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  • Seeing God in Our Birth Experiences Seeing God in Our Birth Experiences
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    Seeing God in Our Birth Experiences

    There has been a recent surge in the examination of the evolutionary roots of religious belief, all trying to identify where the human desire to seek the supernatural and the divine comes from. This book adds a new and innovative perspective to this line...
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  • The Modern Child and the Flexible Labour Market The Modern Child and the Flexible Labour Market
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    The Modern Child and the Flexible Labour Market

    This book sheds light on new research related to welfare state, child care policies, and small children's everyday lives ininstitutions in a variety of countries. In uniting recent social childhood research, welfare perspectives and historical and...
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  • The Children and Violence The Children and Violence
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    The Children and Violence

    This book provides a disturbing account on the reality of child abuse. Based on data from 147 countries, Helander considers the physical, societal, economic and judicial consequences of child abuse, proposing a universal, community-based prevention...
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  • Young People Making a Life Young People Making a Life
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    Young People Making a Life

    Against a backdrop of social inequalities and rapid social change, this book develops a useful way of thinking about contemporary young people's issues. Following a group of young people for 12 years, Ani Wierenga's longitudinal study uncovers insider...
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  • Contesting Stories of Childhood Sexual Abuse Contesting Stories of Childhood Sexual Abuse
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    Contesting Stories of Childhood Sexual Abuse

    Located within a burgeoning therapeutic/self-help culture this book explores stories of childhood sexual abuse, recovered memories and multiple personalities, and explodes the myths surrounding women who, without memories, redefine themselves as victims.
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  • Globesity, Food Marketing and Family Lifestyles Globesity, Food Marketing and Family Lifestyles
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    Globesity, Food Marketing and Family Lifestyles

    This book examines the public controversies surrounding lifestyle risks in the consumer society. Comparing news coverage of the globesity pandemic in Britain and the USA, it illustrates the way moral panic brought childrens food marketing to the centre...
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  • Children and Media Outside the Home Children and Media Outside the Home
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    Children and Media Outside the Home

    Karen Orr Vered demonstrates how children's media play contributes to their acquisition of media literacy. Theorizing after-school care as intermediary space, a large-scale ethnographic study informs this theory-rich and practical discussion of...
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  • Deconstructing Youth Deconstructing Youth
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    Deconstructing Youth

    Young people are regularly cast as a threat to social order. Deconstructing Youth argues that this is due in part to the way the notion of youth is conceptualised in Western society. Drawing on Derridean deconstruction, Gabriel analyses the limits of...
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  • The Child in British Literature The Child in British Literature
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    The Child in British Literature

    The first volume to consider childhood over eight centuries of British writing, this book traces the literary child from medieval to contemporary texts. Written by international experts, the volume's essays challenge earlier readings of childhood and...
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  • An Extraordinary/Ordinary Life An Extraordinary/Ordinary Life
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    An Extraordinary/Ordinary Life

    An Extraordinary Ordinary Life: Insights from Parenting a Disabled Child explores the eventful life of Curtis, born with a rare partial chromosome deletion, as experienced by his mother, Lucy.These stories and reflections are drawn from 50 years of...
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  • The Development of Emotional Intelligence The Development of Emotional Intelligence
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    The Development of Emotional Intelligence

    How do children learn about the expression and meaning of emotions - both happy and sad? This book answers questions regarding the foundation of emotional intelligence, and examines how children become emotionally literate as they are socialised into...
    $375.76

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  • Embodying Gender and Age in Speculative Fiction Embodying Gender and Age in Speculative Fiction
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    Embodying Gender and Age in Speculative Fiction

    Following scholarship on gender in science fiction, this book explores the limits of considering age as a social construction, positing that considering aged bodies changes the way we read both age and science fiction. It employs contemporary clinical...
    $114.10

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  • A Question of Technique A Question of Technique
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    A Question of Technique

    A Question of Technique focuses on what actually happens in the therapy room and on the technical decisions and pressures that are faced daily. Coming from the Independent tradition in British psychoanalysis, the contributors, a range of experienced...
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  • Individuals as Producers of Their Own Development Individuals as Producers of Their Own Development
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    Individuals as Producers of Their Own Development

    In this series, experts present collections of what they judge to be their most interesting publications. Professor Richard M. Lerner has been prominent in the application of developmental science across the lifespan, investigating relational development...
    $104.28

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  • What Makes Us Human What Makes Us Human
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    What Makes Us Human

    "How do you go from a bunch of cells to something that can think?" This question, asked by the 9-year-old son of one of the authors, speaks to a puzzle that lies at the heart of this book. How are we as humans able to explore such questions about our own...
    $62.78

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  • Finding Your Way with Your Baby Finding Your Way with Your Baby
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    Finding Your Way with Your Baby

    Finding Your Way with Your Baby explores the emotional experience of the baby in the first year, and that of the mother, father and other significant adults
    $59.61

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  • Children and the Dark Side of Human Experience Children and the Dark Side of Human Experience
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    Children and the Dark Side of Human Experience

    Synthesizing insights from psychology and philosophy with his own wide-ranging experiences around the world, Dr. James Garbarino takes readers on a personalized journey into the dark side of human experience as it is lived by...
    $115.93

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  • Authoritative Communities
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    Authoritative Communities

    This unique book offers insight into a new social science concept, authoritative communities. Unlike any other volume, Kline's work facilitates the continuing dialogue about the needs of children and teens and society's...
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  • Social Competence in Children Social Competence in Children
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    Social Competence in Children

    In this book, readers will discover a developmental view of social functioning in children at different stages. Chapters are based in transactional theory in that the environment plays a role in the development of social competence skills as well as the...
    $219.36

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  • A Practical Guide to Service Learning A Practical Guide to Service Learning
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    A Practical Guide to Service Learning

    This book describes how service learning, an intervention that can be both remedial or preventive and individual or systemic, can enable school psychologists to expand their role beyond special populations to serve students...
    $106.58

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  • Every Right for Every Child Every Right for Every Child
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    Every Right for Every Child

    Despite some acknowledgement over the years of the significance of seeing children as rights holders, children's concerns continue to run the risk of not being considered political and mainstream: they continue to be viewed as extensions of adults or...
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  • Parenting Beliefs, Behaviors, and Parent-Child Relations Parenting Beliefs, Behaviors, and Parent-Child Relations
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    Parenting Beliefs, Behaviors, and Parent-Child Relations

    The purpose of this book, is to present a rather simple argument. Parents' thoughts about childrearing and the ways in which they interact with children to achieve particular parenting or developmental goals, are culturally determined. Within any...
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  • The Emotional Experience of Adoption The Emotional Experience of Adoption
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    The Emotional Experience of Adoption

    Adoption is an extremely complex and emotionally demanding process for all those involved. This book explores the emotional experience of adoption from a psychoanalytic perspective, and demonstrates how psychoanalytic understanding and treatment can...
    $125.51

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  • Becoming a Digital Parent Becoming a Digital Parent
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    Becoming a Digital Parent

    Becoming a Digital Parent is a practical, readable guide that will help all parents have confidence to successfully navigate technology with their children. It accessibly presents evidence-based guidance to offer an overview of the digital landscape,...
    $59.61

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  • Bullying and Teasing Bullying and Teasing
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    Bullying and Teasing

    -Addresses the problem of bullying as an interactive social system with emphasis on the contributions of family, community, and culture, as well as the school. -Gives concrete advice for successful intervention with both...
    $121.54

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  • Other People's Kids Other People's Kids
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    Other People's Kids

    According to the study conducted by Gallup Organization, only a minority of Americans experience consistent normative motivation for engaging with other people's children. Social norms theory suggests that adults are more...
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  • The American Father The American Father
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    The American Father

    In The American Father, Wade C. Mackey documents a wealth of infor­ mation demonstrating the vast benefits to society when its children are raised in families with fathers. The biopsychosocial approach Mackey in human employs...
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  • Family Influences on Childhood Behavior and Development Family Influences on Childhood Behavior and Development
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    Family Influences on Childhood Behavior and Development

    Irrespective of theoretical orientation, families matter. Families are the entity in which children are introduced to words, objects, shapes, and colors. Families are the people related in a myriad of conventional and unconventional ways that clothe,...
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  • Origin Narratives Origin Narratives
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    Origin Narratives

    This volume unpacks the cultural construction of transnational adoption and migration by examining a sample of recent children's books that address the subject. In this new work, author Macarena Garcia Gonzalez argues that many of the texts at the wider...
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  • Childhood and Pethood in Literature and Culture Childhood and Pethood in Literature and Culture
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    Childhood and Pethood in Literature and Culture

    Bringing together new perspectives in childhood studies and animal studies, this book is the first collection to critically address the manifold alignments and frequent co-constitutions of children and pets in our families, our cultures, and our...
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Age groups: children