In an age of globalisation, the most pressing concerns are with matters of identity, personal and collective. This book explores the culture of nationality, groups and religions through the inner lives of second generation immigrants in England.The young people studied reveal surprising and sophisticated as well as complex attitudes. They reveal the contradictions, the opportunities and the dangers of their collective identities, and reveal how they are able to make use for good or ill their pos...
Jerry Thomas Bartenders Guide 1862 Reprint: How to Mix Drinks
by Dr Jerry Thomas
The young people defined as "Gen Xers" in the media and popular imagination almost never include poor or working-class young adults. These young people - a huge and important part of our society - are misrepresented and silent in our national conversation. In The Unknown City, Michelle Fine and Lois Weis offer a groundbreaking, theoretically sophisticated ethnography of the lives of young adults (ages 23 to 35), based on hundreds of interviews. We discover their views on everything from the cons...
The Etiology and Prevention of Drug Abuse Among Minority Youth
by Dr Steven Schinke and Dr Gilbert J Botvin
How to Easily Start a Conversation with a Girl and Keep It Going
Urban Youth and Photovoice: Visual Ethnography in Action
by Professor of Social Work Melvin Delgado
Discover a movement of Christian young people who are rebelling against the low expectations of their culture by choosing to “do hard things” for the glory of God. Foreword by Chuck Norris • “One of the most life-changing, family-changing, church-changing, and culture-changing books of this generation.”—Randy Alcorn, bestselling author of Heaven Combating the idea of adolescence as a vacation from responsibility, Alex and Brett Harris weave together biblical insights, history, and modern e...
A Real Emotional Girl tells the true story of young Tanya, growing up in the wonderland of her family's summer camp. At sixteen, this idyllic life is interrupted when she must face her father's sudden illness. Tanya, her mother, and two brothers find themselves cramped in a tiny cabin in a tiny town in northern Wisconsin in the dead of winter. There they wait for her father to die of cancer. Separated from friends and civilization, Tanya has only her fears and uncertainty for company. At the ag...
"The unique thing about Ms. Langford's approach is that she writes from her own childhood memories...from the perspective of what she wishes she'd been told by her parents. This makes her words powerful-especially for parents of teenagers."-Linda and Richard Eyre Authors of Teaching your Children Values and How to Talk to Your Child About SEX. Parents know it's important to talk to their kids about sex and dating but they don't always know how. As a former teenage runaway who turned her life aro...