Mike Wallace je oceňovaný historik, jehož práce se hluboce noří do života a rozvoje měst. Je známý svým pronikavým pohledem na městskou historii, zejména na New York. Wallace zkoumá, jak města formují životy svých obyvatel a jak naopak obyvatelé přetvářejí svá města v neustálém dynamickém procesu. Jeho psaní vyniká schopností oživit minulost a odhalit složité sociální a politické síly, které stojí za růstem a proměnou městského prostředí.
In Gotham, Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace have produced a Pulitzer Prize- winning work of history that ranges from the Indian tribes that settled in and around the island of Manna-hata, to the consolidation of the five boroughs into Greater New York in 1898. schovat popis
A major effect of dementia is its impact on communication. Alison Wray explains why the changes occur and offers practical ideas for avoiding key pitfalls. With attention also to the fraught question of well-intentioned lying, this book offers a wealth of ways to improve conversations and relationships when someone is living with a dementia.
Become skilled and confident at critical reading and writing, developing a more thorough critical approach to improve your research and writing.
Drawing on decades of experience, a legendary journalist and a journalism professor collaborate to create a unique guide for aspiring journalists. Addressing common questions from beginners, the book provides essential advice on various critical topics, equipping the next generation with the tools needed to navigate the evolving landscape of journalism.
The term 'Mexican Drug War' implies that the ongoing bloodbath, which has now killed well over 100,000 people, is an internal Mexican affair. But this diverts attention from the U.S. role in creating and sustaining the carnage. It's not just that Americans buy drugs from, and sell weapons to, Mexico's murderous cartels. It's that ever since the U.S. prohibited the use and sale of drugs in the early 1900s, it has pressured Mexico into acting as its border enforcer-with increasingly deadly consequences. Mexico was not a helpless victim. Powerful forces within the country profited hugely from supplying Americans with what their government forbade them. But the policies that spawned the drug war have proved disastrous for both countries. Written by two award-winning authors, one American and the other Mexican, A Narco History reviews the interlocking twentieth-century histories that produced this twenty-first century calamity, and proposes how to end it.
10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes
In this national bestseller, the president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Gordon B. Hinckley, has created a classic look at the values that can change our world--and how to stand up for them. Drawing on anecdotes from his much-admired life of faith and service, as well as examples from American culture today, he examines ten virtues that have always illuminated the path to a better world: love, honesty, morality, civility, learning, forgiveness and mercy, thrift and industry, gratitude, optimism, and faith. He then shows how the two guardians of virtue--marriage and the family--can keep us on that path, even in difficult times. Standing for Something is an inspiring blueprint for what we all can do--as individuals, as a nation, and as a world community--to rediscover the values and virtues that have historically made us strong and that will lead us to a brighter future.
Cómo México y Estados Unidos crearon juntos la guerra contra las drogas - 1. edición
Pensar que el narcotráfico en nuestro país es un fenómeno reciente y exclusivo es un error de perspectiva. Este fenómeno histórico, creado en conjunto por México y Estados Unidos en el último siglo, es más complejo de lo que se cree. Este texto fue escrito para el lector estadounidense, desafiando la idea de que los horrores de la última década son un problema únicamente mexicano. Creer esto fomenta posturas como la de Donald Trump, que propone aislar a México y culparlo por la situación. Carmen Boullosa y Mike Wallace advierten que la raíz de la narcoviolencia se encuentra en la decisión del gobierno estadounidense a principios del siglo XX de prohibir el consumo de drogas. Esta prohibición llevó a los ciudadanos a buscar el mercado negro, donde los mexicanos han tenido un papel crucial. Estados Unidos no detuvo la importación y empujó a México a ser un socio menor en su proyecto prohibicionista, con consecuencias devastadoras. Los estadounidenses han enfrentado la encarcelación masiva, mientras que los mexicanos han sufrido un alto costo en vidas, desapariciones y un aumento del crimen y la corrupción. Dado que la guerra contra las drogas fue una creación conjunta, la solución debe ser bilateral, apuntando hacia la legalización y el tratamiento de las adicciones como un problema de salud pública.
