Smith, Roger

Explores the history, structure, and activities of the United Nation as they pursue their goal of protecting individuals and securing human rights for everyone. Includes teacher notes.

Relates the stories of juvenile prisoners worldwide, examining why they were imprisoned, controversies surrounding their imprisonment, perceived injustices, efforts to free them, and more.

This book tells the stories of political prisoners, both past and present.

This book reviews early forms of punishment from horrific executions and torture in medieval times to the creation of the worlds first penitentiaries in the 19th century.

This book explores the realities of overcrowding, disease, violence, and abuse in prison institutions.

Describes the humanitarian relief efforts of the United Nations from providing food, health care, and education when lives have been disrupted, to addressing the needs of children, and assisting refugees in conflict zones.

Explores the history, structure, and activities of the United Nation as they pursue their goal of protecting individuals and securing human rights for everyone.

A reference to the inventors and inventions that have advanced our social, business, and cultural lives.

Jack Burn, a former security specialist who stole three million dollars from a bank in order to save his family from disaster and created a new life in South Africa with his wife and son, draws the attention of a corrupt Afrikaner cop and a Zulu detective after two meth addicts who broke into Burn's home are found dead.