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The Stickup Kids

Author : Randol Contreras
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520273370
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book The Stickup Kids written by Randol Contreras and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Randol Contreras came of age in the South Bronx during the 1980s, a time when the community was devastated by cuts in social services, a rise in arson and abandonment, and the rise of crack-cocaine. For this riveting book, he returns to the South Bronx with a sociological eye and provides an unprecedented insiderÕs look at the workings of a group of Dominican drug robbers. Known on the streets as ÒStickup Kids,Ó these men raided and brutally tortured drug dealers storing large amounts of heroin, cocaine, marijuana, and cash. As a participant observer, Randol Contreras offers both a personal and theoretical account for the rise of the Stickup Kids and their violence. He mainly focuses on the lives of neighborhood friends, who went from being crack dealers to drug robbers once their lucrative crack market opportunities disappeared. The result is a stunning, vivid, on-the-ground ethnographic description of a drug robberyÕs violence, the drug market high life, the criminal life course, and the eventual pain and suffering experienced by the casualties of the Crack Era. Provocative and eye-opening, The Stickup Kids urges us to explore the ravages of the drug trade through weaving history, biography, social structure, and drug market forces. It offers a revelatory explanation for drug market violence by masterfully uncovering the hidden social forces that produce violent and self-destructive individuals. Part memoir, part penetrating analysis, this book is engaging, personal, deeply informed, and entirely absorbing.

The Stickup Kids

Author : Randol Contreras
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520273389
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book The Stickup Kids written by Randol Contreras and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Randol Contreras came of age in the South Bronx during the 1980s, a time when the community was devastated by cuts in social services, a rise in arson and abandonment, and the rise of crack-cocaine. For this riveting book, he returns to the South Bronx with a sociological eye and provides an unprecedented insider’s look at the workings of a group of Dominican drug robbers. Known on the streets as “Stickup Kids,” these men raided and brutally tortured drug dealers storing large amounts of heroin, cocaine, marijuana, and cash. As a participant observer, Randol Contreras offers both a personal and theoretical account for the rise of the Stickup Kids and their violence. He mainly focuses on the lives of neighborhood friends, who went from being crack dealers to drug robbers once their lucrative crack market opportunities disappeared. The result is a stunning, vivid, on-the-ground ethnographic description of a drug robbery’s violence, the drug market high life, the criminal life course, and the eventual pain and suffering experienced by the casualties of the Crack Era. Provocative and eye-opening, The Stickup Kids urges us to explore the ravages of the drug trade through weaving history, biography, social structure, and drug market forces. It offers a revelatory explanation for drug market violence by masterfully uncovering the hidden social forces that produce violent and self-destructive individuals. Part memoir, part penetrating analysis, this book is engaging, personal, deeply informed, and entirely absorbing.

The Stickup Kids

Author : Prof. Randol Contreras
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520953576
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book The Stickup Kids written by Prof. Randol Contreras and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-12-10 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Randol Contreras came of age in the South Bronx during the 1980s, a time when the community was devastated by cuts in social services, a rise in arson and abandonment, and the rise of crack-cocaine. For this riveting book, he returns to the South Bronx with a sociological eye and provides an unprecedented insider’s look at the workings of a group of Dominican drug robbers. Known on the streets as "Stickup Kids," these men raided and brutally tortured drug dealers storing large amounts of heroin, cocaine, marijuana, and cash. As a participant observer, Randol Contreras offers both a personal and theoretical account for the rise of the Stickup Kids and their violence. He mainly focuses on the lives of neighborhood friends, who went from being crack dealers to drug robbers once their lucrative crack market opportunities disappeared. The result is a stunning, vivid, on-the-ground ethnographic description of a drug robbery’s violence, the drug market high life, the criminal life course, and the eventual pain and suffering experienced by the casualties of the Crack Era. Provocative and eye-opening, The Stickup Kids urges us to explore the ravages of the drug trade through weaving history, biography, social structure, and drug market forces. It offers a revelatory explanation for drug market violence by masterfully uncovering the hidden social forces that produce violent and self-destructive individuals. Part memoir, part penetrating analysis, this book is engaging, personal, deeply informed, and entirely absorbing.

Big Stick-Up at Brink's!

Author : Noel Behn
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504036646
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Big Stick-Up at Brink's! written by Noel Behn and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-06-14 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting and frequently hilarious insider account of one of the twentieth century’s most outrageous capers. On the evening of January 17, 1950, armed robbers wearing Captain Marvel masks entered the Brink’s Armored Car building in Boston, Massachusetts. They walked out less than an hour later with more than $2.7 million in cash and securities. It was a brazen and expertly executed theft that captured the imaginations of millions of Americans and baffled the FBI and local law enforcement officials. But what appeared on the surface to be the perfect crime was, in fact, the end result of a mind-boggling series of mistakes, miscalculations, and missteps. The men behind the masks were not expert bank robbers but a motley crew of small-time crooks who bumbled their way into a record-breaking payday and managed to elude the long arm of the law for six years. New York Times–bestselling author Noel Behn tape-recorded nearly one thousand hours of interviews with the surviving robbers, including motormouthed mastermind Tony Pino, a character so colorful he might have been dreamed up by a Hollywood screenwriter, to tell the uncensored story of the heist forever known as “the Great Brink’s Robbery.” Fun and suspenseful from first page to last, Behn’s true-crime classic was the basis for The Brink’s Job (1978), the Academy Award–nominated film directed by William Friedkin and starring Peter Falk and Peter Boyle.

It's a Stick-Up

Author : Ollystudio Limited
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1780675291
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book It's a Stick-Up written by Ollystudio Limited and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-04-29 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to look at an increasingly popular form of street art: the paste-up or 'wheatie'. Many street artists don’t graffiti or stencil any more but use pre-prepared paper images that can be taken down, thereby avoiding a vandalism charge. The book shows the work of 20 artists, with photographs of their art in situ, a brief profile, and a fold-out paste-up. The fold-out pages are perforated so they can easily be removed. Some of the paste-ups are laser cut with attaching tags so they can be popped out. There's also an introductory interview with cult street artists Sten & Lex.

Stick Up

Author : Kendall Eatmon
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1669803546
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (698 download)

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Download or read book Stick Up written by Kendall Eatmon and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jed is known throughout of the streets of Oakland to be one of the biggest drug suppliers in the city. While riding in his city, he and his connect, Rueben, is caught slipping. Meeka and Mickey are known in the city for hooking up with drug dealers and having them set up. Bo Bo and Nick are up-and-coming stick-up kids. They get their jobs from Meeka and Mickey, who are known for their good looks and street smarts. Throughout of the book Stick Up, it will take you through the streets of Oakland where anything goes, from robbery to murder and shootouts. This book will take you on a ride through the streets of Oakland that you haven’t been on before.

Stick Up Kids Is Out to Play 2

Author : Richard McCarthy
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781505845389
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (453 download)

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Download or read book Stick Up Kids Is Out to Play 2 written by Richard McCarthy and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Wise serving a life sentence and his crew dead Crook Ville housing projects are up for grabs and everybody wants to be the next king. Asha fresh home from prison has plans of her own and forms the Grimy Chick clique, a crew of go hard project chicks who make a living from setting hustlers up. In a hood where money, murder, and mayhem is the norm will the Grimy Chick clique last.

In Search of Respect

Author : Philippe I. Bourgois
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521017114
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book In Search of Respect written by Philippe I. Bourgois and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition brings this study of inner-city life up to date.

Stick Control

Author : George Lawrence Stone
Publisher : Alfred Music
ISBN 13 : 1457433761
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (574 download)

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Download or read book Stick Control written by George Lawrence Stone and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 2013-11-06 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Lawrence Stone's Stick Control is the original classic, often called the bible of drumming. In 1993, Modern Drummer magazine named it one of the top 25 drumming books of all-time. In the words of the author, this is the ideal book for improving "control, speed, flexibility, touch, rhythm, lightness, delicacy, power, endurance, preciseness of execution, and muscular coordination," with extra attention given to the development of the weak hand. This indispensable book for drummers of all types includes hundreds of basic to advanced rhythms and moves through categories of single-beat combinations, triplets, short roll combinations, flam beats, flam triplets and dotted notes, and short roll progressions.

The Great American Stickup

Author : Robert Scheer
Publisher : Bold Type Books
ISBN 13 : 1568586213
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (685 download)

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Download or read book The Great American Stickup written by Robert Scheer and published by Bold Type Books. This book was released on 2010-09-07 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Great American Stickup, celebrated journalist Robert Scheer uncovers the hidden story behind one of the greatest financial crimes of our time: the Wall Street financial crash of 2008 and the consequent global recession. Instead of going where other journalists have gone in search of this story -- the board rooms and trading floors of the big Wall Street firms -- Scheer goes back to Washington, D.C., a veritable crime scene, beginning in the 1980s, where the captains of the finance industry, their lobbyists and allies among leading politicians destroyed an American regulatory system that had been functioning effectively since the era of the New Deal. This is a story largely forgotten or overlooked by the mainstream media, who wasted more than two decades with their boosterish coverage of Wall Street. Scheer argues that the roots of the disaster go back to the free-market propaganda of the Reagan years and, most damagingly, to the bipartisan deregulation of the banking industry undertaken with the full support of "progressive" Bill Clinton. In fact, if this debacle has a name, Scheer suggests, it is the "Clinton Bubble," that era when the administration let its friends on Wall Street write legislation that razed decades of robust financial regulation. It was Wall Street and Democratic Party darling Robert Rubin along with his clique of economist super-friends -- Alan Greenspan, Lawrence Summers, and a few others -- who inflated a giant real estate bubble by purposely not regulating the derivatives market, resulting in the pain and hardship millions are experiencing now. The Great American Stickup is both a brilliant telling of the story of the Clinton financial clique and the havoc it wrought -- informed by whistleblowers such as Brooksley Born, who goes on the record for Scheer -- and an unsparing anatomy of the American business and political class. It is also a cautionary tale: those who form the nucleus of the Clinton clique are now advising the Obama administration.

Sunday Morning Stickup

Author : David Lee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781432791643
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book Sunday Morning Stickup written by David Lee and published by . This book was released on 2013-03-21 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Todays Christian experience is not what it used to be. So much has changed. One visit to a Sunday morning service and you will know that this is not the church you grew up with. Churn and frustration are at an all-time high as many have voted with their feet and no longer attend worship service. CHURCH - her thirst to be accepted by the world and possess what it has to offer has negatively impacted her preaching and influence on society. Silent, she has no response to the moral decay of our time, yet she takes in more money than most will earn in two life-times. Product pitches from the pulpit and product tables in the lobby are normal and a guaranteed scriptural reference to paying Tithes is inevitable.Laboring over souls on the altar is a thing of the past as many ministries look for ways to be more profitable. Being about My Fathers Business has taken on a whole new meaning as the North American Church struggles to hold to the code of Divine Ethics that was once delivered to the saints by those who once valued the concept of no compromise. You have questions? Sunday Morning Stickup has Biblically based answers concerning the subject of tithes.Click here if you are an author or if you are interested in becoming a published author.http://outskirtspress.com/agent.php?key=182750

The Stick Book

Author : Fiona Danks
Publisher : Frances Lincoln
ISBN 13 : 1781011141
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book The Stick Book written by Fiona Danks and published by Frances Lincoln. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stick is a universal toy. Totally natural, all-purpose, free, it offers limitless opportunities for outdoor play and adventure and it provides a starting point for an active imagination and the raw material for transformation into almost anything! As New York's Strong National Museum of Play pointd out when they selected a stick for inclusion in their National Toy Hall of Fame, 'It can be a Wild West horse, a medieval knight's sword, a boat on a stream, or a slingshot with a rubber band . . .' In this book Fiona Danks and Jo Schofield offer masses of suggestions for things to do with a stick, in the way of adventures and bushcraft, creative and imaginative play, games, woodcraft and conservation, music and more.

Stick and Stone

Author : Beth Ferry
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 054403256X
Total Pages : 51 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Stick and Stone written by Beth Ferry and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2015 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Stick rescues Stone from a prickly situation with a Pinecone, the pair becomes fast friends. But when Stick gets stuck, can Stone return the favor? Author Beth Ferry makes a memorable debut with a warm, rhyming text that includes a subtle anti-bullying message even the youngest reader will understand. New York Times bestselling illustrator Tom Lichtenheld imbues Stick and Stone with energy, emotion, and personality to spare. In this funny story about kindness and friendship, Stick and Stone join George and Martha, Frog and Toad, and Elephant and Piggie, as some of the best friend duos in children's literature.

The Stick Chair Book

Author : Christopher Schwarz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781954697157
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (971 download)

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Download or read book The Stick Chair Book written by Christopher Schwarz and published by . This book was released on 2023-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "..."The Stick Chair Book" is divided into three sections. The first section, "Thinking About Chairs," introduces you to the world of common stick chairs, plus the tools and wood to build them. The second section - "Chairmaking Techniques" - covers every process involved in making a chair, from cutting stout legs, to making curved arms with straight wood, to carving the seat. Plus, you'll get a taste for the wide variety of shapes you can use. The chapter on seats shows you how to lay out 14 different seat shapes. The chapter on legs has 16 common forms that can be made with only a couple handplanes. Add those to the 11 different arm shapes, six arm-joinery options, 14 shapes for hands, seven stretcher shapes and 11 combs, and you could make stick chairs your entire life without ever making the same one twice. The final section offers detailed plans for five stick chairs, from a basic Irish armchair to a dramatic Scottish comb-back. These five chair designs are a great jumping-off point for making stick chairs of your own design. Additional chapters in the book cover chair comfort, finishing and sharpening the tools. From the author: "When I first wrote 'The Stick Chair Book' in 2021, I was also fighting cancer. So I hammered out the text with urgency and the desire to record every fragment of information I knew about chairmaking. "To be fair, that's usually how I go about writing all my books. But then I typically take a couple months off, put the manuscript aside, then revisit it with fresh eyes and a sharpened pen. My final revisions remove about 10-20 percent of the original material. The stuff I cut is usually chapters that don't match the tone of the rest of the text. Or I snip sections that aren't as relevant as when I first wrote them. I also smooth out the writing and add bits of information I'd forgotten during the first brain-to-fingers dump. "And that's exactly what I've done for this revised edition. As a result, the text is 10.1 percent shorter than the first edition. It's more to the point. And it's where the manuscript would have ended up under normal conditions..."--Publisher's website.

Strategy Beyond the Hockey Stick

Author : Chris Bradley
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119487625
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (194 download)

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Download or read book Strategy Beyond the Hockey Stick written by Chris Bradley and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beat the odds with a bold strategy from McKinsey & Company "Every once in a while, a genuinely fresh approach to business strategy appears" —legendary business professor Richard Rumelt, UCLA McKinsey & Company's newest, most definitive, and most irreverent book on strategy—which thousands of executives are already using—is a must-read for all C-suite executives looking to create winning corporate strategies. Strategy Beyond the Hockey Stick is spearheading an empirical revolution in the field of strategy. Based on an extensive analysis of the key factors that drove the long-term performance of thousands of global companies, the book offers a ground-breaking formula that enables you to objectively assess your strategy's real odds of future success. "This book is fundamental. The principles laid out here, with compelling data, are a great way around the social pitfalls in strategy development." —Frans Van Houten, CEO, Royal Philips N.V. The authors have discovered that over a 10-year period, just 1 in 12 companies manage to jump from the middle tier of corporate performance—where 60% of companies reside, making very little economic profit—to the top quintile where 90% of global economic profit is made. This movement does not happen by magic—it depends on your company's current position, the trends it faces, and the big moves you make to give it the strongest chance of vaulting over the competition. This is not another strategy framework. Rather, Strategy Beyond the Hockey Stick shows, through empirical analysis and the experiences of dozens of companies that have successfully made multiple big moves, that to dramatically improve performance, you have to overcome incrementalism and corporate inertia. "A different kind of book—I couldn't put it down. Inspiring new insights on the facts of what it takes to move a company's performance, combined with practical advice on how to deal with real-life dynamics in management teams." —Jane Fraser, CEO, Citigroup Latin America

The Bad Mood and the Stick

Author : Lemony Snicket
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0316392766
Total Pages : 49 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (163 download)

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Download or read book The Bad Mood and the Stick written by Lemony Snicket and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author Lemony Snicket sheds light on the way bad moods come and go. Once there was a bad mood and a stick. The stick appeared when a tree dropped it. Where did the bad mood come from? Who picked up the stick? And where is the bad mood off to now? You never know what is going to happen.

A Teacher's Guide to Stick Up for Yourself!

Author : Gershen Kaufman
Publisher : Free Spirit Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1575426765
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (754 download)

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Download or read book A Teacher's Guide to Stick Up for Yourself! written by Gershen Kaufman and published by Free Spirit Publishing. This book was released on 1992-01-15 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The revised and updated edition of our popular guide reinforces and expands the messages of the Stick Up for Yourself! with a step-by-step curriculum in ten easy-to-use sessions. Includes reproducible handout masters.