Children's Studies

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781564110640Author AkilFormat PaperbackPage Count 2Imprint Lushena BooksPublisher Lushena BooksWeight(grams) 390gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 137mm * 15mm

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...

Every child knows what it means to play, but the rest of us can merely speculate. Is it a kind of adaptation, teaching us skills, inducting us into certain communities? Is it power, pursued in games of prowess? Fate, deployed in games of chance?...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780764240492Author Jillian BenfieldFormat PaperbackImprint Bethany House PublishersPublisher Bethany House PublishersWeight(grams) 140g

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 9781945270796Author Irene SunFormat HardbackPage Count 32Imprint New Growth PressPublisher New Growth PressWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 221mm * 221mm *...

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. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623157821Author Elaine Taylor-KlausFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Althea PressPublisher Althea PressWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 150mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062082435Author Dr Catherine Steiner-AdairFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

When a new baby arrives among the Beng people of West Africa, they see it not as being born, but as being reincarnated after a rich life in a previous world. Far from being a tabula rasa, a Beng infant is thought to begin its life filled with spiritual...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994474681Author Maria GanciFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint LM PublishingPublisher LM PublishingWeight(grams) 322gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 178mm * 10mm

Scholars have long argued that the developmental state of the human infant at birth is unique. This volume expands that argument, pointing out that many distinctively human characteristics can be traced to the fact that we give birth to infants who are...

Children are thoroughly, shockingly queer, as Kathryn Bond Stockton explains in The Queer Child, where she examines children's strangeness, even some children's subliminal "gayness," in the twentieth century. Estranging, broadening, darkening forms of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063159488Author Dr Becky KennedyFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 231mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781892366764Author Keith SchreiterFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Fortune Network Publishing IncPublisher Fortune Network Publishing IncWeight(grams)...

Available open access digitally under CC BY-NC-ND licence. 'Desistance' - understanding how people move away from offending - has become a significant policy focus in recent years, with desistance thinking transplanted from the adult to the youth...

Charlotte is a spirited young girl who is creative, competitive, smart, and sporty. She loves exploring nature and particularly loves animals. She's popular because of her confidence. She likes to be independent and make her own decisions - but does she...

Published in association with Save the ChildrenPriscilla Alderson examines the often overlooked issue of the rights of young children, starting with the question of how the 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child applies to the youngest children,...

In their latest book, the Searses bring the reason and common sense of their philosophy of parenting to the hurdles of raising the older child. Attachment parenting is not just for babies; as children grow, they need to expand the web of their secure...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781725251830Author Andy Du FeuFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams) 231gDimensions(mm)...

The most comprehensive and authoritative textbook on youth crime and youth justice. Extensively updated to reflect changes in the youth justice system and contemporary debates around youth crime, this fifth edition of Youth and Crime: Includes new...

Play and the Artist's Creative Process explores a continuity between childhood play and adult creativity. The volume examines how an understanding of play can shed new light on processes that recur in the work of Philip Guston and Eduardo Paolozzi. Both...

In this ground-breaking book, Alan Prout discusses the place of children and childhood in modern society. He critically examines 'the new social studies of childhood', reconsidering some of its key assumptions and positions and arguing that childhood is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Books for a Better Life (Childcare/Parenting) 2016.Book InformationISBN 9780525954873Author Dana SuskindFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint DuttonPublisher...

With gentle humour and fun illustrations, this book confidently combines faith and science as God-the-chef helps readers navigate through the Big Bang, Inflation Theory, and getting to know your Goldilocks stars from your supermassive black holes. And...

Adolescence is a turbulent period to live through, and a time of importance and concern to parents, teachers, and social workers. Marking the transition from the world of childhood to adult life, the adolescent faces many challenges and opportunities,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679751663Author Neil PostmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

'Promoting children's wellbeing' examines the wide-ranging and growing number of policies and practices which are intended to contribute to children's wellbeing. Topics include the development of children's identities, the value of play in the lives of...