01757nam 2200457 450 991016032090332120200520144314.01-4598-1242-5(CKB)3710000001021371(MiAaPQ)EBC4617135(Au-PeEL)EBL4617135(CaPaEBR)ebr11331683(OCoLC)969646102(BIP)056151934(EXLCZ)99371000000102137120170124h20172017 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierThe black tortoise /Ronald Tierney[Victoria, British Columbia] :Raven Books,2017.20171 online resource (133 pages)1-4598-1240-9 Peter Strand is half Chinese and half Cherokee and was adopted by an elderly white couple from Phoenix. Now he's a forensic accountant in San Francisco, where he's struggling with his identity. When his employer asks him to investigate a San Francisco-based nonprofit organization, Strand meets a cast of quirky characters who all seem to be hiding a secret. Peter soon finds evidence of a probable fraud, but when fraud leads to murder, he's drawn deeper into a murky mystery. The Black Tortoise is the second book in the Peter Strand Mystery series.Detective and mystery storiesFICTIONCRIMECALIFORNIADetective and mystery stories.808.83872Tierney Ronald1213247MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910160320903321The black tortoise3420833UNINA04096nam 2200661 a 450 991078254380332120161219111319.01-281-89791-497866118979181-84860-760-1(CKB)1000000000578703(EBL)370492(OCoLC)297224215(SSID)ssj0000104900(PQKBManifestationID)11122024(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000104900(PQKBWorkID)10086585(PQKB)11593176(MiAaPQ)EBC370492(OCoLC)1007858301(StDuBDS)EDZ0000072208(Au-PeEL)EBL370492(CaPaEBR)ebr10256846(CaONFJC)MIL189791(OCoLC)85829802(FINmELB)ELB139669(EXLCZ)99100000000057870320120412d2007 fy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrApproaches to positive youth development[electronic resource] /edited by Rainer K. Silbereisen & Richard M. LernerLos Angeles, Calif. ;London SAGE20071 online resource (xii, 352 p.) illDescription based upon print version of record.1-4462-1380-3 1-4129-2288-7 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.Cover; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Preface; SECTION ONE Introduction; 1 Approaches to Positive Youth Development: A View of the Issues; SECTION TWO Models of Positive Development in Adolescence and Young Adulthood; 2 Developmental Assets: An Overview of Theory, Research, and Practice; 3 Civic Engagement as an Expression of Positive Youth Development; 4 Empathy-Related Responding: Its Role in Positive Development and Socialization Correlates; 5 Soci(et)al Scaffolding of Individual Growth across the Life Span; SECTION THREE Multiple Contexts of Positive Youth Development6 Perceived Social Inequity and Responses to Conflict among Diverse Youth of Color: The Effects of Social and Physical Context on Youth Behavior and Attitudes7 Not You! Not Here! Not Now!; 8 Life Chances and Opportunities in Times of Social Change: Evidence from Two British Birth Cohorts; 9 Social Control and Adolescent Development: A View from Life-Course Criminology; 10 Social Support and Positive Development: Looking on the Bright Side of Adolescent Close Relationships11 The Long Way to Entrepreneurship: Personality, Parenting, Early Interests, and Competencies as Precursors for Entrepreneurial Activity among the'Termites'SECTION FOUR Interventions and Social Policy; 12 Adolescent Spirituality and Positive Youth Development: A Look at Religion, Social Capital, and Moral Functioning; 13 Youth Political Activism: Sources of Public Hope in the Context of Globalization; 14 Macrosocial Worries as a Source of Positive Youth Development: Results of a 20-Year Longitudinal Study and Policy Implications15 From 'I' to 'We': Development of the Capacity for Teamwork in Youth Programs16 Prevention against Substance Misuse: Life Skills and Positive Youth Development; 17 Building Resources in the Context of Socioeconomic Disadvantage: Lessons from Research for Social Policies; Author Index; Subject IndexThe main focus of this book, beyond a clarification of the paradigmatic foundations, concerns the major contexts of adolescents and young adults, namely, neighbourhoods and leisure locales, school and family, and the major themes of healthy psychosocial development.Youth developmentYouthServices forYouth development.YouthServices for.305.2355Silbereisen R. K(Rainer K.),1944-1528795Lerner Richard M142567StDuBDSStDuBDSBOOK9910782543803321Approaches to positive youth development3772646UNINA