Children's Studies

Current global estimates of children engaged in warfare range from 200,000 to 300,000. Children's roles in conflict range from armed and active participants to spies, cooks, messengers, and sex slaves. Child Soldiers in the Age of Fractured States...

This book provides a comprehensive, student-friendly and critical introduction to youth justice in England and Wales, offering a balanced evaluation of its development, rationale, nature and evidence base. It explores the evolution of definitions and...

A groundbreaking twentieth-century history of transgender children With transgender rights front and center in American politics, media, and culture, the pervasive myth still exists that today's transgender children are a brand new generation-pioneers in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915150080Author Fay RowlandFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Thomas Salt BooksPublisher Thomas Salt BooksWeight(grams) 77gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

Play is fundamental to children's health, wellbeing and development. Yet in the modern world, their space and opportunity to play is under threat. This is the first book to look in detail at children's play within public policy. Using the UK...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783656613770Author Andreas KrumwiedeFormat PaperbackPage Count 20Imprint Grin VerlagPublisher Grin VerlagWeight(grams) 41gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm * 1mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608057078Author Bronwyn DaviesFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Bentham Science PublishersPublisher Bentham Science PublishersWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781622452842Author Charles H SpurgeonFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Aneko PressPublisher Life Sentence PublishingWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm)...

Why do:* Dutch babies seem so content, and sleep so well?* Dutch parents let their kids play outside on their own?* The Dutch trust their children to bike to school?* Dutch schools not set homework for the under-tens?* ...

It may shock you to learn that we spend an average of 4-7 minutes outside each day--while we spend 4-7 hours using devices with screens. Needless to say, our physical, mental, emotional, and relational health has suffered. But there is a ready solution:...

You're twelve years old. Your mother's a junkie and your father might as well be dead. You can't read or write, and you don't go to school. An average day means sitting round a bonfire with your mates smoking drugs, or stealing cars. Welcome to Urban's...

What was it like to be a child in England between the fifth and eleventh centuries?Who looked after children, how were they educated, what games did they play, and when did they have to take on adult responsibilities?What happened at birth, when were...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781546034131Author Tom WhiteheadFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Worthy BooksPublisher Worthy BooksWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 140mm * 221mm * 20mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250212832Author Marc BrackettFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945644009Author Dr Jerry ThomasFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Innovative Eggz LLCPublisher Innovative Eggz LLCWeight(grams) 535gDimensions(mm)...

This highly practical book presents current developments in play therapy, including innovative applications for particular problems and populations. Contributors first discuss the latest ideas and techniques emerging from object relations, experiential,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767908726Author Elaine N. AronFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday DelPublisher Broadway Books (A...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626541436Author Jerry ThomasFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Girard & StewartPublisher Girard & StewartWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

This bestselling textbook provides social science students with an accessible introduction to neuroscience and the implications for our understandings of child development, considering the links between brain development and social and cultural issues. ...

There are seven life processes identified in anthroposophical human physiology which affect physical organ function and life forces: breathing, producing warmth, nourishment, secretion, preservation, growth and production/reproduction. They form the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780961307394Author Aletha Jauch SolterFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Shining Star PressPublisher Shining Star PressWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm)...

This popular book provides a compelling introduction to thinking about childhood in rigorous and critical ways. Karen Wells offers a unique global perspective on children's lives, showing how the notion of childhood varies widely and is continuously...

An essential read, written by a leading expert, for anyone who wants to understand young people's use of social media What is new about how teenagers communicate through services such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram? Do social media affect the...

This volume examines how Saving Our Lives Hear Our Truths, or SOLHOT, a radical youth intervention, provides a space for the creative performance and expression of Black girlhood and how this creativity informs other realizations about Black girlhood and...

Discover the wonders of our incredible Universe.This fun, fact-filled book is brimming with exciting outdoor experiments to help budding astronomers aged 9+ explore the secrets of space. Using household items, combine astronomy with art and craft by...

Children: The Challenge gives the key to parents who seek to build trust and love in their families, and raise happier, healthier, and better behaved children. Based on a lifetime of experience with children-their problems, their delights, their...

Children and young people with complex mental health needs are increasingly being cared for within specialist mental health care settings, either in the community or in in-patient facilities. With rapid social developments, it can be difficult for carers...

From the author of the wildly popular bestseller The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens comes the go-to guide that helps teens cope with major challenges they face in their lives-now updated for today's social media age.In this newly revised edition,...

Sian Lincoln considers the use, role and significance of private spaces in the lives of young people. Drawing on extensive ethnographic research, she explores the place of 'the private' in youth cultural discourses, both historically and contemporarily,...

Everything you need to know about how to best raise, educate and guide Generation Alpha (born 2010-24) - the most materially endowed and technologically literate generation ever - to help them live their best life.Renowned social demographer Mark...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Books for a Better Life (Psychology) 2004.Book InformationISBN 9780452287167Author Robert E. EmeryFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint PlumePublisher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916425026Author Fanny HoweFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Divided PublishingPublisher Divided Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915150103Author Fay RowlandFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Thomas Salt BooksPublisher Thomas Salt BooksWeight(grams) 82gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

This multi-genre book is a deconstructive project that reveals the elisions, blind spots, and loci within the complex web of daily life of four schoolgirls. The girls, who attend school and actively connect their learning to the study of art, drama,...

This important text shows how child development theory applies to professionals' working practice. Considering theories of development throughout the lifespan from the early years through to adolescence, and transitions to adulthood, this resource is...

Sky's Big Surprise Sky loves school and she also loves learning about new things, but most of all Sky loves surprises. So today was going to be a very special day, as today she would get the chance to do all of the three things she loves to do. Her...

Can we imagine different ways of working together to secure better outcomes for children and families? What are the complex issues that underlie the apparently simple call for 'joined-up' services?Children's services in many countries around the world...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593727072Author Jenny AndersonFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House IncPublisher Random House USA...

Winner of the 2019 Outstanding Book Award - ASC DCCSJ Trapped in a Vice explores the consequences of a juvenile justice system that is aimed at promoting change in the lives of young people, yet ultimately relies upon tools and strategies that enmesh...

Social workers are constantly making decisions under pressure. How do policy, law, research and theory influence what they do? This important book provides the answers with a crystal-clear map of the field of social work with children and families. ...