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Book Teenager in Torment

    Book Details:
  • Author : Max Sharkey
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1979
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 153 pages

Download or read book Teenager in Torment written by Max Sharkey and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Teen Torment

Download or read book Teen Torment written by Patricia Evans and published by Adams Media. This book was released on 2003 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of The Verbally Abusive Relationship shows teenagers how to identify and overcome verbal abuse and bullying wherever they manifest themselves. Original.

Book Teen 2 0

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  • Author : Robert Epstein
  • Publisher : Linden Publishing
  • Release : 2010-02-24
  • ISBN : 1610351010
  • Pages : 562 pages

Download or read book Teen 2 0 written by Robert Epstein and published by Linden Publishing. This book was released on 2010-02-24 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Indie Excellence Awards, first prize in the Parenting and Family category Arguing that adolescence is an unnecessary period of life that people are better off without, this groundbreaking study shows that teen confusion and hardships are caused by outmoded systems that were designed to destroy the continuum between childhood and adulthood. Documenting how teens are isolated from adults and are forced to look to their media-dominated peers for knowledge, this discussion contends that by infantilizing young people, society does irrevocable harm to their development and well-being. Instead, parents, teachers, employers, and others must rediscover the adults in young people by giving them authority and responsibility as soon as they exhibit readiness. Teens are highly capable--in some ways more than adults--and this landmark discussion offers paths for reaching and enhancing the competence in America's youth.

Book The Torture Letters

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  • Author : Laurence Ralph
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2020-01-15
  • ISBN : 022672980X
  • Pages : 267 pages

Download or read book The Torture Letters written by Laurence Ralph and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-01-15 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Torture is an open secret in Chicago. Nobody in power wants to acknowledge this grim reality, but everyone knows it happens—and that the torturers are the police. Three to five new claims are submitted to the Torture Inquiry and Relief Commission of Illinois each week. Four hundred cases are currently pending investigation. Between 1972 and 1991, at least 125 black suspects were tortured by Chicago police officers working under former Police Commander Jon Burge. As the more recent revelations from the Homan Square “black site” show, that brutal period is far from a historical anomaly. For more than fifty years, police officers who took an oath to protect and serve have instead beaten, electrocuted, suffocated, and raped hundreds—perhaps thousands—of Chicago residents. In The Torture Letters, Laurence Ralph chronicles the history of torture in Chicago, the burgeoning activist movement against police violence, and the American public’s complicity in perpetuating torture at home and abroad. Engaging with a long tradition of epistolary meditations on racism in the United States, from James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time to Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me, Ralph offers in this book a collection of open letters written to protesters, victims, students, and others. Through these moving, questing, enraged letters, Ralph bears witness to police violence that began in Burge’s Area Two and follows the city’s networks of torture to the global War on Terror. From Vietnam to Geneva to Guantanamo Bay—Ralph’s story extends as far as the legacy of American imperialism. Combining insights from fourteen years of research on torture with testimonies of victims of police violence, retired officers, lawyers, and protesters, this is a powerful indictment of police violence and a fierce challenge to all Americans to demand an end to the systems that support it. With compassion and careful skill, Ralph uncovers the tangled connections among law enforcement, the political machine, and the courts in Chicago, amplifying the voices of torture victims who are still with us—and lending a voice to those long deceased.

Book Engaging  Tweens and Teens

Download or read book Engaging Tweens and Teens written by Raleigh Philp and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is designed to help teachers of middle and secondary students understand the neurobiology behind the behaviors of those students." --pref.

Book Treating the Disruptive Adolescent

Download or read book Treating the Disruptive Adolescent written by Eduardo M. Bustamante and published by Jason Aronson, Incorporated. This book was released on 2000-02-01 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers clinicians an effective method of diagnosing, managing, and treating oppositional, resistant, and disruptive older children and adolescents. Dr. Bustamante understands oppositional states as an expression of the teenager's uncertainty about his own identity and alienation from his true self. Attempts to curb rebellion that rely solely on firm behavioral limits will fail, because they thwart rather than promote development and disregard the real meaning of the disruptive behavior. The author's approach is a sensitive and creative alternative to treating this difficult population, one that offers hope and attainable goals.

Book Torment

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  • Author : H D Hunter
  • Publisher : H. D. Hunter
  • Release : 2018-05-09
  • ISBN : 9780692067536
  • Pages : 128 pages

Download or read book Torment written by H D Hunter and published by H. D. Hunter. This book was released on 2018-05-09 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the weekend of his brother's funeral, a young man reflects on life. Torment is a crashing wave of emotion. Hunter explores the dynamics of growing up as a poor minority in a small town, facing mental health conditions that most communities would rather not name, even if they could. The story steps through the tangled web of coming-of-age identity crises, complicated by society and the environment around us. Navigating through grieving and rambunctious aunts and uncles, a role model sister he rarely sees, and the ever-mounting pressure of misfortune, the young man has a very important question to answer: What is worth living for?

Book Teen Angst

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  • Author : Sara Bynoe
  • Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
  • Release : 2015-03-03
  • ISBN : 146689153X
  • Pages : 230 pages

Download or read book Teen Angst written by Sara Bynoe and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2015-03-03 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teen Angst: A Celebration of Really Bad Poetry is the first, the best, and the biggest collection of teen angst poetry ever to be published. Inspired by the popularity of her interactive website, editor Sara Bynoe has compiled the definitive teen angst reader. Divided into 12 categories, including I am Alone and No One Understands My Pain and Obvious Metaphors, this book is for anyone who has ever written truly terrible, meditative, or self-indulgent poetry. Actually, this book is for anyone who survived being a teenager. All of the poets featured in this collection are now adults, living happy, angst-free lives. However, for this special book, they are willing to reveal excerpts from their old tattered notebooks or leather bound journals. Along with the poems, each poet has included a short introduction, giving background information for each work. As Sara Bynoe says, looking back on teen angst poetry brings people together in a "poetry reading meets stand-up comedy meets AA" sort of way.

Book Torment  Part One

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  • Author : Dylan Page
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021-01-14
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 378 pages

Download or read book Torment Part One written by Dylan Page and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-14 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Torment Part One is a dark, taboo, MC, contemporary romance. How did I get here? Broken, bruised, and mentally shattered.For most of my life, my older stepbrother, Shay, was my hero, my rock, and my best friend. The one I knew I could always rely on. For many years, I accepted everyone and everything around me. But as I grew up, the veil was lifted, and I slowly came to understand how f*cked up it all really is. These men, who I considered uncles and close family friends, are members of the dominant MC, The Celtic Beasts. Shay is not only a proud member. He is the one they send in to do their dirty work. For some reason, this tough, muscled, terrifying guy, needs me to ground and comfort him. But I have always had bigger plans. Bigger dreams. I don't want to be trapped here, in this life that is dark, bloody and violent. I want to get out, escape... but Shay has other plans for me. What do you do when your protector becomes the very root of your torment?**Warning: This book is meant for mature readers, 18+. Torment Part One is a dark romance and contains scenes and situations that may be upsetting for some readers. Includes several triggers and sensitive material such as: domestic abuse, profanity, gang violence, PTSD, depression, anxiety disorders, and sexual assault. Please do not read if you are uncomfortable with any of the above. Thank you.

Book The Death of the Grown Up

Download or read book The Death of the Grown Up written by Diana West and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-09-16 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "WHERE HAVE ALL THE GROWN-UPS GONE?" That is the provocative question Washington Times syndicated columnist Diana West asks as she looks at America today. Sadly, here's what she finds: It's difficult to tell the grown-ups from the children in a landscape littered with Baby Britneys, Moms Who Mosh, and Dads too "young" to call themselves "mister." Surveying this sorry scene, West makes a much larger statement about our place in the world: "No wonder we can't stop Islamic terrorism. We haven't put away our toys " As far as West is concerned, grown-ups are extinct. The disease that killed them emerged in the fifties, was incubated in the sixties, and became an epidemic in the seventies, leaving behind a nation of eternal adolescents who can't say "no," a politically correct population that doesn't know right from wrong. The result of such indecisiveness is, ultimately, the end of Western civilization as we know it. This is because the inability to take on the grown-up role of gatekeeper influences more than whether a sixteen-year-old should attend a Marilyn Manson concert. It also fosters the dithering cultural relativism that arose from the "culture wars" in the eighties and which now undermines our efforts in the "real" culture war of the 21st century--the war on terror. With insightful wit, Diana West takes readers on an odyssey through culture and politics, from the rise of rock 'n' roll to the rise of multiculturalism, from the loss of identity to the discovery of "diversity," from the emasculation of the heroic ideal to the "PC"-ing of "Mary Poppins," all the while building a compelling case against the childishness that is subverting the struggle against jihadist Islam in a mixed-up, post-9/11 world. With a new foreword for the paperback edition, "The Death of the Grown-up," is a bracing read from one of the most original voices on the American cultural scene.

Book Not My Child

Download or read book Not My Child written by Dr. Frank Lawlis and published by Hay House, Inc. This book was released on 2014-11-26 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not My Child is an insightful, compassionate, and encouraging guide for families dealing with an addicted teen or child at risk of becoming addicted to alcohol or drugs. Psychologist and rehabilitation specialist Dr. Frank Lawlis, chairman of the Dr. Phil advisory board and consultant and frequent guest on the television show, offers: •Expert advice on detecting and understanding teen addiction •Information from the latest neuroscience research on the impact addiction has on the teen brain •Guidance, based on years of clinical experience, on what parents can do to help their child deal with depression, obsessive cravings, and relationships damaged by the addictionThis thoughtful and groundbreaking book details sound medical treatments, as well as alternative and spiritual methods for addressing a societal problem that has reached epidemic levels.

Book Fallen

Download or read book Fallen written by Lauren Kate and published by . This book was released on 2011-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suspected in the death of her boyfriend, seventeen-year-old Luce is sent to a Savannah, Georgia, reform school where she meets two intriguing boys and learns the truth about the strange shadows that have always haunted her.

Book How to Keep Your Teenager Out of Trouble and What to Do If You Can t

Download or read book How to Keep Your Teenager Out of Trouble and What to Do If You Can t written by Neil I. Bernstein and published by Workman Publishing. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a guide to successful cohabitation with teenagers covering such topics as how teenagers get into trouble, setting limits, building self-esteem, peer pressure, and antisocial behavior.

Book Autumn in Venice

Download or read book Autumn in Venice written by Andrea Di Robilant and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The illuminating story of writer and muse—which also examines the cost to a young woman of her association with a larger-than-life literary celebrity—Autumn in Venice is an intimate look at Hemingway’s final years. In the fall of 1948, Ernest Hemingway and his fourth wife traveled for the first time to Venice, which Hemingway called “absolutely god-damned wonderful.” A year shy of his fiftieth birthday, Hemingway hadn’t published a novel in nearly a decade when he met and fell in love with Adriana Ivancich, a striking Venetian girl just out of finishing school. Here Andrea di Robilant re-creates with sparkling clarity this surprising, years-long relationship, during which Adriana inspired a man thirty years her senior to complete his great final work. Hemingway used Adriana as the model for Renata in Across the River and into the Trees, and continued to visit Venice to see her; when the Ivanciches traveled to Cuba, Adriana was there as he wrote The Old Man and the Sea.

Book Torment of the Fallen

Download or read book Torment of the Fallen written by Eve Archer and published by Broadmoor Books. This book was released on 2022-05-21 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Falling in love with a human is the last thing I wanted to do. Then, again, she isn't exactly human. Not anymore. Sara was the beautiful, intriguing best friend of my boss's mate. She was off-limits, which was no problem for me. Relationships between humans and fallen angels never worked out. I could desire her from afar and never touch, telling myself that a future was impossible. But when she was saved from death by an angel's healing powers, Sara became the carrier of an angel's mark. Now she's a target of both celestials and demons, and she doesn't even know it. It’s been millennia since I felt so strongly for a woman, and I don't know if it’s even possible for a tormented soul like me to be happy. But I know I can’t let the demons get their hands on her—even if it means breaking my vow and forfeiting my life to the demon prince I pledged my soul to for the next year. Can I resist the pull of her angelic mark and stay away from her, or will I be drawn to her like a moth to a burning flame that threatens to engulf us both in its hellfire? Torment of the Fallen is a devilishly steamy, fated mates paranormal romance with a mafia twist. This is book 4 in the Dark Fallen Angels series (but it is an addition to the original trilogy), it’s a full-length novel, and it ends with a HEA. For readers who love billionaire romance, angels and demons, and mafia romance as well as books by Lynsay Sands, J.R. Ward, Patricia Briggs, Nalini Singh, Felicity Heaton, Eve Langlais, Elizabeth Briggs. Like the international jet-setting abduction to seduction of 365 Days (365 DNI) but want a paranormal twist? Mythology, mythical creatures, ancient curses, and eternal mates.

Book Unschooled

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kerry McDonald
  • Publisher : Chicago Review Press
  • Release : 2019-05-07
  • ISBN : 1641600667
  • Pages : 193 pages

Download or read book Unschooled written by Kerry McDonald and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Education has become synonymous with schooling, but it doesn't have to be. As schooling becomes increasingly standardized and test driven, occupying more of childhood than ever before, parents and educators are questioning the role of schooling in society. Many are now exploring and creating alternatives. In a compelling narrative that introduces historical and contemporary research on self-directed education, Unschooled also spotlights how a diverse group of individuals and organizations are evolving an old schooling model of education. These innovators challenge the myth that children need to be taught in order to learn. They are parents who saw firsthand how schooling can dull children's natural curiosity and exuberance and others who decided early on to enable their children to learn without school. Educators who left public school classrooms discuss launching self-directed learning centers to allow young people's innate learning instincts to flourish, and entrepreneurs explore their disillusionment with the teach-and-test approach of traditional schooling.

Book Like a Love Story

Download or read book Like a Love Story written by Abdi Nazemian and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stonewall Honor Book * A Time Magazine Best YA Book of All Time "A book for warriors, divas, artists, queens, individuals, activists, trend setters, and anyone searching for the courage to be themselves.”—Mackenzi Lee, New York Times bestselling author of The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue It’s 1989 in New York City, and for three teens, the world is changing. Reza is an Iranian boy who has just moved to the city with his mother to live with his stepfather and stepbrother. He’s terrified that someone will guess the truth he can barely acknowledge about himself. Reza knows he’s gay, but all he knows of gay life are the media’s images of men dying of AIDS. Judy is an aspiring fashion designer who worships her uncle Stephen, a gay man with AIDS who devotes his time to activism as a member of ACT UP. Judy has never imagined finding romance...until she falls for Reza and they start dating. Art is Judy’s best friend, their school’s only out and proud teen. He’ll never be who his conservative parents want him to be, so he rebels by documenting the AIDS crisis through his photographs. As Reza and Art grow closer, Reza struggles to find a way out of his deception that won’t break Judy’s heart—and destroy the most meaningful friendship he’s ever known. This is a bighearted, sprawling epic about friendship and love and the revolutionary act of living life to the fullest in the face of impossible odds.