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Young Chinese in Urban China

By: Alex Cockain

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This book examines the condition of being a young person in China and the way in which changes in various dimensions of urban life have affected Chinese youths' quests to understand themselves. The author examines social factors such as changes in the physical construction of urban neighbourhoods; changes in family life including reduced family size, increasing rates of divorce and increased physical mobility of the family unit; school life and mounting pressure to perform well in examinations and be a good student; access to foreign and domestic media as well as access to the internet. Drawing on the fields of social and cultural anthropology, Alex Cockain shows that the process of self understanding in a changing spatial, social and cultural world involves ongoing disjointed efforts to achieve a sense of security and belonging on the one hand and a degree of increased autonomy in their relationships with, for example, parents and teachers on the other. This book will appeal to anyone interested in Chinese Society, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Asian Anthropology and Youth Studies.

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Routledge

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113658059X

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9781136580598

Oliver for Young Readers

The True Story of a Stolen Dog and the Humans He Brought Together

By: Steven J. Carino,Alex Tresniowski

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Oliver for Young Readers

The True Story of a Stolen Dog and the Humans He Brought Together

By: Steven J. Carino,Alex Tresniowski

Everyone loves coming-home stories, especially when they include dogs and happy endings! From Steven Carino and Alex Tresniowski comes Oliver for Young Readers, a heartwarming and true story of a man searching for a beloved lost dog and finding more than he’d ever hoped for. When Steven Carino discovered his dog, Oliver, had been stolen from his car, he knew he would do anything to get Oliver back. The friendly Yorkie–Shih Tzu mix—with his bundle of black and brown hair, long floppy ears, and big round eyes—had been Steven's companion during even the loneliest days. But it took more than one man to bring Oliver home. It took a community of friends and strangers who believed that love is worth fighting for. Oliver for Young Readers offers a story of good triumphing over despair, a beautiful reminder that a little kindness can truly change the world. This middle grade book: Is for ages 8 to 12 Has a kid-friendly design and a four-page photo insert that features Oliver and Steven Includes Oliver’s “thoughts” during the journey and extra stories of Oliver and Steven’s adventures Is a great gift for dog lovers Has a companion book for adults: Oliver: The True Story of a Stolen Dog and the Humans He Brought Together Oliver for Young Readers is a story of good people—including hardworking immigrants, wealthy suburbanites, car mechanics, deli workers, old friends, close relatives, street cops, a dedicated TV news reporter, and one very gifted hairdresser—offering help without asking for anything in return. It's a story of near misses, false hopes, and fresh leads ending in a joy-filled reunion on the streets of a rundown New York neighborhood. It's a story of faith renewed and hope restored.

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Thomas Nelson

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1400223563

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9781400223565

Futureface (Adapted for Young Readers)

A Family Mystery, a Search for Identity, and the Truth About Belonging

By: Alex Wagner

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Futureface (Adapted for Young Readers)

A Family Mystery, a Search for Identity, and the Truth About Belonging

By: Alex Wagner

For anyone who is interested in genealogy and DNA profiling, this is the story of a journalist who travels the world to solve the mystery of her ancestry, facing questions about American identity and what it means to belong. Now adapted for young readers from the acclaimed adult memoir. Who are my people? Where am I from? With a Burmese mother and a white American father, Alex Wagner grew up thinking of herself as a "futureface"--an example of what the mixed-race future of America would look like. Her father's ancestors immigrated to the United States from Ireland and Luxembourg. Her mother fled Burma--now Myanmar--with her family in the 1960s. When Alex learns that her ancestry might be more mysterious than she believed, she becomes obsessed with learning everything there is to know about her ethnic and racial history. Her journey takes her from Burma to Luxembourg, from birth records written on banana leaves to high-tech genetic labs and online ancestry profiles. Through a blend of history, science, and sociology, Alex tries to solve the mysteries of her family and what it means to be American. What makes us think of certain people as "us" and others as "them"? In a time of conflict over who we are as a country, she tries to find the story where we all belong. Praise for the adult edition of Futureface "A thoughtful, beautiful meditation on what makes us who we are." --Barack Obama "Smart, timely, and moving." --Eddie Huang, bestselling author of Fresh Off the Boat "A rich and revealing memoir." --The New York Times

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Delacorte Press

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1984896644

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9781984896643

Offending from Childhood to Young Adulthood

Recent Results from the Pittsburgh Youth Study

By: Wesley G. Jennings,Rolf Loeber,Dustin A. Pardini,Alex R. Piquero,David P. Farrington

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Offending from Childhood to Young Adulthood

Recent Results from the Pittsburgh Youth Study

By: Wesley G. Jennings,Rolf Loeber,Dustin A. Pardini,Alex R. Piquero,David P. Farrington

This Brief examines criminal careers by providing the most extensive and comprehensive investigation to date on the official offending, self-reported offending, and trajectories of offending of the Pittsburgh Youth Study (PYS) participants. The PYS is a longitudinal study, which was initiated in 1987, and involves repeated follow-ups on several community cohorts (starting in grades 1, 4, and 7) of inner-city boys in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This Brief covers the Youngest and Oldest PYS cohorts (which had the most follow-up and most data available) from ages 10-30. It provides the most complete descriptive analyses of the criminal careers of these males to date. The three cohorts are commonly referred to as the Youngest, Middle, and Oldest cohorts, respectively. Consistent with several prior publications with the PYS data (Loeber et al., 2008), this book focuses only on data from the Youngest and Oldest cohorts as these cohorts were followed up the most frequently and have the longest time window of data available. It will be of interest to researchers in Criminology and Criminal Justice, as well as related fields like Sociology, Developmental Psychology, Social Policy, and Education.

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Springer

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3319259660

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All Time Low Presents: Young Renegades

By: Tres Dean,Alex Gaskarth,All Time Low,Z2 Comics

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All Time Low Presents: Young Renegades

By: Tres Dean,Alex Gaskarth,All Time Low,Z2 Comics

Who needs a high school reunion when your favorite band is playing a secret show the same night? That's what Connor and Becca, two classmates who never crossed paths until their ten-year reunion, decide when they hear about a secret All Time Low show in town. As they follow the clues to the secret location, they begin to realize that larger forces are pushing them together and learn the power of hearing the right song in the right place at the right time.

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Simon and Schuster

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1940878608

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9781940878607

Young Heroes of the Soviet Union

A Memoir and a Reckoning

By: Alex Halberstadt

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Young Heroes of the Soviet Union

A Memoir and a Reckoning

By: Alex Halberstadt

Can trauma be inherited? In this luminous memoir of identity, exile, ancestry, and reckoning, an American writer returns to Russia to face a family history that still haunts him. It is this question that sets Alex Halberstadt off on a quest to name and acknowledge a legacy of family trauma, and to end a cycle of estrangement that had endured for nearly a century. His search takes him across the troubled, enigmatic land of his birth. In Ukraine he tracks down his paternal grandfather--most likely the last living bodyguard of Joseph Stalin--to reckon with the ways in which decades of Soviet totalitarianism shaped and fractured three generations of his family. He returns to Lithuania, his Jewish mother's home, to revisit the legacy of the Holocaust and the pernicious anti-Semitism that remains largely unaccounted for, learning that the boundary between history and biography is often fragile and indistinct. And he visits his birthplace, Moscow, where his glamorous grandmother designed homespun couture for Soviet ministers' wives, his mother dosed dissidents at a psychiatric hospital, and his father made a living by selling black-market jazz and rock records. Finally, Halberstadt explores his own story: that of a fatherless immigrant who arrived in America, to a housing project in Queens, New York, as a ten-year-old boy struggling with identity, feelings of rootlessness, and a yearning for home. He comes to learn that he was merely the latest in a lineage of sons who grew up alone, separated from their fathers by the tides of politics and history. As Halberstadt revisits the sites of his family's formative traumas, he uncovers a multigenerational transmission of fear, suspicion, melancholy, and rage. And he comes to realize something more: Nations, like people, possess formative traumas that penetrate into the most private recesses of their citizens' lives.

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1400067065

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Female Delinquency From Childhood To Young Adulthood

Recent Results from the Pittsburgh Girls Study

By: Rolf Loeber,Wesley G. Jennings,Lia Ahonen,Alex R. Piquero,David P. Farrington

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Female Delinquency From Childhood To Young Adulthood

Recent Results from the Pittsburgh Girls Study

By: Rolf Loeber,Wesley G. Jennings,Lia Ahonen,Alex R. Piquero,David P. Farrington

This Brief fills a gap in criminological literature, as there are few empirically-based studies on delinquency of adolescent girls. It provides results of a longitudinal study, The Pittsburgh Girls Study (PGS), which includes 2,451 girls, followed annually from age 10-19, the ages when criminal behavior tends to emerge. This study provides the most extensive and comprehensive investigation into the criminal offending and self-reported trajectories of offending of PGS participants, along with an in-depth examination of other criminal career dimensions. In five chapters, this short volume reviews the limited extent of girls' delinquency literature, presents data on girls' offending patterns (onset, persistence, specialization, and desistence), provides insights on gender differences by comparison with the Pittsburgh Youth Study, which focused on male offenders, and explores the theoretical and practical implications of the results. By understanding the origins and onset of criminal behavior in girls, researchers can begin to understand effective interventions and crime prevention. This Brief will be of interest to researchers in criminology and criminal justice, as well as related fields such as sociology, public policy, and psychology.

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3319480308

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Soccer Skills for Young Players

By: Ted Buxton,Alex Leith,Jim Drewitt

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Soccer Skills for Young Players

By: Ted Buxton,Alex Leith,Jim Drewitt

An illustrated guide to improving soccer skills.

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130

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1552093298

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9781552093290

Young maple. Fairy tale

By: Alex Pryadko

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Young maple. Fairy tale

By: Alex Pryadko

Эта сказка-быль про молодой саженец клена с трагической судьбой, который прожил короткую жизнь, но в его жизни было всё: счастье, любовь и дружба.

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5044584878

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Provencal

By: Alex Jackson

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Provencal

By: Alex Jackson

Cook the simple and flavoursome food of the South of France with acclaimed chef Alex Jackson’s Provencal.

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651

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HarperCollins UK

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0008606692

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9780008606695

The Last Lie

By: Alex Lake

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The Last Lie

By: Alex Lake

The twisty psychological thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of After Anna and Seven Days

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HarperCollins

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0008272395

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Beheld

By: Alex Flinn

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Beheld

By: Alex Flinn

#1 New York Times bestselling author Alex Flinn is back with magical twists on four fairy-tale favorites, each featuring a little help from Kendra, the witch from Beastly, as she searches through cities and centuries for her lost love. Featuring retellings of favorite fairy tales such as "Little Red Riding Hood," "Rumpelstiltskin," "East of the Sun and West of the Moon," and "The Ugly Duckling," Kendra’s adventures in Beheld are filled with fresh fairy-tale fun from beginning to end. Since she first beheld James over three hundred years ago, Kendra has tangled with witch hunters and wolves, helped a miller’s daughter spin straw into gold, cowered in London as German bombs fell, and lived through who knows how many shipwrecks. But her powers have limits, and immortality can be lonely. Kendra isn’t ready to stop searching for the warlock she met centuries ago. With the help of her magic mirror, Kendra will travel the world to reconnect with her lost love—and, of course, she can’t help but play a hand in a few more stories along the way.

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0062134574

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9780062134578

Comics Values Annual 2002

By: Alex G. Malloy

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Comics Values Annual 2002

By: Alex G. Malloy

Attract comic book collectors like a magnet Packed with nearly 100,000 classic and contemporary comics and more than 1,000 illustrations, collectors will find updated listings and prices for Acclaim, Classics Illustrated, Dark Horse, D.C., Marvel and much more. Special sections are devoted to the highly collectible Golden Age, Color Comics, Black & White Comics, and Underground Comics. Each listing is cross-referenced and includes issue number, title, date, artist and current collector value in US dollars. Collectors can accurately evaluate and value their collections with the grading guide, current market report and tips for buying, selling, and preserving comic books.

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0873493931

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9780873493932

Comics Values Annual, 1999

The Comic Books Price Guide

By: Alex G. Malloy

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Comics Values Annual, 1999

The Comic Books Price Guide

By: Alex G. Malloy

Featuring more than 35,000 updated prices, this easy-to-use guide covers all the new titles in the rapidly expanding comics market. 600 illustrations.

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Antique Trader

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0930625153

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9780930625153

Standard Guide to Golden Age Comics

By: Alex G. Malloy,Stuart W. Wells

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Standard Guide to Golden Age Comics

By: Alex G. Malloy,Stuart W. Wells

Ultimate comic book heroes like Superman, Batman and Captain Marvel take center stage in this comprehensive guide to Golden Age comics. Collectors and dealers are sure to seek out a reference devoted to the era that began in 1938 with Superman and concluded in 1956 with the debut of Barry Allen as The Flash.This companion reference to Comic Book Checklist and Price Guide offers collectors an affordable and portable resource for use at conventions and within their own library. A collection of 1,000 comic book covers of hundreds of Golden Age comics featured in this resource, which also includes an easy-to-use tab reference for identifying and pricing. This is the one Golden Age guide collectors will look to again and again!· 1,000 photos assist with quick identification· Contains pricing and information on comic book legends like Superman and Batman· Updated values help collectors accurately assess issues

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KP Books

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089689181X

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9780896891814

Comics Values Annual, 1998

The Comic Books Price Guide

By: Alex G. Malloy

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Comics Values Annual, 1998

The Comic Books Price Guide

By: Alex G. Malloy

With more than 30,000 updated prices and over 650 photos and illustrations, "Comics Values Annual" provides an indispensable reference for dealers and collectors of all types of comics. Malloy offers reader-friendly grading and pricing charts, arranged by publisher, plus regional market reports from the nation's top experts and interviews with comics illustrators and writers.

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Antique Trader

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0930625854

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9780930625856

Comics Values Annual, 1994-95

By: Alex G. Malloy

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Comics Values Annual, 1994-95

By: Alex G. Malloy

More than 500 photographs and illustrations and international and regional market reports make this the new standard for the hobby of comic collecting. Unique cover flaps place a comic grading guide and abbreviations to artists' names at readers' fingertips.

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Wallace-Homestead Book Company

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0870697250

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9780870697258

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