"This book explores the central importance of adolescents' own activities in their development. This focus harkens back to Jean Piaget's genetic epistemology and provides a theoretically coherent vision of what makes adolescence a distinctive period of development, with unique o…
"This book explores the central importance of adolescents' own activities in their development. This focus harkens back to Jean Piaget's genetic epistemology and provides a theoretically coherent vision of what makes adolescence a distinctive period of development, with unique o…
"Anna Backman Rogers argues that American independent cinema is a cinema not merely in crisis, but also of crisis. As a cinema which often explores the rite of passage by explicitly drawing on American cinematic heritage, from the teen movie to the western, American independent …
Failure to Launch sets out to identify the underlying reasons for the failure to launch epidemic with adult children. Morever, it also lays out a treatment plan to help launch these children out of their parents' homes and into their future.
A new approach which problematizes the category of contemporary adulthood, this book includes chapters on demographic change; becoming thirty-something; graduates and work; mental health and happiness; new configurations of masculinity; the sexual lifecourse; political beliefs i…
Die Autorin erzählt von ihrer Kindheit und von ihrer Familie bis zum Abschied von den Eltern im Jahr 1984, gleichzeitig ein Porträt der politischen, historischen, kulturellen und religiösen Situation in ihrer iranischen Heimat.
Morning Girl, who loves the day, and her younger brother Star Boy, who loves the night, take turns describing their life on an island in pre-Columbian America; in Morning Girl's last narrative, she witnesses the arrival of the first Europeans to her world.
Was ist die Welt aus der Sicht eines sizilianischen Jungen, der 1935 sechs Jahre alt ist? Eine chaotische Gemeinschaft von sogenannten Erwachsenen, die nach der Pfeife eines Duce namens Mussolini tanzen und Kindern auf ernst gemeinte Fragen unverständliche Antworten geben. Das p…
Two 14 year old boys, joyriding in a stolen car, discover what true friendship is.
