Product Description: Policing Cities brings together international scholars from numerous disciplines to examine urban policing, securitization, and regulation in nine countries and the conceptual issues these practices raise. Chapters cover many of the world’s major cities, including New York, Beijing, Paris, London, Berlin, Mexico City, Johannesburg, Rio de Janeiro, Boston, Melbourne, and Toronto, as well as other urban areas in Britain, United States, South Africa, Germany, Australia and Georgia...read more

Describes different kinds of museums and what one can expect to find in each

Product Description: This biography introduces readers to beloved, award-winning author E.B. White. Readers will learn about White’s childhood in New York, his work at the New Yorker, his farm in Maine, and his authorship of and inspiration for Charlotte’s Web, Stuart Little, and The Trumpet of the Swan...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A biography of the well known nineteenth-century American author whose popular novels, 'Little Women' and 'Little Men,' were based on her own family experiences (view table of contents)

Discusses the life and career of the African-American author and illustrator who writes stories depicting the Black experience using language that African-American children speak

Describes the physical characteristics and probable behavior of this prehistoric flying reptile

Describes the physical characteristics and probable behavior of this fierce, meat-eating dinosaur

Describes the physical characteristics and probable behavior of this plant-eating dinosaur, also called apatosaurus

Biography of the American author and illustrator of the popular Curious George books

Describes the physical characteristics and probable behavior of this ocean-dwelling reptile from millions of years ago

Product Description: Book by Berg, Julie

Describes the origins and habitat of various animals on the verge of extinction, from the giant anteater to the zebra, and discusses attempts to preserve them

Presents the life of the author-illustrator who has won numerous awards and prizes, including the Caldecott Medal, for his children's books.

Product Description: Book by Abdo n Daughters

Presents the life of the author who created Ramona, Henry Huggins, Ribsy, and other well-known characters.

Presents the life of the young actor who achieved stardom in the movie 'Home Alone'

Presents the life of the artist known primarily for his award-winning illustrated children's books