Author: Angus McLaren
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: history, modern, blackmail, sexual
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2002-11-04
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 067400924X
ISBN-13: 9780674009240

Sexual blackmail first reached public notice in the late eighteenth century when laws against sodomy were exploited by the unscrupulous to extort money from those they could entrap. Angus McLaren chronicles this parasitic crime, tracing its expansion in England and the United States through the Victorian era and into the first half of the twentieth century. The labeling of certain sexual acts as disreputable, if not actually criminal--abortion, infidelity, prostitution, and homosexuality--armed would-be blackmailers and led to a crescendo of court cases and public scandals in the 1920s and 1

Author: Karla McLaren
Publisher: Sounds True, Incorporated
Keywords: genius, emotional
Published: 2005-12-01
List price: $69.95
ISBN-10: 1591793963
ISBN-13: 9781591793960

Every one of us, at some time in our lives, has met a genius ? someone who has mastered an intellectual or artistic domain beyond the grasp of others. But there is another form of genius ? a rare brilliance found in those who are both graceful and compassionate under pressure, who face their most difficult feelings with openness and attention, and who have the uncanny ability to transform the temperaments of those around them. What are the keys to these extraordinary gifts? Can anyone learn them? On Emotional Genius, you will learn that all of your emotions ? even your darkest and most difficu

Author: Angus McLaren
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: sexuality, relations, past, social, times, family, century, history, twentieth
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 1999-09-15
List price: $48.95
ISBN-10: 0631208135
ISBN-13: 9780631208136

This book provides a fascinating history of sexuality in twentieth-century Europe and North America. Angus McLaren draws upon legal, medical and literary sources to demonstrate how modern sexuality has been shaped by race, class, gender and generational preoccupations.

Author: Brian D. McLaren
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Keywords: bass, jossey, leadership, network, series, journey, spiritual, kind, christian, tale, friends, new
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2008-04-18
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0470248408
ISBN-13: 9780470248409

A Leadership Network Publication A New Kind of Christian’s conversation between a pastor and his daughter’s high school science teacher reveals that wisdom for life’s most pressing spiritual questions can come from the most unlikely sources. This stirring fable captures a new spirit of Christianity--where personal, daily interaction with God is more important than institutional church structures, where faith is more about a way of life than a system of belief, where being authentically good is more important than being doctrinally "right," and where one’s directi

Author: Karla McLaren
Publisher: Weiser Books
Keywords: manual, owner, chakras, amp, aura
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 1998-10-01
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 1578630479
ISBN-13: 9781578630479

A clear and comprehensive text for the restoration and maintenance of your subtle energy system. McLaren, who has worked with survivors of abuse and trauma, shows how to clear the chakras of old hurts and to cleanse and strengthen the aura for protection against invasive energy. Bibliography. Index.

Authors:S.J. McLaren, D.R. Kniveton,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: change, global, research, advances, volume, surface, climate, land, linking
Number of Pages: 276
Published: 2000-10
List price: $139.00
ISBN-10: 0792366387
ISBN-13: 9780792366386

Our views and understanding of variations in climate, geomorphological processes and the interrelationships that exist between climatic changes and land surface changes, both now and in the past, have developed greatly over the last decade. This book aims to encapsulate some of these recent advances and focuses on the integration of research that has been conducted by geomorphologists and climatologists on linking climate and land surface changes. This book is divided into two main parts: Section A incorporates research that has concentrated on short-term variations in climate, whils

Author: Anne McLaren
Publisher: Council of Europe
Keywords: cloning, eye, ethical
Number of Pages: 190
Published: 2003-03
List price: $23.00
ISBN-10: 9287147027
ISBN-13: 9789287147028

Will therapeutic cloning lead to cloning humans? Should we be lead by technology or first define the world in which we want to live? Bringing together the views of scientists, philosophers, lawyers and journalists, this title answers the questions explains the ethical issues behind the subject.