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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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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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"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....
5) 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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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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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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This edited book titled "Eve teasing: A social Epidemic" is prepared with the intention of providing complete information about the serious crime of Eve teasing against women. Eve teasing has emerged as the most prominent challenge that every woman faces in her day to day life in India. This book includes total 27 chapters written by eminent scholars from all over country , is divided in four sections.- (A) Understanding Eve T easing (B) Psycho -...
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Cuando el 18 de octubre de 2019 miles de chilenas y chilenos salieron a la calle para expresar su malestar respecto de las condiciones de vida que experimentaban -ingresos, cobertura de salud, pensiones-, nadie de la élite política, económica o intelectual esperaba algo así. La mayor crisis política y social de Chile desde el Golpe de 1973 fue totalmente insospechada, porque, ¿cómo era posible un descontento semejante, en circunstancias de...
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The instant her phone rang, Reverend Sharon Risher sensed something was horribly wrong. Something had happened at Emanuel AME Church, the church of her youth in Charleston, South Carolina, and she knew her mother was likely in the church at Bible study. Even before she heard the news, her chaplain's instinct told her the awful truth: her mother was dead, along with two cousins. What she couldn't imagine was that they had been murdered by a white supremacist....
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"Hablar de violación a tenor de casos mediáticamente "expandidos" parece haberse convertido en buque insignia de muchos debates (de esos que ponen a prueba la peculiar y variable escala de la sensibilidad social) así como de manifestaciones feministas y menos feministas. Pero no hemos llegado a la violación como materia de análisis y reflexión a causa de este humus crecido al amparo de la actualidad, sino a pesar de él: este ensayo pretende...
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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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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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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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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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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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