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Wards of the State: The Long Shadow of American Foster Care Claudia Rowe 9781419763151
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.20Told through the stories of eight former foster youth, a jolting exploration of a broken system from an award-winning journalist Through the stories of eight former foster kids, Claudia Rowe... -
The Meth Lunches: Food and Longing in an American City by Kim Foster 9781250278777
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £24.76Food is a conduit for connection; we envision smiling families gathered around a table - eating, happy, content. But what happens when poverty, mental illness, homelessness, and addiction claim a... -
Fostering a Child's Recovery: Family Placement for Traumatized Children by Mike Thomas 9781843103271
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £19.97The overwhelming majority of children and young people in care today are fostered, but for some this only increases their problems through untreated trauma, ill-judged placements, poorly supported... -
Creating Compassionate Foster Care: Lessons of Hope from Children and Families in Crisis by Janet Mann
Booksplease Price: £17.70"Every child's way of being can open doors to wisdom, compassion, and human connection. We need only to listen."This is among the conclusions that the authors, one of whom is an experienced foster... -
Reshuffled: Stories of Hope and Resilience from Foster Care by Tracy Gharbo 9781631953118
RRP: £13.95Booksplease Price: £10.93Reshuffled tells the life stories of former foster children, who despite all odds, craft productive lives. Within Reshuffled, former foster children share their trials and strategies to gain... -
Families We Need: Disability, Abandonment, and Foster Care's Resistance in Contemporary China by Erin Raffety
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.92Set in the remote, mountainous Guangxi Autonomous Region and based on ethnographic fieldwork, Families We Need traces the movement of three Chinese foster children, Dengrong, Pei Pei, and Meili, from... -
The Lincolnshire Domesday and the Lindsey Survey C W Foster 9780901503756
Booksplease Price: £30.73Published by -
The Best Pitcher in Baseball: The Life of Rube Foster, Negro League Giant by Robert Charles Cottrell 9780814716144
Booksplease Price: £90.57When Rube Foster was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1981, his rightful place alongside baseball's greatest black heroes was at last firmly established. A world-class pitcher, a... -
Families We Need: Disability, Abandonment, and Foster Care’s Resistance in Contemporary China by Erin Raffety
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £96.15Set in the remote, mountainous Guangxi Autonomous Region and based on ethnographic fieldwork, Families We Need traces the movement of three Chinese foster children, Dengrong, Pei Pei, and Meili, from... -
Registrum Antiquissimum of the Cathedral Church of Lincoln (8) by C. W. Foster 9780901503350
Booksplease Price: £26.04Published by Boydell & Brewer Inc.Book InformationISBN 9780901503350Author C W FosterFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint -
Registrum Antiquissimum of the Cathedral Church of Lincoln (3) by C. W. Foster 9780901503299
Booksplease Price: £26.54Published by Boydell & Brewer Inc.Book InformationISBN 9780901503299Author C W FosterFormat HardbackPage Count 520Imprint -
Registrum Antiquissimum of the Cathedral Church of Lincoln (4) by C. W. Foster 9780901503305
Booksplease Price: £26.54Published by Boydell & Brewer Inc.Book InformationISBN 9780901503305Author C W FosterFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint -
Discussion Contempt Culture by Foster 9781565844636
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £8.95A Village Voice Best Book of the Year that examines contemporary cultural politics. With contributions by: Benjamin H.D. Buchloh James Clifford Douglas Crimp Thomas Crow Virginia... -
Adoptive and Foster Parent Screening: A Professional Guide for Evaluations by James L. Dickerson 9781138988323
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.49Screening applicants for adoption or foster homes has life-altering consequences for the children involved, yet there are incredibly few programs available to train screeners. The educational system... -
The Best Pitcher in Baseball: The Life of Rube Foster, Negro League Giant by Robert Charles Cottrell 9780814716151
Booksplease Price: £30.78When Rube Foster was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1981, his rightful place alongside baseball's greatest black heroes was at last firmly established. A world-class pitcher, a... -
Birth of an Adoptive, Foster or Stepmother: Beyond Biological Mothering Attachments by Barbara Waterman
Booksplease Price: £30.38Adoptive, foster and stepmothers, like biological mothers, find their lives completely changed by motherhood although they are not always granted the rights and privileges accorded to those who give... -
Nurturing Attachments: Supporting Children Who are Fostered or Adopted by Kim Golding
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £19.99Nurturing Attachments combines the experience and wisdom of parents and carers with that of professionals to provide support and practical guidance for foster and adoptive parents looking after... -
Voices of Foster Youth: Experts on Their Own Lives by Sue D. Hobbs 9781032313290
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £32.89This important book offers unique insight into the experience of foster youth from 27 countries around the world. It provides a systematic review of literature reporting the experiences of youth in... -
Registrum Antiquissimum of the Cathedral Church of Lincoln (6) by C. W. Foster 9780901503329
Booksplease Price: £26.04Published by Boydell & Brewer Inc.Book InformationISBN 9780901503329Author C W FosterFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint -
Registrum Antiquissimum of the Cathedral Church of Lincoln (5) by C. W. Foster 9780901503312
Booksplease Price: £26.04Published by Boydell & Brewer Inc.Book InformationISBN 9780901503312Author C W FosterFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint -
Healing for Adults Who Grew Up in Adoption or Foster Care: Positive Strategies for Overcoming Emotional Challenges by Renee Wolfs
Booksplease Price: £23.85Positive and practical, this guide is designed to offer a route to recovery from grief and loss after adoption or long-term foster care.Children growing up in adoptive families or foster care often... -
Registrum Antiquissimum of the Cathedral Church of Lincoln (2) by C. W. Foster 9780901503282
Booksplease Price: £26.04Published by Boydell & Brewer Inc.Book InformationISBN 9780901503282Author C W FosterFormat PaperbackPage Count 520Imprint -
Being a Beast by Charles Foster
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2016 Charles Foster wanted to know what it was like to be a beast: a badger, an otter, a deer, a fox, a swift. What it was really like. And through knowing... -
Fostering Autonomy: A Theory of Citizenship, the State, and Social Service Delivery by Elizabeth Ben-Ishai
Booksplease Price: £31.85In Fostering Autonomy, Elizabeth Ben-Ishai explores the role of the state in fostering autonomy in vulnerable citizens-such as people who are addicted to drugs, domestic violence survivors, welfare... -
What Makes a Mum?: My Story From Fostered to Adopter Not a Fictional Mum 9781800183049
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.05'Not a Fictional Mum makes sure no woman gets left behind' Giovanna FletcherIn this inspiring, topical and painfully funny memoir, Not a Fictional Mum asks what it is that really makes a mum?What... -
LGBTQ Youth in Foster Care: Empowering Approaches for an Inclusive System of Care by Adam McCormick
RRP: £37.99Booksplease Price: £36.28Representing an often overlooked population in social work literature, this book explores the experiences of LGBTQ youth as they navigate the child welfare system. Adam McCormick examines the... -
Corporeal Narrative in David Foster Wallace’s Fiction Xiaomeng Wan 9789819680610
Booksplease Price: £100.19This book serves as a critical examination of contemporary American literature by examining David Foster Wallace's incorporation of corporeal narrative techniques in his novels, with a particular... -
Trauma-Informed Foster and Adoptive Parenting: Methods for Managing Meltdowns, Mishaps, and Maladaptive Behaviors David Adams 9781032988719
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £26.93Many foster and adoptive parents lose hope when they experience challenging and oppositional child behaviors. This book gives parents the tools and strategies to respond to these outbursts -... -
Reading David Foster Wallace Between Philosophy and Literature Allard den Dulk 9781526163547
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £61.61This book breaks new ground by showing that the work of David Foster Wallace originates from and functions in the space between philosophy and literature. Philosophy is not a mere supplement to or... -
The Ecological Revolution: Making Peace with the Planet by John Bellamy Foster 9781583671795
RRP: £13.95Booksplease Price: £10.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583671795Author John Bellamy FosterFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Impr -
Reading David Foster Wallace Between Philosophy and Literature by Allard den Dulk 9781526172327
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.54This book breaks new ground by showing that the work of David Foster Wallace originates from and functions in the space between philosophy and literature. Philosophy is not a mere supplement to or... -
Chaucer's Narrators and the Rhetoric of Self-Representation by Michael Foster 9783039111213
RRP: £38.80Booksplease Price: £33.03Methods of representing individual voices were a primary concern for Geoffrey Chaucer. While many studies have focused on how he expresses the voices of his characters, especially in The Canterbury... -
When I First Met You by Lori Foster 9780778306245
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £11.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780778306245Author Lori FosterFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint -
Aging Out of the Foster System: Youths' Perspectives Miranda Mosier-Puentes 9781032264752
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £37.14Decades of demographic studies and applied efforts have convinced scholars, students, and social workers that young people coming of age and transitioning out of the foster care system face great... -
Too Scared To Cry: And other true stories from the nation's favourite foster carer by Maggie Hartley 9781409179818
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.26A heartbreaking and inspiring collection of true fostering stories perfect for fans of Cathy Glass and Rosie Lewis. Contains previously published stories Too Scared To Cry, The Girl No One Wanted... -
Fighting for Hakeem Craig Foster 9780733643163
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.25Football is the world game. It unites. At a grassroots level it creates communities and, in 2019, those communities helped save the life of one of its own.In 2012, Hakeem al-Araibi was a promising... -
Picts, Gaels and Scots: Early Historic Scotland by Sally M. Foster 9780859767224
Booksplease Price: £24.33Early historic Scotland - from the fifth to the tenth century AD - was home to a variety of diverse peoples and cultures, all competing for land and supremacy. Yet by the eleventh century it had... -
The Geographies of David Foster Wallace's Novels: Spatial History and Literary Practice Laurie McRae Andrew 9781474497541
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £70.08Explores the relationship between geography and David Foster Wallace's novels Deploys an innovative methodology combining aspects of cultural geography and literary criticism, extending recent... -
The Systematic Mistreatment of Children in the Foster Care System: Through the Cracks by Lois Weinberg 9780789023933
RRP: £73.99Booksplease Price: £67.74The Systematic Mistreatment of Children in the Foster Care System tells the stories of 10 children in the foster care system from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds and the efforts by advocates... -
Ordinary Unhappiness: The Therapeutic Fiction of David Foster Wallace by Jon Baskin 9781503609303
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68In recent years, the American fiction writer David Foster Wallace has been treated as a symbol, as an icon, and even a film character. Ordinary Unhappiness returns us to the reason we all know about...