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  • The Mall Walkers

    by R. Brian Howe ...
    In the summer of 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic is spreading, and a mall bookstore clerk is found dead in a washroom, a blue facemask stuffed into his mouth. That's only the beginning of problems for mall manager Michael McQueen. Public Health advocates want more pandemic safety measures while anti-maskers protest, and someone is threatening an acid attack in the mall. At home, his social-climbing ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Challenge of Children's Rights for Canada, 2nd edition

    Series series Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada
    More than a quarter of a century has passed since Canada promised to recognize and respect the rights of children under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Ratification of the Convention cannot, however, guarantee that everyone will abandon proprietary notions about children, or that all children will be free to enjoy the substance of their rights in every social and ... Read more

    $37.49 USD

  • A Question of Commitment

    The Status of Children in Canada, second edition

    Edited by Thomas Waldock ...
    Series series Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada
    With the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989), commentators began to situate the evolution of the status of children within the context of the “property to persons” trajectory that other human rights stories had followed. In the first edition of A Question of Commitment, editors R. Brian Howe and Katherine Covell provided a template of analysis for ... Read more

    $45.39 USD

  • Empowering Children

    Children's Rights Education as a Pathway to Citizenship

    Approved by the General Assembly of the United Nations in 1989, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child affirms that children in all countries have fundamental rights, including rights to education. To date, 192 states are signatories to or have in some form ratified the accord. Children are still imperilled in many countries, however, and are often not made aware of their ... Read more

    $31.69 USD

  • Children, Families and Violence

    Challenges for Children's Rights

    This book examines the risk factors surrounding children at risk of experiencing and perpetrating violence, and looks at the positive role that children's rights can play in their protection.The authors propose that violence in childhood is not spontaneous: that children are raised to become violent in poorly functioning families and child-unfriendly environments. They may be exposed to toxic ... Read more

    $73.79 USD

  • Spirit of Australia II

    Religion in Citizenship and National Life

    Edited by Brian Howe, Philip Hughes ...
    This book continues a process of showing that the dynamic relationship between religion and society is far more significant - philosophically, historically, theologically and even sociologically - than is often credited. This book is about that interplay between the Christian faith and civil society in Australia in the time prior to and during the process of constructing a federated nation, and in ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Education in the Best Interests of the Child

    A Children's Rights Perspective on Closing the Achievement Gap

    A large body of research in disciplines from sociology and policy studies to neuroscience and educational psychology has confirmed that socioeconomic status remains the most powerful influence on children’s educational outcomes. Socially disadvantaged children around the world disproportionately suffer from lower levels of educational achievement, which in turn leads to unfavourable long-term ... Read more

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  • Choice

    A Journey

    by Brian Howe ...
    Choice: A Journey is my journal of despair, hopelessness, and transcendence written in poetry. It deals with themes of suicide and anxiety taken to the extreme. ... Read more

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    Dazzle Your Audience Like A Pro, Even If You're A Complete Newbie!

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  • A Church with the Soul of a Nation

    Making and Remaking the United Church of Canada

    Series Book 61 - McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion
    "As Canadian as the maple leaf" is how one observer summed up the United Church of Canada after its founding in 1925. But was this Canadian-made church flawed in its design, as critics have charged? A Church with the Soul of a Nation explores this question by weaving together the history of the United Church with a provocative analysis of religion and cultural change.The story begins in the ... Read more

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  • Learning to Be a Good Friend

    A Guidebook for Kids

    Series series Elf-help Books for Kids
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