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The Nature of Adolescence
ISBN: 9780415564205 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The new edition of this successful textbook provides an up-to-date introduction to all of the key features of adolescent development. While drawing on the North American literature on adolescence, it highlights European perspectives and also provides unique coverage of the topic by summarising and reviewing what is known about adolescence from a British viewpoint. Comprehensively updated and rewritten, this edition includes material on new topics such as: * The development of the adolescent brain * Sleep patterns in adolescence * Parenting programmes for parents of teenagers * Health,...
The new edition of this successful textbook provides an up-to-date introduction to all of the key features of adolescent development. While drawing on...
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Coming of Age in America: The Transition to Adulthood in the Twenty-First Century
ISBN: 9780520270930 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What is it like to become an adult in twenty-first-century America? This book takes us to four very different places--New York City, San Diego, rural Iowa, and Saint Paul, Minnesota--to explore the dramatic shifts in coming-of-age experiences across the country. Drawing from in-depth interviews with people in their twenties and early thirties, it probes experiences and decisions surrounding education, work, marriage, parenthood, and housing. The first study to systematically explore this phenomenon from a qualitative perspective, Coming of Age in America offers a clear view of how...
What is it like to become an adult in twenty-first-century America? This book takes us to four very different places--New York City, San Diego, rural ...
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128,10 |
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Queen Bees And Wannabes for the Facebook Generation: Helping your teenage daughter survive cliques, gossip, bullying and boyfriends
ISBN: 9780749924379 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written in a down-to-earth style and packed with examples and tips, this work is an invaluable guide for parents to empower their daughters and themselves.
Written in a down-to-earth style and packed with examples and tips, this work is an invaluable guide for parents to empower their daughters and themse...
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70,57 |
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Youth Culture in China: From Red Guards to Netizens. Paul Clark
ISBN: 9781107016514 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The lives and aspirations of young Chinese (those between 14 and 26 years old) have been transformed in the past five decades. By examining youth cultures around three historical points 1968, 1988, and 2008 this book argues that present-day youth culture in China has both international and local roots. Paul Clark describes how the Red Guards and sent-down youth of the Cultural Revolution era carved out a space for themselves, asserting their distinctive identities, despite tight political controls. By the late 1980s, Chinese-style rock music, sports, and other recreations began to influence...
The lives and aspirations of young Chinese (those between 14 and 26 years old) have been transformed in the past five decades. By examining youth cult...
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366,01 |
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Realizing the Potential of Immigrant Youth
ISBN: 9781107019508 / Angielski / Twarda / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume brings together leading scholars on immigrant youth to discuss current research and its implications for policy and intervention.
This volume brings together leading scholars on immigrant youth to discuss current research and its implications for policy and intervention.
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Girl Making: A Cross-Cultural Ethnography on the Processes of Growing Up Female
ISBN: 9781571814265 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. ." . . a big, rich book . . . a well-crafted book. Just like teenage girls, it is dramatic, entertaining, and endearing."?- JRAI ." . . an exhaustive study, theoretically sophisticated, beautifully written, and an enlightening read." - Australian Women's Book Review Through the innovative methodology of asking them to record their experiences on videotape, this book offers an evocative and fascinating cross-cultural exploration into the everyday lives of a number of teenage girls from their own broad social, cultural and ethnic perspectives. The use of the video camera by the girls themselves...
." . . a big, rich book . . . a well-crafted book. Just like teenage girls, it is dramatic, entertaining, and endearing."?- JRAI ." . . an exhaustive ...
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Growing Up Absurd
ISBN: 9781590175811 / Angielski / Miękka / 279 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Paul Goodman's Growing Up Absurd was a runaway best seller when it was first published in 1960, and it became one of the defining texts of the New Left. Goodman was a writer and thinker who broke every mold and did it brilliantly--he was a novelist, poet, and a social theorist, among a host of other things--and the book's surprise success established him as one of America's most unusual and trenchant critics, combining vast learning, an astute mind, utopian sympathies, and a wonderfully hands-on way with words.
For Goodman, the unhappiness of young people was a concentrated form of... Paul Goodman's Growing Up Absurd was a runaway best seller when it was first published in 1960, and it became one of the defining texts of the ...
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Asperger's Syndrome and Sexuality: From Adolescence Through Adulthood
ISBN: 9781843101895 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Playing the dating game is often tricky: all the more so for individuals with Asperger's Syndrome. This book gives information and advice on issues ranging from puberty and sexual development, gender identity disorders, couples' therapy to guidelines for sex education programs and maintaining sexual boundaries.
Playing the dating game is often tricky: all the more so for individuals with Asperger's Syndrome. This book gives information and advice on issues ra...
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Understanding 12-14-Year-Olds
ISBN: 9781843103677 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How much independence should parents allow teenagers who claim rights and privileges, show excessive confidence and test the boundaries of discipline? How can parents handle the physical and emotional changes in their adolescent child? This book offers helpful advice to parents whose children have reached the turbulent teenage years. From conflict management to issues of bullying, stealing and smoking, it guides parents as their children alternate between maturity and immaturity and develop their own identity. It explains the impact of school life, group pressures and close friendships on...
How much independence should parents allow teenagers who claim rights and privileges, show excessive confidence and test the boundaries of discipline?...
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66,56 |
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Between Marx and Coca-Cola: Youth Cultures in Changing European Societies, 1960-1980
ISBN: 9781845453336 / Angielski / Miękka / 436 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the 1960s and 1970s, Western Europe's "Golden Age," a new youth consciousness emerged which gave this period its distinctive character. Offering rich, new material, this volume challenges and moves beyond the easy conflation of European youth culture and "Americanization." It instead sets out to show, for the first time, how international developments fused with national traditions to produce specific youth cultures that then became the leading trendsetters of emergent postindustrial Western societies. This important new study presents a multifaceted portrait of European youth cultures,...
In the 1960s and 1970s, Western Europe's "Golden Age," a new youth consciousness emerged which gave this period its distinctive character. Offering ri...
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Sex, Thugs and Rock 'n' Roll: Teenage Rebels in Cold-War East Germany
ISBN: 9781845457181 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Mark Fenemore's ambitious yet admirably compact...provides a wide-ranging, richly detailed, nuanced, and insightful cultural and social history of (predominantly male) youth nonconformity in the GDR...this book belongs in the latest generation of pioneering cultural and social histories of the GDR that suggest new approaches and future paths for comparative study." - American Historical Review
..".an insightful, constantly thought-provoking and engaging analysis of the tension between the young people of the GDR and the SED's state system. While historians of the GDR will undoubtedly find... "Mark Fenemore's ambitious yet admirably compact...provides a wide-ranging, richly detailed, nuanced, and insightful cultural and social history of (p...
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Teenage: The Creation of Youth: 1875-1945
ISBN: 9781845951467 / Angielski / Miękka / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. We roam London, New York, Paris and Berlin with hooligans and Apaches; explore free love with Rupert Brooke and eternal youth with Peter Pan; we meet flappers and zootsuiters and the Bright Young Things, the unemployed and the Lost Generation. This title tells the story of how we got to that moment.
We roam London, New York, Paris and Berlin with hooligans and Apaches; explore free love with Rupert Brooke and eternal youth with Peter Pan; we meet ...
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Teenagers: A Natural History
ISBN: 9781846271229 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why do teenagers need so much sleep? Why do their feet begin to smell? Why are they suddenly attracted to sex, drugs and rock and roll? This book provides the biological, anthropological, zoological, and cultural answers.
Why do teenagers need so much sleep? Why do their feet begin to smell? Why are they suddenly attracted to sex, drugs and rock and roll? This book prov...
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Something about Sally
ISBN: 9781490807232 / Angielski / Miękka / 24 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the story of friendship and acceptance and follows two middle-school girls, one who lives with her mother in a nice home and the other who lives in a homeless shelter. The story follows the journey these girls take as they build their friendship and promotes the values of caring, generosity, and compassion for those who are less fortunate.
This is the story of friendship and acceptance and follows two middle-school girls, one who lives with her mother in a nice home and the other who ... |
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Stranger to the Truth
ISBN: 9781491813379 / Angielski / Twarda / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How does a privileged, eighteen year old end up in prison, convicted of one of the rarest of crimes--matricide? The literary nonfiction Stranger to the Truth explores the fatal intersection in the lives of Noura Jackson, her circle of dissolute Memphis friends, and the death of Noura's mother, Jennifer, on the eve of a popular outdoor festival. The brutal attack seemed to reflect personal and exponential rage. Tragedy stalked Noura. Her father was fatally shot when she was seventeen. A mystery never solved. A year later an auto accident claimed her best friend. Both mother and daughter were...
How does a privileged, eighteen year old end up in prison, convicted of one of the rarest of crimes--matricide? The literary nonfiction Stranger to th...
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Stranger to the Truth
ISBN: 9781491813393 / Angielski / Miękka / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How does a privileged, eighteen year old end up in prison, convicted of one of the rarest of crimes--matricide? The literary nonfiction Stranger to the Truth explores the fatal intersection in the lives of Noura Jackson, her circle of dissolute Memphis friends, and the death of Noura's mother, Jennifer, on the eve of a popular outdoor festival. The brutal attack seemed to reflect personal and exponential rage. Tragedy stalked Noura. Her father was fatally shot when she was seventeen. A mystery never solved. A year later an auto accident claimed her best friend. Both mother and daughter were...
How does a privileged, eighteen year old end up in prison, convicted of one of the rarest of crimes--matricide? The literary nonfiction Stranger to th...
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Sex Esteem
ISBN: 9781512736915 / Angielski / Miękka / 54 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sex Esteem is about navigating through the worlds ideas of sexuality compared with understanding the truth of who we are in God. It is a book that is targeted primarily for young ladies first encountering feelings of finding their worth through attention, image, and control. It is also for wives, and singles who are on a journey of their own and how biblical sexuality comes into play for both worlds. Sex Esteem is a story of how to find your esteem in who you were made by as opposed to who thinks your cute Sex Esteem is about navigating through the worlds ideas of sexuality compared with understanding the truth of who we are in God. It is a book that ... |
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Young People Making a Life
ISBN: 9781349361748 / Angielski / Miękka / 243 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the challenge of making a life: finding meaning, livelihood and social connectedness. Drawing on research with young people, the analysis goes beyond traditional treatment of youth issues or 'problems', providing discussion of topics like young people's learning and work, their creativity, wellbeing and active citizenship.
This book explores the challenge of making a life: finding meaning, livelihood and social connectedness. Drawing on research with young people, the an...
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The Myth of Peer Pressure
ISBN: 9781512733648 / Angielski / Miękka / 52 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Have you ever done something you didnt want to do just to be accepted by your friends?
Have you ever done something you didnt want to do just to be accepted by your friends?
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Domesticating Youth: Youth Bulges and Their Socio-Political Implications in Tajikistan
ISBN: 9781785332128 / Angielski / Miękka / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Most of the Muslim societies of the world have entered a demographic transition from high to low fertility, and this process is accompanied by an increase in youth vis-a-vis other age groups. Political scientists and historians have debated whether such a "youth bulge" increases the potential for conflict or whether it represents a chance to accumulate wealth and push forward social and technological developments. This book introduces the discussion about youth bulge into social anthropology using Tajikistan, a post-Soviet country that experienced civil war in the 1990s, which is in the... Most of the Muslim societies of the world have entered a demographic transition from high to low fertility, and this process is accompanied by an ... |
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