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These and other issues are explored by scholars from a wide variety of disciplines, who focus on four main questions: alterations in the structure of opportunity, prior experiences in the family, prior experiences in the workplace, and career development and marriage formation.

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Teenagers are growing up in a world of widening social inequality, political apathy and economic uncertainty. They join gangs, are obese, have underage sex, watch porn, drink and are a menace to society. This book shows how it feels to be young and what it takes to survive and thrive on the journey to adulthood.

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A parenting expert reveals the four biggest threats to girls' psychological growth and explains how parents can help their daughters develop a healthy sense of self

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Paul Goodman's Growing Up Absurd was a runaway bestseller when it was first published in 1960, and it became one of the defining texts of the nascent New Left.

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In this daring book, acclaimed author and playwright Ensler offers fictional monologues and stories inspired by girls around the globe--a call to action for girls everywhere to become the women they're meant to be.

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Last Season of Innocence discusses the lives of the preteens and teenagers who were in junior high school, high school, and the first year of college in the 1960s. Brooks offers a unique account of this much-chronicled decade by examining the experiences of these often overlooked young people.

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Offers an analysis of young people born after 1982, explaining how they differ from their Baby Boomer and generation X parents, their characteristic behavior and attitudes, and prospects for their future.

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"In Never Enough, reporter Jennifer Breheny Wallace investigates the deep roots of toxic achievement culture. Drawing on interviews with families, educators, and psychologists, she offers a humane view of the crisis plaguing today's teens and a practical framework for how to help"--

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Describes the problem of low self-esteen in teenage girls.

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From the moment fourteen-year-old Kathy decides to lose her virginity and reels in her prey, she is headed for trouble.

In this disturbing and powerful memoir Kathy reveals how she stepped out of that car forever altered and how she learned to fight back after being labelled as a slut and ostracised in her own neighbourhood.

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Want to have better relationships with the teens and young adults in your life Backed by research, this practical, engaging guide by a clinical psychologist will help you connect and communicate.

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A manifesto for the future of Britain from a brilliant young voice in politics.

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Arab Youth explores some of the antecedents of the upheavals and anticipates alternative venues of resistance that marginalized youth, from Lebanon, Syria and Palestine to Saudi Arabia, Morocco and Iran, can mobilize to realize their emancipatory expectations.

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After their parents rose up against the excesses of the Shah, increasing numbers of young Iranians are risking jail for things their counterparts in the West take for granted. Here, the author who spent his youth amidst the turbulence of the Islamic Revolution, argues that Iran's youth are in near-open revolt for want of greater personal freedom.