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In Jamaica . . . he learned the art of the "jux" robbing people by studying their everyday movements. By the age of eight, Cat was shoplifting and purse-snatching. By ten, he had his first gun. At fifteen, he committed his first murder.

MAKE THE GANG

In New York City . . . he created The Order: a secret society of thieves who played by Cat's rules. He taught his crew how to pull off the perfect jux. Made them swear on a bible and a bullet. Robbed dealers, pushers, thugs. And raked in millions. Then Cat was betrayed--by one of his own men.

BREAK THE RULES

In Miami...

Frank Jackson Matthews knows the Battle of Iwo Jima well-he fought in it-a skinny kid from South Carolina who was the only member of his forty-man platoon to leave the island alive.

"You Don't Know Jack "is more than a tale of a marine's service in an epic battle where so many perished-it's the tale of a young man who learned to play piano to accompany his minister father's revivals in the Deep South of the 1930's and wanted more than anything to be a university music professor-only to have his dream denied.

Matthews served the Marine Corps through the end of World War II. He studied...

With a unique focus on middle-range theory, this book details the application of spatial analysis to demographic research as a way of integrating and better understanding the different transitional components of the overall demographic transition.

This book first details key concepts and measures in modern spatial demography and shows how they can be applied to middle-range theory to better understand people, places, communities and relationships throughout the world. Next, it shows middle-range theory in practice, from using spatial data as a proxy for social science statistics to...