.Perfect for K–12 world language teachers, this book provides clear, fun and practical guidance on how to help students master language in the classroom using technology tools. Regardless of your level of technological proficiency as a teacher, this book will show you how to provide effective learning to students in in-person, online and hybrid environments…
In the latest edition of this best-selling text, David Capuzzi and Douglas Gross, along with 24 experts in the field provide a prevention�intervention paradigm to address contemporary issues facing today’s youth.Written from a systemic perspective, this book offers guidance in helping teens who are struggling with the complex challenges that can be brought on by…
This expansive, lively introduction charts the connections between international youth cultures and the development of global media and communication. From 1950s drive-ins and jukeboxes to contemporary social media, the book examines modern youth cultures in their social, economic, and political contexts. Exploring the rise of young people as a distinct media market, the book examines…
The identification and development of talented young players has become a central concern of football clubs at all levels of the professional game, as well as for national and international governing bodies. This is the first book to offer a comprehensive survey and assessment of youth development programmes in football around the world, to highlight…
Youth gambling represents a potentially serious public policy and health issue.Nevertheless, the rise in youth gambling issues and problems in the global context is not matched with a parallel increase in research on adolescent gambling. As such, there is an urgent need to conduct more studies on adolescent gambling behaviour. Recently significant advances in the…
This comprehensive and widely respected survey of the literature on gangs and gang activities in America includes theoretical perspectives on why gangs exist, gang typologies, descriptions of gang activities, and various intervention strategies for dealing with gangs. Youth Gangs in American Society 4th Edition is written by Randall G. Shelden; Sharon K. Tracy; William B….
Taking a new approach to youth crime, this book argues that the transition from childhood to adulthood can be an isolating and disempowering experience for young people. Children and young people are inherently vulnerable because of their age and status – they are a minority group, with the potential for being exploited, discriminated against, dominated…
Empowered youth CAN and DO make a difference! Young people become empowered by their participation in the institutions and decisions that affect their lives-which in turn can lead to real positive change in the community. Youth Participation and Community Change presents leading authorities providing the latest research and effective approaches on how young people can…
High profile media reports of young people committing suicide after experiencing bullying have propelled a national conversation about the nature and scope of this problem and the means to address it.Specialists have long known that involvement in bullying in any capacity (as the victim or as the perpetrator) is associated with higher rates of suicidal…
Youth Without Family to Lean On Global Challenges and Local Interventions Youth Without Family to Lean On draws together interdisciplinary, global perspectives to provide a comprehensive review of the characteristics, dynamics, and development of youth (aged 15?25) who have no family to lean on, either practically or psychologically. In this timely volume, Mozes and Israelashvili…
.This monograph analyses Zadie Smith’s White Teeth, On Beauty, NW, The Embassy of Cambodia, and Swing Time as trauma fictions that reveal the social, cultural, historical, and political facets of trauma. Starting with Smith’s humorous critique of psychoanalysis and her definition of original trauma, this volume explores Smith’s challenge of Western theories of trauma and…
Zeichnungssammlungen in Wien und Mitteleuropa Akteure ? Praktiken ? Rahmendiskurse Die Beitr?ge in diesem Band beleuchten die Entstehung von bedeutenden Zeichnungssammlungen in Wien und Mitteleuropa, die heute vielfach den Grundstock der gro?en Kabinette etwa in Wien, Berlin, Dresden und Hamburg bilden.Sie fragen nach den Akteuren, ihren internationalen Verflechtungen und ihren Motivationen, nach besonderen Sammlungsschwerpunkten und…
Veränderung im Lauf der Zeit ist eine spezifische Kategorie der Landschaftsarchitektur bei ihrer Arbeit mit Freiräumen und organischen Materialien: Nachhaltigkeit, Identität, die Bewahrung und Entwicklung unserer natürlichen Umwelt und unseres gebauten Wohnumfeldes werden in und durch zeitliche Prozesse gestaltet. Was bedeutet dies für die konkrete Umsetzung in landschaftsarchitektonischen Konzepten und aktuellen Projekten? In Essays, Interviews…
The Zenstudies: Making a Healthy Transition to Higher Education program aims to prevent depression and anxiety among first-year students in post-secondary school. It includes three modules, or prevention levels, Module 3 of Zenstudies, presented here, is a targeted-indicated prevention program consisting in 10 small-group sessions (no more than 12 students) led by two mental health…
Formerly, the catalytic use of zeolites was exclusive to the field of acid catalysis.Nowadays, zeolites also find applications as catalysts in a wide array of chemical reactions such as; base catalyzed reactions, Redox reactions and catalytic reactions on transition metals and their complexes in confined environments. The concepts of Br�nsted or Lewis acid-base pairs are…
Zero Balancing – conscious touch and transformation offers a practical and multi-layered approach to personal transformation for practitioners of Zero Balancing. The author explains the basic principles of Zero Balancing and then gives examples of how to use those principles in bodywork through the use of fascinating case histories and detailed stories of individual sessions…