Language: history and general works

This collection teaches us how language and legislation interact to produce effective laws.

Kylie Landry has a big problem.

A fictional piece that is all to real, a writing that examines the relationships between men, women, children and parents.

This practical resource demonstrates how all clinicians can broaden and enhance their work with children by integrating drawing into therapy.

Bringing together leading experts, this book presents effective practices for helping people with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) to thrive in adulthood.

Bringing together leading experts, this book presents effective practices for helping people with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) to thrive in adulthood.

A trusted course text and professional resource, this comprehensive book delves into all aspects of planning and conducting strengths-based group work with adolescents.

A trusted course text and professional resource, this comprehensive book delves into all aspects of planning and conducting strengths-based group work with adolescents.

This practical resource demonstrates how all clinicians can broaden and enhance their work with children by integrating drawing into therapy.

Roberta Provenzano believed the study of psychology should ultimately bring more happiness to the world.

Reminding women that motherhood is an option, not a given (much less an instinct), New York psychotherapist Phyllis Ziman Tobin contends that choosing to be or not to be a mother is the defining rite of passage for today's woman.

Teens, Loss, and Grief is a self-help guide for teenagers who are struggling with bereavement and the emotional difficulties it presents.

A comprehensive treatise on the dynamic and adaptive problems which children and families encounter in their experiences of separation and divorce.

The world of contemporary American infants and young children is saturated with inappropriate images of American Indians.

Play therapy and family therapy both are well established therapeutic paradigms.

from the Foreword:Possibly the heartless treatment of children, from the practice of infanticide and abandonment through to the neglect, the rigors of swaddling, the purposeful starving, the beatings, the solitary confinement, and so on, was and is only one aspect of the basic aggressiveness and cruelty of human nature, of the inbred disregard of the rights and feelings of others.

This is a comprehensive statement about adolescent development, identity formation, and treatment.

Martha Parker-Sanders, was born in Arkansas, she married her childhood class mate at age eighteen and later moved to California, where she attended college and obtained her degrees in Child Development.

Routledge English Language Introductions cover core areas of language study and are one-stop resources for students.

Volume 5 of The Annotated Luther series features Luther's writings that intersect church and state, faith, and life lived as a follower of Christ.

One Hope: Re-Membering the Body of Christ is a rich ecumenical resource designed to help Catholic and Lutheran communities mark the approaching 500th anniversary of the Reformation.

Grant Erikssen likes women, but he doesnt claim to understand them.

Chances are that you are getting it all wrong.

A big sister is horrified when she can't fit into her swimming costume.

It is widely assumed that as we grow older there is a gradual decline in the way we use our brains.

The shocking true story of a teenager's descent into darkness - perfect for fans of the smash-hit Netflix series, Thirteen Reasons Why.

This early work on Martin Luther is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition.

This is an essential, practical guide to best practice in adult safeguarding which supports students and practitioners to develop the skills, knowledge and ethical awareness to confidently address the challenges of adult safeguarding across a wide range of practice contexts in the UK.

This is an essential, practical guide to best practice in adult safeguarding which supports students and practitioners to develop the skills, knowledge and ethical awareness to confidently address the challenges of adult safeguarding across a wide range of practice contexts in the UK.

In an age when the next generation have worse prospects than those of their parents, this book appraises the challenges young people face resulting from the instability of their lives.

In an age when the next generation have worse prospects than those of their parents, this book appraises the challenges young people face resulting from the instability of their lives.

Using innovative, participatory research methods, this book offers new insights into the issues surrounding parental separation or divorce from the unique perspective, and retrospectives, of young adults.

Using innovative, participatory research methods, this book offers new insights into the issues surrounding parental separation or divorce from the unique perspective, and retrospectives, of young adults.

Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence.

The lifecourse perspective continues to be an important subject in the social sciences.

Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence.

The voices of grassroots youth workers are rarely heard in policy, research or public debate.

The voices of grassroots youth workers are rarely heard in policy, research or public debate.

The lifecourse perspective continues to be an important subject in the social sciences.

The History of English: An Introduction provides a chronological analysis of the linguistic, social, and cultural development of the English language from before its establishment in Britain around the year 450 to the present.

As read on BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week.

"e;Guy Deutscher is that rare beast, an academic who talks good sense about linguistics.

Secret Identities and Double Lives on Tween TV in introduces readers to the concepts of tweenhood and television (TV) tropes by providing historical and theoretical contexts and reviewing the history of TV targeted to tweens.

Once languages become written, they change.

This book examines the efforts of the French-speaking minority in Flanders, Belgium, to maintain a legal and social presence of the French language in Flemish public life.

Middle age took Jane Shilling by surprise.