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The Night Lake A Young Priest Maps the Topography of Grief


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English | 2021 | pages: 304 | ISBN: 1640094067, 1640095330 | EPUB | 2,7 mb
Called "such a sad, tough story, but finally so life-affirming, filled with spirit and love" by Anne Lamott, this is a raw and intensely affecting memoir by a young priest about loss of a child, its grief and its aftermath, and the hard-won joy that can follow.

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Young Queens Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power


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English | ISBN: 0374294488 | 2023 | 512 pages | PDF | 45 MB
The boldly original, dramatic intertwined story of Catherine de’ Medici, Elisabeth de Valois, and Mary, Queen of Scots―three queens exercising power in a world dominated by men.

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Rethinking Young People’s Marginalisation Beyond neo-Liberal Futures


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English | ISBN: 1138120979 | 2018 | 240 pages | EPUB | 849 KB
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 extremism, global flows of millions of the dispossessed and homeless; and in the precarious, uncertain, and marginal existence of millions more.

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Rethinking Young People’s Lives Through Space and Place (Sociological Studies of Children and Youth)


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English | ISBN: 1789733405 | 2020 | 201 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
How do children and youth create, negotiate, change spaces and places, and assert their rights to space? Taking a socio-spatial approach, this international collection based on empirical research examines how space relates to and informs the social construction of children and youth. Examining the spaces used by children and youth in many different contexts, including neighbourhoods, community centres, schools, public streets, the natural environment, orphanages, early education classrooms, homes, borders, this collection exists at the intersection of the new sociology of childhoods and new materialism.

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Risk and Harm in Youth Sexting Young People’s Perspectives


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English | ISBN: 1032336285 | 2022 | 200 pages | EPUB | 471 KB
This book draws upon interviews with teenage young people to explore their perspectives on risk and harm in ‘youth sexting culture’. It focuses specifically on digital sexual image-sharing among young people. It contextualises the findings in terms of the wider literature on youth sexting and the broader theoretical and conceptual debates about the phenomenon in public and academic spheres.

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Routledge Handbook of Youth and Young Adulthood Ed 2


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English | ISBN: 1138804355 | 2016 | 466 pages | PDF | 3 MB
The second and completely revised edition of the Routledge Handbook of Youth and Young Adulthood draws on the work of leading academics from four continents in order to introduce up-to-date perspectives on a wide range of issues that affect and shape youth and young adulthood. It provides a multi-disciplinary overview of a dynamic field of study that offers unique insights on social change in advanced societies. It is aimed at researchers, policy-makers and advanced students on a global level.

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