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Following the 1996 treaty ending decades of civil war, how are Guatemalans reckoning with genocide, especially since almost everyone contributed in some way to the violence? Meaning “to count, figure up” and “to settle rewards and punishments,” reckoning promises accounting and accountability. Yet as Diane M. Nelson shows, the means by which the war was waged, especially as they related to race and gender, unsettled the very premises of knowing and being. Symptomatic are the stories of duplicity pervasive in postwar Guatemala, as the left, the Mayan people, and the state were each...

While gangs and gang culture have been around for countless centuries, The Gang is one of the first academic studies of the phenomenon. Originally published in 1927, Frederic Milton Thrasher's magnum opus offers a profound and careful analysis of hundreds of gangs in Chicago in the early part of the twentieth century. With rich prose and an eye for detail, Thrasher looked specifically at the way in which urban geography shaped gangs and posited the thesis that neighborhoods in flux were more likely to produce gangs. Moreover, he traced gang culture back to feudal and medieval power systems...

Magnates, bandoleers, politicians, drug traffickers, clerics, and public figures comprise this history of the Sicilian Mafia. More than being merely an amalgamation of stories about organized crime, this history of the Sicilian Mafia is dense with political and social analysis. Analyzing historical documents, this book investigates the criminal processes that originated in Italy and, through formal and informal alliances, have spread to the international community.

En Cómo no escribir una novela, Howard Mittelmark y Sandra Newman aplican sus años de experiencia como editores y escritores para identifi car los 200 errores más comunes que cometen los escritores y enseñarnos cómo evitarlos. Muchos libros ofrecen consejos sobre cómo escribir bien. Éste no es uno de ellos. A través de hilarantes ejemplos muestra cómo conseguir que tu manuscrito jamás llegue a ser publicado: cómo los personajes son a veces versiones aburridas del propio autor, cómo un argumento puede resultar de lo más tedioso, cómo el estilo puede plagarse de tópicos......