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Decolonizing the Westernized University

Interventions in Philosophy of Education from Within and Without

by Ernesto Rosen Velásquez, Anders Burman, Robert Aman, Camilo Pérez-Bustillo, Andrea J. Pitts, Nassim Noroozi, Luis Rubén Díaz Cepeda, Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Tendayi Sithole0, Kwame Nimako1, Ramón Grosfoguel2, Nelson Maldonado-Torres4, Amy Reed-Sandoval5 ...

An underlying assumption undergirding institutions of higher education is that they serve as a means to upward socioeconomic mobility and, in turn, a way to address poverty that is tied to certain racialized/sexualized bodies. Although the education crisis is not an American or European problem in the geographic sense, but instead a global problem that plays itself out differentially across space ... Read more

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An underlying assumption undergirding institutions of higher education is that they serve as a means to upward socioeconomic mobility and, in turn, a way to address poverty that is tied to certain racialized/sexualized bodies. Although the education crisis is not an American or European problem in the geographic sense, but instead a global problem that plays itself out differentially across space
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Medical and Psychological Effects of Concentration Camps on Holocaust Survivors

Edited by Robert Krell, Brent D. Ruben ...

Series series Genocide Studies
This unique research bibliography is offered in honor of Leo Eitinger of Oslo, Norway. Dr. Eitinger fled to Norway in 1939, at the start of the World War II. He was caught and deported to Auschwitz, where, among others, he operated on Elie Wiesel who has written the foreword to this volume. After the war, Eitinger became a pioneering researcher on a subject from which many shied away. His ... Read more

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This unique research bibliography is offered in honor of Leo Eitinger of Oslo, Norway. Dr. Eitinger fled to Norway in 1939, at the start of the World War II. He was caught and deported to Auschwitz, where, among others, he operated on Elie Wiesel who has written the foreword to this volume. After the war, Eitinger became a pioneering researcher on a subject from which many shied away. His
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Bone Metastases

Diagnosis and Treatment

Edited by Robert D. Rubens, Ignac Fogelman ...

Series series Medicine (R0)
Bone Metastases brings together the many recent developments that are gradually improving the prospects for patients with secondary involvement of the skeleton in a primary cancer elsewhere. The morbidity from bone metastases is extensive, and the palliative and supportive treatment that sufferers require for many months or even years constitutes a major health problem. A multidisciplinary ... Read more

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Bone Metastases brings together the many recent developments that are gradually improving the prospects for patients with secondary involvement of the skeleton in a primary cancer elsewhere. The morbidity from bone metastases is extensive, and the palliative and supportive treatment that sufferers require for many months or even years constitutes a major health problem. A multidisciplinary
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Latinx Perspectives on the New Testament

by Osvaldo D. Vena, Leticia A. Guardiola-Sáenz, Mariano Avila, Nancy Elizabeth Bedford, Aída Besançon Spencer, Alejandro F. Botta, Renata Furst, Awilda González, Rudolph D. González0, Corinna Y. Guerrero1, Ediberto López-Rodríguez2, Roberto Mata3, Néstor Oscar Míguez4, Rubén Muñoz-Larrondo5, Alvin Padilla6, Luis R. Rivera7, Manuel Villalobos Mendoza8, Efraín Agosto0, Jacqueline M. Hidalgo1, Eric D. Barreto2, Francisco Lozada Jr.3, Gilberto A. Ruiz4, Elsa Tamez5 ...

Going against the false perception that all Latinx views on the Bible are homogeneous, the contributors in this book use different hermeneutic perspectives to interpret the New Testament. Each chapter examines one of the twenty-seven documents thematically instead of following the traditional verse-by-verse commentary format. ... Read more

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Going against the false perception that all Latinx views on the Bible are homogeneous, the contributors in this book use different hermeneutic perspectives to interpret the New Testament. Each chapter examines one of the twenty-seven documents thematically instead of following the traditional verse-by-verse commentary format.
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The Accountant's Story

Inside the Violent World of the Medellín Cartel

by Roberto Escobar ...

Narrated by Ruben Diaz ...

Unabridged

10 hours 6 min

"I have many scars. Some of them are physical, but many more are scars on my soul. A bomb sent to kill me while I was in a maximum security prison has made me blind, yet now I see the world more clearly than I have ever seen it before. I have lived an incredible adventure. I watched as my brother, Pablo Escobar, became the most successful criminal in history, but also a hero to many of the people ... Read more

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"I have many scars. Some of them are physical, but many more are scars on my soul. A bomb sent to kill me while I was in a maximum security prison has made me blind, yet now I see the world more clearly than I have ever seen it before. I have lived an incredible adventure. I watched as my brother, Pablo Escobar, became the most successful criminal in history, but also a hero to many of the people
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American Desperado

My Life--From Mafia Soldier to Cocaine Cowboy to Secret Government Asset

by Jon Roberts, Evan Wright ...

Narrated by Mark Bramhall, Erik Davies, Mark Deakins, Kimberly Farr, Kirby Heyborne, Thomas Vincent Kelly, Steve Kramer, Meredith Scott Lynn, Johnathan McClain, Christina Rooney ...

Unabridged

16 hours 40 min

The true story of super-criminal Jon Roberts, star of the documentary Cocaine Cowboys.American Desperado is Roberts’ no-holds-barred account of being born into Mafia royalty, witnessing his first murder at the age of seven, becoming a hunter-assassin in Vietnam, returning to New York to become--at age 22--one of the city’s leading nightclub impresarios, then journeying to Miami where in a few ... Read more

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The true story of super-criminal Jon Roberts, star of the documentary Cocaine Cowboys.American Desperado is Roberts’ no-holds-barred account of being born into Mafia royalty, witnessing his first murder at the age of seven, becoming a hunter-assassin in Vietnam, returning to New York to become--at age 22--one of the city’s leading nightclub impresarios, then journeying to Miami where in a few
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El Narco

Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency

by Ioan Grillo ...

Narrated by Paul Thornley ...

Unabridged

13 hours 37 min

Bloomsbury presents El Narco by Ioan Grillo, read by Paul Thornley."Essential reading."-Steve Coll, NewYorker.comA gripping, sobering account of how Mexican drug gangs have transformed into a criminal insurgency that threatens the nation's democracy and reaches across to the United States.The world has watched, stunned, the bloodshed in Mexico. Forty thousand murdered since 2006; police chiefs ... Read more

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Bloomsbury presents El Narco by Ioan Grillo, read by Paul Thornley."Essential reading."-Steve Coll, NewYorker.comA gripping, sobering account of how Mexican drug gangs have transformed into a criminal insurgency that threatens the nation's democracy and reaches across to the United States.The world has watched, stunned, the bloodshed in Mexico. Forty thousand murdered since 2006; police chiefs
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Gaspipe

Confessions of a Mafia Boss

by Philip Carlo ...

Narrated by Alan Sklar ...

Unabridged

12 hours 30 min

Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso, the boss of New York's Lucchese crime family, was a Mafia superstar, responsible for more than fifty murders. Currently serving thirteen life sentences at a federal prison in Colorado, Casso has given journalist and New York Times bestselling author Philip Carlo the most intimate, personal look into the world of La Cosa Nostra ever seen. By pure happenstance, Casso had ... Read more

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Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso, the boss of New York's Lucchese crime family, was a Mafia superstar, responsible for more than fifty murders. Currently serving thirteen life sentences at a federal prison in Colorado, Casso has given journalist and New York Times bestselling author Philip Carlo the most intimate, personal look into the world of La Cosa Nostra ever seen. By pure happenstance, Casso had
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Killing Pablo

The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw

by Mark Bowden ...

Narrated by Zac Aleman ...

Unabridged

10 hours

A Simon & Schuster audiobook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every listener. ... Read more

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A Simon & Schuster audiobook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every listener.
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Pablo Escobar

My Father

by Juan Pablo Escobar ...

Narrated by Luis Moreno ...

Unabridged

12 hours 13 min

The popular television series Narcos captures only half the truth. Here, at last, is the full story.Until now, we believed that everything had been said about the rise and fall of Pablo Escobar, the most infamous drug kingpin of all time. But these versions have always been told from the outside, never from the intimacy of his own home.More than two decades after the full-fledged manhunt finally ... Read more

$31.99 CAD

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The popular television series Narcos captures only half the truth. Here, at last, is the full story.Until now, we believed that everything had been said about the rise and fall of Pablo Escobar, the most infamous drug kingpin of all time. But these versions have always been told from the outside, never from the intimacy of his own home.More than two decades after the full-fledged manhunt finally
... Read more

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Midnight in Mexico

A Reporter’s Journey through a Country’s Descent into Darkness

by Alfredo Corchado ...

Narrated by Timothy Andrés Pabon ...

Unabridged

9 hours 13 min

A crusading Mexican-American journalist searches for justice and hope in an increasingly violent MexicoIn the last decade, more than 100,000 people have been killed or disappeared in the Mexican drug war, and drug trafficking there is a multibillion-dollar business. In a country where the powerful are rarely scrutinized, noted Mexican-American journalist Alfredo Corchado refuses to shrink from ... Read more

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A crusading Mexican-American journalist searches for justice and hope in an increasingly violent MexicoIn the last decade, more than 100,000 people have been killed or disappeared in the Mexican drug war, and drug trafficking there is a multibillion-dollar business. In a country where the powerful are rarely scrutinized, noted Mexican-American journalist Alfredo Corchado refuses to shrink from
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A Demon-Haunted Land

Witches, Wonder Doctors, and the Ghosts of the Past in Post-WWII Germany

by Monica Black ...

This account of German citizens swept up in a wave of supernatural obsessions after WWII and the Holocaust is "an engrossing story from beginning to end" ( Booklist).In the aftermath of World War II in Germany, a messianic faith healer rose to extraordinary fame, prayer groups performed exorcisms, and enormous crowds traveled to witness apparitions of the Virgin Mary. Most strikingly, scores of ... Read more

$19.19 CAD

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This account of German citizens swept up in a wave of supernatural obsessions after WWII and the Holocaust is "an engrossing story from beginning to end" ( Booklist).In the aftermath of World War II in Germany, a messianic faith healer rose to extraordinary fame, prayer groups performed exorcisms, and enormous crowds traveled to witness apparitions of the Virgin Mary. Most strikingly, scores of
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