As founding editor of Creative Nonfiction and architect of the genre, Lee Gutkind played a crucial role in establishing literary, narrative nonfiction in the marketplace and in the academy.
Disability and Child Sexual Abuse examines the ways in which society marginalises, institutionalises and places disabled children in situations of unacceptable risk, and how - as evidenced in the survivors' narratives - patterns of service delivery can contribute to the problem.
This book is the first comprehensive ethnographic study of the diversity of living and ageing experiences of three groups of older migrants - return, lifestyle and ageing-in-place labour migrants - from a comparative perspective.
The kaleidoscope, the stereoscope, and other nineteenth-century optical toys analyzed as “new media” of their era, provoking anxieties similar to our own about children and screens.
Surprisingly little research has been carried out about how Australian Aboriginal children and teenagers experience life, shape their social world and imagine the future.
Leben, wo andere Urlaub machen – immer mehr europäische Senior:innen scheinen dieses Motto ernst zu nehmen und entscheiden sich für einen dauerhaften oder zeitweisen Ruhesitz an einem frei gewählten Ort, zumeist in wärmeren Ländern.
Die demographische Veränderung stellt eine große Herausforderung für alle europäischen Länder dar, da sie weitreichende Konsequenzen für die alten Menschen, ihre Familien und die gesellschaftlichen Institutionen hat.
An indispensable book for parents, teenagers and anyone concerned with issues in adolescence, from former headteacher Tony Little and child psychiatrist Herb Etkin.
Jenseits der Selbstverwirklichung: die durchdringende Analyse einer Generation, die jetzt liefern mussNora Bossong wirft einen genauen Blick auf ihre Altersgenoss:innen ‒ diejenigen, die in unserem Land dabei sind, in einer ausgeprägten Krisenperiode das Ruder zu übernehmen.
This volume unpacks the phenomenon of skipped generation households-where children live with their grandparents and without their parents-as they become an increasingly common family dynamic in Nigeria and globally.
Shows how self psychology allows child patients who were in the past often considered difficult and even untreatable to be understood and effectively helped.
Drawing on hundreds of interviews with 15-22 year old straight and gay male athletes in both the United States and the United Kingdom, this book explores how jocks have redefined heterosexuality, and no longer fear being thought gay for behaviors that constrained men of the previous generation.
The viability, quality and sustainability of publicly supported early childhood education and care services is a lively issue in many countries, especially since the rights of the child imply equal access to provision for all young children.
This book offers an evocative cross-cultural exploration into the everyday lives and music practices of young people from their own broad social, cultural and ethnic perspectives.
Wenn Jungs nicht mehr raus gehen, sich isolieren und den Kontakt zu anderen verlieren, können Eltern stabilisierende Schritte einleiten, um ihrem Sohn zu einem bewussteren Selbstbild zu verhelfen.
Notes from a Child Psychologist features ten composite case studies based on the authors work over three decades as a psychologist for children and adolescents.
This book investigates a paradox of creative yet scripted play-how LEGO invites players to build 'freely' with and within its highly structured, ideologically-laden toy system.
This powerful book analyses the vital dimensions of money, health, place, quality of life and identity, and demonstrates the gaps of treatment and outcomes between older and younger people, and between different groups of older people.
Despite acute labour shortages during the Second World War, Canadian employers—with the complicity of state officials—discriminated against workers of African, Asian, and Eastern and Southern European origin, excluding them from both white collar and skilled jobs.
