Jess's spring break gets off to an exciting start when she is able to stop a runaway pony that clatters into Sandy Lane Stables, and things keep getting better when the capture of the palomino leads to her making new friends and getting a chance to ride in the Southdown Show.
London in the nineteenth century was a fascinating place, a city that had some of the greatest wealth of its time?and some of the poorest people to be found anywhere. Crime, daily life, the treatment of children, and arts and sciences are among the topics discussed.
Explores the extraordinary reach of Japan's Mafia, discussing their feudal origins as bands of medieval outlaws to their emergence as billion-dollar investors in real estate, big business, art, and more.
Explores the criminal justice system of America and what makes a crime a crime, examining the criteria lawmakers and enforcers use to determine what crimes are punishable with which punishments, and how such things are determined in court.
Nina Borg, a Red Cross nurse in Denmark, receives a key to a locker from an estranged friend and when she opens it to find a drugged and naked three-year-old boy she must find out who the boy is while keeping them both alive.
When Chris and his search dog, Mike, are demoted from the Coast Guard's drug-bust program, Chris takes a second job where Mike's training to sniff out drugs brings them an even bigger problem.
Presents approximately 150 primary source documents, such as speeches, legislation, memoirs, newspaper articles, and interviews, related to crime and punishment between the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries.
