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"An engaging account of the controversies generated by horror that examines some of the most high-profile media debates around the issue of whether or not horror texts corrupt children."--

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Drawing on an international body of case studies from leading millennial networks, Millennials in the Modern Workforce shows how millennials can live deeper and more enriching lives by reflecting on the self, placing value on solitude and resisting the feeling that they must constantly connect and share.

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Analysing contemporary childhood by examining new lines of argument about diversity, disability and difference. >

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A study that analyses contemporary childhood by examining various lines of argument about diversity, disability and difference. It critiques the key issues that affect both adults' and children's quality of life, including market-driven values, poverty and civic disengagement.

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Through fifteen riveting case studies, a leading figure in adolescent psychiatry offers a provocative new way of thinking about parenting teens.

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Comparing global experiences of childhood, this book examines children as social actors and citizens. Looking at theories around the social construction of childhood and substantive examples of the active contributions of children to society, this is an essential introduction to how the social sciences conceptualise childhood.

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This book strives to create awareness and understanding of the mind and idiosyncrasies of autistic people and all who struggle to fit in, using animal characters to aid our understanding of the autistic mind.

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In conflicts around the world, there is an increasingly popular weapon system that needs negligible technology. What are these cheap, renewable, plentiful, sophisticated, and expendable weapons Children. This book provides an introduction to the child soldier phenomenon, as well as concrete solutions for its total eradication.

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These and other issues are explored by scholars from a wide variety of disciplines, who focus on four main questions: alterations in the structure of opportunity, prior experiences in the family, prior experiences in the workplace, and career development and marriage formation.

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An overview of all aspects of American teen life in the twentieth century, from 1900 to 1999.

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This book focuses on social phenomenon that impact the lives of adolescent females of color. The authors highlight the daily challenges that African-American, Chicana, and Puerto Rican teenage girls face with respect to peer and family influences, media stereotyping, body imag...

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These two works belong to that group of books written by one of this century's fiercest and most devoted child advocates. In the first, Korczak uses fiction to reveal the joys and sorrows of a child, a ten-year-old, juxtaposing them against the feelings of an adult as they both react to two days of adventure spent together.

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The rules for living in families and raising children have changed dramatically in the last decade. Michael Grose helps readers understand how each generation thinks and functions and presents ideas to help us live with each other in harmony.

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This study takes on the youth crisis as a compelling public issue, exploring various manifestations of the crisis; endangered youth, gang participation, youth addictions, unworkable schools, violence in the home and on the streets, homelessness, and the near genocidal conditions that plague African American and urban youth.

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