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Youth on Trial: A Developmental Perspective on Juvenile Justice (The John D. and Catherine T. Macarthur Foundation Series on Mental Health aNd Development)
Published in Hardcover by University of Chicago Press (2000)
Authors: Thomas Grisso and Robert G. Schwartz
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Once Again, the Grisso Approach is Most Thoughtful
Read this book. Change the system.

A Valuable Collection
For anyone interested in how courts deal with juvenile crime, and for anyone who thinks there must be a better way, read this book. Drawing upon the simple, yet profound idea that children do not turn into adults on a single day, the authors elaborate on the deficiencies of a legal system that is, in fact, largely based upon just that notion. The chapters help us to envision a legal system that would see adolescent development as a gradual and continuous process, and that would not allow prosecutorial ambition alone to determine which young offenders should be held criminally responsible for their actions.


1999 The Canadian Global Almanac (Serial)
Published in Paperback by Macmillan of Canada (1998)
Author: John Robert Colombo
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Informative and interesting almanac.
I work in a public library and I've found this to be a very useful reference source. A fountain of information on numerous Canadian topics, including the government, the economy, climate, vital statistics and Canadian history. This reference manual also includes concise write-ups on the nations of the world, mini-biographies and information on science, sports and entertainment. It includes black and white illustrations and 16 pages of coloured maps of the world. This book is a great reference tool for any student, but also so full of interesting tidbits that anyone would enjoy having a copy. Very heartily recommended.


Access 97 Essentials Level I
Published in Paperback by Que (1997)
Authors: Robert Ferrett, John Preston, and Sally Preston
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All three books in this series are great!
I had to learn Access for my job, and found this three-volume series. The books were designed for classes, but worked very well on their own. In this first book, all of the basic topics (creating tables, forms, queries, reports, etc.) were introduced using a step-by-step method. The examples were real-life, not some widget company, which really helped. I am not a computer whiz, but I picked up this difficult subject without too much trouble!


Art Directors Annual 81 (Art Directory Annual, 81st Ed)
Published in Hardcover by Rotovision (2003)
Author: Art Directors Club
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All three books in this series are great!
I had to learn Access for my job, and found this three-volume series. The books were designed for classes, but worked very well on their own. This book built on the topics (creating tables, forms, queries, reports, etc.) that were introduced in the first two books, and added some more complex topics. It used a step-by-step method, and the examples were real-life, not some widget company, which really helped. I am not a computer whiz, but I picked up this difficult subject without too much trouble, although some of the topics in this third book took more time to digest than the others!


Footprint Malaysia Handbook (4th Edition)
Published in Paperback by Footprint Handbooks (2002)
Authors: Joshua Eliot, Jane Bickersteth, Anna Barton, and Claire Baggaley
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Alcatraz Screw
This is a great book for anyone interested in what life was like on Alcatraz from an insider's perspective. Mr. Gregory served as a prison guard on Alcatraz and explains in detail the daily routines of the prisoners and guards. He writes very directly about the various jobs he had while there and what life was like. He adds a very human aspect to the people in his book while writing very "matter of factly." I was engaged by the book and did not want to put it down at times. Having read other books on Alcatraz and having been there, this book told me an insider's perspective that I had never felt I'd had before. I recommend it highly to anyone who has even the slightest interest in what Alcatraz was really like.


Expanding the American Dream: Building and Rebuilding Levittown (Suny Series in the New Cultural History)
Published in Paperback by State Univ of New York Pr (1993)
Author: Barbara M. Kelly
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This book showed the real tasks of life!
It was about how two people struggle while in Louisiana City. They move to a bay and thier life is hard at firs. It showed how two people can find their place in life!


Dynamic Training Techniques : How to Prepare and Deliver Dynamic Presentations
Published in Paperback by Whole Person Associates (1998)
Author: Andrew E. Schwartz
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Great book!! All the pertinent information.
This is a well writeen, exhaustively researched book, offering an in-depth survey for anyone from the the hobbyist to the historian.


The Art of John Biggers: View from the Upper Room
Published in Hardcover by Harry N Abrams (1995)
Authors: Alvia J. Wardlaw, John Thomas Biggers, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Robert Farris Thompson, and Alison De Lima Greene
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a beautiful volume on one of this country's finest painters
John Biggers came to artistic maturity in an academic setting far from the art centers of New York. He was repulsed by the New York art scene that had so summarily dismissed black art when he had participated in a MOMA black student art exhibit. Perhaps his avoidance of the centers of art commerce were as responsible for the late acceptance of his genius as was the segregationist mindset in the United States during Biggers's early career. As well as producing important paintings, drawings, and sculpture, Biggers is one of this country's most important muralists, creating more than twenty major murals in fifty years. His life has been dramatic in both content and context. Wardlaw draws a clear portrait of African-American life in the black section of a sharply segregated Gastonia, North Carolina, where Biggers grew up in the 1930s, and the rich family and community life of rural black America of the time. The other essays, written by noted scholars, trace the history of Biggers's artistic career through a careful study and analysis of his body of work.


Japan: A Modern History
Published in Hardcover by W.W. Norton & Company (2001)
Author: James L. McClain
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Everything You Need to Know About Arthritis
The title says it all. Dr. Thompson outlines the test used to DX the inflamatory and non-inflamatory forms of arthritis, signs and symptoms as well as drug therapies, PT and possible surgical procedures that can help patients be as informed as possible. The book is very readable with great laymen explanations and case studies that a patient can identify with.


Atlas of Spine Surgery
Published in Hardcover by W B Saunders (15 January, 1995)
Authors: Robert B., M.D. Winter, John W., M.D. Lonstein, Francis Denis, and Michael Smith
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It is an atlas.
Yes, this book is an atlas, like an atlas must be: with many, many pictures, big pictures (the majority use all size of the page) and a easily text to read. I really recomend. I am sorry by the language, please, corretc before, OK. PS: I don't know if pictures are the correct word, the atlas has colored designs, ok


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