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    Capo tells the violent story of Frankie Scalise. Growing up in the Mafia entrenched streets of the Red hook section of New York with his two friends, Gianni Leone and Salvatore Tramonti, the three boys quickly become seduced by the lifestyle of the local "wiseguys".The three boys are taken under the wing of a respected Capo in the Costanza crime family where they soon become respected associates ... Read more

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  • Critical Conversations About Plagiarism

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    Critical Conversations About Plagiarism is an edited collection of essays that addresses traditional, overly simplistic treatments of plagiarism by providing approaches to the topic that are complex, critical, and challenging, as well as accessible to both students and teachers. ... Read more

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    Geographic divisions that exist internally within countries – ‘the borders within’ – can be seen in how much people earn and levels of economic growth, as well as in health and educational outcomes.With fresh thinking, this book explores what lies beneath these geographic divisions and what maintains them. Its novel framework shows how different social class groups derive radically different ... Read more

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  • Space, Identity and Education

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    Series series Education (R0)
    This book details an innovative multi-scalar framework to examine the intersection of spatial levels in shaping social justice issues in education. Including an examination of key dimensions such as geographic divisions (between and within countries), school design, online learning, home-schooling, and student mobility, the framework is applied to analyse the interrelation between space, identity, ... Read more

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  • Corporal Punishment of Children in Theoretical Perspective

    Despite being commonplace in American households a generation ago, corporal punishment of children has been subjected to criticism and shifting attitudes in recent years. Many school districts have banned it, and many child advocates recommend that parents no longer spank or strike their children. In this book, social theorist Michael Donnelly and family violence expert Murray A. Straus tap the ... Read more

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  • Freedom of Speech and the Function of Rhetoric in the United States

    This book is about Freedom of Speech and public discourse in the United States. Freedom of Speech is a major component of the cultural context in which we live, think, work, and write, generally revered as the foundation of true democracy. But the issue has a great deal more to do with social norms rooted in a web of cultural assumptions about the function of rhetoric in social organization ... Read more

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  • The Quiet Don

    The Untold Story of Mafia Kingpin Russell Bufalino

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    On February 26, 1986, Mafia underboss Gennaro Angiulo was convicted of racketeering and sentenced to forty-five years in prison. In The Underboss, bestselling authors Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Neill tell the story of the fall of the house of Angiulo. The Federal Bureau of Investigation, aided in part by the Irish Mob's Whitey Bulger, entered the Boston Mafia's headquarters in Boston's North End early ... Read more

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