Young People, Place and Identity offers a series of rich insights into young people’s everyday lives. What places do young people engage with on a daily basis? How do they use these places? How
In this two-volume set, a series of expert contributors look at what it means to be a boy growing up in North America, with entries covering everything from toys and games, friends and family, and ps
Children in Turkey have vastly different odds of success. Their paths are affected by factors over which they have no control, such as how wealthy or educated their parents---and even grandparents---
A Girl's Guide toLife offers girls a fun, healthy approach to facing their adolescent years. This complete resource helps teenage girls deal with all thetraumas, dramas, and triumphs in their lives.
A new approach which problematizes the category of contemporary adulthood, this book includes chapters on demographic change; becoming thirtysomething; graduates and work; mental health and happiness;
The chapters in this edited collection examine how the culture of masculinity in tersects with issues of health, homophobia, and the suppression and silencing of anxieties about body image among men
"The Lord Jesus Christ is far beyond what most of us could ever dream or imagine. His greatness, His beauty, and His splendor are unknown to many Christians today. This is why a fresh look at Him---a
If you don't know your WiFi from your HiFi, your BlackBerry from your Burberry, Bluetooth from Blue Peter, or a JPEG from a clothes peg... join the club.Do you despair at your daily struggles with gi
An Alternative ABCs where F is for Flames, P is for Peace, S is for Skateboard and T is for Tattoo. This is the board book that Soccer Moms run from and Rocker Moms gravitate to. A humoro
The United States and its allies invaded Iraq seven years ago. Today the country is still at war, and no one can claim that true democracy has come. Four million Iraqis have been displaced, and about
Inclusion and Exclusion of Young Adult Migrants in Europe presents analyses of research carried out during the course of the EUMARGINS research project, exploring the inclusion and exclusion of young
This book is an intellectual tour de force: a comprehensive Darwinian interpretation of human development. Looking at the entire range of human evolutionary history, Melvin Konner tells the compelling
As early childhood programs implement response to intervention, the Individual Growth and Development Indecators (IGDIs) will be the tool of choice for reliable, ongoing progress monitoring. That's wh
"With one in five children in the United States today being raised by immigrant parents, understanding the conditions that foster or impede their success is a top priority for both social science rese
"An international team of researchers videoed a day in the life of two-and-a-half-year-old girls at home in Canada, Italy, Peru, Thailand, Turkey, the UK and the USA. Different paths to wellbeing are
For the past 20 years, a range of scholars, educators, and cultural workers have examined dominant discourses of "childhood" using critical, feminist, and other postmodern perspectives. Located in a
Rethinking Children and Research considers the way people approach research into childhood and children's lives and examines the debates concerning the forms and g
Rethinking Children and Research considers the way people approach research into childhood and children's lives and examines the debates concerning the forms and g
Russia's Skinheads: Exploring and Rethinking Subcultural Lives provides a thorough examination of the phenomenon of skinheads, explaining its nature and its significance, and assessing how far Russian
A pitch-perfect account of how hip-hop culture drew in the author and how his father drew him out again-with love, perseverance, and fifteen thousand books. Into Williams's childhood home-a one-sto
