Authors:James Diego Vigil,  Thomas S. Weisner,
Publisher: University of Texas Pre
Keywords: gang, los, angeles, east, families, non, projects
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2007-11-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 029271730X
ISBN-13: 9780292717305

The Pico Gardens housing development in East Los Angeles has a high percentage of resident families with a history of persistent poverty, gang involvement, and crime. In some families, members of three generations have belonged to gangs. Many other Pico Gardens families, however, have managed to avoid the cycle of gang involvement. In this work, Vigil adds to the tradition of poverty research and elaborates on the association of family dynamics and gang membership. The main objective of his research was to discover what factors make some families more vulnerable to gang membership, and why gan

Author: Irving A. Spergel
Publisher: AltaMira Press
Keywords: violence, gang, chicago, prevention, policy, project, little, youth, reducing, village
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2007-03-01
List price: $42.95
ISBN-10: 0759109990
ISBN-13: 9780759109995

Spergel details the efforts of his Chicago youth gang project, a comprehensive, community-based model designed to reduce gang problems, including violence and illegal drug activity. He shows the successes and failures at each level: individual-youth, gang-as-unit, community, and policy development. This is a valuable model and methodology for a comprehensive approach to gang prevention and intervention which will be an important reference for policy makers, criminologists, gang researchers and community developers.

Author: Wang Gang
Publisher: Viking Adult
Keywords: novel, english
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2009-04-02
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0670020591
ISBN-13: 9780670020591

A captivating coming-of-age novel in the tradition of Balzac and the Little Chinese SeamstressDuring the darkest days of the Cultural Revolution, a twelve-year-old boy named Love Liu wonders what life is like beyond the region of Xinjiang in China’s remote northwest. Here, conformity is valued above all else, and suspicion governs every exchange among neighbors, classmates, and even friends. Into this stifling atmosphere comes a tall, clean-shaven teacher from Shanghai, with an elegant gray wool jacket and an English dictionary tucked under his arm. With the dictionary at his d

Author: Wang Gang
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: novel, english
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2010-03-30
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0143116541
ISBN-13: 9780143116547

"I loved this book and can’t stop talking about it... Transcendent." -Carolyn See, The Washington Post In the tradition of Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, Wang Gang’s English is a captivating coming-of- age novel about the power of language to launch a journey of self- discovery. When a new teacher comes to school-a tall, elegantly dressed man from Shanghai carrying an English dictionary under his arm-twelve- year-old Love Liu turns away from Chairman Mao’s little red book and toward the teacher’s big blue book for answers to his most pressing questions about

Author: Tom Wolfe
Publisher: Bantam
Keywords: gang, house, pump
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 1999-10-05
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0553380613
ISBN-13: 9780553380613

Tom Wolfe’s second collection (1968) takes it title from a redoubtable surfing elite, many of whom abandoned the beach for the psychedelic indoor sports of the late sixties. Wolfe here continues his fieldwork among noble savages, from La Jolla to London.

Authors:Xiaobo Hu, Gang Lin,
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Keywords: jiang, china
Number of Pages: 172
Published: 2003-07-14
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0804749191
ISBN-13: 9780804749190

Because power in China is so concentrated at the top, changes in leadership usually mean changes in many other domains as well. In this study, based on documents released around the time Jiang Zemin left office in November 2002 and interviews with Chinese officials, the authors concentrate on more fundamental institutional changes, both those under way well before Jiang stepped down and those still urgently needed if China is to remain stable and prosperous in the 21st century. Topics addressed include the role of ideology, the issue of legitimacy, rule-making and -breaking, Party governance,

Author: Zhi Gang Sha
Publisher: Heaven’s Library
Keywords: relationships, divine, living
Number of Pages: 158
Published: 2006-12-04
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1600230105
ISBN-13: 9781600230103

In Living Divine Relationship, Master Zhi Gang Sha, world-renowned physician, teacher, and author, gives you the keys to Living Divine Relationships with God, with your spiritual teachers and masters, and with your own soul. He also provides practical techniques for building and nourishing your divine relationships, such as: How to open your spiritual channels and communicate soul to soul with God; how to arrange your home and structure your day to nourish your divine relationships; how to fully open to your life purpose; as well as ways to accelerate your spiritual growth, cle