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Rethinking Childhood
ISBN: 9780813533650 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Being a child in American society can be problematic. Twenty percent of American children live in poverty, parents are divorcing at high rates, and educational institutions are not always fulfilling their goals. Against this backdrop, children are often patronized or idealized by adults. Rarely do we look for the strengths within children that can serve as the foundation for growth and development. In Rethinking Childhood, twenty contributors, coming from the disciplines of anthropology, government, law, psychology, education, religion, philosophy, and sociology, provide a...
Being a child in American society can be problematic. Twenty percent of American children live in poverty, parents are divorcing at high rates, an...
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161,30 zł |
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Armies of the Young: Child Soldiers in War and Terrorism
ISBN: 9780813535685 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Children have served as soldiers throughout history. They fought in the American Revolution, the Civil War, and in both world wars. They served as uniformed soldiers, camouflaged insurgents, and even suicide bombers. Indeed, the first U.S. soldier to be killed by hostile fire in the Afghanistan war was shot in ambush by a fourteen-year-old boy. Does this mean that child soldiers are aggressors? Or are they victims? It is a difficult question with no obvious answer, yet in recent years the acceptable answer among humanitarian organizations and contemporary scholars has been resoundingly...Children have served as soldiers throughout history. They fought in the American Revolution, the Civil War, and in both world wars. They served as ... |
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161,30 zł |
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Coining for Capital: Movies, Marketing, and the Transformation of Childhood
ISBN: 9780813535937 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since the 1980s, a peculiar paradox has evolved in American film. Hollywood's children have grown up, and the adults are looking and behaving more and more like children. In popular films such as Harry Potter, Toy Story, Pocahantas, Home Alone, and Jumanji, it is the children who are clever, savvy, and self-sufficient while the adults are often portrayed as bumbling and ineffective.
Is this transformation of children into "little adults" an invention of Hollywood or a product of changing cultural definitions more broadly? In Coining for Capital, Jyostna Kapur explores the evolution of... Since the 1980s, a peculiar paradox has evolved in American film. Hollywood's children have grown up, and the adults are looking and behaving more and...
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151,53 zł |
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Designing Modern Childhoods: History, Space, and the Material Culture of Children
ISBN: 9780813541969 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With the advent of urbanization in the early modern period, the material worlds of children were vastly altered. In industrialized democracies, a broad consensus developed that children should not work, but rather learn and play in settings designed and built with these specific purposes in mind. Unregulated public spaces for children were no longer acceptable; and the cultural landscapes of children's private lives were changed, with modifications in architecture and the objects of daily life. In Designing Modern Childhoods, architectural historians, social historians, social scientists,...
With the advent of urbanization in the early modern period, the material worlds of children were vastly altered. In industrialized democracies, a broa...
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151,53 zł |
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Latina Girls: Voices of Adolescent Strength in the United States
ISBN: 9780814719763 / Angielski / Twarda / 251 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Latinas are now the largest minority group of girls in the country. Yet the research about this group is sparse, and there is a lack of information to guide studies, services or education for the rapidly growing Latino population across the U.S. The existing research has focused on stereotypical perceptions of Latinas as frequently dropping out of school, becoming teen mothers, or being involved with boyfriends in gangs. Latina Girls brings together cutting edge research that challenges these stereotypes. At the same time, the volume offers solid data and suggestions... Latinas are now the largest minority group of girls in the country. Yet the research about this group is sparse, and there is a lack of information... |
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347,04 zł |
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Latina Girls: Voices of Adolescent Strength in the U.S.
ISBN: 9780814719770 / Angielski / Miękka / 251 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Latinas are now the largest minority group of girls in the country. Yet the research about this group is sparse, and there is a lack of information to guide studies, services or education for the rapidly growing Latino population across the U.S. The existing research has focused on stereotypical perceptions of Latinas as frequently dropping out of school, becoming teen mothers, or being involved with boyfriends in gangs. Latina Girls brings together cutting edge research that challenges these stereotypes. At the same time, the volume offers solid data and suggestions for... Latinas are now the largest minority group of girls in the country. Yet the research about this group is sparse, and there is a lack of information... |
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136,80 zł |
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Adolescent Boys: Exploring Diverse Cultures of Boyhood
ISBN: 9780814793855 / Angielski / Miękka / 380 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A flurry of best-selling works has recently urged us to rescue and protect boys. They have described how boys are failing at school, acting out, or shutting down emotionally. Lost in much of the ensuing public conversation are the boys themselves--the texture of their lives and the ways in which they resist stereotypical representations of them. Most of this work on boys is based primarily on middle class, white boys. Yet boys from poor and working class families as well as those from African American, Latino, and Asian American backgrounds need to be understood in their own terms... A flurry of best-selling works has recently urged us to rescue and protect boys. They have described how boys are failing at school, acting out, or... |
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151,53 zł |
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Representing Youth: Methodological Issues in Critical Youth Studies
ISBN: 9780814799529 / Angielski / Twarda / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From youth culture to adolescent sexuality to the consumer purchasing power of children en masse, studies are flourishing. Yet doing research on this unquestionably more vulnerable--whether five or fifteen--population also poses a unique set of challenges and dilemmas for researchers. How should a six-year-old be approached for an interview? What questions and topics are appropriate for twelve year olds? Do parents need to give their approval for all studies? In Representing Youth, Amy L. Best has assembled an important group of essays from some of today's top... From youth culture to adolescent sexuality to the consumer purchasing power of children en masse, studies are flourishing. Yet doing research on th... |
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347,04 zł |
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Representing Youth: Methodological Issues in Critical Youth Studies
ISBN: 9780814799536 / Angielski / Miękka / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From youth culture to adolescent sexuality to the consumer purchasing power of children en masse, studies are flourishing. Yet doing research on this unquestionably more vulnerable--whether five or fifteen--population also poses a unique set of challenges and dilemmas for researchers. How should a six-year-old be approached for an interview? What questions and topics are appropriate for twelve year olds? Do parents need to give their approval for all studies? In Representing Youth, Amy L. Best has assembled an important group of essays from some of today's top scholars on... From youth culture to adolescent sexuality to the consumer purchasing power of children en masse, studies are flourishing. Yet doing research on th... |
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151,53 zł |
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Tunnel Kids
ISBN: 9780816519262 / Angielski / Miękka / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner of the Southwest Book Award Beneath the streets of the U.S.-Mexico border, children are coming of age. They have come from all over Mexico to find shelter and adventure in the drainage tunnels that connect the twin cities of Nogales, Sonora, and Nogales, Arizona. This book opens up the world of the tunnel kids and tells how in this murky underworld of struggling immigrants, drug dealers, and thieves, these kids have carved out a place of their own. Two parallel tunnels-- each fourteen feet wide and several miles long-- drain the summer rains from Mexico to the United...
Winner of the Southwest Book Award Beneath the streets of the U.S.-Mexico border, children are coming of age. They have come from all o...
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97,70 zł |
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Curiouser: On the Queerness of Children
ISBN: 9780816642021 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Simple representations of children that frame what is normative and what is queer are examined in a collection of essays by scholars of childhood and sexuality, including such eminent scholars as Lauren Berlant, Andr Furlani, Judith Halberstam, Ellis Hanson, Paul Kelleher, and others. Simultaneous.
Simple representations of children that frame what is normative and what is queer are examined in a collection of essays by scholars of childhood and ...
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107,48 zł |
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Reaching Out to Africa's Orphans: A Framework for Public Action
ISBN: 9780821358573 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. HIV/AIDS is generating a major humanitarian crisis for families in Sub-Saharan Africa. The number of children who have lost one or both parents to AIDS is expected to rise to 35 million by 2010. Rolling back decades of progress in social development, HIV/AIDS has become a major constraint in the fight against poverty. Many African countries are also suffering from civil unrest and post-conflict situations resulting in more orphans or displaced children. 'Reaching Out to Africa's Orphans' makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of the many risks and vulnerabilities faced by...
HIV/AIDS is generating a major humanitarian crisis for families in Sub-Saharan Africa. The number of children who have lost one or both parents to AID...
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58,60 zł |
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Figurations: Child, Bodies, Worlds
ISBN: 9780822329589 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Always in the process of becoming, inherently incomplete, the child is a remarkably malleable figure. In" Figurations, " Claudia Castaneda shows how this malleability is itself generated--how the child is "made" by different constituencies and how the resulting historically, geographically, and culturally specific figures are put to widely divergent uses, often to very powerful effect. Situated at the intersection of feminist, postcolonial, cultural, and science and technology studies, this book provides a remarkable map of the child's meaning and movement across transnational circuits of...
Always in the process of becoming, inherently incomplete, the child is a remarkably malleable figure. In" Figurations, " Claudia Castaneda shows how t...
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444,79 zł |
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The Commodification of Childhood: The Children's Clothing Industry and the Rise of the Child Consumer
ISBN: 9780822332688 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this revealing social history, Daniel Thomas Cook explores the roots of children's consumer culture--and the commodification of childhood itself--by looking at the rise, growth, and segmentation of the children's clothing industry. Cook describes how in the early twentieth century merchants, manufacturers, and advertisers of children's clothing began to aim commercial messages at the child rather than the mother. Cook situates this fundamental shift in perspective within the broader transformation of the child into a legitimate, individualized, self-contained consumer.
"The... In this revealing social history, Daniel Thomas Cook explores the roots of children's consumer culture--and the commodification of childhood itself--b...
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122,15 zł |
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The Commodification of Childhood: The Children's Clothing Industry and the Rise of the Child Consumer
ISBN: 9780822332794 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this revealing social history, Daniel Thomas Cook explores the roots of children s consumer culture and the commodification of childhood itself by looking at the rise, growth, and segmentation of the children s clothing industry. Cook describes how in the early twentieth century merchants, manufacturers, and advertisers of children s clothing began to aim commercial messages at the child rather than the mother. Cook situates this fundamental shift in perspective within the broader transformation of the child into a legitimate, individualized, self-contained consumer.
"The Commodification... In this revealing social history, Daniel Thomas Cook explores the roots of children s consumer culture and the commodification of childhood itself by ...
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459,45 zł |
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Cradle of Liberty: Race, the Child, and National Belonging from Thomas Jefferson to W. E. B. Du Bois
ISBN: 9780822338567 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Throughout American literature, the figure of the child is often represented in opposition to the adult. In "Cradle of Liberty" Caroline F. Levander proposes that this opposition is crucial to American political thought and the literary cultures that surround and help produce it. Levander argues that from the late eighteenth century through the early twentieth, American literary and political texts did more than include child subjects: they depended on them to represent, naturalize, and, at times, attempt to reconfigure the ground rules of U.S. national belonging. She demonstrates how, as the...
Throughout American literature, the figure of the child is often represented in opposition to the adult. In "Cradle of Liberty" Caroline F. Levander p...
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459,45 zł |
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Cradle of Liberty: Race, the Child, and National Belonging from Thomas Jefferson to W. E. B. Du Bois
ISBN: 9780822338727 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Throughout American literature, the figure of the child is often represented in opposition to the adult. In "Cradle of Liberty" Caroline F. Levander proposes that this opposition is crucial to American political thought and the literary cultures that surround and help produce it. Levander argues that from the late eighteenth century through the early twentieth, American literary and political texts did more than include child subjects: they depended on them to represent, naturalize, and, at times, attempt to reconfigure the ground rules of U.S. national belonging. She demonstrates how, as the...
Throughout American literature, the figure of the child is often represented in opposition to the adult. In "Cradle of Liberty" Caroline F. Levander p...
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136,80 zł |
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Techniques for Observing Normal Child Behavior
ISBN: 9780822950431 / Angielski / Miękka / 32 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A handbook of standard techniques for observing children s behavior in nursery school settings -- it is also applicable to children in club groups, elementary school classrooms, and hospitals."
A handbook of standard techniques for observing children s behavior in nursery school settings -- it is also applicable to children in club groups, el...
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61,49 zł |
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Becoming Tongan: An Ethnography of Childhood
ISBN: 9780824817954 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this first detailed account of growing up in Tonga, Helen Morton focuses on the influence of anga fakatonga (the Tongan way) in all facets of Tongan childhood, from the antenatal period to late adolescence. Childhood is a crucial period when cultural identity and notions of tradition are constructed, as well as beliefs about self, personhood, and emotion. Based on her anthropological fieldwork and her experiences in Tonga over several years, Morton traces the Tongan socialization process--from being vale (ignorant, socially incompetent) to becoming poto (clever, socially competent)--in...
In this first detailed account of growing up in Tonga, Helen Morton focuses on the influence of anga fakatonga (the Tongan way) in all facets of Tonga...
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127,03 zł |
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Tehran Blues: Youth Culture in Iran
ISBN: 9780863565823 / Angielski / Miękka / 349 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. More than two decades after their parents rose up against the excesses of the Shah, increasing numbers of young Iranians are risking jail for things their counterparts in the West take for granted: wearing makeup, slow dancing at parties, and holding hands with members of the opposite sex. Kaveh Basmenji, who spent his own youth amidst the turbulence of the Islamic Revolution, argues that Iran's youth are in near-open revolt for want of greater personal freedom. Yet not long ago it was young Iranians who occupied the American embassy, or who vied for martyrdom during the disastrous Iran-Iraq...
More than two decades after their parents rose up against the excesses of the Shah, increasing numbers of young Iranians are risking jail for things t...
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66,83 zł |
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