Everyday Skeptics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Everyday Skeptics write by Alydia Smith. This book was released on 2019-01-01. Everyday Skeptics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How do the words of past prophets continue to live today? How do they inform our faith formation and our actions as a church? Wrestle with these questions through daily scripture, reflections, and prayers for individual devotions or group study written by a wide variety of contributors. Study guide included.
Challenging the Black Atlantic
Challenging the Black Atlantic - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Challenging the Black Atlantic write by John T. Maddox IV. This book was released on 2020-10-16. Challenging the Black Atlantic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The historical novels of Manuel Zapata Olivella and Ana Maria Gonçalves map black journeys from Africa to the Americas in a way that challenges the Black Atlantic paradigm that has become synonymous with cosmopolitan African diaspora studies. Unlike Paul Gilroy, who coined the term and based it on W.E.B. DuBois’s double consciousness, Zapata, in Changó el gran putas (1983), creates an empowering mythology that reframes black resistance in Colombia, Haiti, Mexico, Brazil, and the United States. In Um defeito de cor (2006), Gonçalves imagines the survival strategies of a legendary woman said to be the mother of black abolitionist poet Luís Gama and a conspirator in an African Muslim–led revolt in Brazil’s “Black Rome.” These novels show differing visions of revolution, black community, femininity, sexuality, and captivity. They skillfully reveal how events preceding the UNESCO Decade of Afro-Descent (2015–2024) alter our understanding of Afro-Latin America as it gains increased visibility. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Play the Right Cards
Play the Right Cards - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Play the Right Cards write by M. L. Buchman. This book was released on 2018-07-09. Play the Right Cards available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. -Delta Force romance story #10- Ramiro dreams a simple dream: become a great chef to capture the heart of the best cook he ever met. Now, in just-next-door restaurants in their old neighborhood—the barrios of Medellín, Colombia—he brings a modern twist to catch her attention. Estela’s worries center on the last gasp of the drug cartels that still haunt her neighborhood. When a pair of American Delta operators start a card game in Ramiro’s restaurant, she wonders if she too can Play the Right Cards.
Legal Barbarians
Legal Barbarians - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Legal Barbarians write by Daniel Bonilla Maldonado. This book was released on 2021-09-09. Legal Barbarians available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This innovative study presents a genealogy of modern comparative law, examining both theory and practice around the world.
The Politics of Drug Violence
The Politics of Drug Violence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Politics of Drug Violence write by Angélica Durán-Martínez. This book was released on 2018. The Politics of Drug Violence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Over the last few decades, drug trafficking organizations in Latin America became infamous for their shocking public crimes, from narcoterrorist assaults on the Colombian political system in the 1980s to the more recent wave of beheadings in Mexico. However, while these highly visible forms of public violence dominate headlines, they are neither the most common form of drug violence nor simply the result of brutality. Rather, they stem from structural conditions that vary from country to country and from era to era. In The Politics of Drug Violence, Angelica Dur n-Mart nez shows how variation in drug violence results from the complex relationship between state power and criminal competition. Drawing on remarkably extensive fieldwork, this book compares five cities that have been home to major trafficking organizations for the past four decades: Cali and Medell n in Colombia, and Ciudad Ju rez, Culiac n, and Tijuana in Mexico. She shows that violence escalates when trafficking organizations compete and the state security apparatus is fragmented. However, when the criminal market is monopolized and the state security apparatus cohesive, violence tends to be more hidden and less frequent. The size of drug profits does not determine violence levels, and neither does the degree of state weakness. Rather, the forms and scale of violent crime derive primarily from the interplay between marketplace competition and state cohesiveness. An unprecedentedly rich empirical account of one of the worst problems of our era, the book will reshape our understanding of the forces driving organized criminal violence in Latin America and elsewhere.
