En este libro se recopila una serie de textos sobre diversos aspectos de las sociedades prehispánicas colombianas. Algunos presentan información general sobre el poblamiento del territorio, o las grandes tendencias de cambio en estrategias de subsistencia a lo largo de la historia. Otros evalúan aspectos como la alimentación y su relación con el cambio social, la producción alfarera, orfebre o textil, o los aspectos relacionados con la diferenciación...

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 I was a child of passion. I was born of sin: a mistake in human form, a bomb aimed perfectly to blow up both my parents' lives. My parents met at divinity school, which was a pretty funny way to start an affair. #2 I grew up with my mother and father at the Catholic Worker, a socialist Catholic charity that housed the homeless and fed the hungry. They were a...

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 Police will lie to you. Do not talk to them. If you do, you are waiving your Fifth Amendment rights. I'm not talking about the innocent mistake of saying yes to a request from law enforcement when you really didn't mean to. I'm talking about the deliberate execution of a Fifth Amendment right by accident. If you are in the back seat of your car, and law enforcement...

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 In 2021, Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol, and tried to kill the police officer guarding it. They were trying to stop the certification of the election won by Joe Biden. #2 Fanone was left to fend for himself as the other officers were being beaten. He was trapped between the two groups, and he knew that if the rioters got his gun, it would all be over....

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 Zoning is the American Dream in action: it allows cities to grow up and out, and it was developed in response to the rise of noxious urban industries and mounting infrastructure pressures. #2 Zoning is the practice of regulating the use of land to control urban growth. It has been used to prop up property values, slow the growth of cities, and segregate the...

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 On March 31, 2013, an old white Crown Victoria drove along the pavement of farm-to-market road 987 outside of Dallas. The driver knew the road well, and had made the journey many times. He was being excessively cautious, however, and speeding. #2 I was elected the first African American countywide officeholder in Kaufman County in 2002, and the first female...

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 The appeal of the underdog story comes from its promise that we can create something from nothing, imposing our will on an unforgiving universe. It promises that we can choose our own destinies, no matter how humble our starting points. #2 Americans have always had a special fondness for underdog stories. The appeal of the underdog story comes from its promise...

This 1904 volume presciently criticizes the dominance of large corporations in culture and economy, contrasting the goals of business-the making of profit-with the goals of industry-the making of goods. Veblen describes the industrial system as essentially flawed in many ways.

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 Race is a social construct. It is an inherently unstable category that has historically been used to justify hierarchy and discrimination. Because race is a social construct, it cannot be abandoned as a way to understand social inequalities. #2 Race is a social construct which was historically used to justify hierarchy and discrimination. Because race is a social...

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 The first shot in the Republican Party's war on truth was fired at Fort Marcy, near Washington, D. C. , in 1993. It was the suicide of Deputy White House Counsel Vince Foster, who had been battered in the press for his role in various penny-ante scandals of the Clinton presidency. #2 The evidence against Foster was so overwhelming that even his death could...