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Gang- and drug-related inner-city violence, with its attendant epidemic of incarceration, is the defining crime problem in our country. In some neighborhoods in America, one out of every two hundred young black men is shot to death every year, and few initiatives of government and law enforcement have made much difference. But when David Kennedy, a self-taught and then-unknown criminologist, engineered the "Boston Miracle" in the mid-1990s, he pointed the way toward what few had imagined: a solution. Don't Shoot tells the story of Kennedy's long journey. Riding with beat cops, hanging with gang members, and stoop-sitting with grandmothers, Kennedy found that all parties misunderstood each other, caught in a spiral of racialized anger and distrust. He envisioned an approach in which everyone-gang members, cops, and community members-comes together in what is essentially a huge intervention. Offenders are told that the violence must stop, that even the cops want them to stay alive and out of prison, and that even their families support swift law enforcement if the violence continues. In city after city, the same miracle has followed: violence plummets, drug markets dry up, and the relationship between the police and the community is reset. This is a landmark book, chronicling a paradigm shift in how we address one of America's most shameful social problems. A riveting, page-turning read, it combines the street verite of The Wire, the social science of Gang Leader for a Day, and the moral urgency and personal journey of Fist Stick Knife Gun. But unlike anybody else, Kennedy shows that there could be an end in sight.

El libro que el lector tiene entre manos contiene informaciones variadas y valiosas que merecían ser impresas y conservadas. Es obvio que la vida académica y personal de Bill Douglass, americano de mirada atenta y penetrante, en la que baila a menudo una chispa de ironia, no se agota ni mucho menos con su accion en el Programa de Estudios Vascos y ahora CBS.En esta obra hay otras muchas informaciones que los vascos de mi generacion y de las que vienen detras deberian conocer.GREGORIO MONREAL ZIASe hizo vasco de adopcion, por amor, sin dejar de ser las cosas que ya era. Si, por amor. Es algo frecuente entre los buenos antropologos. Y tenemos, por eso, mucho que agradecerle. Puso la antropologia vasca dentro de la antropologia moderna del mundo anglosajon. Monto, en Reno, un Centro de Estudios Vascos que tanto ha servido para el desarrollo no solo de la antropologia social, sino de todas las ciencias sociales. Muchos hemos pasado por alli y hemos disfrutado de un gratisimo ambiente academico y humano. Y sus desvelos por nuestro pais han sido, algun dia sabremos lo importantes que han sido.ALFONSO PEREZ-AGOTE

During the four years of physician Margaret Overton's acrimonious divorce, she dated widely and sometimes indiscriminately, determined to find her soulmate and live happily ever after. But then she discovered she had a brain aneurysm. She discovered it at a particularly awkward moment on a date with one of many Mr Wrongs. Overton, an anaesthetist, realised she had been so busy looking after the needs of others that she had forgotten to look after herself. So she set out on a course to take control of her future and finally become independent of men. Good in a Crisis is Overton's laugh-out-loud account of dealing with the most serious of life's problems: loss of life, loss of love and loss of innocence. It is a story of spirituality and self-delusion; of coming of age in adulthood and of navigating the terrible events that can cluster in midlife. Honest, hopeful and hilarious, this unforgettable memoir will make you laugh and cry. It will leave you a lot humbler, and just a little wiser.

Biografía de un hombre, vivo aún, que se empeñó toda su vida en ser un luchador por la libertad de su pueblo. Que pasó 27 años encarcelado y que renunció a su propia libertad hasta no estar seguro de conseguir que el régimen del apartheid acabaría y se abriría la posibilidad de que Sudáfrica entrara en una nueva era en la que fuera posible que el pueblo sudafricano decidiera su suerte.

This beautiful and perceptive book details the Queens achievements through decades of upheaval and reveals the personal qualities that have made those achievements possible. With an authoritative text and remarkable photographs - most of them in colour - Queen and Country tells anew the story of Queen Elizabeth IIs 50-year reign. From the romantic and tragic beginning, to the tumultuous and eventful present, the BBC along with reporter, author, and broadcaster William Shawcross show how Elizabeth IIs strength of character, acute intelligence, and ingrained reticence have both shaped and been buffeted by a drastically changing world. The story that Shawcross tells focuses on the Queens constancy through 50 years of extraordinary change. From the middle of the twentieth century to the beginning of the twenty-first, the Queen has watched the rise and fall of labour unions, the building and partial dismantling of the welfare state, and the progress by turns of socialism, conservatism, Labour, neo-conservatism, and New Labour. She has been counselor and sometimes friend to ten prime ministers of Britain and to dozens of Commonwealth leaders abroad. The small and mainly respectful band of reporters present when Elizabeth became queen have been replaced by an enormous cohort of technicians operating in a variety of media with a relentless and remorseless hunger, not so much for news as for scandal. But, while members of her family have been embarrassed or disgraced, her own rectitude has never been questioned. Queen Elizabeths real achievement is that she has been true to the promise she made to her subjects in her Christmas broadcast in 1957.

Catálogo de la exposición celebrada en el Archivo General de Simancas, noviembre 2011 - marzo 2012. Muestra los documentos que se conservan en este Archivo sobre Alonso de Quintanilla, Contador Mayor de los Reyes Católicos, en su gran mayoría, manuscritos oficiales que proceden de su dilatada vida profesional y que nos dan una idea de su personalidad como gran gobernante y hombre de Estado.

This text is presented in English, French and German. It includes a book and 4 CDs. It presents a fascinating journey through the life of Ernesto Che Guevara, the revolutionary of the 20th century par excellence. Photographs and documents are compiled together to illustrate the most important phases in his life: the set of one CD with Tango Argentina, another with Cuban folk music, a third with a wonderful musical journey narrating the time he spent in Africa, to his tragic end in Bolivia is complete with a fourth CD containing international workers'' and battle songs. Che fought in Latin America - on a continent where there were still medieval conditions through the prevalent social imbalance, and where many humans were treated like dirt. For the campesinos - the peasant population - he has become a symbol of liberation. His struggle soon became widely popular even across borders, and was understood as the battle between the oppressed and the oppressors per se. Then as now, he is the incarnation of the myth of freedom as an eternal value. Che was the champion against injustice in his world, though he has since been turned into a symbol for anyone fighting for justice. A strong and pure hero sacrificing himself for class struggle in a country in which the ruling class had the right to decide about life or death of any class below their own. Che was a citizen of the people, and he is remembered as such - as someone who would give his shirt off his back for justice and even sacrifice his life. A symbol of the leftist movement itself on the one hand, as well as one for any human being of good intentions on the other; someone who would hoist the flag of freedom in the name of the people.

Written by acclaimed biographer A. N. Wilson, Hitler is a short, sharp, gripping account of one of the twentieth century's most notorious figures In this respect, the Fuhrer is presented as a man ahead of his time, who foreshadowed Hollywood and TV stars and post-war politicians. In a field dense with lengthy tomes, this brief, penetrating portrait provides a compelling introduction to a man whose evil continues to fascinate and appal.

A partir del llegat jurídic de Ramon Martí d'Eixalà la present obra pretén indagar en el pensament de l'autor alhora que abordar les inquietuds legals que transitaren durant la primera meitat del segle XIX. El llegat filosòfic ocupa també una part de l'obra, però des de la perspectiva britànica.

¿Quién fue Tierno? Un político perseguido y admirado, querido y odiado que vivió en tiempos tormentosos y difíciles. Un gran profesor en una época convulsa que condicionó profundamente su pensamiento y actividad. Se dedicó a la filosofía y al Derecho, pero también a la sociología, a la política y al ensayo literario e histórico. Sobre todo fue un singular intelectual esencialmente crítico. El objetivo de estas Obras completas, es contribuir a que se valore a Tierno como es debido, comprobando que su vida encierra un indudable mérito y sus páginas una más que notable profundidad. El criterio determinante que informa la edición de estas Obras completas ha sido intervenir lo menos posible en el contenido, de tal manera que lo que ve el lector es el conjunto de la obra de Enrique Tierno sin aditamento alguno que no sea señalado y justificado como necesario en las correspondientes presentaciones y notas. Ofrecemos al lector una obra mucho valor en la que se presenta la trayectoria intelectual y de la escritura de Tierno.