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Well Researched.
Good information and well researched, it is a safe book.One I'm sure those in academia will be comfortable with because it reads like a thesis. I do prefer the real life experience books such as East Side Stories, Always Runing and The Last Street Fighter over these sociological and academic genre books which often read like a text book. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Children's Studies    2. Cross-cultural studies    3. Family / Parenting / Childbirth    4. Gangs    5. General    6. Juvenile delinquency    7. Life Stages - Teenagers    8. Social Science    9. Sociology    10. Sociology - General    11. Teenagers    12. Social Science / Sociology / General   

Subjects:  1. Plays   

Subjects:  1. Anthropology - Cultural    2. Archaeology / Anthropology    3. Chicago Region    4. Ethnic Studies - General    5. Ethnic identity    6. Hispanic Americans    7. Illinois    8. Multicultural Nonfiction    9. Social life and customs    10. Sociology - Urban    11. Ethnography    12. Social Science / Ethnic Studies   

Subjects:  1. (Warren Gamaliel),    2. 1865-1923    3. Biography    4. Biography/Autobiography    5. Harding, Warren G    6. Harding, Warren G.    7. Harding, Warren Gamaliel,    8. Political corruption    9. President U.S    10. Presidents    11. U.S. History - 1920s    12. U.S. President    13. United States   

Subjects:  1. African American criminals    2. African American youth    3. Chicago    4. Gangs    5. Illinois    6. Sociology    7. Sociology - General    8. Vice Lords (Organization)    9. Anthropology   

Subjects:  1. Biography & Autobiography    2. Biography/Autobiography    3. Europe - France    4. History - General History    5. Political    6. History / France   

Subjects:  1. Criminology    2. Gang members    3. Gangs    4. General    5. Juvenile delinquency    6. Longitudinal studies    7. New York (State)    8. Psychology    9. Rochester    10. Social Science    11. Sociology    12. Juvenile offenders    13. Social Science / Criminology   

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some anomalies in the book
The book presents some interesting thoughts and ideas. It has plenty of exercises and a few of them actually work (especially those for enhancing energy) BUT there are quite some anomalies in the book too. Take Charge of Your Health
The next best thing to hearing Dr. Sha speak is reading his book, Power Healing. Filled with exercises and techniques to help one take charge of their own health, this book is easy to understand and very inspiring. I recommend it for anyone interested in alternative methods of healing to use in conjunction with more traditional Western medicine.

A New Believer
A friend gave me this book in Mid April, he said when he saw it at the bookstore, it just jumped out at him and he had to buy it for me.Diagnosed with Systemic Lupus 4 years ago, I recently began exploring alternative medicine, but I was getting frustrated with all the difficult and costly methods I found.I have always believed that my body could heal itself, I just didn't know how to help it."Power Healing" is the answer I have been waiting for.I know nothing about Chinese Philosophy or any of the other Ancient healing arts, although I have heard of Reiki.This methods in this book work, regardless of any prior knowledge or belief.Read more

Subjects:  1. Chinese medicine    2. Consumer Health    3. Diet / Health / Fitness    4. Eastern - General    5. Healing    6. Health & Fitness    7. Health/Fitness    8. Medicine, Chinese    9. Mental healing    10. Qi gong    11. Qigong    12. Health & Fitness / Healing    13. Mind, body, spirit: disciplines & techniques   

Subjects:  1. True Crime    2. USA   

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This book is a must for a thrill seeker and bible believer !
Many people have given up on todays youth butToo young To Die paints a picture of hope and persistance by the author who dedicated his life and ministry to helping Chicago ruthless gangbangers find christ. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Biography    2. Chicago Region    3. Christian biography    4. Christianity - Christian Life - General    5. Christianity - Christian Life - Social Issues    6. Christianity - Education - Children & Youth    7. Church And Social Problems    8. Gang members    9. Illinois    10. Juvenile Delinquency    11. Religion    12. Religion - Youth Issues    13. Teenagers    14. McLean, Gordon R   

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Best available DC Metro Area ride book
Excellent maps and cue sheets for bike rides in the DC metro area. Includes rides in the Virginia Tidewater area, Maryland Eastern Shore, Baltimore, points north and the Pennsylvania Dutch Country. This is my mainsource for organized, directed rides in this area. ... Read more

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Chicago underworld before Capone
This is a lively history of the Chicago underworld--the brothels, red-light districts, gambling joints, etc.--from the mid-1800s up to the Capone years. Well written and informative.

Outstanding Read
Excellent book describing the Chicago underworld from post civil-war to the 1920's. I have an original copy from my great aunt who was a flapper in the 1920's. Born and bred in Chicago--I loved this book.

Somewhat Boring!
This book was written more in the form of a textbook than a novel.It contains factual information but is neither suspenseful nor very interesting.It may have been good for its time but is now dull ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Chicago    2. Chicago (Ill.)    3. Gangs z Illinois    4. General    5. Organized Crime    6. Social conditions    7. True Crime / Espionage   

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An intriguing true 'whodunnit' mystery
James Tilly Matthews lived in London in the late 1700s and was a respected Welsh tea merchant who intended to preserve the peace of an increasingly dangerous city out of control in its conflicts with Paris. Arrested and sent to a mental hospital for his accusation of a lord, Matthews became convinced his mind was being controlled by a secret machine called an 'air loom' hidden in a London basement and run by a gang of revolutionaries: Air Loom Gang sets out to pinpoint the political foundations of his 'madness' in an intriguing true 'whodunnit' mystery
Most Fascinating History
The Air-Loom Gang by Mike Jay is a book about the most incredible events.It is about one James Tilly Matthews who was declared insane for his beliefs about treason at the highest levels of the British Government during the French Revolutionary/Napoleonic period.As it turns out, Matthews was actually right to some extent and as a former spy, was in a good position to be able to determine if there really was treasonous activities in the British government at the time.Matthews's case became a cause clebre and he was eventually released from the insane asylum and eventually started an architecture magazine and even submitted plans for an insane asylum. Madness with Meaning
Any psychiatrist has treated patients who thought their minds and wills were being controlled from the outside, perhaps from mysterious rays or hidden machines.This cannot sound so strange now as it must have a couple of centuries ago.We may not be used to mind control of that type, but we live in a world powered by invisible rays and hidden machines.When James Tilly Matthews entered the famous hospital for the insane, London's Bedlam in 1797, his complaints must have sounded bizarre indeed.He told his doctor that he, and many of the powerful in England and France, were being manipulated by a mysterious gang who were using invisible gases and rays from an unimaginably complex machine called an air loom, and that his thoughts were being altered and controlled and his body was being painfully punished.Matthews's bizarre story is the subject of a surprising and novel-like history, _The Air Loom Gang: The Strange and True Story of James Tilly Matthews and his Visionary Madness_ (Four Walls Eight Windows) by Mike Jay.What is especially peculiar is that although Matthew's ideas were clearly delusional, his complaints stemmed from real persecutions he was made to undergo.As the old joke says, just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.Read more

Subjects:  1. Biography    2. Biography / Autobiography    3. Case studies    4. Conspiracy & Scandal Investigations    5. England    6. Europe - Great Britain - General    7. Great Britain - History - 18th Century    8. Historical - British    9. History    10. History: World    11. Matthews, James Tilly    12. Mental health    13. Mental illness    14. Mentally ill   

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Disturbingly Real
Long, a counselor at a juvenile detention center in California, discusses the rise of Viet Namese gangs across the US.The book is essentially a lengthy illustration essay that employs narrative accounts of numerousadolescents and their families.Long provides through his firsthandexperience, a frightening but sympathetic glimpse at one of the untoldresults of the war that turned a generation upside down.It is a storyfilled with cruelty and abandonment on both an individual and a nationallevel.Perhaps the most valuable component of this study is the actualdialogue between Long and his wards.Long is engaging and wise, and thewords of his "clients" are often terrifying and explicit.

One of the most insighful books I've ever read.
The author not only addressed the problem, but also showed how he helpssolve it.He shows the pain these youth go through so poignantly.I workwith vietnamese refugee youth and this book taught me so much in how thevietnamese family works and how to adress certain problems.this isprobably the most down to earth book i've ever read. It's definatly easy toread too. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Criminal Law - General    2. Criminology    3. General    4. Law    5. Minority Studies - Race Relations    6. Sociology    7. Law / Criminal Law    8. Organized crime   

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Quite impressed actually
Before I began to write this review I was quite surprised to read a few under whelming reviews by other people. The reason I am writing this is because I am so impressed by what has been assembled. The Making of an Epic
It's a given: if you love a movie, you'll love every "The Making Of..." that comes out about it. This is no exception. I loved this film. I enjoyed reading the script, and all the interviews and photographs were delicious gravy. The story of how Scorsese and his team captured, very accurately for the most part, the way The Five Points looked is itself worth the price. If there is anything negative to be said, it's that some of the photographs are not of the best quality. But I'm nitpicking. Treat yourself to this superb book!

Book marred by poor interviews
The movie is astounding, but this book is less than great because the interviewer of cast and crew was amateurish at best. EVERYONE was asked: "What did you think of the sets?" and "What was it like working with (fill in the blank)?". Those are the type of questions one would expect of a high school journalist. Some of the interviewees, however, managed to rise above the questions and provided some interesting insights into the film and it's making. The photos are very good, but don't show much of the "behind the scenes" perspective that would have been interesting. Get the book if you loved the movie as I do, but be aware that it is more of a coffee-table book than an exhaustive making-of book. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Film & Video - Direction & Production    2. Film & Video - General    3. Gangs of New York (Motion pict    4. Gangs of New York (Motion picture : 2002)    5. General    6. Performing Arts    7. Performing Arts/Dance    8. Pop Arts / Pop Culture    9. Performing Arts / General   

Subjects:  1. Crime and criminals    2. Dalton family    3. Outlaws    4. West (U.S.)   

Subjects:  1. Case studies    2. Crime And Criminals    3. Detroit    4. Gangs    5. Michigan    6. Social Science    7. Sociology    8. Sociology - General    9. Sociology - Urban    10. Crime & criminology   

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Gray Anatomy
The spectre that continues to haunt the twenty-first century is on full-display in this collection by the great German artist Gerhard Richter.It is the spectre not of communism but of the failure of the radical left in Germany to achieve the revolutionary transformation of society they hoped for and of the seduction of some of the members of that generation by an apocalyptic embrace of violence.
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Subjects:  1. Art    2. Art & Art Instruction    3. Baader-Meinhof gang    4. Baader-Meinhof gang in art    5. Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - Museum    6. Exhibitions    7. History - General    8. History - Modern    9. History - Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945)    10. Individual Artist    11. Museum Of Modern Art - Exhibition Catalogs   

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code of silence
This book was very informitive about the code that convicts live under.Its a testament to learning to keeping your mouth shut when you do some dirt.Prison gangs are hardcore and the Aryan Brotherhood was formed in california with blood and sacrafice to protect white inmates, anybody who joins knows the commitment they are making as a soildier ( blood in blood out )

Does justice occur after incarceration?
Murder Unpunished: How the Aryan Brotherhood Murdered Waymond Small and Got Away With It is a telling example of the truth that entering prison is like entering another culture or country.The rules, customs, and behaviors are foreign to those in the free world.People outside of the walls will never be able to appreciate or accept.The problem, however, is that the prisons are within our country and need to abide by the laws of the United States of America.This book did an excellent job of asking the question, "does justice occur after incarceration?"The short answer is, no.The bigger question to ask is, "when will this country enact laws that can adequately deal with prison gangs and the control that they have in our criminal justice system?"This book is a telling example of all the state and federal correctional facilities will experience with any prison gangs that occupy them.It is a must read for all correctional employees and lawmakers.

Arizona or UniversalJustice? What a great read!!!
`Murder Unpunished: How the Aryan Brotherhood Murdered Waymond Small and Got Away with It'by Thornton W. Price III, has brought to life the events that I only remembered through newscast snippets and the occasional news paper editorial.
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Subjects:  1. Africa    2. Arizona    3. Arizona State Prison    4. Case studies    5. Florence    6. Murder - General    7. Prison gangs    8. Prison homicide    9. Travel    10. Trials (Murder)    11. True Crime / Espionage   

Subjects:  1. Chicago    2. Church work with juvenile deli    3. Church work with juvenile delinquents    4. Gangs    5. General    6. Illinois    7. Juvenile delinquency    8. McLean, Gordon R    9. Religion    10. Religion - Contemporary Issues    11. Christian spirituality    12. Religion: general