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My Revision Notes: OCR A2 Criminal Law and the Special Study Paper
by Sue Teal Craig BeaumanUnlock your full potential with this revision guide which focuses on the key content and skills you need to know.With My Revision Notes for OCR A2 Criminal Law and the Special Study Paper you can: - Take control of your revision: plan and focus on the areas you need to revise with content summaries and commentary from authors Sue Teal and Craig Beauman - Show you fully understand key topics by using specific examples of criminal law to add depth to your knowledge of legal issues and processes - Apply legal terms accurately with the help of definitions and key words on all topics - Improve your skills to tackle specific exam questions with self-testing and exam-style questions and answers Get exam-ready with last-minute quick quizzes at www.hodderplus.co.uk/myrevisionnotes
My Revision Notes: Ocr A Level Law Epub
by Craig Beauman Clare WilsonExam board: OCRLevel: A-levelSubject: LawFirst teaching: September 2017First exams: Summer 2018Target success in OCR A Level with this proven formula for effective, structured revision; key content coverage is combined with exam-style questions, revision tasks and practical tips to create a revision guide that students can rely on to review, strengthen and test their knowledge.With My Revision Notes every student can:· Plan and manage a successful revision programme using the topic-by-topic planner.· Enjoy an interactive approach to revision, with clear topic summaries that consolidate knowledge and related activities that put the content into context.· Build, practise and enhance exam skills by progressing through revision tasks and Test Yourself activities.· Improve exam technique through exam-style questions and sample answers with commentary from expert authors and teachers.· Get exam ready with extra quick quizzes and answers to the activities available online.
My Revision Notes: Religious Ethics
by Jill OliphantUnlock your full potential with this revision guide which provides both the key content you need to know and guidance on how to apply it for better gradesMy Revision Notes: OCR A2 Religious Studies: Religious Ethics helps you to stay motivated and focused during your revision - and gives you the opportunity to practise and refine your skills to achieve the best grade in your exam. Breaks down all topics into short sections - easy to read and revise from Exam-style practice questions help confidence with the exam Concise notes, clear layout and colourful features keep you engaged You can check your learning with the 'test yourself' questions and tick-box design
My Revision Notes: Religious Ethics
by Jill OliphantUnlock your full potential with this revision guide which provides both the key content you need to know and guidance on how to apply it for better grades.My Revision Notes: OCR AS Religious Studies: Religious Ethics helps you to stay motivated and focused during your revision - and gives you the opportunity to practise and refine your skills to achieve the best grade in your exam. Breaks down all topics into short sections - easy to read and revise from Exam-style practice questions help confidence with the exam Concise notes, clear layout and colourful features keep you engaged You can check your learning with the 'test yourself' questions and tick-box design
My Story Starts Here: Voices of Young Offenders
by Deborah EllisDeborah Ellis, activist and award-winning author of The Breadwinner interviews young people involved in the criminal justice system and lets them tell their own stories.Jamar found refuge in a gang after leaving an abusive home where his mother stole from him. Fred was arrested for assault with a weapon, public intoxication and attacking his mother while on drugs. Jeremy first went to court at age fourteen (“Court gives you the feeling that you can never make up for what you did, that you’re just bad forever”) but now wears a Native Rights hat to remind him of his strong Métis heritage. Kate, charged with petty theft and assault, finally found a counselor who treated her like a person for the first time.Many readers will recognize themselves, or someone they know, somewhere in these stories. Being lucky or unlucky after making a mistake. The encounter with a mean cop or a good one. Couch-surfing, or being shunted from one foster home to another. The kids in this book represent a range of socioeconomic backgrounds, genders, sexual orientations and ethnicities. Every story is different, but there are common threads — loss of parenting, dislocation, poverty, truancy, addiction, discrimination. The book also includes the points of view of family members as well as “voices of experience” — adults looking back at their own experiences as young offenders.Most of all, this book leaves readers asking the most pressing questions of all. Does it make sense to put kids in jail? Can’t we do better? Have we forgotten that we were once teens ourselves, feeling powerless to change our lives, confused about who we were and what we wanted, and quick to make a move without a thought for the consequences?Key Text Featuresillustrationsphotographsfurther readingglossaryresourcesCorrelates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts:CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.2Determine a central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments.CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.6Determine an author's point of view or purpose in a text and explain how it is conveyed in the text.CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.8Trace and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, distinguishing claims that are supported by reasons and evidence from claims that are not.
My Tax Dollars: The Morality of Taxpaying in America
by Ruth BraunsteinWhen the mundane reality of paying taxes takes on moral significanceIn My Tax Dollars, Ruth Braunstein maps the contested moral landscape in which Americans experience and make sense of the tax system. Braunstein tells the stories of Americans who view taxpaying as more than a mundane chore: antigovernment tax defiers who challenge the legitimacy of the tax system, antiwar activists who resist the use of their taxes to fund war, antiabortion activists against &“taxpayer funded abortions,&” and a diverse group of people who promote taxpaying as a moral good.Though taxpaying is often portrayed as dull and technical, exposure to collective rituals, civic education, propaganda, and protest transforms the practice for many Americans into either a sacred rite of citizenship or a profane threat to what they hold dear. These sacred and profane meanings can apply to the act of taxpaying itself or to the specific uses of tax dollars. Despite intense disagreement about these meanings, politically diverse Americans engaged in both taxpaying and tax resistance valorize the individual taxpayer and &“my tax dollars.&”Braunstein explores the profound implications of this meaning making for tax consent, the legitimacy of the tax system, and citizens&’ broader understandings of their political relationships. Going beyond the usual focus on tax policy, Braunstein&’s innovative view of taxation through the lens of cultural sociology shows how citizens in value-diverse societies coalesce around shared visions of the sacred and fears of the profane.
My Word!: Plagiarism and College Culture
by Susan D. Blum"Classroom Cheats Turn to Computers." "Student Essays on Internet Offer Challenge to Teachers." "Faking the Grade." Headlines such as these have been blaring the alarming news of an epidemic of plagiarism and cheating in American colleges: more than 75 percent of students admit to having cheated; 68 percent admit to cutting and pasting material from the Internet without citation. Professors are reminded almost daily that many of today's college students operate under an entirely new set of assumptions about originality and ethics. Practices that even a decade ago would have been regarded almost universally as academically dishonest are now commonplace. Is this development an indication of dramatic shifts in education and the larger culture? In a book that dismisses hand-wringing in favor of a rich account of how students actually think and act, Susan D. Blum discovers two cultures that exist, often uneasily, side by side in the classroom.Relying extensively on interviews conducted by students with students, My Word! presents the voices of today's young adults as they muse about their daily activities, their challenges, and the meanings of their college lives. Outcomes-based secondary education, the steeply rising cost of college tuition, and an economic climate in which higher education is valued for its effect on future earnings above all else: These factors each have a role to play in explaining why students might pursue good grades by any means necessary. These incentives have arisen in the same era as easily accessible ways to cheat electronically and with almost intolerable pressures that result in many students being diagnosed as clinically depressed during their transition from childhood to adulthood.However, Blum suggests, the real problem of academic dishonesty arises primarily from a lack of communication between two distinct cultures within the university setting. On one hand, professors and administrators regard plagiarism as a serious academic crime, an ethical transgression, even a sin against an ethos of individualism and originality. Students, on the other hand, revel in sharing, in multiplicity, in accomplishment at any cost. Although this book is unlikely to reassure readers who hope that increasing rates of plagiarism can be reversed with strongly worded warnings on the first day of class, My Word! opens a dialogue between professors and their students that may lead to true mutual comprehension and serve as the basis for an alignment between student practices and their professors' expectations.
Mystic Wind (A Jack Marino Legal Thriller #1)
by James BarrettoThe last remaining fragment of truth—hidden in the mire of the Mystic Creek Boston star-prosecutor-turned-corporate-attorney Jack Marino has risen fast and far from his upbringing in the Mystic housing projects. But after he's savagely beaten in retaliation for his work as head of the District Attorney's Urban Gang Unit, he's fired because his powerful boss is running for governor and fears the beating may have shaken Jack's formidable confidence. Jack lands a plush suite at his father-in-law's mega law firm, making big money practicing corporate law. Although he seemingly has everything—money, privilege, and an heiress for a wife, what he doesn't have is his own self-respect. When he is given a chance to get back into criminal law—this time as defense counsel in a capital murder case—he finally feels alive again. But to save his client from death row, he'll face a criminal network far more organized and powerful than he could have imagined. The case will take Jack back to the projects he thought he'd escaped. He'll risk personal and professional ruin, and ultimately his very life, to fight the corrupt forces determined to see his client go down—forces that may have already given absolute immunity to the real killer.Perfect for fans of John Grisham and Scott Turow
Myth and Solidarity in the Modern World: Beyond Religious and Political Division (Routledge New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology and Biblical Studies)
by Timothy StaceyIn the context of the rise of reactionary politics across the globe, this book seeks new ways of developing solidarity across religious, political and economic differences. Drawing on an increasingly influential Christian theological movement, postliberalism, it claims that the dominance of liberal, secular rationality has blinded people to the fundamental role of transcendence and myth in developing solidarity. The result is either atrophy, or a retrenching in divisive myths of faith, race, nation or economic status. Liberalism is now a dominant force across the globe. But its resonance in the Anglo-Saxon West, from which it originates and has been most fully realized, is relatively underexplored. The book thus follows two simultaneous lines of enquiry. Firstly, a genealogical study of social scientific and policy iterations of the relationship between belief and solidarity in the Anglo-Saxon West, placing postliberal theory into dialogue with the sociology and anthropology of religion, politics and economics. Secondly, it draws from original ethnographic research with groups in London, UK, that seek to develop solidarity in the face of deep-seated difference. By bringing a new way of framing these contentious debates about contemporary society, this research offers tools for more productive conversations around religious and political topics, in particular concluding with a clear policy proposal. It is, therefore, a useful resource for both academics of theology and religious studies, political philosophy, sociology and anthropology; and for politicians, policy makers and practitioners hoping to develop solidarity in the modern world.
Myth of Universal Human Rights: Its Origin, History, and Explanation, Along with a More Humane Way
by David N. StamosIn this groundbreaking and provocative new book, philosopher of science David N. Stamos challenges the current conceptions of human rights, and argues that the existence of universal human rights is a modern myth. Using an evolutionary analysis to support his claims, Stamos traces the origin of the myth from the English Levellers of 1640s London to our modern day. Theoretical defenses of the belief in human rights are critically examined, including defenses of nonconsensus concepts. In the final chapter Stamos develops a method of naturalized normative ethics, which he then applies to topics routinely dealt with in terms of human rights. In all of this Stamos hopes to show that there is a better way of dealing with matters of ethics and justice, a way that involves applying the whole of our evolved moral being, rather than only parts of it, and that is fiction-free.
Myth of the Social Volcano
by Martin WhyteWhyte (sociology, Harvard U. ) examines how ordinary Chinese citizens weight the balance between a booming economy and rising inequality as they evaluate the social order. He suggests that given the changes from socialist to market economy and from modest to sizeable income gaps, people's attitude may well effect China's future political stability. Among his topics are China's post-socialist transition and rising inequality, what Chinese citizens see as fair and unfair about current inequalities, preferences for equality and inequality, and views of stratification and class conflict. His detailed survey data show that gleeful predictions that an angry populace is on the verge of overthrowing the state are just wishful thinking. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc. , Portland, OR (booknews. com)
Myth or Lived Reality: On the (In)Effectiveness of Human Rights
by Andrea Broderick Claire Boost Fons Coomans Roland MoerlandChapters How Human Rights Cross-Pollinate and Take Root: Local Governments & Refugees in Turkey by Elif Durmuş and Human Rights Localisation and Individual Agency: From ‘Hobby of the Few’ to the Few Behind the Hobby by Tihomir Sabchev, Sara Miellet, and Elif Durmuş are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.comThis book seeks to explore, from a multidisciplinary perspective, whether human rights are, in fact, a myth or a lived reality. Over the years much has been said about their effectiveness or, rather, their ineffectiveness.This perceived ineffectiveness relates not only to institutional challenges at the international level, but also to national implementation mechanisms and processes. In addition, questions have arisen as to whether individuals or groups of individuals actually benefit from the normative guarantees contained in human rights law and whether human rights as legal constructs can be effectively translated into better outcomes.This volume can be distinguished from the existing literature by virtue of the fact that it not only brings together scholars at different stages of their careers, but also that it incorporates contributions that adopt different methodological perspectives and cover a variety of topics.The book should prove of great benefit to human rights researchers, human rights practitioners, NGOs and students.Claire Boost is a PhD Candidate at the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology, Maastricht University.Andrea Broderick is an Assistant Professor at the Department of International and European Law, Maastricht University.Fons Coomans is a Professor at the UNESCO Chair in Human Rights and Peace, Department of International and European Law, Maastricht University.Roland Moerland is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology, Maastricht University.
Mythos Determinismus
by Brigitte FalkenburgAus Sicht von Neurobiologen regiert das neuronale Geschehen im Kopf unser Bewusstsein. Als Physikerin und Philosophin hinterfragt die Autorin in diesem Buch die Aussagen von Hirnforschern und stellt fest, dass die Neurobiologie an längst überholten mechanistischen Vorstellungen festhält und dadurch zu Fehlschlüssen über den menschlichen Geist und den freien Willen gelangt. Der Band liefert die Grundzüge einer Wissenschaftstheorie der Hirnforschung und weist damit den Weg zu einem differenzierteren Naturverständnis und Menschenbild.
Mythos Determinismus: Wieviel erklärt uns die Hirnforschung?
by Brigitte FalkenburgAus der Sicht der Neurobiologie regiert im Kopf das neuronale Geschehen. Doch was wissen die Hirnforscher genau über die Mechanismen des Hirngeschehens und ihren Einfluss auf den menschlichen Geist? Dieser Frage geht Brigitte Falkenburg nach. Die Physik hat sich längst vom mechanistischen Weltbild gelöst, in der Neurobiologie bleiben überholte mechanistische Vorstellungen bis heute wirksam. Dabei sind die "mechanistischen" Erklärungen der Hirnforschung ganz anders als ihr Name suggeriert; und wer annimmt, der Geist sei so strukturiert wie die Materie, zieht atomistische und kausale Fehlschlüsse über das Bewusstsein. Falkenburgs Buch möchte die Debatte um Geist und Gehirn, freien Willen und Determinismus endlich davon befreien. Es liefert Grundzüge einer Wissenschaftstheorie der Hirnforschung und eröffnet den Weg zu einem differenzierteren Naturverständnis und Menschenbild. Das beliebte Sachbuch ist für die zweite Auflage vollständig überarbeitet und aktualisiert worden.
Myths and Realities of Secessionisms: A Constitutional Approach to the Catalonian Crisis
by Miguel Beltrán de FelipeThis book provides a comprehensive overview of the Catalonian crisis in Spain from a historical, political and legal perspective. Using the precedents of Québec, Scotland, and partially Veneto and Bavaria, the author highlights some of the key issues of contemporary secessionist nationalism, including its relationship with sovereignty, the right to have a referendum, and the capacity of a particular territory to amend the constitution in order to admit secession.
Más allá de todo reconocimiento
by Kenneth EadeEs mejor ser juzgado por doce que llevado por seis. # 1 Nuevo lanzamiento caliente en Thrillers legales. Experimenta el suspenso y el misterio de lo último en la serie de thriller legal más vendida del autor, los críticos saludan como:"Uno de los escritores de suspenso más fuertes de la escena." Este thriller legal y militar de ritmo rápido y lleno de acción nos presenta al Capitán Ryan Bennington, de 26 años, al mando de una compañía durante la Guerra de Irak y luchando contra un enemigo sin rostro en la guerra mundial contra el terror, donde una decisión de una fracción de segundo podría significar la diferencia entre matar a un civil inocente Ryan sobrevive a la guerra y regresa a casa para conquistar el TEPT y el desempleo crónico, solo para ser arrestado por seguir las órdenes de su Comandante de matar a presuntos terroristas de Al-Qaeda en un pequeño pueblo iraquí, que resultan, después de la redada, ser civiles. El abogado Brent Marks se enfrenta a la defensa de Ryan en su juicio marcial, que revelará los secretos más profundos y oscuros del complejo industrial militar. En su búsqueda de un chivo expiatorio, ¿los poderes que se han ido demasiado lejos esta vez?
Más allá del bien y del mal: Experiencias de una psicóloga forense
by Virginia BarberLa doctora Barber nos descubre que el mal tiene un rostro dolorosamente humano. «Al llegar, Henry seguía allí. Me dejaron entrar a verlo. Estaba sentado en la celda, vestido de naranja, con las manos esposadas por delante y cabizbajo. Cuando oyó mi voz levantó la cabeza; aunque estaba llorando parecía aliviado de verme. Se levantó. Los guardias me gritaban: "¡Doctora, no lo puede tocar, ya no es su paciente, es un preso! ¡No se acerque, tiene treinta segundos!". Fui capaz de meter mis manos entre los barrotes y tocar las suyas unidas por las esposas. "Recuerda lo que hemos hablado, espero no tener que volver a verte." Fueron las últimas palabras que le dije y la última vez que lo vi.» En Más allá del bien y del mal Virginia Barber Rioja nos cuenta mediante unas excepcionales memorias sus experiencias como psicóloga forense. El enfoque de esta joven canaria establecida en Nueva York nos abre los ojos frente a los riesgos de un sistema penitenciario que no contempla las condiciones sociales ni las necesidades básicas de reclusos con enfermedades mentales y explica el rol fundamental de sus compañeros de profesión para incidir en la creación de una ley más humana y más justa que nos permita avanzar hacia una sociedad mejor.
Más allá del bien y del mal: Experiencias de una psicóloga forense
by Virginia BarberLa doctora Barber nos descubre que el mal tiene un rostro dolorosamente humano. «Al llegar, Henry seguía allí. Me dejaron entrar a verlo. Estaba sentado en la celda, vestido de naranja, con las manos esposadas por delante y cabizbajo. Cuando oyó mi voz levantó la cabeza; aunque estaba llorando parecía aliviado de verme. Se levantó. Los guardias me gritaban: "¡Doctora, no lo puede tocar, ya no es su paciente, es un preso! ¡No se acerque, tiene treinta segundos!". Fui capaz de meter mis manos entre los barrotes y tocar las suyas unidas por las esposas. "Recuerda lo que hemos hablado, espero no tener que volver a verte." Fueron las últimas palabras que le dije y la última vez que lo vi.» En Más allá del bien y del mal Virginia Barber Rioja nos cuenta mediante unas excepcionales memorias sus experiencias como psicóloga forense. El enfoque de esta joven canaria establecida en Nueva York nos abre los ojos frente a los riesgos de un sistema penitenciario que no contempla las condiciones sociales ni las necesidades básicas de reclusos con enfermedades mentales y explica el rol fundamental de sus compañeros de profesión para incidir en la creación de una ley más humana y más justa que nos permita avanzar hacia una sociedad mejor.
Más de 100 Consejos para Mejorar Tu Vida Profesional: Ética Profesional
by Richard G Lowe Jr Aurora CarranzaDispara Tu Carrera Sin Sacrificar Tu Ética e Integridad ¿Qué si pudieras ser extremadamente exitoso en tu carrera? Imagina que pudieras hacer unos simples pasos para en verdad comenzar a disfrutar tu trabajo, llegar a casa relajado e incrementar tu paga. ¿Qué si pudieras hacer todo eso sin hacerle favores al jefe o sacrificar tu integridad y vida personal? El Líder corporativo y gerente por más de 30 años, Richard Lowe, presenta algunas de las lecciones que él ha aprendido gestionando cientos de personas y dirigiendo a exitosos y felices equipos. Lowe responde la pregunta: ¿Cómo puedes mejorar tu trabajo, realzar tu carrera, hacer más dinero y aún así tener una vida feliz afuera del trabajo? En este libro aprenderás: Cómo obtener el respeto de tus compañeros de equipo Qué se necesita para ser visto como un líder efectivo Cómo manejar a las manzanas podridas del área de trabajo Por qué las juntas son estúpidas a menos de que sean cuidadosamente controladas Qué hacer sobre el agujero negro de los correos electrónicos que hacen perder tiempo Por qué los gerentes aman los plazos y cómo controlarlos Por qué tu integridad es la comodidad más importante que posees Cómo mantener separada tu vida laboral de tu vida personal, aún si el jefe quiere que trabajes hasta la muerte Escucha cómo incrementar tu productividad, mejorar tu carrera, ¡y ganar más dinero!
Mängel am Bau erkennen: Schnelleinstieg für Architekten und Bauingenieure (essentials)
by Felix ReehFelix Reeh gibt in kompakter Form einen Einstieg in die Gesetzeslage und Rechtsprechung des BGH zu Mängeln an Bauleistungen und Architekten- bzw. Ingenieurleistungen. Es werden insbesondere die Voraussetzungen für einen Mangel im werkvertragsrechtlichen Sinne vermittelt und die Bedeutung der allgemein anerkannten Regeln der Technik, DIN-Normen und Herstellervorschriften besprochen. Die zutreffende Einordnung von Mängelrügen des Auftraggebers ist entscheidend, um dem Bauherrn Hilfestellung geben zu können, aber auch Handlungsbedarf und eigene Risiken rechtzeitig zu erkennen.
México a cielo abierto: De cómo el boom minero resquebrajó al país
by J. Jesús LemusEntre 2001 y 2017 las mineras extrajeron de México una cantidad equivalente al doble del oro y la mitad de la plata que los españoles se llevaron en los 300 años que duró la Colonia. La minería es uno de los negocios más jugosos del país... pero no para los trabajadores o las comunidades donde se desarrolla. Deja una utilidad anual de $200,000 millones de dólares, de los cuales muy pocos se ven reflejados en la calidad de vida de la sociedad mexicana, que en cambio sí sufre los estragos de la explotación desmesurada. Solapadas por el gobierno desde hace al menos veinticinco años, cuando se firmó el Tratado de Libre Comercio de América del Norte, cerca de 267 compañías -principalmente canadienses y estadounidenses- operan en México sin escrúpulos ni restricciones. Lo peor de todo es que a su alrededor convergen los peores males que aquejan a nuestro país: corrupción, desgobierno, narcotráfico, violencia, pobreza y desplazamiento. Esta investigación, que el reportero J. Jesús Lemus realizó por los cuatro rincones del país, revela por primera vez las operaciones ilegales de la industria minera que, por increíble que parezca, opacan la brutalidad del narcotráfico, y lanza una alerta urgente sobre los peligros que representan para la soberanía y la supervivencia de nuestro país. Parte del acervo real y existente, que por límite de espacio y secrecía profesional no se agregó al mismo: https://randomhouse.box.com/s/h0f9nbst7vejrwrekkcm0rp43wrwj9g4 https://randomhouse.box.com/s/2kmkguft16z75z6hq35nkxdfrvt51vsg
México en Llamas: el legado de Calderón
by Anabel HernándezTras el rotundo éxito obtenido con Los señores del narco, Anabel Hernández nos entrega un libro clave para entender el legado que deja Felipe Calderón, quien será recordado, de acuerdo con la periodista, como el "presidente del exterminio". México en llamas: el legado de Calderón constituye una indispensable revisión crítica y una enérgica denuncia de los casos más escandalosos de corrupción y complicidad política del llamado "sexenio de la muerte", donde destacan nombres tan diversos como Manuel Bribiesca Sahagún, Genaro García Luna, Guillermo Galván Galván, Mario Arturo Acosta Chaparro, Isabel Miranda de Wallace y Carlos Salinas de Gortari. Felipe Calderón Hinojosa, asegura Anabel Hernández, será recordado por los cinco principales legados de su gobierno: el infinito poder del narcotraficante Joaquín El Chapo Guzmán; el asesinato impune de más de 60 mil personas -víctimas de la llamada guerra contra el narcotráfico-; la destrucción de su partido político, el PAN; un México controlado por cárteles, grupos de criminales y brigadas de mercenarios; y el regreso del PRI a Los Pinos. Para la periodista, los resultados de la estrategia fallida del panista son palpables: el incremento acelerado en el consumo y la producción de estupefacientes, así como la penetración del crimen organizado en las instituciones encargadas de brindar seguridad e impartir justicia: el ejército, la Marina, la SSP, la PGR y el Poder Judicial# ni una sola se ha librado del escándalo. El propósito fundamental de esta obra es informar a la sociedad y darle elementos para exigir justicia. A fin de cuentas, explica la autora, "la única forma de mantener nuestra esperanza en un futuro mejor, de que podamos desterrar este México de muerte e impunidad, es asegurarnos de que lo que ocurrió durante estos últimos seis años no se repita".
México en riesgo: Una visión personal sobre un Estado a la defensiva
by Jorge Carrillo OleaJorge Carrillo Olea, controvertido protagonista y testigo de la vida política nacional, ofrece su visión sobre hechos relevantes que determinaron el curso de la historia contemporánea de nuestro país, así como un análisis sobre cómo desembocaron en la actual crisis de seguridad nacional. Una visión personal sobre un Estado a la defensiva. Jorge Carrillo Olea, pionero en el estudio de la seguridad nacional y de los servicios de inteligencia en México, ocupó diversas posiciones privilegiadas durante cuatro sexenios -Luis Echeverría, José López Portillo, Miguel de la Madrid y Carlos Salinas- tanto por sus cargos públicos como por la proximidad que mantuvo con los titulares del Ejecutivo. En consecuencia, pudo observar desde la barrera de primera fila cómo se ha gobernado esta nación: con todos sus ritos, dogmas, valores, angustias, delirios, esperanzas, aciertos y equívocos. Sin duda, en la trayectoria profesional del autor hay muchos episodios insospechados y otros que necesitan aclararse, cosa que él mismo hace en esta obra. Entre otros sucesos, nos explica cómo fue usado el Estado Mayor el 2 de octubre de 1968; la peripecia para rescatar a Echeverría en la UNAM cuando fue agredido por los estudiantes; el papel que desempeñó México durante el golpe de Estado en Chile; el asesinato de Manuel Buendía en 1984; los momentos críticos que se vivieron tras el terremoto de 1985; la caída del sistema en 1988; el operativo donde aprehendieron a Joaquín El Chapo Guzmán en 1993; los pormenores de su gubernatura en Morelos y la pugna a muerte con Ernesto Zedillo. Tales elementos, en conjunto, le permiten a Carrillo Olea extraer valiosas conclusiones y hacer un ajuste de cuentas para conducir la reflexión hacia el crítico momento actual. En esa medida, el propósito del libro no consiste en esbozar una suerte de memorias, se trata más bien de hacer un riguroso análisis sobre el Estado mexicano y los problemas que afronta a partir de una clave fundamental: la seguridad nacional, condición esencial para la construcción de un proyecto de país que los gobiernos posrevolucionarios de cualquier orientación siempre menospreciaron.
NAFTA’s Impact on Mexico’s Regional Development (New Frontiers in Regional Science: Asian Perspectives #51)
by Patricio Aroca Adrián de León-AriasIn this book, the dynamics of continuity and change in the regional economic development of Mexico and the US border states are analyzed. These studies cover the last 25 years, after the first trade agreement, between a developed and a developing country, tooks place, and where international trade and investment have been combined with a set of relevant local factors such as regional innovation, industrialization patterns, multinational corporations’ modes of operation, public investment, and national content of exports. The book offers researchers a precise identification of stylized facts that characterize the pattern of regional development in Mexico and the US Southwest as well as state-of-the-art applications contrasting hypotheses from new economic geography, endogenous and neo-Schumpeterian economic growth models, and new international trade. To graduate and advanced undergraduate students in the fields of spatial geographic economics, this book offers an excellent source for its updated review of current topics on regional development in Mexico. To policy makers, the book helps to identify policy areas to reinforce the dynamics of regional development. Whereas other books have looked at the several impacts of NAFTA on national economies, productive sectors, and societies, this book analyzes the trade agreement’s impact with a long-term view across the diversity of developments of Mexico´s regions. As well, the analysis is carried out with the perspective of prospective reforms of a renovated trade agreement between the United States and the new Mexican federal administration . The collaborators in this book are researchers who are experts at the international and national levels in the field of regional economic development. During the last 25 years they have conducted their analyses in different regions of Mexico and the United States as university researchers, advisors to state and federal governments, and as practitioners.