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1) Testimony
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Kindle County novels volume 10
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English
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"In the bestselling tradition of Presumed Innocent--the 1987 debut novel that made him "one of the major writers in America" (NPR)--comes what may be Scott Turow's best thriller yet ... Bill ten Boom has walked out on everything he thought was important to him: his career, his wife, Kindle County, even his country. Still, when he is tapped to examine the disappearance of an entire Gypsy refugee camp--unsolved for ten years--he feels drawn to what...
3) The great big book of horrible things: the definitive chronicle of history's 100 worst atrocities
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W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
[2012]
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English
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Evangelists of human progress meet their opposite in Matthew White's epic examination of history's one hundred most violent events, or, in White's piquant phrasing, "the numbers that people want to argue about." Reaching back to 480 BCE's second Persian War, White moves chronologically through history to this century's war in the Congo and devotes chapters to each event, where he surrounds hard facts (time and place) and succinct takeaways (who usually...
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À la suite des attaques qui ont décimé une partie du village de Giciye, Lulu et Salif, deux jeunes rescapés décident de porter les cendres des victimes dans la hutte des ancêtres malgré les nombreuses mises en garde des autres survivants concernant ce lieu réservé aux initiés et d'o on ne sort jamais. Commencera alors pour eux un voyage dans la cité de Kali, un monde parallèle qui les poussera à mener une quête identitaire et personnelle....
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Español
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Con la firma de los acuerdos de paz entre el Gobierno colombiano y las FARC-EP surgió la pregunta sobre la factibilidad de su implementación. Esta coyuntura hizo pertinente la reflexión sobre la implementación de las políticas públicas. Este libro contiene una selección de las ponencias más significativas del VIII Coloquio Internacional sobre Políticas Públicas: Implementación de Políticas Públicas y Construcción de Paz (2017, Universidad...
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I describe Active Measures, a genocide-coup designed by the KGB against Americas & our govt -- deployed last century in contravention of multiple peace agreements the USSR signed beginning in 1948 promising to not attack civilians. Lies are a thru-line w/the Russian Mafia (the "RM") & before it the KGB: (1) lies that sound like truth, (2) cover stories, (3) endless set ups & (4) murdering the innocent to steal their power & prestige. I was an ordinary...
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An Academy Award-nominated actor and a renowned human rights activist team up to change the tragic course of history in the Sudan, with readers' help. While Don Cheadle was filming Hotel Rwanda, a new crisis had already erupted in Darfur, in nearby Sudan. In September 2004, then-Secretary of State Colin Powell termed the atrocities being committed there "genocide" -and yet two years later things have only gotten worse. 3.5 million Sudanese are going...
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La pandemia de la covid-19 ha significado un momento de reflexión para los procesos de integración de América Latina, los cuales se han visto desbordados por su impacto y consecuencias ante la falta de respuestas multilaterales, colaborativas y consensuadas, al preferir actuar de manera individual con prevalencia de soberanías nacionales sobre una actuación de soberanías compartidas. Con ello se está demostrando que, en lo institucional, se...
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Este libro analiza el lugar que ocupan las víctimas de crímenes de Estado en Colombia en los escenarios transicionales creados a partir de la implementación de la ley de Justicia y Paz. Tomando como referencia los escenarios que han surgido a partir de esta ley, se consideran algunos marcos de participación determinados para las víctimas en los escenarios judiciales, algunas de las prácticas que se generan como resultado de la reinserción paramilitar...
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Scot Harvath thrillers volume 22
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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In the war-ravaged borderlands of Ukraine, a Russian military unit has gone rogue. Its members, conscripted from the worst prisons and mental asylums across Russia, are the most criminally violent, psychologically dangerous combatants to ever set foot upon the modern battlefield. With all attention focused on the frontlines, they have pushed deeper into the interior to wage a campaign of unspeakable barbarity. As they move from village to village,...
11) Comando conjunto: El grupo de exterminio más secreto de la dictadura. Edición revisada y actualizada
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El Comando Conjunto fue un organismo represivo de la dictadura chilena del que nada se sabía hasta que uno de sus agentes—Andrés Valenzuela Morales, alias Papudo—desertó y, arriesgando la vida, entregó su testimonio. El organismo secreto fue responsable de brutales secuestros, torturas, desapariciones y asesinatos en distintos centros de detención de Santiago.
Parece volver a ser necesario, quizás más necesario que nunca, recordar el horror....
12) Alibi: [a novel]
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English
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From the bestselling author of Los Alamos and The Good German comes Joseph Kanon's riveting tale of love, revenge and murder set in postwar Venice.
Winner of the Hammett Prize
It is 1946, and Adam Miller has come to Venice to visit his widowed mother and try to forget the horrors he has witnessed as a U.S. Army war crimes investigator in Germany. But when he falls in love with Claudia, a Jewish woman scarred by her devastating experiences during...
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Somewhere Out There is a story of one person's experience with being, adopted. Most adopted children do not have any medical history or accurate information on their story. The author's search for a medical history sheds light on the many barriers that adopted children face trying to get information.
Adopted from Homestead Maternity Home in Fort Worth, Texas, she learns how the agency "marketed" their services and the similar stories told to adoptive...
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Los acontecimientos de la última década exigen nuevos enfoques para prevención de atrocidades que sean adaptables, innovadoras y independiente de una doctrina centrada en el estado. Con el Objetivo de reducir los factores de riesgo como la guerra civil, defendemos una nuevo marco normativo llamado El derecho a ayudar (DA), lo que fortalecería la coordinación internacional y Apoyo a las campañas de resistencia civil no violentas que exigen derechos,...
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“Unstable Ground” looks at the human impact of climate change and its potential to provoke some of the most troubling crimes against humanity-ethnic conflict, war, and genocide. Alex Alvarez provides an essential overview of what science has shown to be true about climate change and examines how our warming world will challenge and stress societies and heighten the risk of mass violence.
Drawing on a number of recent and historic examples, including...
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Les événements de la dernière décennie exigent de nouvelles approches en matière de prévention des atrocités, qui soient adaptables, innovantes et indépendantes d'une doctrine centrée sur l'État. Dans le but de réduire les facteurs de risque tels que la guerre civile, nous soutenons un nouveau cadre normatif dénommé Droit d'Assistance (DdA), qui renforcerait la coordination internationale et le soutien aux campagnes de résistance civile...
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Events of the last decade demand new approaches to atrocity prevention that are adaptable, innovative and independent of a state-centered doctrine. With the aim of reducing risk factors such as civil war, Ackerman and Merriman argue for a new normative framework called The Right to Assist (RtoA), which would strengthen international coordination and support for nonviolent civil resistance campaigns demanding rights, freedom and justice against non-democratic...
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At first glance, the letter to the Hebrews can seem difficult to comprehend, but William Barclay believed "that no New Testament book gives us such a glorious picture of Jesus Christ in all the splendor of his manhood and in all the majesty of his deity." So, amplified by Barclay's keen and vibrant commentary, this ancient letter emerges from apparent obscurity to be a vital resource of encouragement for Christians today. For almost fifty years and...
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While the flames of World War II still raged, Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin issued a warning to the Nazi leaders. Those responsible for the torture and murder of millions of innocent and defenseless civilians were promised that "... the three Allied Powers will pursue them to the furthest corners of the earth and deliver them to their judges so that justice may be done."
That promise was not kept. Justice was not done. In 1945, twelve of the most...
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