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Book cover for Sinikka Aapola: Young Femininity

Young Femininity : Girlhood, Power and Social Change

Sinikka Aapola
Hardcover - $174.95

This text draws on international work to do with femininity, identity and youth cultures to explore how girlhood is defined and portrayed in contemporary theoretical and popular discourses, and to examine how young women from different social backgro ...

Book cover for Sinikka Aapola: Young Femininity

Young Femininity : Girlhood, Power and Social Change

Sinikka Aapola
Paperback - $57.95

This text draws on international work to do with femininity, identity and youth cultures to explore how girlhood is defined and portrayed in contemporary theoretical and popular discourses, and to examine how young women from different social backgro ...

Book cover for Maya Ajmera: Children from Australia to Zimbabwe

Children from Australia to Zimbabwe : A Photographic Journey Around the World

Maya Ajmera
Hardcover - $30.95

These books are published in partnership with Shakti for Children which is dedicated to teaching children to value diversity and to grow into productive, caring citizens of the world. Shakti for Children is a program of The Global Fund for Children.< ...

Book cover for Kathleen Alaimo: Children as Equals

Children as Equals : Exploring the Rights of the Child

Kathleen Alaimo
Hardcover - $168.95

Children as Equals explores the subject of children's rights. The twelve chapters are written by authors whose disciplines include history, law, philosophy, psychology, and sociology.

Book cover for Priscilla Alderson: Young Children's Rights

Young Children's Rights : Exploring Beliefs, Principles and Practice

Priscilla Alderson
Paperback - $76.95



Book cover for David Anderegg: Nerds

Nerds : Who They Are and Why We Need More of Them

David Anderegg
Hardcover - $37.95

Why are our children so terrified to be called "nerds"? And what is the cost of this rising tide of anti-intellectualism to both our children and our nation? In Nerds, family psychotherapist and psychology professor David Anderegg examines why scienc ...

Book cover for David Archard: Children

Children : Rights and Childhood

David Archard
Paperback - $73.95

"Children: Rights and Childhood" is widely regarded as the first book to offer a detailed philosophical examination of children's rights. Drawing on a wide variety of sources from law and literature to politics and psychology, David Archard provides ...

Book cover for Raymond Arthur: Family Life and Youth Offending

Family Life and Youth Offending : Home Is Where the Hurt Is

Raymond Arthur
Hardcover - $303.95

"Family Life and Youth Offending" examines the relationship between the causes of youth offending and the legal duty of the state to address those causes. In his globally relevant new study Arthur provides the evidence that improving the family envir ...

Book cover for Elena Azaola: La Infancia Como Mercancia Sexual

La Infancia Como Mercancia Sexual

Elena Azaola
Paperback - $44.95



Book cover for Kaveh Basmenji: Tehran Blues

Tehran Blues : How Iranian Youth Rebelled Against Iran's Founding Fathers

Kaveh Basmenji
Paperback - $35.95

More than two decades after their parents rose up against the excesses of the Shah, increasing numbers of young Iranians are risking jail for things their counterparts in the West take for granted: wearing makeup, slow dancing at parties, and holding ...

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