Fourteen-year-old Julie starts crying on Monday when things go badly at school. Although cheered up by her dog, Jessie, things are not much better ...

The author has been driving her jeep around India for 15 years. Blessed with a rare historical sensibility, including an eye for architectural deta...

This book is based on a Chinese conception of adolescent development, which is a model that incorporates culture and migration as two essential com...

Today's children and adolescents are experiencing higher rates of overweightness/obesity and poorer health outcomes than any other time in history....

With the growing adolescent developmental problems such as substance abuse, mental health problems and school violence, many primary prevention pro...

Recent surveys suggest that while modern-day teenagers face many of the same problems as their predecessors of a generation ago, these problems may...

Young People, Leisure and Place reports on cross-cultural research into the personal geographies of young people. It explores young people's leisur...

Youth Transition in a Globalized Marketplace (YTGM) is based on the experiences of youth in a number of countries. The authors of this study are in...

This important book deals with the problem of youth violence by attacking it at the grass-roots level -- the community.