Children's Studies

When D. H. Lawrence wrote his classic study of American literature, he claimed that youth was the "true myth" of America. Beginning from this assertion, Emily A. Murphy traces the ways that youth began to embody national hopes and fears at a time when...

In Choosing to Care, Kyle E. Ciani examines the long history of interactions between parents and social reformers from diverse backgrounds in the development of social welfare programs, particularly childcare, in San Diego, California. Ciani explores how...

Near the end of World War II and after, a small-town Nebraska youth, Jimmy Kugler, drew more than a hundred double-sided sheets of comic strip stories. Over half of these six-panel tales retold the Pacific War as fought by "Frogs" and "Toads," humanoid...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998644950Author David KuschnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Sticky Earth BooksPublisher Sticky Earth BooksWeight(grams) 390gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Growing Up America brings together new scholarship that considers the role of children and teenagers in shaping American political life during the decades following the Second World War. Growing Up America places young people-and their representations-at...

From Jesus to J-Setting details the experiences of Black people with diverse sexual identities from ages eighteen to thirty years old. The work examines how the intersection of racial, sexual, gender, and religious identities influence self-expression...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780971330825Author Jaiya JohnFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Soul Water RisingPublisher Soul Water RisingWeight(grams) 315gDimensions(mm) 140mm *...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061192067Author Abigail JonesFormat PaperbackImprint William Morrow & CompanyPublisher William Morrow & CompanyWeight(grams) 299g

If you grew up in the era of mood rings and lava lamps, you probably remember Free to Be . . . You and Me - the groundbreaking children's record, book, and television special that debuted in 1972. Conceived by actress and producer Marlo Thomas and...

The only available book on the church-sponsored children's home, this work brings together in one volume, for board members, church groups, and staff, a collection of fourteen papers given by Dr. Keith-Lucas to denominational and regional groups from...

Patriarchal law from Spain to the New World In a pioneering study of childhood in colonial Spanish America, Bianca Premo examines the lives of youths in the homes, schools, and institutions of the capital city of Lima, Peru. Situating these young lives...

Between the 1920s and the 1950s, the child welfare movement that had originated as a moral reform effort in the Progressive era evolved into the science of child development. In Before Head Start , Hamilton Cravens chronicles this transformation, both on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997550788Author Aaron W WempleFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Clean LawPublisher Clean LawWeight(grams) 95gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 3mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692500712Author Andre WashingtonFormat PaperbackImprint A2internationalPublisher A2internationalWeight(grams) 82g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788776742027Author Helga, ZeiherFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint University Press of Southern DenmarkPublisher University Press of Southern...

One unintended consequence of the unprecedented rural-to-urban migration in China over the past three decades is the exponentially increased number of "left-behind" children—children whose parents migrated to more developed areas and who live with one...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781978804845Author Kathie CarpenterFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Rutgers University PressPublisher Rutgers University PressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781988531816Author Helen MayFormat PaperbackPage Count 414Imprint Otago University PressPublisher Otago University Press

Since 1997, child welfare services have been faced with new demands to engage fathers or develop father-inclusive services. This book emerges from work by the author as a researcher and educator over many years on the issues posed by this agenda for...

What is it like to be a child growing up in Britain these days? Is it a happy time, or is there too much to worry about? What are the best and worst aspects of being a child today? Children these days draws on the accounts of over two thousand children,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785277702Author Michael WynessFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 153g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785275203Author Simon BaconFormat HardbackPage Count 252Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 454g

The viability, quality and sustainability of publicly supported early childhood education and care services is a lively issue in many countries, especially since the rights of the child imply equal access to provision for all young children. But...

For most young people religion and religiosity is something latent or private activated by private events or the passing of years. For Muslim young people it can be activated by an incessant Islamaphobic discourse that requires fundamental questions of...

As the twentieth century dawned, progressive educators established a national organization for adolescent girls to combat what they believed to be a crisis of girls' education. A corollary to the Boy Scouts of America, founded just a few years earlier,...

A frank analysis of the medical and emotional inequalities that pervade the healthcare process for critically ill children Families who have a child with a life-threatening illness face a daunting road ahead of them, one that not only upends their...

Once considered the preserve of the wealthy, nanny care has grown in response to changes in the labour market, including the rising number of working mothers with young children and increases in non-standard work patterns. This book presents new...

In this outspoken and challenging book, Sarah Nelson argues that progress in addressing childhood sexual abuse has been in fearful or complacent retreat and that change is urgently needed in order to prevent abuse occurring, and to better support...

Young people's participation is an urgent policy and practice concern, across countries and context. This book showcases original research evidence and analysis to consider how, under what conditions and for what purposes young people participate in...

The general well-being of British adolescents has been the topic of considerable debate in recent years, but too often this is based on myth rather than fact. Are today's young people more stressed, anxious, distressed or antisocial than they used to be?...

When more than 150 women testified in 2018 to the sexual abuse inflicted on them by Dr. Larry Nassar when they were young, competitive gymnasts, they exposed and transformed the conditions that shielded their violation, including the testimonial...

Winner of the 2019 Intersectional Book Award from the American Society of Criminology's Division on Women & Crime Complicated Lives focuses on the lives of sixty-five drug-using girls in the juvenile justice system (living in group homes, a residential...

Most parents care deeply about their children. If that were enough, we would not see the inequalities we currently do in children's opportunities and healthy development-children out of school, children laboring, children living in poverty. While the...

Sharing the daily struggles of children and families residing in transitional situations (homelessness or because of risk of homelessness, being connected with the child welfare system, or being new immigrants in temporary housing), this text recommends...

Sharing the daily struggles of children and families residing in transitional situations (homelessness or because of risk of homelessness, being connected with the child welfare system, or being new immigrants in temporary housing), this text recommends...