A Romance of Two Worlds (Dodo Press)

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Regarded as the most influential occult novel of its time!

Electricity and Occult Christianity.

Extremely occult . . . and extremely beautiful

A wonderful spiritual adventure!

A GREAT CREATIVE WRITER, BUT TERRIBLE PHILOSOPHER.

A Romance of Two Worlds (Dodo Press)
Marie Corelli
Manufacturer: Dodo Press
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ASIN: 1406515442

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Mary Mackay was a British novelist who began her career as a musician, adopting the name Marie Corelli for her billing. She gave up music, turning to writing instead and in 1886 published her first novel, A Romance of Two Worlds. In her time, she was the most widely read author of fiction but came under harsh criticism from many of the literary elite for her overly melodramatic and emotional writing.

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Well, you seem to ask me by your eyes what this all means. I will apply it at once to myself. By my researches into human electrical science, I discovered that my companion, my other half of existence, though not on earth, was near me, and could be commanded by me; and, on being commanded, obeyed. With Zara it was different. She could not command--she obeyed; she was the weaker of the two.

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Regarded as the most influential occult novel of its time!.......2005-10-04

This novel is Corelli's premiere in the world of fiction. It features dream-magic, mesmerism, with many and varied opium-induced occult powers complete with a world-weary & emotionally crumbling heroine on a quest for the meaning of life - resulting in a cosmic journey by means of astral projection with an angelic guide, embodying a trip to utopian Saturn, to technologically bizarre Jupiter and to the center of the universe, the place of creation, where God dwells in electrical form. Corelli combines weird science and spiritualism. It is a wild and strange trip to dip into Corelli's world but worth the ride. A delectably fantastic combination of feminine occult powers combined with sci-fi surrealism.

Electricity and Occult Christianity........2005-01-14

_A Romance of Two Worlds_ by Victorian novelist Marie Corelli is a majestic tale full at once of mystery, intrigue, romance, and the occult revealing the inner meaning of Christianity in beautiful prose. Marie Corelli was an English novelist of the Victorian era who was much criticized in her day for her scathing criticism of the materialism, positivism, and scientism popular in the late Nineteenth century as revealed in her novels. This novel expounds an occult theory of Christianity based on electricity. At the same time however, the author decries the excesses of spiritism that had made their way to fill in the gap left by materialist philosophy. The author does not espouse any particular creed of Christianity, though this novel focuses upon Catholicism; however, her theory of the occult essence in electricity is unique. This is what makes up her "Electric Creed of Christianity". The book includes an introduction and preface written by the author as well as an appendix containing letters testifying to the uniqueness of Marie Corelli's spiritualism. Corelli was obviously influenced by Swedenborgianism and Theosophy as well which can be seen in the novel in several places.

This novel tells the tale of the author, a pianist, who has become ill with a physical depression due to overwork. At the request of her doctor, who has run out of cures, she is advised to leave London and head for warmer climes. She travels with two friends, an American colonel and his wife. She arrives in Cannes where she meets the artist, Raffaelo Cellini, who has acquired an amazing system of color and who offers to paint her portrait. Although she is ill, she decides to allow him to do so. While Cellini is painting her portrait he offers her a magic elixer which provides her with three visions of a mysterious individual known as Heliobas. She is to find out that Heliobas is the artist's master and that he had saved Cellini from a similar depression. She is given a book to examine which reveals the hidden spiritual meaning in music and she also meets Heliobas' incredible Newfoundland dog Leo who travels back and forth from Paris where Heliobas resides bringing messages. Cellini agrees to have her meet Heliobas who will be able to cure her through his wonderful electrical powers. The author travels to Paris where she meets Heliobas and is given special potions which enable her to make a full recovery. She also meets Heliobas' sister Zara, a sculptress impressive in her own right, and their friend Prince Ivan. Heliobas is a mysterious Chaldean who has mastered the art of electricity. He allows the author to experience entirely new realms, including interplanetary travel in which she sees for herself the glories of God, the angelic being Azul (Heliobas' "twin soul"), her own guardian angel, and the mysteries of Christianity. All of this is accomplished through what Marie Corelli calls "electricity". Zara herself is possessed of special electrical powers and wears a special stone which serves to channel her electrical charge. The book encompasses at once mystery, romance, tragedy, and yet it offers hope through Christian belief against the materialism and atheism of the age. Throughout Corelli notes how many have scoffed at traditional belief in Christ and that few will understand her novel or its inner meaning. The novel also offers philosophical proof for the existence of God and the truth of God incarnate as Christ. The writing is beautiful and majestic, truly appealing to the inner soul. This novel remains a unique experience among Victorian writers and represents the first attempt of Marie Corelli at writing novels.

Extremely occult . . . and extremely beautiful.......2002-05-29

To which literary genre does "Romance of Two Worlds" belong? It has sci-fi, fantasy, and occult elements. It offers some adventure, some romance, and some mystery. What is most striking, however, is that the plot is about a spiritual quest--the kind everyone feels the need to begin, sooner or later, when the world's answers no longer satisfy one's questions.

Marie Corelli's nameless narrator represents the seeking soul in all of us. Yet, at the beginning of the story, she appears to have given up the search. Unlike those who have never bothered to search and do not mind being in the dark, she is wasting away in mind, body and spirit. Then she meets a mysterious painter who asks to do her portrait. It is in his studio that she has her first supernatural experience, which rejuvenates her body and rekindles her need to find the answers.

Her first teacher is another mysterious figure, a Chaldean named Heliobas. (It is hinted in some chapters that he may be one of the identities of the Avatar known as the Comte de St. Germaine. I'm keeping an open mind.) Naturally, most of the world sees him as eccentric and frightening: his strange experiments with electricity and his radical takes on everything (including the books of the bible) make him a fascinating teacher to those who have "eyes to see and ears to hear," but a threat to society to those who remain in the dark.

Here is how Corelli's writing can be so off-putting. Nobody likes thinking that he or she is in the dark about anything; yet Corelli stoutly implies that this must be so for those who do not believe in her blatantly occult themes. Then she goes on to combine occult and Christian elements, creating a bizarre form of esoteric Christianity that she presents as TRUTH.

Yet let's not quibble over terminology. So what if Corelli believes that the soul is literally electric and that Heaven is a great electric circle? Other writers have made similar guesses about the soul and about Heaven, using safe words like "love" or "light." When we read that Jesus' body was electrically charged, which was why he could heal through touch, we can at least be impressed by the spunk it took to say such a thing in Victorian England.

Ultimately, everyone gets to write the story of his or her soul's search for God and to discover that the many different stories are just retellings of the same one. This retelling is particularly lovely, due to Corelli's descriptive and reverent style. It is with great passion that the heroine declares: "I desire to know why this world, this universe exists; and I also wish to prove, if possible, the truth and necessity of religion. And I think I would give my life, if it were worth anything, to be certain of the truth of Christianity."

I don't want to reveal the reason why the novel's title is "Romance of Two Worlds", because behind it is a fascinating twist that I think all readers should discover on their own. Don't worry that the book is all dialogue and teaching, however, as the plot takes many unexpected turns.

Other books in what has been called the "Heliobas triology" are "Ardath" and "The Soul of Lilith". However, it is "The Life Everlasting" that is the proper continuation of "Romance of Two Worlds", as it leads our heroine to a romance of her very own.

A wonderful spiritual adventure!.......1999-05-20

I was compelled to read from cover to cover and the left the Romance inspired with renewed hope....renewed spirit. You might also like ANGELES IN HARSH WORLD, by Don Bradley. Another wonderful, mystical adventure.

A GREAT CREATIVE WRITER, BUT TERRIBLE PHILOSOPHER........1998-12-23

I read Marie Corelli's first mystical novel The Romance of Two Worlds after being told that it was the favorite novel of Queen Victoria and Italy's Queen Margherita. I thought the language was beautiful and, alas, majestic. Marie Corelli possessed a brilliant mind, she spoke so cleverly about everything. Every logician would agree that The Romance of two Worlds is a convincing long argument in which Marie Corelli tries to convince the public of her beliefs. However, the problem with her argument is that it contains every one of The Major Informal Fallacies. Especially the appeal to force (argument ad baculum), for example: believe in God, or forever be condemned. Indeed, this is what makes the novel (or argument) faulty; at the prologue of the novel she disputes the fallacies of different theorists, and yet makes fallacies of her own throughout the book! This book is very creative and descriptive - a very beautiful picture of England during an age of universal inquiry and universal skepticism - but utterly unbelievable. The reader, unless ignorant, won't believe a word Corelli says - and shouldn't.

On the Lines of Morris' Romances: Two Books That Inspired J. R. R. Tolkien-The Wood Beyond the World and the Well at the World's End

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On the Lines of Morris' Romances: Two Books That Inspired J. R. R. Tolkien-The Wood Beyond the World and the Well at the World's End
William Morris
Manufacturer: Inkling Books
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Tolkien fans who long for more of the same delight that they get from The Lord of the Rings will find it in the writings of William Morris, for it was he who created the literary style that J. R. R. Tolkien brought to such perfection in his tales. As a young man writing to his future wife, Tolkien mentioned the inspiration he was receiving from Morris:

"Amongst other work I am trying to turn one of the short stories [of the Finnish Kalevala] . . . into a short story somewhat on the lines of Morris' romances with chunks of poetry in between."

Forty-six years later, Tolkien still remembered what he had learned from Morris:

"The Lord of the Rings was actually begun, as a separate thing, about 1937, and had reached the inn at Bree, before the shadow of the second war. . . . The Dead Marshes and the approaches to the Morannon owe something to Northern France after the Battle of the Somme. They owe more to William Morris and his Huns and Romans, as in The House of the Wolfings or The Roots of the Mountains."

As The Lord of the Rings was being written, Tolkien's close friend, C. S. Lewis, wrote that Morris provides his readers with a "pleasure so inexhaustible that after twenty or fifty years of reading they find it worked so deeply into all their emotions as to defy analysis." In words that could apply equally well to Tolkien, he said:

It is indeed, this matter-of-factness . . . which lends to all of Morris's stories their somber air of conviction. Other stories have only scenery; his have geography. He is not concerned with 'painting' landscapes; he tells you the lie of the land, and then you paint the landscapes for yourself. To a reader long fed on the almost botanical and entomological niceties of much modern fiction . . . the effect is at first very pale and cold, but also fresh and spacious. No mountains in literature are as far away as distant mountains in Morris. The world of his imagining is as windy, as tangible, as resonant and three dimensional, as that of Scott and Homer.

If you enjoy what Tolkien wrote about Aragorn, if you admire the bravery of the Riders of Rohan, if you long for more tales of adventure in a vast and unspoiled wilderness, and if you wish that Tolkien had more to say about the courage of women or about romances between men and women, then you will be delighted by these two marvelous tales from the pen of the gifted William Morris.

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Excellent bargain.......2005-11-13

This book is a fantastic buy! The Well Beyond The World's End is usually published in 2 volumes, so this edition includes the text of 3 books that would normally cost you about $42 if purchased separately.

The text is printed in two columns, as in a magazine. It's very readable and aesthetically pleasing (don't judge by the unfortunate cover). The only downside is that Morris originally published his books in an elaborate illuminated manuscript style (like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Kelmscott_Press_-_The_Nature_of_Gothic_by_John_Ruskin_%28first_page%29.jpg). Unfortunately no modern printing of Morris seems to include his gorgeous original format. On the plus side, this edition is definitely more readable.

As for the stories themselves, I think it's fair to say Tolkien (and to a degree C.S. Lewis) retained every innovation Morris made, more or less replacing him. It's likely that only hardcore Tolkien/Lewis fans will find these books worth reading. This and the companion volume are the closest thing to the LOTR prequel.

The text is widely available free online (though it's not fun to read on a screen), so you might test a few pages before committing to a purchase:
http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/m#a107

Between Two Worlds: The Story of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn and Her Celtic Heritage (Healing Arts)

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This book needed a good editor
Between two Worlds: The Story of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn

Between Two Worlds: The Story of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn and Her Celtic Heritage (Healing Arts)
Kathleen Ann Milner
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Kathleen Milner expands upon her ability to weave facts, characters and settings into a very different tale of Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII. It is a story with a touch of mystery and romance that also fits into the unbiased historical evidence. Included within the first part of the book are scenes of Anne's paternal Irish grandmother patiently teaching Anne the ways of healing and the natural world. After her death, Anne protects her daughter, Princess Elizabeth, from the Otherside of the Veil. In the second part of the book the author tells another story of how the information for the book came to her, both in research and through psychic experiences. What is the practical application in personal life and business of skills learned in metaphysical classes? What does the afterlife, the world of Spirit, hold? Would it be surprising to learn that the Tudors were responsible for the rumor that Richard III was a hunchback or that Henry VIII worked with astronomers/astrologers?

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Excellent example on why to never self-publish!.......2007-04-06

I posted a review a week ago and Amazon didn't put it up. Perhaps they didn't care for my headline: "Save your money."

The brutal Courier font is your first clue that it is strictly amateur night with this opus.

Thirty seconds of serious browsing will tell you that this is not history, historical fiction or even a candied up romance novel, but a New Ager with a point to make. I don't mind that sort of thing, just don't expect me to buy faux history, I've seen too many History Channel episodes on the period. You can get the same info for free using Google.

The reviewer waiting for an edited version will never see it. No professional publisher will touch this book, and free lance editors cost money, far more than the writer will get back in sales.

I speculate that the writer tried to go through proper publishing channels, was properly rejected, and rather than trying to improve, she ducked into the great limbo of self-publishing and there remains.

The book has lots of stilted dialogue! We're getting a lesson! A character asks a question and a wise person responds with a lengthy reply! (Usually ending with one of these: !) Then a character asks another question (often unrelated to the first) and guess what happens next? (!) (!) (!) This goes on for page after dreary page despite the exciting punctuation.

The writer should have just pasted in the FAQ page of her website, it would have read faster. Links to Wikipedia snubs would have been faster still.

Dear writer, you are trying to do some good--I can see that--but your execution is inept. This is FIXABLE if you put some effort into it.

Read Strunk & White's "Elements of Style," and hie thee swiftly to a real writer's workshop where you can get some serious feedback on how to improve your craft.

Your friends who applaud everything in an effort to be supportive are not helping you. I refer, of course, to the sock puppet blather below. That's just plain enabling. Consider the other 1-star reviews as a drenching bucket of cold reality: unpleasant, but it wakes you up.

(I *hope* it's a sock puppet. I'd hate to think the reviewer was that simple-minded.)

This was a good idea, badly executed.

Whaaaatttt?????.......2006-06-30

This has to rank as one of the most ridiculously premised, awkwardly written and badly edited books I have ever attempted to read. I had really high hopes based on the summary ... but wow. I couldn't keep reading after the first few pages. And I am a voracious reader of books on Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII, AND I am open to New Age ideas, so I was a receptive audience. But this one .....no way.

This book needed a good editor.......2005-11-13

I could hardly wait to read this book! It seemed to have everything! Henry V111, Anne Boleyn! Celtic Heritage! Just my kind of book! The inside cover notes that it is an unpublished manuscript, and apparently, an unedited one! The author must not know that sentences end with a PERIOD! Almost all her sentences end with an exclamation mark! By page 70, I gave up the ghost and decided to wait till the edited version comes out!

If reading my review with all the exclamation points doesn't bother you, then the book is for you. But it bothered me to the point it ruined the book and I didn't finish it. It seemed so amateurishly written it was a waste of my time to read it.

Between two Worlds: The Story of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn.......2004-05-24

Between Two Worlds is an amazing book with so many messages and much knowledge. Sometimes, I not only saw the story unfolding in my mind, but I had the feeling that I was there. When this happened my hands would warm up and energy ran up and down through my body. It was almost as if I was remembering and it was quite an experience! I thank Kathleen so much for writing this wonderful book. It has opened a new dimension in my life.

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Stranger in Two Worlds
Jean Harris
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Bogus pity party.......2007-07-09

I went to Jean Harris's high school in Cleveland, OH. Naturally, she was the biggest celebrity alumni ever produced and everyone knew and followed her story from murder to prison. Now that she's out of prison, and being that it's nearly 30 years later, maybe Jean feels differently about her actions. I feel differently about this than I did years ago. But her book now makes me just as angry as it did when I first read it years ago.

Jean Harris grew up as a young lady of privilage from an old fashioned world that seems like some distant fairy tale. I picture a world of cotillian balls, white dresses and gloves, cocktail parties, butlers, etc. She married and taught school for several years, eventually divorcing and becoming the head of an exclusive girls' school in Virginia. She becomes involved with a man named Herman Taunower, future author of the Scarsdale Diet and her victim in a botched murder / suicide.

She does a good job of laying the ground work for the crime. Being in such a position as head of a private school she was under constant pressure and working very hard to keep the machine running. Her relationship with Taunower was codependent and seemingly tempestuous. They were engaged to be married early in the relationship, but they both backed off, settling for a lifelong non cohabitational partnership. They seemed far from happy, despite their understanding. Herman was not faithful to her, and he made no secrets about it. Yet, Jean seemed to accept this. Her job took a lot out of her, and Herman was prescribing pills for her to keep going and calm her down. Soon she was hooked and had to keep going to him for more.

The straw that broke the camel's back for her was a combination of things. She had run out of pills, couldn't get a pharmacy to fill them, and had a discipline situation at her school. A few students were busted for pot, and she had to do something about it. The anger from the student population and conflicting sides was tearing her apart. And although she was well aware of his infidelity, she seemed to focus all her anger onto one of the "other women". She saw his office assistant as a trophy wife type, a bimbo not worthy of a man like Herman and not her equal. Read her suicide letter, about how she made references to "her t--- all frosted with chocolate" and things. Jealousy. That's all it is.

Killing Herman? Well, all I can say is that she shouldn't have done it. If she really wanted to kill herself, she would have done it. And she didn't have to do it in front of him. SHe would have gone off someplace and done it on her own time. I think she intended to kill him then herself. Otherwise why didn't she just DO IT? Instead she couldn't bring herself to do the deed to herself.

As for her time in prison, it's deserved. She killed the man, she should serve the time. But, we all know that prison isn't a pleasent experience. You are stripped of your dignity and privacy for the crime you committed, that's the price you pay. She made use of her time, educating and working while behind bars, instead of rotting away.

Now that she's been out for many years and left to spend her remaining years in seclusion away from the public eye and out of the slammer, maybe she regrets her actions. Free of her addictions, free of her jealousy, free of the man who caused all the problems, she probably has a different perspective. My mom said to me "a lovely lady like her shouldn't have been put away like that." I say "Well she shouldn't have shot the guy, she committed a crime." I hope her woman scorned routine was worth it, as she lost several productive years.

Wonderful Insider's View.......2000-04-04

Jean Harris'"Stranger In Two Worlds" is a remarkable document of an upper middle class woman's experience in a state prison. Her descriptions of the circumstances and characters are colorful and tragic, and yet full of unexpected humor. She describes her fight to retain her dignity and gain dignity for young mothers in prison by founding an in-prison day care center so that inmates may remain connected, in a positive way, with their young children. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in the justice system, the prison world, or women's rights.

Goodbye Sweetheart and The Girls They Left Behind: Two Great Novels

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Goodbye Sweetheart and The Girls They Left Behind: Two Great Novels
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This is a baroque tale of a hero in love with a supernal angel but not yet worthy of union with her. It travels back in time 7000 years to a sweepingly fantastic world, undergoing transformative adventures. It's said that Corelli liked this book more than any of her others but it sold the least copies. Her publisher thought that it might have been "over the heads of the public." A thoroughly interesting and worthwhile story. The book itself is not dates, but from all appearances it looks to have been printed around the 1890's, so that is the publication date given in this listing.

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Between two worlds,: The romance of Jesus,

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More male bashing propoganda

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In response

Very Helpfull

Irresponsible use of empirical data.

Domestic Violence Sourcebook, The
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A comprehensive, compassionate look at domestic violence--including historical, psychological, social, familial, and legal issues--this well-organized, accessible book offers the most current information available on prevention and recovery, along with practical steps for escaping a violent domestic situation.

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More male bashing propoganda.......2006-11-21

Unfortunately, rather than taking on a very important social issue with objectivity and truth, the book simply repeates completely unfounded propoganda that women are the victim in "85%+" of cases. Anyone interested, do what I did (/do) as part of my employment -- go to your local family court and watch on domestic violence day(s). No one will be able to pull the anti-male wool over your eyes after that. Men are the plaintiff in about 35% of the cases -- and we need to keep in mind that men are far less likely to step forward and are far more likely to be ridiculed, harassed, and treated dismissively at every step in the process (for example - 90%+ of all domestic violence shelters have "women" somewhere in their title...not exactly an invitation to a male who desperately needs help).

Sadly, this kind of "book" (with dubious sources when they bother to give a source at all) perpetuates the myths and does great harm by keeping the +/- 40% of victims who need help oppressed.

Great Book.......2006-08-16

Ladies, if you're a victim, read this book. (And I say "Ladies" because--despite what the woefully misinformed individual below tells his "clients"--women DO make up the HUGE majority of victims.)

In response.......2004-10-12

Just in response to a previous reviewer- As a domestic violence education professional, I assure you that all reputable sources on domestic violence agree that women make up the overwhelming majority of victims of DV (these statistics vary from the 80s to the high 90s in terms of percentages).

Very Helpfull.......2000-09-21

Very helpfull for anyone who wants to understand the Why's, What's and When's of domestic violence.

Irresponsible use of empirical data........1999-09-21

Although this book could be of some use and help to female victims of domestic violence, the book itself is simplistic, and it is irresponsible of the author to suggest that virtually only women are victims of this form of violence. The author is either unaware or does not acknowledge the strong empirical data that sharply disagrees with her use of statistics. I cannot recommend to any client in my practice a book which is so blatently incorrect in its research on this subject. There are many other books available on the subject of domestic violence that I believe women would find of much more use to them.

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As a comprehensive information source on violence against women, this book is an unsurpassed resource for students, practitioners, and academics.

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ASIN: 0780802357

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Domestic violence has been recognized as a national epidemic. Approximately four million women are victims of an assault by an intimate partner on an annual basis. The cost of nonfatal domestic violence against women was estimated at $3.7 billion annually in 1991. Treatment specialists and researchers are still working to understand the causes of domestic violence and to create preventive measures against it.

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Lethal Violence: A Sourcebook on Fatal Domestic, Acquaintance and Stranger Aggression applies the lethal violence sequence analysis to a wide-ranging array of fatal aggression, resulting in a multitude of observations and principles of violence. This sourcebook provides base rate information and cases for each type of fatal interaction, then applies the knowledge to violence-related situations and settings.

Lethal Violence, 2000 : a Sourcebook on Fatal Domestic, Acquaintance and Stranger Aggression

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Lethal Violence, 2000 : a Sourcebook on Fatal Domestic, Acquaintance and Stranger Aggression
Harold V. (Editor) Hall
Manufacturer: Pacific Institute for the St
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000LZOPD2

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