Becoming Allies

Becoming Allies
Author: Chris Huffine, Psy.D
Publisher: Allies Press
Total Pages: 496
Release: 2021-09-14
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1662914520

Many books have been written for those who have been abused, but what about those who have been abusive? Abusive and controlling behaviors are sadly common in the U.S. and all over the world. There is plenty of support for people who need to get free of abuse, but very few books have been written for people who struggle with being abusive and controlling themselves. Becoming Allies fills that gap. This comprehensive book, the first of its kind, draws on the author’s three decades of experience in the field of intimate partner violence working with thousands of people who have been abusive. It presents for the first time the best practices of specialized abuse-prevention programs from around the country. Becoming Allies identifies and examines abusive and controlling behaviors, explains the underlying beliefs that drive them, and teaches specific, concrete techniques for changing them. It is nothing short of a lifeline for people who want to stop their abusive and controlling behaviors and improve their relationships with themselves, their partners, and their loved ones.

Allies

Allies
Author: Ed Pavlic
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2019-12-10
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1946511528

Original poetry, fiction, and cultural criticism explore issues of trust, bridge-building, difference, and betrayal, both political and private. How do we know who is on our side? Is it possible for someone who is not like us to share our hopes? Can links forged by empathy or mutual interest match those created by shared experience? What can we gain from alliances that we cannot achieve on our own? These are difficult question to answer even in intimate settings, and more so in arenas of cultural and political struggle. Through original poetry, fiction, and cultural criticism from both established writers and newcomers, Allies offers unique insights into issues of trust, bridge-building, difference, and betrayal. Drawing on the prophetic power of the imagination to conjure both the possible dangers and life-giving possibilities of alliances—be they political, private (such as marriage), therapeutic, or even aesthetic (between readers and writers, for example)—Allies will be essential reading for our times. Allies is the first publication of Boston Review's newly inaugurated Arts in Society department. A radical revisioning of the magazine's poetry and fiction, the department unites them—along with cultural criticism and belles lettres—into a project that explores how the arts can speak directly to the most pressing political and civic concerns of our age, from growing inequality to racial and gender regimes, a disempowered electorate, and a collapsing natural world. Fiction Samuel Delay, Tananarive Due, Catherine Taylor Poetry Jane Miller, Ru Puro, Emilia Nielsen, Sarah Vap, Rachel Levitsky, Tess Liem Interviews Walter Johnson and Tef Poe, Robin D. G. Kelley and Vijay Iyer Essays Roderick Ferguson, Micki McEyla, Mark Nowak, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, Abdullah Taïa

Rethinking Roman Alliance

Rethinking Roman Alliance
Author: Bill Gladhill
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2016-05-31
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1316589218

In this book, Bill Gladhill studies one of the most versatile concepts in Roman society, the ritual event that concluded an alliance, a foedus (ritual alliance). Foedus signifies the bonds between nations, men, men and women, friends, humans and gods, gods and goddesses, and the mass of matter that gives shape to the universe. From private and civic life to cosmology, Roman authors, time and time again, utilized the idea of ritual alliance to construct their narratives about Rome. To put it succinctly, Roman civilization in its broadest terms was conditioned on ritual alliance. Yet, lurking behind every Roman relationship, in the shadows of Roman social and international relations, in the dark recesses of cosmic law, were the breakdown and violation of ritual alliance and the release of social pollution. Rethinking Roman Alliance investigates Roman culture and society through the lens of foedus and its consequences.

Alliance and Conflict

Alliance and Conflict
Author: Ernest S. Burch
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2005-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780803213463

Alliance and Conflict combines a richly descriptive study of intersocietal relations in early nineteenth-century Northwest Alaska with a bold theoretical treatise on the structure of the world system as it might have been in ancient times. Ernest S. Burch Jr. illuminates one aspect of the traditional lives of the I_upiaq Eskimos in unparalleled detail and depth. Basing his account on observations made by early Western explorers, interviews with Native historians, and archeological research, Burch describes the social boundaries and geographic borders formerly existing in Northwest Alaska and the various kinds of transactions that took place across them. These ranged from violence of the most brutal sort, at one extreme, to relations of peace and friendship, at the other. Burch argues that the international system he describes approximated in many respects the type of system existing all over the world before the development of agriculture. Based on that assumption, he presents a series of hypotheses about what the world system may have been like when it consisted entirely of hunter-gatherer societies and about how it became more centralized with the evolution of chiefdoms. ø Accounts of specific people, places, and events add an immediate, experiential dimension to the work, complementing its theoretical apparatus and sweeping narrative scope. Provocative and comprehensive, Alliance and Conflict is a definitive look at the greater world of Native peoples of Northwest Alaska.

Trials of the Sourthern Four (Temple Alliance Origins, Book II)

Trials of the Sourthern Four (Temple Alliance Origins, Book II)
Author: J.D. Wallington
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 347
Release: 2014-09-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1312742054

The very elements have taken a stand against the world and demigods from ages past have arisen to add the world in defeating this new enemy. With the rise of this new threat, four heroes from the southern reaches of the North American Covenant must make their own stand. They have overcome prejudice, torture, captivity and the loss of everything they know and love; but can they survive the upheaval of the world? Can they succeed in fighting off the very forces that created the world or are they doomed to fall as the elements strive to reforge the world? The Trials of the Southern Four have begun.

Kinship, Descent and Alliance among the Karo Batak

Kinship, Descent and Alliance among the Karo Batak
Author: Masri Singarimbun
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2024-03-29
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0520309839

The topic of this monograph is kinship and affinal relations among the Karo Batak. My reason for selecting this topic is my belief that an understanding of the Karo system of social relations between kin and relatives by marriage is the necessary starting point for an understanding of most other aspects of Karo culture and society. Moreover, the Karo kinship system is similar to the kinship systems of numerous other peoples—including other Batak—which have become the focus of considerable anthropological interest and much theoretical debate.—From the Preface This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1975.