Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11524.33 | Fiction literature | 19 August 2011
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Only Child
After years on the run, Burke is desperate to return to his native New York, the only way he can reconnect with his outlaw "family." But to survive in their part of the City, where reputation is everything, Burke must take major risks to reestablish his presence. So when a Mafia man contacts him about the murder-as-message of his sixteen-year-old daughter—the offspring of what he calls an "outside the tribe" affair that he must keep secret at all costs—Burke's depleted bankroll persuades him to step out of the shadows and do something he hasn't done in years ... actually investigate a crime.
To Live Outside the Law: Caught by Operation Julie, Britain's Biggest Drugs Bust
To Live Outside the Law is the first insider account of the LSD conspiracy ended by Operation Julie, Britain's biggest drug bust. The book opens with Leaf Fielding's arrest in a pre-dawn police raid and ends five years later with his release from jail. The narrative moves back and forth between the harsh world of prison and his previous life - from a childhood at a brutal boarding school onto undergraduate days and his LSD epiphany in the summer of love, 1967.
When Alabama society lawyer Adam Shaw finds the body of a family friend who has been brutally killed, he battles to clear her husband of the charge of murder. But it becomes clear that Lydia's death is inextricably linked to Shaw's own past and future.
The central concern of "Inside/Outside" is the assumption that pedagogical knowledge is generated "outside-in"; that is, from the university, to be applied at schools. The first half of this book provides a thoughtful and thought-provoking conceptual framework for reading and understanding teacher research, exploring its history, potential and relationship to university-based research. Authors argue that teacher research can transform, not simply add to, the present knowledge base in the field, linking research with practice and inquiry with reform. By doing so, they intend to add dimension and energy to the national momentum in this area.
An excellent read! Get your bug repellent and hiking boots ready for a trek through the jungle as you join Drs. Robert Asher and Teresa Welles in a search for a lost cure for a ancient killer that makes a reappearance. Modern technology keeps them in communication with the outside world, but it cannot protect them from unexpected dangers they encounter once they reach their destination, a lost city of the Mayan civilization.
