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El lector que se adentre en el libro Pasados y presentes de violencia en Colombia. Estudio de las comisiones de investigación, 19582011, saldrá de él con la sensación de haber hecho una travesía problemática e inspiradora. Los múltiples y sucesivos pasados de la violencia, aprehendidos por sucesivas comisiones de diferente mandato, perspectiva y composición, no solo interpelan nuestro presente sino que en estos tiempos sirven como referente...
62) Abhorrent Human Behaviors: Why Some People Are So Destructive and Criminal? What Can We Do to Change
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There is no question that humankind is the most vicious and lethal species on Earth. It preys on not only other species but also its own species on the widest possible scale.Why is humankind so vicious and lethal?Clearly it has something to do with the basic instinct of survival of the fittest. But that really is a common instinct among all species on Earth.What does differentiate human species from other species in the level of viciousness is clearly...
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El libro consta de seis capítulos que muestran las nuevas tendencias del derecho público en el marco del posconflicto:
- el estudio del nuevo procedimiento legislativo especial para la paz
- el control constitucional en relación con la justicia para la paz
- la reparación de las víctimas del conflicto armado en Colombia
- el análisis de la reparación integral como una cuestión de complementariedad entre las funciones administrativas y judiciales
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64) Gender, Power, and Violence: Responding to Sexual and Intimate Partner Violence in Society Today
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What do the Catholic Church, college sports, Hollywood, prisons, the military, fraternities and politics have in common? All have extraordinarily high rates of sexual and intimate partner violence, and child sexual abuse.
Sexual and intimate partner violence is part of the landscape that women and children live with. Women and children are subjected to high levels of sexual and intimate partner violence and in the era of #metoo, Gender, Power and...
65) Una historia difícil de narrar: El periodo de La Violencia en textos escolares de Ciencias Sociales
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El presente libro analiza las ideas y concepciones acerca del periodo histórico de La Violencia presentes en los textos escolares de ciencias sociales de grado noveno publicados en Colombia entre 1989 y 2012. La investigación se fundamentó metodológicamente en el análisis de contenido de tipo cualitativo, enfoque a través del cual se analizaron los discursos escritos y visuales que fundamentan las explicaciones históricas que desarrollan estos...
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Este libro es una de las aportaciones más originales que desde la sociología se han formulado para comprender la violencia, un tema axial en México y en la agenda global. A partir de una crítica de los análisis tradicionales centrados en las estructuras sociales, las interacciones y las subjetividades, aquí se sugiere abordar la violencia en tanto acción simbólica y referente de sentido que se inscribe en una red de significación que dice...
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Frente a los valores con los que el neoliberalismo tiñe la época, la precariedad del sector cultural, los vaivenes institucionales y las consecuencias del COVID-19, Guillermo Valdizán Guerrero se pregunta sobre las condiciones de las formas de producción cultural en América Latina en el actual contexto de la globalización. A partir de una serie de ensayos sobre procesos históricos sociales, políticos y culturales en el Perú del Siglo XXI,...
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The New York Times bestselling author of Kill For Me recounts the true-crime story of the mysterious death of a Pennsylvania housewife.
In the midst of Pennsylvania's Amish country, on a peaceful summer night in 2008, the body of forty-five-year-old Jan Roseboro was found at the bottom of her backyard pool. Her husband Michael, a successful businessman and member of a prominent family, showed no emotion as he learned of her...
In the midst of Pennsylvania's Amish country, on a peaceful summer night in 2008, the body of forty-five-year-old Jan Roseboro was found at the bottom of her backyard pool. Her husband Michael, a successful businessman and member of a prominent family, showed no emotion as he learned of her...
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"An excellent writer." —True Crime Book Reviews
Anything For Love
When nineteen-year-old Steven "Boston" Colver set eyes on beautiful young Tylar Witt, the sparks between them could not be denied. It didn't matter that she was only fourteen. The two saw their love written in the stars. All they wanted was to spend every moment in each other's arms.
When Tylar's concerned mother, Joanne Witt, tried to come between them,...
Anything For Love
When nineteen-year-old Steven "Boston" Colver set eyes on beautiful young Tylar Witt, the sparks between them could not be denied. It didn't matter that she was only fourteen. The two saw their love written in the stars. All they wanted was to spend every moment in each other's arms.
When Tylar's concerned mother, Joanne Witt, tried to come between them,...
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Deeply Loved, Sadly Missed
Blonde, 19-year-old Brooke Wilberger was raised in a close-knit religious family. On a summer morning in Oregon, while cleaning lampposts at an apartment complex managed by her sister, Brooke vanished. One moment she was there, the next moment all that was left were her flip flops and the echo of her scream. Her family suffered five long years to learn that their worst fears were true. Brooke's life had been snatched...
Blonde, 19-year-old Brooke Wilberger was raised in a close-knit religious family. On a summer morning in Oregon, while cleaning lampposts at an apartment complex managed by her sister, Brooke vanished. One moment she was there, the next moment all that was left were her flip flops and the echo of her scream. Her family suffered five long years to learn that their worst fears were true. Brooke's life had been snatched...
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Bang Kwang Prison is one of the most notorious penal institutions in the world. Located seven miles north of Bangkok city in the Nonthaburi Province, the prison is home to over 8,000 inmates, among them ruthless killers, rapists, drug traffickers, conmen and thieves. The Bangkok Hilton is understaffed, overcrowded, and filled with inmates who struggle with insanity as they spend the first months of their sentences chained in leg irons. Prisoners outnumber...
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El principal objetivo de este libro es identificar los factores que propician y facilitan el desarrollo de los programas académicos basados en competencias, así como aquellos que dificultan u obstaculizan el proceso educativo. En este sentido, las investigaciones expuestas aquí aportan información valiosa que ayuda a que las universidades tomen decisiones para generar unidad en los programas académicos, de tal manera que puedan alcanzar altos...
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El principal objetivo de este libro es analizar la evaluación como un proceso fundamental para asegurar una formación de calidad basada en competencias. Los tres trabajos que componen este tercer tomo dan cuenta de lo anterior. El primer capítulo presenta el trabajo: "Estrategia de evaluación de competencias: prácticas contextualizadas y el modelo educativo crítico a través de una metodología participativa" que analiza, desde el enfoque de...
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For decades, gangs have been emerging across the globe, disrupting citizen security, the rule of law, health and education, and local economies. The Caribbean, like many other regions, has a significant gang problem. Unfortunately, however, there has been limited academic attention given to the issue. Gangs in the Caribbean is intended to fill this gap by providing sound research conducted by leading Caribbean criminologists that encourages thoughtful...
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Liars-Al Gore, the United Nations, the New York Times. The global warming lobby, relentless in its push for bigger government, more spending, and more regulation, will use any means necessary to scare you out of your wits - as well as your tax dollars and your liberties-with threats of rising oceans, deadly droughts, and unspeakable future consequences of "climate change." In pursuing their anti-energy, anti-capitalist, and pro-government agenda,...
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Exposing ethical dilemmas of neuroscientific research on violence, this book warns against a dystopian future in which behavior is narrowly defined in relation to our biological makeup.
Biological explanations for violence have existed for centuries, as has criticism of this kind of deterministic science, haunted by a long history of horrific abuse. Yet, this program has endured because of, and not despite, its notorious legacy. Today's scientists...
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A call to action to protect the human rights of women and girls, these expos reveals how interest groups deny the seriousness of rape to further their political agendas. Through firsthand interviews with victims; medical and judicial records; social media; and statistics from police, the FBI, and government agencies, this analysis explains the tactics used by these groups. The personal stories of young rape victims demonstrate how assaults on their...
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Souvenons-nous... Le 12 avril 2006, en plein jour, dans le hall bondé de voyageurs de la gare centrale de Bruxelles, Joe Van Holsbeeck, cet adolescent de 17 ans dont le nom restera à jamais gravé dans toutes les mémoires, est agressé par deux autres jeunes. Un des deux agresseurs le frappe de plusieurs coups de couteau... pour lui voler son mp3. Joe s'effondre au milieu des navetteurs médusés et choqués par la violence de la scène. Il décède...
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Este libro pretende demostrar que el Derecho de los desplazados, marcado profundamente por su proceso de construcción transnacional, tiene como objetivo principal la protección de los Estados frente a los efectos de las migraciones forzadas masivas, que son percibidos de forma negativa. Contrario al convencimiento popular, el Derecho de los desplazados no está motivado exclusivamente por preocupaciones humanitarias. Si el Derecho de los desplazamientos...
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Este libro ofrece análisis de subrayada pericia a un conjunto de corpus discursivos para dar cuenta del fenómeno de la violencia generizada, con incontestable alcance "aplicado", si con este término aludimos a las consecuencias sobre la formulación de políticas de acción de los colectivos de la sociedad civil, y también de políticas públicas, si se desea revertir los dominantes órdenes relacionales violentos. Estoy segura de que estos trabajos,...
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