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1201) The lottery
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
Charter school experience for four African American families. In a country where 58% of African American 4th graders are functionally illiterate, The Lottery uncovers the failures of the traditional public school system and reveals that hundreds of thousands of parents attempt to flee the system every year. Follows four of these families from Harlem and the Bronx who have entered their children in a charter school lottery. Out of thousands of hopefuls,...
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
An investigative series of murder cases told through the personal experience of retired detective Lieutenant Joe Kenda. With his personal interviews and compelling storytelling style, Kenda will captivate you with the details of a different investigation each episode from when he got the homicide call to when the case was closed. Unlike other murder re-enactment shows, this series delivers the emotional and psychological effects of a murder on the...
1203) A brilliant madness
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
This tells the story of mathematician John Nash. Called "the most remarkable mathematician of the second half of the century", Nash suffered a devastating breakdown at the age of thirty. He suddenly claimed that aliens were sending him messages, became obsessed with secret numbers and saw conspiracies all around him. Diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, Nash spent a decade in and out of mental hospitals, surviving with the support of his wife and...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
In the middle of the night, they are vanished. Each year thousands of young adults deemed out of control--suffering from depression, addiction, anxiety, and rage--are carted off against their will to remote wilderness programs and treatment facilities across the country. Desperate parents of these "troubled teens" fear it's their only option. The private, largely unregulated behavioral boot camps break their children down, a damnation the children...
1206) Life after life
Pub. Date
c1992
Description
Raymond A. Moody, Jr. interviews six people who have survived near-death experiences.
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
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Description
"On an average day in America, seven young people aged nineteen or under will be shot dead. In Another Day in the Death of America, award-winning Guardian journalist Gary Younge tells the stories of the lives lost during the course of a single day in the United States. It could have been any day, but Younge has chosen November 23, 2013. From Jaiden Dixon (9), shot point-blank by his mother's ex-boyfriend on his doorstep in Ohio, to Pedro Dado Cortez...
1209) Making change stick
Series
Pub. Date
©2008.
Description
See how leading managements experts weigh in on many crucial questions and find answers to your toughest challenges in this collection of the most popular Harvard business review cases.
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"Perfect for newcomers and hardened crime junkies alike, The True Crime File is an impulse gift book designed to deliver the mixed pleasures of true crime across more than 200 stories of mayhem, madness, and survival. Adapted from the perennially popular A Year of True Crime Page-A-Day® Calendar, here is a full celebration of the genre, more than 400 pages packed with tales of slashers and serial killers, grifters and con men, dogged investigators...