Learn IT - Books tags youth

Russia's Skinheads: Exploring and Rethinking Subcultural Lives

Routledge, 2010

Russia’s Skinheads: Exploring and Rethinking Subcultural Lives provides a thorough examination of the phenomenon of skinheads, explaining its nature and its significance, and assessing how far Russian skinhead subculture is the ‘lumpen’ end of the extreme nationalist ideological spectrum. There are large numbers of...

Recent Developments in Alcoholism : Alcohol Problems in Adolescents and Young Adults. Epidemiology. Neurobiology. Prevention. Treatment (Recent Developments in Alcoholism)

Springer, 2005

Even after stepping through the doorway into the 21st century, alcoholism remains a major contributor to the excess morbidity and mortality experienced by Americans. No where is this unmet need more dramatic than its impact on adolescents.

In this edition, the authors cover the wide spectrum of epidemiologic,...

Children's Learning in a Digital World

John Wiley & Sons, 2008

"Playing computer video games can be just what you need to get a job." Could such a statement ever be true? Computer games, software, and networking technologies are often viewed as threats to the social, emotional, and physical well being and development of children. However, such beliefs are often unfounded.

This new...

Manual of Psychiatric Therapeutics

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2002

Thoroughly updated in a Third Edition, Dr. Shader's popular Spiral(R) Manual is a practical, authoritative, easy-to-use guide to the diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric disorders. This edition features new chapters on pharmacotherapy for children and youth and on pain management and an expanded chapter on attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder...

Rethinking Young People’s Marginalisation: Beyond neo-Liberal Futures? (Youth, Young Adulthood and Society)

Routledge, 2018

In the 21st century myriad earth systems – atmospheric systems, ocean systems, land systems, neo-Liberal capitalism – are in crisis. These crises are deeply related. Taking diverse and multiple forms, they have diverse and multiple consequences and are evidenced in such things as war, everyday violence, hate and...

Youth in Saudi Arabia

Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

This book uses the youth life stage as a window through which to view all domains of life in present-day Saudi Arabia: family life, education, the impact of new media, the labour market, religion and politics. The authors draw extensively on their interviews with 25-35 year olds, selected so as to represent the life...

Mobilizing Generation 2.0: A Practical Guide to Using Web2.0 Technologies to Recruit, Organize and Engage Youth

Jossey-Bass, 2008

Mobilizing Generation 2.0

Mobilizing Generation 2.0 is a practical and immediately useful guide for nonprofits, political campaigns, organizers, and individuals who want to better understand how to use Web 2.0 technologies. In easy-to-understand terms, this accessible book describes how readers can leverage new media (blogs,...

Europe: I Struggle, I Overcome

Springer, 2009

Wilfried Martens - Europe: I Struggle, I Overcome Foreword by Angela Merkel

Wilfried Martens has devoted his entire life to politics: as student leader, youth activist, President of the Flemish Christian Democrats, Prime Minister of Belgium, President of the European People's Party and European statesman. In his autobiography...

Georg Cantor

Princeton Press, 1990

One of the greatest revolutions in mathematics occurred when Georg Cantor (1845-1918) promulgated his theory of transfinite sets. This revolution is the subject of Joseph Dauben's important studythe most thorough yet writtenof the philosopher and mathematician who was once called a "corrupter of youth" for an innovation that is now a...

Mastering System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R2

Sybex, 2009

Mastering System Center Configuration Manager 2007 provides intermediate and advanced coverage of all aspects of the product, including planning and installation, upgrading Systems Management Server 2003, deploying software and operating systems, security, monitoring and troubleshooting, and automating and customizing SCCM 2007 with scripts.
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Digital Sports Photography

Course Technology PTR, 2008

I fly a lot in my job. Frequently, people sitting next to me on the plane ask me what I do for a living. When I tell them that I am a sports photographer, their response is usually something like this: “Wow, what a great job!” They’re right. Sports photography really is a great job.

Asports photographer captures the...

Story Circle: Digital Storytelling Around the World

John Wiley & Sons, 2009

Everyone loves a story. Not everyone loves a computer. ‘Digital storytelling’ is a workshop-based practice in which people are taught to use digital media to create short audio-video stories, usually about their own lives, placing the universal human delight in narrative and self expression into the hands of everyone, bringing a...

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