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Hate Crimes Gun Violence and
2019 Mass Shootings
(eBook) 2019
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Crimes committed against people because of their race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, The mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland,
or religion have become common in the United States. According to the FBI, more Florida, in February 2018 renewed the national debate over gun violence—a
than six thousand such crimes were committed in 2016 alone. Hate crimes can debate led by the students themselves. This book examines the prevalence of
range from vandalism, such as the desecration of headstones in a Jewish cemetery, all types of gun violence in America and the factors—historical, cultural, and
to mass shootings, such as the 2015 murders of nine African Americans attending constitutional—that make this country an outlier among industrialized nations.
church services in Charleston, South Carolina. Although many laws have been It also explores possible solutions to reducing gun deaths and the controversies
written to prevent and prosecute hate crimes, experts agree that stopping such surrounding those proposals.
offenses from occurring will not be easy.

Living in North Korea The War on ISIS
2019 2019
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978-1-68282-475-7 (476-4) 978-1-68282-477-1 (478-8)
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• full-color photos • sidebars • full-color photos • sidebars
• margin quotes • source notes • margin quotes • visual chronology
• for further research section • index • source notes • for further research
section • index

Despite being a nation so frequently in the headlines, North Korea remains a mystery For nearly four years the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) spread war and terror
to most outsiders. Its leader, Kim Jong Un, rules a society marked by extremes, with across the Middle East. ISIS saw itself as the ruler of the world’s 1.8 billion Muslims,
government officials living in luxury while the general populace struggles to avoid who would be forced to live under a caliphate based on seventh-century beliefs
starvation. This book examines the details of daily life under an oppressive and and laws. In 2015 the United States and some forty other nations launched a war
secretive dictatorship. against ISIS, making a stand against one of the world’s most brutal terrorist groups.

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