An eye-opening account of the transformation of cities and an urgent call to action to prevent another crime wave.Over the past two decades, American cities have experienced an astonishing drop in violent crime, dramatically changing urban life. In many cases, places once characterized by decay and abandonment are now thriving, the fear of death by gunshot wound replaced by concern about skyrocketing rents.In 2014, most U.S. cities were safer than they had ever been in the history of recorded statistics on crime. Patrick Sharkey reveals the striking consequences: improved school test scores, since children are better able to learn when not traumatized by nearby violence; better chances that poor children will rise into the middle class; and a striking increase in the life expectancy of African American men.Sharkey also delineates the combination of forces, some positive and some negative, that brought about safer streets, from aggressive policing and mass incarceration to the intensive efforts made by local organizations to confront violence in their own communities.From New York's Harlem neighborhood to South Los Angeles, Sharkey draws on original data and textured accounts of neighborhoods across the country to document the most successful proven strategies for combatting violent crime and to lay out innovative and necessary approaches to the problem of violence. At a time when crime is rising again and powerful political forces seek to disinvest in cities, the insights in this book are indispensable.
W. W. Norton & Company
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9780393609608
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Hardcover
NCLEX-RN Prep 2018
By Nursing, Kaplan
The NCLEX-RN exam is not just about what you know - it's about how you think. Kaplan's NCLEX-RN Prep 2018 uses expert critical thinking strategies and targeted sample questions to help you put your expertise into practice and ace the exam! The NCLEX-RN exam tests how you'll apply the medical knowledge you've gained in real-life situations. In NCLEX-RN Prep 2018, Kaplan's all-star nursing faculty teaches you 10 critical thinking pathways to help you think like a nurse. Eight chapters end with practice sets to help you put critical thinking principles into action. Proven Strategies. Realistic Practice. * 10 critical thinking pathways to break down what exam questions are asking * 8 end-of-chapter practice sets to help you put critical thinking principles into action * Full-length practice test * Detailed rationales for all answer choices, correct and incorrect * Techniques for mastering the computer adaptive test format Expert Guidance * In-depth content review, organized along the exam's "Client Needs" framework * Kaplan's Learning Engineers and expert psychometricians ensure our practice questions and study materials are true to the test.
Kaplan Publishing
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9781506233321
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Paperback
NAPLEX Prep 2018
By Cde, Amie Brooks Pharm.d. Bcps
Kaplan's NAPLEX Prep 2018 is your step-by-step guide to scoring higher on the North American Pharmacist Licensure Examination. Now fully updated to match the test change, this edition is distilled to high-yield content for improved portability. Essential Content. Realistic Practice. * Smaller print book with only high-yield topics for improved portability * Comes with a digital book of expanded content, including disease definition, diagnosis, signs/symptoms, and pearls * 200 comprehensive, up-to-date tables summarizing must-know drugs at a glance in print and online * 2 exam-like online practice tests, each with 250 questions * 27 practice question sets reviewing chapter content Expert Guidance * Exclusive test-taking and study strategies that optimize your preparation * Kaplan's Learning Engineers and expert psychometricians ensure our practice questions and study materials are true to the test.
Revised and updated to reflect current exams, this manual prepares police officers to take any of the various exams given throughout the country that qualify applicants for promotion to the rank and responsibilities of police sergeant. A diagnostic test and three full-length practice exams, along with practice review quizzes and police assessment exercises, are presented with fully explained answers. Subject review sections cover data analysis, police science, and community policing programs. Added in this edition are revised test-taking strategies and strategies for taking tests presented on video, a review in outline form of the police role in Universal Emergency Management, and related multiple-choice questions with fully explained answers.
Barron's Educational Series
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9781438010984
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Paperback
HiSET Power Practice
By Editors, Learning Express
Earning a high school equivalency degree is essential if you want to pursue a career or attend college. The HiSET, a more affordable and accessible alternative to the GED Test, is gaining popularity nationwide.This guide provides access to FIVE full-length practice tests that mirror the HiSET exam. Practice is the best preparation for standardized tests--in this book, test-takers can work through Reading, Writing, Science, Social Studies, and Mathematics questions and learn from detailed answer explanations. It's the most powerful and test-like preparation available!
Learning Express (NY)
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9781611030662
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Print book
Separate
By Luxenberg, Steve
A myth-shattering narrative of how a nation embraced "separation" and its pernicious consequences.Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court case synonymous with "separate but equal," created remarkably little stir when the justices announced their near-unanimous decision on May 18, 1896. Yet it is one of the most compelling and dramatic stories of the nineteenth century, whose outcome embraced and protected segregation, and whose reverberations are still felt into the twenty-first.Separate spans a striking range of characters and landscapes, bound together by the defining issue of their time and ours -- race and equality. Wending its way through a half-century of American history, the narrative begins at the dawn of the railroad age, in the North, home to the nation's first separate railroad car, then moves briskly through slavery and the Civil War to Reconstruction and its aftermath, as separation took root in nearly every aspect of American life.Award-winning author Steve Luxenberg draws from letters, diaries, and archival collections to tell the story of Plessy v. Ferguson through the eyes of the people caught up in the case. Separate depicts indelible figures such as the resisters from the mixed-race community of French New Orleans, led by Louis Martinet, a lawyer and crusading newspaper editor; Homer Plessy's lawyer, Albion Tourge, a best-selling author and the country's best-known white advocate for civil rights; Justice Henry Billings Brown, from antislavery New England, whose majority ruling endorsed separation; and Justice John Harlan, the Southerner from a slaveholding family whose singular dissent cemented his reputation as a steadfast voice for justice.Sweeping, swiftly paced, and richly detailed, Separate provides a fresh and urgently-needed exploration of our nation's most devastating divide. 22 black and white photographs
W. W. Norton & Company
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9780393239379
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Hardcover
GRE Prep 2020
By Prep, Kaplan Test
Kaplan's GRE Prep 2020 guides you through your GRE prep step by step - study Kaplan's proven strategies, boost your math skills, practice your pacing, and become an expert in the exam's computerized format with an online practice test.Kaplan is so certain that GRE Prep 2020 offers all the knowledge you need to excel at the GRE, that we guarantee it: After studying with the online resources and book, you'll score higher on the GRE - or you'll get your money back.The Best PracticeOne full-length online practice test helps you practice in the same computer-based format you'll see on Test Day.One additional brand-new full-length practice test included in the book for easier reference and review.More than 650 questions with detailed explanations, including new questions for this edition.Personalize your study plan with the individual performance summary you'll receive after each test.Chapters on each GRE question type and math skill, with practice sets for each.Questions have been reviewed, revised and updated by Kaplan's all-star expert faculty.Expert GuidancePurchase of GRE Prep 2020 comes with one-on-one academic support from Kaplan faculty via our Facebook page: facebook.com/KaplanGradPrepWe know the test: The Kaplan team has spent years studying every GRE-related document available.Kaplan's expert psychometricians ensure our practice questions and study materials are true to the test.We invented test prep - Kaplan (www.kaptest.com) has been helping students for almost 80 years. Our proven strategies have helped legions of students achieve their dreams.Want additional video lessons, more practice tests, mobile study options, and extra online practice? Try GRE Prep Plus 2020.
Kaplan Publishing
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9781506248905
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Paperback
It's Complicated
By Boyd, Danah
An essential read, written by a leading expert, for anyone who wants to understand young people's use of social media What is new about how teenagers communicate through services such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram? Do social media affect the quality of teens' lives? In this eye-opening book, youth culture and technology expert danah boyd uncovers some of the major myths regarding teens' use of social media. She explores tropes about identity, privacy, safety, danger, and bullying. Ultimately, boyd argues that society fails young people when paternalism and protectionism hinder teenagers' ability to become informed, thoughtful, and engaged citizens through their online interactions. Yet despite an environment of rampant fear-mongering, boyd finds that teens often find ways to engage and to develop a sense of identity. Boyd's conclusions are essential reading not only for parents, teachers, and others who work with teens but also for anyone interested in the impact of emerging technologies on society, culture, and commerce in years to come. Offering insights gleaned from more than a decade of original fieldwork interviewing teenagers across the United States, boyd concludes reassuringly that the kids are all right. At the same time, she acknowledges that coming to terms with life in a networked era is not easy or obvious. In a technologically mediated world, life is bound to be complicated.
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
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9780300166316
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Hardcover
Essential Words for the GRE, 4th Edition
By M., Phillip Geer Ed.
An extensive working vocabulary is a prerequisite for test-taking success on the Graduate Record Exam. This book presents 800 graduate-level words with definitions that frequently appear on the exam. Words are used in different contexts to familiarize test takers with their many variations. The book's additional features include a pre-test that helps to diagnose weaknesses, a lengthy word list with extensive practice exercises, and a chapter that discusses and analyzes essential word roots. The book concludes with a post-test to assess progress. Answers are provided for all exercises and for all questions in the pre- and post-test.
Uneasy Peace
By Sharkey, Patrick
An eye-opening account of the transformation of cities and an urgent call to action to prevent another crime wave.Over the past two decades, American cities have experienced an astonishing drop in violent crime, dramatically changing urban life. In many cases, places once characterized by decay and abandonment are now thriving, the fear of death by gunshot wound replaced by concern about skyrocketing rents.In 2014, most U.S. cities were safer than they had ever been in the history of recorded statistics on crime. Patrick Sharkey reveals the striking consequences: improved school test scores, since children are better able to learn when not traumatized by nearby violence; better chances that poor children will rise into the middle class; and a striking increase in the life expectancy of African American men.Sharkey also delineates the combination of forces, some positive and some negative, that brought about safer streets, from aggressive policing and mass incarceration to the intensive efforts made by local organizations to confront violence in their own communities.From New York's Harlem neighborhood to South Los Angeles, Sharkey draws on original data and textured accounts of neighborhoods across the country to document the most successful proven strategies for combatting violent crime and to lay out innovative and necessary approaches to the problem of violence. At a time when crime is rising again and powerful political forces seek to disinvest in cities, the insights in this book are indispensable.
NCLEX-RN Prep 2018
By Nursing, Kaplan
The NCLEX-RN exam is not just about what you know - it's about how you think. Kaplan's NCLEX-RN Prep 2018 uses expert critical thinking strategies and targeted sample questions to help you put your expertise into practice and ace the exam! The NCLEX-RN exam tests how you'll apply the medical knowledge you've gained in real-life situations. In NCLEX-RN Prep 2018, Kaplan's all-star nursing faculty teaches you 10 critical thinking pathways to help you think like a nurse. Eight chapters end with practice sets to help you put critical thinking principles into action. Proven Strategies. Realistic Practice. * 10 critical thinking pathways to break down what exam questions are asking * 8 end-of-chapter practice sets to help you put critical thinking principles into action * Full-length practice test * Detailed rationales for all answer choices, correct and incorrect * Techniques for mastering the computer adaptive test format Expert Guidance * In-depth content review, organized along the exam's "Client Needs" framework * Kaplan's Learning Engineers and expert psychometricians ensure our practice questions and study materials are true to the test.
NAPLEX Prep 2018
By Cde, Amie Brooks Pharm.d. Bcps
Kaplan's NAPLEX Prep 2018 is your step-by-step guide to scoring higher on the North American Pharmacist Licensure Examination. Now fully updated to match the test change, this edition is distilled to high-yield content for improved portability. Essential Content. Realistic Practice. * Smaller print book with only high-yield topics for improved portability * Comes with a digital book of expanded content, including disease definition, diagnosis, signs/symptoms, and pearls * 200 comprehensive, up-to-date tables summarizing must-know drugs at a glance in print and online * 2 exam-like online practice tests, each with 250 questions * 27 practice question sets reviewing chapter content Expert Guidance * Exclusive test-taking and study strategies that optimize your preparation * Kaplan's Learning Engineers and expert psychometricians ensure our practice questions and study materials are true to the test.
2021 National Construction Estimator
By Pray, Richard
"Includes free estimating software download"--Cover.
Barrons Police Sergeant Examination, 6th Edition
By Schroeder, Donald J
Revised and updated to reflect current exams, this manual prepares police officers to take any of the various exams given throughout the country that qualify applicants for promotion to the rank and responsibilities of police sergeant. A diagnostic test and three full-length practice exams, along with practice review quizzes and police assessment exercises, are presented with fully explained answers. Subject review sections cover data analysis, police science, and community policing programs. Added in this edition are revised test-taking strategies and strategies for taking tests presented on video, a review in outline form of the police role in Universal Emergency Management, and related multiple-choice questions with fully explained answers.
HiSET Power Practice
By Editors, Learning Express
Earning a high school equivalency degree is essential if you want to pursue a career or attend college. The HiSET, a more affordable and accessible alternative to the GED Test, is gaining popularity nationwide.This guide provides access to FIVE full-length practice tests that mirror the HiSET exam. Practice is the best preparation for standardized tests--in this book, test-takers can work through Reading, Writing, Science, Social Studies, and Mathematics questions and learn from detailed answer explanations. It's the most powerful and test-like preparation available!
Separate
By Luxenberg, Steve
A myth-shattering narrative of how a nation embraced "separation" and its pernicious consequences.Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court case synonymous with "separate but equal," created remarkably little stir when the justices announced their near-unanimous decision on May 18, 1896. Yet it is one of the most compelling and dramatic stories of the nineteenth century, whose outcome embraced and protected segregation, and whose reverberations are still felt into the twenty-first.Separate spans a striking range of characters and landscapes, bound together by the defining issue of their time and ours -- race and equality. Wending its way through a half-century of American history, the narrative begins at the dawn of the railroad age, in the North, home to the nation's first separate railroad car, then moves briskly through slavery and the Civil War to Reconstruction and its aftermath, as separation took root in nearly every aspect of American life.Award-winning author Steve Luxenberg draws from letters, diaries, and archival collections to tell the story of Plessy v. Ferguson through the eyes of the people caught up in the case. Separate depicts indelible figures such as the resisters from the mixed-race community of French New Orleans, led by Louis Martinet, a lawyer and crusading newspaper editor; Homer Plessy's lawyer, Albion Tourge, a best-selling author and the country's best-known white advocate for civil rights; Justice Henry Billings Brown, from antislavery New England, whose majority ruling endorsed separation; and Justice John Harlan, the Southerner from a slaveholding family whose singular dissent cemented his reputation as a steadfast voice for justice.Sweeping, swiftly paced, and richly detailed, Separate provides a fresh and urgently-needed exploration of our nation's most devastating divide. 22 black and white photographs
GRE Prep 2020
By Prep, Kaplan Test
Kaplan's GRE Prep 2020 guides you through your GRE prep step by step - study Kaplan's proven strategies, boost your math skills, practice your pacing, and become an expert in the exam's computerized format with an online practice test.Kaplan is so certain that GRE Prep 2020 offers all the knowledge you need to excel at the GRE, that we guarantee it: After studying with the online resources and book, you'll score higher on the GRE - or you'll get your money back.The Best PracticeOne full-length online practice test helps you practice in the same computer-based format you'll see on Test Day.One additional brand-new full-length practice test included in the book for easier reference and review.More than 650 questions with detailed explanations, including new questions for this edition.Personalize your study plan with the individual performance summary you'll receive after each test.Chapters on each GRE question type and math skill, with practice sets for each.Questions have been reviewed, revised and updated by Kaplan's all-star expert faculty.Expert GuidancePurchase of GRE Prep 2020 comes with one-on-one academic support from Kaplan faculty via our Facebook page: facebook.com/KaplanGradPrepWe know the test: The Kaplan team has spent years studying every GRE-related document available.Kaplan's expert psychometricians ensure our practice questions and study materials are true to the test.We invented test prep - Kaplan (www.kaptest.com) has been helping students for almost 80 years. Our proven strategies have helped legions of students achieve their dreams.Want additional video lessons, more practice tests, mobile study options, and extra online practice? Try GRE Prep Plus 2020.
It's Complicated
By Boyd, Danah
An essential read, written by a leading expert, for anyone who wants to understand young people's use of social media What is new about how teenagers communicate through services such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram? Do social media affect the quality of teens' lives? In this eye-opening book, youth culture and technology expert danah boyd uncovers some of the major myths regarding teens' use of social media. She explores tropes about identity, privacy, safety, danger, and bullying. Ultimately, boyd argues that society fails young people when paternalism and protectionism hinder teenagers' ability to become informed, thoughtful, and engaged citizens through their online interactions. Yet despite an environment of rampant fear-mongering, boyd finds that teens often find ways to engage and to develop a sense of identity. Boyd's conclusions are essential reading not only for parents, teachers, and others who work with teens but also for anyone interested in the impact of emerging technologies on society, culture, and commerce in years to come. Offering insights gleaned from more than a decade of original fieldwork interviewing teenagers across the United States, boyd concludes reassuringly that the kids are all right. At the same time, she acknowledges that coming to terms with life in a networked era is not easy or obvious. In a technologically mediated world, life is bound to be complicated.
Essential Words for the GRE, 4th Edition
By M., Phillip Geer Ed.
An extensive working vocabulary is a prerequisite for test-taking success on the Graduate Record Exam. This book presents 800 graduate-level words with definitions that frequently appear on the exam. Words are used in different contexts to familiarize test takers with their many variations. The book's additional features include a pre-test that helps to diagnose weaknesses, a lengthy word list with extensive practice exercises, and a chapter that discusses and analyzes essential word roots. The book concludes with a post-test to assess progress. Answers are provided for all exercises and for all questions in the pre- and post-test.