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Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 1555537219
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)
Download or read book Hard Lives, Mean Streets written by and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive assessment of the experience of violence among homeless women
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Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 1555537324
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)
Download or read book Hard Lives, Mean Streets written by and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2010-07-31 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although homelessness is a serious social problem in the United States, there is little direct information about the actual experiences of violence, past and current, among homeless people. This volume, based on the Florida Four-City Study, brings together interview material from 737 women, including structured quantitative interviews as well as in-depth qualitative interviews. The authors investigate how many homeless women have experienced violence in their lives, either as children or as adults, and then examine factors associated with experiences of violence, the consequences of violence, and types of interactions of homeless people with the justice system. The volume concludes with pragmatic and compassionate policy recommendations.
Author : Jim Butcher
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440699941
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)
Download or read book Mean Streets written by Jim Butcher and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-01-06 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four bestselling fantasy authors present a collection of novellas about dark nights, cruel cities, and paranormal P.I.s—featuring Harry Dresden, John Taylor, Harper Blaine, and Remy Chandler. #1 New York Times bestselling author Jim Butcher delivers a story in which Harry Dresden—Chicago's only professional wizard—tries to protect a friend from danger and ends up becoming a target himself... John Taylor is the best PI in the secret heart of London known as The Nightside. He can find anything. But locating the lost memory of a desperate woman may be his undoing in a thrilling noir tale from New York Times bestselling author Simon R. Green... National bestselling author Kat Richardson’s Greywalker finds herself in too deep when a job in Mexico goes awry, and Harper Blaine is enmeshed in a tangle of dark family secrets and revenge from beyond the grave... An ancient being that lived among humanity for centuries is dead, and fallen angel-turned-Boston detective Remy Chandler has been hired to find out who—or what—murdered him in a whodunit by national bestselling author Thomas E. Sniegoski...
Author : John Hagan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521646260
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)
Download or read book Mean Streets written by John Hagan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-08-28 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About youth crime and homelessness in Canada.
Author : Piri Thomas
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 9780679732389
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)
Download or read book Down These Mean Streets written by Piri Thomas and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1991 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A linguistic event. Gutter language, Spanish imagery and personal poetics . . . mingle into a kind of individual statement that has very much its own sound." --The New York Times Book Review Thirty years ago Piri Thomas made literary history with this lacerating, lyrical memoir of his coming of age on the streets of Spanish Harlem. Here was the testament of a born outsider: a Puerto Rican in English-speaking America; a dark-skinned morenito in a family that refused to acknowledge its African blood. Here was an unsparing document of Thomas's plunge into the deadly consolations of drugs, street fighting, and armed robbery--a descent that ended when the twenty-two-year-old Piri was sent to prison for shooting a cop. As he recounts the journey that took him from adolescence in El Barrio to a lock-up in Sing Sing to the freedom that comes of self-acceptance, faith, and inner confidence, Piri Thomas gives us a book that is as exultant as it is harrowing and whose every page bears the irrepressible rhythm of its author's voice. Thirty years after its first appearance, this classic of manhood, marginalization, survival, and transcendence is available in an anniversary edition with a new Introduction by the author.
Author : Don Mitchell
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820356905
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)
Download or read book Mean Streets written by Don Mitchell and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Mean Streets offers, in a single, sustained argument, a theory of the social and economic logic behind the historical development, evolution, and especially persistence of homelessness in the contemporary city. By updating and revisiting thirty years of research and thinking, Don Mitchell explores the conditions that produce and sustain homelessness, and how its persistence relates to the way capital works in the urban built environment. Consequently, he unpacks the structure, meaning, uses, and governance of urban public space. As one reviewer commented, "thinking about the histories under which the homeless have been produced and regulated is vital." Mitchell traces his argument through two sections: a broadly historical overview, followed by an exploration of recent Supreme Court jurisprudence that also expands the discussion beyond the regulation of the homeless and the poor, arguing that this has 'metastasized' to become more general issue, affecting all urbanites"--
Author : J.M. Redmann
Publisher : Bold Strokes Books Inc
ISBN 13 : 1602825386
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)
Download or read book Women of the Mean Streets: Lesbian Noir written by J.M. Redmann and published by Bold Strokes Books Inc. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women. Crime. Justice. At least the search for it. On the mean streets, the back allies, the dark corners. These are stories of tough women in hard places. The nights are long, the women are fast, and danger is always a short block or quick minute away. Edited by award winning author/editors J.M. Redmann and Greg Herren, Women of the Mean Streets is an anthology of some of the top, tough women crime writers today, noir stories with a lesbian twist.
Author : Todd Bridges
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439155895
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)
Download or read book Killing Willis written by Todd Bridges and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-04-03 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The former child star—best known as Willis Jackson on Diff’rent Strokes—shares the shocking but inspirational details of his struggles with addiction, brushes with the law, and fierce fight to carve a path through the darkness and find his true identity. For Todd Bridges early stardom was no protection from painful childhood events that paved the road to his own personal hell. One of the first African-American child actors on shows like Little House on the Prairie, The Waltons, and Roots, Bridges burst to the national forefront on the hit sitcom Diff’rent Strokes as the subject of the popular catchphrase, "What’chu Talkin About Willis?" When the show ended, Bridges was overwhelmed by the off-camera traumas he had faced. Turning to drugs as an escape, he soon lost control. Now, for the first time, Bridges opens up about his life before and after Diff’rent Strokes: the incredible reversals of fortune brought on by fame and the precipitous—and very public—descent that followed; the persecution from police; the drug addiction that nearly consumed him; the criminal charges that almost earned him a life sentence; and his successful legal defense led by Johnnie Cochran. Through it all, Bridges never relented in his quest to fight his way back from the abyss, establish his own identity—separate from Willis Jackson—and offer his ordeal as a positive example for those struggling to overcome similar challenges. His triumphant story of recovery and redemption is recounted here as well. Todd Bridges has lived a life of remarkable twists and turns—from the greatest heights to the lowest lows imaginable. In this shocking but ultimately hopeful memoir, he proves that what he was really talking about was survival.
Author : Peter McSherry
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1550024027
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)
Download or read book Mean Streets written by Peter McSherry and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2002-09 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter McSherry recounts tales of his 30 years of driving cabs on the hard-bitten streets of Toronto.
Author : Trevor Hughes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781728681443
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Mean Streets of Chicago written by Trevor Hughes and published by . This book was released on 2018-11-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom Collins is a bored Manchester private eye. His caseload consists of loose women, lying spouses and lost dogs. His hero is Jake Fist, a fictional hard-hitting, hard-drinking shoot-'em-and-leave-'em 1950's Chicago gumshoe. Then one quiet afternoon a beautiful Oriental woman walks into his office. She's from Chicago. When she asks Tom to track down her missing cousin, Angel Wong, it's Tom's chance to prove he's a real detective, just like Jake Fist. Two days later he is in the middle of a vicious turf war, on the run from three murderous Oriental gangs and the Manchester police. But why are they all looking for Angel Wong? Tom is kidnapped by a sinister Chinese mobster called 'Goodbye' Johnny, taken to a deserted warehouse and threatened with a slow, agonizing death. Now there is no one who can save him. Except maybe Jake Fist...
