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When Aleksandr Talanov''s wife is brutally murdered in front of his eyes, his vendetta to track down and kill the assassin becomes a journey of redemption with the help of two young women being held captive by human traffickers.

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For undergraduate courses in Juvenile Justice and Juvenile Justice Administration. This text integrates criminological theory, organizational theory and management theory to present a comprehensive introduction to the juvenile justice system and how it interfaces with other institutions in the community. By examining the system in this manner, the text demonstrates how the system sometimes fails to serve youth in need, and presents a framework for working within the system to more effectively serve youth and the community.

A rebellious 17-year-old city boy, Jonathan Aird, is sent to an isolated Arctic settlement on Baffin Island to live with his uncle. He is befriended by Pudlo who teaches him the Inuit ways, and falls in love with Panee who was pledged at birth to another Inuit.

This is a study of crime in America. It looks at crime in terms of numbers and rates and attempts to prove that the American public has been misled, by the politician and the media, into believing there is a crime wave. The book gives an overview of crime, the criminal justice system. There is a discussion of economic considerations, how to approach crime policy rationally, and how to work with elected officials and assist in the initiation of effective crime policy.

1. Overview of public policy analysis -- 2. Influences on criminal justice policy -- 3. How crime policy is made -- 4. The policy cycle applied to the crime issue -- 5. Mission statements and policies and procedures -- 6. Planning and the policy process -- 7. Tools for the criminal justice policy analyst -- 8. Improving crime policy in theory and practice.

James Houston helps us trace the consequences of pursuing things that can never satisfy. He awakens in our hearts the true desire for an authentic relationship with God that alone can fulfill our soul''s hunger.

These memoirs of James Houston''s life in the Canadian Arctic from 1948 to 1962 present a colorful and compelling adventure story of real people living through a time of great change. It is extraordinarily rich material about a fascinating, distant world. Houston, a young Canadian artist, was on a painting trip to Moose Factory at the south end of Hudson Bay in 1948. A bush pilot friend burst into his room with the news that a medical emergency meant that he could get a free flight into the heart of the eastern Arctic. When they arrived, Houston found himself surrounded by smiling Inuit - short, strong, utterly confident people who wore sealskins and spoke no English. By the time the medical plane was about to leave, Houston had decided to stay. It was a decision that changed his life. For more than a dozen years he spent his time being educated by those kindly, patient people who became his friends. He slept in their igloos, ate raw fish and seal meat, wore skin clothing, traveled by dog team, hunted walrus, and learned how to build a snowhouse. While doing so, he helped change the North. Impressed by the natural artistic skills of the people, he encouraged the development of outlets in the South for their work, and helped establish co-ops in the North for Inuit carvers and print-makers. Since that time, after trapping as a way of gaining income began to disappear, Inuit art has brought millions of dollars to its creators, and has affected art galleries around the world. In the one hundred short chapters that make up this book, James Houston tells about his fascinating and often hilarious adventures in a very different culture. He tells of raising a family in the Arctic(his sons bursting into tears on being told they were not really Inuit), and of the failure to introduce soccer to a people who refused to look on other humans as opponents. He tells about great characters - Inuit and "kallunait - who populated the Arctic in these long-lost days when, as a Government go-between, he found himself grappling with Northern customs that broke Southern laws. A remarkable, modestly told story by a truly remarkable man.

This volume deals with the quest for personal fulfilment. It is a comprehensive account of the spirituality needed for the 1990s. James Houston is the author of Prayer: The Transforming of Friendship and The Hungry Soul.

A young Eskimo hunter fights for survival while stranded on an isolated and desolate island.

A Scottish clerk banished from his homeland meets a young Indian woman of the Dene Nation when they are sent to collect fur and valuable metals in the early 1700s in the Canadian North.

Determined to find his father who has been lost in a storm, a young boy and his Eskimo friend brave wind storms, starvation, wild animals, and wild men during their search in the Canadian Arctic.

Further adventures of Mathew Morgan and Kayak, his Inuit friend, with a scientific expedition studying whales off the west coast of Baffin Island. Suitable grades 6 and up.

In 1896, three survivors from a whaling misadventure are nursed back to health by Eskimo villagers who share their food, women, and way of life with the strangers. In return, the foreigners introduce to the villagers the spirit of competitiveness that rules the white man''s world. Map and drawings by the Author.

In the black hours of a wintry night Inuit hunters fight their way through a storm to the camp of the administrator of Baffin Island. Their dog sled carries a dying man who clearly terrifies them. Revived by the officer, the man, Shoona, lives long enough to tell his story. An unwanted orphan in his youth, Shoona is taught to be a " spirit wrestler, " a shaman capable of influencing the demons and spirits that control human destiny. Revered at first for his magic, Shoona becomes a feared outcast when his enemies are overtaken by uncanny and fatal events. Then, out of pride, he steals the sacred amulets of the powerful sea goddess Sedna, and is confronted by a mysterious white man who is obsessed with Inuit lore, and who soon attracts Shoona'' s wife. Compelling in narrative, rich in character and authentic background, "Spirit Wrestler" is a saga of the 1950s that illuminates the striking interplay of legend and reality. Long after its startling conclusion, this tale will live on hauntingly in the memory of readers.

A YOUNG WHITE GIRL, TAKEN PRISONER BY THE INDIANS DURING THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WARS, FINDS THAT SHE PREFERS THE INDIAN WAY OF LIFE TO SO-CALLED CIVILIZATION.

"The Ojibwa are known as the people of the three fires. Their forefathers arrived in the Great Lakes region during the ice age, and hunted mastadon and the giant elk. They fought the Iroquois before the white man arrived and in 1763 under Chief Pontiac''s leadership and with their allies almost drove the white man from the western territories of America. Today Ojibwa have been dispersed into the cities and towns of North America, but many still live on their ancestral lands, now reservations. They are in the midst of a passage from one way of life to another. In this book one-hundred superb photographs and a remarkable text combine to record this journey from an ancient heritage to a strange new world"--Back cover.