Based on the National Study of Youth and Religion--the same invaluable data as its predecessor, Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers--Kenda Creasy Dean's compelling new book, Almost Christian, investigates why American teenagers are at once so positive about Christianity and at the same time so apathetic about genuine religious practice.
Based on the National Study of Youth and Religion--the same invaluable data as its predecessor, Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers--Kenda Creasy Dean's compelling new book, Almost Christian, investigates why American teenagers are at once so positive about Christianity and at the same time so apathetic about genuine religious practice.
Parents often worry about raising kids in a tech-saturated world - the threats of cyberbullying, video game violence, pornography, and sexting may seem inescapable.
Parents often worry about raising kids in a tech-saturated world - the threats of cyberbullying, video game violence, pornography, and sexting may seem inescapable.
George Schuyler, a renowned and controversial black journalist of the Harlem Renaissance, and Josephine Cogdell, a blond, blue-eyed Texas heiress and granddaughter of slave owners, believed that intermarriage would "e;invigorate"e; the races, thereby producing extraordinary offspring.
George Schuyler, a renowned and controversial black journalist of the Harlem Renaissance, and Josephine Cogdell, a blond, blue-eyed Texas heiress and granddaughter of slave owners, believed that intermarriage would "e;invigorate"e; the races, thereby producing extraordinary offspring.
As the nation reels from the impact of the Great Recession, many families are finding new ways to live together, including creating multigenerational households to save money and consolidate resources.
As the nation reels from the impact of the Great Recession, many families are finding new ways to live together, including creating multigenerational households to save money and consolidate resources.
Meaningful relationships, genuine connections, and real love: if those are the things this generation of teens-- the Millennial Generation--is crying out for, who can deliver?
La Revista Health, Aging & End of Life está concebida como una revista de investigación internacional de interés general, especialmente dirigida a profesionales de la salud que realicen su labor en cualquier ámbito de actuación.
¿Por dónde pasan hoy la(s) agencia juvenil(es), la elaboración y articulación de afirmaciones en torno a un "yo joven", en contextos cada vez más precarizados y desinstitucionalizados?
¿Por dónde pasan hoy la(s) agencia juvenil(es), la elaboración y articulación de afirmaciones en torno a un "yo joven", en contextos cada vez más precarizados y desinstitucionalizados?
Nos encontramos transitando una etapa de cambios de paradigmas sociales; hoy somos más conscientes de las desigualdades, nuestra mirada sobre el mundo es diferente, y esto se refleja en los productos culturales que consumimos.
El libro centra su reflexión en la discusión sobre los procesos de configuración de subjetividades sociales y políticas de niños, niñas y jóvenes desde una perspectiva intergeneracional en contextos plurales.
Con este libro, Damasia Amadeo de Freda se suma a las voces que encuentran que la tecnociencia y los desarrollos del capitalismo han afectado de tal manera los modos tradicionales en que se organizaba la convivencia, que han producido una serie de nuevos síntomas característicos de nuestra cultura, objeto de este libro.
En esta obra, profesionales de distintas disciplinas aportan sus conceptos, intervenciones y programas conducentes a detectar y prevenir los factores de riesgo de fragilidad, con centro en el armado personal del propio envejecer.
International adoptions have decreased dramatically in the last decade, despite robust evidence of the tremendous benefits that early placement in adoptive families can confer upon children who are not able to remain with birth families.
The fears of aging have been one long cascading domino effect through the years: twenty year-olds dread thirty; forty year-olds fear fifty; sixty fears seventy, and so it goes.
The fears of aging have been one long cascading domino effect through the years: twenty year-olds dread thirty; forty year-olds fear fifty; sixty fears seventy, and so it goes.
Throughout six years of conflict, beginning 3 September1939, military manoeuvres, bombs and exhortations to greater dedication to the War Effort became the normality for children.
Die in den 1960er Jahren im Osten Deutschlands geborenen »Mauerkinder« waren jung genug, um sich ab 1989 die Welt zu erobern – eine glückliche Generation?
"Frau Janzen geht tanzen" - das sind kurze Geschichten zum Vorlesen voller humorvoller Situationen: Geburtstagsgeschichten, Jahreszeitengeschichten, Tiergeschichten, Sprichwörter … Menschen mit Demenz erinnern sich dabei an vieles, das ihnen vertraut ist.
Karen O'Connor, bestselling author of Gettin' Old Ain't for Wimps (more than 300,000 copies sold), offers a great collection of humorous anecdotes on senior moments.
There is currently increasing concern for many people regarding human activities that harm the environment, including the construction and use of buildings; The construction of buildings requires natural resources, and their energy consumption contributes to global warming.
In this newly revised and updated edition of Conscious Living, Conscious Aging, you will find an empowering guide with practical tools to help live a passionate, fulfilling, growth-oriented life.
