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  • Understanding Family Meanings

    A Reflective Text

    by Jane Ribbens McCarthy, Megan Doolittle, Shelley Day Sclater ...
    Family Studies is a key area of policy, professional and personal debate. Perhaps precisely because of this, teaching texts have struggled with how to approach this area, which is both 'familiar' and also contentious and value laden. This innovative and reflective book deals with such dilemmas head-on, through its focus on family meanings in diverse contexts in order to enhance our understanding ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

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  • Please Don’t Take My Baby and I Miss Mummy 2-in-1 Collection

    by Cathy Glass ...
    Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author and foster carer Cathy Glass’ heartbreaking memoir I Miss Mummy now combined in a single volume with her inspiring new title Please Don’t Take My Baby, about a pregnant teenager desperate to keep her child.In Please Don’t Take My Baby, Jade, 17, is pregnant, homeless and alone when she’s brought to live with Cathy. Jade is desperate to keep her ... Read more

    $7.49 USD

  • The Deepest Well

    Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Trauma and Adversity

    by Nadine Burke Harris ...
    “An extraordinary, eye-opening book.” —PeopleNational Health Information Awards winner“A rousing wake-up call. . . . This highly engaging, provocative book prove[s] beyond a reasonable doubt that millions of lives depend on us finally coming to terms with the long-term consequences of childhood adversity and toxic stress.” —Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim CrowDr. Nadine Burke Harris was ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • Kids

    How Biology and Culture Shape the Way We Raise Young Children

    by Meredith Small ...
    To what extent do our parenting practices help or hinder our children? As parents, how much influence do we have over what kind of people our children will grow up to be? In the follow-up to her critically acclaimed Our Babies, Ourselves, Cornell anthropologist Meredith Small now takes on these and other crucial questions about the development of preschool children aged one to six.“A revealing ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Organised Sexual Abuse

    by Michael Salter ...
    Organised Sexual Abuse offers a comprehensive, interdisciplinary investigation of this phenomenon. Since the early 1980s, social workers and mental health professionals around the globe have encountered clients reporting sexual abuse by organized groups or networks. These allegations have been amongst the most controversial in debates over child sexual abuse, raising many unanswered questions. Are ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Researching Resilience

    Edited by Linda Liebenberg, Michael Ungar ...
    While categorization has always been one of the primary focuses of the social sciences, recent trends within these disciplines have tended to categorize various behaviours as disorders. Researching Resilience challenges this tendency to pathologize, and marks a profound shift in research methods from the study of disorder to the study of well-being.This collection assembles qualitative and ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Sibling Identity and Relationships

    Sisters and Brothers

    by Rosalind Edwards, Lucy Hadfield, Helen Lucey, Melanie Mauthner ...
    Series series Relationships and Resources
    Sibling Identity and Relationships explores the special place that siblings occupy in the lives of children and young people, providing new insights into sibling identity and relationships. Drawing on social constructionist and psychodynamic perspectives, it discusses who constitutes a sibling, emotional connections and separations, conflict and aggression and how siblings construct and conduct ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Playing for Their Lives

    The Global El Sistema Movement for Social Change Through Music

    by Eric Booth, Tricia Tunstall ...
    An eye-opening view of the unprecedented global spread of El Sistema—intensive music education that disrupts the cycles of poverty.In some of the bleakest corners of the world, an unprecedented movement is taking root. From the favelas of Brazil to the Maori villages in New Zealand, from occupied Palestine to South Central Los Angeles, musicians with strong social consciences are founding ... Read more

    $19.79 USD

  • Understanding Narrative Identity Through Lesbian and Gay Youth

    by Edmund Coleman-Fountain ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book contests the idea that lesbian and gay categories are disappearing, and that sexuality is becoming fluid, by showing how young people use them in a world in which heterosexuality is privileged. Exploring identity making, the book shows how old modernist stories of sexual being entwine with narratives of normality. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Hunter-Gatherer Childhoods

    Evolutionary, Developmental, and Cultural Perspectives

    by Barry S. Hewlett ...
    Series series Evolutionary Foundations of Human Behavior Series
    In the vast anthropological literature devoted to hunter-gatherer societies, surprisingly little attention has been paid to the place of hunter-gatherer children. Children often represent 40 percent of hunter-gatherer populations, thus nearly half the population is omitted from most hunter-gatherer ethnographies and research. This volume is designed to bridge the gap in our understanding of the ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Fifty+ States Of The USA In Living Color

    by Speedy Publishing ...
    Knowing where a person lives is a vital part of growing up and understanding the world in general. By allowing a child to see an illustrated book containing the 50 states in the USA, the child will learn not only about his or her own state, but about neighboring states. This allows them to further understand the world outside of what they know, but prepares them for school and understanding the ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Investing in Children

    Work, Education, and Social Policy in Two Rich Countries

    Edited by Ariel Kalil, Ron Haskins, Jenny Chesters ...
    Investing in Children: Work, Education, and Social Policy in Two Rich Countries presents new research by leading scholars in Australia and the United States on economic factors that influence children's development and the respective social policies that the two nations have designed to boost human capital development.The volume is organized around three major issues: parental employment, early ... Read more

    $29.19 USD