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Product Description: As we experience and manipulate time—be it as boredom or impatience—it becomes an object: something materialized and social, something that affects perception, or something that may motivate reconsideration and change. The editors and contributors to this important new book, Ethnographies of Youth and Temporality, have provided a diverse collection of ethnographic studies and theoretical explorations of youth experiencing time in a variety of contemporary socio-cultural settings...read more

Product Description: In the Western World the leading causes of mortality continue to be accidents, homicide, suicide, sexually transmitted infections, eating disorders and teen pregnancy. All are preventable yet they continue to happen. This book is a collaboration among many clinicians and researchers and addressing these issues by having discussions on various aspects of adolescent behaviours, parenting and educating adolescents from different countries and different cultures...read more

Product Description: What are the problems that concern young people today? How do young people cope? This book presents the findings of a team of international researchers including both social scientists and practitioners, who have surveyed more than 5000 youths in twelve countries in order to find answers to these vital questions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Adolescence: From Crisis to Coping, presents an unique collaborative study of perceived problems and coping strategies of young people from a variety of socio-economic and national backgrounds. It describes the `culture-fair' research model and explains results in terms of national background, gender and socio-economic, racial and minority status...read more

Product Description: This reference summarizes and overviews current research on adolescence in 31 countries from around the world. The volume begins with a discussion of interdisciplinary and international perspectives on adolescence, with special attention to psychological and sociological approaches...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)