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When we hear the mention of the words, serial killers, most people imagine a huge, ugly man prying on people at night to kill them. However, not only men are serial killers, as this book will show, women can also be serial killers. While there are more male serial killers than women, there are also female serial killers, and since most people don't think of women as dangerous, many people fall easily into their trap. But, what exactly drives women...
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La posmodernidad se ha convertido en el término de moda de la sociedad contemporánea durante las últimas décadas. Pero, ¿cómo podemos definirla? En esta introducción de fácil lectura, los misterios de este concepto tan esquivo son resueltos, iluminando críticamente la forma en la que vivimos hoy, desde la politización de la cultura de los museos hasta el culto de lo políticamente correcto. Las ideas claves de la teoría de la posmodernidad...
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Postmodernism has become the buzzword of contemporary society over the last decade. But how can it be defined? In this highly engaging introduction, the mysteries of this most elusive of concepts are unraveled, casting a critical light upon the way we live now, from the politicizing of museum culture to the cult of the politically correct. The key postmodernist ideas are explored and challenged, as they figure in the theory, philosophy, politics,...
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The Ambassadors, by Henry James, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
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Set in London, Scopia follows ordinary white-collar office worker, Basia, who after struggling with anxiety, undergoes a series of unorthodox hypnotic regressions with her therapist. Not only does she recall a chilling buried trauma from her childhood, but unearths traumatic and disturbing echoes of past lives. Unbeknownst to her she has a woken a dark part of the brain unleashing dark forces that seek to destroy her as she begins to relive the tragedies,...