The sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic Church captured headlines and mobilized public outrage in January 2002. This work provides an analysis of the interlacing historical, doctrinal, and psychological issues that came together in the sexual abuse scandal. It aims to explore the abuse situation is explored in all its troubling complexity.

The decades separating our new century from the Armenian Genocide, the prototype of modern-day nation-killings, have fundamentally changed the political composition of the region. Virtually no Armenians remain on their historic territories in what is today eastern Turkey. The Armenian people have been scattered about the world. And a small indep...

The East Asian economic miracle of the twentieth century is now a fond memory. What does it mean to

Collection of original essays by leading researchers on the philosophical understanding of emotions.

This book uses recent experience in participatory innovations at the city level to explore the...

Set in the rich farmland of the Salinas Valley, California, this powerful, often brutal novel, follows the interwined destinies of two families - the Trasks and the Hamiltons - whose generations hopelessly re-enact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. Here Steinbeck created some of his most m...

In Monterey, on the California Coast, Sweet Thursday is what they call the day after Lousy Wednesday, which is one of those days thats just naturally bad. Returning to the scene of CANNERY ROW, the weedy lots, junk heaps and flop houses of Monterey, Steinbeck once again brings to life the denizens of a netherworld of laught...

This volume includes the first edition of a previously unknown text that throws new light on the...

¿Cómo educar en un mundo frenético e hiperexigente? ¿Cómo conseguir que un niño, y luego un adolescente, actúe con ilusión, sea capaz de estar quieto observando con calma lo que le rodea, piense antes de actuar y esté motivado para aprender sin miedo al esfuerzo? Los niños de los últimos veinte años viven en un entorno cada...

UN ANTIGUO CÓDIGO. UN SINIESTRO SECRETO... UNA PERSECUCIÓN A VIDA O MUERTE EN BUSCA DE LA VERDAD. El detective Chris Bronson es enviado a Marruecos a investigar las misteriosas muertes de dos turistas. Allí comienza a seguir una serie de pistas que le conducirá desde un bullicioso mercado marroquí a las desérticas cuevas d...