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The First Year Out : Understanding American Teens After High School
Timothy T. Clydesdale
Paperback - $44.95
Wild parties, late nights, and lots of sex, drugs, and alcohol. Many assume these are the things that define an American teenager’ s first year after high school. But the reality is really quite different. As Tim Clydesdale reports in "The Firs ...
Monitoring Child Socio-Economic Rights in South Africa : Achievements and Challenges
Erika Coetzee
Paperback - $75.95
This study evaluates qualitatively the government's programming and budgeting for children rights to basic nutrition, health services, social services and education thus far, measured against the legal obligations to realise these rights as set out i ...
Children of Crisis : Selections from the Pulitzer Prize-Winning Five-Volume Children of Crisis Series
Robert Coles
Paperback - $36.95
The groundbreaking, Pulitzer Prize-winning five-volume Children of Crisis series that established Robert Coles as America's foremost child psychiatrist is available for the first time in a single, abridged volume. of color illustrations.
The Commodification of Childhood : The Children's Clothing Industry and the Rise of the Child Consumer
Daniel Thomas Cook
Paperback - $45.95
In this revealing social history, Daniel Thomas Cook explores the roots of children's consumer culture--and the cormmodification of childhood itself--by looking at the rise, growth, and segmentation of the children's clothing industry. Cook describes ...
We're Friends, Right? : Inside Kids' Cultures
William A. Corsaro
Paperback - $36.95
Parents routinely remark that kids seem to be in their own little world. And if we watch carefully as they run around a playground, sit quietly and draw, or work out the rules of a game, it's clear that their choices are conscious, their interaction ...
Before Head Start : The Iowa Station and America's Children
Hamilton Cravens
Paperback - $54.95
Between the 1920s and the 1950s, the child welfare movement that had originated as a moral reform effort in the Progressive era evolved into the science of child development. In "Before Head Start, Hamilton Cravens chronicles this transformation, ...
Children and Childhood in Western Society Since 1500
Hugh Cunningham
Paperback - $80.95
This book investigates the relationship between ideas about childhood and the actual experience of being a child, and assesses how it has changed over the span of five hundred years. Hugh Cunningham tells an engaging story of the development of ideas ...
Advocating for Children and Families in an Emerging Democracy : The Post-Soviet Experience in Lithuania (PB)
Cleo J. Dare
Paperback - $99.95