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"Draws on history, psychology, and anthropology to discuss how the tribal connection--the instinct to belong to small groups with a clear purpose and common understanding--can satisfy the human quest for meaning and belonging, "--NoveList.
Decades before the American Revolution, Benjamin Franklin lamented that English settlers were constantly fleeing over to the Indians -- but Indians almost never did the same. Tribal society has been exerting an...
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The journalist’s “brutally affecting [and] powerful” memoir of her quest to uncover the life of the man who raped her twenty-one years earlier (Guardian, UK).
Joanna Connors was thirty years old and on assignment for the Cleveland Plain Dealer to review a college theater production when she was held at knifepoint and raped by a stranger who had grown up five miles away from her. Once...
Joanna Connors was thirty years old and on assignment for the Cleveland Plain Dealer to review a college theater production when she was held at knifepoint and raped by a stranger who had grown up five miles away from her. Once...
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“[A] fascinating, informative, and highly entertaining primer on the various ways the uninitiated may find themselves ripped off by a con artist.” —Publishers Weekly
No one thinks it can happen to them, but Americans are forty 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...
No one thinks it can happen to them, but Americans are forty 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...
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The world has changed drastically over the past decade. The Internet has had a huge part in that, as it has made the world more accessible to anyone of any age, race, or gender. Used for entertainment, education, shopping, dating and more, the internet has provided a whole new virtual world for everyone to enjoy. But with the good also comes the bad—and for kids and teens these days, the bad has becomes a constant threat from cyberbullies and...
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In what remains one of his most seminal papers, Freud considers the incompatibility of civilisation and individual happiness, and the tensions between the claims of society and the individual. We all know that living in civilised groups means sacrificing a degree of personal interest, but couldn't you argue that it in fact creates the conditions for our happiness? Freud explores the arguments and counter-arguments surrounding this proposition, focusing...
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The New York Times–bestselling author explores the real history of guns in America and how to limit both their lethal impact and the gun lobby’s power.
Taking his typically in-depth, historically informed view, Thom Hartmann, the most popular progressive radio host in America, 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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"Women's rights activist Laura Bates is no stranger to misogynistic attacks online, but over time, the vitriol hinted at something widespread and toxic. Men Who Hate Women examines the rise of secretive extremist communities who despise women as Bates traces the roots of misogyny across a complex spiderweb of groups. Drawing parallels to other extremist movements around the world, Bates shows what attracts men to the movement, how it grooms and radicalizes...
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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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"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....
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El ejercicio de reunir estas historias, estos conocimientos disponibles, se propuso para encontrar las palabras y los signos que, como prenociones sobre la vida cotidiana de un grupo individuos, ilustraran (no solo) un mar de problemas (sociológicos): anomías, malestares -por ejemplo, los delirios de violencia, el abuso de alcohol y drogas, las rencillas familiares, etc., sino también solidaridades y, sobre todo, amores: múltiples y coloridas...
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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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El ejercicio que nos propone Ricardo Torres es un ejercicio de empatía. Se trata de ponernos en el lugar de los otros, sentir su tristeza, llorar sus pérdidas y afligirnos por lo dura que ha resultado la vida para algunos en nuestro país, en especial para aquellos a quienes la violencia ha perseguido y desplazado. Nos invita a escuchar cuatro historias de personas que viven en Las Gardenias, al sur de Barranquilla. Son las historias de Carmen,...
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Acclaimed activist and scholar Gill Hague recounts the inspiring story of the domestic violence movement in the UK and beyond from the 1960s onwards in this captivating book. Memories, poems and interviews with activists, practitioners and abuse survivors shed new light on a period of immense change, shaped by a generation of feminist pioneers. From the women's liberation movement until now, this book, displays the campaigning zeal, with which policies,...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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