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Trade Paperback : $28.00 Buy	Stealing Innocence Corporate Culture's War on Children Henry A. Giroux Palgrave Macmillan A noted educator continues his exploration of childhood and culture.

Hardcover : $24.95 Buy	The Martyrs of Columbine Faith and the Politics of Tragedy Justin Watson Palgrave Macmillan A groundbreaking investigation of what this tragedy has come and will come to mean in American religion, politics, and culture.

Trade Paperback : $39.00 Buy	Youth, Popular Culture and Moral Panics Penny Gaffs to Gangsta Rap, 1830-1996 John Springhall Palgrave Macmillan Argues that since "moral panics" over popular culture are perennial, this reveals a great deal more about adult anxieties--fear of the future, technological...

Hardcover : $137.00 Buy	Making Spaces Citizenship and Difference in Schools Tuula Gordon; Janet Holland; Elina Lahelma Palgrave Macmillan This book uses an ethnographic, cross-cultural approach to study everyday life in secondary schools in London and Helsinki. Employing a metaphor of dance, it...

Hardcover : $100.00 Buy	The Policy Analysis of Child Labor A Comparative Study Grootaert Palgrave Macmillan The Policy Analysis of Child Labor examines the conditions which lead to child labor in four countries--Bolivia, Colombia, Côte d'Ivoire, and the...

Hardcover : $100.00 Buy	Researching Youth Edited by Andy Bennett, Mark Cieslik and Steven Miles Palgrave Macmillan Written in a clear and accessible style, this book presents a broad ranging enquiry into various methodological issues associated with contemporary youth...

Hardcover : $120.00 Buy	The Changing State of Youth Phil Mizen Palgrave Macmillan During the course of the last quarter of the 20th century, we witnessed a dramatic reversal in the fortunes of young people. From being a key beneficiary of...

Trade Paperback : $39.00 Buy	After Subculture Crtitical Studies in Contemporary Youth Culture Edited by Andy Bennett and Keith Kahn-Harris Palgrave Macmillan The concept of "subculture" has long been of significant importance in research on youth, style, deviance and popular culture. Although in more recent years...

Trade Paperback : $39.00 Buy	Constructing Childhood Theory, Policy and Social Practice Allison James and Adrian James Palgrave Macmillan This text provides a critical analysis of the social construction of childhood and children's agency. Through an interdisciplinary synthesis combining social...

Hardcover : $110.00 Buy	Peer Violence in Children's Residential Care Christine Barter, Emma Renold, David Berridge and Pat Cawson Palgrave Macmillan Much concern has been expressed about the scandal of physical and sexual abuse by care workers of children living in residential homes but this is the first...

Trade Paperback : $33.95 Buy	Young People and Sexual Health Individual, Social and Policy Contexts Edited by Elizabeth Burtney and Mary Duffy Palgrave Macmillan This book presents a holistic view of young people's sexuality and sexual health, including social policy, sociological and educational perspectives. Drawing...

Trade Paperback : $39.00 Buy	Protecting Children in Time Child Abuse, Child Protection and the Consequences of Modernity Harry Ferguson Palgrave Macmillan Protecting Children in Time provides a highly original analysis of the origins and development of the taken-for-granted notion that it is possible through...

Trade Paperback : $38.95 Buy	A Will of Their Own Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Working Children Manfred Liebel Zed Books Children's work is on the increase in all parts of the world, including the affluent countries of Europe and North America, and is closely linked with the...

Trade Paperback : $39.00 Buy	The Life Course A Sociological Introduction Stephen J. Hunt Palgrave Macmillan Rapid and far-reaching social transformation in Western society over the last few decades has prompted considerable interest in the life course. This...

Trade Paperback : $38.95 Buy	Living Longer Ageing, Development and Social Protection Peter Lloyd-Sherlock Zed Books This book examines the links between well-being and development, drawing on examples from low, middle and high-income countries. It examines aging in a number...

Hardcover : $137.00 Buy	The Politics of Childhood International Perspectives, Contemporary Developments Edited by Jim Goddard, Sally McNamee, Adrian James and Allison James Palgrave Macmillan Wide-ranging developments concerning children in the fields of social policy, sociology and politics have spurred significant growth in the social study of...

Hardcover : $90.00 Buy	Young People in Transition Becoming Citizens Christopher Pole Palgrave Macmillan The education of children and young people in citizenship usually emphasizes either rights or responsibilities, through the concept of active citizenship. The...

Hardcover : $126.00 Buy	Studies in Modern Childhood Society, Agency, Culture Edited by Jens Qvortrup Palgrave Macmillan In this timely study, high profile researchers contribute to the burgeoning field of the social studies of childhood with original and often surprising...

Trade Paperback : $39.00 Buy	Safeguarding Children Early Intervention and Surveillance in a Late Modern Society Nigel Parton Palgrave Macmillan This new text by a recognized authority offers clear, invigorating, and theoretically sophisticated commentary on child abuse and child welfare policy. Parton...

Hardcover : $100.00 Buy	Teenagers and Substance Use Social Networks and Peer Influence Deirdre M. Kirke Palgrave Macmillan Combining a sociological approach with a social network perspective to examine the substance use of teenagers in the context of the social networks in which...

Hardcover : $130.00 Buy	Childhood and Society An Introduction to the Sociology of Childhood Michael Wyness Palgrave Macmillan This inspiring new book explores a range of sociological approaches to researching the fascinating lives and social worlds of children, and the phenomenon of...

Hardcover : $100.00 Buy	Working and Caring For a Child with Chronic Illness Disconnected and Doing it All Margaret H. Vickers Palgrave Macmillan Using an innovative, action research approach, Margaret Vickers explores the lives of women who work full time while caring for a child with significant...

Hardcover : $84.00 Buy	Theorizing the Sexual Child in Modernity R. Danielle Egan and Gail Hawkes Palgrave Macmillan This ground-breaking work provides the first history of ideas about the sexual child in modernity. Beginning with twenty-first century panics about...

Hardcover : $95.00 Buy	The Child at Risk Paedophiles, Media Responses and Public Opinion Anneke Meyer Manchester University Press Paedophilia continues to be a public and emotive topic in contemporary Britain which is capable of generating great and varying levels of interest, concern and...

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