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A look at women in prison, this book describes in detail the inhumane psychological conditions in which most incarcerated people have to live. There are few surprises here -- it is nor secret that prisons to nothing to deter crime in the least -- quite the opposite, in fact -- and that most people who are incarcerated could be much more effectively rehabilitated using other means, except for the minority of violent offenders. Although the author gives an accurate and detailed description of prisons as they really are, I doubt if anyone will take notice since she does not go to much trouble to give any reasonable alternatives. An excellent study in one of the most atavistic… Mehr dazu
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In this extremely brief book consisting of four separate essays, Kubler-Ross talks about her meeting with a deceased person (this almost made me put the book down thinking that she was nuts! ), the process of grieving over parents, personal growth and her own mystical experience and near death experience. The book is interesting, but suffers from an extreme bias. It is not dispassionate at all and she seems to wish to push her opinions on others. She claims to have collected over 20,000 NDE reports, but all of her evidence is anecdotal and cannot be backed up. Still, she insists that "there is no death" and uses this as part of her life's philosophy. She may have greater… Mehr dazu
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This book is more speculative than Moody's previous books, but I enjoyed it much more than them perhaps because of that reason. There is little that is new in this book, although he does discusee some additional topics. For example, he defends NDE research as valid against certain critics. he refutes quite easilt Carl Sagan's absurd attempt to related NDE's as engrams from the birth experience and demonstrates that there are no known psychoactive drugs that produce similar symptoms to NDE's in subjects (he places particular emphasis on ketamine for some reason). It makes a good companion to the other books, and I found ot to be more interesting, but it is hard to know what else one… Mehr dazu
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