They called themselves "Vampires," "Dragons," and "Egyptian Kings." They were divided by race, ethnicity, and neighborhood boundaries, but united by common styles, slang, and codes of honor. They fought - and sometimes killed - to protect and expand their territories. In postwar New York, youth gangs were a colorful and controversial part of the ...
Scientists, theologians, and philosophers have all sought to answer the questions of why we are here and where we are going. Finding this natural basis of life has proved elusive, but in the eloquent and creative Into the Cool, Eric D. Schneider and Dorion Sagan look for answers in a surprising place: the second law of thermodynamics. This second ...
Why do the vast majority of heroin users live in cities? In his provocative history of heroin in the United States, Eric C. Schneider explains what is distinctively urban about this undisputed king of underworld drugs. During the twentieth century, New York City was the nation's heroin capital-over half of all known addicts lived there, and ...
An overview of the history of social welfare and juvenile justice in Boston. This book traces the origins, development and ultimate failure of Protestant and Catholic reformers' efforts to ameliorate working-class poverty and juvenile delinquency.
Get inside the massive search engine and learn how to make Google's enormous power work for you to find exactly what you need. This book helps you discover what librarians and researchers know and learn the best tactics and strategies for finding information on the Web, using Google search. It includes coverage of little-known Google features, ...
School choice seeks to create a competitive arena in which public schools will attain academic excellence, encourage individual student performance, and achieve social balance. In debating the feasibility of this market approach to improving school systems, analysts have focused primarily on schools as suppliers of education, but an important ...
This text provides a fairly detailed overview of major topics concerning business law in Turkey. It should be of interest to Turkish and non-Turkish students, business persons, lawyers, and others concerned with this subject. The areas of Turkish business law covered include the sale of personal property, consumer protection, agency, secured ...
A middle-aged man remembers two crucial summers in his life: one when he was sent away to summer camp while his mother and newborn sister, back home, struggled to survive; the second when he foolishly committed an adulterous act that ended his marriage.
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