Children at War
ISBN: 9780520248762 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From U.S. soldiers having to fight children in Afghanistan and Iraq to juvenile terrorists in Sri Lanka to Palestine, the new, younger face of battle is a terrible reality of 21st century warfare. Indeed, the very first American soldier killed by hostile fire in the "War on Terrorism" was shot by a fourteen-year-old Afghan boy. Children at War is the first comprehensive examination of a disturbing and escalating phenomenon: the use of children as soldiers around the globe. Interweaving explanatory narrative with the voices of child soldiers themselves, P.W. Singer, an internationally...
From U.S. soldiers having to fight children in Afghanistan and Iraq to juvenile terrorists in Sri Lanka to Palestine, the new, younger face of battle ...
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188,13 zł |
Kids and Media in America
ISBN: 9780521527903 / Angielski / Miękka / 406 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examining the full array of media available to children and adolescents, this book describes not only the amount of time they spend with each medium, but the kinds of content they choose, and the physical, social, and psychological context of much of their exposure. This national sample study provides a comprehensive picture of young people's media behavior.
Examining the full array of media available to children and adolescents, this book describes not only the amount of time they spend with each medium, ...
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216,69 zł |
Kids and Media in America
ISBN: 9780521821025 / Angielski / Twarda / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examining the full array of media available to children and adolescents, this book describes not only the amount of time they spend with each medium, but the kinds of content they choose, and the physical, social, and psychological context of much of their exposure. This national sample study provides a comprehensive picture of young people's media behavior.
Examining the full array of media available to children and adolescents, this book describes not only the amount of time they spend with each medium, ...
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369,94 zł |
Confronting Cruelty: Historical Perspectives on Child Protection in Australia
ISBN: 9780522849981 / Angielski / Miękka / 221 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Investigates the history of the detection and treatment of child abuse through the lens of the Children's Protection Society from 1896 to the end of the 20th century. The text explores the inner world of the organization within history and the changes in law and the social constructions of abuse.
Investigates the history of the detection and treatment of child abuse through the lens of the Children's Protection Society from 1896 to the end of t...
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121,37 zł |
Runaways: America's Lost Youth
ISBN: 9780595149780 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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60,49 zł |
Let's Stop Destroying Our Children: Society's Most Pressing Problem Then and Now
ISBN: 9780595282289 / Angielski / Miękka / 396 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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116,87 zł |
Childhood Studies: An Introduction
ISBN: 9780631233978 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text introduces students to the key issues in the study of childhood, from infancy through to adulthood, from an interdisciplinary and multi-professional perspective.
This text introduces students to the key issues in the study of childhood, from infancy through to adulthood, from an interdisciplinary and multi-prof...
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234,51 zł |
Hidden Life of Girls
ISBN: 9780631234241 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner of the Best Book of 2008 from The International Gender and Language Association
In this ground-breaking ethnography of girls on a playground, Goodwin offers a window into their complex social worlds.
Winner of the Best Book of 2008 from The International Gender and Language Association
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491,13 zł |
The Hidden Life of Girls: Games of Stance, Status, and Exclusion
ISBN: 9780631234258 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner of the Best Book of 2008 from The International Gender and Language Association
In this ground-breaking ethnography of girls on a playground, Goodwin offers a window into their complex social worlds.
Winner of the Best Book of 2008 from The International Gender and Language Association
In this ground-breaking ethnography of girls on a pla... |
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179,91 zł |
Imagination and Play in the Electronic Age
ISBN: 9780674024182 / Angielski / Miękka / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Television, video games, and computers are easily accessible to twenty-first-century children, but what impact do they have on creativity and imagination? In this book, two wise and long-admired observers of children's make-believe look at the cognitive and moral potential--and concern--created by electronic media. As Dorothy and Jerome Singer show, violent images in games and TV are as toxic as many observers have feared by stimulating destructive ideas and troubling aggression. But should all electronic media be banned from children's lives? Calmly and authoritatively, the Singers... Television, video games, and computers are easily accessible to twenty-first-century children, but what impact do they have on creativity and imagi... |
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147,15 zł |
America's Youth
ISBN: 9780737737363 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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194,94 zł |
Kids in Context: The Sociological Study of Children and Childhoods
ISBN: 9780742520240 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides an assessment of theories and empirical evidence about children's social worlds, the nature of childhood in contemporary societies, and how these are related to people's perceptions of children and childhood. The social context of contemporary childhood is delineated, children's experiences in different societies and societal subgroups compared, and the impact of social, political, and economic change on children's social position and well-being evaluated.
This book provides an assessment of theories and empirical evidence about children's social worlds, the nature of childhood in contemporary societies,...
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606,06 zł |
Kids in Context: The Sociological Study of Children and Childhoods
ISBN: 9780742520257 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides an assessment of theories and empirical evidence about children's social worlds, the nature of childhood in contemporary societies, and how these are related to people's perceptions of children and childhood. The social context of contemporary childhood is delineated, children's experiences in different societies and societal subgroups compared, and the impact of social, political, and economic change on children's social position and well-being evaluated.
This book provides an assessment of theories and empirical evidence about children's social worlds, the nature of childhood in contemporary societies,...
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256,62 zł |
Taking Parenting Public: The Case for a New Social Movement
ISBN: 9780742521117 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Taking Parenting Public makes a compelling case that parenting has become dangerously undervalued in America today. It calls for a new investment--both personal and public--into the work of raising children and argues that we are all 'stockholders' in the next generation. With a foreword by Sylvia Ann Hewlett and Cornel West, Taking Parenting Public crosses boundaries to bring together thinkers from diverse fields spanning the political spectrum. It features contributions from distinguished experts in economics, political science, public policy, child development, public health, history, and...
Taking Parenting Public makes a compelling case that parenting has become dangerously undervalued in America today. It calls for a new investment--bot...
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223,86 zł |
Little Friends: Children's Film and Media Culture in China
ISBN: 9780742525412 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Contributing to the growing debates on children and media worldwide, Little Friends explores the pervasive presence of film culture in the lives of children in China. The book also introduces the work of the little-known Children's Film Studio and the Film Course, a reform-period attempt by Chinese filmmakers and policy leaders to control the media to which schoolchildren were exposed. Stephanie Donald uses expansive firsthand interviews, children's drawings, and film history to tell a compelling cinematic story before it is forgotten in the onrush of globalized culture. She is especially...
Contributing to the growing debates on children and media worldwide, Little Friends explores the pervasive presence of film culture in the lives of ch...
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223,86 zł |
Children's Human Rights: Progress and Challenges for Children Worldwide
ISBN: 9780742529885 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Childrens human rights are regularly violated around the world. Child soldiers, child slavery, and child prostitution are some of the more graphic examples this books deals with, but hungry, sick, and orphaned children are equally at risk and more prevalent. In the United States, children suffer similar abuses, but some are unique to the United States justice system. Unlike most of the rest of the world, the U.S. is a well-developed western nation in which juvenile offenders can be tried as adults and subjected to capital punishment. This book brings together a wide array of original essays...
Childrens human rights are regularly violated around the world. Child soldiers, child slavery, and child prostitution are some of the more graphic exa...
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262,08 zł |
Kids These Days: Facts and Fictions about Today's Youth
ISBN: 9780742546677 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Kids snatched from their bedrooms, shot at in school, fatter than ever, prone to risk-taking and cruelty...is childhood today as bad as the news accounts would have us believe? Is this generation headed for disaster? Kids These Days: Facts and Fictions About Today's Youth critically examines the hottest news stories of the past few years to assess whether the news is really as bad as it sounds. For instance, is kidnapping by strangers really a bigger threat now than in the past? Are disputes at school now settled with guns instead of fists? And are kids, especially girls, becoming bigger...
Kids snatched from their bedrooms, shot at in school, fatter than ever, prone to risk-taking and cruelty...is childhood today as bad as the news accou...
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529,62 zł |
Kids These Days: Facts and Fictions About Today's Youth
ISBN: 9780742546684 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book focuses on early childhood to late teen issues like kidnapping and child safety, childhood obesity, school safety and zero tolerance policies, teen drivers, hazing, bullying and risk-taking behavior. Fear of and fear for youth is a rite of passage, a common lament that comes with change. Young people both represent and must deal with the consequences of these fluctuations, and are actually often better behaved than their predecessors.
This book focuses on early childhood to late teen issues like kidnapping and child safety, childhood obesity, school safety and zero tolerance policie...
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207,48 zł |
The Wonder of Children: Nurturing the Souls of Our Sons and Daughters
ISBN: 9780743417051 / Angielski / Miękka / 227 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With The Wonder of Girls and The Wonder of Boys, bestselling author Michael Gurian presented his groundbreaking views on parenting. Now, with the same breadth of vision and depth of commitment, he puts forth a practical design for better nurturing the souls of our sons and daughters.
The Wonder of Children offers Michael Gurian's scientifically argued steps toward better care of our children's souls. You'll learn how and why to: - Increase bonding and attachment in the family and bring the extended family back into the raising of children. - Control a... With The Wonder of Girls and The Wonder of Boys, bestselling author Michael Gurian presented his groundbreaking views on parenting. Now...
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78,02 zł |
Children, Research And Policy
ISBN: 9780748404056 / Angielski / Twarda / 275 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Research on childhood is a growing area of interest in social policy. Covering both familial and institutional settings, this book explores relevant issues, including: the female workforce; and changing family forms.
Research on childhood is a growing area of interest in social policy. Covering both familial and institutional settings, this book explores relevant i...
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752,12 zł |