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UNINA9910461240703321 |
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Kenny Colum <1951-> |
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The Power of Silence : Silent Communication in Daily Life / / by Colum Kenny |
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Boca Raton, FL : , : Routledge, , [2018] |
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©2011 |
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0-429-90755-9 |
0-429-48278-7 |
1-283-11863-7 |
9786613118639 |
1-84940-897-1 |
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[First edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (321 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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Nonverbal communication |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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COVER; CONTENTS; FOREWORD; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; CHAPTER ONE Silent types; CHAPTER TWO Busy silence; CHAPTER THREE Theories of silence; CHAPTER FOUR Silence and the arts; CHAPTER FIVE Film, TV, and music; CHAPTER SIX Constraints of silence; CHAPTER SEVEN Silence in therapy; CHAPTER EIGHT Sacred silence; CHAPTER NINE The silence of God; EPILOGUE; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX |
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This book demonstrates that silence is eloquent, powerful, beautiful and even dangerous. It surrounds and permeates our daily lives. Drawing on a wide range of cross-cultural, literary and historical sources, the author explores the uses and abuses of silence. He explains how silence is not associated with solitude alone but has a much broader value within society.The main themes of The Power of Silence are positive and negative uses of silence, and the various ways in which silence has been understood culturally, socially and spiritually. The book's objectives are to equip people with a better appreciation of the value of silence and to enable them to explore its benefits and uses more easily for themselves. |
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UNINA9910778229903321 |
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Autore |
DeStefano Anthony M |
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The war on human trafficking [[electronic resource] ] : U.S. policy assessed / / Anthony M. DeStefano |
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New Brunswick, N.J., : Rutgers University Press, c2007 |
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1-281-15139-4 |
9786611151393 |
0-8135-4157-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (208 p.) |
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Human trafficking - Government policy - United States |
Sex and law |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-165) and index. |
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The barrio girls -- The emerging issue -- The global response -- "We need this bill" -- The learning curve -- The lady from Pitesti -- Finding Leku -- Sweat, toil, and tears -- Sexual slavery : the immigrant's gilded cage -- New initiatives, more controversy -- The bully pulpit -- Measuring effectiveness -- Final thoughts. |
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The United States has taken the lead in efforts to end international human trafficking-the movement of peoples from one country to another, usually involving fraud, for the purpose of exploiting their labor. Examples that have captured the headlines include the 300 Chinese immigrants that were smuggled to the United States on the ship Golden Venture and the young Mexican women smuggled by the Cadena family to Florida where they were forced into prostitution and confined in trailers. The public's understanding of human trafficking is comprised of terrible stories like these, which the media covers in dramatic, but usually short-lived bursts. The more complicated, long-term story of how policy on trafficking has evolved has been largely ignored. In The War on Human Trafficking, Anthony M. DeStefano covers a decade of reporting on the policy battles that have surrounded efforts to abolish such practices, helping readers to understand the forced labor of immigrants as a major global human rights story. |
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DeStefano details the events leading up to the creation of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, the federal law that first addressed the phenomenon of trafficking in persons. He assesses the effectiveness of the 2000 law and its progeny, showing the difficulties encountered by federal prosecutors in building criminal cases against traffickers. The book also describes the tensions created as the Bush Administration tried to use the trafficking laws to attack prostitution and shows how the American response to these criminal activities was impacted by the events of September 11th and the War in Iraq. Parsing politics from practice, this important book gets beyond sensational stories of sexual servitude to show that human trafficking has a much broader scope and is inextricable from the powerful economic conditions that impel immigrants to put themselves at risk. |
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