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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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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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Using research data, including first-person accounts from the perpetrators themselves, a special investigator and psychologist and a sociologist, who built The Violence Project, a comprehensive database of mass shooters, share their solutions for putting an end to these tragedies that have defined the modern era.
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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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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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A vital guide to keeping gangs and youth violence out of your community-including one hundred ways to keep your kids safe. No community wants to admit it has a gang problem, but the unwillingness to address youth violence can have tragic consequences. This book-and the significant research on which it is based-represents many voices, experiences, and community efforts in the battle against our national gang crisis. It is an inspiring guide to preventing...
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Book Preview:In To Rescue The Republic (2021), Bret Baier of Fox News and his co-author Catherine Whitney offer a complete inside look at the life of one of America's most important Civil War era figures, Ulysses S. Grant. Using historical sources and references, they trace his journey to becoming the Union's top general and ultimately president of the United States. To Rescue the...
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El libro que tienes en tus manos, lector amigo, es un grito contenido de rabia. De cómo un territorio inmenso y fabulosamente diverso, poblado por más de cien millones de almas, haya llegado a identificarse con un delirio homicida trata esta obra. Sin aspavientos, sin estridencias, sin efectismos, plantándole cara al lugar común y a la mordaza del miedo, el autor nos asoma a los últimos treinta años de la historia de México. Historia dolorida,...
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Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, scenes of brutality and torture have appeared in mainstream comedies, dramatic narratives, and action films, for little other reason than to titillate and delight. In these films, torture is devoid of any redeeming qualities. It is represented as an exercise in brutal senselessness carried out by authoritarian regimes and institutions. Before 9/11, films outside of the horror/slasher genre that addressed...
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A crafted collection detailing western responses to the Balkan War
We didn't know. For half a century, Western politicians and intellectuals have so explained away their inaction in the face of genocide in World War II. In stark contrast, Western observers today face a daily barrage of information and images, from CNN, the Internet, and newspapers about the parties and individuals responsible for the current Balkan War and crimes against humanity....
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Cuando el lenguaje colapsa, el mundo se desarticula. Estallido Social y Pandemia son dos expresiones que no logran decir lo que ocurre. Quedan cortas y largas, al mismo tiempo. Mudas de impotencia ante la desconfiguración de la existencia compartida que trajeron. Pan demos solo habla de algo que corresponde a todos. Pero no da lo mismo entre una enfermedad viral trasmitida por agentes patógenos humanos que no humanos, a través de la respiración...
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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.
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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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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 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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