Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society, Paperback - Paul Goodman

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 ...

How do young people get by in hard times and hard places? Based on close-up research with young men and women from localities suffering social excl...

Brings together new scholarship that considers the role of children and teenagers in shaping American political life during the decades following t...

War and the Crisis of Youth in Sierra Leone - Krijn Peters

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Martin Sanchez-JankowskiIllustration(s): 13 line art, 4 tablesNumber of pages: 288Publication d...

Publisher: Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, WydawnictwoAuthor(s): Anna Paszkowska-rogaNumber of pages: 176Publication date: 2018Dimensions: 169 x 238 x 15...

Publisher: Profile Books LtdAuthor(s): Paul GoodmanNumber of pages: 470Publication date: 1994Dimensions: 197 x 129 x 36Cover type: Paperback / soft...

Reducere. Resilience is a much-talked-about topic these days. The view that resilience is an important aspect of mental well-being has been gaining attention...

DescriptionThis bold new set of interpretations of tragedy offers innovative analyses of the dynamic between politics and youth in the ancient worl...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. In this compelling study of the children of serial migrants, Danau Tanu argues that the international schools they attend promote an ideology of be...

What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas... But what happens to the people who grow up there?Publisher: UnboundAuthor(s): Timothy O'GradyNumber of pag...

Reducere. In the tradition of Jo Ann Beard's Boys of My Youth, and Mary Karr'sThe Liar's Club, Paula McLain has written a powerful and haunting memoir about ...

Adopting a mixed-method and multilevel perspective, this book provides a comprehensive investigation into the multifaceted consequences of social e...

A revelatory biography of the notorious Irish criminal John Gilligan, and the eagerly anticipated next true crime blockbuster from awardwinning Iri...

A revelatory biography of the notorious Irish criminal John Gilligan, and the eagerly anticipated next true crime blockbuster from awardwinning Iri...

DescriptionBased on the hugely popular blog of the same name, Born This Way shares 100 different memories of growing up LGBTQ. Childhood photograph...

Today's gay man enjoys unprecedented, hard-won social acceptance. Despite this victory, however, serious problems still exist. Substance abuse, dep...

Was the 1960s really that great time of liberation, joyful experimentation and celebration of youth? For this wide-ranging and eye-opening survey o...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

How did the fact become modernity's most favored unit of knowledge? How did description come to seem separable from theory in the precursors of eco...

A Catholic guide for parent and child to discuss the child's emerging sexuality.Reviews: "I thank Carolyn J. Smith for thoughtfully and prayerfully...

This new study explores how British youth was made, and how it made itself, over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Highlighting both change a...

Reducere. Growing Up Disabled in Australia is the fifth book in the highly acclaimed, bestselling Growing Up series. It includes interviews with prominent Au...

Reducere. In the wee hours of the night, her child-self awakens her and speaks of experiencing a convoluted type of abuse- narcissistic parental abuse. No lo...

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 ...

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

Reducere. This diverse neighborhood in the shadow of LaGuardia Airport was once called "Manhattan's Bedroom." Famous comedians, actors, physicians, scientist...

Reducere. "No adult can escape the adult perspective; but simply recognizing its inevitable limitations in a children's world enables a few gifted educators ...

Reducere. In this stunning, lyrical memoir that includes a curriculum guide, author Chun Yu recalls the Chinese Cultural Revolution from the perspective of a...