Product Description: How do economic conditions such as poverty, unemployment, inflation, and economic growth impact youth violence? Economics and Youth Violence provides a much-needed new perspective on this crucial issue. Pinpointing the economic factors that are most important, the editors and contributors in this volume explore how different kinds of economic issues impact children, adolescents, and their families, schools, and communities...read more

Product Description: Make the best of your garden throughout the year by planting seasonal flowers, trees and shrubs. Inspirational displays include flower beds and borders, ponds, window boxes, hanging baskets and tubs, and the book features a handy at-a-glance calendar

Product Description: Plants propagate themselves naturally in the wild, using a variety of amazing techniques, and gardeners can learn from nature by copying these methods in their own backyards. This book explains how to grow plants from seed, how to take cuttings from established plants, dividing plants into sections, layering shoots, and grafting the top of one plant to the bottom of the another...read more

Product Description: Create plants for free with this A-Z guide to 375 of the best plants for propagating, including all the techniques such as sowing seed, taking cuttings, dividing plants, gorwing offsets, layering and grafting.

Using the basic ideas, insights, and conceptual tools of sociology, Messner and Rosenfeld present a provocative introduction to alternative ways of thinking about crime. They provide both an insightful and comprehensive analysis of the Anomie tradition as well as other existing theories while offering a distinctive theoretical perspective to explain the exceptionally high levels of serious crime in the United States. They integrate empirical and quantitative data with ethnographic and qualitative data to provide a clear, succinct and unique discussion of crime and the American dream which is both accessible and interesting to students.

Product Description: How has America's over-emphasis on the pursuit of materialistic gain contributed to the it's high rate of violent crime? CRIME AND THE AMERICAN DREAM, 5th Edition is an easy-to-understand book that attempts to answer that question using seminal criminological theory.

Product Description: A complete practical guide to propagating your own flowers, trees, shrubs, climbers, wet-loving, bog and water plants, and vegetables and herbs

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Presents simple steps to gardening success. This work presents inspirational tips and techniques on decorating with pots, hanging baskets, creating themes, selecting the best plants, mulching, pests and more.

Offering an introductory course in gardening for small garden owners who want to make the most of their time and effort, a richly illustrated series of manuals utilizes a modular approach complete with full-color photography, emphasis on key points, checklists, charts, step-by-step techniques, and more, all designed to accomplish fabulous results on a small scale with limited time.

Product Description: This volume presents recent theoretical arguments and empirical research on the relationship between crime and the structure of communities and whole societies. Focusing on the ’institutional-anomie’ perspective and allied crime theories, the selections examine the impact on crime of the family, education, community organizations and social welfare institutions...read more

A study of the metropolitan area of St. Louis reviews the future prospects for the region, reviewing the area's performance on the standard indicators of growth and development and identifying a number of hidden assets--such as affordable housing, a thriving sports tradition, a major medical complex, and the resurgence of several commercial and entertainment areas--that point to hope for the future. Original.

Product Description: Useful hints on keeping the garden healthy, plus lists of the best plants for each color and season, complete all the information needed to enjoy a beautiful display all year.

Product Description: The new flower power - bright and stylish, listing over 300 varieties, from cactus to zebra plants. Covering all you need to know about your favorite plants in a beautiful and convenient format, DK Garden Guides profile one type of plant, each with its own photograph and a paragraph full of fascinating information about the plant, its origins, and how to use it in your garden...read more

Product Description: Whether planting Calliopsis, Purple Wave Petunias, or Spider Flowers, everything a gardener needs to know about annuals and biennials is packed in this one compact guide.

Product Description: More than 150 fabulous color photos will help you to create winter beauty in your garden in the depths of winter when bright berries are abundant and evergreens come into their own. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: More than 150 beautiful colored photos inspire you to take full advantage of brilliant autumnal colors to create stunning arrangements that dazzle the eye. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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