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This book powerfully sets out the case for Transitional Safeguarding, a new approach to protection and safeguarding designed to address the needs and behaviours of young people in their mid-teens to mid-twenties who are falling between gaps in current systems, with often devastating results.

"A revelatory A-to-Z teaching on the prophetic gift.

Working with Specialized Language: a practical guide to using corpora introduces the principles of using corpora when studying specialized language.

Examines the sins and confessions in church disciplinary records to argue that daily practices created a gendered Puritanism.

"e;For me, getting older physically seems to be epitomized in the feeling that I look like my mother.

This 2002 book provides descriptions of adolescence in eight very different regions of the world.

In Uncivil Youth, Soo Ah Kwon explores youth of color activism as linked to the making of democratic citizen-subjects.

In this study, Richard Alexander presents a series of original and empirically based case studies of the language and discourse involved in the discussion of environmental and ecological issues.

Ke's book examines and reflects on English education in Taiwan from a global English perspective, starting with a discussion on globalization and global Englishes.

Contesting the idea that the study of Anglophone literature and literary studies is simply a foreign import in Asia, this collection addresses the genealogies of textual critique and institutionalized forms of teaching of English language and literature in Asia through the 19th and 20th centuries, along with an examination of how its present options and possible future directions relate to these historical contexts.

Das Buch leistet einen wichtigen Beitrag zur Ursachenforschung bezüglich der Entstehung rechtsextremer Einstellungen Jugendlicher aus Ost- und Westdeutschland.

Taking a transnational approach to the study of film culture, this book draws on ethnographic fieldwork in a South Korean university film club to explore a cosmopolitan cinephile subculture that thrived in an ironic unevenness between the highly nationalistic mood of commercial film culture and the intense neoliberal milieu of the 2000s.

The phenomenon of multimodality has, as Jewitt observes, generated interest "e;across many disciplines.

»Jugend« ist als Element einer Krisensemantik zu sehen, die um die moderne Individualität zirkuliert.

This volume brings together leading scholars on immigrant youth to discuss current research and its implications for policy and intervention.

Kein kirchliches Fest, kein politisches Ereignis, kein gesellschaftlicher Diskurs in den vergangenen Jahren, zu dem in der Öffentlichkeit nicht die klare Stimme Wolfgang Hubers zu hören gewesen ist.

Dem Protestantismus wird weithin eine besondere Bildungsaffinität zugeschrieben.

In this novel exploration of Reformed spirituality, Belden C.

City Literacies explores the lives and literacies of different generations of people living in two contrasting areas of London at the end of the 20th century: Spitalfields and the City.

This book examines after-school programs, exploring how – and why – young people thrive in good programs and suffer in weak ones.

In this book, John Nelson reconstructs everyday Anglican religious practice and experience in Virginia from the end of the seventeenth century to the start of the American Revolution.

Explores the crucial role played by rhetorical education in turning Cicero into a literary and political symbol after his death.

Doublespeak is the language of non-responsibility, carefully constructed to appear to communicate when it fact it doesn't.

In his groundbreaking new book Daniel Everett seeks answers to questions that have perplexed thinkers from Plato to Chomsky: when and how did language begin?

A sophisticated analysis of non-standard relative clauses in everyday English, using novel data from live, unscripted radio/TV broadcasts and the internet.

A fine-grained qualitative and quantitative analysis of phrasal verbs covering almost 400 years, based on large amounts of empirical evidence.

This book describes the history in late 19th-century Russia and immigration to Canada of an ethnic and religious group known as Doukhobors, or Spirit Wrestlers.

It is Christmas Day and at Champton Rectory, Canon Daniel Clement and his mother Audrey are joined by the residents and guests of the big house to drink, eat and be merry.

This interdisciplinary volume examines the challenges adolescents face and the self-regulation tools that most effectively ease the transition to adulthood.

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.

Romani is the first language, and family and community language, of upwards of 3-4 million people and possibly many more in Europe, the Americas, and Australia.

A planning guide for church musicians and clergy for selecting hymns, songs, and anthems, for the three-year liturgical cycle following the Revised Common Lectionary.

This book discusses how the poor and desperate in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries mobilised their linguistic resources in pursuit of vital pragmatic goals, drawing on three corpora of letters written by the poor.

This volume presents the first comprehensive generative account of the historical syntax of German.

La Conversación en la lengua huasteca es un documento del que teníamos noticia por menciones en otros textos pero que estuvo perdido por muchos años, hasta que fue encontrado por casualidad, traspapelado junto con otros documentos posteriores al mismo en el legado de Walter Lehmann, en la Biblioteca del Instituto Iberoamericano de Berlín (véase el Arte del idioma huasteco (1711) de Bernardo de Quirós, publicado por esta misma casa editorial).

Study Skills for Linguistics is the essential companion for students embarking on a degree in linguistics.

Using psychological theory and the author's direct experience working with at-risk youth, this book answers the questions on the minds of anyone shocked and appalled by the events of the Boston Marathon bombings.

Makes the case that the social dynamics and turbulence of high school can disrupt educational trajectories after high school.

In den heutigen multiethnischen und multikulturellen asiatischen Kontexten ist religiose Vielfalt fur viele Gesellschaften kennzeichnend.

Samuel Cueva has refined his concept of 'partnership in mission' by advocating the use of reciprocal contextual collaboration in this important contribution to scholarly reflection on contemporary missiology.

This book presents comparative evidence and case-studies on poor urban youth, providing interventions that have proven successful.

How Architects Write shows you the interdependence of writing and design in both student and professional examples.

A fresh account of the life of Martin Luther The sixteenth-century German friar whose public conflict with the medieval Roman Church triggered the Protestant Reformation, Martin Luther was neither an unblemished saint nor a single-minded religious zealot according to this provocative new biography by Scott Hendrix.

So strongly associated is the Salvation Army with its modern mission of service that its colorful history as a religious movement is often overlooked.

Politics, Lies and Conspiracy Theories: A Cognitive Linguistic Perspective shows how language influences mechanisms of cognition, perception, and belief, and by extension its power to manipulate thoughts and beliefs.

In recent years, civic and political institutions have stepped up their efforts to encourage youth participation: schools promote volunteerism, non-profits provide opportunities for service, local governments create youth councils, and social movement organizations discuss the need to encourage a new generation of activists.

In the mid-1980s, a radio program with a compelling spiritual message was accidentally received by listeners in Vietnams remote northern highlands.

Theological Reflections: Methods, offers a comprehensive collection of models of theological reflection.