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Publisher
Praeger
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"This book provides the information parents and professionals need to make the best choices for children's healthy development. It includes chapters specifically relevant to the types of bullying schools have the most trouble identifying and controlling. Most importantly, the writing is both intelligent and accessible so that parents, educators, pediatricians, and policymakers can understand and apply the findings presented."
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Israel and Palestine: History and Conflict
Political Movements
Uncle Tom's Cabin Book Discussion Group
Political Movements
Uncle Tom's Cabin Book Discussion Group
Description
In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis illuminates the connections between struggles against state violence and oppression throughout history and around the world. Reflecting on the importance of black feminism, intersectionality, and prison abolitionism for today's struggles, Davis discusses the legacies of previous liberation struggles, from the Black Freedom Movement to the...
Author
Publisher
Praeger
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
"Parents, teachers, and counselors have a more persistent, profound, and lasting effect on children than any other adults, and Jones-Smith shows us how to use that strong influence to help children learn to handle anger and conflicts in peaceful, productive ways." -from product description.
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"What motivates violence? How can good and compassionate people hurt and kill others, or themselves? Why are people much more likely to kill or assault people they know well, rather than strangers? This provocative and radical book shows that people mostly commit violence because they genuinely feel that it is the morally right thing to do. In perpetrators' minds, violence may be the morally necessary and proper way to regulate social relationships...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"This Fourth Edition of Intimate Violence and Abuse in Families updates a best-selling core text in the field of intimate violence and child maltreatment. New features include: a "Global Perspectives" call-out box for each of the chapters that explore an aspect of research, policy, and practice globally or in another nation; and a separate chapter that examines forms of intimate partner violence other than male-to-female. Bidirectional intimate partner...
Publisher
Films for the Humanities and Sciences
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Many of the 20,000 cases handled each year by San Francisco's Hall of Justice involve victims of rape or domestic disputes who know their attacker, be it a spouse or a mere acquaintance. This provocative program vividly illustrates a criminal justice system overcrowded with prosecutors and defense attorneys trying to sort out these dysfunctional and aggressive criminal accusations in human relationships. Contains explicit language. A Discovery Channel...
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Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Overview: On the morning of September 11, 2001, the entire world was introduced to Al Qaeda and its enigmatic leader, Osama bin Laden. But the organization that changed the face of terrorism forever and unleashed a whirlwind of counterterrorism activity and two major wars had been on the scene long before that eventful morning. In Al Qaeda, the Islamic State, and the Global Jihadist Movement: What Everyone Needs to Know, Daniel L. Byman, an eminent...
Author
Publisher
The Guilford Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"When a man showers all of his attention on a woman, it can feel incredibly romantic, and can blind her to hints of problems ahead. But what happens when that attentiveness becomes domination? For certain people, the desire to control leads to jealousy, threats, micromanaging--even physical violence. Lisa Aronson Fontes draws on both professional expertise and personal experience to provide practical guidance and support for readers who find themselves...
Author
Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
A report on the overblown fear of violence that turns American schools into prisons and students into suspects describes how the fixation on crime and security has resulted in unprecedented restrictions on student rights, dignity, and educational freedom.
Author
Language
English
Description
In 2017, seven-year-old Ava in South Carolina wrote a letter to Tyshaun, an eight-year-old boy from Washington, DC. She asked him to be her pen pal; Ava thought they could help each other. The kids has a tragic connection--both were traumatized by gun violence. Ava's best friend had been killed in a campus shooting at her elementary school, and Tyshaun's father had been shot to death outside of the boy's elementary school. Ava's and Tyshaun's stories...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
"In [this book], the historian Joanne B. Freeman offers a new and dramatically rendered portrait of American politics in its rowdiest years. Drawing on an extraordinary range of sources, she shows that today's hyperpolarized environment cannot compare with the turbulent atmosphere of the decades before the Civil War, when the U.S. Congress itself was rife with conflict. Legislative sessions were routinely punctuated by mortal threats, canings, flipped...
Author
Series
NAEYC volume 372
Publisher
National Association for the Education of Young Children
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"The rapid expansion of screen media in children's lives, along with the widespread prevalence of media-linked marketing to children, can present challenges for early childhood teachers. Teachers need to understand how media culture is affecting children and families and to find effective ways to promote children's healthy development in today's media-saturated environment."--Page 4 of cover.
Publisher
AK Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Pathologized, terrorized, and confined, trans/gender-non-conforming and queer folks have always struggled against the enormity of the prison industrial complex. The first collection of its kind, Eric A. Stanley and Nat Smith bring together current and former prisoners, activists, and academics to offer new ways for understanding how race, gender, ability, and sexuality are lived under the crushing weight of captivity. Through a politic of gender self-determination,...
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