This "compassionate guide for parents and readers" (Kirkus Reviews) reveals how to distinguish between the childhood traits that are cause for concern, and those that are not. Every parent hopes their child will grow up to be happy, smart, popular, and successful--and as a result, many are anxious and eager to find clues to what their child's future will be. But with websites, media, and other parents providing an endless stream of advice about how to raise your children to be perfect, whom can a parent trust? Susan Engel draws on her years of experience as...
This "compassionate guide for parents and readers" (Kirkus Reviews) reveals how to distinguish between the childhood traits th...
This book explores the history, structure and current operations of the World Bank, which despite being the largest development organisation and the largest development research body in the world with tremendous direct and indirect influence on developing economies, has rarely received the critical attention its importance merits. The book s unique contribution is twofold: it provides an original analysis of the interaction between economic theory, political practice and the Bank s development praxis as well as two detailed, grounded studies of the Bank s lending practices.
The book...
This book explores the history, structure and current operations of the World Bank, which despite being the largest development organisation and th...
With the publication of "Boys and Girls" in 1984, Vivian Gussin Paley took readers inside a kindergarten classroom to show them how boys and girls playand how, by playing and fantasizing in different ways, they work through complicated notions of gender roles and identity. The children s own conversations, stories, playacting, and scuffles are interwoven with Paley s observations and accounts of her vain attempts to alter their stereotyped play. Thirty years later, the superheroes and princesses are still here, but their doll corners and block areas are fast disappearing from our...
With the publication of "Boys and Girls" in 1984, Vivian Gussin Paley took readers inside a kindergarten classroom to show them how boys and girls pla...
A School of Our Own tells the remarkable story of the Independent Project, the first student-run high school in America. Founder Samuel Levin, a high school junior who had already achieved international fame for creating Project Sprout--the first farm-to-school lunch program in the United States--was frustrated with his own education and saw disaffection among his peers. In response, he lobbied for and created a new school based on a few simple ideas about what kids need from their high school experience. The school succeeded beyond anyone's wildest expectations and went on to be...
A School of Our Own tells the remarkable story of the Independent Project, the first student-run high school in America. Founder Samuel Levin, ...
