Age groups and generations

Introduce your little one to fables and fairy tales from around the world with this spellbinding series of ebooks for children.

Up In The Air celebrates the nature around and above us, encouraging children to look, listen, and take notice.

Dive into the weird and wonderful world of sleep, from the science behind dreams to a peek into animal sleeping habits, in this incredible ebook for children aged 7 to 9.

Perfect for story time with little ones, this first ebook introduces babies and toddlers to the holy month of Ramadan.

PLEASE NOTE - this is a replica of the print book and you will need a pen and paper to complete the exercises.

In the summer of 1996, Ruth Ray, a gerontologist in her forties, befriended an eighty-two-year-old man suffering from Parkinson's.

From Los Angeles and New York to Chicago and Miami, street gangs are regarded as one of the most intractable crime problems facing our cities, and a vast array of resources is being deployed to combat them.

The teacher and gerontological social work scholar Mercedes Bern-Klug joins experts on nursing, law, medicine, sociology, and social work to provide a thorough understanding of nursing home palliative care.

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Aging brings together cutting-edge research, practical information, and innovative thinking regarding the characteristics and processes of aging among lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals.

Not since the 1960s have the activities of resistance among lower- and working-class youth caused such anxiety in the international community.

What kinds of jobs did children do in the past, and how widespread was their employment?

An extended study of the writings of Lil' Kim, the multi-platinum selling Hip Hop artist.

This book explores youth in postmodern society through a Lacanian lens.

Children today are growing up in a world of global media.

Karen Orr Vered demonstrates how children's media play contributes to their acquisition of media literacy.

Children in Culture is one of the first fully multi- and interdisciplinary collections of essays on theoretical approaches to childhood and formulates and presents new and exciting ideas about the construction of childhood as a cultural identity.

This edited collection is the first to address the topic of adolescence in Irish history.

This book explores and celebrates imaginative and creative approaches to youth research, showcasing a wide range of innovative methods including music elicitation, mental mapping, blog analysis and mobile methods.

This book offers an evocative cross-cultural exploration into the everyday lives and music practices of young people from their own broad social, cultural and ethnic perspectives.

This book applies theoretical models that reflect the mediated, hybrid, and nomadic global scenes within which GenX artists and writers live, think, and work.

Focusing on post-Vietnam America, using perspectives from psychology, anthropology, and physiology, this book demonstrates the need for criticism to unpack the confusions in language and cultural fantasy that drive the nation's fascination with the berserk style.

This book innovatively re-envisions the possibilities of sexuality education.

There is widespread and growing concern about the use of alcohol in society, especially by young people.

In recent years children have become an increasingly important consumer market, and there is growing concern about the 'commercialisation' of childhood.

Demonstrating the contested and differentiated nature of childhood and youth embodiment, this book responds to political and media discourses that stigmatise 'unruly' youthful bodies, by combining the critical analysis of imagined and disciplined youthful bodies with a focus on young people's lived and performed, embodied subjectivities.

Small children are regularly captivated by programmes made especially for them - ranging from classics like Sesame Street to more recent arrivals such as Blues Clues and Teletubbies .

Placing gender at the centre of the debate about young children and multimedia, particularly video games, the book develops a relational approach to game play using an account of affect.

The concept of 'subculture' has long been of significant importance in research on youth, style, deviance and popular culture.

This text provides a critical analysis of the social construction of childhood and children's agency.

The number of Americans eligible to receive Social Security benefits will increase from forty-five million to nearly eighty million in the next twenty years.

The original essays and commentary in this volume-the third in a series reporting the results of the NBER Economics of Aging Program-address issues that are of particular importance to the well-being of individuals as they age and to a society at large that is composed increasingly of older persons.

In the past few years, the economic ramifications of aging have garnered close attention from a group of NBER researchers led by David A.

Studies in the Economics of Aging is the fourth book in a series from the National Bureau of Economic Research that addresses economic issues in aging and retirement.

This companion volume to The Economics of Aging (1989) examines the economic consequences of an increasingly older population, focusing on the housing and living arrangements of the elderly, as well as their labor force participation and retirement.

For over a decade, the National Bureau of Economic Research has sponsored the Economics of Aging Program, under the direction of David A.

As America's population ages, economic research related to the elderly becomes increasingly important to public policy.

This volume presents innovative research on issues of importance to the well-being of older persons: labor market behavior, health care, housing and living arrangements, and saving and wealth.

The population base in both the United States and Japan is growing older and, as those populations age, they provoke heretofore unexamined economic consequences.

Seven in ten Americans over the age of age of sixty who require medical decisions in the final days of their life lack the capacity to make them.

Japanese and American economists assess the present economic status of the elderly in the United States and Japan, and consider the impact of an aging population on the economies of the two countries.

The HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa has defined the childhoods of an entire generation.

Due to falling fertility rates, the aging of the baby-boom cohort, and increases in life expectancy, the percentage of the population that is elderly is expected to increase rapidly in the United States and Japan over the next two decades.

One out of five children, and one out of two single mothers, lives in destitution in America today.

How to analyze and reevaluate your Christian beliefs and experiences in the church while keeping the core of your faith intact.

This Element looks at how we can better understand young children''s perspectives by listening to their voices in multiple ways.