Age groups and generations

"e;The array of topics covered is amazing, making this book a valuable, significant resource for many disciplines.

Equipping youth ministers with the tools of a crosscultural missionaryThe parallels between ministry within youth culture and global missions have long been touted by youth ministry experts, yet few resources exist to help youth workers benefit apply the insights of missiologists.

Follow Agnes the dog and Rosie the hen as they head down to the farm in this amusing picture book for children.

"e;[W]e must tell the story of how social insurance programs have assured basic economic and health security for millions of AmericansO.

In What Does It Mean to Grow Old?

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

"e;The eighth edition of Aging Networks is particularly well-suited for use in the classroom, and can be used or adapted for a wide variety of disciplines including gerontology, social work, public health, public administration, nursing and other health professions.

In Revolutionary Suicide and Other Desperate Measures, Adrienne Carey Hurley examines how child abuse and youth violence are understood, manufactured, and represented, but still disavowed, in Japan and the United States.

In this vivid ethnography, Jessaca B.

In modern Latin America, profound social inequalities have persisted despite the promise of equality.

Liberalization's Children explores how youth and gender have become crucial sites for a contested cultural politics of globalization in India.

Children are thoroughly, shockingly queer, as Kathryn Bond Stockton explains in The Queer Child, where she examines children's strangeness, even some children's subliminal "e;gayness,"e; in the twentieth century.

Desi Land is Shalini Shankar's lively ethnographic account of South Asian American teen culture during the Silicon Valley dot-com boom.

Throughout American literature, the figure of the child is often represented in opposition to the adult.

Linking Margaret Mead to the Mickey Mouse Club and behaviorism to Bambi, Nicholas Sammond traces a path back to the early-twentieth-century sources of "e;the normal American child.

In this revealing social history, Daniel Thomas Cook explores the roots of children's consumer culture-and the commodification of childhood itself-by looking at the rise, growth, and segmentation of the children's clothing industry.

Always in the process of becoming, inherently incomplete, the child is a remarkably malleable figure.

What does it mean to be young, American, and white at the dawn of the twenty-first century?

Many parents, politicians, and activists agree that there's too much violence and not enough education on children's television.

Spain has one of the highest per capita international adoption rates in the world.

In South Side Girls Marcia Chatelain recasts Chicago's Great Migration through the lens of black girls.

Armed with speakers, turntables, light systems, and records, Filipino American mobile DJ crews, such as Ultimate Creations, Spintronix, and Images, Inc.

In Shapeshifters Aimee Meredith Cox explores how young Black women in a Detroit homeless shelter contest stereotypes, critique their status as partial citizens, and negotiate poverty, racism, and gender violence to create and imagine lives for themselves.

In Exiled Home, Susan Bibler Coutin recounts the experiences of Salvadoran children who migrated with their families to the United States during the 1980-1992 civil war.

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

In 1992, Calhuasi, an isolated Andean town, got its first road.

A study that challenges our notions about citizenship and judgment by considering the place of children in historical and contemporary legal discourse.

The nature and consequences of aging depend on its environmental context, and the literature does not treat the various environmental dimensions in an integrated fashion.

A powerful, data-driven investigation into how race, geography, and community shape the reporting and response to child abuse in Alabama.

By 2030, when most American baby boomers will have retired, all the large industrial economies will see a massive increase in the old age population.

History books often weave tales of rising and falling empires, royal dynasties, and wars among powerful nations.

A compelling look at the ways in which youth, gender and gender identities are being transformed around the globe.

An examination of the secret world of children that shows how important special places are to a child's development.

As people age, they are at increased risk of having their basic human rights threatened or violated.

Die Beiträge des Bandes befassen sich mit (physischer wie anderer) Gewalt, die von Jugendlichen ausgeübt oder ihnen von Erwachsenen etwa in Schulen und Fürsorgeheimen zugefügt wurde.

"e;Aldwin and Gilmer have supplied an interesting textual model for examining health, illness, and aging.

More than 70 percent of America's 60 million young people believe they can make a difference in their communities, and the numbers support their assertions.

Those working within the field of applied behavior analysis (ABA) encounter potential ethical dilemmas on a daily basis.

"e;Recommended.

"e;Ethics, Aging and Society.

"e;This book is exemplary in amassing demographic, policy, and sociopsychological data from around the world to refute both premises: that countriesi aging is not occurring in developing nations and that aging of the population presents intractable predicaments.

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

This book addresses the impact of globalization on the lives of youth, focusing on the role of legal institutions and discourses.

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

riveting powerful brilliant necessaryKirkus ReviewsFor those drawn to both Tara Westovers moving account of a difficult childhood and Susan Cains research on underappreciated traits Canaries Among Usreveals the exquisite joy and tender heartache inherent in raising a child who is undervalued by a community.

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

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.

Critical strategies for confronting a dire, yet under-addressed societal epidemic-the risky and potentially deadly consequences for older adults living a socially isolated life, are the focus for this book.