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Land and Cultural Survival
The Communal Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Asia
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Development in Asia faces a crucial issue: the right of indigenous peoples to build a better life while protecting their ancestral lands and cultural identity. An intimate relationship with land expressed in communal ownership has shaped and sustained these cultures over time. But now, public and...
Constituting Human Rights
Global Civil Society and the Society of Democratic States
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2003
Global civil society and the society of democratic states are the two most inclusive and powerful global practices of our time. In this book, Frost claims that, without an understanding of the role that individual human rights play in these practices, no adequate understanding of any major feature...
Grandfathers
Global Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2016
This is the first book to bring together international scholars from around the world and from a wide variety of disciplines, to discover what is known about grandfathers and analyse the impact of close involvement with their grandchildren. Within the context of increased divorce rates, single parent...
Alerta Barcelona
Adiós a la ciudad autocomplaciente
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 22, 2019
Las grandes ciudades son las verdaderas propulsoras del crecimiento económico y de la creatividad en el mundo, por encima de estados y fronteras. Barcelona no ha parado de escalar posiciones y de afianzar su prestigio, hasta que cierta autocomplacencia colectiva ha erosionado su éxito.
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Parental conflict
Outcomes and interventions for children and families
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
There is increasing government recognition of the importance of early family experiences on individuals in the long term and of how inter-parental conflict influences children’s development. Recognition of the role of such factors early in life is key to helping both policy makers and practitioners...
by Inmaculada Gallardo Muñoz, Maria del Rocío Guardeño Ligero
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Capacitar a los cuidadores para que sepan adaptar y aplicar las técnicas de higiene personal, analizando las características de los usuarios, e identificando las condiciones higiénicas que debe cumplir el entorno de los mismos. Aplicar las técnicas higiénico-sanitarias del entorno del usuario,...
This Little Kiddy Went to Market
The Corporate Capture of Childhood
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2009
This book investigates the way that corporations are strategically shaping children to be hyper-consumers as well as the submissive employees and uncritical citizens of the future.*BR**BR*Sharon Beder shows how marketers and advertisers are targeting ever younger children in a relentless campaign,...
Of Mice and Metaphors
Therapeutic Storytelling with Children
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
In Of Mice and Metaphors, Second Edition, psychoanalyst and child treatment specialist Jerrold R. Brandell introduces a variety of dynamic strategies for therapists to understand and incorporate a child’s own creative story-narrative into an organic and reciprocal treatment process leading to therapeutic...
Challenging the politics of early intervention
Who's 'saving' children and why
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
A vital interrogation of the internationally accepted policy and practice consensus that intervention to shape parenting in the early years is the way to prevent disadvantage. Given the divisive assumptions and essentialist ideas behind early years intervention, in whose interests does it really serve?...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Infant Care and Motherhood in an Urban Community investigates the behavior and attitudes of 709 mothers towards their year-old babies. John and Elizabeth Newson, impatient with the voluminous and contradictory literature telling parents how their children should be brought up, decided to find out...
Obama’s welfare legacy
An assessment of US anti-poverty policies
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
The election of Barack Obama in the midst of the 2008 economic downturn brought hope to millions and presented an opportunity for expanding socio-economic rights. But the Obama administration was consistently constrained by the challenges of divided government, and the now threatened Affordable Care...
by Palfrey, Colin
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2018
Does health promotion have a lasting and positive effect on people? With mounting pressure to reduce costs to the NHS and increasing scepticism of the so-called nanny state, health promotion initiatives are increasingly being criticised as costly and ineffective, with many arguing that health inequalities...
Eastern European Adoption
Policies, Practice, and Strategies for Change
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Between 1990 and 2006, more than 76,000 children born in Eastern Europe were adopted into American families. Almost two-thirds of these children came from Russia. And in contrast to children adopted from Korea, China, Central America, and South America, most of the Russian children were not infants,...
Rematerialising children’s agency
Everyday practices in a post-socialist estate
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
This book is a detailed study of children’s everyday practices in a small, deprived neighbourhood of post-socialist Bratislava, called Kopčany. It provides a novel empirical insight on what it is like to be growing up after 25 years of post-socialist transformations and questions the formation...