High Public

Joining the ranks of Evicted, The Warmth of Other Sons, and classic works of literary non-fiction by Alex Kotlowitz and J. Anthony Lukas, High-Risers braids personal narratives, city politics, and national history to tell the timely and epic story of Chicago’s Cabrini-Green, America’s most...

In his path-breaking Killer High, Peter Andreas shows how six psychoactive drugs - ranging from old to relatively new, mild to potent, licit to illicit, natural to synthetic - have proven to be particularly important war ingredients. This sweeping history tells the story of war from antiquity to the modern age through the lens of alcohol, tobacco, caffeine, opium, amphetamines, and cocaine.

Unleash Your Inner Alpha and Become the Man Every Woman Desires. Does the fear of rejection hold you back from approaching women you like? Have you ever wondered how some guys always seem to have women laughing and hanging on their every word, while you struggle to get even past a hello? If so, this is your solution: How To Flirt With Women: A Comprehensive Dating Playbook for Men to Master the Alpha Mindset, Build Confidence, and Attract High-Value Women. Think about it, no more sweaty palms or stumbling over your words. Just you, walking up to any woman, cool as a cucumber, knowing ...

🧭 Reframing Potential in Modern Education: A Montessori-Inspired Approach for High Potential Learners - What if giftedness was more common than we think - just poorly identified? - What if your child’s defiance or boredom was brilliance misunderstood? - What if our systems are filtering talent instead of fostering it? Reframing Potential in Modern Education offers a bold, inclusive rethink of giftedness - designed for today’s educators, parents, and reformers. Grounded in over 30 years of classroom experience, this book blends Montessori wisdom, public education insight, and real ...

For decades, Democratic politicians have frustrated progressives by tinkering around the margins of policy while shying away from truly ambitious change. What happened to bold political vision on the left, and what shrunk the very horizons of possibility? In Thinking like an Economist, Elizabeth Popp Berman tells the story of how a distinctive way of thinking-an "economic style of reasoning" - became dominant in Washington between the 1960s and the 1980s and how it continues to dramatically narrow debates over public policy today.

In 1992, the deadliest year in Chicago’s history, seven-year-old Dantrell Davis was shot and killed in front of his elementary school inside the public housing complex Cabrini-Green. What happened to Dantrell led to a truce among Chicago’s gangs, but it also ignited a national panic about poverty and violence in America’s cities. Dantrell’s name would soon be used to demolish all of Chicago’s high-rise public housing, displacing tens of thousands of low-income families.

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Thought experiments are both fun and useful precursors to smarter, often bolder solutions to life's and society's problems. This updated printing offers 34 thought experiments, each presented concisely.

In the first half of the 20th century, Dunbar was an academically elite public school, despite being racially segregated by law. By the 1950s, Dunbar High School was sending 80 percent of its students to college. Today, as with too many troubled urban public schools, the majority of Dunbar students struggle with reading and math. Journalist and author Alison Stewart, whose parents were both Dunbar graduates, tells the story of the school’s rise, fall, and path toward resurgence.

Suki, an invisible wallflower drowning in a sea of influencers, despises the social media god, Eros. When he singles her out for his live audience, a desperate need to be seen awakens within her—as well as a powerful, forbidden desire to submit for all to see.

In this audio book you will discover a sure way to remove public speaking from your top 10 fears. This audiobook will guide you through delivering a successful public speech with the comfort that you have always wanted. Public speaking, a skill that could provide you a great advantage in today’s competitive world, is no longer a foreign and scary concept. This audiobook will teach you the pervasiveness of public speaking and how we incorporate it in our daily lives. Public speaking is an art that involves the delivery of a message in front of an audience.

The leveraged credit market is currently valued at over $4 trillion and is one of the fastest-growing asset classes, fueling demand for well-trained credit analysts. This comprehensive manual teaches the skills to succeed in the dynamic and complex credit markets. Michael Gatto brings complex case studies to life using decades of his firsthand stories and combines them with reflections from leading industry professionals.

Despite being immensely popular - and immensely lucrative - education is grossly overrated. In this explosive book, Bryan Caplan argues that the primary function of education is not to enhance students' skill but to certify their intelligence, work ethic, and conformity - in other words, to signal the qualities of a good employee.

The High Cost of Good Intentions is the first comprehensive history of these federal entitlement programs. Combining economics, history, political science, and law, John F. Cogan reveals how the creation of entitlements brings forth a steady march of liberalizing forces that cause entitlement programs to expand. This process - as visible in the 18th and 19th centuries as in the present day - is repeated until benefits are extended to nearly all who could be considered eligible, and in turn establishes a new base for future expansions.

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury comes an inspiring Baxter Family novel about a beloved high school principal who starts a Bible Study to improve the lives of his struggling students, only to become the national focus of a controversial lawsuit. Hamilton High Principal...

In many US cities, gun violence is the most urgent crime problem. High rates of deadly violence make a city less livable, dragging down quality of life, economic development, and property values. How can police departments find the right balance between over- and under-policing of high-violence areas? What are the best practices for police to preempt and deter gun violence, while engendering support and cooperation from the public?

How YOU can earn five to six figures a month without a degree! What if you could comfortably pay for that $5 cappuccino every morning, without having to check your wallet first? Or if you could eat diner at your favorite restaurant more often than you'd have to worry about paying the bills? What if your job would only consist of sitting in front of a computer, working comfortably from home on your own schedule? No more everyday chores around the house, no more paying to go swimming when you have your own pool at home, imagine this ideal lifestyle right in front of you and imagine how you ...

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HOLLY Working as head elf wasn't exactly my dream job after my fashion career crashed and burned. Then I saw who's playing Santa - Nick Winters, my dad's best friend and my teenage crush all grown up. At forty-two, he's even sexier than I remember, and the way he fills out that red suit should be illegal. Our secret encounters in Santa's workshop are supposed to be just holiday fun... until a positive pregnancy test turns my Christmas affair into a package I wasn't expecting to deliver. NICK I knew taking the mall Santa job was a mistake the moment Holly Bennett walked in. My best friend's ...

Ken Holmes worked in the Marin County Coroner's Office for 36 years, starting as a death investigator and ending as the three-term, elected coroner. As he grew into the job - which is different from what is depicted on television - Holmes learned a variety of skills, from finding hidden clues at death scenes, interviewing witnesses effectively, managing bystanders and reporters, preparing testimony for court, to notifying families of a death with sensitivity and compassion.