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  • How Gangs Work

    An Ethnography of Youth Violence

    by J. Densley ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Drawing on extensive interviews with gang members, this book provides a vivid portrayal of gang life. Topics include the profiles and motivations of gang members; the processes of gang evolution, organization, and recruitment; gang members' uses of violence, media, and technology and the role of gangs in the drugs trade and organized crime ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

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  • What's Wrong with the World?

    by G. K. Chesterton ...
    DEDICATIONTo C. F. G. Masterman, M. P.My Dear Charles,I originally called this book “What is Wrong,” and it would have satisfied your sardonic temper to note the number of social misunderstandings that arose from the use of the title. Many a mild lady visitor opened her eyes when I remarked casually, “I have been doing ‘What is Wrong’ all this morning.” And one minister of religion moved quite ... Read more

    $99.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Maureen’s story

    by Lynn Russell, Neil Hanson ...
    Series Book 5 - Individual stories from THE SWEETHEARTS
    This is Maureen’s story, one of five stories extracted from THE SWEETHEARTS.Whether in wartime or peace, tales of love, laughter and hardship from the girls in the Rowntrees factory in Yorkshire.“Maureen started work at Rowntree’s on her fifteenth birthday in April 1959, and remembers being the only one in the entire workforce who was wearing ankle socks. But she soon settled in and on Saturday ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Fire in the Ashes

    Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children in America

    by Jonathan Kozol ...
    In this powerful and culminating work about a group of inner-city children he has known for many years, Jonathan Kozol returns to the scene of his prize-winning books Rachel and Her Children and Amazing Grace, and to the children he has vividly portrayed, to share with us their fascinating journeys and unexpected victories as they grow into adulthood.For nearly fifty years Jonathan has pricked the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Children Of The City

    At Work and at Play

    by David Nasaw ...
    The turn of the twentieth century was a time of explosive growth for American cities, a time of nascent hopes and apparently limitless possibilities. In Children of the City, David Nasaw re-creates this period in our social history from the vantage point of the children who grew up then. Drawing on hundreds of memoirs, autobiographies, oral histories and unpublished—and until now unexamined ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Ordinary Resurrections

    Children in the Years of Hope

    by Jonathan Kozol ...
    In a stirring departure from his earlier work, Jonathan Kozol has written his most personal and hopeful book to date, an energized and unexpected answer to the bleakness of Death at an Early Age, the prize-winning classic that he published more than 30 years ago.Like his most recent book, Amazing Grace, this work also takes place in New York's South Bronx; but it is a markedly different book in ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • A Prayer for the City

    by Buzz Bissinger ...
    From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Friday Night Lights, the heart-wrenching and hilarious true story of an American city on its knees and a man who will do anything to save it.A Prayer for the City is acclaimed journalist Buzz Bissinger's true epic of Philadelphia mayor Ed Rendell, an utterly unique, unorthodox, and idiosyncratic leader willing to go to any length for the sake of his city: ... Read more

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  • The Group Mind

    by William McDougall ...
    The Group Mind: A SKETCH OF THE PRINCIPLES OF COLLECTIVE PSYCHOLOGY WITH SOME ATTEMPT TO APPLYTHEM TO THE INTERPRETATION OF NATIONAL LIFE AND CHARACTER By William McDougall. LATE FELLOW OF ST JOHN’S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, FELLOW OF CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE AND WILDE READER IN MENTAL PHILOSOPHY IN THEUNIVERSITY OF OXFORD. “Une nation est une âme, un principe spirituel. Deux choses qui, à vrai dire, n’en ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Beyond The Victim

    The Politics and Ethics of Empowering Cairo's Street Children

    by Kamal Fahmi ...
    Street children-abandoned or runaway children living on their own-can be found in cities all over the world, and their numbers are growing despite numerous international programs aimed at helping them. All too frequently, these children are viewed solely as victims or deviants to be rescued and rehabilitated. In Beyond the Victim, sociologist Kamal Fahmi draws on eight years of fieldwork with ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Why Afterschool Matters

    by Ingrid A. Nelson ...
    Series series Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies
    Increasingly, educational researchers and policy-makers are finding that extracurricular programs make a major difference in the lives of disadvantaged youth, helping to reduce the infamous academic attainment gap between white students and their black and Latino peers. Yet studies of these programs typically focus on how they improve the average academic performance of their participants, paying ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Eastern European Youth Cultures in a Global Context

    Edited by Matthias Schwartz, Heike Winkel ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The demise of state Socialisms caused radical social, cultural and economic changes in Eastern Europe. Since then, young people have been confronted with fundamental disruptions and transformations to their daily environment, while an unsettling, globalized world substantially reshapes local belongings and conventional values. In times of multiple instabilities and uncertainties, this volume ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Fantasies of Neglect

    Imagining the Urban Child in American Film and Fiction

    by Pamela Robertson Wojcik ...
    Series series Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies
    In our current era of helicopter parenting and stranger danger, an unaccompanied child wandering through the city might commonly be viewed as a victim of abuse and neglect. However, from the early twentieth century to the present day, countless books and films have portrayed the solitary exploration of urban spaces as a source of empowerment and delight for children.Fantasies of Neglect explains ... Read more

    $23.99 USD