The Cult of Violence
Title | The Cult of Violence PDF eBook |
Author | John Pearson |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | 316 |
Release | 2013-05-16 |
Genre | True Crime |
ISBN | 1448211522 |
John Pearson knows more about the Krays than anyone alive. Legend, starring Tom Hardy, was based on his book The Profession of Violence and it was Pearson who exposed the Boothby connection in 1994. In 1967 the twins asked Pearson to write their biography. He remained a confidant of the family and the brothers throughout their trial and prison years. Now Pearson revisits the twins' criminal past and lays bare the truth behind the legend. Drawing upon a mass of first-hand interviews and private information he was unable to use while the Krays were still alive, he finally recounts the chilling untold story of the Kray twins. John Pearson is also the author of All the Money in the World (previously titled Painfully Rich), now a major motion picture directed by Ridley Scott film and starring Michelle Williams, Mark Wahlberg and Christopher Plumber (nominated for the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor).
Cults, Religion, and Violence
Title | Cults, Religion, and Violence PDF eBook |
Author | David G. Bromley |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 278 |
Release | 2002-05-13 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780521668989 |
Explores recent high profile cases of new religious movements involved in violence.
The Cult of the Constitution
Title | The Cult of the Constitution PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Anne Franks |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | 310 |
Release | 2019-05-14 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1503609103 |
“A powerful challenge to the prevailing constitutional orthodoxy of the right and the left . . . A deeply troubling and absolutely vital book” (Mark Joseph Stern, Slate). In this provocative book, Mary Anne Franks examines the thin line between constitutional fidelity and constitutional fundamentalism. The Cult of the Constitution reveals how deep fundamentalist strains in both conservative and liberal American thought keep the Constitution in the service of white male supremacy. Franks demonstrates how constitutional fundamentalists read the Constitution selectively and self-servingly, thus undermining the integrity of the document as a whole. She goes on to argue that economic and civil libertarianism have merged to produce a deregulatory, “free-market” approach to constitutional rights that achieves fullest expression in the idealization of the Internet. The fetishization of the first and second amendments has blurred the boundaries between conduct and speech and between veneration and violence. But the Constitution itself contains the antidote to fundamentalism. The Cult of the Constitution lays bare the dark, antidemocratic consequences of constitutional fundamentalism and urges readers to take the Constitution seriously, not selectively.
Children of Violence
Title | Children of Violence PDF eBook |
Author | Luke Gherardi |
Publisher | Bookbaby |
Total Pages | 138 |
Release | 2020-11-25 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781098321192 |
Reeves' mother belongs to a cult. The cult believes that you must be a Soldier of Christ. But to be a soldier, you must fight. Robbie is the son of an addict prostitute. He's raising his little brother alone, while trying to avoid his mother's pimp. Gracie is a pretty girl that lives in a nice house in the suburbs. Life is perfect for her family from the outside. None of her neighbors know the truth- her father is an enforcer for the mafia. Cole's father is a neglectful alcoholic. His father lives only for one reason- to kill again. These kids all have to face the violence eventually, and it all comes together in a climax where even the best of intentions results in innocence lost.
Practice And All Is Coming
Title | Practice And All Is Coming PDF eBook |
Author | Matthew Remski |
Publisher | Embodied Wisdom Publishing |
Total Pages | 458 |
Release | 2019-02-25 |
Genre | Health & Fitness |
ISBN | 0473467712 |
How do we co-create safer yoga and spiritual communities? Through dogged investigative work, careful listening to survivor stories of assault and abuse, and close analysis of the cultic mechanisms at play in the sphere of Pattabhi Jois’s Ashtanga community, Matthew Remski’s Practice and All Is Coming offers a sober view into a collective and intergenerational trauma. It also offers a clear pathway forward into enhanced critical thinking, student empowerment, self-and-other care, and community resilience. Concluding with practical tools for a world rocked by abuse revelations, Practice and All Is Coming opens a window on the possibility of healing— and even re-enchantment. While Mathew Remski is the courageous, insightful, and compassionate author of this informative, challenging, and thought-provoking book, this book is clearly a group effort. Equal parts theory, training manual, expose, and memoir, Practice and All is Coming ... is a foray into the difficult topics of personal agency, spirituality authority, and cult dynamics. In addition to his clearly articulated understanding of the problems inherent in many spiritual schools, Mathew provides hope for healing the confusion and anguish that arise in the heart of sincere practitioners when they are betrayed by the revered powers in which they have placed their trust. If you practice or teach yoga, please consider this book an essential companion on your path. Christina Sell, author of Yoga From the Inside Out, My Body is a Temple, and A Deeper Yoga.
The Cult of Violence
Title | The Cult of Violence PDF eBook |
Author | John Pearson |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 241 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Gangsters |
ISBN | 9780752838731 |
John Pearson, author of The Profession of Violence, the definitive bestseller on the Krays, re-examines the bizarre and frightening story of the Kray twins including new revelations about their criminal past, the trial and their extraordinary activities in jail.
The Girl in the Shadows
Title | The Girl in the Shadows PDF eBook |
Author | Katy Morgan-Davies |
Publisher | Random House |
Total Pages | 416 |
Release | 2019-02-01 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 147356686X |
'I was the shadow child no one ever saw...' From the day she was born until she escaped aged 30, Katy Morgan-Davies knew nothing but a life in captivity. Her father was the deluded and cruel leader of a cult based in South London who brainwashed those around him. Her father's paranoia and his need to completely control others led to Katy being imprisoned indoors and denied any kind of love or friendship. From a young age, Katy's father subjected her to violence and mental abuse. She was not permitted contact with anyone outside the house and on the rare occasions she did have to go out, she was always chaperoned. Katy never gave up hope of one day breaking free from her father's cruel clutches and finally found her freedom. This is her true story of endurance and survival.