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Book SynopsisPrivileged adolescents nation-wide are experiencing epidemic rates of emotional problems, more than children from any other socio-economic group, including those in dire poverty. Looking at privileged families, this book aims to dispose of the 'overparenting' paradigm in contemporary times, seeking to explode one child-rearing myth after another.Trade Review"Useful...clear, sensitive..." -- Publisher's Weekly "In this insightful book, Levine eschews the temptation to dismiss problems of privileged teens as overindulgence." -- Book List "[Written] with clarity and understanding of the culture of affluence and its pitfalls for parents." -- Library Journal "Fresh and important ideas about parenting in the age of affluence..." -- Mary Pipher, Ph.D., author of Reviving Ophelia "Levine offers chapter after chapter of practical advice for dealing with family problems." -- Connecticut Post Online "[Madeline Levine's] ideas may be uncomfortable for parents to read, but they're a wonderful wake-up call." -- Bay Area Insider "Levine's book explores some troubling and intriguing issues that certainly are worth pondering and discussing." -- Marin Independent Journal "She treats her subjects as well as her subject with compassion and understanding." -- Chicago Tribune "...[an] impassioned wake-up call to parents..." -- The Gazette (Montreal) "This book has resonated in affluent communities all over the country. [Levine is] clearly on to something." -- Atlanta Journal-Constitution "Her writing is warm and carefully thoughtful." -- Toronto Star

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Book SynopsisProvides an interdisciplinary projection of the factors affecting the lives of Europe's children. This book brings together professionals and researchers from a range of disciplines, to present challenges, for the healthy development of Europe's children and their passage into a satisfying and productive adulthood.Table of ContentsSection headings: Foreword (S. Nakou, S. Pantelakis). Preface (S. Pantelakis). Child and Family. Child and Environment. Child and Education. Child and Health. Child and State. Implications for the Future of Europe's Children. Index.

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Book SynopsisWith this deeply influential book, which is now internationally recognised as a classic study of childhood and its social significance, Professor Erikson has made an outstanding contribution to the study of human behaviour.Trade ReviewA rare and living combination of European and American thought in the human sciences -- Margaret MeadA unique combination of imaginative clinical description, rigorous thinking, gentle humour and deep humanity * Science *The application of psychoanalysis to the field of cultural anthropology has nowhere found a more mature expression * Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry *

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA masterpiece of clear-eyed humility. . . Alexievich is the most inspired and inspiring of all Nobel prize winners, a genuine bearer of witness -- Tim Adams * Observer *Astonishing. . . Like the great Russian novels, these testimonials ring with emotional truth. . . Few people have ever conjured better the pain of loss -- Caroline Moorehead * Guardian *An antidote to nostalgic World War II narratives. . . Breathtaking, occasionally unbearably sad. Svetlana Alexievich is in a class of her own -- Paula HawkinsA major work by one of our greatest living historians. . . a profound, revelatory book. Through an artfully crafted and sincerely empathetic technique of enticing, soothing, and teasing out - gentle, unobtrusive, knowing when to encourage and when to let a pause run its course - Alexievich uncovers some of the most evocative war stories ever published -- Jane Graham * Big Issue *These stories demand to be read -- Gerard DeGroot * The Times *If God existed, or had an ear, she might listen the way Svetlana Alexievich does to the stories of her fellow ex-Soviets. . . These stories have a hallucinatory clarity, like visions or nightmares-except they are made simply from the stuff of life -- John Freeman * Lit Hub *The experience of reading these thousands of human confessions has an astonishingly powerful impact -- Gaby Wood * Daily Telegraph *A masterly and potent reminder that the memory of loss belongs to individuals and communities, and not to the states that turn its psychic energy to other ends -- Kevin Platt * TLS *An important historical document. . . offers a harrowing picture of the lives of Russian children caught up in Hitler's invasion on the Eastern Front -- Ian Thomson * Evening Standard *Svetlana Alexievich's books go as deep as the soul of woman can go. And now she investigates the soul in the agonized process of historical formation -- Geoff DyerThis new translation will no doubt leave another huge impression on this new generation of readers * Bustle *

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Book SynopsisThis book will change you. --Chicago TribuneWhite Girls is about, among other things, blackness, queerness, movies, Brooklyn, love (and the loss of love), AIDS, fashion, Basquiat, Capote, philosophy, porn, Eminem, Louise Brooks, and Michael Jackson. Freewheeling and dazzling, tender and true, it is one of the most daring and provocative books of recent years, an invaluable guide to the culture of our time.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"More professors need to know about this book. My students enjoy it; in fact, it is probably the most popular text that I have ever used. The coupling of subcultures with theories and concepts of deviance makes it a good teaching device."--Louis 'Pancho' McFarland, Chicago State University "Haenfler does not overwhelm students with advanced theoretical concepts. Yet he does effectively integrate important theoretical concepts into the chapters. Students relate to the material very well."--Gloria Gadsden, New Mexico Highlands University "Goths, Gamers, and Grrrls provides an excellent integration of central concepts in deviance and youth subcultures. Students love Haenfler's writing style. They love how he integrates personal experience with sociological research on the topics. I would recommend this book on the basis of its accessibility, its compelling examples, and its clear and concise presentation of key concepts."--Elizabeth Cherry, Manhattanville CollegeTable of ContentsPreface 1. Introduction 2. Skinheads--The Symbolism of Style and Ritual 3. Punk Rock, Hardcore, and Straight Edge--Status and Hierarchy in Subcultures 4. Hip Hop--"Doing" Gender and Race in Subcultures 5. Heavy Metal--Moral Panics, Satanic Scares, and Moral Entrepreneurs 6. Virginity Pledgers--Religion, Sexual Identity, and Positive Deviance 7. Goth--Stigma and Stigma Management 8. Gamers, Hackers, and Facebook--Computer Cultures, Virtual Community, and Postmodern Identity 9. Riot Grrrls and Fic Writers--Girls Take on the Media 10. Questions and Conclusions--Resistance, Commodification, and Growing Up References Notes Index

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Book SynopsisTech Generation: Raising Balanced Kids in a Hyper-Connected World guides parents in teaching their children how to reap the benefits of living in a digital world while also preventing its negative effects.Trade ReviewThe use of examples like the ones mentioned in the book work so well to engage the reader that reading the book is an enjoyable experience as well as a learning opportunity. There are concrete and doable suggestions for parents to follow that should help to accommodate the use of the new technology while maintaining some of the best practices of the past. * Metapsychology Online Reviews *Table of Contents1. Introduction2. Technology in Our Lives3. Is Our Technology Making Us Any Happier?4. The Pull of Our Screens5. The Effects on Technology on Children and Families6. Press Start: It's About the Relationship7. Green Light Strategies for Prevention8. Yellow Light Strategies for Emerging Concerns9. Red Light Strategies for When Intervention is Necessary10. Parenting, Technology, and SchoolingSummary

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Book SynopsisWhile children are a relatively unchanging fact of life, childhood is a constantly shifting concept. Through the millennia, the age at which a child becomes a youth and a youth becomes an adult has varied by gender, class, religion, ethnicity, place, and economic need. As author James Marten explores in this Very Short Introduction, so too have the realities of childhood, each life shaped by factors such as education, expectation, and conflict (or lack thereof). Indeed, ancient Roman children lived very differently than those born of today''s Generation Z. Experiences of childhood have been shaped in classrooms and on factory floors, in family homes and orphanages, and on battlefields and in front of television sets. In addressing this diversity, The History of Childhood: A Very Short Introduction takes a global, expansive view of the features of childhood that have shaped childhood throughout history and continue to shape it now. From the rules of Confucian childrearing in twelfth-century China to the struggles of children living as slaves in the Americas or as cotton mill workers in Industrial Age Britain, Marten takes his inspiration from the idea that the lives of children reveal important and sometimes uncomfortable truths about civilization.Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter One: TraditionsChapter Two: RevolutionsChapter Three: The Rise of "Modern" ChildhoodsChapter Four: Creating a Worldview of ChildhoodChapter Five: The Century of the Child and BeyondReferencesFurther ReadingIndex

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Book SynopsisA systematic and comparative analysis of youth gangs and the youth gang problem in the United States, this book deals with hands-on issues of policy and programs, describing the strategies and techniques for dealing with gangs employed by criminal justice organizations, social agencies, schools, employment programs, and grass-roots organizations. Spergel combines empirical research, first-hand experience, and a solid theoretical base to expose the causes of the gang problem. Importantly, he recommends strategies that deal with gangs at a community level, using both local and national interests and resources to provide gang members with structured social and economic opportunities. He suggests a variety of specific techniques for dealing with the problem and shows how and why existing strategies have gone wrong. A practical and testable approach to a serious social problem, The Youth Gang Problem is a must-read for government officials, researchers, university instructors, and for anyonTrade ReviewLikely to be a basic resource for students of youth gangs for some time to come. * Choice *

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Book SynopsisWhen Barbara Hanawalt''s acclaimed history The Ties That Bound first appeared, it was hailed for its unprecedented research and vivid re-creation of medieval life. David Levine, writing in The New York Times Book Review, called Hanawalt''s book as stimulating for the questions it asks as for the answers it provides and he concluded that one comes away from this stimulating book with the same sense of wonder that Thomas Hardy''s Angel Clare felt [:] ''The impressionable peasant leads a larger, fuller, more dramatic life than the pachydermatous king.'' Now, in Growing Up in Medieval London, Hanawalt again reveals the larger, fuller, more dramatic life of the common people, in this instance, the lives of children in London. Bringing together a wealth of evidence drawn from court records, literary sources, and books of advice, Hanawalt weaves a rich tapestry of the life of London youth during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Much of what she finds is eye opening. She shows for instaTrade Review`densely informative, fluid, and often charming study ... exemplary scholarship that blends traditional painstaking research with contemporary approaches and understanding Kirkus Reviews'Hanawalt skillfully transforms her archival data into a textured, vivid history of youthful experience ... a highly significant contribution to the study of childhood in general as well as an important exploration of a medieval urban culture which collectively exhibited 'growing concern about children and adolescents'.' Marilynn Desmond, History Workshop Journal, Vol 37, Spring 1994the book contains a mass of extremely useful material on the demography, affective relations and household economy of the medieval London family * History Today June 1995 *lively and vigorous survey which justifies her subtitle * D.M. Palliser, The Historical Association 1996 *her book leaves a vivid collection of images of that almost irrecoverable past * Gervase Rosser, St Catherine's College, Oxford, EHR Nov. 96 *

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Book SynopsisAfter decades of rigorous study in the United States and across the Western world, a great deal is known about the early risk factors for offending. High impulsiveness, low attainment, criminal parents, parental conflict, and growing up in a deprived, high-crime neighborhood are among the most important factors. There is also a growing body of high quality scientific evidence on the effectiveness of early prevention programs designed to prevent children from embarking on a life of crime. Drawing on the latest evidence, Saving Children from a Life of Crime is the first book to assess the early causes of offending and what works best to prevent it. Preschool intellectual enrichment, child skills training, parent management training, and home visiting programs are among the most effective early prevention programs. Criminologists David Farrington and Brandon Welsh also outline a policy strategy--early prevention--that uses this current research knowledge and brings into sharper focus whaTrade Review"Well researched and well reasoned, pragmatic and clearly written: A call to action grounded in science. This book should guide the creation of a national strategy for preventing crime before it starts."--J. David Hawkins, Endowed Professor of Prevention, University of Washington"The current willingness to allow at-risk children to develop unimpeded into serious, chronic offenders represents an inexcusable policy failure and threat to public safety. Farrington and Welsh balance this "bad news" with invaluable "good news": there is a growing body of evidence-based practices that "work" to save troubled youngsters. Their scholarly but accessible analysis makes a compelling case that the knowledge now exists to construct a national system for early intervention. Perhaps more important, Saving Children from a Life of Crime has the power to inspire in its readers the political will to make this ambitious vision a reality. Let the reading begin!"--Francis T. Cullen, Distinguished Research Professor, University of CincinnatiTable of ContentsJames Q. Wilson: Foreword 1: Introduction: The Need for Early Prevention Part I: Early Risk and Protective Factors 2: Understanding Risk and Protective Factors 3: Individual Factors 4: Family Factors 5: Socioeconomic, Peer, School, and Community Factors Part II: Prevention in the Early Years 6: Understanding Risk-Focused Prevention 7: Individual Prevention 8: Family Prevention 9: Peer, School, and Community Prevention Part III: Toward a National Strategy 10: Never Too Early: A Comprehensive National Prevention Strategy Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisAfter decades of rigorous study in the United States and across the Western world, a great deal is known about the early risk factors for offending. High impulsiveness, low attainment, criminal parents, parental conflict, and growing up in a deprived, high-crime neighborhood are among the most important factors. There is also a growing body of high quality scientific evidence on the effectiveness of early prevention programs designed to prevent children from embarking on a life of crime. Drawing on the latest evidence, Saving Children from a Life of Crime is the first book to assess the early causes of offending and what works best to prevent it. Preschool intellectual enrichment, child skills training, parent management training, and home visiting programs are among the most effective early prevention programs. Criminologists David Farrington and Brandon Welsh also outline a policy strategy - early prevention - that uses this current research knowledge and brings into sharper focus Trade ReviewInternationally recognized author Farrington (Cambridge) and US criminologist Welsh (Univ. of Massachusetts, Lowell) have applied a psychological theoretical perspective and "gold standard" experimental methodology to delinquency programs....Recommended. * CHOICE *[T]hese two prominent criminologists have written a book on one of social science's most important matters, and one that embodies the essence of good science: the development and articulation of good ideas, a solid discussion of theory and research, and appropriate policy proscriptions that are accessible and relevant to academics, policy-makers, and lay persons. * Journal of Youth & Adolescence *Overall, Saving Children from a Life of Crime is an insightful and useful text. This book's main strength is that it is a 'one-stop shop' for everything we need to know about risk factors for delinquency and effective early prevention programmes. It is very well researched and the information is both up-to-date and trustworthy. * British Journal of Criminology *The current willingness to allow at-risk children to develop unimpeded into serious, chronic offenders represents an inexcusable policy failure and threat to public safety. Farrington and Welsh balance this "bad news" with invaluable "good news": there is a growing body of evidence-based practices that "work" to save troubled youngsters. Their scholarly but accessible analysis makes a compelling case that the knowledge now exists to construct a national system for early intervention. Perhaps more important, Saving Children from a Life of Crime has the power to inspire in its readers the political will to make this ambitious vision a reality. Let the reading begin! * Francis T. Cullen, Distinguished Research Professor, University of Cincinnati *Well researched and well reasoned, pragmatic and clearly written: A call to action grounded in science. This book should guide the creation of a national strategy for preventing crime before it starts. * J. David Hawkins, Endowed Professor of Prevention, School of Social Work, University of Washington *This volume has essential, well-summarized information for decision makers, policy officials, and practitioners interested in designing and evaluating programs to reduce juvenile delinquency. Based on a sweeping survey of the scientific evidence for risk and protective factors, the expert authors succinctly indicate which programs have the highest efficacy in preventing and reducing juvenile delinquency and which programs more than pay for themselves. This volume is the most convincing and the most practical of all the books on reducing juvenile delinquency published over the past decades. * Rolf Loeber, Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry, and Professor of Psychology and Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh *Farrington and Welsh have produced a timely and important work for all self-respecting democracies. Every careful student of human development since Plato understands that preventing crime as a way of life starts at conception. Farrington and Welsh offer the up-to-date knowledge needed to change outdated policies. We cannot afford to continue to lock up offenders as if we were still in the early 19th century. Giving support to at-risk families and children is the only rational and humane way of dealing with crime as a way of life. This book should be mandatory for all social science students and policy makers. * Richard E. Tremblay, Chair of Child Development, University of Montreal *Table of ContentsPART I: EARLY RISK AND PROTECTIVE FACTORS; PART II: PREVENTION IN THE EARLY YEARS; PART III: TOWARD A NATIONAL STRATEGY

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Book SynopsisThis book provides the student with a comprehensive and accessible overview of the role and importance of youth and employment in Britain.Trade Review`Particularly useful for a detailed study of youth training - an in-depth guide, but easy to read.' Alan Robertshaw, University of Lancaster`This book is an excellent expose of issues.' Cyprian Lunga, University of NottinghamA much needed update on the rapidly changing situation of youth and employment ... A highly readable and even-handed assessment of the topic. * NEWI *Useful little book ... this book provides an up-to-date, thorough and accessible overview of empirical evidence on youth and employmeny and an account of the main areas of debate. * Work, Employment and Society *

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Book SynopsisThe book contains original essays by distinguished moral and political philosophers on the topic of the moral and political status of children. It covers the themes of children's rights, parental rights and duties, the family and justice, and civic education.Trade Review... provides a provocative philosophical contribution to the present theorization on children's rights. It is useful because, in a time when policy-wise children's rights are gaining increasing dominance, it presents perspectives that suggest potential theoretical and practical deficits. The presentation of different arguments helps to refine the reader's own views, whatever his or her theoretical or policy position. * Contemporary Political Theory *... essential reading ... The book adds to the literature by moving certain debates forward, with more nuanced and often more challenging considerations of children's rights and autonomy. * Contemporary Political Theory *Each chapter in this volume makes a significant contribution to the literature on children's rights. It should be considered essential reading for anyone seriously concerned with the complex issues surrounding the moral and legal status of children. * Philosophical Quarterly *... anyone interested in tackling the philosophical issues concerning children and parents would do well to consult this book. * Political Studies Review *The moral and political status of children and the rights and duties of parents are subjects that have enjoyed renewed political and philosophical interest in recent years, and this collection addresses the principal questions with admirable clarity and subtlety. * Political Studies Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; I. CHILDREN AND RIGHTS ; Do Children Have Rights? ; What Rights (If Any) Do Children Have? ; Children's Choices of Children's Interests: Which Do Their Rights Protect? ; Being versus Becoming: A Critical Analysis of the Child in Liberal Theory ; II. AUTONOMY AND EDUCATION ; Special Agents: Children's Autonomy and Parental Authority ; Autonomy, Child Rearing, and Good Lives ; Children, Multiculturalism, and Education ; Answering Susan: Liberalism, Civic Education, and the Status of Younger Persons ; III. CHILDREN, FAMILIES, AND JUSTICE ; Silver Spoons and Golden Genes: Talent Differentials and Distributive Justice ; Equality and the Duties of Procreators ; Liberal Equality and the Affective Family ; What Children Really Need: Towards a Critical Theory of Family Structure ; Family, Choice, and Distributive Justice

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Book SynopsisChildren born and raised on the religious fringe are a distinctive yet largely unstudied social phenomenon -they are irreversibly shaped by the experience having been thrust into a radical religious culture by birth. The religious group is all encompassing. It accounts for their family, their school, social networks, and everything that prepares them for their adult life. The inclusion of a second generation of participants raises new concerns and legal issues. Perfect Children examines the ways new religious movements adapt to a second generation, how children are socialized, what happens to these children as they mature, and how their childhoods have affected them.Amanda van Twist conducted over 50 in-depth interviews with individuals born into new religious groups, some of whom have stayed in the group, some of whom have left. She also visited the groups, their schools and homes, and analyzed support websites maintained by those who left the religious groups that raised them. She also attended conferences held by NGOs concerned with the welfare of children in cults. The main groups she studies include the Bruderhof, Scientology, the Family International, the Unification Church, and the International Society for Krishna Consciousness.Children born into new religions often start life as special children believed to be endowed with heightened spiritual capabilities. But as they mature into society at large they acquire other labels. Those who stay in the group are usually labeled as goodies and innovators. Those who leave tend to be labeled as baddies or seen as troubled. Whether they stay or leave, children raised on the religious fringe experience a unique form of segregation in adulthood.Van Twist analyzes group behavior on an organizational/institutional level as well as individual behavior within groups, and how these affect one another. Her study also raises larger questions about religious freedom in the light of the State''s responsibility towards children, and children''s rights against the rights of parents to raise their children within their religion.Trade ReviewThe book overall breaks new ground in an under-researched area... This is a must-read for everyone in the field. * Lukas Pokorny, Religious Studies Review *Perfect Children is an insightful and sometimes disturbing study of youth growing up in new or sectarian religious movements. The author shows us that the experimental project of rearing perfect children comes with a very imperfect road map. With the best of intentions and noblest of spiritual pursuits, the introduction of children into the group changes everything. Amanda van Eck Duymaer van Twist offers us a window into the intimate lives of these offspring, with all the trials, challenges, and choices they face. This work is a unique and vital contribution to the research literature on new religions. * Stuart Wright, Professor of Sociology, Lamar University *This is a very good book. I recommend it not only to scholars of new religious movements for whom it is a must, but also to anyone interested in the dynamics of the socialization of children in minority religions or in nonreligious groups that are on the fringe of society. * Eileen Barker, Sociology of Religion *Table of ContentsPart I: Sects and Their Children ; Introduction ; Chapter 1: Sects, Children, and Society ; Chapter 2: Leadership and Discipline ; Chapter 3: Points of Conflict: The Children of God and the State ; Part II: What Happened?: The Aftermath of Growing Up in a Sectarian Group ; Chapter 4: What Is Perceived as Successful Socialization? ; Chapter 5: The Young Members Who Stay ; Part III: The Young Members Who Leave ; Chapter 6: Support ; Chapter 7: In The Wilderness ; Conclusion ; Notes ; Index

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Book SynopsisThis text provides a detailed analysis of both the music and the cultural significance of children's songs among the Venda people of the northern Transvaal, South Africa. It examines topics such as role of melody in generating rhythm.

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Book SynopsisThis text provides a detailed analysis of both the music and the cultural significance of children's songs among the Venda people of the northern Transvaal, South Africa. It examines topics such as role of melody in generating rhythm.

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Book SynopsisThis study argues that child abandonment was common among all classes and morally acceptable from antiquity until the Renaissance. Using a variety of sources, Boswell examines the evidence, presenting a history of the abandoned child and illustrating the changing meaning of family.

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Book SynopsisThe baby abandoned on the doorstep is a phenomenon that has virtually disappeared from our experience, but in the early modern world, unwanted children were a very real problem. This title recreates sixteenth-century Nuremberg to explore what befell abandoned children in this period in vivid detail.Trade Review"Joel F. Harrington breaks new ground with this work.... The Unwanted Child mounts a rich, successful challenge to top-down historical approaches to the subject." (Choice) "In his fascinating study, Joel F. Harrington acquaints the reader with the realities of child abandonment and infanticide and the challenges that early modern social distortions, triggered by wars, economic crisis, and climate change, to name but a few, held for poor families.... Essential for students as well as for researchers." (Journal of Social History)"

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Book SynopsisDrawing on life histories of several children, this book shows that children and childhood are being redefined by desires of a young country struggling to position itself in international community. It reveals how Ugandans are constructing childhood as an identity for development of nation.Trade Review"With Pillars of the Nation, Kristen Cheney has admirably succeeded in providing a culturally informed ethnographic study of the predicament of children in contemporary Uganda. Here, she shows how Ugandan children in diverse and often problematic situations seek to establish through their own agency a meaningful life not always in agreement with cultural codes, national social agendas, and ideologies enforced by international agencies and programs to assist them. This is an impressive and original work." - Philip Kilbride, Bryn Mawr College"

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Book SynopsisDrawing on life histories of several children, this book shows that children and childhood are being redefined by desires of a young country struggling to position itself in international community. It reveals how Ugandans are constructing childhood as an identity for development of nation.Trade Review"With Pillars of the Nation, Kristen Cheney has admirably succeeded in providing a culturally informed ethnographic study of the predicament of children in contemporary Uganda. Here, she shows how Ugandan children in diverse and often problematic situations seek to establish through their own agency a meaningful life not always in agreement with cultural codes, national social agendas, and ideologies enforced by international agencies and programs to assist them. This is an impressive and original work." - Philip Kilbride, Bryn Mawr College"

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Book SynopsisIs it right for children to believe in myths? By encouraging such myths, are parents lying to children? This text explores how children themselves see characters such as Santa, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy, and discusses the possible effects that belief in such figures has on children.

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Book SynopsisAsks whether traditional observations about farm families apply to three hundred Iowa children who grew up with some tie to the land during the agricultural crisis of the 1980s, a time of widespread farm bankruptcies and factory closings. The answer, the authors show, is a resounding yes.Trade Review"What is it about 'ties to the land' that influences the development of young people? The answers the authors provide are not only analytically compelling, but they reveal invaluable insights for solving many of the problems facing our urban and suburban school communities as they struggle to provide meaningful environments for socializing and educating our adolescents into productive adults." (American Journal of Sociology) "A welcome corrective to the literature on development, which has focused almost exclusively on metropolitan areas.... Through their careful connection of life choices to life chances in historical context, the authors offer a model of sociological inquiry worthy of emulation." (Social Forces)"

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Book SynopsisThe baby abandoned on the doorstep is a phenomenon that has virtually disappeared from our experience, but in the early modern world, unwanted children were a very real problem for parents, government officials, and society. This work recreates sixteenth-century Nuremberg to explore what befell abandoned, neglected, abused, or delinquent children.

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Book SynopsisRestoring ethnographic methods to a central place in social inquiry, this text discusses how qualitative methodologies have strengthened the understanding of cognitive, emotional and behavioural development, and of the difficulties of growing up in contemporary society.

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Book SynopsisA companion that brings together contemporary research on children and childhood from pediatrics, child psychology, childhood studies, education, sociology, history, law, anthropology, and other related areas. It includes more than 40 'Imagining Each Other' essays, which focus on the experiences of particular children in different cultures.

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