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The Complete Illustrated Guidebook to Prospect Park and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden

By: Neil DeMause

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The Complete Illustrated Guidebook to Prospect Park and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden

By: Neil DeMause

Conveniently sized to fit in a pocket or bag, this reference includes more than 100 places to visit in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park and nearby Botanic Garden. Eleven walking tours cover numerous sites in the Park, including the Zoo and the famed Cherry Walk. Beautiful full-color illustrations and photographs identify various birds and flowers; 20 pages of maps help you navigate and find restrooms and public services.

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Sterling Publishing Company

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0760722137

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9780760722138

The Disappearance of Childhood

By: Neil Postman

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The Disappearance of Childhood

By: Neil Postman

From the vogue for nubile models to the explosion in the juvenile crime rate, this modern classic of social history and media traces the precipitous decline of childhood in America today−and the corresponding threat to the notion of adulthood. Deftly marshaling a vast array of historical and demographic research, Neil Postman, author of Technopoly, suggests that childhood is a relatively recent invention, which came into being as the new medium of print imposed divisions between children and adults. But now these divisions are eroding under the barrage of television, which turns the adult secrets of sex and violence into poprular entertainment and pitches both news and advertising at the intellectual level of ten-year-olds. Informative, alarming, and aphorisitc, The Disappearance of Childhood is a triumph of history and prophecy.

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Vintage

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0307797228

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9780307797223

Familicidal Hearts

The Emotional Styles of 211 Killers

By: Neil Websdale

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Familicidal Hearts

The Emotional Styles of 211 Killers

By: Neil Websdale

Oscar, physically and sexually abusive, stabbed his partner and two stepdaughters to death, buried the bodies, and fled the state with his two younger children. Paul, a respected investment banker, donned a Halloween mask and shot his wife and two children before turning the gun on himself. What drives individuals as different as Oscar and Paul to kill their families? Why does familicide appear to be on the rise? In Familicidal Hearts, award-winning author and sociologist Neil Websdale uncovers the stories behind 196 male and 15 female perpetrators of this shocking offense, situating their emotional styles on a continuum, from the livid coercive to the civil reputable. With highly detailed and riveting case studies, Websdale explores the pivotal roles of shame, rage, fear, anxiety, and depression in the lives and crimes of the killers. His analysis demonstrates how internal emotional conflict, against a backdrop of societal pressures, is at the root of familicide, challenging the widely accepted argument that murderers kill family members to assert power and control. Websdale contends instead that most perpetrators struggle with intense shame, many sensing that they failed to live up to the demands of modern gender prescriptions, as fathers and lovers, wives and mothers. What emerges is a compelling theory about the haunting effects of modern emotional struggles on perpetrators, controlling and upstanding alike. Captivatingly written and expertly researched, this provocative book weaves a gripping tale of modern-era "haunted hearts." Blending the social, the historical, and the emotional into a new way of making sense of a horrific crime, Familicidal Hearts is a provocative meditation on gender roles, social forces, and modern life itself.

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335

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Oxford University Press

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0199325847

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9780199325849

Field of Schemes

How the Great Stadium Swindle Turns Public Money Into Private Profit

By: Neil DeMause,Joanna Cagan

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Field of Schemes

How the Great Stadium Swindle Turns Public Money Into Private Profit

By: Neil DeMause,Joanna Cagan

Field of Schemes is a play-by-play account of how the drive for new sports stadiums and arenas drains $2 billion a year from public treasuries for the sake of private profit. While the millionaires who own sports franchises have seen the value of their assets soar under this scheme, taxpayers, urban residents, and sports fans have all come out losers, forced to pay both higher taxes and higher ticket prices for seats that, thanks to the layers of luxury seating that typify new stadiums, usually offer a worse view of the action. The stories in Field of Schemes, from Baltimore to Cleveland and Minneapolis to Seattle and dozens of places in between, tell of the sports-team owners who use their money and their political muscle to get their way, and of the stories of spirited local groups?like Detroit's Tiger Stadium Fan Club and Boston's Save Fenway Park!?that have fought to save the games we love and the public dollars our cities need. This revised and expanded edition features the first comprehensive reporting on the recent stadium battles in Washington DC, New York City, and Boston as well as updates on how cities have fared with the first wave of new stadiums built in recent years.

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423

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803260164

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9780803260160

The Complete Illustrated Guidebook to Prospect Park and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden

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The Disappearance of Childhood

By: Neil Postman

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The Complete Illustrated Guidebook to Prospect Park and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden

The Complete Illustrated Guidebook to Prospect Park and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden

The Disappearance of Childhood

The Disappearance of Childhood

Familicidal Hearts

Familicidal Hearts

Field of Schemes

Field of Schemes

The Complete Illustrated Guidebook to Prospect Park and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden

The Complete Illustrated Guidebook to Prospect Park and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden

The Disappearance of Childhood

The Disappearance of Childhood

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