"Murder, Inc. and the Moral Life: Gangsters and Gangbusters in La Guardia's New York tells the story of the notorious 1930s Brooklyn gang nicknamed "Murder, Inc." Murder, Inc. is as well an extended moral reflection on the phenomenon of gangsters in general and the Murder, Inc. gang in particular"--

When Achilles Conroy and his brother Troy return from a tour of duty in Afghanistan, their white mother presents them with the key to their past: envelopes containing details about their respective birth parents. After Troy disappears, Achilles--always his brother's keeper--embarks on a harrowing journey in search of Troy, an experience that will change him forever. Heartbreaking, intimate, and at times disturbing, Hold It 'Til It Hurts is a modern-day...

"A behind-the-scenes look at three decades of planning and politics for the new Tappan Zee Bridge reveals essential lessons for those interested in tackling complex public policy problems, yet it will also confirm your worst fears about governmental dysfunction. The New York metropolitan area abandoned viable options, squandered hundreds of millions of dollars, forfeited more than three billion dollars in federal funds, and missed out on important...

In You and Yours, Naomi Shihab Nye continues her conversation with ordinary people whose lives become, through her empathetic use of poetic language, extraordinary. Nye writes of local life in her inner-city Texas neighborhood, about rural schools and urban communities she's visited in this country, as well as the daily rituals of Jews and Palestinians who live in the war-torn Middle East. The DayI missed the day on which it was said others should...

"A bold call for the American Left to extend their politics to the issues of Israel-Palestine, from a New York Times bestselling author and experts on U.S. policy in the region"--

Fallseminar Soziale Arbeit. Im dualen Bachelor-Studiengang Sozialwirtschaft an der Dualen Hochschule Baden-Württemberg in Villingen-Schwenningen im abschließenden sechsten Semester angesiedelt bietet das Fallseminar auf fachlicher und didaktischer Ebene vielfältige Möglichkeiten, Theorie und Praxis sozialpädagogischen Arbeitens miteinander in Verbindung zu bringen. Wer in der Fallarbeit professionell tätig sein möchte, ist auf Orientierungshilfen...

To mark his 20th anniversary at the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, David Allen goes back to the beginning to survey his first four years of columns, when the valley was new territory for him. After unpacking endlessly, he reports for jury duty in Chino, attends a Mexican wrestling match in Pomona and pays attention to movie dialogue about Rancho Cucamonga.Not limiting himself to local news, he wonders what a Rolling Stones tour in the distant future...

Regional issues are increasingly debated across the social sciences. In an age of globalization, the region has come to matter perhaps more than before. In business, companies orient themselves to engage in regional environments to build capabilities and create critical mass in their vicinity. In the world of policy, almost one-third of the EU budget is spent on regional policy. Yet in spite of this the differences between regions that do well and...

Los autores destacan que los enfoques sobre el transporte urbano han sufrido grandes e importantes evoluciones en los últimos años. Desde las aproximaciones originales, orientadas técnicamente al estudio de la demanda y de sus formas de satisfacerla hasta los complementos que les han otorgado un carácter diferente, como los aspectos energéticos y medioambientales. Reconocen que se hacen evidentes cuestiones como el potencial agotamiento de los...

Están quienes creen que los gobiernos progresistas de principios del siglo XXI en América Latina representaron un avance socioeconómico indiscutible para masas de personas postergadas por décadas. Otros, por el contrario, están convencidos de que esos gobiernos fueron la concreción de un "populismo" que condenó a la región al atraso, la prebenda y la demagogia. Este libro, necesario y revelador, viene a llenar con datos y análisis los vacíos...