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Growing up Global
University of Minnesota Press 2004; US$ 75.00Growing Up Global examines global change through children?s lives in two seemingly disparate places: New York City and Sudan.The book?s core is a study of children in a Sudanese village that was included in a state-sponsored agricultural program. Shifting her focus to working-class families in New York City, Cindy Katz exposes connections with the... more...
The Child in the World/The World in the Child
Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 32.00The contributors look at universalizing discourses concerning young children across the globe, which purport to describe everyone in a scientific and neutral way, but actually create mechanisms through which children are divided and excluded. The contributors to this book employ post-structuralist, postcolonial, and feminist theoretical frameworks. more...
What Do Children Need to Flourish?
Springer 2005; US$ 109.00Part of "The Search Series on Developmentally Attentive Community and Society", this title focuses on how scholars and practitioners can begin to build rigorous measures of the healthy behaviors and attitudes that result in positive outcomes for children and youth. It is aimed at researchers and practitioners. more...
Father Knows Less
Penguin Group US 2007; US$ 13.95Kids ask the darndest questions?and the answers make for a ?funny and fascinating?( Publishers Weekly ) book. Wendell Jamieson?s son, Dean, has always had a penchant for asking odd questions. ?Dad, what would hurt more?getting run over by a car, or getting stung by a jellyfish?? ?Dad, why do policemen like donuts?? ?Dad, does Mona Lisa wear shoes??... more...
Why Youth is Not Wasted on the Young
Wiley 2009; US$ 37.95Why Youth is Not Wasted on the Young examines the nature of childhood through an evolutionary lens and argues that childhood is an essential stage of development with its own unique purposes, separate from those of adulthood; a time of growth and discovery that should not be rushed. Written by a renowned developmental psychologist Examines... more...
Warring Parents, Wounded Children, and the Wretched World of Child Custody
Greenwood Publishing Group 2007; US$ 40.00This collection of moving, deeply insightful and sometimes shocking cautionary tales created from actual court cases shed light on the modern day horrors of child custody disputes. more...
Child Development and Behaviour 0 - 8
McGraw-Hill Education 2007; US$ 158.00Understanding child development is crucial for early years practitioners and knowledge of children and their development underpins effective practice. This book offers an overview from a range of sources including: developmental, evolutionary and cognitive psychology, biology sensory information, attachment theory, and neuroscience research. more...
The Everyday Lives of Young Children
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 27.00A unique insight into the lives of three-year-olds in different cultures around the world. more...
Research With Children
Taylor and Francis 2008; US$ 49.95Research with Children is a unique resource book on the methodology of childhood research. Leading and new researchers within the social studies of childhood discuss central questions of epistemology and methodology, demonstrating the links between theory and practice. The theoretical and practical questions are set out in a clear and well-argued... more...
Researching Children's Experience
SAGE Publications 2005; US$ 68.00`Strongly recommended as it provides a very useful overview of a range of methods, mainly textual, for exploring children's experiences. These accounts are placed well in the broader conceptual frameworks concerning both methodologies and ethical considerations' - Educational Review more...









