Fist Stick Knife Gun

Author : Paul Tough
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780547247960
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Whatever it Takes written by Paul Tough and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2009 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A portrait of African-American activist Geoffrey Canada describes his radical approach to eliminating inner-city poverty, one that proposes to transform the lives of poor children by changing their schools, their families, and their neighborhoods at the same time.

Author : Geoffrey Canada
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 080704461X
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fist Stick Knife Gun written by Geoffrey Canada and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2010-09-28 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A candid and riveting memoir from the founder of Harlem Children's Zone, taking readers through his Canada in which violence stalked every street corner. Long before the avalanche of praise for his work—from Oprah Winfrey, from President Bill Clinton, from President Barack Obama—long before he became known for his talk show appearances, Members Project spots, and documentaries like Waiting for “Superman”, Geoffrey Canada was a small boy growing up scared on the mean streets of the South Bronx. His childhood world was one where “sidewalk boys” learned the codes of the block and were ranked through the rituals of fist, stick, and knife. Then the streets changed, and the stakes got even higher.

Author : Geoffrey Canada
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807004234
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fist, Stick, Knife, Gun written by Geoffrey Canada and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long before U.S. News and World Report named him one of America's Best Leaders and Oprah Winfrey called him "an angel from God," Geoffrey Canada was a small, vulnerable, scared boy growing up in the South Bronx. Canada's world was one where "sidewalk" boys learned the codes of the block and were ranked through the rituals of fist, stick, and knife. Then the streets changed, and the stakes got even higher. In this candid and riveting memoir, Canada relives a childhood in which violence stalked every street corner. "If you wonder how a fourteen-year-old can shoot another child his own age in the head and then go home to dinner," Canada writes, "you need to know you don't get there in a day, or week, or month. It takes years of preparation to be willing to commit murder, to be willing to kill or die for a corner, a color, or a leather jacket."

Author : Jim McCarthy
Publisher : Omnibus Press
ISBN 13 : 1783230932
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sex Pistols: The Graphic Novel written by Jim McCarthy and published by Omnibus Press. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the creator of Godspeed: The Kurt Cobain Graphic and Eminem: In My Skin comes an explosive new graphic novel about the rise and fall of The Sex Pistols. Thanks to Steve Parkhouse’s wonderfully vivid illustrations and Jim McCarthy’s clever distillation of the script that rewrote rock ‘n’ roll and much else besides, the Pistols’ story returns to the rough and tumble of the comic strip from which it derived so much of its initial inspiration. England’s original punks explode from the pages with the same disrespect for authority that had the British establishment up in arms during the Queen’s 25th anniversary jubilee. And no one would have enjoyed this take on the Pistols more than the tale’s real casualty, Sid Vicious, who devoured comics almost as much as he did the destructive stuff.

Author : Jane Margolis
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262533464
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stuck in the Shallow End, updated edition written by Jane Margolis and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2017-03-03 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why so few African American and Latino/a students study computer science: updated edition of a book that reveals the dynamics of inequality in American schools. The number of African Americans and Latino/as receiving undergraduate and advanced degrees in computer science is disproportionately low. And relatively few African American and Latino/a high school students receive the kind of institutional encouragement, educational opportunities, and preparation needed for them to choose computer science as a field of study and profession. In Stuck in the Shallow End, Jane Margolis and coauthors look at the daily experiences of students and teachers in three Los Angeles public high schools: an overcrowded urban high school, a math and science magnet school, and a well-funded school in an affluent neighborhood. They find an insidious “virtual segregation” that maintains inequality. The race gap in computer science, Margolis discovers, is one example of the way students of color are denied a wide range of occupational and educational futures. Stuck in the Shallow End is a story of how inequality is reproduced in America—and how students and teachers, given the necessary tools, can change the system. Since the 2008 publication of Stuck in the Shallow End, the book has found an eager audience among teachers, school administrators, and academics. This updated edition offers a new preface detailing the progress in making computer science accessible to all, a new postscript, and discussion questions (coauthored by Jane Margolis and Joanna Goode).

Author : Hugh Laurie
Publisher : Soho Press
ISBN 13 : 1569478007
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gun Seller written by Hugh Laurie and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A skillful mix of Bertie Wooster and James Bond . . . A thoroughgoing pleasure from beginning to end” (Booklist). From the multitalented British actor, beloved for his roles on Blackadder, Jeeves and Wooster, and House, this is a spot-on spy spoof about hapless ex-soldier Thomas Lang, who is drawn unwittingly and unwillingly into the center of a dangerous plot of international terrorists, arms dealing, high-tech weapons, and CIA spooks. “There is mystery, intrigue, sex, and violence, all of which Lang tosses off with sarcastic wit and remarkable poise. Laurie’s humor hits home. Although the subject is serious, even plausible, much of this comedy-thriller is laugh-out-loud funny.” —Library Journal “Suspenseful, hilarious, witty, surprising, ridiculous, and pretty wonderful . . . A delightful novel.” —The Washington Post Book World

Author : Geoffrey Canada
Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9780606231718
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fist Stick Knife Gun written by Geoffrey Canada and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2010-09-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geoffrey Canada was a small and scared boy growing up in the South Bronx. His childhood world was one where sidewalk boys learned the codes of the block and were ranked through the rituals of fist, stick, knife, and, finally, gun. In a stunning pai

Author : Geoffrey Canada
Publisher : Everbind
ISBN 13 : 9780784833971
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fist Stick Knife Gun written by Geoffrey Canada and published by Everbind. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jack David Eller
Publisher : Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Violence and Culture written by Jack David Eller and published by Cengage Learning. This book was released on 2006 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack Eller's book brings together widest range of material on violence as a modern and international cultural problem. It combines comprehensive theoretical discussion from multiple disciplines, including anthropology, sociology, psychology, and biology, with rich empirical description and analysis in a global approach. Violence, if not more prevalent, is attracting more attention in academic arenas as well as the public arena. It has become a central feature of the 21st century. Because understanding violence requires comparisons to nonviolence, Eller examines and contrasts a myriad of violent and nonviolent societies--Publisher's description.

Author : Geoffrey Canada
Publisher : Everbind
ISBN 13 : 9780784835906
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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