Youth in America

In 2001, with funding from the MacArthur Foundation, sociologists Patrick J. Carr and Maria J. Kefalas moved to Iowa to understand the rural brain ...

Reducere. DescriptionWho was the Mysterious 355? Culper Ring members such as Robert Townsend and Hercules Mulligan are well known for the part they played in...

Reducere. DescriptionRead This, Save Lives has been written by 16 year old Sameer Jha to help teachers create classrooms and schools where gay, lesbian, bise...

John Muir's Memoir of How He Became The Wandering NaturalistThis deluxe, unabridged reprint Legacy Edition of John Muir's 1913 The Story Of My Boyh...

Reducere. Named by the Library of Congress in a 2012 exhibit as among the top "100 Books that Shaped America, " this two-volume set contains 500 stories and ...

Reducere. Have you ever wondered if God still speaks through His children? Is there such a thing as a modern-day profit? Johnny Love is here to tell you the ...

Reducere. History as it's supposed to be told: true and thrilling. History is about so much more than memorizing facts. It is, as more than half of the word ...

Reducere. DescriptionIf you have ever felt out of place living in the modern world, Retroculture gives you the option to dwell in a different era.Addressing ...

Reducere. "It is rare that you come across a new voice as authentic as Dana Lone Hill. She writes with passion and determination about a side of America that...

Reducere. New spiritually-based solutions are needed to solve some of the complex problems found in today's youth. Mr. Koehler courageously presents parents ...

Reducere. Homespun humor about the way we live, from the pleasant futility of salmon fishing and the joys of Halloween, to quiet afternoons with soap opera f...

Reducere. Updated and revised for 2021. Fear Unmasked 2.0 provides more resources to kill the spirit of fear and giving YOU an action plan to save America.Th...

Reducere. Columbia University Refugee Project - Hungary 1945-1956While the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 may be largely forgotten by many in America, it is de...

Reducere. With the average life expectancy in America increasing during the last century from roughly 50 years of age to around 80, we have an opportunity to...

Reducere. Thousands of artistic graphic illustrations, from motorcycles to health food and including rock posters, surf, and skateboard art, jump off these p...

A battle can be won or lost with one decision. Victory or defeat is often a matter of inches. To win, you have to be in the battle, not watching fr...

Reducere. DescriptionDuring an era characterized by both hijabi fashion models and enduring post-9/11 stereotypes, ten Muslim American teenagers came togethe...

Reducere. First published in Switzerland in 1892, finally printed in Russia in 1906, and never before translated into English, �Nihilist Girl�is the coming-o...

Reducere. This informative resource responds to recent developments in social work practices in North America and abroad through its exploration of anti-oppr...

Ayanna Bahati lives in a small African village when she is brutally kidnapped, along with her brother, and forced onto a slave ship to America. As ...

Reducere. DescriptionYoung Lance is his father's son when it comes to the daring needed for gaining honors in the war councils of the plains Sioux. Even grea...

Reducere. Bluebonnets and lady's slippers, larkspurs and blazing stars, black-eyed Susans and Granny's nightcaps.From a lonely childhood in the Piney Woods o...

Reducere. "Extraordinary...reach[es] a new, unexpected, dissident realism." --Alejandro Zambra, author of My Documents and Multiple ChoiceAlone again in a Ch...

A richly illustrated journey through the extraordinary cinematic worlds of beloved filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki For over four decades, Hayao Miyazaki h...

Reducere. Key textile works by Feliciano Centuri n, combining folk art and queer aesthetics in 1990s South America Through the embroidery and painting of ver...

Reducere. In this deeply felt, unforgettable book, Bill Reynolds journeys with a high school basketball team through the past and present of an American town...

Make the Dream of a Long Distance Thru-Hike a Reality Have you been dreaming of the summer when you can hike the Appalachian Trail? Or marvel at th...

Hispanics are 100% Hispanic and 100% American. They believe in the American dream and are incredible contributors to this country. US Hispanics rep...

Reducere. Once upon a time Corporate America paid certain people huge fees to tell organizations what they were doing wrong. These men and women really knew ...

Reducere. "The Buddha's teachings are not a philosophy or a religion; they are a call to action and invitation to revolution." Noah Levine, author of the nat...

Reducere. Imagine a world without Twitter, Facebook, iTunes, or television... Little did the Framers of the United States Constitution know that their work w...

Parents want to do everything they can to help their kids - most importantly, praying for them. But what exactly should they pray? Blaine Bartel, A...

Reducere. This seventh instalment in the memoirs of the Georgian rogue Thomas Flashman reveals that, despite his suffering through the Napoleonic Wars, he di...

Juanita lives in New York and is Mexican. Felipe lives in Chicago and is Panamanian, Venezuelan, and black. Michiko lives in Los Angeles and is Per...

Reducere. Black churches in America have long been recognized as the most independent, stable, and dominant institutions in black communities. In The Black C...

Reducere. Most Americans fall far too short in achieving long-lasting financial success in retirement. Conventional wealth building wisdom has been leading A...

Reducere. You're one of millions of immigrants leaving your home in the early 1900s to move to the United States. You're searching for a better life. Ellis I...

The British studio potter Michael Cardew (1901-1983) was a man of paradox, a modernist who disliked modernity, a colonial servant who despised Empi...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Paul K. LongmoreEditor: Lauri UmanskyDisability has always been a preoccupation of American society and culture. From anteb...

Reducere. We need young people to be civically engaged in order to define and address public problems. Their participation is important for democracy, for in...

Reducere. In 1969 America had proved its leadership in human spaceflight but among the nation's youth an anti-technology mindset was growing. Princeton Physi...

Reducere. After years abroad, Jasper Wainwright returns to Beaufort, South Carolina, home of his unruly youth. Slavery and Sea Island cotton have made this s...

Reducere. (Grades 2-5) Anxiety is a subjective sense of worry, apprehension, and/or fear. It is considered to be the number one health problem in America. Al...

Your one-stop guide to becoming a product management prodigy Product management plays a pivotal role in organizations. In fact, it's now considered...

Reducere. A young man in a virgin land, a sweeping saga alive with the courage, challenge, danger and adventure that was the American frontier.In 1825 the di...

Reducere. DescriptionA "beast" and a "dinosaur" to some, an "extremist" to the mainstream Church and media, and a hero to loving and loyal admirers, Bishop R...

DescriptionA timely defense of religious diversity and its centrality to American identityAmerica is the most religiously diverse nation on the pla...

Reducere. Celebrate 30 influential Latinas/Latinos/Latinxs in U.S. history with Nuestra Am rica, a fully-illustrated anthology from the Smithsonian Latino Ce...

Reducere. On November 5, 1999, 14-year-old Camille Arfmann stepped off a school bus in the small Kansas town of Oskaloosa and was never again seen alive. A f...

Reducere. Finding the Bones is a dark romance set against the youth rebellion and revolutionary violence of the 1910s-an era not unlike 1960s' America-where ...

An unprecedented comparison of juvenile justice systems across the globe, Juvenile Justice in Global Perspective brings together original contribut...

Reducere. A candid and insightful look at an era and a life through the eyes of one of the most remarkable Americans of the twentieth century, First Lady and...

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

Reducere. A "ripped from the headlines" thriller about one of the most complex - and personal - national security issues of our modern world.When FBI Special...

The acclaimed and now-classic biographical novel of Walter Benjamin's last days--adapted into screenplay by Jay Parini. It is 1940. For the past de...

Reducere. In The American Dream for Students of Color, the tenets of the American Dream as a merit narrative enacted in schools are examined to better unders...

Reducere. Tree of Hope chronicles Cara Wilson-Granat's extraordinary twenty-year friendship with Otto Frank, father of Anne Frank, featuring their long corre...

Reducere. Tree of Hope chronicles Cara Wilson-Granat's extraordinary twenty-year friendship with Otto Frank, father of Anne Frank, featuring their long corre...

Andrew Jackson tells the story of one of our most controversial presidents. Born in the Carolina backwoods, Jackson joined the American Revolutiona...

Reducere. Based on exclusive, personal interviews with Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Joseph Pearce's book provides profound insight into a towering literary and po...

DescriptionWINNER: 2017 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize"Maybe this is the year, this is the moment, this is the dance where your lives will start "Some...

Who will lead America in the years to come? Letters from Young Activists introduces America's bold, exciting, new generation of activists. These di...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Dana Berkowitz One of NPR's Best Books of 2017 The first in-depth social investigation into the development and rising popu...

Reducere. Baldwin's Harlem is an intimate portrait of the life and genius of one of our most brilliant literary minds: James Baldwin. Perhaps no other writer...

This comprehensive international study provides a cross-national analysis of different understandings of errors and mistakes, as well as lessons to...

Reducere. Billionaire. Hotelier. Part-Owner of the Miss USA pageant. Author. Philanthropist. Reality television star. Consumer brand. President of the United...

Reducere. Vinyl 1Side A: The Loveliest Night Of The Year (From "The Great Caruso")Where Do I Begin? (From "Love Story")Maria (From "West Side Story")The Cide...

Reducere. Challenges, Hard Truths and Effective Strategies for African American Leaders Author and Retired US Army Sergeant Major Matt Drayton is back with a...

Reducere. Henry James left America in 1875 for the sake of his art and for the rich cultural heritage of Europe. His return in the late summer of 1904, based...

Reducere. Attorney Shawn Rossi could have earned a fortune. He could have worked at big firms in booming cities and sunnier climes.Instead, he returned to Pi...