Age groups and generations Books

Unseen ArmsCan you imagine being born without arms or legs? What would be the quality of your life? How would you cope? What would your attitude or personality be like? How about the depth of your humor, the level of your faith, or your compassion for...

Dear Caregiver,I set out to write a comprehensive book with a fresh approach for caregivers and family members who are dealing and assisting individuals diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.I gathered as much information as I could from over 25 years as an...

A harmonious relationship can make a person's life happy and beautiful, but, unfortunately, not all of us are blessed with a harmonious relationship. It is essential to work on your relationship in order to make it work. Creating a harmonious bond...

In recent years, parenting research has demonstrated that toxic stressors such as intimate partner violence, postpartum depression, and substance abuse significantly diminish the quality of mother-child interaction. Moreover,  research has shown...

Focusing on multigenerational Puerto Rican women and girls, Emily R. Aguiló-Pérez masterfully illustrates how Barbie dolls impact femininity, body image, and cultural identity.Since her debut in 1959, Barbie has transcended boundaries and transformed...

In the 1990s and 2000s, at a time when newly-reunified Germany seemed to be turning towards its future, public debates were dominated by those who had spent their early lives under Nazism and were still wrestling with the past. In this wide-ranging study...

Elder Care Crisis: Aging in an Unprepared Society dives deep into the challenges facing our aging population, highlighting the current state of elder care, the societal and economic implications, and the importance of addressing this crisis.With an...

“…a wonderful way for adult sons and daughters to hopefully improve relationships with their Dad, learn something new or just have intriguing conversations with their fathers…” Author Christine JacksonWhat do you really...

In this seminal resource, Dr. Kiaras Gharabaghi identifies an underlying absence of unifying theory and practice in Canada's child and youth residential care and treatment services. By drawing on organizational examples from across Canada, Gharabaghi...

Discover a gentle, transformative approach to bedtime with 'The Sleep Kit for Kids' by renowned sleep therapist Ahna de Vena. This comprehensive kit offers families essential tools and knowledge for achieving smooth bedtimes and deep, restorative sleep...

We all know that teenage times are weird with everything going on internally, especially with girls. In today's society girls are already at a disadvantage when it comes to entering the workforce and beyond. So I created a guide book focusing on three...

Throughout foster homes and sitting fire's with only the need to get back home and then many hardships because of bad choices the journey started in Gainesville Ga. and moved to current states and different jails and prisons with many adventures with...

Maybe you are separated from someone you love. With faith and encouragement from adults, children can remember who they miss and know they are still loved even when they are apart.

Life can be amazing one minute and turned upside down the next. Sometimes things can be so good until you can take it for granted that this is the way life is supposed to be, no matter what. This is a self-help book for children about a parent who...

INTRODUCING GIRLS &, A COLLABORATIVE GUIDE TO RAISING CONFIDENT, AMBITIOUS & COMPASSIONATE GIRLS. THIS UNIQUE WORKBOOK - CREATED FOR YOU AND YOUR GIRL - IS DESIGNED TO STRENGTHEN HER SELF-WORTH AND CORE SKILLS, WHILE DEEPENING THE BOND BETWEEN...

The story of a single woman adopting a special needs girl. It includes the daily, monthly, and yearly escapades of the family. This includes grandma, three dogs, school officials, and friends. It is a steep learning curve for both with trying to find...

Most of us dread the incursion of "Cognitive Decline" into our lives. However, it happens. If our exposure to cognitive decline is through a loved one, we feel the weight of a substantially changed lifestyle and the overwhelming responsibility of...

Lisa A. Mazzeo, LCSW, BCD is a veteran social worker who brings to life for readers her 30 years of working with children and youth in the foster care system. She takes readers on a journey inside of the system and shows us the children and families that...

In All My Parents: Seeking a Sense of Self in Family, Nancy Henderson-James contemplates the impact of her ancestors and descendents on her relationship to family. She delves into the lives of parents and grandparents and how their personality traits and...

Discover the Heartfelt Rhythms of FatherhoodEmbark on a profound journey into the intricacies of raising a daughter with "The Girl Dad Chronicles: Wisdom for Navigating the Father-Daughter Dance." This inspirational guide becomes your companion, offering...

The result of a unique research project exploring the relationship between children's vernacular play cultures and their media-based play, this collection challenges two popular misconceptions about children's play: that it is depleted or even dying out...

This title was first published in 1977. Fundamentals of Political Economy is a popular introductory economics text published in the People's Republic of China in 1974 as a part of the Youth Self-Education series designed particularly for individual or...

This newly expanded and revised edition of the Child-Parent Relationship Therapy (CPRT) Treatment Manual is the essential companion to the second edition of Child-Parent Relationship Therapy (CPRT). The second edition is updated to include four new CPRT...

Are children the passive recipients of influence from their parents and from society? Is their development determined by their genes and their neurons, or do they have the capacity to think about and influence their own lives and the world around them?...

Infant Play Therapy is a groundbreaking resource for practitioners interested in the varied play therapy theories, models, and programs available for the unique developmental needs of infants and children under the age of three. The impressive list of...

With a rapidly aging population throughout the world, the issue of larger percentages of older adults has repercussions for both policy and the job market. Whether a university student about to seek a full-time job or a caregiver for an older person,...

During the 1990s, Europe became the first continent with a 'mature society', where people aged 60 years and older outnumber children and as this trend continues, the resulting 'ageing societies' will differ from previous societies in their make-up, in...

Here is a book, haunting and rapturous, compelling and tender, and above all, memorable. SOME SURVIVE, TRIUMPH OVER TEARS is an apt narration of survival amidst confounding odds. Sharon Wahl's debut book explores the ache, misery, and...

About.com 2012 Readers' Choice Award Winner, Favorite New Special-Needs Parenting Book!The author-equal parts mentor, humorist, enthusiast, and realist-takes readers by the hand and walks them through the various life stages, experiences, and people they...

"i fear no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)..." Painted against the backdrop of e.e.cummings poetry, Chopin's Nocturnes, and the unleashed passions of the times, River of Forgiveness is a coming-of-age story set at the close of the Second World War...

Scrawled Out Timeline is a breathless collection of poems that travels through time. This impactful collection of poems is split by four years. Each section tells a little more about the story in the struggles we all experience in our lives. They cut...

This vital, sensitive guide explains the serious issues children face online and how they are impacted by them on a developmental, neurological, social, mental health and wellbeing level. Covering technologies used by children aged two through to...

This volume explores the potentially controversial field of early literacy education. It aims to offer scholars and practitioners an analysis of how and why handwriting skills benefit early literacy learning, especially spelling acquisition, and how this...

The Psychology of Starting School offers a highly accessible, practical guide to cutting-edge research from developmental science to guide parents and professionals through this exciting but sometimes tricky period.

Advancing the notion of connected autonomy, and highlighting the importance of interdisciplinary research in the development of this novel concept, this volume explores the possibility of maintaining the freedom to make one's own decisions in later life,...

This handbook provides an accessible resource for all social work students, educators, practitioners and policy makers to increase their knowledge and understanding of how research into the diversity and impact of child and family social work...

Children and youth, regardless of their ethnic backgrounds, are experiencing lifestyle choices their parents never imagined and contributing to the transformation of ideals, traditions, education and adult-child power dynamics. As a result of the...

Despite the increasing volume of scholarship that shows children as political actors, prior to this book, a cohesive framework was lacking that would more fully examine and express children's relationship with political power. Rather than simply hitching...

In this book Angela Kreutz considers the relationship between environment, and attachment and development in children. Focusing on indigenous children who are suggested to have greater freedom, and therefore wander further than non-indigenous children,...

Traditionally the subject of adolescent development has been explored using a stage based approach, with the potential pitfalls and upsets of adolescence often focussed upon. In this book the authors draw on a wealth of research to examine the period of...

A Girl's Life in New Orleans presents the diary of Ella Grunewald, an upper-middle-class teenager in New Orleans at the end of the nineteenth century. Grunewald, the daughter of one of the Crescent City's leading music dealers, used her journal to record...

As I grew and charted my path, life took a transformative turn with the birth of my first daughter. The joy of becoming a parent was unprecedented, but it came with many challenges.Our journey has been far from smooth. My daughter faced serious health...

We carry the weight of anticipated gestures, the hope for reciprocated kindness, and the dream of a life untouched by disappointment. But reality has a way of unfolding, indifferent to our expectations, and we stand at the crossroads of our past,...

This book brings together civic education, experiential education, and political theory to provide a revealing multiple-perspective examination of the new alternative way of practice in the youth work field called civic youth work.

In 1907, the editor of The New York Times wrote, "Employers, naturally, look to the young. A man or woman of advanced years is too apt to be given to old-fashioned ways of doing things, and open to suspicion of having the unforgivable fault, in modern...