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Book cover for : Kids Online

Kids Online : Opportunities and Risks for Children


Hardcover - $143.70

As the internet and new online technologies are becoming embedded in everyday life, there are increasing questions about their social implications and consequences. Children, young people, and their families tend to be at the forefront of new media adoption,...

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Uprooted : The Shipment of Poor Children to Canada, 1867-1917


Paperback - $50.40



Book cover for Sinikka Aapola: Young Femininity

Young Femininity : Girlhood, Power and Social Change

Sinikka Aapola
Hardcover - $152.50

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 backgrounds...

Book cover for Sinikka Aapola: Young Femininity

Young Femininity : Girlhood, Power and Social Change

Sinikka Aapola
Paperback - $52.90

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 backgrounds...

Book cover for Ben Agger: Cultural Studies as Critical Theory

Cultural Studies as Critical Theory

Ben Agger
Paperback - $52.90

Examines the field of cultural studies and argues for its relevance in addressing the enormous impact of popular culture and mass media today. Among the perspectives analyzed are the Marxist sociology of culture, the Frankfurt School's cultural theory,...

Book cover for Tade Akin Aina: Beyond Benign Neglect

Beyond Benign Neglect : Early Childhood Care, Development and Nutrition in Metropolitan Lagos, Nigeria

Tade Akin Aina
Paperback - $39.10

The research and action programme titled Positive Deviance in Nutrition and Child Development has been sponsored through the Tufts University School of Nutrition by UNICEF New York and the Joint Nutrition Support Programme of the Italian Government and...

Book cover for Stuart C. Aitken: Geographies of Young People

Geographies of Young People : The Morally Contested Spaces of Identity

Stuart C. Aitken
Paperback - $83.20

Anxieties over children's safety or teenage propensities towards violence and sex have precipitated a moral panic in a large swathe of our society. This provocative work traces the changing scientific and societal notions of what it is to be a young...

Book cover for Maya Ajmera: Children from Australia to Zimbabwe

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

Maya Ajmera
Hardcover - $27.70

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. Meet...

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