Author: Madeleine Landau Tobias
Publisher: Hunter House Publishers
ISBN: 9780897931441
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Madeleine Landau Tobias
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781863737814
Category : Cults
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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In America today an estimated 5000 cults have affected over 10 million people. Written by two former cult members, this book attempts to provide the hands-on help ex-cultists need to recover from manipulation and mind control.

Author: Michael D. Langone
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393313215
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 438

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Drawing upon the clinical expertise of professionals and the personal experiences of those formerly involved in high-intensity mind-control groups, this book is a comprehensive guide to the cult experience. Michael Langone and his colleagues provide practical guidelines for helping former cult members manage the problems they encounter when leaving cults.

Author: Carolyn Keene
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1481452924
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 160

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Nancy Drew visits Belize and uncovers crime on the high seas in this addition to the Nancy Drew Files.

Author: Teresa Reasor
Publisher: Teresa J Reasor
ISBN: 9780988662728
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 376

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Bent on seeing her family's murderers caught, Lady Katherine Leighton strikes a bargain with Captain Matthew Hamilton. They will wed just long enough for her to shed her uncle's hampering control and pursue the investigation her uncle refuses to undertake. Betrayed by one woman, Matthew doesn't trust the English beauty who offers him freedom from prison in exchange for wedding vows, but knowing it is his only escape, he agrees to the arrangement. From the moment their lips meet to seal the vows, a passion ignites between them they are eager to ignore. When the savage highwaymen who killed her family come after Katherine, Matthew feels honor bound to keep her safe. But Katherine wants more than his honorable intentions. She wants his love...And she's willing to fight to get it.

Author: Margaret Thaler Singer
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0787967416
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 438

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Cults today are bigger than ever, with broad ramifications for national and international terrorism. In this newly revised edition of her definitive work on cults, Singer reveals what cults really are and how they work, focusing specifically on the coercive persuasion techniques of charismatic leaders seeking money and power. The book contains fascinating updates on Heaven's Gate, Falun Gong, Aum Shinrikyo, Hare Krishna, the Reverend Sun Myung Moon, and the connection between cults and terrorism in Al Queda and the PLO.

Author: Janja A. Lalich
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520384024
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 354

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Heaven's Gate, a secretive group of celibate "monks" awaiting pickup by a UFO, captured intense public attention in 1997 when its members committed collective suicide. As a way of understanding such perplexing events, many have seen those who join cults as needy, lost souls, unable to think for themselves. This book, a compelling look at the cult phenomenon written for a wide audience, dispels such simple formulations by explaining how normal, intelligent people can give up years of their lives—and sometimes their very lives—to groups and beliefs that appear bizarre and irrational. Looking closely at Heaven's Gate and at the Democratic Workers Party, a radical political group of the 1970s and 1980s, Janja Lalich gives us a rare insider's look at these two cults and advances a new theoretical framework that will reshape our understanding of those who join such groups. Lalich's fascinating discussion includes her in-depth interviews with cult devotees as well as reflections gained from her own experience as a high-ranking member of the Democratic Workers Party. Incorporating classical sociological concepts such as "charisma" and "commitment" with more recent work on the social psychology of influence and control, she develops a new approach for understanding how charismatic cult leaders are able to dominate their devotees. She shows how members are led into a state of "bounded choice," in which they make seemingly irrational decisions within a context that makes perfect sense to them and is, in fact, consistent with their highest aspirations. In addition to illuminating the cult phenomenon in the United States and around the world, this important book also addresses our pressing need to know more about the mentality of those true believers who take extreme or violent measures in the name of a cause.

Author: Czesław Miłosz
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Communism
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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Author: Darren G. Burton
Publisher: Darren G. Burton
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 28

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After working late one night, Ruby misses her bus home. Taking a shortcut through town down a dark alleyway, she is abducted and taken to a remote location where she is held captive by her kidnapper. Ruby must find a way to escape before she becomes a serial killer's next victim.

Author: Joan Johnston
Publisher: Dell
ISBN: 0440222001
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386

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She was a gorgeous rebel. Defying all the rules, daring to speak her mind, Charlotte Edgerton declared her independence before she even entered the Earl of Denbigh's home. Her new guardian immediately made her a prisoner in her own room—until she agreed to learn the lady-like arts. Furious, she complied. Anything to buy her freedom from Denbigh. She's even marry a man she didn't love to get away from her domineering guardian. In fact, love was the furthest thing from her mind... He was the Earl who vowed to tame her. Lionel Morgan, Earl of Denbigh, had been betrayed at the altar by another woman and vowed that no female would ensnare him again. Then Charlotte Edgerton burst into his life. Denbigh wasn't prepared for this headstrong American—or the passions she inspired on first sight. He knew only that he had to civilize her, present her at court, and Almack's, and then marry her off to the highest bidder. It wasn't until he nearly lost her that he realized the truth: She'd somehow reversed their roles and become the captor of his heart.