clear, its people have not taken these multiple oppressions lying down. Instead, they have struggled both to establish democratic institutions at home and to free themselves from exploitations abroad.
Consociationalism, Pillarization and Conflict-management in the Low Countries
Author: Sinners and Citizens
Author: Jens RydströmPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226732576
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
Sinners and Citizens explores how sexual habits changed in Sweden during its development from an agrarian society into a modern welfare state. Jens Rydström examines the history of homosexuality and bestiality in that country to consider why these sexual practices have been so closely linked in virtually all Western societies. He limns sharply the distinctive experience of rural life, showing that to regularly witness farm animals stirred passions and sparked ideas, especially among young farmhands. Based on medical journals, psychiatric reports, and court records from the period, as well as testimonies from men in diaries, letters, and interviews, Sinners and Citizens reveals that bestiality was once a dreaded crime in Sweden. But in time, mention of the practice disappeared completely from legal and medical debates. This, Rydström contends, is because models of penetrative sodomy shifted from bestiality to homosexuality as Sweden transformed from a rural society into a more urban one. As the nation's economy and culture became less identified with the countryside, so too did its idea of deviant sexual behavior.
The Geography of Perversion
Author: Rudi BleysPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814712657
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
A thorough, cross-cultural history of sexual categories, focusing on such subjects as puritanism, sodomy, and ethnicity in colonial North America; cross-gender behavior and hermaphroditism; and the semiotics of genitalia. The author also demonstrates that representation of cultural "otherness," as found in European thought from the Enlightenment through modern times, is closely related to modern constructions of homosexual identity. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR