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The Chatroom


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In 1995 Stephan Fletcher disappeared from a computer laboratory in the middle of the night. An investigation led to the discovery that the chatroom he had been visiting had played host to seven people from three different continents; in the past three months, six had died and now Fletcher had disappeared. Was Fletcher another victim of a fatal "accident" or had he somehow orchestrated the deaths? Looking back on the incident from the year 2045, the magazine "Mysteries of the Past" builds a case against Fletcher and re-examines all the known facts. An innovative style of writing combines both newspaper articles and excerpts from the magazine with chatroom dialogue to lead you through the events of 1995 in "Paul's Restroom."




The Seduction of Children


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This highly accessible and informative book offers practical strategies for the protection of children that all parents, teachers, and anyone involved in the life of a child will find indispensable. Providing the reader with an understanding of typical/normative sexual development in children, Christiane Sanderson enables parents and teachers to distinguish this from atypical sexual development and recognize the warning signs of sexual abuse. The more knowledgeable and comfortable teachers and parents are, the easier it is for them to understand and talk openly with children about sexual development - this book offers guidance on discussing appropriate and inappropriate touching/behaviours and the dangers of sexual abuse in an age-sensitive way. The author presents information about abusers and how to protect against their attempts to gain access to a child through grooming children, parents and other adults, including up-to-date information on the use of the Internet and mobile phones. Armed with the accurate knowledge and practical guidance on child sexual abuse provided in this book, parents, teachers, and professionals will be able to confront the threat their children may face and take practical steps to protect against it.




Sexual Abuse


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Explains what sexual abuse is, discusses the most common forms, and explores ways to recover from abuse.




ICQ FYI


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Contains information on using ICQ, a free software chat and messaging system.




Popular Fads and Crazes through American History [2 volumes]


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This informative two-volume set provides readers with an understanding of the fads and crazes that have taken America by storm from colonial times to the present. Entries cover a range of topics, including food, entertainment, fashion, music, and language. Why could hula hoops and TV westerns only have been found in every household in the 1950s? What murdered Russian princess can be seen in one of the first documented selfies, taken in 1914? This book answers those questions and more in its documentation of all of the most captivating trends that have defined American popular culture since before the country began. Entries are well-researched and alphabetized by decade. At the start of every section is an insightful historical overview of the decade, and the set uniquely illustrates what today's readers have in common with the past. It also contains a Glossary of Slang for each decade as well as a bibliography, plus suggestions for further reading for each entry. Students and readers interested in history will enjoy discovering trends through the years in such areas as fashion, movies, music, and sports.




A Holistic Approach to Rights


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Applying new theories about rights to pressing social issues, A Holistic Approach to Rights suggests major changes are needed in the ways we think about rights and formulating social policy. Part I analyzes rights as networks of warrants--socially recognized sanctions for doing, saying, demanding, believing, feeling, or thinking something as one's due. On this account, rights are more varied and play a more diverse and open-ended role in legal and moral thinking than most theories of rights allow. A new theory of natural rights treats them as claims that every person has upon the state, as a condition of legitimacy, to make adequate provision for those features of human life that require force against persons to be justified. Moral rights, such as the right to the truth, derive from team loyalty due fellow members of the moral community and can be lost by someone who acts in ways that undermine the moral enterprise. Part II provides detailed analyses of affirmative action, group rights, the rights of future generations, reproductive rights, the use of new reproductive technologies, and speech rights. Specific conclusions include an innovative proposal for regulating violence and pornography in the media.




Perfect Strangers


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Looking for love? Tired of expensive traditional dating services, singles dances and being set up? The Internet offers an exciting and successful alternative. Perfect Strangers will guide you through the ins and outs of the exhilarating and sometimes confusing maze of Internet dating. But Perfect Strangers is more than a how-to book. It contains the stories and photographs of people who met their soul mates on the Internet, most after having nearly given up on ever finding love. Their stories will make you laugh and make you cry. But most important, the stories in Perfect Strangers will instill hope by sharing the inspiring stories of people who found love on the Internet, sometimes under the most surprising circumstances. Many people say that meeting the right person is just a numbers game, others say it's fate. As the couples' stories in Perfect Strangers reveal, the Internet satisfies both perspectives. It provides access to thousands of eligible singles along with a healthy dose of fate. Increased personal control coupled with an infinite number of possible love connections and a hefty dose of serendipity make the Internet superior to meeting suitors in traditional ways. You will meet people online whom you would have never met otherwise. One of them could be your soul mate.




The Stranger's Voice


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She wasn't supposed to fall in love with her next door neighbor “Can you hear me?” Adaline Starling needs a new tenant for the flat above her store, and Callum Hague needs somewhere to live. Adaline is a genius, hiding in a magazine store, she has never opened. She is trying to convince the world that she is whole, that there is nothing wrong with her. Callum Hague likes to fix things, preferably thousands of miles away from his hometown. He’s returned from a year long project in Nairobi where he has built a school. They both have hidden imperfections that have shaped their lives from childhood. If they were left to their own devices, they would both become reclusive. Their best friends think they would be perfect for each other and set about fixing them up. It takes a serious incident for them to confess their invisible flaws, but will they accept each other’s hidden imperfection? With supporting characters that include a cheeky apprentice and an overbearing charity chairwoman. Will Adaline turn a deaf ear to everyone’s advice to own her imperfections?




Immigrants on Grindr


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This book examines the role of hook-up apps in the lives of gay, bi, trans, and queer immigrants and refugees, and how the online culture of these platforms promotes belonging or exclusion. Within the context of the so-called European refugee crisis, this research focuses on the experiences of immigrants from especially Muslim-majority countries to the greater Copenhagen area, a region known for both its progressive ideologies and its anti-immigrant practices. Grindr and similar platforms connect newcomers with not only dates and sex, but also friends, roommates and other logistical contacts. But these socio-sexual platforms also become spaces of racialization and othering. Weaving together analyses of real Grindr profile texts, immigrant narratives, political rhetoric, and popular media, Immigrants on Grindr provides an in-depth look at the complex interplay between online and offline cultures, and between technology and society.