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Presents the findings of the Carnegie Foundation study on adolescence, an interdisciplinary synthesis of research into the biological, social, and psychological changes occurring during this key stage in the life span. Focuses on the contexts of adolescent life-- social and ethnic, family and school, leisure and work.
This well-researched study explains what attracts teenagers to church and keeps them there. It provides a helpful description of the most effective ways that congregations and parents can build a faith in early teens that is not anti-institutional and that helps them value the church.
First published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
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This work brings together informations from across the disciplines to look at what is known about the nature, cases, expression and societal role of human emotions throughout history and across cultures.
African Americans and Latinos earn lower grades and drop out of college more often than whites or Asians. Yet thirty years after deliberate minority recruitment efforts began, we still don't know why. In The Shape of the River, William Bowen and Derek Bok documented the benefits of affirmative action for minority students, their communities, and the nation at large. But they also found that too many failed to achieve academic success. In The Source of the River, Douglas Massey and his colleagues investigate the roots of minority underperformance in selective colleges and universities. They explain how such factors as neighborhood, family, peer group, and early schooling influence the academi...
This monograph is an exhaustive survey of all the health effects, beneficial or otherwise, of coffee. It starts with a study of the cultivation, consumption and composition of coffee, then moves on to analyse the effects of coffee consumption, system by system: physiological properties, clinical consequences, received opinions and proven facts. A book that will interest nutritionists, general practitioners and the simply curious.
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