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This book investigates and analyzes the debates around and responses to mass shootings, covering the prevention, preparation, response and recovery of mass shootings as well as gun proposals introduced and raised following each incident"--

Mass shootings have become more prevalent in the past few decades, especially within the United States. Whilst the United States has suffered from hundreds of mass shootings over the years, policy change relating to guns has been limited in scope, particularly when compared with other developed nations. Recognizing that the United States has a different history and culture, new policies must be undertaken to mitigate the occurrences of mass sh...

This book treats the phenomena associated with the propagation of short radio waves between terminal points.

Two teenagers struggle to resist the pressure to lead the lives their parents have fashioned for them.

Understanding Girls' Problem Behavior" presents an overview of recent studies by leading researchers into key aspects of the development of problem behavior in girls.Integrates interdisciplinary research into girls' problem behaviors (e.g. aggression, antisocial behavior, rule breaking)Unique in seeking to understand girls' problem behaviors in their own rightFollows the maturing girl from adolescence to adulthood, concluding at the point wher...

Our world today relies to an astonishing degree on systems, tools and services that belong to a vast and still growing domain known as Networking and Information Technology (NIT). The United States has a proud history of achievement and leadership in NIT and NIT underpins our national prosperity, health and security. In recent decades, NIT has boosted U.S. labour productivity more than any other set of forces. This book examines the need for t...

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A teenager whose parents have separated tries to adapt to life at a boarding school and make a fresh start in a strange new place. After her mother runs off with her much-younger boyfriend, 14-year-old Flanders is shipped off to a boarding school in Virginia. On the train, she meets Carolyn Cardmaker, a preacher's daughter who will become her best friend. She also meets Ernestine Blue. Miss Blue is Flanders' faculty advisor at the Charles Scho...

From Margaret A. Edwards, award-winning author of Deliver Us From Evie comes a novel about a gay teenager who discovers a different kind of love during an unforgettable summer in the Hamptons. I'd always think of it as the summer that I loved a girl. Seventeen-year-old Lang Penner and his mother are spending the summer in the caretaker's cottage at Roundelay, the sprawling East Hampton estate of legendary rocker Ben Nevada. Lang passes the tim...

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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder in this unusual love story. Little Little La Belle isn't redundant. She's a dwarf - a beautiful blond heiress who lives a pampered existence in the New York town named after her family. With her 18th birthday approaching, her parents want to marry Little Little off to the perfect man. Enter Sydney Cinnamon. Orphaned young, he went on to become one of America's most famous dwarfs. The pint-size TV performer ...

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