Simon Malone was racked with grief when his wife passed away suddenly in childbirth, taking their still-born son to the grave with her. Filled with hopeless grief and seeking any thrill, he turned to a life of crime with his friend Bill. Fed up with working on the railroads, they both turned to train robbery and even picked up an extra hand along the way. Not sure of Tommy’s character, they allowed the young boy to journey with them in their grand heists. Stopping into a town for a brief respite, they had a very eventful night at the town saloon. One patron dead and one of the saloon ladies found strangled, the town sheriff and his brazen daughter rush in to investigate the crime. Their eyes met across the room and Simon knew he had to meet this curly-haired, opinionated beauty. Scarlet had always managed to get her way, which is how she avoided being forced into settling on one of the town men and assisted her father on grand investigations of crime. This is also how she got away with ignoring her father’s protests that she assist in the saloon murder. Ignoring the town gossips, she walked through life without much of a care, until she met the green-eyed mystery man named Simon. When their bank heist goes terribly awry, Simon rushes in to save Scarlet, exposing the truth about him and ruining any hope of love with the goody-two-shoes sheriff’s daughter.

If you’re an actress or a coed just trying to do a man-size job, a yes-man who turns a deaf ear to some sob sister, an heiress aboard her yacht, or a bookworm enjoying a boy’s night out, Diane Ravitch’s internationally acclaimed The Language Police has bad news for you: Erase those words from your vocabulary! Textbook publishers and state education agencies have sought to root out racist, sexist, and elitist language in classroom and library materials. But according to Diane Ravitch, a leading historian of education, what began with the best of intentions has veered toward bizarre extremes. At a time when we celebrate and encourage diversity, young readers are fed bowdlerized texts, devoid of the references that give these works their meaning and vitality. With forceful arguments and sensible solutions for rescuing American education from the pressure groups that have made classrooms bland and uninspiring, The Language Police offers a powerful corrective to a cultural scandal.

Vols. 29-47, 1913-1931 and v. 72-79, 1956-1963 include Scottish Land Court reports, v. 1-19 and v. 44-51.

The first comprehensive account of how the law and practice of child protection in Scotland has developed from its earliest origins to the present day, within the context of a changing world Key FeaturesPlaces the Scottish juvenile court in worldwide perspective and explores why the juvenile court ideals remain central to the contemporary children's hearing system in Scotland, dealing with both child offenders and neglected and abused children.Gives detailed analysis of the legislation and explores the parliamentary debates surrounding Acts including the Children Act 1908, the Adoption of Children (Scotland) Act 1930, the Children and Young Persons (Scotland) Acts 1932 and 1937, the Children Act 1948, the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968, the Children (Scotland) Act 1995 and the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014Preserves in accessible form many long-forgotten legal and social aims, cases and secondary legislation Kenneth Norrie traces the assumptions that underlay child protection law at particular periods of time and identifies the pressures for change - giving a clearer understanding of how and why the contemporary law is designed and operates as it does.Particular issues are traced in legislative detail, including court processes, the changing thresholds for state intervention, the increasing regulation of children's homes and foster care, the developing rules on corporal punishment and the earlier practice of compulsory emigration to the colonies of children removed from their parents. The transformation of adoption is also covered in comprehensive detail. In drawing out key themes and common threads, Norrie sets contemporary developments against their historical context and offers a fuller understanding of child protection law in Scotland.