"This sad and harrowing portrait of wasted lives is rife with gritty details but thankfully void of self-righteous judgment."—Cleveland Plain Dealer.

Crackhouse: Notes from the End of the Line

Politics & Social Sciences

Terry Williams

Social Sciences

Viking Penguin, Inc.

Since 1982, sociologist Terry Williams has spent days, weeks, and months hanging out” with a teenage cocaine ring in cocaine bars, after-hours clubs, on street corners, in crack houses and in their homes. The picture he creates in The Cocaine Kids is the story behind the headlines. The lives of these young dealers in the fast lane of the underground economy emerge in depth and color on the pages of this book.

The Cocaine Kids: The Inside Story Of A Teenage Drug Ring

Da Capo Press

Passion and Pace "A Guide to a Balanced Christian Life" By Ted Williams

Growing up Poor

This ethnographic study looks at teenagers trapped in poverty―how some succeed in the struggle to get out and others finally give up trying. It is an outgrowth of interviews with some 900 teens in New York City, Cleveland, Louisville, and Meridian, Mississippi. The neighborhoods where they live are socially and racially diverse. Among them are white areas slding into poverty as traditional blue-collar jobs in smokestack industries fade away, and black and Hispanic neighborhoods where chronic unemployment has long been the prevailing tradition and fact of life. Based on the teenagers' own accounts, the book describes their experiences with working and seeking work, achievements in school and athletics, family life, and the positive influences of their peers and adult mentors. It also details the negative choices that tend to make poverty a life sentence: prostitution and street hustles, pregnancy and early parenthood, gang membership and criminal outlets, drugs and withdrawal into despair. Still, hope is an unquenchable attribute of youth, and it bubbles up in this book as the authors show how much these teenagers seek to do for themselves in exercising their limited options.

William Kornblum

Reference

Lexington Books

Describes the day-to-day experience of a teenage cocaine culture in Spanish Harlem and explores the fiscally motivated sale of cocaine by teenagers and the unlikelihood of a change until other roads to opportunity are made available.

The Cocaine Kids: The Inside Story of a Teenage Drug Ring

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Addiction & Recovery

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.

Party Planning for African American Children: Great Party Ideas for African American Children's Birthdays & Other Special Occasions

William Stery Company

Ten Out of Ten: The First Ten Years of Sgoil Chiuil Na Gaidhealtachd

Sgoil Chiuil na Gaidhealtachd

The Equine Professional Manual

Certified Horsemanship Assocation

Sarah Evers Conrad

Harlem Supers: The Social Life of a Community in Transition

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

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