"Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag." In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father's junkyard. The family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure...

True stories and poems about domestic violence, including the effects of physical, emotional, and sexual violence on children, dating teens, and married women, and stories of healing that break the cycle of violence.

A thrilling ride through D.C.'s criminal justice, as Assistant U.S. Attorney Anna Curtis makes a series of choices that jeopardizes her career, her relationships, and her very life.

"Éstas y más preguntas se resolverón a lo largo de las capítulos de este libro, gracias a la intervención de las voces expertas de Moisés Laniado Kassin, Katina Medina Mora, Josefina Lira Plascencia, Francisco lbargüengoitia Ochoa, Marcos Pérez Esquer, María Beatriz Müler, Liliana Mora Espinosa, María del Rosario Alfaro Martínez, Denisse Meade Guaudry y María Cecilia López, bajo la coordinación de Josefina Vázquez Mota. Asimismo, las...

"Dr. Cherry Weber is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist. She received her doctorate in 1980 from the University of Southern Mississippi. With more than 30 years of experience, she has developed expertise in many areas of psychology, with a special interest in abuse recovery. She has worked with violent men in a prison system, has served as the Director of a Women?s inpatient unit, has worked extensively with the family court system as a custody evaluator,...