Homie

• Author : Danez Smith
• Publisher : Random House
• Release : 20 February 2020

'A deeply personal collection... and provocative and moving meditation on friendship, sex and blackness,' Guardian 'In its cutting compassion, Homie is as much a celebration of loved ones' lives as it is a lament for their loss, equally a war cry for kinship and the burial dirge after the battle' Amanda Gorman A mighty anthem about the saving grace of friendship, Danez Smith's highly anticipated collection Homie is rooted in their search for joy and intimacy in a time

• Author : Alex Garcia
• Publisher : AuthorHouse
• Release : 26 April 2020

My Califa’s Rehab Rangers booking number is YA-65544; I will never forget it. This is a first-hand narration of growing in the 1980’s and 1990’s around criminally infested streets of Los Diablos County, Califas. This autobiography describes a gang initiation, drug involvement, and twenty years of arrests for various low-level non-violent crimes. It is an adventurous entourage through police precincts and juvenile hall institutions leading to Los Diablos’ dreadful Twin Titans Corrective Facilities, including Califa’s Rehab Rangers. Eventually,

• Author : Donnie Baker
• Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
• Release : 25 July 2021

The Big Homie is a boss who owns the city of Chicago.

• Author : Florian Grisel
• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
• Release : 09 September 2021

Is there a future for the law? In this book, Florian Grisel addresses one of the most fascinating questions raised by social scientists in the past few decades. Since the 1980s, socio-legal scholars have argued that governance based on social norms (or “private governance”) can offer an alternative to regulation by the law. On this account, private governance could be socially efficient and even optimal compared with other modes of governance. The Limits of Private Governance supplements this optimistic analysis

• Author : Robert Brenneman
• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• Release : 28 November 2011

Using the tools of sociological theory, Robert Brenneman seeks to discover why a pot-smoking, gun-wielding "homie" gang member would want to trade in la vida loca for a Bible and the buttoned-down lifestyle of an evangelical hermano (brother in Christ) - and to what extent this strategy works for the many youth who have tried it.

• Author : Clifford "Gwalla" Evans
• Publisher : Page Publishing, Inc
• Release : 13 November 2020

This world is not a world where the lowest can live through easily. It’s needless this young man was born into it at its lowest point in New Orleans, Louisiana, where only the strong survived who were trained to murder the people closest to them as if it was common law for the good to die young. Growing up, he learned to stand his ground, and he did it alone. Year after year, the void in his heart became

• Author : Karin Esterhammer
• Publisher : Prospect Park Books
• Release : 19 June 2017

After job losses and the housing crash, the author and her family leave LA to start over in a most unlikely place: a 9-foot-wide back-alley house in one of Ho Chi Minh City's poorest districts, where neighbors unabashedly stare into windows, generously share their barbecued rat, keep cockroaches for luck, and ultimately help her find joy without Western trappings.

• Author : C.J. Smooth
• Publisher : iUniverse
• Release : 24 October 2012

The saga continues as the King Family faced with turmoil must return to their old school ways for the new school rules, neither Mr. King or Mrs. King can except such a loss, by all means they are going to make sure that they will not lose their only son they have left to the same streets that have claimed two of their sons lives already, they show the new school why rules exist in the first place. However, their

• Author : Michael Sims
• Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
• Release : 07 January 2022

The book is a compelling story of how Michael Sims reformed and redeemed himself from the violent life as a notorious gang member. He turned his life around and has become a passionate activist against violence. This book is his way of reaching out to the younger generation, to transform their anger and aggression into positive energy.

• Author : BradyGames
• Publisher : Dorling Kindersley Ltd
• Release : 23 August 2013

The Saints are once again thrust into the limelight, only this time they aren't viewed as criminals. The leader of the Saints ran for office and won! Now the President of the United States, he must help stop an alien invasion for ruining the world. This strategy guide contains all the strategy, tips and hints needed to send the aliens packing to their home planet. You'll find: *Comprehensive Walkthrough *Boss Fight Strategy *All Collectibles Revealed *Locate Every Important Item

• Author : Fred Kabogoza
• Publisher : Lulu.com
• Release : 23 May 2022

• Author : Nellie Bly
• Publisher : Read Books Ltd
• Release : 06 May 2021

First published in 1890, “Around the World in Seventy-Two Days” is a chronicle of Elizabeth Seaman's record-breaking trip around the world in the footsteps of Jules Verne's fictional character Phileas Fogg. A fantastic real-life adventure tale highly recommended for those with an interest in travel writing and journalism in general. Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman (1864–1922), also known as Nellie Bly, was an American industrialist, journalist, charity worker, and inventor. Together with her famous trip, she is also remembered for feigning insanity in order

• Author : Warren R. Braden
• Publisher : Educational Studies Press
• Release : 23 May 1998

HOMIES is a study of a group of African-American men from the west side of Chicago known as "homies." This study explains the communication & bonding between these men. It exposes the social contribution of their alternative reality & explores its rationality. Information gathered from about 20 homies describes two differing homie cultures: "book smart" & "street smart." Additionally, four themes emerge in this study: 1) "I am who you're not--the culture that gets defined becomes the one that is controlled; 2) "The 'hood' is my

• Author : Jillian Hogan,Lois Hetland,Diane B. Jaquith,Ellen Winner
• Publisher : Teachers College Press
• Release : 24 August 2018

Students of all ages can learn to think like artists! Studio Thinking: The Real Benefits of Visual Arts Education changed the conversation about quality arts education. Now, a decade later, this new publication shows how the eight Studio Habits of Mind and four Studio Structures can be used successfully with younger students in a range of socioeconomic contexts and school environments. Book Features: habit-by-habit definitions, classroom examples, and related visual artist exempliars emphasizing contemporary artists; full colour mini-posters teachers can

• Author : Nellie Bly,August Nemo
• Publisher : Tacet Books
• Release : 09 May 2020

Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of Nellie Bly which are Ten Days in a Mad-House and Around the World in Seventy-Two Days. Nellie Bly was known for her pioneering journalism, including her 1887 exposé on the conditions of asylum patients at Blackwell's Island in New York City and her report of