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Managing and Coordinating Major Criminal Investigations
by Robert F. Kilfeather Jr. Robert P.The process of controlling criminal investigations is a complex matter, yet it has frequently been minimized or neglected in police management publications. But knowing how to properly plan for an event, make resource agreements with other participants in the investigation, and implement a coordinating system within the agency is critical to proper
Managing by Dharma: Eternal Principles for Sustaining Profitability (Palgrave Studies in Workplace Spirituality and Fulfillment)
by Paresh Mishra Suresh KalagnanamThis book combines the wisdom in ancient Hindu texts on dharma, with the modern research on management to identify a set of principles that can aid business organizations in sustaining profitability. As businesses look to act more responsibly in response to the negative impact they have had on people, societies, and the environment, researchers are highlighting the changes that businesses must incorporate, with a particular focus on ethics and values.This book argues that a rapidly changing environment, a solid foundation to guide the organization, is critical. Dharma, a set of principles that holds things together or sustains life, offers such a foundation. Managing by Dharma provides business researchers with a framework to seamlessly evaluate and integrate the ethical and financial goals of business organizations.
Managing by Values
by Kenneth Blanchard Jim Ballard Michael O'ConnorThis wise and entertaining story teaches concepts to help business leaders and managers create win/win business strategies for customers, shareholders, their employees, and themselves.
Managing by the Bhagavad Gītā: Timeless Lessons for Today’s Managers (Management, Change, Strategy and Positive Leadership)
by Satinder Dhiman A. D. AmarDrawing upon the timeless wisdom of the Bhagavad Gītā, a philosophical-spiritual world classic, this professional book highlights the spiritual and moral dimensions of management using an inside-out leadership development approach. It interprets the Bhagavad Gītā’s teachings on the personality types and psychological makeup of managers and employees; self-knowledge and self-mastery; and the leadership concepts of vision, motivation, and empowerment. This book covers topics such as training of the mind, ethical leadership, communication, stress management, and corporate social responsibility (CSR). Collectively, the enclosed contributions provide managers with an enhanced outlook on management functions such as leading, planning, organizing, and controlling in today’s organizations, particularly those run by knowledge workers. Management research in the 20th century has mainly focused on the industrial paradigm characterized by a hierarchical structure of authority and responsibility with an individualistic focus on the personality of the manager. However, this traditional paradigm cannot solve many of the problems that confront leaders and mangers today. Recent studies have shown that values traditionally associated with spirituality—such as integrity, honesty, trust, kindness, caring, fairness, and humility—have a demonstrable effect on managerial effectiveness and success. Although traditionally interpreted as a religious-spiritual text, the Bhagavad Gītā teaches these values which can be extrapolated and applied to practical management lessons in today’s corporate boardrooms. Applying the text of the Bhagavad Gītā to the context of management, this book views the manager as an “enlightened sage” who operates from higher stance, guided by self-knowledge and self-mastery. It demonstrates how character is the key ingredient for effective management and leadership. This book is therefore applicable to all managers, from first-line to CEOs, in their management and leadership roles in organizations.
Managing for Social Impact
by Mary J. Cronin Tiziana C. DearingThis book presents innovative strategies for sustainable, socially responsible enterprise management from leading thinkers in the fields of corporate citizenship, nonprofit management, social entrepreneurship, impact investing, community-based economic development and urban design. The book's integration of research and practitioner perspectives with focused best practice examples offers an in-depth, balanced analysis, providing new insights into the social issues that are most relevant to organizational stakeholders. This integrated focus on sustainable social innovation differentiates the book from academic research monographs on stakeholder theory and practitioner guides to managing traditional Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programs. Managing for Social Impact features 15 contributed chapters written by thought leaders, industry analysts, and managers of global and local organizations who are engaged with innovative models of sustainable social impact. The editors also provide a substantive introductory chapter describing a new strategic framework for enhancing the Return on Social Innovation (ROSI) through four pillars of social change: Open Circles, Focused Purpose Sharing, Mutuality of Success, and a Persistent Change Perspective.
Managing in the Gray: Five Timeless Questions for Resolving Your Toughest Problems at Work
by Joseph L. Badaracco Jr.How to Resolve the Really Hard ProblemsEvery manager makes tough calls-it comes with the job. And the hardest decisions are the "gray areas"-situations where you and your team have worked hard to find an answer, you've done the best analysis you can, and you still don't know what to do. But you have to make a decision. You have to choose, commit, act, and live with the consequences and persuade others to follow your lead. Gray areas test your skills as a manager, your judgment, and even your humanity. How do you get these decisions right?In Managing in the Gray, Joseph Badaracco offers a powerful, practical, and even radical way to resolve these problems. Picking up where conventional tools of analysis leave off, this book provides tools for judgment in the form of five revealing questions. Asking yourself these five questions provides a simple yet profound way to broaden your thinking, sharpen your judgment, and develop a fresh perspective. What makes these questions so valuable is that they have truly stood the test of time-they've guided countless men and women, across many centuries and cultures, to resolve the hardest questions of work, responsibility, and life.You can use the five-question framework on your own or with others on your team to help you cut through complexities, understand critical trade-offs, and develop workable solutions for even the grayest issues.
Managing the Business Case for Sustainability: The Integration of Social, Environmental and Economic Performance
by Stefan Schaltegger Marcus WagnerThe difficulties in moving towards corporate sustainability raise the question of how environmental and social management can be integrated better with economic business goals. Over the last decade, the relationship between environmental and economic performance, and more recently the interaction between sustainability performance and business competitiveness, have received considerable attention in both theory and practice. However, to date, only partial aspects of the relationship between sustainability performance, competitiveness and economic performance have been studied from a theoretical as well as an empirical perspective. And, to date, no unique relationship has prevailed in empirical studies. A number of explanations have been put forward to explain this, including methodological reasons, such as the lack of statistical data, the low quality of that data, or the fact that such data is often available for short time periods only. Other theoretical explanations have been developed, such as the influence of different corporate strategies or the relatively small influence of environmental or sustainability issues as one factor among many on the economic or financial success of firms. So, how should the business case for sustainability be managed? This is the starting point for this book, which compiles insights on a large number of aspects of the link between sustainability performance, business competitiveness and economic success in an attempt to provide a comprehensive and structured view of this relationship. The book provides an unrivalled body of knowledge on the state of theory and practice in this field and identifies prospective future fields of work. The book includes: conceptual frameworks for the interaction of social, environmental and economic issues in business environments; case studies of companies that have successfully integrated social, environmental and economic issues; analyses of the causal and empirical relationship between environmental and/or social performance, business performance and firm-level competitiveness; concepts and tools useful for improving business value with proactive operational strategies; assessment of the factors influencing operational sustainability strategies and their economic impact; and comparisons of interactions between sustainability performance and firm competitiveness across industry sectors and countries. Managing the Business Case for Sustainability is the definitive work in its field: the most comprehensive book yet published on the theory and practice of managing sustainability performance, competitiveness, environmental, social and economic performance in an integrated way. It will be essential reading for managers, academics, consultants, fund managers, governments and government agencies, NGOs and international bodies who need a broad and comprehensive overview of the business case for sustainability.
Managing the Euro Crisis: National EU policy coordination in the debtor countries (Routledge Research in EU Law)
by Sabrina RagoneThe financial crisis posed new challenges for the administrations of Eurozone countries, including: how to respect EU obligations when the economy is under stress? How to improve the overall implementation of EU policies and domestic reforms? How to negotiate effectively with the Troika and then quickly and efficiently fulfil the requirements of the Memoranda of Understanding? This volume offers the first analysis of EU coordination by national executives in the light of the legal and political consequences of the crisis, using case studies of five severely affected Member States: Cyprus, Greece, Ireland, Italy, and Portugal. It examines from an interdisciplinary perspective how they have adapted their coordination systems since the outbreak of the crisis, shedding light on the adjustments undertaken by domestic administrations. The comparison reveals that in this process Prime Ministers and Ministers of Finance were empowered in a common shift towards the centralization of EU coordination.
Managing the Frozen South: The Creation and Evolution of the Antarctic Treaty System (Studies in International Political Economy #20)
by M. J. PetersonThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1988.
Managing the Insider Threat: No Dark Corners
by Nick CatrantzosAn adversary who attacks an organization from within can prove fatal to the organization and is generally impervious to conventional defenses. Drawn from the findings of an award-winning thesis, Managing the Insider Threat: No Dark Corners is the first comprehensive resource to use social science research to explain why traditional methods fail aga
Managing the New Bank Technology: An Executive Blueprint for the Future
by Marilyn R. SeymannManaging the New Bank Technology is a practical action-oriented guide for bank CEOs, executives, business students, and boards. The book is aimed at educating those involved in banking on the key technological issues facing the industry. "Quick reference" guides opening each chapter are a special feature of the book, blueprints that offer bottom line summary suggestions for bank officers and executives. Topics include: Banking as Retailing; The Internet and Financial Services; Strategies for Future Payment Systems; Risk Management Technology; Protecting Technology Investments in an Age of Rapid Change; Negotiating Outsourcing Contracts; Developing an Information System Plan; Organizational Strategies to Manage Technology; Battling Fraud and Security Issues; and Selling Your Bank's Technology Vision.
Managing with Sense and Sensitivity: Professionalism in Leadership
by Christer Sandahl Mia von KnorringManagers wrestle daily with emotional leadership challenges because emotions and relationships influence organizational energy, commitment, and financial results. This book helps managers strike a balance between feeling and reason in a professional and ethical manner with attention to the manager’s position in the hierarchy of the organization. The authors argue that all managers need to develop their own leadership style based on who they are as persons, their convictions and the circumstances in which they find themselves. This book shows managers how to use judgement, experience, reflection and general knowledge to be better leaders. The book also describes managerial responsibility for the conditions that create a compassionate and effective work environment where emotions can be expressed in ways that constructively benefit the entire organization
Mandated Corporate Social Responsibility: Evidence from India (CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance)
by René Schmidpeter Nayan MitraThis book examines the Indian mandate for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and its implementations in various individual organizations. Although the mandate is applicable only to certain large and stable companies, many believe that India is poised to become the birthplace of social, economic and environmental transformation, given the immense size of the Indian population and its challenging socio-economic index. The book explores the various facets of CSR investigation and places special emphasis on the Schedule VII of the Indian Companies Act of 2013, which defines specific areas of intervention for these companies. In addition, it provides a wealth of first-hand case studies that exemplify the ongoing developments and the fundamental challenges and opportunities of mandated CSR.
Mandating the Measurement of Fraud: Legislating against Loss
by Martin TunleyThis project examines the concept of fraud loss measurement by critiquing existing measurement methodologies, and argues for the mandating of fraud loss measurement by enforced self regulation, the creation of a British Standard of fraud loss measurement, and the establishment of an information exchange matrix to develop best practice.
Manhunters: Criminal Profilers and Their Search for the World?s Most Wanted Serial Killers
by Colin WilsonAuthor Colin Wilson opens this illuminating psychological discussion with the development of the 1977 Behavioral Science Unit, which was set up in order to answer the many questions surrounding serial killers: How does someone become a serial killer? How do they choose their victims, and why do they not feel remorse? How are they caught? Wilson interviews FBI Special Agent Robert Ressler, coiner of the term "serial killer" and one of the pioneers of criminal profiling, as well as Ted Bundy and Charles Manson in order to figure out the motives behind their grisly actions.In Manhunters, by tracking the BSU's development of psychological profiling and genetic fingerprinting, Wilson reveals the forensic investigations that caused the seizure and arrest of some of the most vile and villainous people in the world, including Jeffrey Dahmer, William Heirens, Peter Sutcliffe, John Duffy, Jerry Brudos, Wayne Williams, and many more. As he divulges the details of each case, the murderers' fantasy worlds, sadistic motives, and monstrous psychological tendencies emerge.
Manhunters: How We Took Down Pablo Escobar
by Steve Murphy Javier PeñaFor the first time, legendary DEA operatives Steve Murphy and Javier F. Peña tell the true story of how they helped put an end to one of the world’s most infamous narco-terrorists in Manhunters: How We Took Down Pablo Escobar—the subject of the hit Netflix series, Narcos.Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar’s brutal Medellín Cartel was responsible for trafficking tons of cocaine to North America and Europe in the 1980s and ’90s. The nation became a warzone as his sicarios mercilessly murdered thousands of people—competitors, police, and civilians—to ensure he remained Colombia’s reigning kingpin. With billions in personal income, Pablo Escobar bought off politicians and lawmen, and became a hero to poorer communities by building houses and sports centers. He was nearly untouchable despite the efforts of the Colombian National Police to bring him to justice.But Escobar was also one of America’s most wanted, and the Drug Enforcement Administration was determined to see him pay for his crimes. Agents Steve Murphy and Javier F. Peña were assigned to the Bloque de Búsqueda, the joint Colombian-U.S. taskforce created to end Escobar’s reign of terror. For eighteen months, between July 1992 and December 1993, Steve and Javier lived and worked beside Colombian authorities, finding themselves in the crosshairs of sicarios targeting them for the $300,000 bounty Escobar placed on each of their heads.Undeterred, they risked the dangers, relentlessly and ruthlessly separating the drug lord from his resources and allies, and tearing apart his empire, leaving him underground and on the run from enemies on both sides of the law.Manhunters presents Steve and Javier’s history in law enforcement from their rigorous physical training and their early DEA assignments in Miami and Austin to the Escobar mission in Medellin, Colombia—living far from home and serving as frontline soldiers in the never ending war on drugs that continues to devastate America.
Manhunts: A Philosophical History
by Grégoire ChamayouA comprehensive history of manhunting in the West, from ancient times to the presentTouching on issues of power, authority, and domination, Manhunts takes an in-depth look at the hunting of humans in the West, from ancient Sparta, through the Middle Ages, to the modern practices of chasing undocumented migrants. Incorporating historical events and philosophical reflection, Grégoire Chamayou examines the systematic and organized search for individuals and small groups on the run because they have defied authority, committed crimes, seemed dangerous simply for existing, or been categorized as subhuman or dispensable.Chamayou begins in ancient Greece, where young Spartans hunted and killed Helots (Sparta's serfs) as an initiation rite, and where Aristotle and other philosophers helped to justify raids to capture and enslave foreigners by creating the concept of natural slaves. He discusses the hunt for heretics in the Middle Ages; New World natives in the early modern period; vagrants, Jews, criminals, and runaway slaves in other eras; and illegal immigrants today. Exploring evolving ideas about the human and the subhuman, what we owe to enemies and people on the margins of society, and the supposed legitimacy of domination, Chamayou shows that the hunting of humans should not be treated ahistorically, and that manhunting has varied as widely in its justifications and aims as in its practices. He investigates the psychology of manhunting, noting that many people, from bounty hunters to Balzac, have written about the thrill of hunting when the prey is equally intelligent and cunning.An unconventional history on an unconventional subject, Manhunts is an in-depth consideration of the dynamics of an age-old form of violence.
Manifest Destinies
by Laura E. GómezWatch the Author Interview on KNMEIn both the historic record and the popular imagination, the story of nineteenth-century westward expansion in America has been characterized by notions of annexation rather than colonialism, of opening rather than conquering, and of settling unpopulated lands rather than displacing existing populations. Using the territory that is now New Mexico as a case study, Manifest Destinies traces the origins of Mexican Americans as a racial group in the United States, paying particular attention to shifting meanings of race and law in the nineteenth century.Laura E. Gómez explores the central paradox of Mexican American racial status as entailing the law's designation of Mexican Americans as &#"white" and their simultaneous social position as non-white in American society. She tells a neglected story of conflict, conquest, cooperation, and competition among Mexicans, Indians, and Euro-Americans, the region's three main populations who were the key architects and victims of the laws that dictated what one's race was and how people would be treated by the law according to one's race.Gómez's path breaking work--spanning the disciplines of law, history, and sociology--reveals how the construction of Mexicans as an American racial group proved central to the larger process of restructuring the American racial order from the Mexican War (1846-48) to the early twentieth century. The emphasis on white-over-black relations during this period has obscured the significant role played by the doctrine of Manifest Destiny and the colonization of northern Mexico in the racial subordination of black Americans.
Manifest Destinies, Second Edition: The Making of the Mexican American Race
by Laura E GómezManifest Destinies is an essential resource for understanding the complex history of Mexican Americans and racial classification in the United States. This is the history of the original Mexican Americans—the people living in northern Mexico in 1846 during the onset of the Mexican American War. The war abruptly came to an end two years later, and 115,000 Mexicans became American citizens overnight. Yet their status as full-fledged Americans was tenuous at best. Due to a variety of legal and political maneuvers, Mexican Americans were largely confined to a second class status. How did this categorization occur, and what are the implications for modern Mexican Americans? Manifest Destinies fills a gap in American racial history by linking westward expansion to slavery and the Civil War. In so doing, law and sociology professor Laura E. Gómez demonstrates how white supremacy structured a racial hierarchy in which Mexican Americans were situated relative to Native Americans and African Americans alike. Steeped in conversations and debates surrounding the social construction of race, this book reveals how certain groups become racialized, and how racial categories can not only change instantly, but also the ways in which they change over time. This second edition is updated to reflect the most recent evidence regarding the ways in which Mexican Americans and other Latinos were racialized in both the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The book ultimately concludes that it is problematic to continue to speak in terms of Hispanic &“ethnicity&” rather than consider Latinos qua Latinos alongside the United States&’ other major racial groupings. A must read for anyone concerned with racial injustice and classification today.
Manifest Injustice: The True Story of a Convicted Murderer and the Lawyers Who Fought for His Freedom
by Barry SiegelIn this remarkable legal page-turner, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Barry Siegel recounts the dramatic, decades-long saga of Bill Macumber, imprisoned for thirty-eight years for a double homicide he denies committing. In the spring of 1962, a school bus full of students stumbled across a mysterious crime scene on an isolated stretch of Arizona desert: an abandoned car and two bodies. This brutal murder of a young couple bewildered the sheriff 's department of Maricopa County for years. Despite a few promising leads—including several chilling confessions from Ernest Valenzuela, a violent repeat offender—the case went cold. More than a decade later, a clerk in the sheriff 's department, Carol Macumber, came forward to tell police that her estranged husband had confessed to the murders. Though the evidence linking Bill Macumber to the incident was questionable, he was arrested and charged with the crime. During his trial, the judge refused to allow the confession of now-deceased Ernest Valenzuela to be admitted as evidence in part because of the attorney-client privilege. Bill Macumber was found guilty and sentenced to life in prison.The case, rife with extraordinary irregularities, attracted the sustained involvement of the Arizona Justice Project, one of the first and most respected of the non-profit groups that represent victims of manifest injustice across the country. With more twists and turns than a Hollywood movie, Macumber's story illuminates startling, upsetting truths about our justice system, which kept a possibly innocent man locked up for almost forty years, and introduces readers to the generations of dedicated lawyers who never stopped working on his behalf, lawyers who ultimately achieved stunning results. With precise journalistic detail, intimate access and masterly storytelling, Barry Siegel will change your understanding of American jurisprudence, police procedure, and what constitutes justice in our country today.
Manifest animalista: La causa animal com a camí per a un nou humanisme
by Corine PelluchonLa violència contra els animals és un atac directe a la nostra humanitat. Això demostra Corine Pelluchon en aquest breu, pragmàtic, i controvertit assaig que suposa una contribució radical a l'ètica i la filosofia política. Lluitar contra el maltractament animal és rebel·lar-se contra una societat basada en l'explotació, i per això la causa animalista és una qüestió política major que ens concerneix a tots, més enllà d'ideologies o conflictes d'interessos. Amb un estil viu, persuasiu i inspirador, l'autora proposa un camí possible i factible per portar aquest debat a l'esfera política amb tanta claredat i urgència com sigui possible. Ressenyes:«Corine Pelluchon ho explica tot absolutament bé en tot just un centenar de pàgines: per ser una alternativa vàlida, és imprescindible polititzar la causa animal.»Luce Lapin, Charlie Hebdo «L'objectiu principal de l'autora està completament assolit en aquest Manifest animalista: dóna al lector les claus que li permetran ampliar el radi d'acció de l'humanisme als animals.»Philippe Douroux, Libération «Una perspectiva bella i ambiciosa.»Isabelle Gravillon, Femme Majuscule «Un llibre d'intervenció política, tan compromès com lúcid.»Robert Jules, La Tribune «Una de les moltes i grans qualitats d'aquest Manifest animalista és que, en tot moment, el seu projecte està exposat de manera perfectament creïble i realitzable. Precisament per això, l'autora no es fa cap il·lusió sobre la dificultat que suposa introduir la qüestió animal en el debat polític.»Hicham-Stéphane Afeissa, Non Fiction
Manifestations of Coherence and Investor-State Arbitration
by Charalampos GiannakopoulosCoherence is highly valued in law. It is especially sought after in investor-state dispute settlement, where charges of incoherence in arbitral awards have long been raised by states and scholars. Yet coherence is a largely underexplored notion in international law. Often, it is treated as a mere ideal to strive towards or simply as a different way to describe the legal consistency of judicial outcomes. This book takes a different approach. It sees coherence as an independent concept having two dimensions: a substantive and a methodological one. Both are critically important for legal reasoning by international courts and tribunals, including by investor-state tribunals, and the book illustrates through several case studies some of the ways this conclusion is borne out in practice. A fuller understanding of coherence in international law has implications for our understanding of the concept of law, the practice of legal reasoning, and judicial professional ethics.
Manifiesto animalista
by Corine PelluchonLa violencia contra los animales es un ataque directo a nuestra humanidad. Eso demuestra Corine Pelluchon en este breve ensayo, pragmático, controvertido y que supone una contribución radical a la ética y la filosofía política. <P><P>Luchar contra el maltrato animal es rebelarse contra una sociedad basada en la explotación, y por ello la causa animalista es una cuestión política mayor que nos concierne a todos, más allá de ideologías o conflictos de intereses. <P>Con un estilo vivo, persuasivo e inspirador, la autora propone un camino posible y factible para llevar el debate a la esfera política con tanta claridad y urgencia como sea posible.
Manifiesto animalista: Politizar la causa animal
by Corine PelluchonLa violencia contra los animales es un ataque directo a nuestra humanidad. Eso demuestra Corine Pelluchon en este breve ensayo, pragmático, controvertido y que supone una contribución radical a la ética y la filosofía política. «Un libro intenso, pese a su brevedad, de acción, llamado a marcar época. [...] Una propuesta clara y concisa para avanzar de manera decisiva en nuestra relación con los animales».Jacinto Antón, El País Luchar contra el maltrato animal es rebelarse contra una sociedad basada en la explotación, y por ello la causa animalista es una cuestión política mayor que nos concierne a todos, más allá de ideologías o conflictos de intereses. Con un estilo vivo, persuasivo e inspirador, la autora propone un camino posible y factible para llevar el debate a la esfera política con tanta claridad y urgencia como sea posible. Reseñas:«No exento de polémica, Manifiesto animalista, no pretende aleccionar moralmente a nadie, ni siquiera pretende convertirnos en animalistas, sino poner al lector, ciudadano, al fin y al cabo, en la meta de salida de un proceso de auto conversión e introspección. [...] Un cambio a varios niveles y que venga desde diferentes ámbitos: una nueva era, la de los seres vivientes, que deje atrás el antropocentrismo y que ponga el acento en nuestra manera de habitar la tierra».Queralt Castillo Cerezuela, Público«Un texto corto, directo y con propuestas muy concretas. Un panfleto que rompe la brecha entre la teoría y la práctica y va encaminado hacia la acción. Y en su país han recogido el guante. [...] La mejor muestra de que la lucha por los derechos de los animales ha traspasado ya la linde del mero activismo».Paula Corroto, El País «El ensayo dela doctora en filosofía Pelluchon irrumpe en la sociedad del siglo XXI como una verdadera catarsis del espíritu».LA.Network «Un nuevo paradigma del movimiento animalista mundial. [...] Un libro intenso, pese a su brevedad, de acción, llamado a marcar época y que constituye a la vez un estado de la cuestión, una declaración de intenciones y una propuesta clara y concisa para avanzar de manera decisiva en nuestra relación con los animales».Jacinto Antón, El País «La voz del animalismo».Núria Navarro, El Periódico«Un nombre de referencia del antiespecismo que busca convencer, no vencer a cualquier precio. [...] Manifiesto animalista resuena más necesaria que nunca.»Igor López, ICON «Corine Pelluchon lo explica todo absolutamente bien en apenas un centenar de páginas: para ser una alternativa válida, politizar la causa animal es imprescindible.»Luce Lapin, Charlie Hebdo«El objetivo principal de la autora está completamente logrado en este Manifiesto animalista: le da al lector las claves que le permitirán ampliar el radio de acción del humanismo a los animales.»Philippe Douroux, Libération «Una perspectiva bella y ambiciosa.»Isabelle Gravillon, Femme Majuscule«Un libro de intervención política, tan comprometido como lúcido.»Robert Jules, La Tribune «Una de las muchas y grandes cualidades de este Manifiesto animalista es que, en todo momento, su proyecto está expuesto de manera perfectamente creíble y realizable. Precisamente por eso, la autora no se hace ninguna ilusión sobrela dificultad que supone introducir la cuestión animal en el debate político.»Hicham-Stéphane Afeissa, Non Fiction
Manifiesto mexicano: Cómo perdimos el rumbo y cómo recuperarlo
by Denise DresserUna lectura obligada para ciudadanos críticos y propositivos. Este es un libro lleno de rabia y amor perro por el México maltrecho que debemos rescatar. Es una crónica del hartazgo, del enojo con la cleptocracia que se rota en el poder, con los privilegios inmerecidos de los cómodamente apoltronados en la punta de la pirámide. Un país atorado en la desesperanza, en el desamparo, sofocado por la corrupción, amenazado por la violencia, sin soluciones fáciles. Con el implacable rigor que la distingue, Denise Dresser hace un corte de caja de los últimos tiempos, los años del desencanto. La Peñastroika perdida, la cuatitud corrosiva, la vetocracia viva, el pacto de impunidad y cómo transitamos de la dictadura perfecta al pillaje perfecto. Por sus páginas desfilan las prácticas y las historias que han trastocado la transición democrática; sus líneas repasan los síntomas semanales de la descomposición como la "Casa Blanca", el escándalo de Odebrecht, la llamada "Estafa Maestra", los fiscales carnales, las instituciones disfuncionales y la partidocracia rapaz. Frontal y reveladora, la autora narra cómo nos convertimos en un país de fosas, de desaparecidos, de ausentes. Refuta las "verdades históricas" de Ayotzinapa y Tanhuato y Apatzingán, y contabiliza los costos de pelear la misma guerra contra el narcotráfico, pero con peores resultados. Ante este deterioro, apunta las batallas que faltan por ganar: por las mujeres, por los derechos pisoteados, por los periodistas, por la libertad de expresión, por la paz. Manifiesto mexicano es un llamado a ser sujetos desobedientes, a disentir y construir, a "bullear" a quienes gobiernan para que lo hagan mejor. Es una apuesta a la remodelación institucional, a la rendición de cuentas, a los contrapesos, a la democracia, gobierne quien gobierne. Es una convocatoria para componer lo que echamosa perder, y alcanzar lo que quedó como una simple aspiración: un sistema político y económico que funcione para los ciudadanos y no sólo para la clase política. Algo verdaderamente ciudadano. Algo nuestro.