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  • Family Trouble

    Middle-Class Parents, Children's Problems, and the Disruption of Everyday Life

    by Ara Francis ...
    Our children mean the world to us. They are so central to our hopes and dreams that we will do almost anything to keep them healthy, happy, and safe. What happens, then, when a child has serious problems? In Family Trouble, a compelling portrait of upheaval in family life, sociologist Ara Francis tells the stories of middle-class men and women whose children face significant medical, psychological ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Craft of Dying, 40th Anniversary Edition

    The Modern Face of Death

    by Lyn H. Lofland ...
    The fortieth-anniversary edition of a classic and prescient work on death and dying.Much of today's literature on end-of-life issues overlooks the importance of 1970s social movements in shaping our understanding of death, dying, and the dead body. This anniversary edition of Lyn Lofland's The Craft of Dying begins to repair this omission. Lofland identifies, critiques, and theorizes 1970s death ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • The Out-of-Sync Child Has Fun, Revised Edition

    Activities for Kids with Sensory Processing Disorder

    by Carol Stock Kranowitz ...
    Series series The Out-of-Sync Child Series
    This companion volume to The Out-of-Sync Child—the first accessible guide to examine Sensory Processing Disorder—includes more than one hundred playful activities specially designed for kids with SPD.Each activity in Carol Stock Kranowitz's inspiring and practical book is SAFE—Sensory-motor, Appropriate, Fun and Easy—to help develop and organize a child’s brain and body. Whether your child faces ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Montessori

    The Science Behind the Genius

    by Angeline Stoll Lillard ...
    One hundred and ten years ago, Maria Montessori, the first female physician in Italy, devised a very different method of educating children, based on her observations of how they naturally learn. In Montessori, Angeline Stoll Lillard shows that science has finally caught up with Maria Montessori. Lillard presents the research behind nine insights that are foundations of Montessori education, ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Babies for the Nation

    The Medicalization of Motherhood in Quebec, 1910-1970

    by Denyse Baillargeon ...
    Translated by W. Donald Wilson ...
    Series series Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada
    Described by some as a “necropolis for babies,” the province of Quebec in the early twentieth century recorded infant mortality rates, particularly among French-speaking Catholics, that were among the highest in the Western world. This “bleeding of the nation” gave birth to a vast movement for child welfare that paved the way for a medicalization of childbearing.In Babies for the Nation, basing ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Importance of Being Innocent

    Why We Worry About Children

    by Joanne Faulkner ...
    The Importance of Being Innocent addresses the current debate in Australia and internationally regarding the sexualisation of children, predation on them by pedophiles and the risks apparently posed to their 'innate innocence' by perceived problems and threats in contemporary society. Joanne Faulkner argues that, contrary to popular opinion, social issues have been sensationally expounded in moral ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • American Child Bride

    A History of Minors and Marriage in the United States

    by Nicholas L. Syrett ...
    Most in the United States likely associate the concept of the child bride with the mores and practices of the distant past. But Nicholas L. Syrett challenges this assumption in his sweeping and sometimes shocking history of youthful marriage in America. Focusing on young women and girls — the most common underage spouses — Syrett tracks the marital history of American minors from the colonial ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Children, Media and Playground Cultures

    Ethnographic Studies of School Playtimes

    by R. Willett, C. Richards, J. Marsh, A. Burn, J. C Bishop ...
    Series series Studies in Childhood and Youth
    Drawing on ethnographic accounts of children's media-referenced play, this book explores children's engagement with media cultures and playground experiences, analyzing a range of issues such as learning, fantasy, communication and identity. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • The Palgrave Handbook of Disabled Children’s Childhood Studies

    Edited by Tillie Curran, Kirsty Liddiard, Katherine Runswick-Cole ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Disabled children’s lives have often been discussed through medical concepts of disability rather than concepts of childhood. Western understandings of childhood have defined disabled children against child development ‘norms’ and have provided the rationale for segregated or ‘special’ welfare and education provision. In contrast, disabled children’s childhood studies begins with the view that ... Read more

    $242.99 USD

  • Conflict and Youth Rights in India

    Engagement and Identity in the North East

    by Haans J. Freddy ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book examines how conflict has affected the rights of youth in Northeast India. Examining youth engagement in protracted conflict and its impact on youth rights, the author considers the complex issues besieging the region, including armed insurgency, conflicts between ethnic groups, human rights violations, poor governance and a lack of economic development, all factors contributing to the ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Young People Transitioning from Out-of-Home Care

    International Research, Policy and Practice

    Edited by Philip Mendes, Pamela Snow ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book challenges and revises existing ways of thinking about leaving care policy, practice and research at regional, national and international levels. Bringing together contributors from fifteen countries, it covers a range of topical policy and practice issues within national, international or comparative contexts. These include youth justice, disability, access to higher education, the role ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Children and Migration

    At the Crossroads of Resiliency and Vulnerability

    by Marisa O. Ensor ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Providing a comprehensive analysis of the increasingly common phenomenon of child migration, this volume examines the experiences of children in a wide variety of migratory circumstances including economic child migrants, transnational students, trafficked, stateless, fostered, unaccompanied and undocumented children. ... Read more

    $89.99 USD