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My First Farm: Let's Get Working!
DK Publishing 2009; US$ 9.99My First Farm: Let's Get Working! helps kids develop first language skills by introducing them to the animals and machines on a farm. Each tabbed section focuses on a different category of farm life, from baby animals to tractors. more...
Jugend in der Kirche
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2011; US$ 16.17Hauptbeschreibung Jugendliche haben Fragen - wer diese Fragen zum Thema macht, darf auf lebhaftes Interesse und hohes Engagement hoffen. An den Jugendlichen liegt es nicht, wenn sie den Weg in die Gemeinde nicht finden. Das ist die Einstiegsthese des Autors. Die lebhafte Teilnahme Jugendlicher an Kirchentagen oder Freizeiten in Taizé belegt diese... more...
Tough Cookies
Wiley 2011; US$ 24.95Fundamental principles for how Girl Scouts USA is run and why it's so successful Millions of American businesswomen, thought leaders, and politicians received their first lessons in salesmanship, money management, marketing, teamwork, and fulfillment in the Girl Scouts. The Girls Scouts has shaped the lives of more than 50 million alumnae alive today.... more...
Set Me Free
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2011; US$ 21.56Hauptbeschreibung Erwartungen der Erwachsenen können Jugendliche hemmen und »einsperren«. Eine Jugendarbeit, die offen mit Lebensfragen umgeht und viele Möglichkeiten bietet, sich zu erproben, kann von Blockaden befreien und helfen, das eigene Potenzial zu entfalten. Jugendarbeit in der Gemeinde - sei es mit Konfirmanden oder Konfirmierten: Wer sich... more...
The Sion Revelation
Touchstone 2006; US$ 30.99An essential notion in the #1 New York Times bestseller The Da Vinci Code is the existence of an age-old French society, the Priory of Sion, whose task it is to protect Christ's sacred bloodline. In The Sion Revelation, Picknett and Prince reveal the story of the Priory, taking readers on a highly significant, disturbing, and even alarming ride... more...
Growing Girls
Rutgers University Press 2007; US$ 24.95In the early years of the twentieth century, Americans began to recognize adolescence as a developmental phase distinct from both childhood and adulthood. This awareness, however, came fraught with anxiety about the debilitating effects of modern life on adolescents of both sexes. For boys, competitive sports as well as "primitive" outdoor... more...
On My Honor
University of Chicago Press 2004; US$ 25.00In a timely contribution to current debates over the psychology of boys and the construction of their social lives, On My Honor explores the folk customs of adolescent males in the Boy Scouts of America during a summer encampment in California's Sierra Nevada. Drawing on more than twenty years of research and extensive visits and interviews with... more...
Scouting for Boys
OUP Oxford 2004; US$ 19.99A trained scout will see little signs and tracks, he puts them together in his mind and quickly reads a meaning from them such as an untrained man would never arrive at.' A startling amalgam of Zulu war-cry and imperial and urban myth, of borrowed tips on health and hygiene, and object lessons in woodcraft, Robert Baden-Powell's Scouting for... more...
Eating Smoke
Blacksmith Books 2011; US$ 9.99Chris Thrall left the Royal Marines to find his fortune in Hong Kong, but instead found himself homeless and addicted to crystal meth. Soon he began working for the 14K, Hong Kong's largest crime family, in the Wanchai red-light district. Dealing with the 'foreign triad' - a secretive expat clique connected to the Chinese mafia - he had to survive... more...









