Control and Protect


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Control and Protect explores the meaning and significance of efforts designed to combat sex trafficking in the United States. A striking case study of the new ways in which law enforcement agents, social service providers, and nongovernmental advocates have joined forces in this campaign, this book reveals how these collaborations consolidate state power and carceral control. This book examines how partnerships forged in the name of fighting domestic sex trafficking have blurred the boundaries between punishment and protection, victim and offender, and state and nonstate authority.




Privacy is Power


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An Economist Book of the Year Every minute of every day, our data is harvested and exploited… It is time to pull the plug on the surveillance economy. Governments and hundreds of corporations are spying on you, and everyone you know. They're not just selling your data. They're selling the power to influence you and decide for you. Even when you've explicitly asked them not to. Reclaiming privacy is the only way we can regain control of our lives and our societies. These governments and corporations have too much power, and their power stems from us--from our data. Privacy is as collective as it is personal, and it's time to take back control. Privacy Is Power tells you how to do exactly that. It calls for the end of the data economy and proposes concrete measures to bring that end about, offering practical solutions, both for policymakers and ordinary citizens.




Mormon's Map


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As the ancient prophet Mormon edited the scriptural texts that would become the Book of Mormon, he must have had a map in his mind of the places and physical features that comprised the setting for the events described in that book. Mormon's Map is Book of Mormon scholar John Sorenson's reconstruction of that mental map solely from information gleaned from the text after years of intensive study. He describes his method; establishes the overall shape of Book of Mormon lands; sorts out details of topography, distance, direction, climate, and civilization; and treats issues of historical geography. The resultant map will facilitate analysis of geography-related issues in the Book of Mormon narrative and also be of help in evaluating theories about where in the real world the Nephite lands were located.




Protect the Dream


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In Protect the Dream, renowned author and speaker Kit Cummings urges young athletes to be the change they seek. His forty-day plan outlines an actionable route to break unhealthy habits and replace them with the skills and perspective needed to exceed your goals. Success happens not only on the field, but with your team, in your school, and within your community. In tandem with the Power of Peace Project¿s Protect the Dream Campaign, this workbook leads athletic programs to fulfill this outreach through powerful messages from iconic coaches and athletes. Each featured highlight is supplemented with thought-provoking exercises meant to encourage team building, character growth, and strong leadership skills.Protect the Dream challenges youth to dream big and never stop. How far will you go?




Protection of Foreign Interests


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Practical Protection Magick


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Embrace your innate warrior skills--knowledge, balance, and wisdom--and amp up your personal power. This helpful handbook is chock-full of protection witchery and psychic self-defense techniques you can use to keep yourself and your home strong, secure, and protected. With her trademark humor and candor, best-selling author Ellen Dugan teaches how to weave safe and sensible protection magick into your Craft practice and daily life. This unique practical guide reveals how to pinpoint your psychic strengths, set boundaries, diagnose a problem with divination, and maintain health on physical, psychic, and magickal levels. You'll also find precise and potent spells, rituals, and warding techniques to defend against psychic attacks, emotional and psychic vampires, hexes, unwanted ghosts, and other forms of negativity threatening your home and your well-being.




Protect Your Energy


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If you're tired of other people's energy throwing off your goals & dreams, then keep reading... Have you ever wanted to express yourself the way you want, without letting outside energy negatively affect you? All too often, we let external energy invade our boundaries & lower our vibration. This tragically leads to us living nowhere near our best lives. But what if you could discover how to easily take ownership of your energy & become as unshakable as a mountain? What would your life be like if you could protect your own energy with healthy & firm boundaries? There is simply no reason for you not to live an abundant, happy, & fulfilled life, free of harmful energetic influences surrounding & imposing your space. The Earth is full of Source energy. Its source is always receiving and sending energy to all creation. Connecting to the Earth is not a luxury but a deep need. A study carried out by the University of Arizona researched the harmful effects of a living entity being separated from its direct source. The experiment compared two sunflowers. One of them would be grounded to the Earth, and the other would not. The sunflower, which was not grounded, had a huge decline in health. Researchers noted that the ungrounded sunflower appeared "stressed" while the grounded sunflower appeared to be vibrant. Most of us are living with high stress or depression simply because we have lost touch with the Earth's energy. Inside you'll discover: What in your own home is creating openings for toxic energy to infiltrate your aura Why negative entities keep imposing on your auric space & how to fix it The chaotic energy that is badly affecting your mind, body, & spirit without you realizing The actual reason why energy vampires are bleeding you dry The visualization secret to avoid a FATAL opening that allows negative attachments to enter The covert signs to tell when you're in the presence of an energy vampire that no one told you about The unseen ways energy vampires are manipulating you The habit you're indulging in that's allowing hazardous invaders to cause irreparable damage How to free yourself of these shackles the media is using to enslave your mind Unparalleled guided daily energy protection meditations to boost & strengthen your aura A treasure-trove of *bonuses*, including a companion video course with over 4.5 hours of empowering content, energy-tapping videos, powerful guided meditations, journals, & so much more. 'Protect Your Energy' will empower you regardless of your background, even if you have weak boundaries or give away your energy too easily. This is because the same energy that created the universe lives within you. This easy-to-follow, uplifting, & vibration-boosting guide is a must-read, even if you're an experienced energy healer, or even if you're completely new to energy work . So, if you want to repel toxic energy & stand your ground like an impenetrable fortress, then turn the first page.




Sovereignty and the Responsibility to Protect


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This book explores how the bedrock institution of today’s global order – sovereignty – is undergoing transformation as a result of complex interactions between power and norms, between politics and international law. This book analyses a series of controversial military interventions into the internal affairs of "irresponsible sovereigns" and discusses their consequences for the rules on the use of force and the principle of sovereign equality. Featuring case studies on Kosovo, Darfur and Afghanistan, It shows that frames from one discourse (for example the debate over the responsibility to protect) have been imported into other discourses (on counter-terrorism and nuclear non-proliferation) in an attempt to legitimize a bold challenge to the global legal order. Although the ‘demise’ of sovereignty is widely debated, this book instead seeks to ‘deconstruct’ sovereignty by explaining how this institution has been reconstituted by global powers whose hegemonic law-making activities have popularized the notion of sovereignty as responsibility. Drawing on international relations theory, international law and sociology, Sovereignty and the Responsibility to Protect develops a truly interdisciplinary perspective on the transformation of sovereignty and will be of strong interest to students and scholars in these fields.




International Authority and the Responsibility to Protect


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The idea that states and the international community have a responsibility to protect populations at risk has framed internationalist debates about conflict prevention, humanitarian aid, peacekeeping and territorial administration since 2001. This book situates the responsibility to protect concept in a broad historical and jurisprudential context, demonstrating that the appeal to protection as the basis for de facto authority has emerged at times of civil war or revolution - the Protestant revolutions of early modern Europe, the bourgeois and communist revolutions of the following centuries and the revolution that is decolonisation. This analysis, from Hobbes to the UN, of the resulting attempts to ground authority on the capacity to guarantee security and protection is essential reading for all those seeking to understand, engage with, limit or critique the expansive practices of international executive action authorised by the responsibility to protect concept.




To Serve and Protect


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Traces the accelerating trend towards privatization in the criminal justice system In contrast to government's predominant role in criminal justice today, for many centuries crime control was almost entirely private and community-based. Government police forces, prosecutors, courts, and prisons are all recent historical developments–results of a political and bureaucratic social experiment which, Bruce Benson argues, neither protects the innocent nor dispenses justice. In this comprehensive and timely book, Benson analyzes the accelerating trend toward privatization in the criminal justice system. In so doing, To Serve and Protect challenges and transcends both liberal and conservative policies that have supported government's pervasive role. With lucidity and rigor, he examines the gamut of private-sector input to criminal justice–from private-sector outsourcing of prisons and corrections, security, arbitration to full "private justice" such as business and community-imposed sanctions and citizen crime prevention. Searching for the most cost-effective methods of reducing crime and protecting civil liberties, Benson weighs the benefits and liabilities of various levels of privatization, offering correctives for the current gridlock that will make criminal justice truly accountable to the citizenry and will simultaneously result in reductions in the unchecked power of government.