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Theorizing Childhood Allison James 9780745615653
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £17.03In recent years there has been a rapid growth of interest in the sociological study of childhood. This new book draws together the major developments in the field. In particular, the book discusses... -
Theorizing Childhood by Allison James 9780745615646
Booksplease Price: £56.13In recent years there has been a rapid growth of interest in the sociological study of childhood. This new book draws together the major developments in the field. In particular, the book discusses... -
Key Concepts in Childhood Studies by Allison James
Booksplease Price: £42.34"Arranged alphabetically, core ideas about 'Agency' and 'Development' through to 'Socialisation' and 'Youth' are explained in straightforward language, with a concise introduction to key... -
How to Write a Song on the Guitar by Allison James
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781705137048Author Allison JamesPage Count 56Imprint Willis Music CompanyPublisher Willis Music... -
How to Write a Song on the Piano by Allison James
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540052322Author Allison JamesPage Count 56Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard... -
Embodying Health Identities by Allison James 9781403914736
Booksplease Price: £45.75How do we know we are ill? Are health, illness and disability universal categories? How important is the body in our understanding of health? These crucial questions are just some of the issues... -
Children, Food and Identity in Everyday Life by Allison James 9780230575998
Booksplease Price: £90.56This book explores the significance of food practices for childhood identities, from early babyhood to middle childhood and teenage years. It examines how children and families negotiate food and... -
European Childhoods: Cultures, Politics and Childhoods in Europe by Allison James 9781403997500
Booksplease Price: £46.28The United Nations Convention of the Rights of the Child resulted in even greater global awareness of the significance of children's rights and perspectives. The contributors to this book explore the... -
European Childhoods: Cultures, Politics and Childhoods in Europe by Allison James 9781349546398
Booksplease Price: £46.74The United Nations Convention of the Rights of the Child resulted in even greater global awareness of the significance of children's rights and perspectives. The contributors to this book explore the... -
Constructing and Reconstructing Childhood: Contemporary issues in the sociological study of childhood Allison James 9781138818804
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £46.94When the first edition of this seminal work appeared in 1990, the sociology of childhood was only just beginning to emerge as a distinct sub-discipline. Drawing together strands of existing... -
Constructing and Reconstructing Childhood: Contemporary Issues in the Sociological Study of Childhood Allison James 9780750705967
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £47.80First published in 1997. The second and fully revised edition of James and Prout's acclaimed seminal work on the study of childhood.About the AuthorAllison James, Alan ProutReviews'It is thus timely... -
Constructing Childhood: Theory, Policy and Social Practice by A. James 9780333948910
Booksplease Price: £45.75This text provides a critical analysis of the social construction of childhood and children's agency. Through an interdisciplinary synthesis combining social theory, social policy and the empirical... -
Food, Health and Identity by Pat Caplan
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £46.94By addressing the issue of food and eating in Britain today this collection considers the ways in which food habits are changing and shows how social and personal identities and perceptions of health... -
Socialising Children by A. James 9780230300330
Booksplease Price: £46.74Drawing on children's narratives about their everyday life this book explores how children come to understand the process of socialization at home, at school and in the neighbourhood as an embodied... -
Visual Methods with Children and Young People: Academics and Visual Industries in Dialogue by Dylan Yamada-Rice 9781137402288
Booksplease Price: £46.74This volume focuses on using visual research methods with children and young people. Featuring insights from academic experts and established professionals from visual industries, it explores a range... -
Children's Places: Cross-Cultural Perspectives Karen Fog Olwig 9780415296410
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £45.23Children's Places examines the ways in which children and adults, from their different vantage-points in society, negotiate the 'proper place' of children in both social and spatial terms. It looks... -
The Social Study of Childhood by Sally McNamee 9780230308343
Booksplease Price: £44.34Historically, children were often understood in relation to their development towards adulthood, but the 'new paradigm' of childhood studies has since shown how they should be taken more seriously as... -
The Modern Child and the Flexible Labour Market: Early Childhood Education and Care by Anne Trine Kjorholt 9780230579323
Booksplease Price: £46.28This book sheds light on new research related to welfare state, child care policies, and small children's everyday lives in institutions in Europe. In uniting recent social childhood research,... -
Exploring the Body by Sarah Cunningham-Burley 9780333775950
Booksplease Price: £46.28This volume explores diverse ways of researching and theorizing the body. It draws together a range of empirical work on different themes, each taking the body and its study as its central... -
Globalization and Children: Exploring Potentials for Enhancing Opportunities in the Lives of Children and Youth by Natalie Hevener Kaufman 9781475776461
Booksplease Price: £92.14ALLISON JAMES Globalization seems to be the word on everyone's lips, with politicians as much as academics extolling its benefits as well as its contradictions. For some, globali- tion means, in... -
Globalization and Children: Exploring Potentials for Enhancing Opportunities in the Lives of Children and Youth by Natalie Hevener Kaufman 9780306473685
Booksplease Price: £90.56ALLISON JAMES Globalization seems to be the word on everyone's lips, with politicians as much as academics extolling its benefits as well as its contradictions. For some, globali- tion means, in... -
Research with Children: Perspectives and Practices Pia Christensen (The Research Unit for General Practice, Denmark) 9781138100893
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.54The entirely revised third edition of Research with Children forms a unique resource book on the methodology of childhood research with a core emphasis on theory driven practices. As in the previous... -
Charming Falls Apart by Angela Terry
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £10.47Allison James is a people pleaser and rule follower, but the day before her thirty-fifth birthday, that all backfires: she is unexpectedly fired from the public relations firm she's worked at for... -
Writing Culture and the Life of Anthropology by Orin Starn
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £16.96Using the influential and field-changing Writing Culture as a point of departure, the thirteen essays in Writing Culture and the Life of Anthropology address anthropology's past, present, and future... -
The Body, Childhood and Society by Alan Prout 9780333659496
Booksplease Price: £46.74Bringing together two topics of wide and growing sociological interest, The Body, Childhood and Society examines how children's bodies are constructed in schools, families, courts, hospitals and in... -
Children in the Global Sex Trade Julia O'Connell Davidson (University of Nottingham) 9780745629285
Booksplease Price: £18.41This compelling new book explores the complexities of the global child sex industry, but without falling into cliche and melodrama. Julia O'Connell Davidson draws attention to the multitude of ways... -
The Body, Childhood and Society by Alan Prout 9780333659489
Booksplease Price: £46.28Bringing together two topics of wide and growing sociological interest, The Body, Childhood and Society examines how children's bodies are constructed in schools, families, courts, hospitals and in... -
Writing Culture and the Life of Anthropology by Orin Starn 9780822358626
RRP: £112.00Booksplease Price: £89.90Using the influential and field-changing Writing Culture as a point of departure, the thirteen essays in Writing Culture and the Life of Anthropology address anthropology's past, present, and future... -
Relating Intimacies: Power and Resistance by Paul Bagguley 9780333747643
Booksplease Price: £23.65Relating Intimacies contains papers presented at the 1997 British Sociological Association Conference which discuss contemporary research and theorizing with regard to intimate relationships... -
Children Caring for Parents with HIV and AIDS: Global Issues and Policy Responses by Ruth Evans 9781847420220
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £70.10This ground-breaking book focuses on the experiences and perspectives of children and young people who care for a parent with HIV in the global North and South. Drawing on in-depth qualitative... -
What is a Parent?: A Socio-Legal Analysis by Andrew Bainham 9781841130439
Booksplease Price: £45.75This collection of essays is the product of a series of seminars held at the University of Cambridge in 1998 under the auspices of the newly formed Cambridge Socio-Legal Group. The book presents an... -
Studies in Modern Childhood: Society, Agency, Culture by Jens Qvortrup 9781403939333
Booksplease Price: £90.56In this timely study, high profile researchers contribute to the burgeoning field of the social studies of childhood with original and often surprising perspectives and approaches. They demonstrate... -
The Changing Experience of Childhood: Families and Divorce Carol Smart (University of Manchester) 9780745624006
Booksplease Price: £19.71Family life in modern societies is being transformed by high rates of divorce. Such changes have given rise to concerns that the quality of family life for children has deteriorated and that children... -
Childhoods in Context Alison Clark (School of Education, Roehampton University) 9781447305811
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £25.84Childhoods in context offers a critical exploration of childhood, drawing attention to the physical and social context of children and young people's lives. Three key themes are explored: *... -
Children, family and the state: Decision-making and child participation Nigel Thomas 9781861344489
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £26.28What part should children take in decisions about their lives? Does their need to be involved in decisions conflict with adult responsibility for their welfare? In its search for answers to these... -
Personal Life by Carol Smart 9780745639178
Booksplease Price: £19.71For more than a decade, Carol Smart has been at the forefront of debates about the sociology of the family. Yet she has become frustrated by the fixation of many commentators with the supposed... -
Personal Life by Carol Smart 9780745639161
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.05For more than a decade, Carol Smart has been at the forefront of debates about the sociology of the family. Yet she has become frustrated by the fixation of many commentators with the supposed... -
The Material Child: Growing up in Consumer Culture David Buckingham (Institute of Education, University of London) 9780745647715
Booksplease Price: £20.85Children today are growing up in an increasingly commercialised world. But should we see them as victims of manipulative marketing, or as competent participants in consumer culture? The Material... -
Changing Families, Changing Food by P. Jackson 9780230223981
Booksplease Price: £46.28Approaching family through the lens of food, this book provides a new perspective on the diversity of contemporary family life, challenging received ideas about the decline of the family meal, the... -
Children, Food and Identity in Everyday Life by A. James 9781349365968
Booksplease Price: £92.14This book explores the significance of food practices for childhood identities, from early babyhood to middle childhood and teenage years. It examines how children and families negotiate food and...