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Una investigación sobre varios casos de violación en Estados Unidos que muestra los mecanismos que pone el descrédito sobre las víctimas. Marie es una adolescente que se ha criado en casas de acogida. Nada más alcanzar la independencia, denuncia haber sufrido una violación. Pero nadie la cree. Dos años más tarde, unas investigadoras trabajan para resolver unos casos de violación ocurridos a miles de kilómetros, pero que siguen el mismo patrón que la de Marie. Los autores de Creedme reconstruyen la persecución del culpable, al mismo tiempo que desenmascaran los mecanismos detrás...

In How to Grow Old, the great Roman orator and statesman eloquently describes how you can make the second half of life the best part of all. Presented in a lively new translation, the book addresses the fears of growing older and argues why these worries are greatly exaggerated―or altogether mistaken.

Changing Family Values offers a comprehensive introduction to contemporary debates and new research surrounding the family. It explores how we define traditional family values and how these values are perceived as being underthreat in contemporary society. Ranging across politics, social policy, law and sociology, the contributors focus on the diverse realities of contemporary family life. Issues covered include: * the recent backlash against single mothers * lesbian and gay families and the law * men's changing roles within the family * the future of the nuclear family. This book is ideal...

This book presents a study of three famous usurpations of the Visigothic period: the uprising of Prince Hermenegild (579-585); the rebellion of Duke Argimundo at the beginning of the reign of Recaredo; and Duke Theudemirus and the role he played in the transmission of power between Visigoths and Arabs after the fall of the kingdom of Toledo.