Author: Humberto Velásquez ArdilaPublisher:
ISBN: 9789585532311
Category : Kidnapping
Languages : es
Pages : 213
Book Description
Secuestro
Author: Humberto Velásquez ArdilaPublisher:
ISBN: 9789585532311
Category : Kidnapping
Languages : es
Pages : 213
Book Description
La caja. Crónica de un secuestro de 290 días
Author: Alberto de la Fuente y de la ConchaPublisher: Medialuna
ISBN: 8412644565
Category : True Crime
Languages : es
Pages : 544
Book Description
Cuando fue secuestrado, a plena luz del día, en mitad de una de las ciudades más pobladas de México, la vida del empresario Alberto de la Fuente cambió para siempre. El que comenzaba como uno más de las decenas de miles de secuestros cometidos cada año en un país en el que este delito de codicia se ha convertido en una lucrativa industria terminaría siendo uno de los más largos y angustiosos en la historia de México. Esta es la crónica de nueve meses de infame cautiverio dentro de una diminuta celda prefabricada. Los 290 días para elegir, una y otra vez y a pesar de todo, continuar viviendo para volver a abrazar a su familia. Las páginas de La caja. Crónica de un secuestro de 290 días son una incursión privilegiada y sin filtros en la mente del superviviente de una situación límite. Su descarnada narración nos permite reflexionar sobre la capacidad del ser humano para superar las adversidades más terribles y nos recuerda que, incluso en los momentos más oscuros, la voluntad humana y el amor pueden ser más fuertes que cualquier encierro. El autor nos muestra cómo es posible salir fortalecido de la experiencia más traumática. "Este es un libro aterrador y hermoso, abismal y valiente. Su voz ilumina una tragedia, nos obliga a mirarla" Ángeles Mastretta Escritora
Secuestro extorsivo
Author: "El virus del secuestro"
Author: Jesús Emilio García AcostaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : es
Pages : 154
Book Description
Grass
Author: Keum Suk Gendry-KimPublisher: Drawn & Quarterly
ISBN: 1770464182
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 455
Book Description
Appeared on best of the year lists from The New York Times, The Guardian, and more! Winner of The Cartoonist Studio Prize for Best Print Comic of the Year! Grass is a powerful antiwar graphic novel, telling the life story of a Korean girl named Okseon Lee who was forced into sexual slavery for the Japanese Imperial Army during the Second World War—a disputed chapter in twentieth-century Asian history. Beginning in Lee’s childhood, Grass shows the lead-up to the war from a child’s vulnerable perspective, detailing how one person experienced the Japanese occupation and the widespread suffering it entailed for ordinary Koreans. Keum Suk Gendry-Kim emphasizes Lee’s strength in overcoming the many forms of adversity she experienced. Grass is painted in a black ink that flows with lavish details of the beautiful fields and farmland of Korea and uses heavy brushwork on the somber interiors of Lee’s memories. The cartoonist Gendry-Kim’s interviews with Lee become an integral part of Grass, forming the heart and architecture of this powerful nonfiction graphic novel and offering a holistic view of how Lee’s wartime suffering changed her. Grass is a landmark graphic novel that makes personal the desperate cost of war and the importance of peace.
The Blindfold's Eyes
Author: Dianna OrtizPublisher: Orbis Books
ISBN: 1608331792
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 505
Book Description
This searing memoir of an American nun who was abducted and tortured in Guatemala--and continues to search for healing and justice--shows that the human spirit is a force stronger than violence and fear.
The Rebel
Author: Leonor Villegas de Magn—nPublisher: Arte Publico Press
ISBN: 9781611920499
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
The Rebel is the memoir of a revolutionary woman, Leonor Villegas de Magnon (1876-1955), who was a fiery critic of dictator Porfirio Diaz and a conspirator and participant in the Mexican Revolution. Villegas de Magnon rebelled against the ideals of her aristocratic class and against the traditional role of women in her society. In 1910 Villegas moved from Mexico to Laredo, Texas, where she continued supporting the revolution as a member of the Junta Revolucionaria (Revolutionary Council) and as a fiery editorialist in Laredo newspapers. In 1913, she founded La Cruz Blanca (The White Cross) to serve as a corps of nurses for the revolutionary forces active from the border region to Mexico City. Many women like Villegas de Magnon from both sides of the border risked their lives and left their families to support the revolution. Years later, however, when their participation had still been unacknowledged and was running the risk of being forgotten, Villegas de Magnon decided to write her personal account of this history. The Rebel covers the period from 1876 through 1920, documenting the heroic actions of the women. Written in the third person with a romantic fervor, the narrative interweaves autobiography with the story of La Cruz Blanca. Until now Villegas de Magnon's written contributions have remained virtually unrecognized - peripheral to both Mexico and the United States, fragmented by a border. Not only does her work attest to the vitality, strength and involvement of women in sociopolitical concerns, but it also stands as one of the very few written documents that consciously challenges stereotyped misconceptions of Mexican Americans held by both Mexicans and Anglo-Americans.
A Case for Solomon
Author: Tal McTheniaPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439158606
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 21
Book Description
True crime.
A Conservation Assessment of the Terrestrial Ecoregions of Latin America and the Caribbean
Author: Eric DinersteinPublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Approach; Major ecosystem types, major habitat types, and ecoregions of LAC; Conservation status of terretrial ecoregions of LAC; Biological distinctiveness of territorial ecoregions of LAC at different biogeographic scales results; Integrating biological distinctiveness and conservation status; Conservation assessment of mangrove ecosystems.
Galveston
Author: Nic PizzolattoPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439166668
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
After being diagnosed with lung cancer, Roy Cady kills the men hired by his loan shark boss to kill him, and flees to Galveston, Texas, with a prostitute and her young sister, where they face more problems.