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Bad Seeds

The True Story of Toronto's Galloway Boys Street Gang

By: Betsy Powell

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Bad Seeds

The True Story of Toronto's Galloway Boys Street Gang

By: Betsy Powell

This book tells the story of the Galloway Boys, who as young teens banded together in an urban-blighted area of Toronto's east end to sell drugs and run guns. They were led by Tyshan Riley, born into one of the toughest neighborhoods in Canada and raised by an often absent and erratic mother. He learned his lessons on the streets-how to sell drugs, how to steal--and used violence to get the money, sex and respect that he lived for. The area known as Galloway is home to 186 hectares of public housing. Crossing bridges is the only route into the area. It created a sense of isolation and for those who lived there a sense of mistrust of anyone from the outside. The area was a fertile ground for the growth of gangs--and as well for the drug dealers, prostitutes and crackheads who survived along a major east-west thoroughfare leading in and out of Toronto's downtown core. And while the Galloway Boys lay claim to their turf, farther to the north the Malvern Crew was laying claim to theirs. The war was inevitable and it would claim ten casualties, including the innocent. For three Galloway Boys - Tyshan Riley, Philip Atkins and Jason Wisdom - their days in the street were numbered. With the cold-blooded murder of Brenton Charlton and the near fatal shooting of his friend Leonard Bell at a busy Toronto intersection on March 3, 2004, the police investigation would lead to the arrest of Riley, Atkins and Wisdom, and with the testimony of a former Galloway Boys gang member, Roland Ellis, the three would be convicted of the first-degree murder of a man who was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Through the testimony of Ellis and that of other witnesses, the wiretap evidence, Crown attorney and defense arguments, a portrait of a gang emerges, one that lives on our streets yet is hidden to our eyes. Bad Seeds compels us to take our blinders off and face a reality of modern urban life that no one professes to care about very much. There is peril in willing blindness.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470676175

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9780470676172

Food and Society

Principles and Paradoxes

By: Amy E. Guptill,Denise A. Copelton,Betsy Lucal

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Food and Society

Principles and Paradoxes

By: Amy E. Guptill,Denise A. Copelton,Betsy Lucal

This timely and engaging text offers students a social perspective on food, food practices, and the modern food system. It engages readers’ curiosity by highlighting several paradoxes: how food is both mundane and sacred, reveals both distinction and conformity, and, in the contemporary global era, comes from everywhere but nowhere in particular. With a social constructionist framework, the book provides an empirically rich, multi-faceted, and coherent introduction to this fascinating field. Each chapter begins with a vivid case study, proceeds through a rich discussion of research insights, and ends with discussion questions and suggested resources. Chapter topics include food’s role in socialization, identity, work, health and social change, as well as food marketing and the changing global food system. In synthesizing insights from diverse fields of social inquiry, the book addresses issues of culture, structure, and social inequality throughout. Written in a lively style, this book will be both accessible and revealing to beginning and intermediate students alike.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0745676316

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9780745676319

Parker Hitt

The Father of American Military Cryptology

By: Betsy Rohaly Smoot

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Parker Hitt

The Father of American Military Cryptology

By: Betsy Rohaly Smoot

Success in dealing with unknown ciphers is measured by these four things in the order named: perseverance, careful methods of analysis, intuition, luck." So begins the first chapter of Colonel Parker Hitt's 1916 Manual for the Solution of Military Ciphers, a foundational text in the history of cryptology. An irrepressible innovator, Hitt possessed those qualities in abundance. His manual, cipher devices, and proactive mentorship of Army cryptology during World War I laid the groundwork for the modern American cryptologic system. Though he considered himself an infantryman, Hitt is best known as the "father of American military cryptology." In Parker Hitt: The Father of American Military Cryptology, Betsy Rohaly Smoot brings Hitt's legacy to life, chronicling his upbringing, multiple careers, ingenious mind, and independent spirit. In the 1910s, after a decade as an infantry officer, Hitt set his sights on aviation. Instead, he was drawn to the applied sciences, designing signal and machine-gun equipment while applying math to combat problems. Atypical for the time, Hitt championed women in the workplace. During World War I he suggested the Army employ American female telephone operators, while his wife, Genevieve Young Hitt, became the first woman to break ciphers for the United States government. His daughter, Mary Lue Hitt, carried on the family legacy as a "code girl" during World War II. Readers of Elizabeth Cobb's The Hello Girls, Liza Mundy's Code Girls, and David Kahn's The Codebreakers will find in Parker Hitt's story an insightful profile of an American cryptologic hero and the early twentieth-century military. Drawing from a never-before-seen cache of Hitt's letters, photographs, and diaries, Smoot introduces readers to Hitt's life on the front lines, in classrooms and workshops, and at home.

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813182417

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9780813182414

Funny Girl

Funniest. Stories. Ever.

By: Betsy Bird

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Funny Girl

Funniest. Stories. Ever.

By: Betsy Bird

Funny Girl is a collection of uproarious stories, rollicking comics, rib-tickling wit, and more, from 25 of today’s funniest female writers for kids. What could be funnier than family? Read stories about Ursula Brown's grandmother driving her on a road trip to disaster, Lisa Brown's little brother getting a Tic-Tac stuck up his nose, and Carmen Agra Deedy's mom setting the bathtub on fire. What could be funnier than friends? Pretty much nothing, as Rita Williams-Garcia shows two besties hatching a bird-brained scheme to get on to a TV talk show, and Deborah Underwood introduces a dynamic dog-and-cat duo teaming up on a pet advice column. What could be funnier than YOU? Tell your future with Mad Libs, discover your Chinese Zodiac sign with Lenore Look, and learn the best tricks of the comedy trade from professional humorists like Adrianne Chalepah and Delaney Yeager. With clever contributions from award-winning and bestselling authors including Cece Bell, Sophie Blackall, Libba Bray, Shannon Hale, Lisa Graff, and Raina Telgemeier, this anthology of funny girls will make you laugh until you cry. Or cry until you laugh. Or maybe you won't cry at all. Either way, you'll definitely laugh. Funny Girl isn’t just an anthology: it’s a cause, a mission, a movement. Girls are funny. Now it’s time for the world to know it.

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Penguin

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0147517834

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9780147517838

Food & Society

Principles and Paradoxes

By: Amy E. Guptill,Denise A. Copelton,Betsy Lucal

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Food & Society

Principles and Paradoxes

By: Amy E. Guptill,Denise A. Copelton,Betsy Lucal

This popular text, now in a third edition, offers readers a vivid perspective on the cultural and social complexities of food practices and the current food system. Synthesizing insights from the multidisciplinary field of food studies, this book engages readers’ curiosity by highlighting the seeming paradoxes of food: how food is both individual and social, reveals both distinction and conformity, and, in the contemporary era, seems to come from everywhere but nowhere in particular. Each chapter begins with an intriguing case study and ends with suggested resources and activities. Chapter topics include identity, restaurants and food media, health, marketing, industrialization, global food, surplus and scarcity, and social change. Updates and enhancements in this edition reflect new scholarly insights into how food is involved in social media, social movements, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Throughout, the book blends concepts and empirical accounts to address the central issues of culture, structure, and social inequality. Written in a lively, accessible style, this book provides students with an unrivalled and multifaceted introduction to this fascinating aspect of social life.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1509542256

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9781509542253

Sticky Situations

365 Devotions for Kids and Families

By: Betsy Schmitt

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Sticky Situations

365 Devotions for Kids and Families

By: Betsy Schmitt

Contains 365 devotions, each of which describes a dilemma a young person might face during the course of an ordinary day, and includes a list of possible options, and guidance from Scripture on making the right choice.

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Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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0842365508

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9780842365505

Playing Ball with the Boys

The Rise of Women in the World of Men's Sports

By: Betsy Ross

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Playing Ball with the Boys

The Rise of Women in the World of Men's Sports

By: Betsy Ross

The use of female sideline reporters is the fastest-growing new aspect of televised broadcasts of professional and college football. Names like Suzy Kolber, Erin Andrews, and Andrea Kremer are now as well known as any of the men in the booth. In recent years women have been sports columnists and reporters, talk-show hosts, even coaches and team administrators. And yet there has never been a book about this phenomenon. Former ESPN news anchor Betsy Ross fills this void with Playing Ball with the Boys, a fascinating, behind-the-scenes look at the emerging role that women play in sports broadcasting and reporting as well as in the business of sports. Ross interviews a number of the biggest names--from Kolber and Kremer to USA Today columnist Christine Brennan and Lesley Visser and many others--who offer first-hand accounts of the struggles and the triumphs of women playing what has always been a man's game. She provides a history of this unique facet of the sports world, from pioneering female newspaper sports reporters to the celebrated breakthrough into televised sports by former Miss America Phyllis George, who is interviewed in the book. Ross covers the controversial moments, from locker room confrontations between players and female reporters to the infamous sideline interview in which Joe Namath attempted to kiss Suzy Kolber during a live broadcast. Readers also learn of women who played pro sports on male teams or coached men's teams. They meet a woman who runs a professional baseball team and another who is a team doctor. Through this tale, Ross weaves her own story, recalling how she went from a small town in Indiana to the anchor's chair at the largest sports network in the world, ESPN. She explains what it's like for a woman to succeed in the male-dominated world of sports broadcasting.

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Clerisy Press

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1578604613

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9781578604616

Second Chance Christmas

An Uplifting Inspirational Romance

By: Betsy St. Amant

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Second Chance Christmas

An Uplifting Inspirational Romance

By: Betsy St. Amant

Holiday wishes can come true… If they work together. Charlie Bussey is ready to fight the corporation threatening to shut down the local animal shelter—she just didn’t expect the enemy would be her former best friend, Blake Bryant. To adopt his newly discovered niece, Blake needs this property deal to succeed. But when he discovers Charlie is his niece’s child advocate, can he help his childhood crush…and gain a family for Christmas? From Love Inspired: Uplifting stories of faith, forgiveness and hope.

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Harlequin

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0369725190

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9780369725196

Choosing Books for Children

A Commonsense Guide

By: Betsy Gould Hearne,Deborah Stevenson

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Choosing Books for Children

A Commonsense Guide

By: Betsy Gould Hearne,Deborah Stevenson

Presents a tool for choosing books for children of all ages. This title offers practical guidance on sorting through the bewildering array of picture books, pop-up books, books for beginning readers, young adult titles, classics, poetry, olktales, and factual books.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252069285

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9780252069284

The America Syndrome

Apocalypse, War, and Our Call to Greatness

By: Betsy Hartmann

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The America Syndrome

Apocalypse, War, and Our Call to Greatness

By: Betsy Hartmann

Has apocalyptic thinking contributed to some of our nation's biggest problems—inequality, permanent war, and the despoiling of our natural resources? From the Puritans to the present, historian and public policy advocate Betsy Hartmann sheds light on a pervasive but—until now—invisible theme shaping the American mindset: apocalyptic thinking, or the belief that the end of the world is nigh. Hartmann makes a compelling case that apocalyptic fears are deeply intertwined with the American ethos, to our detriment. In The America Syndrome, she seeks to reclaim human agency and, in so doing, revise the national narrative. By changing the way we think, we just might change the world.

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Seven Stories Press

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1609807413

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9781609807412

Love Inspired October 2022 Box Set - 2 of 2

An Uplifting Inspirational Romance

By: Emma Miller,Danica Favorite,Betsy St. Amant

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Love Inspired October 2022 Box Set - 2 of 2

An Uplifting Inspirational Romance

By: Emma Miller,Danica Favorite,Betsy St. Amant

Love Inspired brings you three new titles! Enjoy these uplifting contemporary romances of faith, forgiveness and hope. This box set includes: HER SURPRISE CHRISTMAS COURTSHIP (A Seven Amish Sisters novel) by Emma Miller Millie Koffman dreams of becoming a wife and mother someday. But because of her plus size, she doubts it will ever come true—especially not with handsome neighbor Elden Yoder. But when Elden shows interest in her, Millie’s convinced it’s a ruse. Can she learn to love herself before she loses the man loves? JOURNEY TO FORGIVENESS (A Shepherd’s Creek novel) by Danica Favorite Inheriting failing horse stables from her estranged father forces Josie Shepherd to return home and face her past—including her ex-love. More than anything, Brady King fervently regrets ever hurting Josie. Could saving the stables together finally bring peace to them—and maybe something more? SECOND CHANCE CHRISTMAS by Betsy St. Amant Blake Bryant left small-town life behind him with no intention of going back—until he discovers the niece he never knew about is living in a group foster home. But returning to Tulip Mound also involves seeing Charlie Bussey, the woman who rejected him years ago. Can he open his heart enough to let them both in? For more stories filled with love and faith, look for Love Inspired October 2022 Box Set – 1 of 2

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Harlequin

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0369725794

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9780369725790

The Site Reliability Workbook

Practical Ways to Implement SRE

By: Betsy Beyer,Niall Richard Murphy,David K. Rensin,Kent Kawahara,Stephen Thorne

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The Site Reliability Workbook

Practical Ways to Implement SRE

By: Betsy Beyer,Niall Richard Murphy,David K. Rensin,Kent Kawahara,Stephen Thorne

In 2016, Googleâ??s Site Reliability Engineering book ignited an industry discussion on what it means to run production services todayâ??and why reliability considerations are fundamental to service design. Now, Google engineers who worked on that bestseller introduce The Site Reliability Workbook, a hands-on companion that uses concrete examples to show you how to put SRE principles and practices to work in your environment. This new workbook not only combines practical examples from Googleâ??s experiences, but also provides case studies from Googleâ??s Cloud Platform customers who underwent this journey. Evernote, The Home Depot, The New York Times, and other companies outline hard-won experiences of what worked for them and what didnâ??t. Dive into this workbook and learn how to flesh out your own SRE practice, no matter what size your company is. Youâ??ll learn: How to run reliable services in environments you donâ??t completely controlâ??like cloud Practical applications of how to create, monitor, and run your services via Service Level Objectives How to convert existing ops teams to SREâ??including how to dig out of operational overload Methods for starting SRE from either greenfield or brownfield

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"O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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1492029459

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9781492029458

Intrapartum Management Modules

By: Betsy Kennedy

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Intrapartum Management Modules

By: Betsy Kennedy

Confidently deliver safe, accurate intrapartum care with the expert guidance of Intrapartum Management Modules, 5e. This essential, fully updated edition offers easy-to-follow directions on the full range of intrapartum skills, from admission assessment of the laboring woman and fetus to delivery and postpartum care. Written by top-level intrapartum nurses and educators, this is not only an essential study aid for inpatient obstetric nursing certification; it also offers indispensable orientation support to new practitioners. Absorb the A to Z of intrapartum nursing science and skills . . . NEW and updated content offers the latest evidence-based therapeutic methods, drugs, and technology NEW chapter on electronic fetal heart rate monitoring Practice strips for monitoring fetal heart rate and contractions End-of-module practice/review questions and end-of-book posttests to aid retention and bulletproof exam preparation Centers for Disease Control guidelines for safe labor and delivery National Institute of Child Health and Human Development guidelines for accurate electronic fetal monitoring Self-paced independent learning manual—step-by-step directions for vital skills, including: Physical exam of the laboring woman Evaluating contractions Meeting the individual and cultural needs of the laboring woman and family Identifying the high-risk mother and fetus Assessing fetal health Managing gestational diabetes Determining whether a patient is at risk for domestic violence Evaluating fetal lie and presentation Breathing and effleurage techniques Managing an unexpected delivery

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1496349687

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9781496349682

Take the Lead

Motivate, Inspire, and Bring Out the Best in Yourself and Everyone Around You

By: Betsy Myers,John David Mann

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Take the Lead

Motivate, Inspire, and Bring Out the Best in Yourself and Everyone Around You

By: Betsy Myers,John David Mann

Betsy Myers, former Executive Director of the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard, Clinton administration insider and COO of the Obama campaign, offers 7 key principles for becoming a leader in every aspect of your life, and the secrets for inspiring and motivating others toward greater collaboration and action"--

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Simon and Schuster

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1439160694

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9781439160695

Women's Painted Furniture, 1790-1830

American Schoolgirl Art

By: Betsy Krieg Salm

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Women's Painted Furniture, 1790-1830

American Schoolgirl Art

By: Betsy Krieg Salm

Beautifully illustrated, comprehensive study of women's painted furniture, a long-lost art that sheds light on women's lives in the early republic

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UPNE

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1584658452

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9781584658450

I Have the Data... Now What?

Analyzing Data and Making Instructional Changes

By: Betsy Moore

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I Have the Data... Now What?

Analyzing Data and Making Instructional Changes

By: Betsy Moore

In this book, author, consultant, and longtime educator Betsy Moore shows teachers how to use data to make informed instructional changes in their classrooms. Strategies will help them to pinpoint and carry out instructional changes that ensure student success. Teachers will learn to: Compile and make sense of data Analyze data - Find out what it means and what to do about it Decide how to do what needs to be done Implement strategies specific to content areas, critical-thinking skills, and test-taking This book details just what teachers should look for in their data and what to do with what they find. It will guide them through every step of the data process, helping them to meet each of their instructional goals.

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Routledge

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131792746X

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9781317927464

Just Authority?

Trust in the Police in England and Wales

By: Jonathan Jackson,Ben Bradford,Betsy Stanko,Katrin Hohl

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Just Authority?

Trust in the Police in England and Wales

By: Jonathan Jackson,Ben Bradford,Betsy Stanko,Katrin Hohl

What does it mean to trust the police? What makes the police legitimate in the eyes of the policed? What builds trust, legitimacy and cooperation, and what undermines the bond between police and the public? These questions are central to current debates concerning the relationship between the British police and the public it serves. Yet, in the context of British policing they are seldom asked explicitly, still less examined in depth. Drawing on psychological and sociological explanatory paradigms, Just Authority? presents a cutting-edge empirical study into public trust, police legitimacy, and people’s readiness to cooperate with officers. It represents, first, the most detailed test to date of Tom Tyler’s procedural justice model attempted outside the United States. Second, it uncovers the social ecology of trust and legitimacy and, third, it describes the relationships between trust, legitimacy and cooperation. This book contains many important lessons for practitioners, policy-makers and academics. As elsewhere the dominant vision of policing in Great Britain continues to stress instrumental effectiveness: the ‘fight against crime’ will be won by pro-active and even aggressive policing. In line with work from the United States and elsewhere, Just Authority? casts significant doubt on such claims. When people find policing to be unfair, disrespectful and careless of human dignity, not only is trust lost, legitimacy is also damaged and cooperation is withdrawn as a result. Absent such public support, the job of the police is made harder and the avowed objectives of less crime and disorder placed ever further from reach.

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Routledge

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1136254439

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9781136254437

Your College Experience

Strategies for Success

By: John N. Gardner,Betsy O. Barefoot

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Your College Experience

Strategies for Success

By: John N. Gardner,Betsy O. Barefoot

Written by the leading authorities on the first-year seminar and grounded in research, Your College Experience by John Gardner and Betsy Barefoot offers today’s diverse students the practical help they need to make the transition to college and get the most out of their time there. Goal setting has always been central to this text, and the Tenth Edition has been revised with added coverage and activities to strengthen this material throughout. In addition, a new focus on self-assessment of strengths will help students see where they are already succeeding so that they get off to a great start and stay in college. A full package of instructional support materials — including an Instructor’s Annotated Edition, Instructor’s Manual, PowerPoint slides, videos, and a Test Bank — provides new and experienced instructors all the tools they will need to engage students in this course and increase student retention.

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Macmillan

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0312602545

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9780312602543

The Book of Atlantis Black: The Search for a Sister Gone Missing

By: Betsy Bonner

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The Book of Atlantis Black: The Search for a Sister Gone Missing

By: Betsy Bonner

An NPR Best Book of the Year A Vanity Fair Best Summer Read "A haunting, mind-bending memoir. . . . riveting." —New York Times "A mixture of biography and true crime, this narrative . . . offers more plot twists, shocking revelations and shady characters than most contemporary thrillers." —NPR The Book of Atlantis Black will have you questioning facts, rooting for secrets, and asking what it means to know the truth. A young woman is found dead on the floor of a Tijuana hotel room. An ID in a nearby purse reads “Atlantis Black.” The police report states that the body does not seem to match the identification, yet the body is quickly cremated and the case is considered closed. So begins Betsy Bonner’s search for her sister, Atlantis, and the unraveling of the mysterious final months before Atlantis’s disappearance, alleged overdose, and death. With access to her sister’s email and social media accounts, Bonner attempts to decipher and construct a narrative: frantic and unintelligible Facebook posts, alarming images of a woman with a handgun, Craigslist companionship ads, DEA agent testimony, video surveillance, police reports, and various phone calls and moments in the flesh conjured from memory. Through a history only she and Atlantis shared—a childhood fraught with abuse and mental illness, Atlantis’s precocious yet short rise in the music world, and through it all an unshakable bond of sisterhood—Bonner finds questions that lead only to more questions and possible clues that seem to point in no particular direction. In this haunting memoir and piercing true crime account, Bonner must decide how far she will go to understand a sister who, like the mythical island she renamed herself for, might prove impossible to find.

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Tin House Books

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194779387X

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9781947793873

Telling the Truth to Your Adopted or Foster Child

Making Sense of the Past

By: Betsy Keefer Smalley,Jayne E. Schooler

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Telling the Truth to Your Adopted or Foster Child

Making Sense of the Past

By: Betsy Keefer Smalley,Jayne E. Schooler

Many adopted or foster children have complex, troubling, often painful pasts. This book provides parents and professionals with sound advice on how to communicate effectively about difficult and sensitive topics, providing concrete strategies for helping adopted and foster children make sense of the past so they can enjoy a healthy, well-adjusted future. Approximately one of every four adopted children will have adjustment challenges related to their separation from the birth family, earlier trauma, attachment difficulties, and/or issues stemming from the adoption process. Common complicating issues of adopted children are feelings of rejection, abandonment, or confusion about their origins. While many foster and adoptive parents and even many professionals are reluctant to communicate openly about birth histories, silence only adds to the child's confusion and pain. This revised and significantly expanded edition of the award-winning Telling the Truth to Your Adopted or Foster Child equips parents with the knowledge and tools they need to communicate with their adopted or foster child about their past. Revisions include coverage of significant new research and information regarding the importance of understanding the child's trauma history to his or her well-being and successful adjustment in his foster or adoptive family. The authors answer such questions as: How do I share difficult information about my child's adoption in a sensitive manner? When is the right time to tell my child the whole truth? How do I obtain more information on my child's history? Detailed descriptions of actual cases help the parent or caregiver find ways to discover the truth (particularly in closed and international adoption cases), organize the information, and explain the details of the past gently to a toddler, child, or young adult who may find it frightening or confusing.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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Green Your Home All in One For Dummies

By: Yvonne Jeffery,Liz Barclay,Michael Grosvenor,Elizabeth B. Goldsmith,Betsy Sheldon,Eric Corey Freed,Rik DeGunther,Ann Whitman,National Gardening Association,Owen E. Dell

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Green Your Home All in One For Dummies

By: Yvonne Jeffery,Liz Barclay,Michael Grosvenor,Elizabeth B. Goldsmith,Betsy Sheldon,Eric Corey Freed,Rik DeGunther,Ann Whitman,National Gardening Association,Owen E. Dell

Green Your Home All-in-One For Dummies empowers readers to make ecologically-friendly improvements to each and every area of their home. At $29.99 and 696 pages, this package is a real value and a true source book for readers looking for a substantial breadth of information and solutions yet unwilling to invest in four, five, or six books on the wide range of content that they seek.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470464038

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9780470464038

Our Family Meeting Book

Fun and Easy Ways to Manage Time, Build Communication, and Share Responsibility Week by Week

By: Elaine Hightower,Betsy Riley

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Our Family Meeting Book

Fun and Easy Ways to Manage Time, Build Communication, and Share Responsibility Week by Week

By: Elaine Hightower,Betsy Riley

Family meetings are proven ways to involve everyone-kids and adults-in planning, solving problems, creating traditions, and staying close. This inviting book makes family meetings meaningful, manageable, and fun for everyone. Includes 52 agendas and many write-on pages.

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Free Spirit Publishing

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1575421208

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9781575421209

New Orleans Architecture

Faubourg Tremé and the Bayou Road

By: Friends of the Cabildo,Roulhac Toledano,Mary Louise Christovich,Betsy Swanson

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New Orleans Architecture

Faubourg Tremé and the Bayou Road

By: Friends of the Cabildo,Roulhac Toledano,Mary Louise Christovich,Betsy Swanson

This volume focuses on the Bayou Road, which was lined with the country seats and residences of the city's earliest settlers."--The publisher.

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How to Make a Wedding

Twelve Love Stories

By: Cindy Kirk,Rachel Hauck,Cheryl Wyatt,Ruth Logan Herne,Amy Matayo,Janice Thompson,Melissa McClone,Robin Lee Hatcher,Kathryn Springer,Betsy St. Amant,Katie Ganshert,Becky Wade

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How to Make a Wedding

Twelve Love Stories

By: Cindy Kirk,Rachel Hauck,Cheryl Wyatt,Ruth Logan Herne,Amy Matayo,Janice Thompson,Melissa McClone,Robin Lee Hatcher,Kathryn Springer,Betsy St. Amant,Katie Ganshert,Becky Wade

They’ve helped orchestrate the perfect day for countless couples. Now twelve new couples will find themselves in the wedding spotlight in the second Year of Weddings novella collection. Love at Mistletoe Inn by Cindy Kirk Sometimes the road to happiness is paved with youthful mistakes. A Brush with Love by Rachel Hauck Ginger Winters is a gifted hairstylist with scars no one can see. The last thing she expects from the New Year is a new chance at love. Serving Up a Sweetheart by Cheryl Wyatt Meadow knows how to serve delicious food to match any wedding theme. But can she accept love when it’s served up on a silver platter? All Dressed Up in Love by Ruth Logan Herne Tara walks into Elena’s Bridal and finds her dream job—and a handsome man to match. In Tune with Love by Amy Matayo April knows her job as maid of honor is to fulfill her sister’s every wish—whatever the bride wants, she will have. Unless it involves Jack Vaughn. Never a Bridesmaid by Janice Thompson Mari wants her sister Crystal’s wedding to be perfect. But a poorly-chosen maid of honor may turn it into a disaster. Picture Perfect Love by Melissa McClone When image becomes everything, it’s up to love to refocus the heart. I Hope You Dance by Robin Lee Hatcher Can two left feet lead to one perfect romance? Love on a Deadline by Kathryn Springer MacKenzie thought writing wedding stories was beneath her journalistic abilities. Until one love story rekindled an old flame and opened her heart to love once more. Love Takes the Cake by Betsy St. Amant She’s known for her delicious cakes, but there’s no recipe for dealing with the new man in her life. The Perfect Arrangement by Katie Ganshert Meeting Nate was truly an accident—but Amelia finds that he’s one of the few people she can count on. Love in the Details by Becky Wade Holly ended things to give him a better life, but she was the future he’d always dreamed of.

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