Coming of Age in the 21st Century: Growing Up in America Today, Paperback - Mary Frosch

Reducere. Following in the footsteps of the highly successful Coming of Age in America and Coming of Age Around the World, this new anthology of fiction and ...

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Reducere. In Hippie Chick, a rebellious teenager finds her mother dead in the bathroom. To save her from living alone with a difficult father, her older sist...

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Publisher: New York University PressAuthor(s): Jesica Siham FernandezIllustration(s): 2 b/w illustrationsNumber of pages: 264Collection: Critical P...

`Among the most moving documents I have read in years ... You will not forget it' Elie Wiesel

Reducere. The Last Gentleman Adventurer: Coming of Age in the Arctic, Paperback

Reducere. DescriptionThe voices of the children and teenagers who witnessed the colonies' transformation to an independent nation have seldom been heard. Thi...

Description"Corn-Fed" is a nostalgic romp through growing up in the Midwest. Poignant, humorous, and honest, "Corn-Fed" will take you from childhoo...

Reducere. William Powell wrote The Anarchist Cookbook in 1969 at the age of nineteen. It included everything from making bombs to brewing LSD in the bathroom...

In this book Ryan Salzman examines the political potential of placemaking, an increasingly popular set of behaviors that were unfamiliar to the Ame...

Reducere. Like the surge of tidal flood waters that come right before a hurricane, angry feelings about the Steven Gilleys of the world began to rise inside ...

Coming of Age in Nineteenth-Century India: The Girl-Child and the Art of Playfulness - Ruby Lal

Reducere. Within hours of the attacks on the World Trade Center, misdirected assaults on Sikhs and other South Asians flared in communities across the nation...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom a leading journalist and activist comes a brave, beautifully wrought memoir.When Darnell Moore was fourteen, three boys from his ne...

Reducere. Moody's famous autobiography is a classic work on growing up poor and Black in the rural South. Her searing account of life before the Civil Rights...

Reducere. Written without a trace of sentimentality or apology, this is an unforgettable personal story--the truth as a remarkable young woman named Anne Moo...

Reducere. DESCRIPTION This unique volume contains twenty-eight fascinating life stories of people -- many of whom went on to become famous -- who grew up in ...

Reducere. Nonfiction storytelling is at its best in this anthology of excerpts from memoirs by thirty authors--some eminent, some less well known--who grew u...

Seen through the eyes of an intellectually ambitious son of immigrant parents, Concrete Steps is the story of a boy growing up in the 1940s and '50...

Reducere. DescriptionNamed to Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2015 The Newspaper Boy is a remarkable collection of memories and personal reflections of the deep...

A darkly funny, big-hearted and moving memoir about growing up in New York City's legendary Chelsea Hotel.

Reducere. It's June 1953 and ten-year-old Marc Straus is in his mother's car, getting sick from her cigarette smoke on his way to a Hebrew lesson. He and his...

Much of what we know about life in the medieval Islamic Middle East comes from texts written to impart religious ideals or to chronicle the movemen...

Reducere. As far back as she can remember, Azadeh Moaveni has felt at odds with her tangled identity as an Iranian-American. In suburban America, Azadeh live...

Reducere. Poverty in America too often goes unnoticed, and disregarded. This perhaps results from America's general level of prosperity along with a fairly w...

Reducere. The first comprehensive resource for chaplains and campus ministers of all faith traditions--a vital resource for ministry in multifaith and secula...

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Dave Foreman takes on arguably the biggest ecological threat of our time: the global extinction crisis. He not only explains the problem in clear a...

"Coming of Age in Jim Crow DC explores the racial politics of everyday life in DC."

Millions of people around the world today spend portions of their lives in online virtual worlds. Second Life is one of the largest of these virtua...

The stories and poems in my book tell of my life growing up in a small Mexican barrio, or neighborhood, in Modesto, California, during the 1940s, 1...

Imagine you were a child in Victorian times. What was your day like? What did you wear, eat and play with? Did you go to school, or out to work? Fi...

As the educational landscape of America continues to evolve and diversify, college faculty and administrators must be cutting edge in their approac...

Reducere. This book represents not only the storms of life which the authors have experienced but also their unquenchable hope for a better tomorrow. For eac...

Examines the economic, social, and political roles of Paleolithic children.Publisher: Oxbow BooksAuthor(s): April NowellIllustration(s): b/wNumber ...

Publisher: Nova Science Publishers IncIllustration(s): tablesNumber of pages: 187Publication date: 2003Dimensions: 263 x 186 x 18Cover type: Hardba...

This book outlines the effects that technology-induced change will have on sport within the next five to ten years, and provides food for thought c...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Michael Gaulden His life was barely worth a dollar. He slept outside, on park benches, in stairwells, under bushes. Michael...

Publisher: Penguin USAAuthor(s): Margarita LongoriaNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 140 x 210 x 20Cover type: Paperback / soft...

Reducere. Rarely do science and literature come together in the same book. When they do -- as in Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, for example -- th...

Steve Biddulph's Raising Boys was a global phenomenon. The first book in a generation to look at boys' specific needs, parents loved its clarity an...

Reducere. *This superb anthology of short stories, comics, and poems is fresh, funny, and full of authentic YA voices revealing what it means to be Mexican A...

Deals with the toothpaste and toothbrush industries from 1900 to 2008. This book shows that during these years, America moved from a nation of peop...

Orthodox Theology in the 20th century and early 21st century

The year 2011 marked the first time in U.S. history where more nonwhite babies were born than white babies. Academic year 2014-15 marked the first ...

Reducere. This is the 2nd in the American Contract Bridge League's series of bridge books for beginning and advancing players. Successfully used by students ...

DescriptionWhich mindset do you think existing Boards and CEOs are in when it comes to HRDs being able to make the move to CEO? Have you ever asked...

A collection of poignant, relatable essays from the author of Never Have I Ever about coming out in her late twenties, entering into her first rela...

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