Search Results - "coming of age"

Y tu mamá también : mythologies of youth / by Baugh, Scott L.

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A to Z world lifecycles 175 countries - birth, childhood, coming of age, dating and courtship, marriage, family and parenting, work life, old age and death. by Putzi-Ortiz, Sibylla

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An ethical compass coming of age in the 21st century : the ethics prize of the Elie Wiesel foundation for humanity /

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New Jersey politics and government the suburbs come of age / by Salmore, Barbara G., 1942-

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New Jersey politics and government the suburbs come of age / by Salmore, Barbara G., 1942-

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A boy from Georgia : coming of age in the segregated South / by Jordan, Hamilton

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Mutira Mission : an African church comes of age in Kirinyaga, Kenya, 1912-2012 / by Gathogo, Julius

Mutira Mission an African church comes of age in Kirinyaga, Kenya, 1912-2012 / by Gathogo, Julius

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A pivotal moment population, justice, and the environmental challenge /

Table of Contents: “…The largest generation comes of age /…”
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Empowerment of North American Indian girls ritual expressions at puberty / by Markstrom, Carol A.

Table of Contents: “…Contextual and methodological considerations -- Contemporary youth concerns in historical perspective -- North American Indian perspectives on human development -- Menstruation, cosmology, and feminism -- Historical overview of coming-of-age practices -- The Apache Sunrise Dance -- Interpretation of the Apache Sunrise Dance -- Contemporary Navajo, Lakota, and Ojibwa puberty customs -- Broader perspectives on coming-of-age.…”
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A history of Australasian economic thought / by Millmow, Alex

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Setting the scene -- The professionalization of Australasian economics -- The practical utopia of economics -- Ordeal by fire : Australasian economists and the great depression -- How Keynes came to Australasia -- War, reconstruction and economic theory -- A coming of age for Australasian economics -- The flowering of Australasian economics -- Hardly the age of aquarius -- The age of economic reform -- Australasian economics at century's end -- Index.…”
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Fields of Gold : Financing the Global Land Rush / by Fairbairn, Madeleine

Table of Contents: “…Farmland Investment Comes of Age -- Farmland Values -- The Reluctant Commodity -- Foreign Politics…”
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What is honor? a question of moral imperatives / by Welsh, Alexander

Table of Contents: “…On moralities of obedience and respect -- Help from anthropology and psychology -- Respect in the ethics of Aristotle -- Cicero's mediation of the same -- Shakespeare's recourse to Roman honor -- His Antony, Cleopatra, and Coriolanus -- Honor by that name in Mandeville and Montesquieu -- Leveling down in Enlightenment fiction -- Coming of age in neoclassical drama -- And how Rousseau's Emile comes of age -- Kant's engagement with honor -- Parallels to Kant's moral philosophy -- Respect and Adam Smith's impartial spectator -- Adam Smith and recent social science -- Coming to terms with honor in philosophy.…”
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A new engagement? political participation, civic life, and the changing American citizen /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Coming of age in a post-boomer world -- Engagement in public life -- Through the looking glass -- Generational pathways to participation -- Where do young people stand politically? …”
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A short history of physics in the American century by Cassidy, David C., 1945-

Table of Contents: “…Entering the new century -- American physics comes of age -- Surviving the depression -- The physicists war -- Taming the endless frontier -- The new physics -- Sputnik : action and reaction -- Revising the partnership.…”
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Deluxe Jim Crow civil rights and American health policy, 1935-1954 / by Thomas, Karen Kruse

Table of Contents: “…The nation's number one -- pt. 2. Deluxe Jim Crow comes of age, 1938-1945 -- pt. 3. Deluxe Jim Crow under Harry S. …”
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Race, trauma, and home in the novels of Toni Morrison by Schreiber, Evelyn Jaffe, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: trauma, memory, and subjectivity: the healing power of "home" -- Shared memory: slavery and large-group trauma in Beloved and Paradise -- Inherited and generational trauma: coming of age in the Bluest eye, Sula, and Song of Solomon -- Searching for safety: the persistence of slave trauma in Jazz and Tar baby -- Bodies of trauma: memory, home, and subjectivity in love -- Echoes of "The foreigner's home" in A mercy.…”
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Man of fire selected writings / by Galarza, Ernesto

Table of Contents: “…pt. 1. Coming of age in a class society -- pt. 2. Mexican labor, migration, and the American empire -- pt. 3. …”
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The Rebbe the life and afterlife of Menachem Mendel Schneerson / by Heilman, Samuel C.

Table of Contents: “…Farbrengen : the gathering of the emissaries -- Death and resurrection -- Coming of age in a time of transition -- Entering the court of Lubavitch -- From survival to Uforatzto -- On a mission from the Rebbe in life -- From resurrection to death : we want moshiach now -- On a mission from the Rebbe in his afterlife.…”
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Airlines and air mail : the post office and the birth of the commercial aviation industry / by Van der Linden, F. Robert

Table of Contents: “…Foundations -- The birth of an industry -- The aviation industry comes of age -- Consolidation -- 1929 : calm before the storm -- The post office takes charge -- The Watres Act -- Realignment -- Drawing a new map -- Reaction -- Cord and Congress -- The Democrats take control -- Congress assumes command.…”
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