case studies

Presents fifty classroom strategies designed to increase student cooperation, participation, and achievement in all grade levels and subjects.

Retired Los Angeles Police Department Detective Greg Kading describes the investigations into the deaths of rap stars Biggie Smalls and Tupac Shakur, including the information uncovered by the task force he lead that exposed the truth.

"Growing up on the Navajo Indian Reservation, David Crow and his siblings idolized their dad. Tall, strong, smart, and brave, the self-taught Cherokee regaled his family with stories of his World War II feats. But as time passed, David discovered the other side of Thurston Crow, the ex-con with his own code of ethics that justified cruelty, violence, lies--even murder"--OCLC.

Describes how sisters Katherine and Sheila Lyon disappeared from a shopping mall in Washington, D.C. in 1975, and the forty-year effort to bring their kidnapper to justice. The author covered the original story years ago, and now returns to recount its conclusion.

Looks at the hijacking of a plane in 1972 in which D.B. Cooper jumped out of an airplane with $200,000 which has never been recovered and he has never been found.

Fadumo Korn recalls her experiences after undergoing female genital mutilation at the age of seven, a common ritual in her Somali tribe, discusses the complications that led her to Mogadishu, Rome, and Germany where she had reconstructive surgery, and urges anti-FGM activists to be sensitive to traditional practices.

Originally published in 2014, the updated edition draws new examples from today's headlines such as the #MeToo Movement, police shootings, and bias in the ever more partisan Trump era.