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"Renowned journalist and author of The Furies Elizabeth Flock investigates what few dare to confront, or even the role and necessity of female-led violence in response to systems built against women. In The Furies , Elizabeth Flock examines how three real-life women have used violence to fight back, and how views of women who defend their lives are often distorted by their depictions in media and pop culture. These three immersive narratives follow...
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"It's time to go beyond all the thoughts and prayers, misguided blame on mental illness, and dug-in disputes over the Second Amendment. Through meticulous reporting and panoramic storytelling, award-winning journalist Mark Follman chronicles the decades-long search for identifiable profiles of mass shooters and brings readers inside a groundbreaking method for preventing devastating attacks. The emerging field of behavioral threat assessment, with...
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"'This collection of short meditations, written from a prison cell, captures the past two decades of police violence that gave rise to Black Lives Matter while digging deeply into the history of the United States. This is the book we need right now to find our bearings in the chaos'--Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States; 'Mumia's writings are a wake-up call. He is a voice from our prophetic tradition,...
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"For fans of I'll Be Gone in the Dark, the thrilling true story of a would-be terrorist attack against a Kansas farming town's immigrant community, and the FBI informant who exposed it. In the spring of 2016, as immigration debates rocked the United States, three men in a militia group known as the Crusaders grew aggravated over one Kansas town's growing Somali community. They decided that complaining about their new neighbors and threatening them...
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"On an average day in America, seven young people aged nineteen or under will be shot dead. In Another Day in the Death of America, award-winning Guardian journalist Gary Younge tells the stories of the lives lost during the course of a single day in the United States. It could have been any day, but Younge has chosen November 23, 2013. From Jaiden Dixon (9), shot point-blank by his mother's ex-boyfriend on his doorstep in Ohio, to Pedro Dado Cortez...
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Sobrevivientes a la violencia relata siete experiencias personales de víctimas de violencia de género. Siete casos reales de extrema crueldad, siete testimonios de mujeres que lograron sobrevivir y hoy pueden contar su historia. En la mayoría de los casos, esta fue la primera vez que contaban esas experiencias: ni sus familias ni psicólogos estaban al tanto.
Cada historia desentraña los miedos, las torturas emocionales y físicas, así como...
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Este libro recupera una historia local de dolor y muerte en Soacha. Presenta los relatos de los familiares de las víctimas de los mal llamados "falsos positivos" y construye la memoria de las familias que no solo han sido víctimas, sino también protagonistas de la lucha simbólica y política por los significados de lo ocurrido en favor de la dignidad de sus hijos, hermanos, padres, tíos y esposos. Con este texto se busca no olvidar la barbarie...
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La obra incita a los análisis biopolíticos diferenciados entre los cuerpos femeninos, masculinos y/o trans. Cuatro de los capítulos mapea cómo en el entramado de la gestión de los procesos biológicos, estos se materializan no sólo en las familias, sino en concreto se ensaña en los cuerpos de las mujeres como el blanco principal para la expansión feroz del neoliberalismo. Por otra parte, dos capítulos discuten sobre la recolonización y sujeción...
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El valle de las almas en pena es lo que su propio nombre indica. Autoparodia del ser humano y haber conseguido verle en un espejo y reírse. A lo que no hubiera llegado sin Salvador Sainz, Sandra Alberti, Stan Valen y Arturo Bobadilla. Sigo odiando a Naschy y a todos los maltratadores del mundo.
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Paco Muguiro fue locutor radial, y promotor de Radio Cutivalú y director de Radio Marañón durante décadas. Las postales de Muguiro presentadas aquí como un conjunto de episodios narrativos son un testimonio de un ejercicio periodístico que cronicó a lo largo de 30 años la transmutación de una postura ciudadana. Aquí, tenemos textos que recuerdan la historia social peruana desde un cronista fiebroso, efervescente, apasionado.
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The writings in this work were precipitated by a variety of events during the last decades of Merton's life - the civil rights and peace movements of the 1960s among them. His timeless moral integrity and tireless concern for nonviolent solutions to war are eloquently expressed.
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Análisis crítico con un enfoque multidisciplinario, único hasta ahora en México, de las oportunidades y desafíos de los derechos humanos. Los autores aquí reunidos analizan los derechos humanos como una práctica social que se realiza en medio de relaciones asimétricas de poder, en el marco del ya convulsionado siglo xxi. Pensados como un discurso que se convierte en práctica social y en campo de disputa para la definición de significados,...
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Gresham M. Sykes is Professor of Sociology Emeritus at the University of Virginia. He is the author of many books, including Social Problems in America and Crime and Society, and the coauthor of Criminology.
The Society of Captives, first published in 1958, is a classic of modern criminology and one of the most important books ever written about prison.
Gresham Sykes wrote the book at the height of the Cold War, motivated by the world's experience...
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Femicide, the killing of women and girls because of their gender, was until recently included in the category 'homicide', obscuring the special features of this social and gendered phenomenon. However, the majority of murders of women are perpetrated by men whom they know from family ties and are the result of intimate partner violence or so-called 'honour' killings. This book is the first one on femicide in Europe and presents the findings of a four-year...
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El ejercicio que nos propone Ricardo Torres es un ejercicio de empatía. Se trata de ponernos en el lugar de los otros, sentir su tristeza, llorar sus pérdidas y afligirnos por lo dura que ha resultado la vida para algunos en nuestro país, en especial para aquellos a quienes la violencia ha perseguido y desplazado. Nos invita a escuchar cuatro historias de personas que viven en Las Gardenias, al sur de Barranquilla. Son las historias de Carmen,...
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The number of refugees forced to dump their homes and countries in search of safety has significantly increased. At the same time, governments’ commitment to offering asylum is dwindling, as is their political will to resolve the human rights disasters from which people have fled. There is a crisis in the protection of the human rights of refugees. Why are there so many refugees in the world today? Is it right for a country to turn away refugees?...
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Why young people participate in violent gang behavior
The effects of gang violence are witnessed every day on the streets, in the news, and on the movie screen. In all these forums, gangs of young adults are associated with drugs and violence. Yet what is it that prompts young people to participate in violent behavior? And what can be done to extract adolescents from the gangster world of crime, death, and incarceration once they have become involved?
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Las vivencias y recuerdos de uno de los más grandes reporteros que ha dado Colombia. Sus trabajos, valientes, escritos con verdad y una pluma certera, son indispensables para entender nuestra historia reciente. A través de los apuntes que han alimentado sus libretas, el cronista repasa su oficio durante un período de catorce años, tiempo en el que se ha propuesto narrar a Colombia desde los personaje que la construyen.
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The truth does not just set us free; it will keep us free. In A Nation of Haters and Victims, author Ruth E. Todd demonstrates the importance of seeking the truth about issues, events, and policies affecting the country. A Nation of Haters and Victims details how the United States is becoming a nation of haters and victims. Haters and victims have permeated our society and created a national malaise that makes us unable to think clearly. Because we...
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