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Book The Stickup Kids

    Book Details:
  • Author : Randol Contreras
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2013
  • ISBN : 0520273370
  • Pages : 302 pages

Download or read book The Stickup Kids written by Randol Contreras and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Randol Contreras came of age in the South Bronx during the 1980s, a time when the community was devastated by cuts in social services, a rise in arson and abandonment, and the rise of crack-cocaine. For this riveting book, he returns to the South Bronx with a sociological eye and provides an unprecedented insiderÕs look at the workings of a group of Dominican drug robbers. Known on the streets as ÒStickup Kids,Ó these men raided and brutally tortured drug dealers storing large amounts of heroin, cocaine, marijuana, and cash. As a participant observer, Randol Contreras offers both a personal and theoretical account for the rise of the Stickup Kids and their violence. He mainly focuses on the lives of neighborhood friends, who went from being crack dealers to drug robbers once their lucrative crack market opportunities disappeared. The result is a stunning, vivid, on-the-ground ethnographic description of a drug robberyÕs violence, the drug market high life, the criminal life course, and the eventual pain and suffering experienced by the casualties of the Crack Era. Provocative and eye-opening, The Stickup Kids urges us to explore the ravages of the drug trade through weaving history, biography, social structure, and drug market forces. It offers a revelatory explanation for drug market violence by masterfully uncovering the hidden social forces that produce violent and self-destructive individuals. Part memoir, part penetrating analysis, this book is engaging, personal, deeply informed, and entirely absorbing.

Book Cracking the AP Spanish Exam

Download or read book Cracking the AP Spanish Exam written by Mary Leech and published by Princeton Review. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides techniques for achieving high scores on the AP Spanish exam and offers two sample tests with answers and explanations.

Book The Book on Rental Property Investing

Download or read book The Book on Rental Property Investing written by Brandon Turner and published by Biggerpockets Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2015-10-28 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With more than 350,000 units sold worldwide, this fan-favorite will show you every strategy, tool, tip, and technique you need to become a millionaire rental property investor.

Book Sales Management

Download or read book Sales Management written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 1034 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Glovers Review

Download or read book The Glovers Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Advertising and Selling

Download or read book Advertising and Selling written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 1288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Spanish Ballads

Download or read book The Spanish Ballads written by and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Frank Leslie s Illustrated Newspaper

Download or read book Frank Leslie s Illustrated Newspaper written by John Albert Sleicher and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Spanish Legendary Tales

Download or read book Spanish Legendary Tales written by Maria Trinidad Howard Middlemore and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Spanish Life in Town and Country

Download or read book Spanish Life in Town and Country written by L. Higgin and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-19 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was produced at the turn of the nineteenth century, when Spain was beginning to become a travel destination for those of means, and was increasingly cosmopolitan. Ms. Higgins describes many aspects of Spanish life and landscape, particularly the flowers of Madrid.

Book Tree of Freedom

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rebecca Caudill
  • Publisher : Open Road Media
  • Release : 2015-12-01
  • ISBN : 1504025172
  • Pages : 141 pages

Download or read book Tree of Freedom written by Rebecca Caudill and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Newbery Honor Book: During the Revolutionary War, a courageous pioneer girl fights for freedom When thirteen-year-old Stephanie Venable moves with her family from North Carolina to a four-hundred-acre homestead in Kentucky, she knows they’re in for a great adventure. The family sells whatever belongings they can’t fit in their covered wagon, and begin the long journey west. But Stephanie has brought something special with her, an apple seed from their tree back home, just as her grandmother did when she moved from France to America. In Kentucky, the Venables must fell trees, build a cabin, and prepare the land for crops. Being a pioneer is a lot of work, but it’s also very exciting: Stephanie and her family must grow, catch, or hunt everything they need to eat and survive. With the Revolutionary War also moving west, the family faces threats from British sympathizers and American rebels. Will freedom take root in America, like Stephanie’s young apple tree, or will the Venable family succumb to the hardships of frontier life?

Book Norfolk and Western Magazine

Download or read book Norfolk and Western Magazine written by Norfolk and Western Railway Company and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Robert Rodriguez

Download or read book Robert Rodriguez written by Zachary Ingle and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2012-03-09 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of interviews with Robert Rodriguez that discuss his life and filmmaking career.

Book Spanish Documents concerning English Voyages to the Caribbean 1527 1568

Download or read book Spanish Documents concerning English Voyages to the Caribbean 1527 1568 written by Irene A. Wright and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In English translation. For further documents, see Second Series 71, 99 and 111. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1929. Owing to technical constraints it has not been possible to reproduce the "Portion of a map by Diego Homem showing Central America and the West Indies, 1568" which appeared in the first edition of the work.

Book The Contemporary Review

Download or read book The Contemporary Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: