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Book cover for Dimitra Hartas: The Right to Childhoods

The Right to Childhoods : Critical Perspectives on Rights, Difference, and Knowledge in a Transient World

Dimitra Hartas
Hardcover - $264.95



Book cover for Hugh D. Hindman: Child Labor

Child Labor : An American History

Hugh D. Hindman
Paperback - $82.95

Despite its decline throughout the advanced industrial nations, child labor remains one of the major social, political, and economic concerns of modern times. This book considers the issue in three parts. The first section discusses child labor as a ...

Book cover for Helen S. Holgate: Teenage Pregnancy and Parenthood

Teenage Pregnancy and Parenthood : Global Perspectives, Issues and Interventions

Helen S. Holgate
Paperback - $92.95

Teenage parenting, particularly mothering, is commonly seen as both personally and socially undesirable. Governments across the world demonstrate concern about teenage pregnancy figures, setting targets and sponsoring campaigns to lower rates of teen ...

Book cover for Neil Howe: Millennials Rising

Millennials Rising : The Next Great Generation

Neil Howe
Paperback - $27.95

in the '60s, it was the Boomers. In the '90s, it was the Xers. Now, it's the Millennials -- who are graduating from high school and flooding the nation's college campuses. In Millennials Rising, bestselling authors Howe and Strauss reveal who these k ...

Book cover for Chi-Cheng Huang: When Invisible Children Sing

When Invisible Children Sing

Chi-Cheng Huang
Hardcover - $32.95

$lt; p>$lt; b>???To know the street children is to have one??'s life transformed.???$lt; /b>$lt; /p> $lt; p> When Dr. Chi Huang took a year off from Harvard Medical School to work with orphans and street children in La Paz, Bolivia, he had no idea it ...

Book cover for Ann Hulbert: Raising America

Raising America : Experts, Parents, and a Century of Advice about Children

Ann Hulbert
Paperback - $26.95

Since the beginning of the twentieth century, millions of anxious parents have turned to child-rearing manuals for reassurance. Instead, however, they have often found yet more cause for worry. In this rich social history, Ann Hulbert analyzes one hu ...

Book cover for Beatrice Hungerland: Working to Be Someone

Working to Be Someone : Child Focused Research and Practice with Working Children

Beatrice Hungerland
Paperback - $90.95



Book cover for Kathryn McMurtry Hunt: Helping Hands with Other

Helping Hands with Other

Kathryn McMurtry Hunt
Paperback - $18.95

In just the first two and one-half years of World War II, Girl Scouts gave 15,430,000 hours of service to the nation. Among many other projects, they collected and washed bottles for blood storage, gathered rose hips to make vitamin C-rich syrup for ...

Book cover for Kay S. Hymowitz: Liberation's Children

Liberation's Children : Parents and Kids in a Postmodern Age

Kay S. Hymowitz
Paperback - $26.95

Kay Hymowitz explores the predicament of a generation growing up in a world where adults lavish them with material possessions but don't know how to provide them with the ordinary truths that give life meaning. She takes the measure of a young genera ...

Book cover for Joseph E. Illick: American Childhoods

American Childhoods

Joseph E. Illick
Paperback - $46.95

"Synthesizing an enormous amount of secondary source material, this book is a stunning achievement. . . . This book would make an ideal classroom text and should be read by anyone interested in the history of childhood."--"Choice"

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