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Killing Her Wasn't Enough. . .
Sixteen-year-old Adrianne Reynolds couldn't unravel the twisted tangles of jealousy and domination complicating her new life in East Moline, Illinois. What began as a fresh start after a troubled home life in Texas ended with Adrianne's body charred, stuffed into garbage bags, and scattered. It seemed the work of hardened criminals, but the truth was far more astonishing: her own "best friends" choked Adrianne to death...
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"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 directly wasn’t enough. The men plotted to bomb a mosque, aiming to kill hundreds and inspire other attacks against Muslims in America. But they would wait until after the presidential...
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"Thom Hartmann, the most popular progressive radio host in America and a New York Times bestselling author, looks at the real history of guns in America and what we can do to limit both their lethal impact and the power of the gun lobby. Taking his typically in-depth, historically informed view, Thom Hartmann examines how guns have played important roles throughout American history, from early European settlement to the Revolutionary War and Manifest...
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No one thinks it can happen to them, but Americans are 40 times more likely to be defrauded than to have their cars stolen or their homes burgled. Con artists ruin people financially and emotionally, leaving in their wake a trail of destruction, broken hearts, and deflated dreams. The first step to combating fraud is to understand it. What do scams look like? Why are they effective? The next step is to take action. How can we protect ourselves and...
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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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Acclaimed activist and scholar Gill Hague recounts the inspiring story of the domestic violence movement in the UK and beyond from the 1960s onwards in this captivating book. Memories, poems and interviews with activists, practitioners and abuse survivors shed new light on a period of immense change, shaped by a generation of feminist pioneers. From the women's liberation movement until now, this book, displays the campaigning zeal, with which policies,...
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Refusing to cast gangs in solely criminal terms, Robert J. Durán, a former gang member turned scholar, recasts such groups as an adaptation to the racial oppression of colonization in the American Southwest. Developing a paradigm rooted in ethnographic research and almost two decades of direct experience with gangs, Durán completes the first-ever study to follow so many marginalized groups so intensely for so long, revealing their core characteristics,...
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"My Prison Days" is a book that illustrates real life in Federal Prison. Hollywood has created many movies and TV shows that pretend to show what goes on within prison walls, but the truth is they have no clue. This book follows a new Felon from numerous holding facilities to his home prison in Kentucky. He walked a prickly road to get to this point. He had been a big shot while still in his thirties. His flaw was that he stole a large amount of money....
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El ejercicio de reunir estas historias, estos conocimientos disponibles, se propuso para encontrar las palabras y los signos que, como prenociones sobre la vida cotidiana de un grupo individuos, ilustraran (no solo) un mar de problemas (sociológicos): anomías, malestares -por ejemplo, los delirios de violencia, el abuso de alcohol y drogas, las rencillas familiares, etc., sino también solidaridades y, sobre todo, amores: múltiples y coloridas...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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?...