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"A dynamic, gripping collection of short stories from "America's best novelist" (Denver Post), the New York Times-bestselling James Lee Burke. Harbor Lights is a story collection from one of the most popular and widely acclaimed icons of American fiction, featuring a never-before-published novella. These eight stories move from the marshlands on the Gulf of Mexico to the sweeping plains of Colorado to prisons, saloons, and trailer parks across the...
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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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Nadie es eterno es una novela densa que aborda uno de los problemas fundamentales de nuestra sociedad colombiana y, en alguna medida, latinoamericana de las últimas décadas. En este texto de estudio, que se publica ahora, confluyen varias realidades: Óscar Osorio, experto en el trato de la violencia en la narrativa colombiana y narrador a su vez de esta misma violencia, se enfrenta a la novela de Alejandro José López, en la cual este se adentra...
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Dan Goodier challenges his readers to consider whether the problems of increasing gun violence and social unrest are any different today, than during the period when Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy were killed. Are we better, worse, or tragically, the same.
As Emmet North and his teenaged friends deal with the loss of one of their cohorts, the town struggles to rehabilitate its image as a good place to spend a summer vacation. Ingenuity and...
5) 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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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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From "one of the most interesting sociologists of his generation" and a former cop, the story of three departments and their struggle to change aggressive police culture and achieve what Americans want: fair, humane, and effective policing.
What should we do about the police? After the murder of George Floyd, there's no institution more controversial: only 14 percent of Americans believe that "policing works pretty well as it is" (CNN, April 27,...
9) Temps arides
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Les derniers temps seront mauvais et difficiles entend-on souvent dire à cause des visons apocalyptiques de la fin du monde telles qu'annoncées par les prophéties les plus pessimistes. Dès le début de l'humanité déjà le ton avait été donné. Nous n'avons pas besoin d'être adepte d'une quelconque religion, fût-elle révélée ou non pour savoir que depuis le crime crapuleux de Caïn contre son frère de même sang, Abel, les temps ont pris...
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The true story of the love triangle murder of Robert Limon-from the New York Times bestselling author of Missing ... and Presumed Dead.
In Better off Dead, Michael Fleeman strips away the pleasant veneer of the Silver Lakes neighborhood in California's high desert to tell a shocking story about a headline-grabbing crime. A conversation with handsome young firefighter Jonathan Hearn leads Sabrina Limon, a vivacious blond mother of two, into a steamy...
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An eye-opening account of the shocking murder that has been featured on 48 Hours, Forensic Files, and Investigation Discovery's Killing Time.
Brian Stidham fell in love with Tucson, Arizona, the minute he came to town. A young and talented eye surgeon, he accepted a job with an established eye surgeon to take over his pediatric patients.
"It's a beautiful place," Stidham told a friend. "I can live right there by the mountains and go hiking. It's...
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[2024]
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"On an island in the Great Massasauga Swamp--an area known as "The Waters" to the residents of nearby Whiteheart, Michigan--herbalist and eccentric Hermine "Herself" Zook has healed the local women of their ailments for generations. As stubborn as her tonics are powerful, Herself inspires reverence and fear in the people of Whiteheart, and even in her own three estranged daughters. The youngest--the beautiful, inscrutable, and lazy Rose Thorn--has...
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In award-winning author Ben Mikaelsen's riveting sequel to the acclaimed word-of-mouth bestseller Touching Spirit Bear, readers will be captivated by what Booklist calls a "hugely satisfying resolution."
Life in the wilderness-exiled from civilization as a punishment for his violent behavior-had its own set of hurdles, but for fifteen-year-old Cole Matthews, it's returning home and facing high school that feels most daunting.
With gangs and physical...
14) Vigilante
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A brutally honest, uncompromising story about a teen girl who decides to take matters into her own hands It's senior year, and Hadley and her best friend, Magda, should be starting the year together. Instead, Magda is dead and Hadley is alone. Raped at a party the year before and humiliated, Magda was driven to take her own life and Hadley is forced to see her friend's attackers in the classroom every day. Devastated, enraged and needing an outlet...
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Delve into the intricate workings of the human mind within the realm of criminal behavior in "The Psychology of Criminal Minds: A Comprehensive Guide to Understanding Criminology." Authored by an esteemed expert in the field of psychology and criminology, this book unravels the enigmatic world of crime through a multidimensional lens.Drawing upon the latest research in forensic psychology, behavioral analysis, and criminal profiling, this comprehensive...
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She was fifteen when she visited the therapist; still a teen when they had sex. She was twenty-five when she married him and forty-four when she killed him.
In October 2002, the quiet northern California town of Orinda was rocked by murder when Susan Polk, the mother of three teenage boys, was arrested for stabbing her husband and former therapist, Dr. Felix Polk, to death. The arrest and subsequent trial quickly became one of the most talked about...
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sta obra investiga y documenta una de las peores masacres que se ha perpetrado en México en los últimos años. Después de diversos gobiernos estatales en Coahuila y federales en México, quienes intentaron por todos los medios tergiversar los hechos y ocultarlos a la opinión pública, por primera vez se revela cuáles fueron las circunstancias que condujeron a la matanza de Allende en el año 2011, donde fueron ultimadas más de trescientas...
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En México cada vez es más difícil publicar como periodista de investigación. Cada vez son menos los medios de comunicación que quieren asumir el riesgo de la publicación de temas de denuncia, que se alejan de la cómoda agenda rentable en ingresos económicos, en armonía con los poderes fácticos. Por eso cada vez hay menos periodistas de planta en las redacciones de los grandes medios. Por eso el boom de los periodistas independientes...
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¿Alguna vez tiene sentido que la ira te domina y afecta negativamente tus relaciones, tu salud y tu bienestar en general? Si estás buscando una forma efectiva de manejar y controlar la ira, permíteme presentarte "Control y Manejo de la Ira: Un Viaje hacia la Paz Interior". Este libro es tu guía esencial para comprender, gestionar y transformar esa poderosa emoción en una herramienta positiva para el crecimiento personal y la armonía en tus relaciones.¿Qué...
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Las ciencias sociales y los organismos internacionales han mostrado acertadamente a la mujer como víctima, como figura pasiva y débil receptora de la violencia, en general, y también de la infligida por su pareja masculina e incluso por su familia. Ahora bien, aunque las mujeres han sido históricamente víctimas y no ejecutoras, hay un creciente número de ellas que se transforman en victimarias por su participación en el delito, por su ingreso...
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