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The first comprehensive behind-the-scenes look at the tumultuous single term of Mayor Lightfoot and the chaos that roiled the city and City Hall as she fought to live up to her promises to change the city's culture of corruption and villainy, reform its long-troubled police department, and make Chicago the safest big city in America. -- adapted from jacket
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Tells the true story of America's first women astronauts--six extraordinary women, each making history going to orbit aboard NASA's Space Shuttle.
When NASA sent astronauts to the moon in the 1960s and 1970s the agency excluded women from the corps, arguing that only military test pilots--a group then made up exclusively of men--had the right stuff. It was an era in which women were steered away from jobs in science and deemed unqualified for space...
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"Very little has been written about juvenile justice. In the greater consciousness, the word "justice" in this context has been leeched of meaning; it just signifies prison for kids. But to those living and working in various capacities within that system, the word "justice" holds a sepulchral gravity. In Children of the State, bestselling author of The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace Jeff Hobbs presents three different true stories that show...
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Tessa Ensler loves her job. She’s worked her way up to being a top criminal defense barrister against all the odds, and fights to defend those pleading not guilty. Tessa believes in the law, believes in the system. Her quick-witted cross-examinations and intelligence in the courtroom see her clocking up win after win - including securing freedom for men accused of rape and sexual assault. Innocence until proven guilty is, after all, the bedrock...
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"Despite all the debate about health care, Americans tend to assume they are in the best of hands when they enter the hospital. This is inaccurate : American health care is in the bottom half of all industrialized countries. This is only the largest in a broad set of misperceptions. We appropriately worry about the security of technology, but fail to see how its absence kills hundreds of people every day from medical errors. We over-value the impact...
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"This is a thoughtful look at the shortcomings of the American legal system." - Booklist
"Rosenbaum should be read by every law student in America." - New York Times Book Review
"Mr. Rosenbaum's complaints about the current legal system are widely shared." - The New York Sun
"[Rosenbaum] cleverly enlivens his discourse with histrionic scenes from novels, films, plays and TV." - Miami Herald
"[Rosenbaum's] book ought to be required reading in law...
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William G. Bowen is president emeritus of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Princeton University. His many books include the acclaimed bestseller The Shape of the River: Long-Term Consequences of Considering Race in College and University Admissions and Crossing the Finish Line: Completing College at America's Public Universities (both Princeton).
An insider's account of higher education from a legendary university leader
Lessons Learned gives...
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A vivid history of America's biggest, baddest prison system and how it came to lead the nation's punitive revolution
In the prison business, all roads lead to Texas. The most locked-down state in the nation has led the way in criminal justice severity, from assembly-line executions to isolation supermaxes, from prison privatization to sentencing juveniles as adults. Texas Tough, a sweeping history of American imprisonment from
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Este libro presenta una evaluación de los factores y la estructura de actores que interactuaron para modificar la Política de seguridad del paciente en Colombia entre los años 2000 y 2018, evaluación en la que se utilizó el marco de coaliciones de causa (ACF, por sus siglas en inglés) y se realizó un estudio de caso cuya unidad de análisis fue el subsistema de la Política de seguridad del paciente. La coalición "No punitiva" estaba constituida...
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"Historians typically regard the British Empire as a state project aided by corporations. Philip Stern turns this view on its head, arguing that corporations drove colonial expansion and governance, creating an overlap between sovereign and commercial power that continues to shape the relationship between nations and corporations to this day"--
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Wenn Kinder und Jugendliche regelmäßig an guten Ganztagsangeboten teilnehmen, erzielen sie bessere Lernerfolge - das belegt die Forschung. Doch wie entwickelt sich der Ausbau der Ganztagsschulen? Welche Erfahrungen sammeln Eltern, Lehrkräfte und Schulleiter? Wo kommt ganztägiges Lernen derzeit noch an seine Grenzen? Was benötigen Ganztagsschulen in Deutschland, um ihr Potenzial für gutes Lernen entfalten zu können, und woran lässt sich Qualität...
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What is literature? What is poetry? How do poets committed to the idea of using poetry as a weapon of socio-cultural and political struggle manage to impress their works in the minds and memories of men long after the struggle has been fought and won or lost? What will a new generation of poets write about after the explosive social contradictions that inspired older poets have been resolved? Why do the themes and styles of poets in transitional societies...
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La pedofilia es un grave problema mundial que ha venido creciendo exponencialmente, motivado por el Covid 19, cuando mucha población tuvo que permanecer en confinamiento y, los pedófilos hicieron de las suyas en las redes sociales intercambiando material, retransmitiendo abusos, extorsionando a menores para producir pornografía infantil.Para algunos expertos se trata de una parafilia, otros la consideran una enfermedad incurable, que debe ser tratada...
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The Dynamic Decade tells the story of the sweeping makeover of the 200-year-old campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Six million square feet of buildings were constructed and a million square feet of historic buildings were renovated during one vibrant ten-year period. This massive growth required bold thinking and a vision for combining historic preservation, green building, and long-range development. A statewide bond issue,...
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El asesinato de líderes sociales se presenta con mucha frecuencia en Colombia, ya que al ser defensores de los derechos humanos han sido víctimas de las guerrillas, paramilitares, narcotraficantes, sicarios, y del Estado por la falta en la presencia institucional en gran parte del territorio nacional perpetuando la impunidad.Los motivos de los crímenes son diversos como por ejemplo, los ocasionados por la sustitución de cultivos ilícitos, la...
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Cet ouvrage analyse le système de santé et de services sociaux au Québec, les pratiques professionnelles qui y sont exercées et les défis liés à la santé publique. Il prend appui sur trois principaux ancrages, souvent moins analysés, qui constituent la trame analytique de l'ouvrage et en font son originalité : 1) le système de santé et de services sociaux comme déterminant de santé; 2) les liens qui unissent la santé, le social et la...
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En la selva se inició un sistema de calificación que consistía en determinar la puntuación de cada habitante por medio de un algoritmo.Se desarrollaron bases de datos con el objetivo de recopilar toda clase de información de cada residente de la selva, desde los más básicos, tales como el nombre, el peso, la altura, las huellas, el color de piel entre otros.El soberano deseaba premiar o penalizar el comportamiento individual implementando un...
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The Canadian Health Care Blueprint for the 21 st Century starts with a wide angle panoramic view and then slowly narrows it down to focus on those ideas that will have the greatest improvement on the system. Both the patient and the health care providers want to see change. Examining what other sectors of society have done to make improvements and then apply them in a systematic way to health care can make a huge difference. It will bring about a...
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Se trata del primer libro que escribo a los 16 años motivado por la lucha constante para cumplir mis sueños.Veo en el emprendimiento una solución a la carencia de oportunidades que tiene la juventud. Considero que este es un medio para expresar mis experiencias tanto positivas como negativas.El libro expresa mi deseo de compartir una guía para llegar a ser un emprendedor exitoso a corta edad, teniendo como prioridad incentivar la creatividad y...
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