The friends in the rock band Amber Road are enjoying success since they have started playing regularly at San Diego's most popular clubs, but jealousy and resentment threaten to destroy their perfect harmony.
The friends in the band Amber Road always back each other up, onstage and off, but just as they have a chance to be noticed as professional musicians, an impulsive game threatens to tear them apart.
Older brother Dave Zupinski gives ten-year-old twins Nate and Lisa his magical rubber chicken, a wisecracking bird that grants wishes for supernatural powers, with unexpected results. Teacher's Guide available. Original.
A spoiled, rich, seventeen-year-old girl is mysteriously transported from 2006 Los Angeles back to 1978, where she meets Tyler, a super-smart high school senior who promises help her return her to 2006 if she will give him some lessons on how to be popula
This title was first published in 2003. In this study, the author examines the behavior of one group of court-appointed defence attorneys and reaches the conclusion that although, in contrast to popular opinion, these attorneys maintain an adversarial stance against the prosecutors and behave in a legally ethical (or "procedurally just") manner, case outcomes are unduly shaped by social class and are therefore substantively unjust. This occurs because poor defendants typically lack cultural rhetoric that favourably influences those who construct and operate the criminal court system. Ironically, this indicates that, in many cases, the process of plea bargaining may be more substantively just than trials. A major contribution of the study is the detailed analysis of the manner by which oppression and substantive injustice occur in the adjudication of many cases and how the cultural practices of the powerful can frequently misconstrue, exclude and mute the voices of the poor.
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