The secret to happiness, longevity, and living on is through mentoring the next generation In How to Live Forever, Encore.org founder and CEO Marc Freedman tells the story of his thirty-year quest to answer some of contemporary life's most urgent questions: With so many living s…
The founder of Encore.org traces his thirty-year quest to meet the challenges of a society with more older than younger members, sharing insights into longevity, age segregation, and the experiences of remarkable, everyday people.
"Michel Gauvreau shows that between the 1930s and the 1960s the Catholic Church in Quebec espoused a particularly radical understanding of modernity, especially with regard to youth, gender identities, marriage, and family. Catholicism emerges as an institution increasingly domi…
Combining a range of issues including Disney's animated films, talk radio, & the portrayal of black & white violence, this book breaks new ground in providing insights into how the culture of violence & racial injustice are shaping the lives of our youth.
This book approaches the prevention of fatal incidents in outdoor education and related fields through detailed study of past tragedies. Although safety in many fields is built on accumulated lessons from past incidents, tragedies on school or youth group camps and excursions ar…
During the Arab uprisings of late 2010 and early 2011, nine regimes throughout North Africa and the Middle East were confronted by major demonstrations and contentious events. When the uprisings began in Egypt, it became evident that youth movements were going to play a large pa…
Christiane Taubira revient sur les tragiques événements de 2015, raconte comment ils ont été vécus au sommet de l'État, quelles sont les forces obscures qui structurent ce nouveau terrorisme, comment on embrigade de jeunes Français pour les transformer en tueurs ... Mais la Répu…
This book takes a global perspective to address the concept of belonging in youth studies, interrogating its emergence as a reoccurring theme in the literature and elucidating its benefits and shortcomings. While belonging offers new alignments across previously divergent approa…