Children's Studies

What is the boy crisis? It's a crisis of education. Worldwide, boys are 50 percent less likely than girls to meet basic proficiency in reading, math, and science. It's a crisis of mental health. ADHD is on the rise. And as boys become young men,...

A step-by-step guide to answering your kids' toughest questions "When people die, where do they go?""Why is her skin darker than mine?""But how does the baby get in there?"Don't panic. While we know that the first step to connecting deeply with our kids...

What was it really like growing up in the 1940s? There are tales of being dragged from bombed out homes and of watching dog fights in the skies above. Of evacuation and a clash of cultures between city centre kids and their country cousins. All endured...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. It's time to celebrate boys. Against the backdrop of a growing national conversation about how to raise sons to become good people, Kate T. Parker is leading the way by turning her lens on boys. Author of the bestselling...

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 PaperbackImprint Grin PublishingPublisher Grin PublishingWeight(grams) 54g

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)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584351085Author TiqqunFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher AutonomediaWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 178mm * 114mm * 11mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629958934Author Paul David TrippFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint P & R Publishing Co (Presbyterian & Reformed)Publisher P & R Publishing Co...

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...

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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) 544g

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849353854Author carla joy bergmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 213Imprint AK PressPublisher AK Press

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.Book InformationISBN 9780955953989Author Winston's WishFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Winston's WishPublisher Winston's Wish

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...