The Amok Runners

• Author : Colin Cotterill
• Publisher : Proglen Trading Co., Ltd.
• Release : 30 July 2021

A detective crime novel set in Thailand featuring Jimm Juree, Colin Cotterill's female journalist and part time detective. For followers of Colin Cotterill’s Jimm Juree mystery series, here is new novel for your enjoyment. It is a prequel to the three published books with our intrepid lady journalist and her rather unique family still living in Chiang Mai. Becoming an extra along with her two brothers, Arny and Sissy, on an American movie with Hollywood stars being shot in

• Author : Wen-Shing Tseng
• Publisher : Academic Press
• Release : 06 June 2001

Cultural psychiatry is primarily concerned with the transcultural aspects of mental health related to human behavior, psychopathology and treatment. At a clinical level, cultural psychiatry aims to promote culturally relevant mental health care for patients of diverse ethnic or cultural backgrounds. From the standpoint of research, cultural psychiatry is interested in studying how ethnic or cultural factors may influence human behavior and psychopathology as well as the art of healing. On a theoretical level, cultural psychiatry aims to expand the

• Author : Asvi Warman Adam,Dewi Fortuna Anwar
• Publisher : Yayasan Obor Indonesia
• Release : 30 July 2021

The last decade has seen an upsurge in violent internal conflicts in southern Thailand, southern Philippines, Sri Lanka, and a number of regions in Indonesia and the Pacific. Like terrorism and nuclear proliferation, violent internal conflicts are increasingly being seen as a global security issue.

• Author : Anna Zizola,Paolo Inghilleri
• Publisher : Mimesis
• Release : 13 December 2018

Surprisingly, jihadi groups like ISIS do not only attract female supporters coming from Muslim communities, but also Western women who grew up in non- Muslim environments. Trauma, depression and the need for a more exciting life outside the constraints of Western society brought some women to embrace the political cause of waging jihad and supporting terrorism. This book discovers the hidden psychological and sociological drivers that can lead young Western women to support jihadi ideology, violence and sometimes suicide. Through

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 30 July 1997

• Author : Fritz Henn,Norman Sartorius,Hanfried Helmchen,Hans Lauter
• Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
• Release : 11 November 2013

The German version of this work has a long tradition, and this fourth edition is the first to see an English version. Its main feature is the international approach regarding both authors and topics. The four internationally renowned editors were able to acquire the leading specialists for each field as contributors to the book. No less than 120 authors, half of them from non-German speaking countries, ensure an extremely high standard and that cross-cultural aspects are considered. Another major feature is

• Author : Wen-Shing Tseng
• Publisher : Academic Press
• Release : 30 July 2021

Increasingly, psychologists are becoming aware of sensitivity needs with respect to treating patients from differing cultures. Culture can play an important role both in what a patient discloses about themselves, how likely they are to follow a therapist's advice, and whether specific therapies are likely to be effective for them. Following on the heels of Tseng's "Handbook of Cultural Psychiatry" comes this "Clinical Application of Cultural Psychiatry." This more concise book focuses on information most relevant to treating patients. The

• Author : Thomas G. Plante
• Publisher : Greenwood Publishing Group
• Release : 30 July 2021

• Author : Grant Duwe
• Publisher : McFarland
• Release : 16 October 2014

Is mass murder a historically new phenomenon that emerged in the 1960s? How has it changed over time? And what causes a person to commit multiple murders in a matter of hours or even minutes? This book explores these questions by examining 909 mass murders that took place in the United States between 1900 and 1999. By far the largest study on the topic to date, it begins with a look at the patterns and prevalence of mass murders by presenting rates from 1900–1999

• Author : John C. Spores
• Publisher : Research in International Studies, Southeast Asia Series
• Release : 30 July 1988

Amok, one of the few Malay words commonly appearing in English, names a syndrome of unpredictable and indiscriminate homicidal behavior with suicidal intent. In tracing the development of this behavioral pattern, Spores examines historical data, including frequently colorful colonialist accounts of such episodes, from British Malaya and the Netherlands East Indies during the period 1800-1925. Spores presents a basic etiological distinction between reactive-motivated and a spontaneous, unmotivated amok; the one an intentional act capable of establishing or restoring dignity and

• Author : Thomas G. Plante
• Publisher : Greenwood Publishing Group
• Release : 30 July 2021

Experts in their respective fields offer reader-friendly information and the latest research on issues of contemporary abnormal psychology that are often in the headlines and at the heart of current events today.

• Author : Jessica Richard
• Publisher : Springer
• Release : 17 May 2011

Gambling permeated the daily lives of eighteenth-century Britons of all classes. This book explicates the relationship between the rampant gambling in eighteenth-century England, the new forms of gambling-inspired capitalism that transformed British society, and novels that interrogate the new socio-economy of long odds and lucky breaks.

• Author : Philip Dwyer,Amanda Nettelbeck
• Publisher : Springer
• Release : 17 October 2017

This book explores the theme of violence, repression and atrocity in imperial and colonial empires, as well as its representations and memories, from the late eighteenth through to the twentieth century. It examines the wide variety of violent means by which colonies and empire were maintained in the modern era, the politics of repression and the violent structures inherent in empire. Bringing together scholars from around the world, the book includes chapters on British, French, Dutch, Italian and Japanese colonies

• Author : Alison Dundes Renteln
• Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
• Release : 30 July 2021

Publisher's description: In a trial in California, Navajo defendants argue that using the hallucinogen peyote to achieve spiritual exaltation is protected by the Constitution's free exercise of religion clause, trumping the states' right to regulate them. An Ibo man from Nigeria sues Pan American World Airways for transporting his mother's corpse in a cloth sack. Her arrival for the funeral face down in a burlap bag signifies death by suicide according to the customs of her Ibo kin, and brings

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 30 July 1878