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“tom langford”

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  • Alberta's Day Care Controversy

    From 1908 to 2009 and Beyond

    by Tom Langford ...
    Day care in Alberta has had a remarkably durable history as a controversial issue. Since the late 1950s, disputes over day care programs, policies, and funding have been a recurring feature of political life in the province. Alberta’s Day Care Controversy traces the development of day care policies and programs in Alberta, with particular emphasis on policy decisions and program initiatives that ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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  • To Catch a Predator

    Protecting Your Kids from Online Enemies Already in Your Home

    by Chris Hansen ...
    An urgently needed primer on how to protect kids from the increasing threat of online predatorsOver 40 million Americans have seen Dateline’s ongoing popular series To Catch a Predator, which has caught over two hundred potential child predators. Here, Hansen shares the true stories of families who have been targeted by predators, revealing the tactics predators use to manipulate their victims and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Nations Of Europe

    Fun Facts about Europe for Kids

    by Speedy Publishing ...
    Children enjoy learning about cultures that differ from what they are accustomed to. A Nations of Europe picture book opens the door to new experiences, and introduces children to new ideas and concepts through learning about the differences and commonalities between nations. Exposing children to other customs, languages, types of government, and landscapes broadens their horizons and increases ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Student Mobilities, Migration and the Internationalization of Higher Education

    by R. Brooks, J. Waters ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book develops a comprehensive understanding of the motivations and experiences of students who choose to study abroad for the whole or part of a degree. It includes case studies of students from East Asia, Europe and the UK, and considers the implications of their movement for contemporary higher education. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Secrets, Lies and Children’s Fiction

    by K. Mallan ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Many children learn from a young age to tell the truth. They also learn that some lies are necessary in order to survive in a world that paradoxically values truth-telling, but practises deception. This book examines this paradox by considering how deception is often a necessary means of survival for individuals, families, governments, and animals. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Children's Chances

    by Jody Heymann ...
    Children’s Chances urges a shift from focusing on survival to targeting children’s full and healthy development. Drawing on comparative data on policies in 190 countries designed to combat poverty, discrimination, child labor, illiteracy, and child marriage, Heymann and McNeill tell what works to ensure equal opportunities for all children. ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Supervising Child Protection Practice: What Works?

    An Evidence Informed Approach

    by Lynne McPherson, Noel Macnamara ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book presents a model of supervision that is based on both contemporary theory and research, which is strongly contextualized to child and family social work. It draws directly from analysis of in-depth interviews with experienced and post graduate qualified supervisors and supervisees about ‘what works’ in supervision. These findings bring ‘news of difference’ in relation to social work ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • The Demands of Motherhood

    Agents, Roles and Recognition

    by L. Smyth ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Drawing on qualitative interviews with forty middle-class mothers living in Northern Ireland and the US, this book explores the strategies women adopt, as they take on and creatively re-make motherhood in ways which allow them to cope. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Margins of Citizenship

    Edited by Philip Cook, Jonathan Seglow ...
    Citizenship is a central concept in political philosophy, bridging theory and practice and marking out those who belong and who share a common civic status. The injustices suffered by immigrants, disabled people, the economically inactive and others have been extensively catalogued, but their disadvantages have generally been conceptualised in social and/or economic terms, less commonly in terms ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Young People Re-Generating Politics in Times of Crises

    Edited by Sarah Pickard, Judith Bessant ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book provides insight into the diverse ways young people from around the world are regenerating politics in innovative and multifaceted ways. The authors, who include academics and activists, challenge claims that young people are apolitical, apathetic and living up to the ‘me generation’ stereotype. Contributions cover a rich body of case examples of traditional and new forms of youth ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • Critical Perspectives on Child Sexual Exploitation and Related Trafficking

    Edited by M. Melrose, J. Pearce ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This volume is the first major exploration of the issues relevant to young people who are affected by sexual exploitation and trafficking from a variety of critical perspectives. Issues include accommodation, gangs, migrant and refugee communities, perpetrators, international policy and the language through which we construct child exploitation. ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Youth Culture and Social Change

    Making a Difference by Making a Noise

    Edited by Bill Osgerby, Sian Lincoln, Anna Gough-Yates, Peter Webb, Lucy Robinson, Keith Gildart, Matthew Worley, John Street ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book brings together historians, sociologists and social scientists to examine aspects of youth culture. The book’s themes are riots, music and gangs, connecting spectacular expression of youthful disaffection with everyday practices. By so doing, Youth Culture and Social Change maps out new ways of historicizing responses to economic and social change: public unrest and popular culture. ... Read more

    $116.09 USD