Erstmals im deutschsprachigen Raum wird die Lebenswirklichkeit von Menschen, deren Älterwerden mit gesundheitlichen und gesellschaftlichen Stigmata verbunden ist, systematisch in den Blick genommen.
Shadows of Time: Unveiling the Intersection of Crime, Victims, and Aging is a comprehensive exploration of the complex relationship between crime, victims, and the aging population.
Winner of the 2022 Textbook & Academic Authors Association's The McGuffey Longevity Award Aging: Concepts and Controversies is structured to encourage a style of teaching and learning that goes beyond conveying facts and methods.
This gripping memoir about what it means to face uncertainty details the plans Janine had for her family and her life that were gutted by her then 10-year-old son Mason's diagnosis of a cancerous brain tumor, only to be followed by her own cancer diagnosis.
This book offers strategic leaders with essential information for their most important role: the change management function of positioning the organization for success into the future.
This book applies theoretical models that reflect the mediated, hybrid, and nomadic global scenes within which GenX artists and writers live, think, and work.
Digitale Assistenztechnologien sollen ältere Menschen unterstützen, auch bei altersbedingten Einschränkungen möglichst lange selbstbestimmt leben zu können.
Twenty-eight women, ranging from Anita Roddick and Prue Leith to less well-known names, write their own personal stories which are accompanied by Elizabeth Handy's black and white photographs and an introductory essay by Charles Handy.
This popular and bestselling textbook provides an introduction to the field of childhood studies and offers a broad-based, comprehensive and accessible resource which brings together key themes in the area of childhood studies to provide a timely and scholarly introduction.
Teenagers, Sexual Health Information and the Digital Age examines the online resources available on teenagers, including games and digital interventions.
This book provides practical guidance for a wide range of professionals working with parents and families, answering common questions such as 'How can parents facilitate their child's transition to secondary school?
A unique 2010 account of childhood during the industrial revolution through the autobiographies of working men of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Normally, our relationships with our brothers and sisters are the longest relationships in our lives, outlasting time with our parents, and most marriages today.
This research-based book covers the core components of modern parenting and child development across multi-ethnic and cross-cultural contexts in Asia, Africa, Europe, and North and South America, with a focus on the United States.
Peerbeziehungen haben nicht nur unter Kindern und Jugendlichen in den letzten Jahrzehnten als sozialer Zusammenhang in- und außerhalb von Institutionen weiter an Bedeutung gewonnen.
However unthinkable child-soldiers may be within a generalized conception of childhood, they are not imaginary figures; rather, they are a constant in almost every armed conflict around the world.
Orphans of Islam portrays the abject lives and 'excluded body' of abandoned and bastard children in contemporary Morocco, while critiquing the concept and practice of 'adoption,' which too often is considered a panacea.
Realizing the College Dream with Autism or Asperger Syndrome is both a practical and a personal account of one ASD student's successful experience of going to college.
Die Aussagen über die Ostdeutschen und darüber, wie weit beide Teile Deutschlands zusammengewachsen sind, könnten nicht widersprüchlicher sein: Während Vertreter der etablierten Parteien und der Leitmedien am Tag der Deutschen Einheit so gut wie alles schön-reden und sich dabei auf die Schulter klopfen, hört man nach jeder Bundestags- und Landtagswahl aus der gleichen Ecke ganz andere Töne: Die Ostdeut-schen werden scharf zurechtgewiesen, weil sie nicht so gewählt haben, wie jene es sich vorgestellt hatten.
In recent years children have become an increasingly important consumer market, and there is growing concern about the 'commercialisation' of childhood.
A demographic futurist explains the coming Super Agewhen there will be more people older than sixty-five than those under the age of eighteenand explores what it could mean for our collective future.
Prior to the implementation of the Equal Opportunity program in the 1960s, most New Brunswickers, many of them Francophone, lived with limited access to welfare, education, and health services.
Focusing on the earliest years (0-8), the new edition of this bestselling textbook continues to provide a comprehensive overview of the research, theory, and current practice in the field of child development.
`Ageing in Society brings forth exciting new questions, fresh perspectives, and a necessary critical approach to key issues - this is indeed an authoritative introduction.
This publication focuses on the situation, opportunities, and challenges in providing children an optimal environment for growth and development in India.
Knowledge under Construction investigates how young children develop spatial, geometric, and scientific thinking skills-particularly those associated with architecture.
Doing Ethical Research with Children is an invaluable resource for all student and practitioner-researchers who wish to honour children as active agents and significant voices in research.
This volume brings together chapters about aging in many non-Western cultures, from Africa and Asia to South America, from American Indians to Australian and Hawaii Aboriginals.
