El sufrimiento de Ruthie es una historia verídica vivida por la persona que lleva su nombre de la cual el autor puede testificar la veracidad de los hechos por ser parte de esta historia. En este libro verás las muchas caras del sufrimiento expresadas en lloros, decepciones, disoluciones, traiciones, amargos momentos, fracasos y hasta su estremecedor encuentro con la muerte. La historia es real que te hará reflexionar y pensar que cuando tú estás pasando por un momento difícil siempre hay alguien quién la está pasando peor. Esta historia es una de las tantas que suceden en el mundo. La tuya pudiera ser la próxima en escribirse. En ella veras las diferentes caras del sufrir. Historias como estas nunca terminan. Día a día se repiten en multitudes de seres humanos quienes diariamente padecen aflicciones y calamidades. La historia de Ruthie no es la única; todos tenemos también una historia que contar. Este libro te pondrá los "pelos de punta" a medida que leas y vayas descubriendo lo que la vida le ha dado a esta humilde mujer. Muchos de nosotros de una manera u otra hemos sido víctimas del sufrir y de los defectos que este deja; en el caso de Ruthie, los efectos son más que dolorosos. Sus sufrimientos te tocaran el alma. La palabra sufrir se quedará corta cuando veas el despliegue de tormentas y ataques que la vida misma ha hecho contra ella. Lee este libro detalladamente y veras que no estoy exagerando. Sé parte de esta historia e identifícate con el personaje para que tú también seas testigo de los atropellos que se atreve hacer el sufrir y de los rastros que éste deja. Entérate si el sufrimiento de Ruthie se convierte al fin y al cabo en felicidad; si ella le gana la batalla a la vida; si ella le da un adiós definitivo al sufrimiento, o una acogedora bienvenida a la felicidad. Su fe y perseverancia en Dios le da esperanza; pero aun la pregunta original queda en el aire: ¿Terminarán algún día los Sufrimientos de Ruthie? Eso sólo la sabe Dios.

Retells in rhyme the story of Ruth and Naomi.

In 2008, Ruthie is forced to leave the only home she has ever known to travel to Bethlehem Pennsylvania with her mother-in-law Nammy. They are destitute in search of greener pastures. At 29, Ruthie has just become a widow-and her husband's killer is still on the loose. She clings to Nammy and her God hoping for a hope and a future.

California is a state of immense contradictions. Home to colossal wealth and long portrayed as a bastion of opportunity, it also has one of the largest prison populations in the United States and consistently ranks on the bottom of education indexes. Taking a unique, multifaceted insider’s perspective, First Strike delves into the root causes of its ever-expansive prison system and disastrous educational policy. Recentering analysis of Black masculinity beyond public rhetoric, First Strike critiques the trope of the “school-to-prison pipeline” and instead explores the realm of public school as a form of “enclosure” that has influenced the schooling (and denial of schooling) and imprisonment of Black people in California. Through a fascinating ethnography of a public school in Los Angeles County, and a “day in the life tour” of the effect of prisons on the education of Black youth, Damien M. Sojoyner looks at the contestation over education in the Black community from Reconstruction to the civil rights and Black liberation movements of the past three decades. Policy makers, school districts, and local governments have long known that there is a relationship between high incarceration rates and school failure. First Strike is the first book that demonstrates why that connection exists and shows how school districts, cities and states have been complicit and can reverse a disturbing and needless trend. Rather than rely upon state-sponsored ideological or policy-driven models that do nothing more than to maintain structures of hierarchal domination, it allows us to resituate our framework of understanding and begin looking for solutions in spaces that are readily available and are immersed in radically democratic social visions of the future.

This book reinforces the foundation of a new field of studies and research in the intersection between social sciences and specifically between political science, international relations, diplomacy, psychotherapy, and social-cognitive psychology. It seeks to promote a coherent and comprehensive approach to international negotiation from a multidisciplinary viewpoint generating a longer term of studies, researches, and networking process that both respond to changes and differences in our societies and to the unprecedented demand and opportunities for international conflict prevention and resolution. There is a need to increase cooperation, coherence, and efficiency of international negotiation. It is necessary to focus our shared attention on new ways to better formulate integrated and sustainable negotiating strategies for conflict resolution. This book acquires innovative relevance in and will impact on the new context of international challenges which do not have a one-off solution that can be settled through a single target-oriented negotiation process. The book brings together leading scholars and researchers into the field from different disciplines, diplomats, politicians, senior officials, and even a Cardinal of the Holy See to give their contributions and make proposals on how best to optimize the use of negotiation and diplomacy structures, tools, and instruments. However, unlike most studies and researches on international negotiation, this book emphasizes processes, not simply outcomes or even tools but the way in which tools are and can be used to achieve better outcomes in international reality-based negotiation.

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Published in association with the International Sociological Association, this is a critical exploration of social justice and democratization, human rights, and social and economic inequality.