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Fighting to survive on a patrol launch during a typhoon. Investigating a murder by a Vietnamese gangster in a refugee camp. Battling riots during the Cultural Revolution, countering drug smuggling by the triads, and dealing with bank robbers. These are some of the stories told in this compilation of experiences from 50 former Royal Hong Kong Police officers.

In this volume, Br. John Mark Falkenhain, OSB, a Benedictine monk and clinical psychologist, provides a well-researched and thorough program for celibacy formation for men and women, adaptable to both religious and seminary settings. Attending to the th

Transnational Feminist Pedagogies: Meanings, Methods, and Experiences explores how transnational feminist pedagogies are practiced, challenged, and reimagined in contemporary classrooms. It is ideal for students and educators in Gender Studies, Sociology, Education, and related fields. Transnational Feminist Pedagogies: Meanings, Methods, and Experiences explores how transnational feminist pedagogies are practiced, challenged, and reimagined in contemporary classrooms.This interdisciplinary volume brings together a rich collection of contributions that examine the evolving terrain of higher education through the lens of transnational and decolonial feminist theories. The book addresses pressing issues including the corporatization of higher education, censorship, and the negotiation of identity within institutional frameworks. Contributors from across the globe offer strategies for teaching under political and institutional duress, while centering collaboration, social movements, and marginalized voices. Through case studies, curricula, and reflections on learning and unlearning, the book provides concrete pedagogical tools that respond to the challenges of teaching in a time of heightened surveillance, precarity, and resistance.Ideal for students and educators in Women's and Gender Studies, Sociology, Education, and related fields, Transnational Feminist Pedagogies: Meanings, Methods, and Experiences will resonate with those committed to critical pedagogy, intersectional analysis, and transnational collaboration in both theory and practice. Autorid: Debjani Chakravarty, Samantha L. Vandermeade, Suchismita Banerjee

Blind Scouse is a gritty coming-of-age novel set in the back alleys and dance halls of post-war Bootle, Liverpool, a world of pigeon lofts, pea-wack soup, and the surge of rock and roll.Joey Riley and Tony McNulty are two working-class boys with swagger, secondhand guitars, and a dream. Their lives unfold among truant officers, pawnbrokers, Irish Catholic priests with secrets, and the restless energy of a city on the brink of change. Saturday nights mean the Iron Door and the Cavern Club, where future legends take the stage and the boys absorb every note. From these streets, a band is born. What begins as a rough three-chord sound soon becomes something real. With the arrival of new members, Johnny and the Rebels transform into Blind Scouse - a group edging toward notoriety. But as the music rises, so does the darkness. Set against the heroin wave of the 1960s and 70s, the novel traces a descent into addiction, crime, and consequence - through broken relationships, personal collapse, and lives pulled in different directions. And yet this is not only a story of loss.It is also a story of loyalty, survival, and the stubborn persistence of joy, of people who fall, endure, and find their way back, however imperfectly. Inspired by the author's own experiences, Blind Scouse takes its name from the humble stew of the poor, something simple, sustaining, and far richer than expected.

Love's Last Madness, a translation of selected poems from Darshan Singh's magnum opus Mat¿'-e N¿r, sings of the torments and ecstasies a lover of God experiences on the journey to divine realization. Remarkable for masterfully fulfilling his worldly responsibilities while immersing himself in his mystic quest, Darshan Singh (1921-1989) was a renowned spiritual teacher with tens of thousands of students around the globe. Four-time winner of a prestigious Urdu academy award for poetry in India, he has been acclaimed by critics as one of the greatest mystical poets in the Urdu language. All royalties from this book will be donated to charity.

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