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  • Promoting Well-Being in the Pre-School Years Promoting Well-Being in the Pre-School Years
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    Promoting Well-Being in the Pre-School Years

    Promoting Well-Being in the Pre-School Years provides evidence-based research and real-life strategies that support social and emotional development and well-being for children aged 3-5 years. It places emphasis on nurturing social emotional competence...
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  • From Orthography to Pedagogy From Orthography to Pedagogy
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    From Orthography to Pedagogy

    From Orthography to Pedagogy pays tribute to Richard L. Venezky's work and influence on reading, linguistics, and computer science. This book catalogs findings related to speech and language development, reading and spelling's role in infant speech...
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  • Children, Structure and Agency Children, Structure and Agency
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    Children, Structure and Agency

    The child labour debate, the Child Rights Convention and the target of universal primary education in the Millennium Development Goals have drawn increasing attention to children in developing countries. Alongside, a debate has waged on the need for...
    $121.63

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    Honey for a Child's Heart Updated and Expanded Honey for a Child's Heart Updated and Expanded
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    Honey for a Child's Heart Updated and Expanded

    A modern classic with over 250,000 copies sold, Honey for a Child's Heart is a compelling, essential guide for parents who want to find the best books for their children ages 0-12. This updated and expanded edition includes a new preface, an updated list...
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  • Problems of Youth Problems of Youth
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    Problems of Youth

    This book describes and analyzes, from an interdisciplinary point of view, those problems of youth that are currently objects of remedial action on both community and national levels
    $131.67

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  • Hunter-Gatherer Childhoods Hunter-Gatherer Childhoods
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    Hunter-Gatherer Childhoods

    In the vast anthropological literature devoted to hunter-gatherer societies, surprisingly little attention has been paid to the place of hunter-gatherer children. Children often represent 40 percent of hunter-gatherer populations, thus nearly half the...
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  • Imprinting and Early Learning Imprinting and Early Learning
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    Imprinting and Early Learning

    What is imprinting and what role does it play in the early development of the individual? What is its theoretical importance for understanding the mechanisms of instinct and learning? What is its significance in the development of the young of our own...
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  • A Field Guide to Boys and Girls A Field Guide to Boys and Girls
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    A Field Guide to Boys and Girls

    Are boys more active and aggressive?Do girls talk earlier? Do boys have a harder time separating from their mothers? Do girls have the edge in learning to read and write?Why do boys and girls like different toys?In A Field Guide to Boys and Girls, Susan...
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  • Developing Thinking Developing Thinking
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    Developing Thinking

    How children's thinking develops and how it can be developed in education are among the most important questions in psychology. Studies of cognition in adults need to be supplemented by the developmental perspective, which often transforms them...
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  • Psychological Theory and Educational Practice Psychological Theory and Educational Practice
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    Psychological Theory and Educational Practice

    Originally published in 1971, this book was a critical introduction to the psychology of human development, learning and assessment. It was written with special attention to the needs of students of education and teachers, keeping in view the practical...
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  • Using Mathematics to Understand the World Using Mathematics to Understand the World
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    Using Mathematics to Understand the World

    Using Mathematics to Understand the World: How Culture Promotes Children's Mathematics offers fundamental insight into how mathematics permeates our lives as a way of representing and thinking about the world.  Internationally renowned experts Terezinha...
    $332.98

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  • Ethan's String Ethan's String
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    Ethan's String

    Ethan is unique and as typical as any atypical kid. He is on the Autism spectrum and has a tendency to become hyper-focused on himself and what he's involved in doing. Today he cannot find his favorite string and this is a big problem. Go with Ethan as...
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  • Nordic Dialogues on Children and Families Nordic Dialogues on Children and Families
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    Nordic Dialogues on Children and Families

    This book brings together key authors from the Nordic countries (Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark and Iceland) to discuss theoretical and empirical research on families and children. Sharing the Nordic perspective from each of the five countries, the...
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  • Child Pain, Migraine, and Invisible Disability Child Pain, Migraine, and Invisible Disability
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    Child Pain, Migraine, and Invisible Disability

    In the twenty-first century there is increasing global recognition of pain relief as a basic human right. However, as Susan Honeyman argues in this new take on child pain and invisible disability, such a belief has historically been driven by adult,...
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  • One Day the Soldiers Came One Day the Soldiers Came
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    One Day the Soldiers Came

    Today, in violence-torn regions across the globe, 20 million children have been uprooted, orphaned, or injured by war, famine, and poverty. This is their story . . . and ours.In this powerful and unforgettable book--by turns painful, funny, terrifying,...
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  • Borderlands Children's Theatre Borderlands Children's Theatre
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    Borderlands Children's Theatre

    This book chronicles the child performer as part of the Chicana/o/Mexican-American theatre experience. Borderlands Children's Theatre explores the phenomenon of the Chicana/o/Mexican-American child performer at the center of Chicana/o and Latina/o...
    $372.01

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  • Toying with Childhood Toying with Childhood
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    Toying with Childhood

    This book studies the dialectic relationship between the image of the child and the toy in literary depictions of childhood in 19th- and 20th- century Anglo-American fiction. Drawing from the psychoanalytic theories of Sigmund Freud, Anna Freud, D.W...
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  • Treating Chronically Traumatized Children Treating Chronically Traumatized Children
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    Treating Chronically Traumatized Children

    When children refuse or seem unable to talk about their traumatic memories, it might be tempting to 'let sleeping dogs lie'. However, if left untreated, the memories of childhood abuse and neglect can have a devastating effect on the development of...
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  • The New Politics of Fatherhood The New Politics of Fatherhood
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    The New Politics of Fatherhood

    This book makes a unique contribution to contemporary research into masculinities, men's movements, and fathers' rights groups. It examines the role of changing masculinities in creating equality and/or reinforcing inequality by analysing...
    $173.12

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  • The Developing Individual in a Changing World The Developing Individual in a Changing World
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    The Developing Individual in a Changing World

    This two-volume work levels both criticism and challenge to traditional developmental psychology. For too long, developmental psychologists have been studying individuals as if they developed in a sociocultural vacuum. As psychologists began to study the...
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  • Children and Families in the Social Environment Children and Families in the Social Environment
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    Children and Families in the Social Environment

    The first edition of this volume successfully applied Bronfenbrenner's "micro-systems" taxonomy to childrearing and family life. Emphasizing how forces in the environment influence children's behavior, Garbarino has staked out an intermediate position...
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  • Decolonising Childhoods in Eastern Africa Decolonising Childhoods in Eastern Africa
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    Decolonising Childhoods in Eastern Africa

    This book deconstructs Eurocentric narratives and showcases local voices to re-examine childhood in Eastern Africa.Moving away from portrayals of eastern African childhood as characterised by want, the author argues for a differentiated and pluralist...
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  • The Criminalisation and Exploitation of Children in Care The Criminalisation and Exploitation of Children in Care
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    The Criminalisation and Exploitation of Children in Care

    The Criminalisation and Exploitation of Children in Care explores the results of a recent qualitative study, which focused on multi-agency responses to children and young people in residential and foster care who were at risk of criminalisation and/or...
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  • The Most Beautiful Thing I've Seen The Most Beautiful Thing I've Seen
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    The Most Beautiful Thing I've Seen

    In The Most Beautiful Thing I've Seen, Grammy-nominated singer/ songwriter Lisa Gungor explores through her story of love, loss and raising a daughter with special needs, and how these experiences opened her eyes to the divine beauty and wonder hidden in...
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  • Moving into Adolescence Moving into Adolescence
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    Moving into Adolescence

    From the sociological point of view, adolescence traditionally has been described as a period of physical maturity and social immaturity
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  • Four Years Old in an Urban Community Four Years Old in an Urban Community
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    Four Years Old in an Urban Community

    John and Elizabeth Newson work from the conviction that the causes and the consequences of child-rearing attitudes can fruitfully be investigated only in the framework of the total social environment in which they occur. This book continues their...
    $137.94

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  • The Explosive Child (Revised, Updated) The Explosive Child (Revised, Updated)
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    The Explosive Child (Revised, Updated)

    Children who suffer intense temper outbursts, extreme noncompliance, and verbal and physical aggression are not seen as wilfully disobedient by Dr Greene. Rather, he provides a compassionate, practical approach for parents.
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  • 10 Principles for Spiritual Parenting 10 Principles for Spiritual Parenting
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    10 Principles for Spiritual Parenting

    In the hustle and bustle of everyday life, how do we, as parents, honor the spirituality of our children? As we shuttle between school, soccer practice, piano lessons, ballet lessons, birthday parties, and doctors' appointments, how do we find the time...
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  • Life and Loss Life and Loss
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    Life and Loss

    Many clinicians recognize that denying or ignoring grief issues in children leaves them feeling alone and that acknowledging loss is crucial part of a child's healthy development. Really dealing with loss in productive ways, however, is sometimes easier...
    $388.08

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  • A Child's Mind A Child's Mind
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    A Child's Mind

    Originally published in 1970, parents and teachers were beginning to realise how very much earlier in life human intelligence develops than was previously thought. A child's experience in its pre-school years largely determines its future academic...
    $105.32

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  • Adoption in Japan Adoption in Japan
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    Adoption in Japan

    The first book-length study of adoption in Japan, this significant text tackles the innovative and sometimes controversial subject of the policies of adoption agencies in Japan.
    $116.61

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  • The Origins of Attachment The Origins of Attachment
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    The Origins of Attachment

    The Origins of Attachment: Infant Research and Adult Treatment addresses the origins of attachment in mother-infant face-to-face communication. New patterns of relational disturbance in infancy are described. These aspects of communication are out of...
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  • The Development of Children's Happiness and Success The Development of Children's Happiness and Success
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    The Development of Children's Happiness and Success

    This engaging book is a comprehensive exploration of children's happiness and success covering a wide range of factors influencing positive functioning. It offers a holistic view of children's well-being, identifying both threats and catalysts to...
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  • Communimetrics Communimetrics
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    Communimetrics

    Measurement in human services means one thing: how well the effort serves clients. But the data doesn't exist in a vacuum and must be communicated clearly between provider and client, provider and management, and across systems. During the past decade,...
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  • Mentoring Children and Young People for Social Inclusion Mentoring Children and Young People for Social Inclusion
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    Mentoring Children and Young People for Social Inclusion

    Mentoring Children and Young People for Social Inclusion critically analyses the challenges and possibilities of mentoring approaches to youth welfare and equality. It explores existing youth mentoring programmes targeted towards youth in care,...
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