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42 Up: "Give Me the Child Until He Is Seven and I Will Show You the Man" (7 Up Film
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by New Press
Paperback (01 February, 2000)
(1 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: A Child is Parent to the Adult: If the book is 1/10 as fascinating as the movie, it's a winner. A 'must see' for all parents, educators,
A Fine Young Man: What Parents, Mentors, and Educators Can Do to Shape Adolescent
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by Tarcher
Paperback (01 April, 1999)
(13 reviews) 4.08 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: This is an amazing book.: This excellent book is written by the author of The Wonder of Boys, a book which has helped me as I raise my sons.

A Necessary Fantasy?: The Heroic Figure in Children's Popular Culture (Children's
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by Garland Publishing
Hardcover (July, 2000)
Act Your Age : A Cultural Construction of Adolescence
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by Falmer Press
Paperback (01 February, 2000)

Adolescents Talk About Reading: Exploring Resistance to and Engagement With Text
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by International Reading Association
Paperback (01 February, 2004)
Advertising to Children in China
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by Chinese University Press
Hardcover (01 April, 2004)

Amish Children
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by Good Books
Paperback (01 October, 2002)
(2 reviews) 4.5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: A wonderfully presented photo display: This wonderfully presented photo display of Amish children captures what it's like to live in an Amish world where English is a second language in America,
An American Travesty : Legal Responses to Adolescent Sexual Offending (Adolescent
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by University of Chicago Press
Hardcover (30 June, 2004)

APSAC Handbook on Child Maltreatment
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by SAGE Publications
Paperback (15 January, 2002)
Becoming Adult: How Teenagers Prepare for the World of Work
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by Basic Books
Paperback (01 April, 2001)
(1 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: becoming ADULT: How Teenagers Prepare for the World of Work: There are those who believe that, if they are not their kids they are not their concern.

Beloved Bethesda : A History of George Whitefield's Home for Boys
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by Mercer University Press
Hardcover (June, 2001)
(2 reviews) 4.5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Eye-Opening: Cashin delves into the history of George Whitefield, the founder of Bethesda, an orphanage for young people. The book brings out issues for which Whitefield was greatly disliked by his neighbors and the other sects of Christianity.
Beyond Appearance: A New Look at Adolescent Girls
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by American Psychological Association (APA)
Paperback (01 September, 2001)
(1 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Indispensible for Understanding Adolescent Girls: If you're public health professional, a teacher, a social worker, or even a politician,

Born to Buy : The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer Culture
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by Scribner
Hardcover (07 September, 2004)
Editorial Review: Parents will be tempted to read Born to Buy as a kind of contemporary horror story, with ever more sophisticated marketing wunderkinds as Dr. Frankensteins and their children as the relentless monsters they create.
Branded: The Buying and Selling of Teenagers
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by Perseus Publishing
Hardcover (07 January, 2003)
(7 reviews) 3.71 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: only half the issue is examined: While this book has a lot of sound principles about how youth are bombarded with messages to buy buy buy particular status-laden brands,

Bring Them Back Alive : Helping Teens Get Out and Stay Out of Trouble
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by Taylor Trade Publishing
Paperback (25 September, 2004)
Broken Fever: Reflections of Gay Boyhood
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by St. Martin's Press
Hardcover (01 March, 2001)
(3 reviews) 4 out of 5 stars
Editorial Review: Insightful and consistently interesting, James Morrison's debut collection of personal essays hinges on his awareness of the countless influences on the young. Teasing out the larger implications of events and choices that must often have seemed slight at the time--such as his decision to play the violin,

Bullying in American Schools: A Social-Ecological Perspective on Prevention and Interventio
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by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Paperback (01 December, 2003)
(3 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Excellent resource: This book is an excellent resource for people in academia. It provides a wealth of information about bullying in schools.
Caring For Preschool Children
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by Thomson Delmar Learning
Paperback (26 March, 2004)

Causes of Delinquency
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by Transaction Publishers
Paperback (01 February, 2002)
(1 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: The most influential version of control theory: The most influential version of control theory is that of Travis Hirschi presented in a book titled "Causes of Delinquency."
Child Labor: An American History (Issues in Work and Human Resources (Paperback)
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by M. E. Sharpe
Paperback (01 July, 2002)

Child Protection Work: Beyond the Rhetoric
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by Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Paperback (01 January, 2003)
Child Sexual Exploitation: Quick Reference for Healthcare, Social Service, and Law
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by G. W. Medical Publishing
Spiral-bound (January, 2005)

Child Survivors of the Holocaust
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by Brunner-Routledge
Paperback (February, 2002)
Child Welfare Case Studies
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by Allyn & Bacon
Paperback (01 June, 2001)
(1 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: EXCELLENT CASE STUDIES IN CHILD WELFARE: Dr. Brown has assembled a terrific collection of case studies in child welfare. The cases are diverse,

Child, Family, School, Community : Socialization and Support (with InfoTrac)
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by Wadsworth Publishing
Hardcover (15 July, 2003)
Childhood and Children : A Compendium of Customs, Superstitions, Theories, Profiles,
list: $72.95
by Oryx Press
Hardcover (30 January, 1997)
(2 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Delicious Factual Grab Bag: This is a book out of which almost anyone will get a kick. It'sfilled with facts you never knew about children who,

Childhood in America
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by New York University Press
Paperback (01 January, 2000)
(1 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: More documents than you can shake a stick at.: Just looking at the table of contents of this book made me drool. A comprehensive collection of primary documents dealing with childhood since the colonial era.
Childhood Studies
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by Open University Press
Paperback (01 June, 2004)

Children and Childhood in Western Society since 1500 (Studies in Modern History)
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by Longman
Paperback (08 August, 1995)
Children and Families in the Social Environment (Modern Applications of Social Work
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by Aldine
Paperback (01 May, 1992)

Children and Nature: Psychological, Sociocultural, and Evolutionary Investigation
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by The MIT Press
Paperback (01 June, 2002)
Children and the Movies : Media Influence and the Payne Fund Controversy (Cambridge
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by Cambridge University Press
Hardcover (26 January, 1996)

Children and the Politics of Culture
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by Princeton University Press
Paperback (13 November, 1995)
Children as Caregivers: Parental and Parentified Children
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by Allyn & Bacon
Paperback (03 September, 2002)

Children from Australia to Zimbabwe: A Photographic Journey Around the World
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by Shakti for Children
Hardcover (01 July, 2001)
Children of Addiction: Research, Health, and Public Policy Issues
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by Garland Publishing
Paperback (01 September, 2000)

Children of Crisis
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by Back Bay Books
Paperback (August, 2003)
Children of Immigration (The Developing Child)
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by Harvard University Press
Paperback (01 April, 2002)
(1 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: pretty good account of immigrant children: Children of immigrants covers the experiences of children of immigrants and their families through the past few decades when the United States has been receiving immigration from non-European countries and many of these new immigrants are non-English speaking so there are plenty of osbtacles in their way.

Children of the City: At Work and at Play
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by Oxford University Press
Paperback (01 May, 1986)
(3 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: The Real Lives of Children?: Controversial, yet remarkable look at how young children, primarily boys, resisted and re-made the conditions of their existence in early 20th century U.S
Children of the Dragonfly: Native American Voices on Child Custody and Education
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by University of Arizona Press
Paperback (01 May, 2001)

Children Who See Too Much : Lessons from the Child Witness to Violence Project
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by Beacon Press
Paperback (20 January, 2003)
(2 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Excellent resource for child witnesses of violence: This is a very good book to help children who are witnessing violence or for adults who witnessed violence in their childhood.
Children with Lifemap CD-ROM and PowerWeb
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by McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Paperback (07 May, 2004)

Children's Geographies: Playing, Living, Learning (Critical Geographies)
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by Routledge
Paperback (July, 2000)
Children's Imaginative Play: A Visit to Wonderland (Child Psychology and Mental Health
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by Praeger Publishers
Hardcover (30 August, 2002)

Children's Inquiry: Using Language to Make Sense of the World (Language and Literacy
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by Teachers College Press
Paperback (01 March, 1999)
Children's Perspectives on Domestic Violence
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by SAGE Publications
Paperback (15 November, 2002)

Children's Play: The Roots of Reading
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by Zero to Three Press
Paperback (01 March, 2004)
(1 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: The sixteen contributors are experts in play research: Collaboratively compiled and deftly edited by Edward F. Zigler (Sterling Professor Emeritus of Psychology,
Children, Adolescents, and the Media
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by SAGE Publications
Paperback (19 March, 2002)
(1 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: The Best Media Book Ever: Although billed as a "textbook," this book is actually for anyone -- parent, teacher, interested adult -- who wants to know how various media affect kids and what we can do about it.

Children, Technology and Culture: The Impacts of Technologies in Children's Everyday
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by Falmer Press
Paperback (01 June, 2001)
Comic Book Nation: The Transformation of Youth Culture in America
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by Johns Hopkins University Press
Paperback (01 October, 2003)
(10 reviews) 4.2 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Wright Probes the Importance of Popular Culture: This book weaves together three important strands of American cultural and social history between 1933 and the early 1990's.

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