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Perfect Children: Growing Up on the Religious Fringe by Amanda van Eck Duymaer van Twist 9780199827800
RRP: €36.28Booksplease Price: €32.42Children born and raised on the religious fringe are a distinctive yet largely unstudied social phenomenon -they are irreversibly shaped by the experience having been thrust into a radical religious culture by birth. The religious group is all... -
Violent fathering and the risks to children: The need for change Lynne Harne 9781847422118
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €26.01Current family policy approaches emphasise the significance of paternal involvement in children's lives, yet there has been a silence on violent and abusive fathering in these discourses. This is the first UK book to specifically focus on violent... -
Designing Modern Childhoods: History, Space, and the Material Culture of Children by Marta Gutman 9780813541969
RRP: €35.69Booksplease Price: €28.13With the advent of urbanization in the early modern period, the material worlds of children were vastly altered. In industrialized democracies, a broad consensus developed that children should not work, but rather learn and play in settings designed and... -
Exploring Concepts of Child Well-Being: Implications for Children's Services by Nick Axford 9781447305859
RRP: €35.69Booksplease Price: €28.66Policy reforms to children's services in the UK and elsewhere encourage a greater focus on outcomes defined in terms of child well-being. Yet for this to happen, we need not only a better understanding of what child well-being is and how services can... -
Denial: How Refusing to Face the Facts about Our Autism Epidemic Hurts Children, Families, and Our Future by Mark Blaxill 9781510716940
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €18.27Even as the autism rate soars and the cost to our nation climbs well into the billions, a dangerous new idea is taking hold: There simply is no autism epidemic. The question is stark: Is autism ancient, a genetic variation that demands acceptance and... -
Global Children, Global Media: Migration, Media and Childhood by Liesbeth de Block 9780230273443
Booksplease Price: €54.64Children today are growing up in a world of global media. Many have also become global citizens, through their experience of migration and transnational networks. This book reviews research and debate in the media, globalization, migration and childhood,... -
An Equal Start?: Providing Quality Early Education and Care for Disadvantaged Children Ludovica Gambaro (Institute of Education, University of London) 9781447310525
RRP: €33.31Booksplease Price: €26.91Early education and care has become a central policy area in many countries. As services expand rapidly, it is crucial to examine whether children from disadvantaged backgrounds receive provision of the highest possible quality. In this original,... -
Teleconsultation in Schools: A Guide to Collaborative Practice Aaron J. Fischer 9781433839092
RRP: €40.46Booksplease Price: €34.66This practical guide to teleconsulting for school psychology professionals demonstrates how rapid advances in the field can help them expand support for educators, administrators, students, and their families by providing online access to consulting... -
NIV, Bible for Teen Girls, Leathersoft, Blue, Thumb Indexed Tabs: Growing in Faith, Hope, and Love by Zondervan 9780310461920
RRP: €89.24Booksplease Price: €53.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780310461920Author ZondervanPage Count 1728Imprint ZondervanPublisher ZondervanWeight(grams) 1210gDimensions(mm) 239mm * 160mm * 52mm -
On Playing a Poor Hand Well: Insights from the Lives of Those Who Have Overcome Childhood Risks and Adversities by Mark Katz 9780393702323
RRP: €37.49Booksplease Price: €31.38Drawing upon research examining life's trajectories, Mark Katz identifies sources of protection, strength, and understanding - the cards that enable some children to "beat the odds." He encourages therapists, educators, and other child caretakers to... -
Children of the City: At Work and at Play by Professor of History David Nasaw
RRP: €20.17Booksplease Price: €17.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345802972Author David NasawFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 244gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 135mm... -
Children of Palestine: Experiencing Forced Migration in the Middle East by Dawn Chatty 9781845451202
RRP: €28.50Booksplease Price: €24.70Palestinian children and young people living both within and outside of refugee camps in the Middle East are the focus of this book. For more than half a century these children and their caregivers have lived a temporary existence in the dramatic and... -
Rethinking the Youth Question: Education, Labour and Cultural Studies by P. Cohen 9780333631485
Booksplease Price: €53.48Bringing together material written over the past two decades, this book traces a history of political and intellectual debates around central issues of education, labour and the youth question. An argument is made for linking the cultural, structural and... -
Wild Child: Intensive Parenting and Posthumanist Ethics by Naomi Morgenstern 9781517903794
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €21.10Exploring how the figure of the "wild child" in contemporary fiction grapples with contemporary cultural anxieties about reproductive ethics and the future of humanity In the eighteenth century, Western philosophy positioned the figure of "the child" at... -
Social Work with Children by Marian Brandon 9780333658574
Booksplease Price: €47.67How can social workers enable vulnerable children to have a voice in the complex systems designed to protect them and promote their welfare? How can children be helped to make sense of complicated and disrupted lives? This core text addresses these and... -
Children Framing Childhoods: Working-Class Kids' Visions of Care Wendy Luttrell (The Graduate Centre, City University of New York) 9781447353300
RRP: €38.07Booksplease Price: €30.40Urban educational research, practice, and policy is preoccupied with problems, brokenness, stigma, and blame. As a result, too many people are unable to recognize the capacities and desires of children and youth growing up in working-class communities. ... -
Children'S Rights and Child Protection: Critical Times, Critical Issues in Ireland by Deborah Lynch 9780719090851
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €22.12This topical book, now available in paperback, comprehensively draws together diverse perspectives from key leaders in the field to address critical issues for children in relation to their rights, welfare and protection at a critical time in Ireland... -
Children in China Orna Naftali 9780745680552
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €17.09Chinese childhood is undergoing a major transformation. This book explores how government policies introduced in China over the last few decades and processes of social and economic change are reshaping the lives of children and the meanings of childhood... -
Taming Childhood?: A Critical Perspective on Policy, Practice and Parenting by Rob Creasy 9783030118419
RRP: €59.49Booksplease Price: €53.73This book explores the links between recent reports of increasing levels of unhappiness and mental health problems amongst children and young people, and changes within childhood which restrict and reduce opportunities for children to develop and... -
Teenagers Matter by Mark Cannister 9781532660276
RRP: €33.32Booksplease Price: €26.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532660276Author Mark CannisterFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)... -
Young People, Sex and the Media: The Facts of Life? by Sara Bragg 9781403918239
Booksplease Price: €54.64Are children today growing up too soon? How do they - and their parents - feel about media portrayals of sex and personal relationships? Are the media a corrupting influence, or a potentially positive and useful resource for young people? Drawing on an... -
Challenging Conceptions: Children Born of Wartime Rape and Sexual Exploitation by Kimberly Theidon 9780197648315
RRP: €72.59Booksplease Price: €67.26Governments, international organizations, and international laws and courts increasingly pay attention to conflict-related sexual violence. The core of the UN Women Peace and Security Agenda is stopping conflict-related sexual violence against women... -
Parenting Teenagers by Bob Myers 9781853023668
RRP: €33.31Booksplease Price: €33.24Parenting Teenagers is invaluable for parents or for anyone filling the parenting role - temporarily or permanently. Bob Myers makes complex theory simple, and explains how to make, maintain, repair and strengthen relationships with teenagers. He... -
Psychology - Child Development: A Quickstudy Laminated Reference Guide by Jennifer Jipson
RRP: €9.46Booksplease Price: €6.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781423248910Author Jennifer JipsonPage Count 6Imprint Barcharts, IncPublisher Barcharts, IncWeight(grams) 36gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 1mm -
Children's Charities in Crisis: Early Intervention and the State Alison Body 9781447346432
RRP: €29.74Booksplease Price: €24.26Provides a timely assessment of the shifting interplay between state provision and voluntary organisations delivering early interventions for children, young people and their families. Using one-hundred voices from charities and stakeholders on the... -
Children and Media: A Global Perspective Dafna Lemish (Southern Illinois University, USA) 9781118786772
RRP: €42.78Booksplease Price: €38.10Taking a global and interdisciplinary approach, Children and Media explores the role of modern media, including the internet, television, mobile media and video games, in the development of children, adolescents, and childhood. Primer to global issues... -
A Handbook for Children's Liturgy by Barbara Mary Hopper 9781853115516
Booksplease Price: €16.34This is one of a series of handbooks designed to help lay people play a greater part in the life of the Church. In many parishes it Is usual to find men and women reading at Mass, administering Communion, organizing the children's liturgy, even leading... -
Disclosing Childhoods: Research and Knowledge Production for a Critical Childhood Studies by Spyros Spyrou 9781137479037
Booksplease Price: €132.38Disclosing Childhoods offers a critical account of knowledge production in childhood studies. The book argues for the need to be reflexive about the knowledge practices of the field and to scrutinize the role of researchers in disclosing certain... -
The Talk: What Your Kids Need to Hear from You About Sex by Sharon Maxwell 9781583333105
RRP: €28.56Booksplease Price: €19.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583333105Author Sharon MaxwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Penguin Publishing GroupPublisher Penguin Publishing GroupWeight(grams)... -
Tehran Blues: Youth Culture in Iran by Kaveh Basmenji 9780863565823
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.77More than two decades after their parents rose up against the excesses of the Shah, increasing numbers of young Iranians are risking jail for things their counterparts in the West take for granted: wearing makeup, slow dancing at parties, holding hands... -
The Gen Y Handbook: Applying Relationship Leadership to Engage Millennials by Diane E. Spiegel 9781590799567
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €12.23With four generations simultaneously co-habitating today's workplace, miscommunication and dissatisfaction are prevalent. Generation Y is the newest generation to enter our workforce and they pose a whole new set of particularly thorny issues, especially... -
Children in War: A First-Hand Account of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict by Elon Perry 9781036108489
Booksplease Price: €28.06Children in War is a story about vulnerable and helpless children at the mercy of bloodthirsty pompous leaders, who perpetually endanger them through bloody conflicts. It is about courage and survival against apparently overwhelming odds; a childhood in... -
The well-being of children in the UK Jonathan Bradshaw 9781847428363
RRP: €30.93Booksplease Price: €25.13The well-being of children is a vital and highly topical issue. This important new book is the third in a series and updates the findings from a wide range of data to evaluate the outcomes of the Labour government's policies for children. Edited by a... -
Hunter-Gatherer Childhoods: Evolutionary, Developmental, and Cultural Perspectives by Michael E. Lamb
RRP: €58.30Booksplease Price: €52.25In 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... -
The 6 Needs of Every Child: Empowering Parents and Kids through the Science of Connection by Amy Elizabeth Olrick 9780310358077
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €14.24Discover the power of being imperfectly present with your children, helping them develop mental, emotional, and spiritual resilience that will sustain them for a lifetime.Like most parents, Amy and Jeffrey Olrick left the hospital with their first child... -
Lost Youth in the Global City: Class, Culture, and the Urban Imaginary Jo-Anne Dillabough 9780415995580
RRP: €58.30Booksplease Price: €51.90What does it mean to be young, to be economically disadvantaged, and to be subject to constant surveillance both from the formal agencies of the state and from the informal challenge of competing youth groups? What is life like for young people living on... -
Not Under My Roof: Parents, Teens, and the Culture of Sex by Amy Schalet
RRP: €33.32Booksplease Price: €33.06For American parents, teenage sex is something to be feared and forbidden: most would never consider allowing their children to have sex at home, and sex is a frequent source of family conflict. In the Netherlands, where teenage pregnancies are far less... -
Rights And Wrongs Of Children's Work by M. F. C. Bourdillon 9780813548890
RRP: €38.08Booksplease Price: €29.49Rights and Wrongs of Children's Work, authored by an interdisciplinary team of experts, incorporates recent theoretical advances and experiences to explore the place of labor in children's lives and development. This groundbreaking book considers... -
Whose Childhood is It?: The Roles of Children, Adults and Policy Makers by Richard Eke 9780826499813
Booksplease Price: €47.67This is an important textbook that promotes thoughtful engagement with key issues and theories that inform an understanding of childhood development. The purpose of this book is to promote a thoughtful engagement with key issues and theories that inform... -
Supervising Child Protection Practice: What Works?: An Evidence Informed Approach by Lynne McPherson 9783319500348
Booksplease Price: €66.12This book presents a model of supervision that is based on both contemporary theory and research, which is strongly contextualized to child and family social work. It draws directly from analysis of in-depth interviews with experienced and post graduate...