Reinventing Teenagers

Reinventing Teenagers
Author: John D. Cressler
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 591
Release: 2004-11
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1413445071

Reinventing Teenagers - The Gentle Art of Instilling Character in Our Young People provides parents and teachers of teenagers with a fresh approach and a hands-on resource for changing the number one thing we hate about today's kids: their lack of character. Reinventing Teenagers provides 650 carefully chosen quotations and personal reflections on 20 different subject areas relevant to today's teens. A variety of creative approaches are used to help get our young people to begin to reflect on their lives, think about their goals and aspirations, perhaps become a bit less cynical, and realize that they are the makers of their own destiny. A complete set of formatted, printable quotations is included with the book.

Reinventing Youth Ministry (Again)

Reinventing Youth Ministry (Again)
Author: Wayne Rice
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2010-09-11
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0830868046

Reflecting on four-decade-long a career marked by wild social turbulence and remarkably creative and innovative ministry--including game-changing initiatives such as Youth Specialties and the Wittenburg Door--Wayne Rice turns his eye toward those who are to come. What does the future of youth require of the future of youth ministry? For three-dimensional people at the greatest cusp of change in their lives, set against a backdrop of a constantly changing world, it requires youth, parents, congregations and youth workers alike to undergird the activities of their ministry with a commitment to reality--to remember that the gospel is always, ultimately, a matter of a flesh-and-blood God pouring his life into his flesh-and-blood children.

Heirs to Shakespeare

Heirs to Shakespeare
Author: Megan Lynn Isaac
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2000
Genre: Education
ISBN:

Unlike other books that "pair" classic and contemporary books, this one provides readings and specific analysis of the Shakespearean influence underpinning many young adult novels.

Reinventing Teenagers

Reinventing Teenagers
Author: John D. Cressler
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 591
Release: 2004-11-22
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1469114372

Reinventing Teenagers - The Gentle Art of Instilling Character in Our Young People provides parents and teachers of teenagers with a fresh approach and a hands-on resource for changing the number one thing we hate about todays kids: their lack of character. Reinventing Teenagers provides 650 carefully chosen quotations and personal reflections on 20 different subject areas relevant to todays teens. A variety of creative approaches are used to help get our young people to begin to reflect on their lives, think about their goals and aspirations, perhaps become a bit less cynical, and realize that they are the makers of their own destiny. A complete set of formatted, printable quotations is included with the book.

The Reinvention of Bessica Lefter

The Reinvention of Bessica Lefter
Author: Kristen Tracy
Publisher: Yearling
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2012-02-14
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 037584547X

From the author of the Project (Un)Popular series and Too Cool For This School, a funny, authentic story about fitting in, growing up, and making it in middle school! After an unfortunate incident at the hair salon, Bessica is not allowed to see her best friend, Sylvie. That means she's going to start middle school a-l-o-n-e. Bessica feels like such a loser. She wants friends. She's just not sure how to make them. It doesn't help that her beloved grandma is off on some crazy road trip and has zero time to listen to Bessica. Or that Bessica has a ton of homework. Or that gorgeous Noll Beck thinks she's just a kid. Or that there are some serious psycho-bullies in her classes. Bessica doesn't care about being popular. She just wants to survive—and look cute. Is that too much to ask when you're eleven? "Funny, goofy, anxious, and absolutely emotionally authentic." --The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, Starred Review "Many a middle school girl will find a piece of herself in Bessica Lefter." --VOYA

Reinventing China

Reinventing China
Author: Paul Clark
Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2005
Genre: History
ISBN:

This book is a study of the genesis and films of the fifth-generation of Chinese filmmakers who emerged in the 1980s, and whose work vividly reflects the nature of change in China in the second half of the twentieth century. --book jacket.

Reinventing Childhood Nostalgia

Reinventing Childhood Nostalgia
Author: Elisabeth Wesseling
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 558
Release: 2017-09-11
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1317068467

While Romantic-era concepts of childhood nostalgia have been understood as the desire to retrieve the ephemeral mindset of the child, this collection proposes that the emergence of digital media has altered this reflective gesture towards the past. No longer is childhood nostalgia reliant on individual memory. Rather, it is associated through contemporary convergence culture with the commodities of one's youth as they are recycled from one media platform to another. Essays in the volume's first section identify recurrent patterns in the recycling, adaptation, and remediation of children's toys and media, providing context for section two's exploration of childhood nostalgia in memorial practices. In these essays, the contributors suggest that childhood toys and media play a role in the construction of s the imagined communities (Benedict Anderson) that define nations and nationalism. Eschewing the dichotomy between restorative and reflexive nostalgia, the essays in section three address the ethics of nostalgia in terms of child agency and depictions of childhood. In a departure from the notion that childhood nostalgia is the exclusive prerogative of narrative fiction, section four looks for its traces in the child sciences. Pushing against nostalgia's persistent associations with wishful thinking, false memories, and distortion, this collection suggests nostalgia is never categorically good or bad in itself, but owes its benefits or defects to the ways in which it is brought to bear on the representation of children and childhood.

Reinventing the Wheel

Reinventing the Wheel
Author: Bronwen Percival
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2017-09-05
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 0520290151

"Reinventing the Wheel is equal parts popular science, history, and muckraking. Over the past hundred and fifty years, dairy farming and cheesemaking have been transformed, and this book explores what has been lost along the way. Today, using cutting-edge technologies like high-throughput DNA sequencing, scientists are beginning to understand the techniques of our great-grandparents. The authors describe how geneticists are helping conservationists rescue rare dairy cow breeds on the brink of extinction, microbiologists are teaching cheesemakers to nurture the naturally occurring microbes in their raw milk rather than destroying them, and communities of cheesemakers are producing "real" cheeses that reunite farming and flavor, rewarding diversity and sustainability at every level."--Provided by publisher.

Jake, Reinvented

Jake, Reinvented
Author: Gordon Korman
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 156
Release: 2013-04-02
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 142314113X

There is a mysterious new student at Fitzgerald High, Jake Garret. He seems to have it all figured out. He looks like he just stepped off the cover of the J. Crew catalog, he is the best kicker the football team has ever had, and best of all, he hosts the party to go to every Friday night. All the guys want to be like him and all the girls want to date him, but Jake only has eyes for Didi, the girlfriend of alpha male and quarterback, Todd Buckley . As Jake's friend Rick gets to know him, he at first admires him, then starts to like him, but soon grows to fear for him as he learns Jake's dangerous secret. From beloved young adult author Gordon Korman, comes a new look at age-old themes about popularity, acceptance, and human nature.