In 2003, when Terrence Graham was sixteen, he and three other teens attempted to rob a barbeque restaurant in Jacksonville, Florida. Though they left with no money, and no one was seriously injured, Terrence was sentenced to die in prison for his involvement in that crime.As shocking as Terrence's sentence sounds, it is merely a symptom of contemporary American juvenile justice practices. In the United States, adolescents are routinely transferred out of juvenile court and into adult criminal court without any judicial oversight. Once in adult court, children can be sentenced without regard for their youth. Juveniles are housed in adult correctional facilities, they may be held in solitary confinement, and they experience the highest rates of sexual and physical assault among inmates.
Oxford University Press
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9780190605551
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Hardcover
Master The Mechanical Aptitude and Spatial Relations Test
By Peterson's,
Master the Mechanical Aptitude & Spatial Relations Tests provides the key to test-prep success on exams measuring spatial relations, symbol reasoning, and mechnical aptitude for training and employment opportunities in the military, civil service, technical schools, and private industry. Featuring practice questions covering all major exam topics-including hidden figures, tool knowledge, and mechanical insight-with overviews of concepts that appear on mechanical aptitude/spatial relations exams, such as visual-motor coordination and pattern analysis. The book also includes detailed subject reviews, along with charts and diagrams to illustrate answers.
Peterson''''s; 7 edition
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9780768928631
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Paperback
GRE Prep 2018
By Kaplan.,
GRE Prep 2018 is an online and book prep system that covers the essentials of the GRE to help you score higher on Test Day. You'll get one-year access to an online center with realistic practice tests to help you score higher on the GRE. GRE Prep 2018 features: * Full-length practice tests * 650 questions with detailed explanations including brand new questions for this edition * New! More in-book practice questions * Academic support from Kaplan faculty via our Facebook page: facebook.com/KaplanGradPrep * Strategies and practice sets for all GRE question types Kaplan guarantees that if you study with our online resources and book, you will score higher on the GRE - or you'll receive a full refund. Also available: GRE Prep Plus 2018
Kaplan Publishing
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9781506220383
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Paperback
CLEP Official Study Guide 2018
By Board., College
Like The Official SAT Study Guide, this is the only official study guide for CLEP, developed and published by the test makers. The book has remained the most popular study aid for CLEP exams. Interest in CLEP is high among graduating high school students, adults returning to college, homeschool students and those in online degree programs, active-duty military personnel and military veterans.
COLLEGE BOARD
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9781457309298
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Paperback
More Storytime Magic
By Macmillan, Kathy
MacMillian and Kirker's knack for creating storytimes that engage and delight young ones have made their previous books bestsellers. Now they're back with an all new assortment of original fingerplays, transitional rhymes, movement songs, flannelboards, sign language rhymes and other activities to spice up storytimes for ages two and up. This ready-to-go sourcebook for children's librarians, early literacy specialists, and other adults who work with young children offers everything needed to plan and host quality storytimes, includingmore than a dozen thematic groupings of activities, featuring such fun topics such as All About Me, Bugs and Insects, Fairy Tales and Castles, and People in my Neighborhood ; recommended storytime books for each theme, along with material lists, patterns for flannelboards and stick puppets, and illustrations of American Sign Language signs; andcoding for each entry indicating which Common Core State Standards for Kindergarten skills it supports.
ALA Editions, an imprint of the American Library Association, 2016.
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9780838913680
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Print book
Our Bodies, Our Data
By Tanner, Adam
How the hidden trade in our sensitive medical information became a multibillion-dollar business, but has done little to improve our health-care outcomesHidden from consumers, patient medical data has become a multibillion-dollar worldwide trade between our health-care providers, drug companies, and a complex web of middlemen. This great medical-data bazaar sells copies of our prescriptions, hospital records, insurance claims, blood-test results, and more, stripped of names but still containing identifiers such as year of birth, gender, and doctor's name. As computing grows ever more sophisticated, these patient dossiers are increasingly vulnerable to re-identification, which could make them a target for identity thieves or hackers.Paradoxically, comprehensive electronic files for patient treatment - a key reason medical data exists in the first place - remain an elusive goal. Even today, patients and their doctors rarely have easy access to full records that could improve care. In the evolution of medical data, the instinct for profit has outstripped patient needs. This book reveals the previously hidden story of how such a system evolved internationally.This investigative narrative seeks to spark debate on how we can best balance the promise big data offers to advance medicine and improve lives, while preserving the rights and interests of every patients. We, the patients, deserve a say in this discussion. After all, it's our data.
Beacon Press
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9780807033340
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Print book
Nolo's Essential Guide to Child Custody and Support
By Doskow, Emily
Custody and Support: Get the Answers You Need When you're getting divorced, you can make a tough time easier for your children (and yourself) if you work with the other parent to agree on a custody plan and child support. If you can't resolve these issues, you'll have to head to court, and ask a judge to step in. Either way, Nolo's Essential Guide to Child Custody & Support can help. You'll learn: how negotiation and mediation can keep costs down and improve future dealings with your ex where to find your state's child support guidelines how judges make custody decisions how to enforce and change custody and support orders how court trials work what military families need to know, and when you need a lawyer and how to work with one. You'll also find specifics about each state's laws, including what factors courts consider when they rule on custody arrangements and what happens when one parent wants to move away with the children.
NOLO
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9781413324341
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Paperback
Saunders 2016-2017 Strategies for Test Success
By Silvestri, Linda Anne
Take the anxiety out of taking any nursing test with Saunders 2016-2017 Strategies for Test Success: Passing Nursing School and the NCLEX Exam, 4th Edition. Written by the most trusted expert in NCLEX prep, Linda Silvestri, and updated to reflect the most current NCLEX test plans, this invaluable guide covers key topics like time management, critical thinking, and problem solving, with tips to help you overcome test anxiety and develop effective study habits. Learn how to confidently evaluate and identify the correct answer for a variety of test question types, including alternate item formats, with chapters on preparing for nursing exams, prioritization methods, and pharmacology questions, and practice your skills and gain realistic test-taking experience with the book and Evolve site's 1,200 practice questions.
Elsevier,
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9780323296618
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Print book
Henry D. Thoreau Journal, Volume 1
By Thoreau, Henry David
This first volume of the Journal covers the early years of Thoreau's rapid intellectual and artistic growth. The Journal reflects his reading, travels, and contacts with Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, and other Transcendentalists. With characteristic reticence, Thoreau mentions only a few episodes in his emotional history: an ill-fated romance, the death of his elder brother, and an unhappy sojourn on Staten Island, where he tried to write for New York periodicals. Parts of Thoreau's Journal have been published, but always with large omissions of text and with considerable grooming of its erratic manuscript style. This edition presents the entire surviving manuscript in a text preserving Thoreau's words as he originally wrote them.
Princeton University Press
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9780691063614
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Hardcover
The Best 384 Colleges, 2019 Edition
By Review., Princeton
*****As seen on the TODAY SHOW!*****NO ONE KNOWS COLLEGES LIKE THE PRINCETON REVIEW! The Princeton Review's college rankings started in 1992 with surveys from 30,000 students. Over 25 years and more than a million student surveys later, we stand by our claim that there is no single "best" college, only the best college for you ... and that this is the book that will help you find it!What Makes THE BEST 384 COLLEGES the Most Popular College GuideSTRAIGHT FROM STUDENTS TO YOU 384 in-depth school profiles based on candid feedback from 138,000 students, covering academics, administration, campus life, and financial aid Insights on unique college character, social scene, and moreRANKING LISTS & RATINGS SCORES Lists of the top 20 colleges in 62 categories based on students' opinions of academics, campus life, facilities, and much more Ratings for every school on Financial Aid, Selectivity, and Quality of LifeDETAILED ADMISSIONS INFORMATION The "Inside Word" on competitive applications, test scores, tuition, and average indebtedness Comprehensive information on selectivity, freshman profiles, and application deadlines at each schoolPlus! Free access to 2 full-length practice tests online (1 SAT and 1 ACT) to help you prep for the important admissions-exams part of your admissions journey.
The War on Kids
By Drinan, Cara H
In 2003, when Terrence Graham was sixteen, he and three other teens attempted to rob a barbeque restaurant in Jacksonville, Florida. Though they left with no money, and no one was seriously injured, Terrence was sentenced to die in prison for his involvement in that crime.As shocking as Terrence's sentence sounds, it is merely a symptom of contemporary American juvenile justice practices. In the United States, adolescents are routinely transferred out of juvenile court and into adult criminal court without any judicial oversight. Once in adult court, children can be sentenced without regard for their youth. Juveniles are housed in adult correctional facilities, they may be held in solitary confinement, and they experience the highest rates of sexual and physical assault among inmates.
Master The Mechanical Aptitude and Spatial Relations Test
By Peterson's,
Master the Mechanical Aptitude & Spatial Relations Tests provides the key to test-prep success on exams measuring spatial relations, symbol reasoning, and mechnical aptitude for training and employment opportunities in the military, civil service, technical schools, and private industry. Featuring practice questions covering all major exam topics-including hidden figures, tool knowledge, and mechanical insight-with overviews of concepts that appear on mechanical aptitude/spatial relations exams, such as visual-motor coordination and pattern analysis. The book also includes detailed subject reviews, along with charts and diagrams to illustrate answers.
GRE Prep 2018
By Kaplan.,
GRE Prep 2018 is an online and book prep system that covers the essentials of the GRE to help you score higher on Test Day. You'll get one-year access to an online center with realistic practice tests to help you score higher on the GRE. GRE Prep 2018 features: * Full-length practice tests * 650 questions with detailed explanations including brand new questions for this edition * New! More in-book practice questions * Academic support from Kaplan faculty via our Facebook page: facebook.com/KaplanGradPrep * Strategies and practice sets for all GRE question types Kaplan guarantees that if you study with our online resources and book, you will score higher on the GRE - or you'll receive a full refund. Also available: GRE Prep Plus 2018
CLEP Official Study Guide 2018
By Board., College
Like The Official SAT Study Guide, this is the only official study guide for CLEP, developed and published by the test makers. The book has remained the most popular study aid for CLEP exams. Interest in CLEP is high among graduating high school students, adults returning to college, homeschool students and those in online degree programs, active-duty military personnel and military veterans.
More Storytime Magic
By Macmillan, Kathy
MacMillian and Kirker's knack for creating storytimes that engage and delight young ones have made their previous books bestsellers. Now they're back with an all new assortment of original fingerplays, transitional rhymes, movement songs, flannelboards, sign language rhymes and other activities to spice up storytimes for ages two and up. This ready-to-go sourcebook for children's librarians, early literacy specialists, and other adults who work with young children offers everything needed to plan and host quality storytimes, includingmore than a dozen thematic groupings of activities, featuring such fun topics such as All About Me, Bugs and Insects, Fairy Tales and Castles, and People in my Neighborhood ; recommended storytime books for each theme, along with material lists, patterns for flannelboards and stick puppets, and illustrations of American Sign Language signs; andcoding for each entry indicating which Common Core State Standards for Kindergarten skills it supports.
Our Bodies, Our Data
By Tanner, Adam
How the hidden trade in our sensitive medical information became a multibillion-dollar business, but has done little to improve our health-care outcomesHidden from consumers, patient medical data has become a multibillion-dollar worldwide trade between our health-care providers, drug companies, and a complex web of middlemen. This great medical-data bazaar sells copies of our prescriptions, hospital records, insurance claims, blood-test results, and more, stripped of names but still containing identifiers such as year of birth, gender, and doctor's name. As computing grows ever more sophisticated, these patient dossiers are increasingly vulnerable to re-identification, which could make them a target for identity thieves or hackers.Paradoxically, comprehensive electronic files for patient treatment - a key reason medical data exists in the first place - remain an elusive goal. Even today, patients and their doctors rarely have easy access to full records that could improve care. In the evolution of medical data, the instinct for profit has outstripped patient needs. This book reveals the previously hidden story of how such a system evolved internationally.This investigative narrative seeks to spark debate on how we can best balance the promise big data offers to advance medicine and improve lives, while preserving the rights and interests of every patients. We, the patients, deserve a say in this discussion. After all, it's our data.
Nolo's Essential Guide to Child Custody and Support
By Doskow, Emily
Custody and Support: Get the Answers You Need When you're getting divorced, you can make a tough time easier for your children (and yourself) if you work with the other parent to agree on a custody plan and child support. If you can't resolve these issues, you'll have to head to court, and ask a judge to step in. Either way, Nolo's Essential Guide to Child Custody & Support can help. You'll learn: how negotiation and mediation can keep costs down and improve future dealings with your ex where to find your state's child support guidelines how judges make custody decisions how to enforce and change custody and support orders how court trials work what military families need to know, and when you need a lawyer and how to work with one. You'll also find specifics about each state's laws, including what factors courts consider when they rule on custody arrangements and what happens when one parent wants to move away with the children.
Saunders 2016-2017 Strategies for Test Success
By Silvestri, Linda Anne
Take the anxiety out of taking any nursing test with Saunders 2016-2017 Strategies for Test Success: Passing Nursing School and the NCLEX Exam, 4th Edition. Written by the most trusted expert in NCLEX prep, Linda Silvestri, and updated to reflect the most current NCLEX test plans, this invaluable guide covers key topics like time management, critical thinking, and problem solving, with tips to help you overcome test anxiety and develop effective study habits. Learn how to confidently evaluate and identify the correct answer for a variety of test question types, including alternate item formats, with chapters on preparing for nursing exams, prioritization methods, and pharmacology questions, and practice your skills and gain realistic test-taking experience with the book and Evolve site's 1,200 practice questions.
Henry D. Thoreau Journal, Volume 1
By Thoreau, Henry David
This first volume of the Journal covers the early years of Thoreau's rapid intellectual and artistic growth. The Journal reflects his reading, travels, and contacts with Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, and other Transcendentalists. With characteristic reticence, Thoreau mentions only a few episodes in his emotional history: an ill-fated romance, the death of his elder brother, and an unhappy sojourn on Staten Island, where he tried to write for New York periodicals. Parts of Thoreau's Journal have been published, but always with large omissions of text and with considerable grooming of its erratic manuscript style. This edition presents the entire surviving manuscript in a text preserving Thoreau's words as he originally wrote them.
The Best 384 Colleges, 2019 Edition
By Review., Princeton
*****As seen on the TODAY SHOW!*****NO ONE KNOWS COLLEGES LIKE THE PRINCETON REVIEW! The Princeton Review's college rankings started in 1992 with surveys from 30,000 students. Over 25 years and more than a million student surveys later, we stand by our claim that there is no single "best" college, only the best college for you ... and that this is the book that will help you find it!What Makes THE BEST 384 COLLEGES the Most Popular College GuideSTRAIGHT FROM STUDENTS TO YOU 384 in-depth school profiles based on candid feedback from 138,000 students, covering academics, administration, campus life, and financial aid Insights on unique college character, social scene, and moreRANKING LISTS & RATINGS SCORES Lists of the top 20 colleges in 62 categories based on students' opinions of academics, campus life, facilities, and much more Ratings for every school on Financial Aid, Selectivity, and Quality of LifeDETAILED ADMISSIONS INFORMATION The "Inside Word" on competitive applications, test scores, tuition, and average indebtedness Comprehensive information on selectivity, freshman profiles, and application deadlines at each schoolPlus! Free access to 2 full-length practice tests online (1 SAT and 1 ACT) to help you prep for the important admissions-exams part of your admissions journey.