This story begins and ends with a photograph taken when I was two years old. Finding it was like discovering that I really did exist after all . It was as if someone was saying ‘No, it wasn’t all in your imagination, that childhood really did happen, and it happened to you.’Brought up in South London by violent and abusive parents, the Roche children knew only cruelty, neglect, starvation and squalor. As one of ten and regularly b...

Questo libro è un manuale per apprendere la scuola dell'amore e imparare come esprimerla nella dimensione verticale e orizzontale, perché questo è il modo in cui creeremo un' Arca di Noè per i nostri tempi.Quest'opera, scritta dal dr. Roche deCoppens, è una versione aggiornata del The invisibile Temple (pubblicato da Llewellyn una ventina di anni fa). Essa riguarda l'attuale crisi della famiglia, si collega con la dimensione spirituale e offre una visione e suggestioni del destino d...

We are presently living at a truly extraordinary time of profound transformation. Most people, wherever they may be living in the world, are presented with very real and great dangers but equally real and perhaps even greater opportunities. To survive and thrive in the 21st century it is essential to activate our intuition and to awaken our spiritual consciousness. The royal road, the fundamental skill, to achieve this is prayer.Integrating the teachings of the spiritual tradition,...

To live well one must be able to die well and vice versa. Life and death are two faces of the same coin but with a fundamental transformation when one moves from the spiritual dimension to the physical and back to the spiritual. Actually, there is but one thing: Life without beginning and without ending but with two expressions, one on the spiritual plane and the other on the material plane. Today, in the West we find a great paradox: we have made enormous progress at the material, technol...

La démocratie est un produit complexe, qui articule un cadre juridique et une base sociale lui permettant de s’enraciner. Loin des naïves espérances des années 1990, les expériences de plusieurs pays d’Afrique décrivent un chemin qui demeure, à des degrés divers, chaotique : en Mauritanie, en République démocratique du Congo, en Centrafrique ou au Nigeria par exemple... Le dossier de Politique étrangère rappelle que la mise en place d’institutions supposées permettre la démocratie...

This assemblage of feminist theologies represents a series of vital entanglements. Chapters are written from different cultures, geographies and discourses and brought together around themes as specific and wide-ranging as immigration detention, hate crime, discrimination, rites of marriage and partnership, and artistic and religious imagination. The contributors variously echo, celebrate, question and contradict each other. Despite the complexity and allied as they are with liberation, de...

This book provides perspectives and insights across the educational system for how we might move toward living out this wish in all schools. The chapters provide perspectives on fundamental questions that have been guiding recent research on wellbeing in schools: How do school communities flourish together? How does supporting educator wellbeing connect to teaching, learning, leading in schools? What characteristics, qualities and strategies support the wellbeing of the whole school commun...

Policing the Pandemic explores how police agencies in United Kingdom and the United States have adjusted to their changing environments, both during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic and later, when the restrictions have been relaxed and the societies have begun to develop their new normal.Combining interviews and surveys of police officers and police administrators from the United Kingdom and the United States, this book provides a systematic and empirically based account...

« – Tu pleures ?Les montagnes sont bleues derrière ses yeux. Une couleur de pluie passée qui regarde, une fois au sol, le souvenir amer de son nuage.– Peter, répète-t-elle, tu pleures ? »Offrant une nouvelle vision du personnage, complémentaire et à la fois détachée de celle imaginée par James M. Barrie, Michael Roch revisite le mythe du garçon qui ne veut pas grandir.Moi, Peter Pan est un roman contemplatif, onirique et d’une poésie...

Liam, le frère de Regan, ne supporte pas ce qu'il est. Tout comme la lune, sa véritable nature ne se révèle que la nuit. Cela fait des années que Liam se travestit. Il "emprunte" les habits et le maquillage de sa soeur, Regan, et, tous les soirs, Liam devient Luna. Un secret inavouable, chaque jour plus invivable. Mais cela est sur le point de changer. Luna se prépare à sortir de sa chrysalide. Une décision qui bouleverse aussi la vie de Regan, témoin privilégié de cette métamorphose. Car,...

In the context of neoliberalism and global austerity measures, health care institutions around the world confront numerous challenges in attempting to meet the needs of local populations. Examples from Africa (including, Ethiopia, Ghana, and Congo), Latin America (Peru, Mexico, Guatemala), Western Europe (France, Greece), and the United States illustrate how hospitals play a significant role in the social production of health and disease in the communities where they are. Many low-resource...

Verschuldet und vom Unglück verfolgt, will sich Ed Plummer eigentlich im Lagerraum der von ihm geleiteten Supermarktfiliale aufhängen, als ihm seine ebenso verschrobene wie kaltblütige Angestellte Vicky Rooster ein Angebot macht: Warum statt sich selbst nicht lieber ihren reichen Bruder umbringen? Der Plan läuft jedoch nicht wie gedacht und bald findet sich auch Augustus van Dusen in die blutigen Ereignisse involviert.