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The novel "Little Dorrit", published originally between 1855 and 1857, is a work of satire on the shortcomings of the government and society of the period. Much of Dickens' ire is focused upon the institutions of debtor's prisons-in which people who owed money were imprisoned, unable to work, until they have repaid their debts. The representative prison in this case is the Marshalsea where the author's own father had been imprisoned. Most of Dickens'...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
15) On Violence
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An analysis of the nature, causes, and significance of violence in the second half of the twentieth century. Arendt also reexamines the relationship between war, politics, violence, and power.
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En esta obra el lector encontrara estimulantes reflexiones para el estudio de la violencia desde una mirada biopolítica; perspectiva inpulsada por autores como Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben y Achille Mbembe, a través de conceptos como la necropolítica, la soberamía y el estado de excepción. Estos conceptos permiten nuevas lecturas sobre segmentos de poblacion tradicionalmente juzgados como desechables, asi como de vidas concideradas excedentes,...
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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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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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