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Este libro fue publicado en 1996 y es un clásico de los estudios latinoamericanos El autor hace un análisis de las posturas modernas y posmodernas frente a temas que atraviesan el continente, como la identidad, la herencia colonial y la cultura popular Además hace un recuento de los primeros pensadores que, desde México, aportaron al campo en la primera mitad del siglo XX La segunda edición, publicada por la Editorial Pontificia Universidad Javeriana...
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La conmemoración de eventos traumáticos supone la voluntad de crear una "memoria colectiva", pero la idea misma de recordar colectivamente da lugar a una serie de preguntas que este libro intenta contestar.
Por medio del análisis de imágenes, recursos metonímicos, espacios de memoria e intervenciones digitales, Margarita Saona presenta algunos de los mecanismos cognitivos y emocionales que nos ayudan a incorporar el sufrimiento pasado de los...
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Looking at media coverage of three very prominent murder cases, Murder Made in Italy explores the cultural issues raised by the murders and how they reflect developments in Italian civil society over the past 20 years. Providing detailed descriptions of each murder, investigation, and court case, Ellen Nerenberg addresses the perception of lawlessness in Italy, the country's geography of crime, and the generalized fear for public safety among the...
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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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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 muestra las experiencias y resultados propios del ejercicio en las aulas con base en los postulados del Modelo Educativo Crítico con Enfoque de Competencias (MECCEC). Las investigaciones que conforman este volumen abordan problemas fundamentales para los procesos de enseñanza y aprendizaje desde la didáctica. En primera instancia, el capítulo "Conocimientos, actitudes y prácticas docentes para el modelo de competencias en una universidad...
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Challenges the notions that "violence against women" is synonymous with "domestic violence" and that violence affects all women equally
Structural Violence seeks to redraw the conventional map of violence against women. In order to understand violence as a fundamentally heterogeneous phenomenon, it is essential to go beyond interpersonal partner violence and analyze the workings of institutional and structural violence. Self-help books, some shelters,...
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Desde su experiencia de vida personal y profesional, así como con el testimonio de vivencias reales de muchas mujeres de varios países, Ana Goffin nos ofrece este texto.
Mujeres sobrevivientes del Violento Ataque del Cocodrilo. El mundo está en reset, en cambio. Atravesamos una crisis muy profunda. Es momento de reconstruirnos. Aprender y comprender". En este práctico y profundo libro, Ana Goffin nos enseña que, aunque la adversidad toca nuestras...
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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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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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Biography of esteemed, but little known, British officer Lt.-Col. John Haughton who found glory in the hard fought campaigns on the frontiers of India at the time of Queen Victoria and the British Raj. In the main, the book focusses on Haughton's time as the officer in charge of the gallant 36th Sikhs engaged on the Tirah expedition. He survived the vicious, often guerrilla combat, with the Afridi, Chamkani and Orakzai tribesmen but fell during the...
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Everett Dean Martin presented in this book what he saw as the dilemma of the modern age: a technological information revolution that made it possible, in the absence of an adequate educational system, to influence ignorant men and women with propaganda and half-truths. Everett Dean Martin was an American minister, writer, journalist, instructor, lecturer, social psychologist, social philosopher, and an advocate of adult education.
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The author of the 400,000-copy bestseller On Killing reveals how violent video games have ushered in a new era of mass homicide -- and what we must do about it.
Paducah, Kentucky, 1997: a 14-year-old boy shoots eight students in a prayer circle at his school.
Littleton, Colorado, 1999: two high school seniors kill a teacher, twelve other students, and then themselves.
Utoya, Norway, 2011: a political extremist shoots and kills sixty-nine...
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Many times, many people over the course of humanity's long lifetime have wondered about its proclivity towards evil. What makes us evil? Are we evil by choice or by nature? How can a man become evil?
These provocative questions are at the forefront of philosophical discussions all around the world. Humanity's dark side is rarely looked into for the fear that it would one day look back. We struggle to acknowledge this side of our nature because it...
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California Nightmare. . .
Annette Edwards was a vivacious 19-year-old on her way to watch the Fourth of July fireworks. Eighteen-year-old Pam Moore was a former beauty pageant contestant, hitching a ride on a busy street. Linda Slavik was a young mother enjoying a night out with a friend. Annette Selix was just eleven, an innocent child on her way home from the market. Each of them was attacked without warning, brutally assaulted, and left...
Annette Edwards was a vivacious 19-year-old on her way to watch the Fourth of July fireworks. Eighteen-year-old Pam Moore was a former beauty pageant contestant, hitching a ride on a busy street. Linda Slavik was a young mother enjoying a night out with a friend. Annette Selix was just eleven, an innocent child on her way home from the market. Each of them was attacked without warning, brutally assaulted, and left...
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The true-crime story of a Massachusetts nurse with a dark secret, by the New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Left Behind.
At the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Northampton, Massachusetts, Kristen Gilbert was known as a hardworking, dedicated nurse. Yet so many emergencies and sudden deaths occurred under Kristen's watch that others jokingly called her the "Angel of Death." No one suspected the horrifying truth:...
At the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Northampton, Massachusetts, Kristen Gilbert was known as a hardworking, dedicated nurse. Yet so many emergencies and sudden deaths occurred under Kristen's watch that others jokingly called her the "Angel of Death." No one suspected the horrifying truth:...
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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 the brutal role guns have played in American history, from the genocide of the Native Americans to the enforcement of slavery (Slave...
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His Target
Aspiring model Sandee Rozzo's big mistake was being kind to Timothy "Tracey" Humphrey. After Rozzo refused the 'roided-up ex-con's advances, she described how he imprisoned, raped, and brutalized her for two days. When the courageous woman pledged to testify against him, Humphrey knew he had to silence her. . .
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That's when he turned to 19-year-old Ashley Laney. She had fallen in love with Humphrey, her personal trainer, and...
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