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Television shows, comic strips, video games, and other forms of media directed at children are the subject of frequent and rancorous debate. In Kids' Media Culture some of the most prominent cultural theorists of children's media join forces with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143061823Author Gitanjali PrasadFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Penguin Books IndiaPublisher Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781978803114Author Minjeong KimFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Rutgers University PressPublisher Rutgers University PressWeight(grams) 156g

These essays on health and illness from a sociological perspective, look at health and health models within social and political contexts. They are divided into theoretical and general issues, inequalities in health care, health and aspects of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781885003713Author Gary FreitasFormat PaperbackPage Count 207Imprint Robert D. Reed PublishersPublisher Robert D. Reed PublishersWeight(grams) 326g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785277436Author John H. ScanzoniFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 153g

In this comprehensive guidebook, Joy Hibbins (the founder of an award-winning Suicide Crisis Centre which has attracted international attention) shares her invaluable experience of helping people through suicidal crisis.Equally popular with the public...

This book is a guide to headaches and migraines. It provides descriptions of mild and severe headaches, with symptoms, causes and treatments for the main types of headaches. These include tension headaches, cluster headaches, migraines with aura,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804679296Author Heather AnnFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Bookvault PublishingPublisher Bookvault PublishingWeight(grams) 96g

This title is about connecting with your children, spending quality time and growing creatively together. It's about making a stimulating, simple environment in which their physical and mental development will be allowed to flourish at their own pace...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781669807018Author Viola B Mecke AbppFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Xlibris UsPublisher Xlibris UsWeight(grams) 277gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

In developed countries many families live in poverty and other vulnerable conditions, having low quality of life and suffering from social exclusion. This constitutes a major social, political and citizenship concern, which stresses the reformulation and...

The contemporary world has become so unravelled that the Congress of the United States, with nothing better to do, has felt the necessity of passing a Defense of Marriage Act. We are all being treated to daily media coverage of the same-sex marriages and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781578262335Author Doug HewittFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Hatherleigh Press,U.S.Publisher Hatherleigh Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 462g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781490831855Author Chris and Michelle GroffFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint WestBow PressPublisher WestBow PressWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

A personal, intimate account of the extraordinary ways that today's families are being created. From adoption and assisted reproduction, to gay and straight parents, coupled and single, and multi-parent families, the stories in Modern Families...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781452526522Author Jenny EdwardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Balboa Press AustraliaPublisher Balboa Press AustraliaWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm)...

This monograph has two aims: first, to identify specific processes of the reversal phenomenon by using a developmental approach. Second, to use ambiguous figures as a research tool to shed more light onto children's developing understanding of pictorial...

The book, a special issue of the Journal of Research on Adolescence, includes a number of invited contributions by international leaders in the interdisciplinary field of adolescence development. Each paper is intended to review a major subfield of study...

Flexibility and productivity are hallmarks of human language use. Competent speakers have the capacity to use the words they know to serve a variety of communicative functions, to refer to new and varied exemplars of the categories to which words refer,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781429665414Author Jen JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 32Imprint Capstone PressPublisher Capstone PressWeight(grams) 181g

Now available in paperback for classroom use!"This comprehensive text provides a rich source of perspectives on theorising about the family for scholars, researchers, and students. Another of the book's strengths is the emphasis on multimethod approaches...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781408697184Author Alberta. S. B. GuibordFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Read BooksPublisher Read BooksWeight(grams) 113g

The validity of the Delayed Self-Recognition (DSR) test was verified by comparing the performance of 57 children on the DSR test to their performance on a meta-representational task (modified false belief task) and to a task that was essentially the same...

The main goal of this Monograph is to understand parents' beliefs about the role of emotions in the family and how cultural or ethnic background may influence those beliefs. Implications of parental beliefs for emotion socialization theory and future...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780929895666Author Art KellyFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Maupin House PublishingPublisher Maupin House PublishingWeight(grams) 195g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780883911600Author James LooramFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Frederick FellPublisher Frederick FellWeight(grams) 272g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853983316Author Patricia WilcoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint George RonaldPublisher George Ronald PublisherWeight(grams) 202g

Most fathers parent less than most mothers. Those fathers who do parent equally or more so than mothers are poorly supported by our society. For children this means a loss of adult care, as well as an ongoing and sharply defined differentiation between...

This book analyzes the issues surrounding divorce and its implications for public policy. The authors integrate research and policy perspectives of scholars in various disciplines to focus on the consequences of divorce for children, the parents'...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780620324373Author Alastair van HuyssteenFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Stormberg Publishers,South AfricaPublisher Stormberg Publishers,South Africa

What keeps a family together? In Imagining Futures, authors Carola Lentz and Isidore Lobnibe offer a unique look at one extended African family, currently comprising over five hundred members in Northern Ghana and Burkina Faso. Members of this extended...

What keeps a family together? In Imagining Futures, authors Carola Lentz and Isidore Lobnibe offer a unique look at one extended African family, currently comprising over five hundred members in Northern Ghana and Burkina Faso. Members of this extended...

Can health be improved? Can the quality of health care be delivered more effectively? Can doctors and other health professionals be better at their job and deliver higher quality of care? The answer to these three questions is yes, and this book develops...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143789796Author Amal AwadFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Vintage (Australia)Publisher Random House Australia

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143425694Author Rekha ShettyFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Penguin Books IndiaPublisher Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143422211Author Nikita SinghFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Penguin Books India Pvt LtdPublisher Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd

In the twenty-first century, women are outpacing men in education and career advancement. Yet successful women are constantly being told that their professional achievements might doom their chances of marriage and family. Data show that today's Alpha...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781880654514Author Kitty SeemannFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Pogo PressPublisher Pogo PressWeight(grams) 771gDimensions(mm) 253mm * 179mm * 17mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061847684Author Charles SophyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint HarperOnePublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm) 205mm...