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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.

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.

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 Up for yourself! (EasyRead Super Large 24pt Edition)

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Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1442996730
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (429 download)

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Download or read book Stick Up for yourself! (EasyRead Super Large 24pt Edition) written by and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2008 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever been picked on at school, bossed around, blamed for things you didn't do, or treated unfairly? This book can help. It shows you how to stick up for yourself with other kids, big sisters and brothers, even parents and teachers. It tells you things you can say WITHOUT putting people down, and things you can do WITHOUT getting into trouble. Learn the power to be true to yourself, and feel secure and confident inside -- no matter what.

It's a Stick-Up

Author : Ollystudio Limited
Publisher : Laurence King Publishing
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 Laurence King Publishing. 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 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.

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.

My Name Is Elizabeth!

Author : Annika Dunklee
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1554537940
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (545 download)

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Download or read book My Name Is Elizabeth! written by Annika Dunklee and published by Kids Can Press Ltd. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kids will relate to Elizabeth’s fervent wish to be called by her proper name.

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: Stick and Stone are both lonely until Pinecone's teasing causes one to stick up for the other, and a solid friendship is formed. 50,000 first printing.

A Teacher's Guide to Stick Up for Yourself!

Author : Gershen Kaufman
Publisher : Free Spirit Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1631983261
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (319 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 2020-06-30 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This teacher’s companion to a classic book for kids provides tools for building self-esteem and personal power. Without self-esteem, kids doubt themselves and may turn to unhealthy habits as a way of coping. With self-esteem, kids feel secure, are willing to take positive risks, and are resilient in the face of challenges. This teacher’s guide expands the messages of Stick Up for Yourself!, teaching self-confidence and how to be assertive with easy-to-use sessions. Created for the classroom, these sessions can also be used in other group settings including counseling groups, out-of-school programs, community programs, and more. Digital content includes reproducible handouts.

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.

The Survival Guide for Parents of Gifted Kids

Author : Sally Yahnke Walker
Publisher : Free Spirit Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781575421117
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (211 download)

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Book Synopsis The Survival Guide for Parents of Gifted Kids by : Sally Yahnke Walker

Download or read book The Survival Guide for Parents of Gifted Kids written by Sally Yahnke Walker and published by Free Spirit Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Defines giftedness and discusses special quirks and problems that arise living with a gifted child, from a lack of neatness to the "too-smart mouth," and explains how parents can find the right programs and make school as rewarding as possible for gifted children.

Harris and Me

Author : Gary Paulsen
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780152058807
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (588 download)

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Download or read book Harris and Me written by Gary Paulsen and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2007 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cloth bag containing ten copies of the title.

Between Good and Ghetto

Author : Nikki Jones
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 081354825X
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book Between Good and Ghetto written by Nikki Jones and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2009-10-20 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With an outward gaze focused on a better future, Between Good and Ghetto reflects the social world of inner city African American girls and how they manage threats of personal violence. Drawing on personal encounters, traditions of urban ethnography, Black feminist thought, gender studies, and feminist criminology, Nikki Jones gives readers a richly descriptive and compassionate account of how African American girls negotiate schools and neighborhoods governed by the so-called "code of the street"ùthe form of street justice that governs violence in distressed urban areas. She reveals the multiple strategies they use to navigate interpersonal and gender-specific violence and how they reconcile the gendered dilemmas of their adolescence. Illuminating struggles for survival within this group, Between Good and Ghetto encourages others to move African American girls toward the center of discussions of "the crisis" in poor, urban neighborhoods.

Kids These Days

Author : Malcolm Harris
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316510874
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Kids These Days written by Malcolm Harris and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Kids These Days, early Wall Street occupier Malcolm Harris gets real about why the Millennial generation has been wrongly stereotyped, and dares us to confront and take charge of the consequences now that we are grown up. Millennials have been stereotyped as lazy, entitled, narcissistic, and immature. We've gotten so used to sloppy generational analysis filled with dumb clichés about young people that we've lost sight of what really unites Millennials. Namely: We are the most educated and hardworking generation in American history. We poured historic and insane amounts of time and money into preparing ourselves for the 21st-century labor market. We have been taught to consider working for free (homework, internships) a privilege for our own benefit. We are poorer, more medicated, and more precariously employed than our parents, grandparents, even our great grandparents, with less of a social safety net to boot. Kids These Days is about why. In brilliant, crackling prose, early Wall Street occupier Malcolm Harris gets mercilessly real about our maligned birth cohort. Examining trends like runaway student debt, the rise of the intern, mass incarceration, social media, and more, Harris gives us a portrait of what it means to be young in America today that will wake you up and piss you off. Millennials were the first generation raised explicitly as investments, Harris argues, and in Kids These Days he dares us to confront and take charge of the consequences now that we are grown up.

The Great American Stickup

Author : Robert Scheer
Publisher : Nation Books
ISBN 13 : 1568586213
Total Pages : 304 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 Nation Books. This book was released on 2010-09-07 with total page 304 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.

A Normal Pig

Author : K-Fai Steele
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0063055813
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book A Normal Pig written by K-Fai Steele and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-06-05 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This charming picture book celebrates all our differences while questioning the idea that there is only one way to be “normal.” Pip is a normal pig who does normal stuff: cooking, painting, and dreaming of what she’ll be when she grows up. But one day a new pig comes to school and starts pointing out all the ways in which Pip is different. Suddenly she doesn’t like any of the same things she used to...the things that made her Pip. A wonderful springboard for conversations with children, at home and in the classroom, about diversity and difference.