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  • Young Europeans, Work and Familyby Julia Brannen; Susan Lewis; Anne Nilsen

    Routledge 2001; US$ 188.00

    Based on qualitative research with young people aged from 18 to 30 in five European countries, this book examines young peoples pathways to adulthood, and their perspectives on their future work and family lives. more...

  • Young People's Leisure and Lifestylesby Leo Hendry; Janet Shucksmith; John Love; Anthony Glendenning

    Routledge 1993; US$ 39.95

    Covers new ground in examining the importance of leisure in the socialization of young people. From a seven year study of 10,000 young people, it analyses leisure in relation to school, sport, friends, class, gender and health. more...

  • Future Girlby Anita Harris

    Routledge 2004; US$ 48.95

    In an era of girl power and Riot Grrls, Future Girl provides a fresh and original perspective on what it means to be young and female at the beginning of the new millennium. more...

  • Urban Nightscapesby Mark Budz; Robert Hollands

    Routledge 2003; US$ 65.95

    Explores how urban nightlife is experiencing a 'McDonaldisation', where big branded names are taking over large parts of downtown areas, leaving consumers with an increasingly standardised experience. more...

  • Youth, Education and Riskby Peter Dwyer; Johanna Wyn

    RoutledgeFalmer 2001; US$ 57.95

    This book is a provocative and valuable insight into how the dramatic social and economic changes of the last 20 years have affected the lives of Western youth. more...

  • Young, Free and Single?by Sue Heath; Elizabeth Cleaver

    Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2003; US$ 95.00

    This work explores changing patterns of household formation amongst contemporary "20-somethings" and the implications of these changes for the ways in which they relate to friends, parents and partners. The book points to the growing polarization between experiences of graduates and non-graduates. more...

  • The Geography Of Young Peopleby Stuart C Aitken

    Taylor & Francis 2001; US$ 65.95

    This book traces some of the changing scientific and societal notions of what it is to be a young person, and argues that there is a need to rethink how we view childhood spaces, child development and the politics of growing up. more...

  • Generation Meby Jean M. Twenge Ph.D.

    Simon & Schuster 2006; US$ 12.99

    Called “The Entitlement Generation” or Gen Y, they are storming into schools, colleges, and businesses all over the country. In this provocative new book, headline-making psychologist and social commentator Dr. Jean Twenge explores why the young people she calls “Generation Me”—those born in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s—are tolerant, confident, open-minded, and ambitious but also cynical, depressed, lonely, and anxious. Herself a member of Generation Me, Dr. Twenge uses findings from the largest intergenerational research study ever conducted—with data from 1.3 million respondents spanning six decades—to reveal how profoundly different today’s young adults are. Here are the shocking truths... more...

  • The Damned and the Beautifulby Paula S. Fass

    Oxford University Press 1979; US$ 29.95

    Explores the changes that occurred as young people of the 1920s broke with nineteenth-century traditions, and assesses the impact of those changes on American life, then and now. more...

  • Generation Debtby Anya Kamenetz

    Penguin Group Inc. 2006; US$ 12.99

    Generation Debt offers a truly gripping account of how young Americans are being ground down by low wages, high taxes, huge student loans, sky-high housing prices, not to mention the impending retirement of their baby boomer parents. Twenty-four-year-old Anya Kamenetz examines this issue from every angle and provides a riveting, rousing manifesto that will inspire everyone to take care of their financial future. more...