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Teach Your Children Well: Parenting for Authentic Success
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Psychologist Madeline Levine, author of the New York Times bestseller The Price of Privilege , brings together cutting-edge research and thirty years of clinical experience to explode once and for...
Born for Love: Why Empathy Is Essential--and Endangered
Uncover the startling importance of empathy From birth, when babies' fingers instinctively cling to those of adults, their bodies and brains seek an intimate connection-a bond made possible by empathy,...
A+ Parenting: The Surprisingly Fun Guide to Raising Surprisingly Smart
Eva Moskowitz, founder of the highly lauded Success Academy Charter Schools, shares her advice for raising smart, successful, and intellectually engaged children. Eva Moskowitz has built a national reputation as...
Broken Circles: Fragmenting Indigenous Families 1800-2000
A comprehensive and accessible overview and analysis of government policy and practice in relation to the removal of indigenous children in Australia. This major work - the first of its...
Tricky Behaviours: Managing Challenging and Confronting Children While
Kids with Tricky Behaviours don't need to be 'fixed' because they aren't broken. They do, however, need to be shown ways to play to their own strengths and to learn...
Norwich: One Tiny Vermont Town's Secret to Happiness and Excellence
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The extraordinary story of the small Vermont town that has likely produced more Olympians per capita than any other place in the country--and whose citizens provide a model for achieving...
Shouting into the Silence: One man's fight for the world's forgotten
Torture, sexual abuse, cruelty - children and adults are in danger all over the world, often because no-one is prepared to speak on their behalf. Occasional voices do cry out...
Best Friends, Worst Enemies: Children's Friendships, Popularity and
Questions about children's friendships and social development consume parents. Is my child popular? What if she isn't? What if she is being excluded from that group? What if he is...
A+ Parenting: The Surprisingly Fun Guide to Raising Surprisingly Smart
Eva Moskowitz, founder of the highly lauded Success Academy Charter Schools, shares her advice for raising smart, successful, and intellectually engaged children. Eva Moskowitz has built a national reputation as...
Through The Eyes Of Innocents: Children Witness World War II
World War II was the first modern war in which more civilians than soldiers were killed or maimed: When it ended in August 1945, more than thirty-nine millions civilians had...
Their Name Is Today: Reclaiming Childhood in a Hostile World
There's hope for childhood. Despite a perfect storm of hostile forces that are robbing children of a healthy childhood, courageous parents and teachers who know what's best for children are...
Rethinking Youth
Young people grow up in varied circumstances with different priorities and perspectives. While youth does not exist as a single group we need to understand what is happening in young...
Off the Charts: The Hidden Lives and Lessons of American Child
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From the author of the widely praised Raising America --a compelling exploration of child genius told through the gripping stories of fifteen exceptionally gifted boys and girls, from a math...
Offending Girls
This text examines acts of delinquency such as under-age drinking, dope smoking, illicit sex, shoplifting and truancy, and looks at girls who fall into the hands of the justice authorities,...
The Push for a Child Philosophy: What Children Really Need You to Know
What children really need has been misunderstood for most of human history. Drawing on the latest scientific research, philosophy, and psychology as well as her own clinical experience, Maxine illuminates...
New Lives for Old: The Story of Britain's Home Children
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Huck Finn's America: Mark Twain and the Era that Shaped his Masterpiece
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Narrating the Future in Siberia: Childhood, Adolescence and Autobiography among the Eveny
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Last Witnesses: Unchildlike Stories
Extraordinary stories about Soviet children's experiences in the Second World War, from Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich What did it mean to grow up in the Soviet Union during the Second...
Where Are You, Magoo?
Pre-schoolers will love to play hide-and-seek with Magoo, the fun and loveable red dog from We Love You Magoo! Find Magoo in the pictures and see what mischief this cheeky...
We Love You, Magoo
Magoo has his own ideas about what a dog should do - in the kitchen, in the car, at dinnertime and bedtime! But there are so many rules! So many...
The Elephant in the Room
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What is a Child?: Popular Images of Childhood
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Family Unfriendly: How Our Culture Made Raising Kids Much Harder Than
The bestselling author of Alienated America traveled the country asking families and experts the same two questions: Why is parenting so hard now And why are the results so badOur...
Boy Soldiers: A Personal Story of Nazi Elite Schooling and its Legacy
Shining a light on the largely untold story of elite-schooled child and youth soldiers under the Nazi regime. Schooled by Barbarians documents the untold story of how the Nazis abused...
Children of the World
A joyful and poignant collection of photographs of children from around the world by internationally renowned and award-winning photographer Mario Marino. This homage to the future of humanity (and our...
The Elephant in the Room
It starts with an 'oops'a 'look out'and a 'crash'then in walks Father Giantwith his quivering moustache....When Father Giant's favourite china elephant is smashed, he wants to know who the culprit...
Mr Peek and the Misunderstanding at the Zoo
It may all just be a misunderstanding but there's trouble aplenty when Mr Peek visits the zoo in this hilarious picture book. Poor old Mr Peek has a bad start...
God's Cosmic Cookbook
With gentle humour and fun illustrations, this book confidently combines faith and science as God-the-chef helps readers navigate through the Big Bang, Inflation Theory, and getting to know your Goldilocks...
My Book of Feelings: A Book to Help Children with Attachment
Even though you can't see them, we all have feelings.Some feelings are fluffy and make us feel good. Some are sharp and make us unhappy. Sometimes we have fluffy and...
Childhood in Ancient Egypt
Author: Dr. Amandine Marshall Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 298 A groundbreaking account of how the ancient Egyptians perceived children and childhood, from the Predynastic period to the end of...
Precarious Childhood in Post-Independence Ireland
This fascinating study reveals the desperate plight of the poor, illegitimate and abused children in an Irish society that claimed to "cherish" and hold them sacred, but in fact marginalised...
What's Happening to Our Boys?
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Powered by Girl: A Field Guide for Supporting Youth Activists
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Orphans Of History: The Forgotten Children Of The First Fleet
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Once, in a House on Fire
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Why We Play: How to find joy and meaning in everyday life
Author: Joanna Fortune Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Discover how to reconnect with the child in you and unlock the transformative power of play to live a more joyful...
A+ Parenting: The Surprisingly Fun Guide to Raising Surprisingly Smart Kids
Author: Eva Moskowitz Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Eva Moskowitz, founder of the highly lauded Success Academy Charter Schools, shares her advice for raising smart, successful, and intellectually engaged...
Working with Children of Alcoholics: The Practitioner's Handbook
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5-Minute Parenting Fixes: Quick Tips and Advice for the Everyday Challenges of Raising Children
Author: Liat Hughes Joshi Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 We all have busy lives but want to be the best parent to our child, without compromise. Many of us...
The Children's Pocket Bible
Author: Selina Hastings Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A beautifully illustrated retelling of the Bible for children and families A beautifully illustrated children's Bible for families to enjoy together....