Crossings to Adulthood

Crossings to Adulthood
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2017-05-08
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9004345876

Crossings to Adulthood: How Diverse Young Americans Understand and Navigate Their Lives assembles chapters written by members and affiliates of the Research Network on Transitions to Adulthood on pressing issues facing young, coming-of-age Americans in an increasingly diverse, globalizing world. Based on over 400 interviews with young adults from different racial, class and regional backgrounds, the chapters provide an in-depth look at how young Americans understand their lives and the challenges, risks, and opportunities they experience as they move into adulthood during changing and uncertain times. Chapters focus on how these young adults understand markers of adulthood such as leaving home, launching careers, and forming relationships, as well as issues particularly salient to them including politics, diversity, identity, and acculturation. Contributors are: Pamela Aronson, Arturo Baiocchi, Erika Busse, Patrick J. Carr, Laura Fischer, Constance A. Flanagan, Frank F. Furstenberg Jr., Douglas Hartmann, Maria Kefalas, Vivian Louie, Charlie V. Morgan, Jeylan Mortimer, Laura Napolitano, Lisa Anh Nguyen, Wayne Osgood, Rubén G. Rumbaut, Sarah Shannon, Teresa Toguchi Swartz, and Christopher Uggen. Crossings to Adulthood: How Diverse Young Americans Understand and Navigate Their Lives is now available in paperback for individual customers.

Crossing the Creek

Crossing the Creek
Author: Michael Holmes
Publisher: Damone-Rose Publishing, Inc.
Total Pages: 73
Release: 2006
Genre: Death
ISBN: 9780979013300

Crossing Borders

Crossing Borders
Author: Little A
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 398
Release: 2019-09-08
Genre:
ISBN: 9781718701328

Originally a blog, these are a collection of reflections that narrate the story of a young woman from age 19 to 22. Crossing Borders is a book full of raw emotion. She shares her experience as she studies abroad, questions her identity, and transitions to adulthood. Little A intends to remain anonymous as she takes her readers on a journey of love, loss, and life. She shares her story to give readers the glimpse of hope she sought.

The Compass: for Teenagers and Young Adults

The Compass: for Teenagers and Young Adults
Author: Uduak Essen
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 191
Release: 2019-06-27
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1728388511

The Compass is a simple guide for teenagers and young adults in today’s world. It expounds the depths of the challenges most teens and young people will invariably have to navigate while crossing the bridge to adulthood. This manual discusses all aspects of a teenager’s health, with concrete, actionable points and scriptural content that can make the teen a balanced person. Teenage sexuality, a burning issue among many teens, as well as godly principles and goal-setting challenges are also addressed in The Compass. With the onset of puberty, changes occur in teenage boys and girls, and this book explains them well and in simple terms. It covers the causes of body odour—which leads to low self-esteem and the loss of healthy friendships—and concisely addresses how to handle them. Also discussed in The Compass are building a good self-image, hearing from God, choosing a career path, and setting goals. Teens struggle with the contemporary issues of peer pressure and addiction; this manual outline practical steps to deal with these struggles. Find out how teens and young adults can excellently manage their time and love their bodies the way God made them. Finally, learn how teens can manage the social media world, talk to God, and gain control of their life and fulfil their destiny.

Crossings

Crossings
Author: Richard A. Heckler
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Total Pages: 248
Release: 1998
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN:

In a book about the moments that change our lives, Heckler follows a lifelong hunch that there is a pattern to the way in which people grow and change as they encounter the "Unexpected."

Border-Crossing Spirituality

Border-Crossing Spirituality
Author: Jung Eun Sophia Park
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 81
Release: 2016-06-24
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1498226019

Border crossing is a significant experience in the global era when many people cross borders, whether in cultural, geopolitical, relational, or existential terms. Border crossing can provide a great opportunity for spiritual growth, yet it is often a violent and dangerous process. Thus there is a need to explore border-crossing spirituality: to examine how various aspects of border crossing impact human life, analyze why border crossing happens, and explain how the act of border crossing provides transformation. Border crossing is an action undertaken to expand one's own boundaries, and from it emerges the borderland--a third space where one's transformation can occur. This book primarily focuses on various teachings of border crossing and the notion of "being in between." Almost every religious tradition has within it a spiritual teaching of border crossing and the importance of the borderland. This book is, by nature, cross cultural, interreligious, and interspiritual. Through the action of border crossing, transformation occurs in the borderland, and border-crossing spirituality can be crystallized as living a radical hospitality, valuing friendship, remaining in the present, and reclaiming subjectivity.

Get a Life

Get a Life
Author: Laura Peyton Roberts
Publisher: Bantam Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 246
Release: 1998
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780553571189

Eight high-school students overcome their differences to unite and raise money for a student with leukemia.

Crossing the Chasms of Life

Crossing the Chasms of Life
Author: Audrey Gittens
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2017-02-28
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1946539007

Dr. Audrey Gittens is a Caribbean woman with a global perspective on life. Her experience in health care, and involvement in socio-economic and political spheres have given her wisdom beyond her years. Despite her achievements, she considers being a mother and grandmother her most significant accomplishments. This book is based on her life’s trajectory, the hills and troughs she has climbed, and the passion she has for any undertaking. The author’s strongest characteristic is the ability to overcome challenges. She knows what it is like to be tossed in the wind, to be battered and bruised, yet she survives any storm. She rose to the highest rank of the nursing profession, earning her BScN, MSc and doctoral degrees in nursing. Her education, training, and experience have propelled her to other career fields, including housing, public service, information, and labor. She has been chairman of the board of several organizations and sat in advisory capacities on others. Her most notable trait is that she is a humanitarian, always defending the vulnerable and marginalized. Apart from her mother, the women who inspired her and whose legacy she emulates, include the head of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde; Margaret Thatcher, former British Prime Minister; Mary Eugena Charles, former Prime Minister of the Caribbean Island of Dominica; Elnora Warner, nurse leader and educator of Antigua and Barbuda; Dr. Marjorie Parks of Belize, nurse leader and educator; and Aberdeen Brown of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, a former nurse leader and educator. Dr. Gittens’ motto is “The sky is never the limit, look beyond.”

The Crossing Gate

The Crossing Gate
Author: Asiel R. Lavie
Publisher: A Waltz of Sin and Fire
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2022-01-04
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 9781649532664

The Crossing Gate is about a teenager coping with adulthood through the lens of a dystopian society.