Language: history and general works

Named a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title for 2009Romanticism and the Rise of English addresses a peculiar development in contemporary literary criticism: the disappearance of the history of the English language as a relevant topic.

The cities of Saudi Arabia are among the most gender segregated in the world.

People's experiences of racial inequality in adulthood are well documented, but less attention is given to the racial inequalities that children and adolescents face.

This pathbreaking book examines the strategies, successes, and challenges of youth advocacy organizations, highlighting the importance of local contexts for these efforts.

The East Asian economic miracle of the twentieth century is now a fond memory.

The Outcast Majority invites policymakers, practitioners, academics, students, and others to think about three commanding contemporary issues-war, development, and youth-in new ways.

Technology and Adolescent Health: In Schools and Beyond discusses how today's adolescents are digital natives, using technology at home and in school to access information, for entertainment, to socialize and do schoolwork.

Adolescence is both universal and culturally constructed, resulting in diverse views about its defining characteristics.

The period of adolescence involves growth, adaptation, and dramatic reorganization in almost every aspect of social and psychological development.

Practical Ethics for Effective Treatment of Autism Spectrum Disorder is for behavior analysts working directly with, or supervising those who work with, individuals with autism.

Teenagers, Sexual Health Information and the Digital Age examines the online resources available on teenagers, including games and digital interventions.

How 19th-century soldier, adventurer and scholar Henry Rawlinson deciphered cuneiform, the world's earliest writing, and rediscovered Iraq's ancient civilisations.

This book examines antagonistic fan communication on Chinese social media, focusing on the sociolinguistic dimensions and digital strategies in fandom discourse of Chinese celebrities to engage in broader questions around language, social media, and fan culture.

Remote Fieldwork Supervision for BCBA(R) Trainees prepares BCBAs for supervising certification candidates, providing structure, scope, and sequence for supervision, as well as tactical recommendations for providing independent fieldwork supervision in a distance context.

In this book, David E.

This book showcases the unique possibilities of corpus linguistic methodologies in engaging with and analysing language data from social media, surveying current approaches, and offering guidelines and best practices for doing language analysis.

In The Making of a Teenage Service Class, Ranita Ray uncovers the pernicious consequences of focusing on risk behaviors such as drug use, gangs, violence, and teen parenthood as the key to ameliorating poverty.

This book explores the use of English within otherwise local-language conversations by two continental European social media communities.

This book represents a meeting of queer theorists and psychoanalysts around the figure of the child.

Falling somewhere between childhood and adulthood, 'Youth' is a key period of transition.

This book is usable to teaching the adult service, teen church and children service as well.

Striking out from my familiar path of poetry writing, this devotional continues my walk of openly sharing the challenges of mental disease.

A tough town like Olean offers a guy only so many job options: sweat in the stench of oil refinery crude, like his immigrant father does, suffer boredom in a factory job, or apprentice in a trade.

Teens, Loss, and Grief is a self-help guide for teenagers who are struggling with bereavement and the emotional difficulties it presents.

from the Foreword:Possibly the heartless treatment of children, from the practice of infanticide and abandonment through to the neglect, the rigors of swaddling, the purposeful starving, the beatings, the solitary confinement, and so on, was and is only one aspect of the basic aggressiveness and cruelty of human nature, of the inbred disregard of the rights and feelings of others.

This is a comprehensive statement about adolescent development, identity formation, and treatment.

Volume 5 of The Annotated Luther series features Luther's writings that intersect church and state, faith, and life lived as a follower of Christ.

A comprehensive treatise on the dynamic and adaptive problems which children and families encounter in their experiences of separation and divorce.

Most in the United States likely associate the concept of the child bride with the mores and practices of the distant past.

Reminding women that motherhood is an option, not a given (much less an instinct), New York psychotherapist Phyllis Ziman Tobin contends that choosing to be or not to be a mother is the defining rite of passage for today's woman.

The most trying times in a child's life are during their pre-teen and teen years.

Despite Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s earlier theological achievements and writings, it was his correspondence and notes from prison that electrified the postwar world six years after his death in 1945.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, one of the most influential Christian martyrs in history, bequeathed to humanity a legacy of theological creativity and spirituality that continues to intrigue people from a variety of backgrounds.

Introduce your child to the practice of ending the day with a prayer with this calming bedtime book.

A new, definitive atlas of the European Reformations has been needed for many years.

Gift and Promise shows how the theology of the Augsburg Confession is a gift for the world today.

This book reconsiders the question of Martin Luther's relationship with Rome in all its sixteenth-century manifestations: the early-modern city he visited as a young man, the ancient republic and empire whose language and literature he loved, the Holy Roman Empire of which he was a subject, and the sacred seat of the papacy.

Cheap grace is the mortal enemy of our church.

Martin Luther's relationship to music has been largely downplayed, yet music played a vital role in Luther's life -- and he in turn had a deep and lasting effect on Christian hymnody.

We once believed that as a majority culture in North America everyone knew all there was to know about a church and its surroundings.

Offering Bible Readings and prayers for each day, this devotional is perfect for individuals, congregations, households, or small groups.

Free in Deed serves as a primer in Lutheran ethics for faith and the church as the body of Christ.

This volume features Martin Luther the exegete and Bible teacher.

Given a life spent in scholarship and controversy, it is easy to forget how much energy Martin Luther devoted to helping the common person understand and take comfort from Gods word.

Luther Refracted speaks to the currency that Luther’s life and thought continue to enjoy in today’s Christian reflection.

The Captivation of the Will provocatively revisits a perennial topic of controversy: human free will.

In conversations about the Reformation, the name Martin Luther towers above all others.

The Cross of Reality investigates Bonhoeffer’s interpretation and use of Luther’s theology in shaping his Christology.

The development of Martin Luther's thought has commanded much scholarly attention because of the Reformation and its remarkable effects on the history of Christianity in the West.