Above the Law; Police and the Excessive Use of Force |
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The now-famous videotape of the beating of Rodney King precipitated a national outcry against police violence. Skolnick and Fyfe, two of the nation's top experts on law enforcement, use the incident to introduce a revealing historical analysis of such violence and the extent of its survival in law enforcement today.
Above the Law; Police and the Excessive Use of Force
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Do or Die |
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Fiercely compelling and widely acclaimed, Do or Die is the first inside account of street gangs and their brutal world. Journalist Leon Bing, who gained ther four years, lets the gang members discuss for themselves their lives, loves, and battles.
Do or Die
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Growing Minds on Becoming a Teacher |
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Herbert Kohl, one of America's most influential and provocative educators, believes that the only way to persist and to grow as a teacher is to commit oneself to the development of the child rather than to the regimented training of the pupil. His book is a lively, personal testament of one teacher's efforts to cultivate the natural vitality of the learning process; it is also a wonderfully concrete and practical guide full of stories of individual students and how they were helped to grow through learning.
Growing Minds on Becoming a Teacher
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Held Captive: The Kidnapping and Rescue of Elizabeth Smart |
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A family's worst nightmare ... On a June night in 2002, Salt Lake City teenager Elizabeth Smart was abducted at knifepoint from her own bedroom. For months afterward her distraught family prayed for her safe return while a massive manhunt was undertaken. Then, in March of the following year, Elizabeth Smart was discovered alive just a few miles from her home, the prisoner of a man who believed himself the Messiah and his loyal, complacent wife. What happened to Elizabeth during her nine months in captivity is shocking; how she finally gained her freedom is remarkable. And now the story can be told -- including startling information about the controversial investigation and the heartbreaking torment endured by an extraordinary young survivor.
Held Captive: The Kidnapping and Rescue of Elizabeth Smart
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Sick Societies |
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An anthropologist challenges the myth of the Noble Savage, reviewing the actual social conditions in the developed and developing worlds and examining such phenomena as mental illness, poverty, disease, deviance, criminality, suicide, revolution, and more.
Sick Societies
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Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in Science, Technology, and Society |
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This debate-style reader is designed to introduce students to controversies in science and technology. The readings, which represent the arguments of leading commentators, reflect a variety of viewpoints and are staged as 'pro' and 'con' debates. Issues are grouped around the following themes: the place of science and technology in society; the environment; the cutting edge of technology; the computer revolution; and ethics.
Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in Science, Technology, and Society
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The English Year: A Month-by-month Guide to the Nations's Customs and Festivals, from May Day to Mischief Night |
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A guide to the various customs and festivals of England, from the national celebrations to herald the new year down to small local traditions such as the Minehead Hobby Horse or Duck Racing in Oxfordshire. It also shows you where you can get free bread and beer on any day of the year; or where Mayday comes from; and more.
The English Year: A Month-by-month Guide to the Nations's Customs and Festivals, from May Day to Mischief Night
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The Obsession: Reflections on the Tyranny of Slenderness |
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The Obsession is a deeply committed and beautifully written analysis of our society's increasing demand that women be thin. It offers a careful, thought provoking discussion of the reasons men have encouraged this obsession and women have embraced it. It is a book about women's efforts to become thin rather than to accept the natural dimensions of their bodies--a book about the meaning of food and its rejection.
The Obsession: Reflections on the Tyranny of Slenderness
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THINK A SECOND TIME |
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Dennis Prager, theologian, philosopher, and host of the highest-rated radio talk show in its time period challenges people to think about right and wrong during the 1996 electin season with this incisive look at morality and ethics in America.
THINK A SECOND TIME
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Underboss: Sammy the Bull Gravano's Story of Life in the Mafia |
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In March of 1992, the highest-ranking member of the Mafia in America ever to defect broke his blood oath of silence and testified against his boss, John Gotti. He is Salvatore (Sammy the Bull) Gravano, second-in-command of the Gambino organized-crime family, the most powerful in the nation. Today, Gotti is serving life in prison without parole. And as a direct consequence of Gravano's testimony, Cosa Nostra - the Mafia's true name - is in shambles. In Underboss, based on dozens of hours of interviews with Gravano, much of it written in Sammy the Bull's own voice, we are ushered as never before into the uppermost secret inner sanctums of Cosa Nostra - an underworld of power, lust, greed, betrayal, deception, sometimes even honor, with the specter of violent death always poised in the wings. Gravano's is a story about starting out on the street, about killing and being killed, revealing the truth behind a quarter-century of shocking headlines. It is also a tragic story of a wasted life, of unalterable choices and the web of lies, weakness, and treachery that underlie the so-called Honored Society.
Underboss: Sammy the Bull Gravano's Story of Life in the Mafia
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