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Is it ever worth joining a gang? Do they provide protection or bring trouble to a neighborhood? This book looks at gang culture, asks what the gangs are trying to achieve, and shows how they treat their members and the wider community - exploding some myths along the way.
This book discusses bullying, explaining the three main elements that make bullying "bullying," types of bullying, and bullying as a learned behavior.
Everyone faces troubles and challenges in their life, from bullying behaviour and the effect of gang activity, to dealing with relationships and the urge to self-harm. This series of book looks at the experiences of young people, provides advice on coping with painful feelings - and explodes some myths along the way.
This book explores what life was really like for everyday people in Shang Dynasty China. Using primary sources and information from archeological discoveries, it uncovers some fascinating insights and explodes some myths. Supported by timelines, maps and references to important events and people, children will really feel they are on a time-travelling journey when reading this book.
A concise introduction to the basics of open access, describing what it is (and isn't) and showing that it is easy, fast, inexpensive, legal, and beneficial. The Internet lets us share perfect copies of our work with a worldwide audience at virtually no cost. We take advantage of this revolutionary opportunity when we make our work “open access”: digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. Open access is made possible by the Internet and copyright-holder consent, and many authors, musicians, filmmakers, and other creators who depend on royalties are understandably unwilling to give their consent. But for 350 years, scholars have written peer-re...
"Disarmingly honest, beautifully insightful. Crack open Vow and prepare to be quickly carried away by Plump's vivid prose, so-close-you-can-hear-it voice, and suspenseful storytelling skills." -- Redbook magazine
Learn about a variety of extreme sports, both well-known and obscure, and how and why extreme athletes do what they do.
In addressing men-on-women violence, Domestic Violence: Identification and Restoration provides a look into the lives of the men who are perpetrators, as well as the women and children who experience domestic violence. The resulting physical and mental health issues related to women and children are addressed, as well as the personality characteristics of an abuser and the common behaviors oppressors use in the home and in public. The behaviors they commonly exhibit after separation are exposed, including the tactics generally used to sway the court, their lawyer, and their own family and friends in their favor. Domestic Violence explores what happens to brain neurology in women and children...
We sometimes hear about gangs and gang-related crime in the news, but what's the real story? Hidden Story of Gangs and Crime looks at what gangs are, why they happen and the problems they can cause. Featuring facts and figures, issues being discussed in the media, and detailed look at particular aspects of the topic from why gangs might seem attractive, but are not, to how someone can leave a gang, this book provides the undercover story on gangs and gang-related crime.