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  • Sparks

    How Parents Can Ignite the Hidden Strengths of Teenagers

    by Peter L. Benson ...
    In this practical book, Dr. Peter Benson, a leading authority on childhood and adolescence, describes a simple yet powerful plan for awakening the spark that lives inside each and every young person. Sparks—when illuminated and nurtured—give young people joy, energy, and direction. They have the power to change a young person’s life from one of “surviving” to “thriving.” Grounded in new research ... Read more

    $17.00 USD

  • The Handbook of Spiritual Development in Childhood and Adolescence

    by Pamela Ebstyne King, Eugene C. Roehlkepartain, Linda M. Wagener, Peter L. Benson ...
    Series series The SAGE Program on Applied Developmental Science
    *"With sixty-seven scholars from four continents and many diverse disciplines contributing as authors to the volume; with fourteen scholars from around the world serving as editorial advisors; with financial support provided by the John Templeton Foundation via Search Institute; with frequent conversations occurring with colleagues at Fuller Theological Seminary; and with the careful attention of ... Read more

    $140.39 USD

  • Other People's Kids

    Social Expectations and American Adults? Involvement with Children and Adolescents

    by Marc Mannes, Nicole R. Hintz, Eugene C. Roehlkepartain, Theresa K. Sullivan, Peter L. Benson, Peter C. Scales ...
    Series Book 2 - The Search Institute Series on Developmentally Attentive Community and Society
    According to the study conducted by Gallup Organization, only a minority of Americans experience consistent normative motivation for engaging with other people's children. Social norms theory suggests that adults are more likely to get deeply involved if that involvement is viewed as highly important, and if they perceive a social expectation to do so.This volume examines the nature of social ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The South in Winter

    by Peter Benson ...
    Matthew Baxter was almost there. Almost a writer, almost a lover, almost a traveller. He wrote for the Tread Lightly range of travel guides, he loved his boss and he was about to catch a plane to the south. His job was to give an out-of-season slant to the Italian guide, and he was ready. Almost. For everything wasn't exactly as it should have been. In fact, nothing was exactly as it should have ... Read more

    $2.58 USD

  • The Levels

    by Benson, Peter ...
    Drove House has always loomed large over village life. Boarded-up for years, it is reputed to be brimming with ghosts, and is shunned by the locals all except Billy, for whom it has been the site of childhood dens and secret adolescent adventures. When the captivating Muriel moves in with her bohemian mother, they sweep out the ghosts and breathe new life into both the house and Billys quiet rural ... Read more

    $9.29 USD

  • The Whittling Handbook

    20 Charming Projects for Carving Wood by Hand

    by Peter Benson ...
    A refreshed edition of a practical and charming introduction to the time-honored craft of whittling—now with brand-new step-by-step illustrations.Whittling can help you relax even as you create useful and beautiful art with just a knife and some timber. The Whittling Handbook helps beginners explore this time-honored craft and learn foundational skills, from gathering the basic tools to choosing ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Two Cows and a Vanful of Smoke

    by Benson, Peter ...
    When young Elliot gets a labourers job at Mr Evanss after being sacked from a pig farm for liberating six of its sows, he thinks hell have even more opportunities to lean on gates or stare at fields. But his best mate Spike keeps getting him into trouble, first by showing him what is being grown in a tucked-away polytunnel, and then turning up at his caravans door with a van full of weed. As ... Read more

    $9.29 USD

  • American Artists in Postwar Rome

    Art and Cultural Exchange

    by Peter Benson Miller ...
    Series series Visual Cultures and Italian Contexts
    Drawing on unpublished archival sources, this book reconstitutes the experiences of a wide range of American artists, critics, and writers working in Rome in a charged environment of “Cold War cosmopolitanism.”After the Second World War, American artists flocked to Rome in record numbers, even as the United States shored up Italy as a bulwark against the spread of Communism. While the market for ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • Justice in Transactions

    A Theory of Contract Law

    by Peter Benson ...
    “One of the most important contributions to the field of contract theory—if not the most important—in the past 25 years.” —Stephen A. Smith, McGill UniversityCan we account for contract law on a moral basis that is acceptable from the standpoint of liberal justice? To answer this question, Peter Benson develops a theory of contract that is completely independent of—and arguably superior to—long ... Read more

    $77.09 USD

  • Privatization and the New Medical Pluralism

    Shifting Healthcare Landscapes in Maya Guatemala

    by Anita Chary, Peter Rohloff, Peter Benson, Alejandra Colom, Shom N. Dasgupta-Tsikinas, David Flood, Rachel Hall-Clifford, Nora King, Jonathan Maupin0, Carla Pezzia1, Paul Wise2 ...
    Privatization and the New Medical Pluralism is the first collection of its kind to explore the contemporary terrain of healthcare in Guatemala through reflective ethnography. This volume offers a nuanced portrait of the effects of healthcare privatization for indigenous Maya people, who have historically endured numerous disparities in health and healthcare access. The collection provides an ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • Trends in Youth Development

    Visions, Realities and Challenges

    Edited by Karen Johnson Pittman, Peter L. Benson ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    MOVING THE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT MESSAGE: TURNING A VAGUE IDEA INTO A MORAL IMPERATIVE Peter L. Benson and Karen Pittman THE CONTAGION OF AN IDEA In the past fifteen years, countless programs, agencies, funding initiatives, profes sionals, and volunteers have embraced the term "youth development. " Linked more by shared passion than by formal membership or credentials, these people and places have ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Battling Siki

    A Tale of Ring Fixes, Race, and Murder in the 1920s

    by Peter Benson ...
    Battling Siki (1887–1925) was once one of the four or five most recognizable black men in the world, and was written about in detail by such figures as Ring Lardner and his son John, Damon Runyon, and Westbrook Pegler. One can find his legacy in the name of a popular rock group, one of Che Guevara’s lieutenants, a character on Xena, Warrior Princess, and the Battling Siki Hotel in the fighter’s ... Read more

    $16.59 USD